Letter, Marc [Parrott] to Dr Edd [Edwin Parrott] Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator) Marcus Parrott wrote from Washington, D.C., to his brother, Edwin Parrott, regarding recent dramatic political events. Marcus referred to Democrat Stephen Douglas' "breaking" with President Buchanan. Both men supported popular sovereignty in Kansas, as well as the solidarity of the Union. However, the President, unwilling to override the work of what he considered a legitimate Lecompton Constitutional Convention or to cancel a local election result, asked Congress to approve the Lecompton Constitution, make Kansas momentarily a slave state, and thus enable the people there to make any new constitution they wished. But Douglas, outraged by such a distortion of his vision of popular sovereignty , broke with Buchanan and joined with the Republicans to defeat the admission of Kansas. This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 101976). TKO topic guide: Territorial Politics and Government>Territorial Politics>Lecompton Constitution ratification (Dec. 1857) 1857-12-10 StillImage electronic image/tiff ku-kansascollection:2127 https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/2127 aspace_e207b9bb50440a61e786f76b86a75678 Correspondence from Marcus Parrott to his Dayton, Ohio family members--http://hdl.handle.net/10407/7679180932--RH MS VLT 554 This work is free of known copyright restrictions.