The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-06-07

conversed with several of my Missou
acquaintances. They said they intended I
vote. asked them if they thought the
had right to vote in Kansas and -Missou
also. All of them were armed. Many
item vehemently cursed tie Free Stat
squatters. | heard many of them say the
had never been in the Territory before.
TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE.
They said they wanted to see the Terri
tory any how, and this was a good chance
as they could both vote and see Kansas a
the same time.
When saw how things were going-es
pecially when I heard several of them dc
clare they would outvote the Free Stat
party if they had to vot: twice to do So
left the polls and went home.
NO INVADERS VOTED! NARY ONE!
One hundred and sixty-five votes wer,
cast at this election notmore than twenty
or twenty-five actual settlers voted, should
| think. s. 70 = es.ass -.
The Invaders threatened the Yankees anf
Aboltionists. They said they would shoo
any Yank e or Abolitionist who offered t.
vote. They declared that none but pro.
slavery men Should vote. The polls were
surrounded by armed men from Missouri
very few citizens, if any, were presen,
there.
The Squatters held a meeting to take
measures to contest the election. We pre-
pared paper and sent it, with the proceed
lngs of the meeting to the Governor. The
protest, believe, was signed by majority
Ut the actual settlers in our section.
One of the Judges was resident of Mis-
souri, who never lived in the Territory. He
resided in Jackson County.
The witness named several prominent ci-
tizens Of Missouri who were present at this
election.
A large majority of the Squatters were
Free State men.
MR.. TAPPAN's TESTIMONY.
Samuel +. Tappan, sworn-I came into the
Territory in july, 1854, and settled at Law
renee. ! came from Massachusetts,. was
here at the November and March elections
| saw the memorial to Congress got up by
the citizens in April I signed it; it was
generally signed by our citizens. (Thc wit
ness produced it.)
was at the citizens meeting of August
II. Over two hundred delegates were pres
ent from every section of the Terr tory
{ The witness produced several documents
and gave evidence as to the preliminary
movements of the squatter's party. omit
it because it would be unntelligible without
the documents, and the documents are two
elaborate for republication. lie stated
that the call for convention to CO .sider the
expediency of convening constituti: nal cor
ven;ions W s signed by over one thousand
squatters.
ATTEMPTD ARREST OF S. n. WOOD.
| was here when "Sheriff" Jones at
tempted to arrest S. n Wood, on April IS
last, for aiding in the rescue of Bra,son.
was not there when jones came in, but
went to Mr.. Christians office where lie was.
Wood wanted to see his wife before going
with Jones Jones objected stepped in
between them and pushed them apart.
Wood started towards the house Jone s
went after him. About three rods from tie
office, Sones caught him again by the Collar,
and took him towards the Office, aided BY
two of his posse.
When near the Office, the parties were Sc
plrated and Wood returned to his house.
Some of our boys separated them. / went
away then | saw Wood have pistol in
mis- han but did hot see him take it from
Jones.
Next day, Sunday, wien walking in Mas
Sachusetts street. sawa large crowd around
Jones. After being there short time.
Jones took me by the coll r I'd said lie had
summons for me. We were separated and
went into the country to contemt late the
beauty of Nature.
CONVERSATIONS WITH SHERIFF JONES.
James F. Legsett sworn-T came into tie
Terri or, in June last from Mississippi.
know Sheriff Jones made his acquaint-
ance on one of his first visits to Lawrence as
Sheriff. ! don't know Sheriff Jones's resi-
dence had several conversations with him
about the difficulties last fall
AT one time, in particular, we had long
talk on the subject. wished to ascertain
his object in arraying Missousian force
against us. ~. ~t
The conversation took place in Lawrence
about the last Of December after the difficult
ties were over.
| sail to him if he thought his prisoners
them in person? The prisoner mean was
Branson. He said that he had been looking
1t officers in Lawrence for some time and
Hdu COiuc W Tic COHCluSl0u tldC SD nearly
equal were the pro-Slavery and Free State
frees in the Territory that the only alterna-
tive was to fight it olt.
WHY JONES CALLED OVER MISsouRIANs.
then id if they were so nearly equal
why he went to Missouri for his friends
there ? Why not let the citizens of the
Territory fight it ont if they wanted to f.h
His reply was that we were too well Orp.
pared and that he went to Westptrt and
noised the condition Of affairs about and
started for the Territory. He said that al
that lime he was so fixed with the BOYS
about Westport that he could readily get
900 men armed and equipped for service
and that it was his object at that time tt
carry the matter to a fight AMI that he did
all he could to bring it to fight.
l told him it was bad policy for one of the
officers OF the Territory to have written t.
the state for a certain number of rifemer
to come up. 1t looked like bad faith IN the
officer. q 1.es#a -.A
He replied that that was private matter
He referred to Woodson's letter. Jones
said he thought it likely enough that Wood
son wrote the letter to the Platte County
Rifles.
soUATTERs COULDN'T LEAVE THEIR WORK
asked him how many men came up from
Missouri He told me he didn't X ow ex
actly. asked him how many men who hat
their homes in the Territory were with him