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Kansas in the Sixties (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1911), by S. J. Crawford
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[Messages to the Legislature] ([Topeka, etc.], in the 19th century), by Kansas. Governor (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas in the sixties (A. C. McClurg & co., 1911), by S. J. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
Governmental research series. (Governmental Research Center, University of Kansas, 1930), by University of Kansas. Bureau of Governmental Research and Service and University of Kansas. Governmental Research Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Citizen's pamphlet series. (Institute for Social and Environmental Studies, University of Kansas., 1946), by University of Kansas. Institute for Social and Environmental Studies and University of Kansas. Governmental Research Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The government of the state and nation (D. C. Heath & co., 1901), by Lyman Beecher Kellogg and A. R. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas government. (League of Kansas Municipalities., 1946), by L. W. Chesney and Albert Bugle Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
The government of the people of the state of Kansas (Eldredge & brother, 1901), by Frank Heywood Hodder (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings of the Joint Committee of the Legislature ... appointed at the session of 1891, to investigate the explosion which occurred at Coffeyville, Kansas, October 18, 1888. (C. C. Baker, state printer, 1891), by Kansas. Legislature. Joint Committee to Investigate the Explosion at Coffeyville (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas governors (University Press of Kansas, 1990), by Homer E. Socolofsky (page images at HathiTrust)
Biographical sketches and the executive minutes of Governors Reeder and Shannon, 1854-1856, addresses of Governors Stanton and Denver, at Bismarck, 1884, and proceedings of the Kansas Quarter-Centennial Celebration at Topeka, January 29, 1886. -- (Kansas State Historical Society, 1886), by Kansas State Historical Society, Kansas. Quater-Centennial Celebration, and Kansas. Governor (page images at HathiTrust)
Admire's political and legislative hand-book for Kansas. 1891 ... (G.W. Crane & Co., 1891), by W. W. Admire (page images at HathiTrust)
The annals of Kansas : 1886-1925 (Kansas State Historical Society, 1954), by Daniel Webster Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
Civics of Kansas (Ginn, 1914), by Frank Greene Bates and Ivor Victor Iles (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas government, a short course (Topeka, 1947), by Albert Bugle Martin and L. W. Chesney (page images at HathiTrust)
Report [of] the Committee on territories, to whom was referred so much of the annual message of the President of the United States as related to territorial affairs, together with his special message of the 24th day of January, 1856, in regard to Kansas Territory, and his message of the 18th of February, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 4th of February, 1856, requesting transcripts of certain papers relative to the affairs of the territory of Kansas ... ([Washington, 1856), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories, Stephen A. Douglas, and 1st session United States. 34th Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas in the sixties. (A. C. McClurg & co., 1911), by S. J. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
Constitution of the state of Kansas. (Printed by Kansas State Print. Plant, W.C. Austin, state printer, 1937), by Kansas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Government in the economy of Southwestern Kansas (School of Business - Bureau of business research, University of Kansas, 1951), by Paul E. Malone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Inaugural address. (Kansas State Printing Plant], between 1000 and 1999), by Kansas. Governor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The constitutional amendments [at the general election of 1920]. (St. Print., 1920), by Kansas (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorial of the Senators and Representatives, and the Constitution of the State of Kansas; also, the majority and minority reports of the Committee on Territories on the said constitution. (C. Wendell, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Territories and Kansas (page images at HathiTrust)
A school manual of government in the United States, with Kansas addendum. (Crane & Company, 1896), by Mary Leone Gilliam Thummel and Caroline Guillaume Thummel (page images at HathiTrust)
Progress report: May council meeting. (The Department], 1956), by Kansas. Legislature. Legislative Research Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Memorial of Samuel N. Wood : to which is appended "Wood's manifesto", his last political address in Kansas (Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1892), by Margaret L. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Cost of government in Kansas : total and per capita cost, state and local, fiscal years, 1929, 1937. ([Legislative Council], 1937), by Kansas. Legislature. Legislative Council (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report of the legislative committee on Economy and Efficiency: submitted to the second budget session. (The Committee, 1958), by Kansas. Legislative Committee on Economy and Efficiency (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Progress report: May council meeting. (The Department], 1966), by Kansas. Legislature. Legislative Research Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
