man or Mr. Flanigan. I then took a ticket out of my pocket, and requested it to be put in the ballot-box, and my name put down on the poll list. They refused to do so at first; but after some consulting they consented to do so, and said that would be the only one that should go in. The judges and clerk counselled each other about it, and the rest of the day there was no difficulty.

Cross-examined by Mr. Rees:

I think it was either 42 or 52 votes given that day. I think Mr. Chapman had 1 vote, and Mr. Flanigan some 6 votes. It was the clerk and one of the judges-either Mr. Watts or Mr. Horner, I do not know which-who said that there should be no abolition votes given. George Holmes, of Westport, was the clerk. I do not know of my own knowledge that he did not live here. If he has ever lived within. one mile of this town since I have lived in this Territory he must. have kept himself very close, as I do not think any one has lived that near town without my knowing it. I do not know that he did not. live within two miles of town. He had a claim near Mr. Stinson's claim. There was no house on it, and if there had been a tent on it I think I must have seen it, as I used to pass there nearly every day before my leg was cut; and I saw nothing of the kind.

en.

TECUMSEH, K. T., May 6, 1856.

To Mr. Reeder:

M. J. MITCHELL.

THOMAS HOPKINS called and sworn.

On the election of the 29th of November, 1854, I was at Doctor Chapman's, in the fourth district. It was my first visit in that section of the country, and I met a great many there I got acquainted with in Jackson county, where I had made a crop that year-Mr. Leander Deharney, Shepherd West, and a man named Lyons-I think his name was William, but will not be positive-and Henry BrackI also saw Mr. Berry, from Cass county. I do not recollect the names of others at this time. A short time after the election I was at old Judge Bracken's. He told me he outfitted 20 men, furnished them with mules, and ways of getting here to vote. I saw these men at Chapman's and had conversation with some of them. Mr. Berry introduced me to a great many of his neighbors, who told me they came here with the intention of voting. They told me how many there were of them, but I do not recollect their numbers now; but I think there were at that precinct between 80 and 150. Some of them said they supposed Kansas was becoming a free State, and they wanted to use their influence as much as possible to make it a slave State. I should suppose Chapman's was some 40 or 45 miles from the Missouri State line. I do not know how far it is from the line of the district; but I think it is called some 4 miles from the Santa Fé road, which was the line at that time.

I do not recollect any further about the voting.

LAWRENCE, K. T., April 30, 1856.

THOMAS HOPKINS.

To Mr. Reeder:

PETER BASSINGER called and sworn.

I came into the Territory the first of September, 1854, from Warren county, Iowa, and settled at what was called Black Jack Point, on the Santa Fé road, in the 4th district.

I was at the first election after I came into the Territory, held at Doctor Chapman's, in November, 1854. I saw a great many men and teams travelling the Santa Fé road at the time of the election, and I hardly knew what it meant until some 40 or 50 men camped at my house. They came in the house off and on, and were talking and were wishing to know how I would vote; and after their insisting, I said, at last, I thought, if I did vote at all, I would vote the free-State ticket. One old gentleman-Mr. Ralston, I think they called his name, who lived between Westport and Independence-hooted at me, and said they were bound to have Kansas a slave State, if they did it at the point of the sword, and that it was not worth while for me to kick up about it. A man who had stuck up a stake by my calf-pen, said he had as much a claim there as he wanted. A gentleman rode up that I was partly acquainted with, and we rode to the polls after these men had started. One of their men had driven down a stake which they said was their claim, and I jumped down and pulled it up; and it had either 7 or 9 names on it, I do not recollect which. There was no person sworn, but all voted. I voted. The one I knew came back and staid with me all night. After we got back, he said, as all the fun was over, he would tell me the sport of it. He said that one man got drunk, and they sent for Dr. Chapman to come and see a sick man; and when they got him off, they got another man in his place a judge, who was not sworn in. These men at my house told me, some of them, that they lived in Missouri. One of them told me he lived in Jackson county. I have passed his house several times since. There was one who drove up to my house in his carriage, who was from Missouri, and inquired the way to the election. He said if he did not get to vote, whether he had been there long enough or not, he would give his team. He said that every man had a right to vote. I did not see arms about these men, except that almost every man had revolvers and knives belted to them. I saw arms in their wagons. I saw some guns there. After the election was over, they went back towards Missouri. I started for Independence the next morning, and some of them passed me that day. I left my wife at home. I camped that night at Cedar creek, and several of this party camped there. Some of them hallooed for Whitfield, and some for Wakefield. The road seemed to be full of them. Í I was not very well acquainted in my district at that time. I saw others, more than staid at my house, on the road going back to Missouri.

LAWRENCE, K. T., April 30, 1856.

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To Mr. Reeder.

REUBEN HACKETT called and sworn.

Came into the Territory 6th June, 1854; settled on Ottawa creek. Resided there since I moved my family there the 2d of September following. I came from Indiana to Illinois, and from Illinois here. I live in the fourth district. I was present at the election in November, 1854, at Doctor Chapman's. My acquaintance was not extensive in the district, but I think the population was not great. I got to the place of election between ten and eleven o'clock in the morning on the day of election. I saw a considerable number of men I was not acquainted with. I saw many of my acquaintances there also. I do not remember that I heard these strangers to me say where they had come from, or what for. I never saw these strangers before, and have seen but a few of them since, that I know. Those that I saw coming in, came from across the prairie towards Hickory Point and some from the direction of "Eight-mile" creek. I am not well acquainted with the district now, but I am acquainted with the persons on Ottawa creek and above; but there are persons on "Eight-mile" creek that I am not acquainted with. I have no knowledge of the exact number of families on "Eight-mile" creek.

