Thursday, January 24, 2013

Lecompton Constitution

Hello again friends
I have some news for you all! Acouple of days ago a document was put together by the people in Kansas that support slavery. This document was called the Lecompton Constitution and it said Kansas would come into the union as a slave state! However this isnt fair at all! All the abolitonists didnt even bother to vote on this document because they knew how ridiculous it was. This document still went to congress though and our president who isnt supposed to be neutral told the congress to pass it! As you can imagine this got the North very mad and we are no longer fans of the president, Buchanan. But luckily the congress realzied that this was unfair and said another vote would be needed in order to send the document back and possibly having it passed. Thank god for congress because that would not be good if Kansas came in as a slave state when our goal is to get rid of slavery! Anyways of course another vote was held because the pro slavery group really wanted this document to be passed but we, the abolitionists stood our ground and we were able to win the vote by a landslide. i recently talked to my old neighbors who had recently moved out to Kansas and they said that the violence between the North and the South was ten times worse than Massachusetts! I cant even imagine what it is like there! Thats all for now though I heard that a riot just occured outside I need to go and see what happened!

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