The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-02-25
Territory of Kansas, County of Johnson :

IeTyitOTy ~ hditSIS, COnWy " Jon1SOh:
Before me, Samuel Salters. an acting Justice
of the peace in and for the county and Territory
aforesaid, personally appeared Isaac Monday,
Theodore f Garrett, j smes c. Grinter, William
c. Wilson, and James Findlay, who, being sworn,
deposeth and saith that the foregoing state
ment is true, to the best of their knowledge
aud belief. ISAAC MUNDAY.
THEODORE Z. GARRETT.
JAMES g. GRINTER.
w. G. WILSON.
JAMES FINDLAY.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 18th
day Of January, 1853.
SAMUEL NJ. SALrERs, J. p.
Territory Of Kansas County Of Johnson:
Before me, Samuel Salters, personally ap-
peared Theodore f. Garrett, who, being sworn,
says that on the It'll day of January he was ar
rested in Leavenworth county, under, as it was
said, a warrant, and taken to Lawrence, by an
armed party of ten or eleven and while he
was under arrest a proposition was made to
him to make q new poll. book, (by some one of
the Free State party in Lawrence, and he
thinks by man named Ewing,) which poll
book should be made out so that General Cal
houu would receive it, which deponent, being
in durance, told him or them he supposed
would be all right.
THEODORE +. GARRETT.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the
18th day of January, 1858.
SAMUEL NJ. SALTERs, j. p.
These dispositions impressed my mind fully
that the returns placed that day in my hands
were true. | entertained no particle of doubt
about the result, when, in the presence of Col.
tarya nd otLn Il he ~
found majority of 379 votes for the Demo.
cratic party. concluded, as matter of course,
that the dispositions of the Judges and clerks
were made with full knowledge of the con.
tents of the returns, then for the first time in
my possession. The returns, together with the
dispositions of the judges and clerks, l sent to
my office at Lecompton, by Mr.. Brooks, one of
the clerks 10 the Surveyor Generals Office. /
am informed, in a letter from Mr.. Brooks, that
he placed them in the hands of General Mclean,
the chief clerk in the Surveyor Generals Office,
on the 9Th day Of January. at once said to
my friends, and others who approached me on
the subject, that the Democratic party had
majority in the Legislature, and authorized the
publication OF such a statement. | came to
Washington with no particle of doubt on my
mind as to the result. On Saturday night, after
my arrival in Washington, called to pay my
before leaving he placed in my hands a paper
he had Just received from Kansas. This paper
contained what purported to be the dispositions
of the Judges of election for the precinct o
Delaware Crossing, and in which the Judges
deposed that there were but torty-three votes
pOlled at that precinct. l could not act or form
my opinion upon newspaper publication but
Immediately informed my friends, that if the
statement so made should prove true, they must
inevitably control my action. have received
and opened return from the Delaware Cross.
Ing precinct, which gives to the Democratic
party majority of 379 votes, and would thus
secure majority to the Democratic Legislative
ticket of Leavenworth county, and q majority on
JOINT ballot in the Legislature under the Con.
slltuton. If the judges of election at that pre-
einct furnish to me, as l informed Gov. Denver
before leaving Kansas, reliable and sworn
statement that but forty -three votes were polled
tnere, l should make myself party to the
fraud If declined to be governed by the oaths
OF the judges. 1t is question going to the
Legality of the returns. Of that may Judge
and determine. l shall do 80 and in my deter.
minanon L shall be governed by justice and
truth and the right. If it shall, as it probably
will, place the Government of the State of Kan
sas in the hands Of my enemies, no one will
regret it more; but yet no one, not even Black
republican, could perform the duty with more
OF the Consciousness of right than shall fee
IN The honest discharge of my official duties.
nave written to Governor Denver to procure
tne sworn statements Of the judges of this con
uoverted precinct, and to have them taken under
such circumstances as will secure free and
unbiased exhibition of facts. By the sworl
statements, so procured, shall be governed il
giving the certificates of election to the mem