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Bingham, Kinsley S. (Kinsley Scott) (1808-1861) Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, in relation to Kansas affair.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08452.08 Author/Creator: Bingham, Kinsley S. (Kinsley Scott) (1808-1861) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Pamphlet Date: 18 February 1857 Pagination: 2 p. ; 22.7 x 14.4 cm. Order a Copy

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 49 (34th Congress, 3rd session). Bingham, Governor of Michigan, approved these measures 10 February 1857. Reprinted by Congress 18 February. "Resolved... that our senators in Congress be instructed, and our representatives requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of an act of Congress declaring the Kansas code (so called) null and void..."

Bingham, Kinsley Scott, 1808-1861

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