Chapter 79: Pierce declares the Topeka Constitution invalid.

Pierce tells Congress that Governor Reeder was fired after the Free State abolitionists interfered in the proper establishment of a government.

This interference…was one of …pernicious agitation on the subject of the
condition of the colored persons held to service in some of the States…(by)
excited individuals…in the attempt to propagate their social theories…
(and) to prevent the free and natural action of its inhabitants in (Kansas’s)
internal organization…