November Council meeting, progress report (The Department], 1959), by Kansas. Legislature. Legislative Research Department, KGI Online Library, and Kansas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The annals of Kansas : 1886-1925 (Topeka, Kan. : Kansas State Historical Society, [1954-1956], 1956), by Daniel W. Wilder and Kirke Mechem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Impacts of Federal grants-in-aid on the State and local governments, State of Kansas; report and recommendations prepared for the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. (Chicago, 1954), by J.L. Jacobs and Company (Chicago) and United States. Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861

Freedom in Kansas: Speech of William H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States, March 3, 1858 (Washington: Buell and Blanchard, printers, 1858), by William H. Seward
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Kansas Affairs: Speech of Hon. Charles E. Stuart, of Michigan, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, July 9, 1856 (Washington: Printed at the office of the Congressional globe, 1856), by C. E. Stuart
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In Perils by Mine Own Countrymen: Three Years on the Kansas Border, by John McNamara (page images at MOA)
The Kansas Struggle, of 1856, in Congress & in the Presidential Campaign, by William Goodell (page images at MOA)
Kanzas and the Constitution. (Printed by Damrell & Moore, 1856), by Sidney George Fisher and Charles Edward Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state. In the United States Senate, June 4, 1860. (T. Hyatt, 1860), by Charles Sumner (page images at HathiTrust)
Life of Amos A. Lawrence : with extracts from his diary and correspondence (Houghton, Mifflin ;, 1889), by William Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
Reminiscences of Gov. R. J. Walker; with the true story of the rescue of Kansas from slavery. (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by George W. Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The birth of Kansas (University of Kansas, 1940), by Gustave Raymond Gaeddert (page images at HathiTrust)
Great speech of Senator Trumbull : on the issues of the day (Press and Tribune Mammoth Steam Printing Establishment, 1858), by Lyman Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)
Two tracts for the times. The one entitled "Negro-slavery, no evil": by B. F. Stringfellow, of Missouri. The other, An answer to the inquiry "Is it expedient to introduce slavery into Kanzas?" by D. R. Goodloe, of North Carolina. (A. Mudge and son, printers, 1855), by New-England Emigrant Aid Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Life of Amos A. Lawrence : with extracts from his diary and correspondence (Houghton, Mifflin ;, 1899), by William Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
Reminiscences of Gov. R.J. Walker; with the true story of the rescue of Kansas from slavery. (The author, 1902), by George W. Brown and Thomas Ewing (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. John M. Read in favor of free Kansas, free white labor, and of Fremont and Dayton : at the eighth ward mass meeting, held in the assembly buildings, on Tuesday evening, September 30, 1856. ([s.n.], 1856), by John M. Read (page images at HathiTrust)
Life of Amos A. Lawrence, with extracts from his diary and correspondence (Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by William Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
Kanzas (i.e. Kansas) and the Constitution. (Printed by Damrell & Moore, 1856), by Sidney George Fisher and Charles Edward Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
The lesson of Kansas. Mr. J.W. Forney, of Pennsylvania, speaks by invitation of the old settlers of Kansas, Monday, September 15, 1879, at Bismark Grove, Kansas. (Sherman & Co., Printers, 1879), by John W. Forney (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas bill. (G. S. Gideon, printer, 1858), by J. P. Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
Thirty years in Topeka; a historical sketch. (G. W. Crane & Co., 1886), by F. W. Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
Report [of] the Committee on Territories, to whom was referred so much of the annual message of the President of the United States as relates to territorial affairs, together with his special message of the 24th day of January, 1856, in regard to Kansas Territory, and his message of the 18th of February, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 4th of February, 1856, requesting transcripts of certain papers relative to the affairs of the Territory of Kansas. ([Washington, 1856), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories, Jacob Collamer, Stephen A. Douglas, and United States. Congress 1855-1856) Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
Topeka constitution scrip : a brief history of the movement that overthrew the usurping territorial government of the slave power and saved Kansas to freedom : the debt of honor that the state owes (G.W. Crane & Co., printers and binders, 1887), by S. S. Prouty (page images at HathiTrust)
A sketch of the early life and of the civil and military services of Maj. Gen. John W. Geary, candidate of the National Union Party for governor of Pennsylvania. (King & Baird, printers], 1866), by Printers King & Baird and printers King & Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
