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On the recordDecember 5, 1858
The resistance to rightful authority and the persevering attempts to establish a revolutionary government under the Topeka constitution which caused the people of Kansas to commit the grave error of refusing to vote for delegates to the convention to frame a constitution under a law not denied to be fair and just in its provisions.
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Vera Buchanan
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Second Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union

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Jan 29, 1861

Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon the island of Aves.

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