[Gutenberg 51742] • The Wyandotte Convention: an address

Excerpt from The Wyandotte Convention: An Address, Delivered by John A. Martin, at the Re-Union of the Members and Officers of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention

The Leavenworth Convention met at Minneola, March 23d, 1858, 1nd at once adjourned to Leavenworth, where it re-assembled March 25th. [t was composed ofninety-five members, was in session only eleven days, and the Constitution it framed was signed by eighty-three persons. This instrument was adopted at an election held May 11th, by a very small vote, the pro-slavery men taking no part in the contest. It was never a popular organic law, and many Free State men who supported it did so under protest. An earnest effort was made, by the Republicans, to secure the admission of Kansas under the Topeka Constitution. And by the Democrats, with a few exceptions to bring the Territory in under the Lecompton Constitution. But no serious or determined contest was waged, in Congress. For admission under the Leavenworth Constitution, and in less than eight months the movement in its behalf was formally abandoned.

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