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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 2: (search)
ecessary. The Lawrence insurgents await the development of this new revolutionary military organization, etc., etc. In the Governor's despatch of July 27th, he says that General Lane and his staff everywhere deny the authority of the territorial laws, and counsel a total disregard of these enactments. Without making further quotations of a similar character from other despatches of Governor Walker, it appears by a reference to Mr. Stanton's communication to General Cass, of the 9th of December last, that the important step of calling the [Territorial] Legislature together was taken after I [he] had become satisfied that the election ordered by the Convention on the 21st instant [December] could not be conducted without collision and bloodshed. So intense was the disloyal feeling among the enemies of the government established by Congress, that an election which afforded them an opportunity, if in the majority, of making Kansas a free State, according to their own professed d
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 10: (search)
er was made in violation of pledges given by the President. They also say that since our arrival an officer of the United States, acting, as we are assured, not only without but against your orders, has dismantled one fort and occupied another, thus altering to a most important extent the condition of affairs under which we came. As to the alleged pledge, we have already shown that no such thing existed. It has never been pretended that it rests upon any pretext except the note of the 9th December, delivered to the President by the South Carolina members of Congress, and what occurred on that occasion. All this has been already stated. But if additional evidence were wanting to refute the assertion of a pledge, this might be found in the statement published afterwards in Charleston by two of their number (Messrs. Miles and Keitt), Appleton'a American Annual Cyclopedia for 1861, p. 703. who, in giving an account of this interview, do not pretend or even intimate that any thing