The Nevada journal., 1855-06-15

guns. DoWie-kniVeS and reviewers, and declared
Their determination to vote al all hazards and
in spite of all consequences.
1.-THE Judges could be madeto subserve their
purposes and receive their votes, and no OBJ.
stacle was cast in their way, the leaders exer-
TED themselves to preserve peace and order in
the conduct of the election, but at the same
tiEle did not hesitate to declare that if not al
lowed to vote they would proceed to any ex-
sremlty In the destruction of property and
life. # control of the polls could not be had
otherwise the Judges were by intimidation,
and if necessary by violence, prevented from
performing their duty; or, if unyieldine in
this respect, were driven from their post and
the vacancy filled, in form, by the persons On
the ground and whenever by any means they
had obtained the control of the Board, the
foreign vote was pr0miscously poured in with
out discrimination Or reserve, or the slightes.
care to conceal its lefarious ilegality.
At one of these polls, two of the Judges
having manfuliy stood up N the lace of this
armed mob and declared they would do their
GUty, orc portion Of the mob commenced to
tear down the house. another proceeded to
break In the door of the Judges room, while
Others, with drawn knives, posted themselves
at The wirlow, with the proclaimed purposes
of killing any voter who would allow himself
to te sworn. Voters were dragged from the
window because they would not show their
tickets or vote at the diciation OF the mob, and
the invaders declared openly ct the polls that
they would cut the throats Of tie Judges if
they did not receive their votes without re-
airing an oath as to their residence
The room was finally forced, end the Judges
surrounded by an armed and excited crowd
were offered the alternatives of resignation or
Leath and FIVE min1tes we're allowed for their
decision. The ballot-hox was seized, and amid
shouts of "Hurrah for Missouri" was carried
into The mob. The two menaced Judges then
LEFT the ground, together with all the resident
citizens except a few vLo acted in the out
rage, because tie result expected from il con-
formed to their views, and because it enabled
the few tc rule the many. When en- excess of
the foreign force was found to he had at one
poll, detachments were sent to others where it
WIS supposed they might be needed.
at the polls adjoining tie one above alluded
to, one O: the Judges, minister of the Gospel
Who refused to acceGe to the demands of O SIM
ilsr mob Of CONC four hundred armed and or
gained men, was driven by violence from his
post, and the vacancy" fiiled by themselves
Threats anu violent demonstrations were rife,
end another clergyman, fer the expression Ct
inhabitants OF tie district, poweriess to resist
the abundant supply of arms ard ammunition,
the organized preparation and the overwhe'm-
ing numbers of these foreigners, left the polls
without voting.
In the Lawrence District, where was The
largest camp Of these invaders, speeches were
made to them by leading residents of Missouri,
in which it was said that they would carry
their purposes if need be- at the point of the
bayonet and the bowier knife, and one voter
was fired at as he was driven from the election
ground. Finding they had O. greater fol ce
than was necessary for that poll some two
hundred men were drafted from their number
and sent off under their proper officers to an
other district, after which they still polled
from this camp over seven hundred votes.
In the Fourth and Seventh Districts along
the Santa Fe road similar scenes were en-
acted. The invaders came together in one
armed and organized body, with trains of fifty
wagons, besides horesmen, and the night be-
fore the election pitched their camp in the vi
cinity of the polls, and having appointed their
own judges in place Of those who from intimi-
daton or otherwise failed to attend, they voted
without any proof of residence. In these two
election districts, where the census show one
hundred voters, there were poled three hun
dred and fourteen votes, and last fall seven
!, hundred and slxty-fiye votes, although large
, portion of the actual residents did not vote
upon either occasion. In the Sixteenth Elec-
tien District hundreds of men came together
as in other cases. crossing the river from Mis-
souri, the day before the election and encamp
ing together armed and provisoned, made the
fercest threats against the lives of the judges
and during the night called several times al
tba hon, Of {bo,,, +,o,
timidating him, declaring in the presence Of
his wife that rope had been prepared to hang
) him. and although we are not prepared tc
say that these threats would have been carried
; out, yet they served to produce his resignation
| and give these invaders, in the substitution
, control of the polls and on the morning o.
the election a steamboat brought from tie
town Of Weston, Missouri, to Leavenworta
, an accession to their numbers of several hun
dred more who returned in the same boat after
, depositing their votes. There were over nine
, hundred and fifty votes polled, besides from
one hundred to one hundred and fifty actua
residents, who were deferred or discouraged
| from voting, while the census returns show
but three hundred and eighty-6ve votes in the
district month later. Not less than six hun
J dred votes were here given by the non-residents
; of the Territory who voted without being
sworn as to their qualifications and immedi.
: ately after the election returned to Missouri =
some Of them being the incumbents of lmpor
tant public Offices there. Indeed, so vcll was
the character of this foreign vote understood
that the judges struck out of the prescribed
form of return the words "Dy lawful resident
voters"
! We might continue the list of these sicken
ing details until the blood OF every freeman
would boil with indignation, but it is useless.
One more instance alone we viii refer to. In
the XVIIIth Election District where the pop
ulation was scarce and no great number of for
eign votes was needed to overpower it, a de-
tachment from Missouri from sixty to one hum
dred strong, passed in with a train of wagons,
arms and ammunition, making their camp, the
night before the election, near Moorestown,
the place of the polls without even pretext OF
residence, and returning Immediately to Miss.