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Robert J. Walker was a national politician who had been a Senator from Mississippi. He served as the territorial Governor of Kansas in 1857.
Stephen A. Douglas was one of the most powerful men in the U.S. in the 1850's and a skilled politician.
Thomas Ewing, Jr. was an anti-slavery politician in Kansas, and the step-brother of William T. Sherman.
Without resorting to the methods of John Brown, they rejected the Lecompton Constitution which supported slavery in Kansas.
It led to the January 4, 1858 vote which rejected the Lecompton Constitution by a vote of 10,226 to 138.
The actions by these three lawyers put them in opposition to the Buchanan administration.
It demonstrated that there was a limit to what northern Democrats were willing to do to appease the slave states. Ewing was not a Democrat, to be clear.
The power of the constitutional process was obvious.
This put meaning into Abraham Lincoln's words, "on the course to eventual extinction".
After these events the South had two choices:
1. Participate in the constitutional and legislative modification and elimination of slavery, or
2. Attempt to form a separate nation, partially insulated from abolitionist politics.
Stephen A. Douglas was one of the most powerful men in the U.S. in the 1850's and a skilled politician.
Thomas Ewing, Jr. was an anti-slavery politician in Kansas, and the step-brother of William T. Sherman.
Without resorting to the methods of John Brown, they rejected the Lecompton Constitution which supported slavery in Kansas.
It led to the January 4, 1858 vote which rejected the Lecompton Constitution by a vote of 10,226 to 138.
The actions by these three lawyers put them in opposition to the Buchanan administration.
It demonstrated that there was a limit to what northern Democrats were willing to do to appease the slave states. Ewing was not a Democrat, to be clear.
The power of the constitutional process was obvious.
This put meaning into Abraham Lincoln's words, "on the course to eventual extinction".
After these events the South had two choices:
1. Participate in the constitutional and legislative modification and elimination of slavery, or
2. Attempt to form a separate nation, partially insulated from abolitionist politics.
Bringing the