Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-06-03
Tbs Kansas Evidence.

bears out the reports which hitherto have found
their way to the public through the columns of
the press
The testimony Is but history of wrang and
not, of relentless persecution and bigh-handed
outrages
The mission upon which the Missourians were
sent, It aPpesrs not alone 20 violate the bal
lot box. but murder was a part of the proorar,,-
me, and plumber the ruflianly reward.
! Here Is a sample of the evidence:
/ Hd""ao"d Hazzy, sworn-Was at Douglass
on the 30th of March. at election: saw a la-e-o
crowd there, and many wagons; got there lust as
ar. Mace did; he tried to vote, and when tho
Pro-Slavery Party that his vote was \ Free
State vote they said he should not vote If sew
efal men took hold of him by the collar and
pulled hin away he took hold of me and we
were Doth pulled away together from the poll
they crled out Cut his throat" tear his id
heart OF him.; saw one man draw knife Up
on nm, without doing any injury saw a man
with lever, trying to pry up a corner Of the
cabin; others cried out, Don't do if untiI ,-o,,
have orders; saw Ellison come out of the cabin
with the balIot-box in his hand and cry out
hurrah Tor Missouri Ellison was one of the
Judges; heard Jones (nov Shcriff) say he would
give the judge five minutes to resirn or die.
Jones gave one more minute and they then left
/ these Judges were Ramsey and Burson. both
I free-State men, was there when the other ipda-
Is were appointed the crowd then commenced
No'ihg saw no Free-State man vote; don't
know whether Jones voted that dav
Marcus H. Rose, of Seventh District-Have
+ examined cPnSuS-rolt o,,A
/ DIST OF 3Oth March, there are 81 voters on tI,e
/ census IL OF them on the poll books there are
! z34 names on the poll-list 8 legal voters on
the poli-list are not on the census-rou 6 of the
had been there and built cabins and were
away when the census was taken , are new
comers; there were 607 votes cast in our Dis
trict on Nov. %, 1854; in my Judgment there
could not at that time have been more than 25
or 30 resident voters in that District
Thomas d. Hopkins called and swora-Came
into the Territory, June 1854, from Carroll Co..
MIssouri | settlednine miles south Of Lawrence.
and have resided there since was here at the
election on the 30th March met here = good
many ofmy acquaintances from Carroll County;
saw them in camp and about the polls. (Wir-
ness here gave the names Of many with whom
/ he was acquainted from Missoufi.) They told
me there were about twncty-five my acauain-
tanees there from that sttlement ii Is about I25
miles | think from here they said they came
to vote and intended to do they said thew
wanted to make it a slave state il it wasn't tbey
would lose their property, and if it was neces-
sary they would come again; they told me there
were from 700 to 1000 in this place, and that
there would be from 5000 to 10000 here in the
/ Territory from Missouri to vote
( N Is. BLANroS called and sworn-Camc into
I the Territory in September, 1851; settled on
the Nakarusa, five miles from here. and have
resided there ever since came from Jackson
! County, Mo; was appointed one of the Judges
OF election for the district: was in Missouri for
two or three weeks before election when
came up home on the 2sfll March, met a COM
pany OF men did not know them; they told
me they We're coming to Lawrence TO vote; some
of them told me they were from Bonneville, and
some from Columbia; they found was one Of
/ the Judges; they wanted to know if l would
/ let them vote without swearing: l came about
fifteen miles with them; should suppose there
were 100 of them some eight or ten asked me
I this question saw some of these men here at
/ the election of the Goth OF March I told them
| could not let them vote according to the oath
l would have to take they said they were all
citizens of the United States, and had the right
to vote they endeayored to persuade me to let
them vote.
They endeavored TO get me to resign, and be-
came much enraged because I would not: an
old man asked me 10 continue as Judge, receive
their votes, and they would pay me l did not
then resign, but left them l resigned on the
morning of election was in one of their camps
near my house they came there the evening
before the 3Oth they came over to Lawrence
saw some of them here; there were fifteen or
twenty there; looked over part of the poll list
. and know some of the men whose names arc
there to reside in Missouri.
Cross -E&aai,,e3- said that if I did not
receive their votes, their no,a aro,ld hang me
they told me they wanted to get a Legislature
to suit them, and make Kansas a Slave State.
KESTUcKY.-The Newport (Ky.) Daily Ncacs
which takes bold ground for the abolition of sla-
HIT tor 4brr.- of tba ls,l