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Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER VII
14/46

John Hickman and Henry Chapman honorably and tenaciously held their ground to the last against every phase of the outrage.

In New York, John B.Haskin and Horace F.Clarke refused to yield, though great efforts were made to induce them to support the administration.

The Senate promptly concurred in the English proposition.
LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION REJECTED.
But Kansas would not sell her birthright for a mess of pottage.
She had fought too long for freedom to be bribed to the support of slavery.

She had at last a free vote, and rejected the Lecompton Constitution, land grant and all, by a majority of more than ten thousand.

The struggle was over.


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