Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-10-29
Kansas Affairs.

Kansas Affairs.
The following appears in the st. Louis Repub-
lican Of the 18th instant:
To His Ereelleney r. J. Walker, Governor, and
the Hon. Fed p: Sfd"to", Secretary Of the
The undenigned, citizens of The sixtlf counsii.
and tenth representative districts, in the ssid
S. e S Ssd u Is stS
slant, for delegate to Congress, members of the
Legisia tive Assembly, ADD other public officers,
gross frauds were committed in Tic returns fol.
Oxford precinct; by which large number Of.
votes-viz: about ,626-were returned, tpurportE
ing TO be polled at that precinct, where Your me-
morialists have good cause to believe, and do be-
votes. They have information in which they
place full confidence that on the 5th day Of Octo-
Der there We're only about ninety lone votes poll
ed that ON the day following, when It'll par
ported some ,53S votes were polled, there were
no considerable number of persons in attendance
around the polls tb rough the day; indeed they
have information that not to exceed froiR twenty
to thirty persons were around the polls of the
said Oxford precinct at any time during the 9th
day Of October. They would further state that
they have satisfactory evidence that the popula-
tion Of Johnson county Is too sparse to contain
population great as is represented to be polled
at that precinct. They are assured too, that
vast majority of the names attached to the returns
are not known in Johnson county. To this they
would add the fact that the said Oxford precinct
Is situated on the borders of the Territory within
few rods Of the territorial line, and that the
town OF Little Santa Fe, In Missouri is contigu-
Gus to said precinct. and that If any such number
OF votes were poled, your memoriaists believe
they were polled by non residents OF the Terri
tory of Kansas. They also are confident that
such large number of votes could not have been
Polled at one precinct, and by set of officers,
within the time Limited by law.
We would also state that Johnson county, and
Oxford precinct in particular, is within the limits
OF an Indian Territory, which is specially re-
served by the organic act out of the Territory of
Kansas that such Territory was unopen for legal
settlement on the fifth and sixth DAYS of October
last, and remains the same at this time and that
no legal settlements can be made within said res
ervation now nor could not on the day, nor at
any time prior to said election.
Your memorialists, legal voters of said repre-
sentative and council districts would respectfully
PROTEST against the vote Of said Oxford disttct
being counted in the eighth council and tenth
representative districts, or for delegate to Con-
forth in the above, and for other reasons which
may appear They ask his excellency the Gov
ernor, and his honor the Secretary to take such
actlon as their Judgment may suggest, to inquire
into the truth of our said allegations, and to do
such other things i'm the premises will secure
US against fraud, and give to the actual bona fde
residents Of the Territory and districts voice in
directing their own affairs. All of which is re-
specifically submitted.
Signed by-G. w. Smith, Geo Ford, Albert
G GewHan; Henry s Brown c; HoEnsey John NJ
Edwards, Nj. Solomon, George w Hunt, L. L.
Curtis, Augustus Wattles Efastus Heath J. F.
GrisWold, Samuel Walker, $. e. Tolls, r samp-
son, w. II. Duncan, IL w. Baker, =. w. Wood
ward Gaius Jenkins, Clark Stearns, ). III. Taney
r. NJ. Wilkinson, L. ID. Laid, Geo c. Chandler.
w. X. Judson, Jas. F Legate, Jas. Christian.
TERRITORY OF KANSAS, Douglas county, SIS.
l, 6. w. Brown, notary public, duly commits
stoned and sworn, do certify that the above per-
sons, whose names are in their own proper hand
are personally Anown to me to be the persons
they represent themselves to be that they are
legal voters of the 9Th council and 10th represen-
tative districts, as they therein set forth that
they are persons Of known integrity and that each
OF them, save c. HoInsby, did declare on his SOL
emn oath that the facts and things therein set
further believe that all the facts therein set forth
are strictly true
Witness my hand and Official seal, at Lawrence,
tI.sl in the Territory Of Kansas, this Iith
day Of October, A. d. 1857
g. w. BRowN, Notary Public.