Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (American National Biography)

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Mark A. Plummer, "Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00799.html.
The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 focused the slavery struggle on Kansas. When President Franklin Pierce signed the bill with its provision for "popular sovereignty" for the territories, Pomeroy allegedly told the president, "Your victory is but an adjournment of the question from the halls of legislation at Washington to the open prairies of the freedom-loving West, and there, sir, we shall beat you" (William E. Connelley, A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans [1918], p. 1219).
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Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (Congressional Biographical Directory)

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"Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=p000423.
POMEROY, Samuel Clarke, a Senator from Kansas; born in Southampton, Mass., January 3, 1816; attended Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1836-1838; moved to New York State in 1838 and taught school; returned to Southampton, Mass., in 1842; held various local offices; member, State house of representatives 1852-1853; organizer and financial agent of the New England Emigrant Aid Co.; moved to Kansas in 1854 and settled in Lawrence; moved to Atchison, Kans.; mayor of Atchison 1858-1859; member of the free State convention at Lawrence in 1859; president of the relief committee du
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Abraham Lincoln leaves for home after his short Kansas speaking tour

Lincoln finished a short speaking tour of Kansas in Leavenworth. He had given a speech on the Monday but stayed in town to observe Election Day. He left for home on Wednesday, accompanied by Dickinson graduate Marcus J. Parrott, who was the Kansas territorial delegate to the U.S. House. (By John Osborne)
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Abraham Lincoln finishes his five day speaking tour in Kansas with two speeches in Leavenworth

Lincoln was winding up a short speaking tour in Kansas. He had spoke at Elwood on Wednesday, at Troy and Doniphan on Thursday, in Atchison on Friday night, and at Leavenworth on Saturday.  His speeches contained significant portions of the arguments he would give at the Cooper Union in New York three months later. He stayed in Leavenworth to observe Election Day and left for home on Wednesday, December 7, 1858, accompanied by Dickinson graduate Marcus J. Parrott, the Kansas territorial delegate to the U.S. House. (By John Osborne)
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Abraham Lincoln gives a speech in Elwood at the start of a five day speaking tour in Kansas

Lincoln was at the start of a short speaking tour in Kansas. A speech in Elwood was not on his schedule but he agreed to speak briefly to a small audience in the dining room of the Great Western Hotel. From Elwood, he left the next morning for engagements in Troy, Doniphan, and Atchison. He would finish the tour with two speeches in Leavenworth. (By John Osborne)
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