colored tickets that day or not. I let no man vote that day, by my decision, whom I did not consider to be entitled to vote. I was satisfied with the certificate of election, as prescribed by the governor, at the time I signed it. To Mr. Sherman : I don't know whether the words "by lawful resident voters" were in the certificate or not. I don't remember whether they were in or not. I did not allow any one to vote unless he had some interest in the Territory. Many never voted whom we did not ask any questions. When we would ask a question the voter would either say he had a a town lot, or some interest, and we would believe it, and him to vote. The reason why I thought there would be a fuss, › excluded the persons I speak of, was, that I heard men swearing would vote, and from their motions outside. Those men who ed, and of whom we asked no questions, I cannot state whether I Jew or not. To Governor King: We supposed that those men whom we let vote without asking questions were such as had a right to vote without the necessity of a question. The certificate of election appended to the poll-books in the possession of the committee seems to be like the one I signed. I do not know whether I objected to or consented to an alteration of the certificate--I did not care to have it altered myself or not. LEAVENWORTH CITY, K. T., May 31, 1856. ADAM FISHER. AMOS REES testifies: I moved into the Territory in July, 1855, and have lived in Missouri since 1818, and am a practising lawyer. I was present at an election held at Leavenworth on the 22d of May, 1855, for three representatives. My impression is that I did not vote at that election. The slave party took no interest in it, thinking that Reeder had no right to set aside the former election, and took but little interest in it; and I may and may not have voted myself. I know a great many citizens who voted. I know the following persons to have lived in Missouri at that time: Ex-Judge Wm. B. Almond, Robert Kane, William R. Kane, Malcolm R. Green, Joseph Cocrill, M. Pemberton, Daniel P. Lewis, L. Shepherd, John Venoman, James H. Headly, (now clerk of the court of Atchison county, K. T.,) S. P. Styles, Wm. Bywaters, Isaac House, (now in Kickapoo, K. T.,) A. W. Hughs, Abner Dean, John Wilson, Edward P. Duncan, Hugh Sweeney, Wm. J. Norris, Samuel R. Orfutt, Wm. H. Bell. The last named has a claim in the Territory with improvements. He has two sons here living on the claims. I know George Quimby. He had previously lived in Missouri. His family was still there. He was largely interested in the town of Delaware. He had a house built here, and kept a grocery-store and liverystable, and was interested in the ferry. He professed to be trying to dispose of his property in Platte city, to move to Delaware. He has since sold it and now lives there. I looked upon him as a settler, in the same light that I did myself before I moved. The John Wilson whom I know, I am satisfied never voted at any election in the Territory. W. G. Bonnell is in the same condition of Quimby. Francis J. Marshall, who was a member of the legislature, I understand lives in Marysville, in the eleventh district. I am satisfied that a great many men who were here from Missouri at that election did not vote. I cannot state how many did vote. I don't know that any single man voted. I did not watch the polls, or pay much attention to the matter. LEAVENWORTH CITY, K. T., May 30, 1856. AMOS REES. To Governor King: LUCIAN J. EASTIN testifies: I have resided in Leavenworth city since October, 1854, and was a candidate for the council at the 30th of March election, 1855. ernor Reeder set aside the election for representatives in the sixteenth election district, and ordered a new election, which was held the May following. The candidates at this election were the same as at the March election, and whose elections were set aside by the governor. I suppose there were about 715 votes polled at that election. I believe they were mostly, if not all, legal voters. The free-State candidates were, Edsall, Gould, and Pennock. I saw a number of votes given for their candidates by deck-hands and others from the steamer Kate Castle, lying at the levee. Some of them, I think, went up with Mr. Gould, one