Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-24
TERRITORY or KANSAS, !
'O.tntv nf Johusnu

TERRITORY or KANSAS,
County of johnson.
Before me, Samuel Saltcrs. personally APP
peared Theodore r. Garrett, VINO, being sword
says that on the llth day of January he was
arrested in LeayenwOrth county. under, as il
was said, warrant. and taken TO Lawrence,
by an armed party of ten or eleven, and,
while he was under arrest, proposition was
mad" 10 him To make "A new pOll-boOk by
some one OF the trec-St.te party in Lawrence
and he thinks 10y man named Ewing, which
poll book should be made out, so that Gen.
Calhoun would receive it, which deponcnt
being in durance told him or them he suppos-
Cd would be all right.
TuEoDoRE f. GARRETT.
Sworn TO and subscribe before me this the
eighteenth day oil January, 1855.
SAMUEL. Nj. SALTERs, j. Z.
These dispositions imprt ssed 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
on,l Starks and others, | opened the returns
aud found majority of $40 votes for the de-
mocratc party. | concluded, rs matter Of
course, that the dispositions of the judges and
clerks were made with IA full knowledge of
the contents 81 the returns. then for the first
time in my possession. The returns together
with the dispositions Of the judges aud clerks,
| sent to my Office, ut LycomptOn, by Mr..
Brooks, one of the clerks in the surveyor gc-
ncral's office. | am informed, in u letter from
Mr.. Brooks, that he placed them in the hands
of General MaClean, the chief clerk i'm the
surveyor generals Office, ON the 9th day of
January. i ut once said To my friends,
and others who approached me on the
subject, that the democratic party had a ma
jority in the legislature, and authorized the
publication of such IA statement. l came To
Washington with 40 particle of doubt on my
mind AZ to the result
On the Saturday night after my arrival in
Washington, called to pay my respects TO an
old friend, Judge Dou las, and before leaving
he placed IN my hands paper he had Just re-
ceiNvd from Kansas. This paper contained
What purpurted 20 be the deposition Of the
Judges CT election for the precinct of Della
ware Crossing and in which the Judges de-
posed that there were but J0yfg-ihree votes poll
ID NJ that precinct. / could not act or form
az! Oiiss"a4 'sl'ou newspaper publication
but immt diately informed my friends that IL
the statement so made should prove true they
must inevitably control my action. | have ~
ceiyed and opened a return from the Della
ware Crossing precinct which gives to me de-
mocratic party majority of $40 votes, and
would thus secure "A majority 10 the democra-
tic legislative ticket d. Leavenw orth county,
and "a majority on Joint ballot in the lysisla-
tdIS, u.i,iNr the constitution.
/. lIe judges vi election at that precinct
fu.aiSh 10 me, u intu..l iel {, q vrnoI Denver
before leaving kans-l>, reliable aud sworn
statement that bat forty -t4ryS votes were poll
Cd there, should ma.A, my solf "a party TO the
fraud II deeiu,d 10 be governed 10y tue oaihs
of the Judges. IL II a question go.ng to the
legality OF the r, turns. OF thai / may Judge
aild determine. | shall do 20; and, ia my de-
termination, shall De- governed Is Justice aud
truth aud the right II II shall, as IL probably
Will, place tile government Of the State of
kaiis.ua la the hands Of lly enemies no one will
regret IL more hut yet no one, not even a
Black Republican. could perform the duty
with more VI the CONSCIOUSNESS OF right 1Ian
| shall feel in the hoaesl discharge of my OH
cial duties. | have written TO Governor Dem
yer To procure the sworn statements OF the
Judges OF this controyertcd precinct, and 10
have them taken undcr such circumstances
Will secure "A free aud unbiased exhibition Of
i.scts. by the sworn statements, 50 procured,
email la governed ia giving the certificates
OF election To the lnenLeTs OF the legislature
ifosi Lvaseawo rth county.
J. CALHOUN.