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  <dc:title>Letter, Josiah Miller to Dear Father and Mother</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator)</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>Josiah Miller wrote from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, to his Father and Mother, recently settled in Illinois.  He discussed with them family news, and attached a postscript regarding their land warrants in Kansas Territory. Miller also referred to the free state supporters&apos; rejection of a charter put in place by the &quot;bogus legislature&quot; in Lecompton, and the subsequent meeting of the free state legislature in Topeka.  A census had been taken by free state men in the largest pro-slavery localities.  According to Miller, this census found that free state men outnumbered proslavery supporters by at least 1 to 7.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 101652). TKO topic guide: Territorial Politics and Government&gt;Territorial Politics&gt;Lecompton Constitution delegates to convention (June 1857)</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1857?-07-20</dc:date>
  <dc:type>StillImage</dc:type>
  <dc:format>electronic</dc:format>
  <dc:format>image/tiff</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>ku-kansascollection:1189</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/1189</dc:identifier>
  <dc:relation>aspace_989e50101667e3ab2939a1f6d7a96daf</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Josiah Miller papers--http://hdl.handle.net/10407/1569965884--RH MS 4</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>This work is free of known copyright restrictions.</dc:rights>
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