Kansas elects the delegates for its consitutional convention to be held in July at Wyandotte

Kansans voted to elect the delegates who would represent them in the drawing up of a new constitution in preparations for statehood. Thirty-five Republicans and seventeen Democrats were chosen. These men would gather at Wyandotte in July and frame the new document. (By John Osborne)
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A referendum in Kansas confirms the legislature's call for a constitutional convention

The Kansas electorate confirmed in a referendum the February vote in the territorial legislature to summon a convention to write a new constitution in preparation for statehood. The result was positive in a ratio of four to one. An election to choose delegates took place in June and the convention assembled in July at Wyandotte. (By John Osborne)
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“News from Kansas and Utah,” New York Times, January 15, 1859

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, November 21, 2008.
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News from Kansas and Utah
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“News from Kansas and Utah,” New York Times, January 15, 1859, p. 1: 3.
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“The Plans of the Opposition for 1860,” Memphis (TN) Appeal, January 9, 1859

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The Plans of the Opposition for 1860
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“The Plans of the Opposition for 1860,” Memphis (TN) Appeal, January 9, 1859, p. 1: 3.
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Barclay Coppoc (Villard, 1910)

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Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), 682-683.
Barclay Coppoc was born at Salem, Ohio, January 4, 1839, and had not attained his majority at the time of the raid. He escaped from Harper's Ferry, but only to meet a tragic fate in that he was killed by the fall of a train into the Platte River from a trestle forty feet high, the supports of which had been burned away by Confederates. Coppoc was then a first lieutenant in the Third Kansas Infantry, Colonel Montgomery's regiment, having received his commission July 24, 1861.
John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After
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