of the free-State candidates, or they seemed to be along with him. I saw probably about six or seven Missourians on the ground. There was no voting, or attempting to vote, that I know of. They believed the election to be illegal, and therefore took no interest in it. I heard one of the pro-slavery candidates say, on the morning of the election, that he was not a candidate, and this was the expression of all three of the candidates-that they did not recognise the right of Governor Reeder to set aside that election, and, therefore, they considered the election was invalid. The legal voters here determined to go into the election, believing they had the strength. I think the najority was from three to four hundred for the pro-slavery party. I believe that the poll-books show about the strength of parties, for I aw about five or six Missourians and the deck-hands I spoke of, about he polls. I never have examined the poll-books to know whether the voters were residents or not. I could not say whether or not the numper of votes in the district was seven hundred. LEAVENWORTH CITY, K. T., May 29, 1856. L. J. EASTIN. Returns of an election held in the first, second, third, seventh, eighth, and sixteenth districts of the Territory of Kansas on the 22d day of May, A. D. 1855. [Joel Grover, William Yates, and Josiah Miller were sworn as judges, according to printed form.] 18 S. J. Willis 19 H. Stevens 20 Samuel Anderson 21 John Doxey 22 Charles Dickson 23 John L. Crane 24 Levi Gates 25 Turner Sampson 26 C. A. Haskill 27 Leonard Litchfield 28 Lyman Allen 29 F. O. Folles 30 George Cary 37 Ernest Smith 38 C. S. Pratt 39 R. P. Moore 40 O. A. Hanscom 41 R. M. Wilkinson 42 W. A. Gentry 43 Joseph Cracklin 46 Henry D. Graves 47 John W. Stevens, (oath) 48 Samuel Merrill 49 Ransom Calkins 50 Horace C. Manning, (oath) 51 Jeremiah Spencer 52 Philip S. Huff 53 E. A. Coleman 54 Eben Goddard, (oath) 70 John R. Griffith 71 David S. Morris 72 Charles Robinson 73 Otis Potter 75 Wilder Knight 76 James Jamison 79 Calvin G. Hoit 80 B. Johnson 81 W. H. Hovey 83 J. M. Jones 85 Ezra Pierce 86 J. R. Ladd 87 John Stanton, (oath) 88 Geo. W. Gingrich, (oath) 91 M. M. Hamaron 92 Lewis J. Everhcart, (oath) 93 Joseph W. Russell 94 James D. McLain, (oath) 96 Daniel W. Palmer 97 Charles Jordan, jr., (oath) 98 Stephen Ogden 99 J. L. Merrill 100 L. S. Bacon 108 Samuel Gill, (oath) 109 N. F. Herrick 110 Ira W. Ackley 111 Fred. J. Locke 112 James Lain, (oath) 113 Thomas J. Stone 114 Stillman Andrew 115 Franklin Haskill 116 E. F. Mayo 117 Simeon Gilson 118 A. S. Addis 119 C. H. Thomas 120 N. B. Howland 121 John Pike 129 John Wild, (oath) 132 N. W. Maxwell 133 R. D. Maxwell 134 David Burton 135 A. D. Searl. 136 William Robbins 137 E. H. Mobray 138 J. F. Morgan 139 G. W. Goss 140 John Michael Ecalhap, (oath) 141 Leverett Haskell 142 James Fuller 143 Charles Pettingall 150 L. W. Plum 165 J. H. Gleason 166 J. S. Cowan 167 N. H. Smith 174 E. Gray, (oath) 177 H. F. Landas 182 D. W. Bentley, (oath)) 185 David Brown 187 J. C. Gordon 196 William Gibbons 206 Hamson Nichols 233 Reuben Randall 234 Oscar Burroughs 235 Charles M. Docknew 236 J. B. Abbott 168 Philip P. Fowler 169 Josiah G. Fuller 170 John H. Wildes 171 Edward Windon 172 Charles Garrett 173 W. J. R. Blackman, (oath) 237 B. W. Wood 238 Clark Stearns 239 H. A. Hancock 240 Paul R. Brooks 241 C. W. Babcock 242 H. Clark 243 Robert McFarland 247 Thomas Garvin 252 Amory Wetherbee 255 Henry B. Gage 270 Francis M. Littlefield 271 Wm. Savage 272 John P. Wood 273 Harvey Jones 274 Robert Garvin 289 Wm. J. Schaeff 297 Joel Groves 298 Josiah Miller 299 William Yates 300 J. S. Emery 301 L. B. Kerns 302 Silas Green 303 Noah Cameron 304 E. S. Scudder 305 A. C. Harrington 306 Wm. Blair We, the undersigned, judges of an election held on the 22d of May, A. D. 1855, at the house of Wm. H. R. Lykins, in the first election district, for the election of members of the house of representatives for the Territory of Kansas, do hereby certify, upon our oaths as judges of said election, that the following is a true and correct return of the votes polled at such election, by lawful resident voters, viz: Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 22d day of May, 1855. J. S. EMERY, J. P. |
