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She had at last a free vote, and rejected the Lecompton Constitution, land grant and all, by a majority of more than ten thousand.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “She had at last a free vote, and rejected the Lecompton Constitution, land grant and all, by a majority of more than ten…”
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Blaine notes the significant rejection of the Lecompton Constitution by Kansas voters.
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The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
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