I was at the election on the 30th of March, 1855. I do not recollect about the population in the district between the census and the time of election, except that it was increasing slowly. I saw a number of persons there I did not know to be citizens of the district. I did not count them, and cannot judge correctly, but can estimate them. I think there were some 80 odd votes polled. I should judge there were about 20 or 30 persons there, perhaps more, I was not acquainted with, that I did not know to be residents. There were persons in the district I was unacquainted with.

To Mr. Sherman:

Of the 80 odd who voted there, I probably knew some 30 odd perI cannot form any correct opinion of what persons besides were citizens or were not citizens of the district.

sons.

To Mr. Whitfield:

It was peaceable and quiet at both elections.

LAWRENCE, K. T., May 3, 1856.

REUBEN HACKETT.

REUBEN HACKETT recalled.

I have examined the poll-books of the election of the 29th November, 1854, in the fourth district, and I find upon that poll-list 30 names whom I know to have been residents of the district at that time, as follows:

J. T. Keeser, Charles White, B. C. Moore, R. Hill, R. M. Williams, W. David, J. Bradbury, G. Simmons, H. Lowry, W. Grace, C. Mayfield, Judge Bernard, T. Mockaby, A. F. Powell, J. Eddy, A. J. Miller, A. B. Gilland, P. Bassinger, E. H. Bassinger, E. Hill,

J. M. Banks, R. Hackett, J. B. Davis, J. H. Lockridge, A. Hanna, J. Curran, W. Ewart, O. Rand, Wm. Moore, J. Chapman. REUBEN HACKETT.

LAWRENCE, K. T., May 3, 1856.

PERRY FULLER called and sworn.

Examined by Mr. Reeder:

I came into this Territory about the 6th of September, 1854, and settled on what is called "Eight-mile" creek, in the 4th district, and have resided there ever since. I was at the first election, of 29th of November, 1854.

I profess to be well acquainted with my district. I have examined the poll-list of that election, and find a good many names there of men who do not live in the district. There were 161 votes cast. I do not find over 24 or 25 names of residents at that time on the pollbook. There might have been more, but I think not.

I saw a great many strangers there on the day of the election-some of them from Missouri. I understood they camped on the ground over night. They were there early in the morning. There was considerable confusion on that day at the election polls. There were severe threats that they were bound to make Kansas a slave State. I did not know any of the strangers there.

I have looked over the list made out by Mr. Hackett, in connexion with the poll-books, and think it is correct. I live some eight miles from Mr. Hackett, in another settlement.

LAWRENCE, K. T., May 3, 1856.

PERRY FULLER.

JOHN F. JAVENS called and sworn.

I came into the Territory the 29th of February, 1854, from Westport, Missouri, and settled on the headwaters of the Marais des Cygnes, and was the first settler who made a claim there. It was in the fourth election district. I was at the election of November 29, 1854, at the house of Dr. Chapman, when General Whitfield was elected, and I voted there. There were citizens of Missouri who came there and voted at that election, some of whom I had been personally acquainted with for the last ten or twelve years. Among those I recognised, and whose names I find on the poll-list of that election, are James Price, G. W. Allen, H. T. Childs, A. B. Smith, Thomas Hall, John Price, M. Simmons, J. Campbell, and others. I conversed with some of them, and they told me they came there to vote. I asked them if they had a right to vote in Missouri and in the Territory too, and they said they were told by citizens of the Territory they had a right to come here and vote. They were armed, every man of them I saw. Many of them were cursing the Free-State men of the Territory. Some told me they had never been in the Territory before, and if they had

known I lived in that section of the country, they would have made their arrangements to have stopped with me the night of the election. They said they wanted to see the Territory anyhow, and that was a good time to do so. That they could come and vote and see the Territory at the same time. When this was told me, some of the party were ready to start home, and these persons told me they would have to go back with the others, as their baggage was in the wagon, and but for that they would have stopped with me that night. After I saw how they were voting, and heard a number express themselves as being determined to outvote the Free-State party, if some of them had to stay and vote again, I left the polls and started home.

I find but a very few resident voters' names in the list, and I thought I knew all of them. I have not examined so thoroughly as to say how many there were. I saw three or four times as many armed men from Missouri on the ground as there were resident voters in the district at that time.

LAWRENCE, K. T., May 12, 1856.

JOHN F. JAVENS.

WILLIAM MOORE called and sworn.

I came into the Territory about the 16th of August, 1854, from Indiana, and settled in the 4th district, on the Ottawa creek, and have lived there ever since. I was at the election on the 29th of November, 1854, in that district. My acquaintance was very limited at that time. But in that district I do not think there were more than 25 or 30 resident voters. When I went to the election I saw a great many strangers there, which surprised me very much, as I thought I knew most in the district. I do not know that I recollect any conversation distinctly on that day about that matter with any of them. They were encamped some 200 or 300 yards from Dr. Chapman's house, where the election was held. I was not in their camp. They were armed with double-barreled shot-guns, bowie-knives, and revolvers. I heard them say they had as good right to come from Missouri and vote there, as others who were there and had come from other States. They did not appear to claim any residence in the Territory. The principal portion of them left an hour and a half or two hours after I got there, in carriages, buggies, and wagons, and were very noisy and profane, and appeared to be intoxicated. I saw a great many of them vote that day.

Cross-examined by Mr. Oliver:

I knew a Mr. Thomas Mockaby, as he said his name was, who was of this party of strangers. I think I heard as many as a dozen of these strangers say they were from Missouri. I think I saw at least as many as twenty-five of them vote.

LAWRENCE, K. T., May 8, 1856.

WILLIAM MOORE.