The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-06-11

'O'e ID bIstcth IaDkeeS, VINO were hired 10
come out here for the purpose ofyoting; that Il
the Yankees were allowed to vote who had
been shipped here by the Boston Emigrant Aid
Associations, they would vote too-peaecably il
allowed, forcibly ifneed be; that they were gen
orally orderly at the polls, prevented nobody
by force or violence from voting, but claimed
that all had an equal right to vote and boldly
ayowed that if the people of Massachusetts and
other Eastern and Northern States had not I'M
dertaken to organize moneycd companies, char
dby State Legislation, for the express and
undisguised purpose of controlling the political
destinies of the Tcrritory-had not aimed at
fixing the domestic institutions of Kansas by
such extraordinary and Illegal means, for the
purpose Of obtaining political supremacy in the
country, they would never have intcrered in
the elections of Kansas Territory but would
have quietly submitted to circumstances. and
been satisfied to See the principles of the Kan.
sas Nebraska Act tnlly and fairly. carried out
ut Is shown further, by the testimony on the
part OF Feeder that many of the Strangers and
'non-rcsidents" had claims in the Torr;tor,..
mad labored on their claims, and based their
right to vote upon the fact that they were bona
fde claimants in the Territory, and had at least
temporary residence there, and that thev we've
entitled, under the provisions ofthe organic act
to the right ofsuflrage. The names anil resi{e,-
ces OF very few persons have been given by the
witnesses, whose votes are alleged to be illegal
not sufficient i'll any case, to invalidate the
election.
''on the other hand, it is apparent, and fully
proved by the testimony already taken. to say
nothing of that yetin reserve, that many illegal
votes were polled by the 'J,esA pc7pits'' shipped
out here in the spring of 1855, and said fresh re-
crults arrived in large numbers, both by land
and water, about the latter part of March 1855,
and just preceding that election. and who were
Seen returning in the same manner inst after
said election, and who were heard to declare
Ihat they had come out here to vote; had voted,
and was then returning; that they had como
out under the auspices and regulations of tho
tmlgrant Aid Companies, and had accomplished
their mission and were then on their return to
their Eastern homes; that Massachusetts had
commenced the game, and Missouri would end
IT, These facts arc proved by the testimony OF
Mr. Mahan Mr.. Miller, Judge Walkcran and 9th.
ers, and will be abundantly proved BY other
witnesses not yet examined.
1t is shown also BY the statement of Judgc
Matthew r. Walker Judge Of the county Court
of Lcavenworth County Kansas Territory, that
some time in the month ofJuly in the year
| 1904, DR.. Charles Robinson, of Boston, Massa-
chusetts, now the bogus Governor of the State
OF Kansas called on him at Wyandott and held
private conversation with him, in which he
said he desired to purchase situation for q
manufacturing establishment there, that he de.
sired to purchase the site for the use of com.
pany at the East, that could command a capital
of S., 100000; that this would form the nucleous
OF the company's operations; that the object Of
the company was to make Kansas free State,
and better the condition of the negro that after
forming free State, with free suffrage with
amalgamation between the Indians and the ne
grocs, amalgamation with the whites would be
an easy process, and thus the blacks and the In
dians would be absorbed in the white races:
that after Kansas was made free State Missour;
would be surrounded on three sides by free
States and she would be tmce3 to elnancipte
her slaves
1t Is also abundanty shown that these Eastern
emigrants were nearly all young and unmar-
iied men, that there We're but few women
among Them and that they were armed with
Sharpe's rifles and Colts pistols. s
1t has been shown and proved by the wit,os.
ses on the part of Reeder, and will be more fullv
shown and proved by the witnesses on the nart
of Whitfield, that clear majority of both hou.
ses ofthe Territorial Legislature were elected hv
the resident actual bo,11,6aev settlers Of the
Territory; for, in many instances, there were no
free States canddates--no free State ticket.
and where there were they were defeated even
allowing that all the votes Of the Missoulians
be deemed illegal and be rejected from the poll
lists. This being, in my Judgment, the facts
in the case, it cannot be held, either in law or
equity, that The Territorial Legislature was an
illegal body, and that its acts are invalid; but on
the contrary must, and doubt not will, be
held. Hence, if this reasoning be true---and |
think it is-it follows of necessity that the laws
Of the Territory are not "null and void" as was
declared by the Big Springs Convention Of the
9th and 9th of September 1855, and that aany
good citizen is at liberty to disobey them at
pleasures" but that they viii be enforced 'at all
hazards" and, ifneed be, "toa @oaly sssae"a
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1t Twill also be proven by tue evidence, that if
the rule, which seems to have been adopted by
the majority ofthc committee, and by which it
is attempted to prove Missourians to be nonresi-
dents, although they have property and hold
claims here and live here themselves, while their
families are temporarily in Missouri, thus rever-
sing the law proposition that the residence Of the
wife follows that ofthe husband, and that the
husband and not the wife is the head Of the fam.
lily. Rcedef himself at the time he clains to
have been voted for and elected as q delegate to
Congress, wasa nonresident for he never has
had his family with him in the Territory; but
they have continued 70 reside and keep house in
Reading or Iaston, in the State Of Pennsylvania
while Reader himself has been but a sojourner
and boarder in Kansas Territory. This I say
would follow upon the ground that Howa'd's
and Shcrmai1's i doctrine on the question OF dom.