Remarks of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas on Kansas, Utah and the Dred Scott decision : delivered at Springfield, Illinois, June 12th, 1857. (Printed at the Daily Times Book and Job Office, 1857), by Stephen A. Douglas and Daily Times Book and Job Printing House (page images at HathiTrust)
The barbarism of slavery: speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state, in the United States Senate, June 4, 1860. (Young Men's Republican Union, 1863), by Charles Sumner, African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the minority of the select committee, relative to the admission of Kansas into the Union, made to the Senate of Pennsylvania, March 17, 1858. (A. B. Hamilton, state printer, 1858), by Pennsylvania. General assembly. Senate. Select committee relative to the admission of Kansas into the Union (page images at HathiTrust)
Freedom or despotism. The voice of our brother's blood: its source and its summons. A discourse occasioned by the Sumner and Kansas outrages. Preached in Newark, June 8th and 15th, 1856 (Douglass & Starbuck, 1856), by Henry Clay Fish (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. Francis P. Blair, Jr., of Missouri, on the Kansas question (Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1858), by Frank P. Blair and John C. Rives (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas--the Lecompton Constitution. Speech of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, March 20, 1858. (Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1858), by Schuyler Colfax (page images at HathiTrust)
Political : letter from Mr. Whitney, of New York, to his constituents. (Washington : American Organ, 1856), by Thomas Richard Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. Joshua Hill, of Georgia, on the admission of Kansas (Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1858), by Joshua Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
The Kansas issue. Remarks of Hon. James F. Dowdell, of Alabama, in the House of Representatives, March 10, 1858, advocating the necessity of additional guarantees for the protection of Southern rights. (Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1858), by James F. Dowdell (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas and the Supreme court. Speech of John P. Hale, of New Hampshire. Delivered in the United States Senate, January 19 and 21, 1858. (Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858), by John P. Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
The Kansas question. (Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1858), by Thomas S. Bocock (page images at HathiTrust)
In the Senate of the United States. ([Washington, 1858), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories, Jacob Collamer, and 1st session United States. 35th Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. Russell Sage, of New York, on the professions and acts of the President of the United States; the repeal of the Missouri compromise; the outrages in Kansas; and the sectional influence and aggressions of the slave power. (Washington, 1856), by Russell Sage (page images at HathiTrust)
The Issue fairly presented : the Senate bill for the admission of Kansas as a state : democracy, law, order, and the will of the majority of the whole people of the territory, against black Republicanism, usurpation, revolution, anarchy, and the will of a meagre minority. (Published by order of the Democratic National Committee, 1856), by Democratic National Committee (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
The New-Haven memorial to the President, protesting against the use of the United-States army to enforce the bogus laws of Kansas; the answer of President Buchanan; and the reply of the memorialists ... (Printed by J. Wilson and Son, 1857), by New Haven (Conn.). Citizens and James Buchanan (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas bill. (G.S. Gideon, printer, 1858), by J. P. Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
Letter of J. R. Cockerill of Ohio, a representative in Congress, to his constituents. (Printed by L. Towers, 1858), by Joseph R. Cockerill (page images at HathiTrust)
Negro-slavery, no evil; or, The North and the South. The effects of Negro-slavery, as exhibited in the census, by a comparison of the condition of the slaveholding and non-slaveholding states. Considered in a report made to the Platte County Self-Defensive Association, by a committee, through B. F. Stringfellow, Chairman. Pub. by order of the Association. (Printed by Niedner & Co., 1854), by Platte Co. Platte County Self-Defensive Association and B. F. Stringfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Mr. Fessenden, of Maine (Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858), by William Pitt Fessenden (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. Graham N. Fitch, of Indiana, on the constitution of Kansas (Printed at the office of the Congressional globe, 1857), by Graham N. Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
Position of Massachusetts on the slavery question. (Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1856), by James Buffinton (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. S.A. Douglas, of Illinois, against the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 22, 1858. (Washington, 1858), by Stephen A. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
The issue fairly presented : black Republicanism versus Democracy: law, order, and the will of the majority of the whole people, against usurpation, anarchy, revolution, and the voice of a meagre minority of the people of Kansas. Published by order of the Democratic national committee. (New York, 1856), by Democratic National Committee (U.S.) (1856-1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
