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Colorado Statehood in the Making

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Colorado Statehood in the Making
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1) "Admission of Colorado. Memorial of her Congressional Delegation. Washington D. C., January 29, 1866." To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled. by John Evans (1814-1897), J. B. Chaffee, U. S. Senators Elect for Colorado and G. M. Chilcott, Representative to Congress from Colorado. (9.25" x 6") 4 pp. Evans was a US politician, physician, railroad promoter, Governor of the Territory of Colorado, and namesake of Evanston, Illinois; Evans, Colorado; and Mount Evans, Colorado. He is most noted for being one of the founders of both Northwestern University and the University of Denver. His role in one of the worst acts of genocide committed against Native Americans, the Sand Creek Massacre, has become more widely known in recent years. 2) "Colorado Veto reviewed [from the Washington Chronicle." "The message of the President returning the bill for the admission of Colorado to the Senate with his objections is, in several respects, the most remarkable State paper ever presented to Congress. In his anxiety to assign a plausible reason for his course he has laid hold of the misrepresentations of the opponents of admission and built his arguments upon them. It would had saved the President the mortification of finding his statements to be false, if he had simply assigned what everybody believes to be the real ground of the veto, i. e., that the politics of the Colorado congressional delegation did not suit him. Had the Colorado Senators been Copperheads or advocated of "my policy," no one doubts that the bill would have been cheerfully approved. (9" x 6") 7 pp. City: State: Colorado Date: 1866 ID# 27603