It is not possible, without using language that would seem immoderate, to describe the enormity of the whole transaction.

The constitution no more represented the will or the wishes of the people of Kansas than of the people of Ohio or Vermont.
Shameful and shameless as was the entire procedure, it was approved by Mr.Buchanan.

The Lecompton Constitution was transmitted to Congress, accompanied by a message from the President recommending the prompt admission of the State.

He treated the anti-slavery population of Kansas as in rebellion against lawful authority, recognized the invaders from Missouri as rightfully entitled to form a constitution for the State, and declared that "Kansas is at this moment (Feb.

2, 1858) as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina." The Dred Scott decision occupied a prominent place in this extraordinary message and received the most liberal interpretation in favor of slavery.