Council journal (Lawrence [etc.], 1855), by Kansas. Legislative Assembly. Council (page images at HathiTrust)
Lecompton Constitution (Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee of Fifteen and Alexander H. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
Lecompton Constitution ([Washington?, 1858), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Kansas Constitution, Garnett Bowditch Adrian, Thomas Langrell Harris, Justin S. Morrill, and Alexander H. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
Report <to accompany bill S. 161> [of] the Committee on Territories : to whom was referred the message of the President, communicating a constitution for Kansas as a state : adopted by the convention which met at Lecompton, on Monday, the 4th of September, 1857. ([Washington, 1858), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories, Jacob Collamer, Stephen A. Douglas, and James S. Green (page images at HathiTrust)
New York Democratic Anti-Lecompton meeting, held Wednesday, February 17, 1858. (J. F. Trow, Printer, 1858), by N.Y.) Democratic Party (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of William H. Seward, against Mr. Douglas' second enabling bill, and in favor of the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union : in the Senate of the United States, July 2, 1856. (Buell & Blanchard, 1856), by William H. Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal (Lawrence [etc.], 1855), by Kansas. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ... February 29, 1860. (Printed by L. Towers, 1860), by Stephen A. Douglas, William H. Seward, Lyman Trumbull, William H. Seward, Lemuel Towers, and United States. Congress 1859-1860). Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas affairs in the Senate : minority report (Buell and Blanchard, printers, 1856), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Jacob Collamer (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of W. P. Fessenden, of Maine, against the repeal of the Missouri prohibition, north of 36 ̊30 .́ Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 3, 1854, on the bill to establish territorial governments in Nebraska and Kansas. (Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1854), by William Pitt Fessenden and Buell & Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. H.S. Geyer, of Missouri, on the Kansas controversy : delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 7-8, 1856. (Congressional Globe Office, 1856), by Henry S. Geyer (page images at HathiTrust)
The barbarism of slavery : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state, in the United States Senate, June 4, 1860. (Young Men's Republican Union, 1863), by Charles Sumner (page images at HathiTrust)
Act to organize the territories of Nebraska and Kansas ([Washington, 1854), by United States, United States. Congress 1853-1854). Senate, and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. S. A. Douglas, of Illinois, in the United States Senate, March 3, 1854, on Nebraska and Kansas. (Printed at the Sentinel Office, 1854), by Stephen A. Douglas and United States. Congress 1853-1854). Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
The issue fairly presented. The Senate bill for the admission of Kansas as a state. (Printed at the Union Office, 1856), by Democratic National Committee (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas contested election. (s.n., 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee of Elections (page images at HathiTrust)
The Lecompton question. Governor's Wise's Tammany, Philadelphia and Illinois letters, together with letters to Charles W. Russell, esq., by a Virginia Democrat. ([Richmond?, 1858), by Henry A. Wise, Charles W. Russell, and Virginia Democrat (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Lecompton constitution (1902), by William Adelbert Cook (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Reminiscences of Gov. R.J. Walker : with the true story of the rescue of Kansas from slavery (The author, 1902), by George W. Brown and Thomas Ewing (page images at HathiTrust)
Thirty years in Topeka; a historical sketch. (G.W. Crane & Co., 1886), by F. W. Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
Kansas constitution : May 11, 1858, ordered to be printed (s.n., 1858), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee of Fifteen (page images at HathiTrust)
Freedom in Kansas : speech of William H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States, March 3, 1858. (Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858), by William Henry Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. John M. Read, on the power of Congress over the territories, and in favor of free Kansas, free white labor, and of Fremont and Dayton. (Printed by C. Sherman & Son, 1856), by John M. Read (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, delivered at Barnwell C.H., October 29th, 1858. (Charleston [S.C.] : Steam Power Press of Walker Evans & Co., 1858., 1858), by James Henry Hammond and Evans & Co Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
Narragansett speech. (s.n., 1856), by Rowland Gibson Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, on the Pacific Railroad bill. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 17, 1858. ([Printed by Lemuel Towers] ;, 1858), by Stephen A. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
The Wyandotte Convention: an address, by John Alexander Martin (Gutenberg ebook)

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