Word: lecompton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition. He favored settlement of the question in each new State by "popular sovereignty." His quarrel with Buchanan arose because he thought the President had gone over bag & baggage to the extreme pro-slavery camp in trying to make Kansas a slave State. Declared Senator Douglas of the Lecompton constitution: "It's none of my business which way the slavery clause is decided. I care not whether it is voted up or down...
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