Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-12

or else resign. They said no man should vote who
would submit to be sworn-that they would kill
any one who would offer to do so-"shoot him !"
"cut his CUTS out" &c. They said no man should
waite this day unless he voted an open ticket, and
WINS "all right on the goose" and that if they could
not vote by fair means, they would by foul means.
They said they had as much right to vote, if they
had been in the Territory two minutes, as il they
had been there twoYyears, and they would vote.
Some of the citizens who were about the window,
but had not voted when the crowd of Missourians
marched up there, upon atten pting to vote, were
driven back by the MOB, or driven of. One OF
them, Mr.. j. NJ. Macy, was asked if he would
take the oath and upon his replying that he would
if the Judges required it, he was dragged through
the crowd away from the polls, amid cries of xii
the ID niger thief" Cut his throat" "Tear
his heart out" &c. After they got him to the out.
side of the crowd, they stood around him with
cooked revolvers and drawn bowic.knives, one man
putting u knife to his heart, so that it touched him.
another holding a cooked pistol to his ear, while
another struck at him with a club. The Missou-
rians said they had a right to vote if they had
been in the Territory but five minutes, Some said
they had been hired to come there and vote and
get a dollar a day, and by Cd, they would vote
or die there.
~Thcy said the 3Oth day of March was an import
ant day. as Kansas would be made a Slave State on
that day. They began to leave in the direction of
Missouri i'll the afternoon, after they had voted,
leaving some 30 or 40 around the house where the
election was held, to guard the polls until the cleo
ton was held, to guard the polls until after the
election was over. The citizens of the Territory
were not around, except those who took part in the
mob, and a large portion of them did not vote ::
34l votes were polled there that day, Of which but
some 80 were citizens.
Major Oliver one Of the Committee it seems was
one Of the leaders of a company Of Missourians
who invaded Kansas. Several Missourians who
voted under his lead testified to the fact, though
the Committee report that he did not himself vote.
The following is the testimony Of one of the wit
nesses:
Joseph Parker, sworn-Live in Atchison County;
came from Buchanan County, Mo, in 1854 was at
the March election, 1865 saw non-residents of
the district, whom he had known as residents of
Buchanan County, and who have been residents of
that County since, and still are residents of
Missouri. Witness here gave the names OF
a number OF those he then knew who were there
with the company-among them Major Oiiver of
the commission. There were nearly 300 Of these
men there Major Oliver made a speech to them
"A trst-rate speech. To n question of Oliver he
said You made a fine speech, and a peace or
compromising one that you thought all parties
there had z right to vote" Here Oliver interrupted
and said witness, l did not Justify men coming
to vote from Missouri as an abstract proposition,
int merely as a coIrecticc to tie EBligrdnt Aid
Society,"? :" Witness II did not hear you explain
it just erachy in that rag, but you justified them
in some way"