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Kansas-Lecompton Convention. Speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, on the President’s Message

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[STEPHEN H. DOUGLAS; LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION]. Pamphlet. Kansas-Lecompton Convention. Speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, on the President’s Message. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 9, 1858. Washington: Buell & Blanchard. 1858. 16 pp. Inscribed in period ink, “From Hon. John Sherman.”

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