...Buchanan alluded to the Dred Scott decision and observed that under the Constitution "Kansas is . . .at this moment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina." Though Douglas discussed the constitutional issues, both in the Senate and in his Harper's article,...

...asked the Congress to accept Kansas as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution. It was, he said, "at this moment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina."11 The constitution and the proslave referendum met every legal test and nothing else mattered....

...a message recommending admission of a sixteenth slave state. Kansas, proclaimed the president, "is at this moment as much a slave state as Georgia or South Carolina."46 The Lecompton issue gripped Congress for several months. It evoked more passion than even...

...that they could be fixed through amendment. In his February 2, 1858 message, he declared Kansas to be, "at this moment, as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina," insisted that only a constitutional change could exclude slavery, and stated that "in no other manner...

...as the sixteenth slave state on the basis of the Lecompton constitution. Kansas, he maintained, was "at this moment as much a slave state as Georgia or South Carolina." The Administration men then brought forth a Kansas bill embodying the President's proposal, and it...

...1858. "It has been solemnly adjudged by the highest judicial tribunal known to our laws that slavery exists in Kansas by virtue of the Constitution of...much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina." Buchanan wanted Kansas admitted as a slave state which "would restore peace and quiet to the whole...

...Lecompton constitution to Congress on February 2, 1858, recommending Kansas's admission into the Union.154 "Kansas is therefore at this moment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina," he proclaimed, suggesting that his efforts also paralleled those of a more distant predecessor, John...

...Kansas — and if it be true, as stated by the President in a Special Message to Congress, "that slavery exists in Kansas by virtue of the Constitution of the United States," and that "Kansas is therefore at this moment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina," why...

...to Capitol Hill. The president asserted that Kansas Territory, with its mere 200 or so slaves, was "at this moment as much a slave state as Georgia or South Carolina."3 Irate antislavery Northerners rallied behind Stephen A. Douglas, the man whom they despised...

...probable one, Buchanan offered his splendid gift in a special message to Congress in February 1858: "Kansas is therefore at this moment as much a slave state as Georgia and South Carolina. Without this the equality of the sovereign states composing the Union would be...