Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1856-08-15

Iiis = 3 fftHs il la4osq hshsss io
ter are stated in q former part Of thi
report. - j us4s lf.a ssls eis1s, /.
The third charge is entirely ground
less. The organic law requires th'
Governor to cause an enumeration 0
the Inhabitants and legal voters 10 b
made. and that he apportion the mem
bers Of the Council and House accor
ding to this enumeration. For reason
stated by persons engaged 10 taking
the census, Il vas not completed Unit
the early part Of March, 1856 A
that time the day Of holding the cleo
ton had not been and could not have
been named BY the Governor, Al
soon as practicable after the returns
were brought in. he issued his procls'
nation for an election. and named the
earliest day consistent with due notice
as the day Of election. The day or
which the election was 10 be held vsl
matter Of conjecture all over the
country. But Il wa: generally known
that it would be in the lxttsr part oI
March. The precise day Was moi
known oy any one until the Proclnm.a'
tion issued. Il was not known TO the
agents of the Emigrsnt Aid Society IN
Boston on the iS.h OF March. 1860
when the party of emigrants before re-
ferred 10. Ieit- sn.r3fi a.s- -. s.sis
Your COMMITTEE are satisfied thai
these charges we're made the mere
Pretext to induce an armed invasion
into the Territory, IN q means to con-
troll the election and establish Slavery
there, > rob -,
The real purpose 10 avowed and IL
Iustrsted by the testimony and conduct
OF oo'. !onn SCOTT: OF 81 'osePn's
Missouri. who acted as the sttorney
tor the s'tf'ng delegate: before yoa'
Vommltsee' Inc louowlng are ex'
tracts from his deposition: II -
rr'or to the election 10 Burr OAK (
prec'nct. 10 'ne AVN o'str'ct' on tne
xoth OF November 1909. had oeen
ares'osns ot missouri snoi tnen ae'
termlned, II ! found 1t necessary. to
oscome resident OF Kansas Territory;
On the oay previous 70 tnat eiecuon l
settled my boarding house. in 81. 10.
sePh.s' Missouri and went over to the
Territory, and took boarding with Mr.
Bryant, near whose house the polls
were neid the next day. so that 4
might have it in my power. by merely
determining to 90 SO. to become q res.
'ue". OF 'ne Ier'''o'y On tne oay o.
election. -z es w
!. when my name was proposed as 2
Juage OF eiection' oolecuons were
made oy TWO persons only.
: 'nsn Puo''c'y informed '"ose present
'taa' naa Grain W the ferrtory'
that tn had .s taken boa board N the Isl,,so.
ry ior month"; ana tnat could at
any moment become an actual resident
ana iegai voter 10 the Ierr'tory' ana
IN" ! "ou'd DO so =, l concluded at
any time during the DAY that my vote
would oe necessary 70 carry that pre-
c'nct IN iavor OF the Pro-slavery candI-
date 2 a:, for delegate to Congress
o'n not curing tne oay consider II
necessary to become q resident OF the
Territory tor the purpose mentioned.
and did notvote or oner 70 vote as that
election. st. = giss =
- held the once oi .Ci'y Attorney
ior ot. Joseph AZ tnat t'me' aod neio
it for Two or three years previously;
ana continued 70 noid IL until tnis
Spring. l voted IN
an election in st. JosePh's in the spring
OF 1900 ana was re-aPP"ntea CITY
Attorney. The question OF Slavery
was put in issue at the election OF No
vem0er, 1904, 70 Ice same extent as In
every election In this Territory. Gen.
Whitfield was regarded as the Pro-
Slavery candidate Tor the Pro'SlaveFy
party. l regarded the question Of
Slavery as the primary prominent is
sue at that election, and so far as !
knowall parties agreed in making that
question tho issue oi that election. :,
stIf so sxax - IN "a ks~v. md fko sufov<