The Compromise of 1850 brought relative calm to the nation. ... The Free Staters voted 1,287 to 453 to outlaw black people, slave or free, from Kansas. Their territory would be white.

Under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, all escaped slaves were to be returned to their masters; ... There were 3,000 white males (in Kansas Territory) and 6,000 votes were cast,” Rues said.

Slavery is warring against free territory on every side. Kansas has conquered a peace, still the South now seeks to wrench from us a strip of our consecrated soil, under the subterfuge of an ...

However, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) allowed the new territory of Kansas to decide its stance on the legality of slavery (in defiance of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which did not allow ...

IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS. More Fraudulent Returns Rejected--Second Proclamation from Governor Walker and Secretary Stanton. Vote of the Territory--The Constitutional Convention. Share full article.

Curtis served two terms in the U.S. Senate, first appointed to the post by the Kansas Legislature in 1907 and serving until 1913, when Democrats took control of the Statehouse.