The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
a Protest
10 has E1ceReney r. j. WALKER, Governor.
and the Hon. FRED. P. STANTON, Secretd-


10 has Ercslzeney R. j. WALKER, Governor.
and the Hon. FRED. P. STANTON, Secretd-
ryef the Territory of Kansas -
The undersigned, citizens of the 18th
and 18th Representative Districts, In the
Territory of Kansas, respectfully represent
that information has been received at the
Office of the Secretary of the Territory,
that returns have been received at that
Office of what purports 70 be poll books of
elections held at divers precincts in the
county of McGee, Kansas Territory, on
the 5th day of October, inst, for the cleo
ton of Delegate to Congress and several
of the Territorial Legislators, and, as the
said county of McGee is an Indian Terri
tory. not open to settlement, and only oc-
cupied at this time, as your memorialistS
verify believe, by Indians, and few
traders and Missionaries, and cannot con-
tain fifty adult white male persons, citi-
zens of the United States, within the lim-
its of said McGee county; therefore they
have good reasons to believe, and do be-
lieve, that the returns from said county
are fraudulent, gotten up by designing
persons outside of the said county of Nc
Gee, and returned to Leeompton with the
view of defrauding the duly elected can
didates out of their certificates of election,
and to enforce upon the people of that
Representative District, Representatives
who were not elected according to law,
and to vary the result in the election of a
Delegate to Congress.
Your memorialists would further state
that all that portion of Territory embrac-
ed within he limits of McGee county, is
the property of the Cherokee Indians, to
which the Indian title has not been ex-
tinguished by treaty, and which, by the
18th section of the Organic act, organic
ing Kansas Territory, is especially tex
cepted out of the boundaries, and consti-
tute no part of the Territory Of Kansas :"
that such tribe never signified ''their as
sent to the President of the United States
to be included within the said Territory
of Kansas" as your memerialists are cred
IDLY informed, and that elections held
within the boundaries of such Territory
have no more validity, or binding effect
upon the people of Kansas than if such
elections were held within the limits of
Missouri or Arkansas; that there can be
no legal voters resident therein, because
such Territory is not even portion of the
Territory of Kansas; and that any votes
purporting to be pollcd there are in viola
ton of law, gross outrage upon the rights
of the electors in other parts of the Rep
resentative District; and fraud upon the
bona tfde citizens of the Territory at large.
Your memorialists, legal voters in said
Representative districts, for the reasons
given above, and for many Others which
they might urge, do earnestly. butrespect-
fully, protest against the returns, or any
portion of the same, from the said county
of McGee, being counted in taking
official action in the granting of the certif-
Gates of election for Delegate to Congress,
Representatives to the Territorial Legisla-
ture, or for any other purpose whatever.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
r. GILPATRIcK, o. +. LEONARD,
A. r. MORTON, WIN. B. PARSONS,
GEO. III. NYE.
TERRITORY OF KANSAS
Douglas County, SIS.