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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland) (1808-1873) Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, in reference to the affairs of Kansas.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08452.02 Author/Creator: Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland) (1808-1873) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Pamphlet Date: 6 May 1856 Pagination: 3 p. ; 22.6 x 14.1 cm. Order a Copy

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 100 (34th Congress, 1st session). Chase, Governor of Ohio, asserts these resolutions were passed by the legislature of Ohio in April 1856. Reprinted by Congress May 1856. Ohio resolves "That the cause of the people of Kansas, engaged in defending themselves against lawless violence and in asserting their inherent right of self-government, be, and hereby is, earnestly commended to the warm sympathies of the people of Ohio."

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

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