Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-06-12

IndiaI a; spent two and a half years in
Missouri, in Platte County; li1es in the
same district as previous witness.t the Al|th;
there was large party of men at the polls,
at the March election, lS55--several hun
dred; there were not more than thirty actual
residents at the polls and few of these voi-
ers; the crowd of non-re idents insisted on
voting, ard coerced the Judges of Election
10 resign; these men elected others; they
then proceeded to voting; witness remained
during the day and saw them; knew some
OF these men to be residents OF Platte
Co nty; identified names on the p9li-book
of those who were residents of Misso rri.
II. F. Hall, swo-n-Came from Buch-
anan County, No, in the Spring of 1854;
lives ten miles from Leavenworth, on the
/ Fort Riley rosd: was at the first November
e'ec ion at the Painzino place; there were
tfange.s at tle elrc' ion; some Of them he
knew to be from Missouri. hi, OLD neighbo's;
| they came mostly in wagons; witness con
versed with them; they told him they came
TO vote, and that they wanted to make Kan
sas S!ay. State.
J.B. Crane, sworn-Lives in the same
! district and testified to frauds at the same
/ election; came from Buchanan County No u,
! " here ne hal been some time; is toleraby
we'll acquainted in the district; there was
not more than 100 voters living in the dis
trict at the time of election; (306 votes
polied) does rot think all of the resident
voters voted; saw the strangers who were
at the voting places, coming there in com-
pan ies. in wagons and on horseback; saw
them also 20 away.
To Mr.. Whitfield Whitfield & FIankcn
were the candidates; did not know where
Fianiken res ded; never saw him; did not
know when he left the Territory; believed
that he does not live here now, but does no:
know.
A. this point Mr.. D. a. n. Groves, who
is member of the council, and was "a can
di late at the election in question, asked the
privilege Of cross questioning witness. Mr..
! Howard allowed him 10 DO so. He COM
menced in lroNbea,ing style; tried to get
the witness to state 20 lively en- several
| po nts; asked the witness sundry questions,
and when he got an answer, replied sternly
hat he knew Il e contrary to be true, and
demanded if he was sure. After consuming
three hours, at least, of the Committees
time, without el'citing anything of con-
sequence. he desisted.
LEAvlNwoRTH CITY, K. T., May 20, sc.
b. +. NICHOLSON, sworn--Is a resident of
Plat'e City, No, was going down the Mis-
s,uri River after the Territorial March lee
lion; twenty passengers came on board at
Kansas City to 90 down TO St. Louis; these
men were under the lead OF Mr. Lincoln
of Massachusetts, who was their chief; thev
came massachusetts, they told witness that
the Emigrant Aid Society had brought them
out, and promised them $3.50 a day after
they got to Lawrence ard voted; they cursed
the Ernarant Aid Society for not treating
them well; they came cut to vote the Free
Soil ticket; they swore that they did not
care d-n whether Kansas was a Free or
4 Slave State, but they did not like to be
cboaslej out Of their means IN that wav;
they cursed and abused Lincoln for making
a speech in Massachusetts and misiead NO
them; they had been up Fnto the Territory
and voted, and were going home; Lincoln
h mself ID witness that he was going
DOWN 20 st Louis after new batch, as the
Governor had ordered a new election for
Lawrence in May. (This testimony is of
the most loose description. and requires no
elaborate argument TO prove lis utter incon-
sistency aud improbab;lily to an Eastern
man)
Joseph Parker, sworI-Liyes in Atchison
County; came from Buchanan County, No,
in 1854; was a, the March election, 1855:
saw non residents OF the district, whom he
had known as residents of Buchanan Coun-
", and who have been residents of that
county since, and still are residents of Mo
| (Witness here gave the names Of number
of those he there knew who were there with
the company--among them Major Oliver Of
the Comm:ssion.) There were nearly 800
of these men there; Major Oliver made a
speech to them-a frst-rate speech.
To Oliver--You made fine speech, and
a peace, or compromising one; that you
thought thatall parties there had an equal
right to vote. (Here Oliver interposed and
said: Witness, did not justify men com
ing TO vote from Missouri as an abs .ract pro-
position, but merely as a corrective to the
Emigrant Aid Society!') I did not hear
you explain ii just exactly in that way, but
you justified them in some way. (Here Mr.
Oliver gave some liberal rectntons of his
own speech. asking witness if he had not
said SO nni so, and il he had not offered tm
guarantee the Free State people protection. }
Some of these "reminiscences the witness
recognized: others he did not remember to
have heard him make; the witness was a
Pro, Slavery man when he came to the Ter
ritory, and has still an interest in consiI-
cradle number of slaves belonging to his
fathers es'a:e in Kentucky. To question
from Oliver about his politics, he replied
that he had been a Pro-slavery man, but he fell
over the fence that day; divers eloquenee
is only partially probable, the witness stat
ing that he thought that the people, of the
Territory ought to manage their own affairs
and he was SO disguised with the course
pursued, and the rarity pursuing it, that
he could not stay with them. (Here
Groves again resumed his formidable tedious
cross-examination in the same insulting and
intimidating tone. He ELECTED nothing new }
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