Letter, Marc [Parrott] to Dr Edd [Edwin Parrott]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.1857-12-10Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins)1801-1866CreatorcreThis item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 101976). TKO topic guide: Territorial Politics and Government>Territorial Politics>Lecompton Constitution ratification (Dec. 1857)still imageku-kansascollection:2127https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/2127u003406||u003407aspace_e207b9bb50440a61e786f76b86a75678electronicimage/tiffreformatted digitalCorrespondence from Marcus Parrott to his Dayton, Ohio family membershttp://hdl.handle.net/10407/7679180932RH MS VLT 554University of KansasUniversity of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research LibraryThis work is free of known copyright restrictions.ku-kansascollection_2127_MODSMODS record generated from local records created for online exhibit. Processed, with additional values/elements added by Digital Initiatives, KU Libraries.eng2021-10