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But the fraudulent slave-state legislature had already provided for holding a constitutional convention at Lecompton. This convention was controlled by the slave-state men and adopted a constitution providing for slavery. President Buchanan sent this constitution to Congress and asked to have Kansas admitted as a slave state. But Douglas could not bear to see the wishes of the settlers of Kansas outraged. He opposed the proposition vigorously and it was defeated. It was not until 1861 that Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state.
但是，詭詐的主張奴隸制的立法機關已經規定在利康頓召開一次制憲會議，這次會議由主張奴隸制的人控制，并通過了為奴隸制制定的章程。總統布坎南將這個章程交給國會并要求接受堪薩斯為一個有奴隸的州，但是，道格拉斯不能忍受堪薩斯殖民地居民的愿望受到侵犯，他強烈反對這個章程，結果，這個章程被否決，直到1861年堪薩斯才被聯邦接受為一個自由民州。
360. John Brown's Raid, 1859.
360．約翰·布朗的突然襲擊（1859年）
While in Kansas John Brown had conceived a bold plan. It was to seize a strong place in the mountains of the South, and there protect any slaves who should run away from their masters. In this way he expected to break slavery in pieces within two years. With only nineteen men he seized Harper's Ferry, in Virginia, and secured the United States arsenal at that place. But he and most of his men were immediately captured. He was executed by the Virginian authorities as a traitor and murderer. The Republican leaders denounced his act as "the gravest of crimes." But the Southern leaders were convinced that now the time had come to secede from the Union and to establish a Southern Confederacy.
約翰o布朗在堪薩斯期間想起一個大膽的計劃，那就是奪取南部山脈中的一處要地，在那里保護那些從其主人那里逃跑出來的奴隸。他希望通過這樣的努力在兩年內粉碎奴隸制。約翰·布朗帶著19個人奪取了弗吉尼亞的哈珀渡口，并獲得美國在這個地方的一個兵工廠，但是，他和他的大多數手下很快就被抓獲。他被弗吉尼亞當局作為叛國者和殺人犯處以死刑，共和黨的領導人稱他的行為是"最嚴重的犯罪"。但是，南方的領導者由此相信，已經到了從聯邦中正式退出并建立一個"南方聯邦"的時候。
