The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-02-25
KANSAS NEWS.

mission at Lawrence continue to attract much
attention.
"On the 4th instant, two of the judges of the
election at the Delaware Crossing precinct
again appeared before the commissioners, and
testified that the returns found in the famous
box, purporting to have been made out BY
them, are forgery. The certificates to these
returns are genuine, but are attached TO three
hundred and seventy-nine names instead of
forty. three, which the judges have shown to be
the whole vote polled at the election held on
the 4th of January. The forty. first name on
the genuine list is now represented as the two
hundred and forty first. On the genuine poll
book there was one column of names, whereas
on the spurious returns there are two columns,
and the figures are on the opposite side of the
names 10 which they were on the original. The
names are fictitious with the certificate of the
judges cut off from the genuine returns and
pasted upon them. Diefendorf, the brotherin
law OF Calhoun, testified before the commits
sioners that these returns were handed to him
by Henderson in precisely this shape. The
census-takers appointed by the Legislature
return thirty-three legal voters at Delaware
Crossing, and fourteen of these are Free State
voters.
Compliant was made on the Sd instant, be-
tore Judge Miller, by Joseph L. Spear, ESQ.,,
y.
haitian, against John Calhoun, as the basis of a
requisition from Gov. Denver to Mr.. Buchanan
tor the immediate return of Mr.. Calhoun to this
Territory. Gov. Denver refused to sign the re-
QUESTION. He said it would be better to have
these taken before the grand jury, and if it
was then decided that Mr.. Calhoun had chang.
ed the returns sent to him, or put in fraudulent
ones, he would then sign requisition upon the
President for the accused. The Free State men
claim that they can prove Mr.. Calhoun guilty
OF changing returns and making out fraudulent
ones. Warrants have been issued for Hender.
son, Mclean, and others, vino have escaped
from the Territory"
The frauds at Kickapoo are also being fully
developed. We copy from the States the
following, as amongst the most recent testimony
in relation to that precinct:
Z" Mr.. Ewing, q son of the Hon. Thomas L..
Ewing, of Ohio, has testified before the investi-
eating commissioners, at Lawrence, that he
was at Kickapoo during the day of the election,
and remained there until the polls were declar-
ed closed that he voted at that time with the
express purpose of being able to detect the
frauds, should any further ones be attempted !;
and that but tioo other votes were received after
he voted. The returns now show that 443
names were registered after Mr.. Ewing voted.
Of the $50 who voted in advance of him, sec-
eral Ooted as many as si1 times under different
names; but these did not make enough 10 car
~ the county without adding nearly half a
thousand, and then it required 1856 fraudulent
votes at Delaware Crossing to give a majority
tor the Pro Slavery candidates.
Mr.. Currier, Chief Clerk of the House of
Representatives, corroborates the statement of
Mr.. Ewing In regard to several persons voting
several times in succession at Kickapoo, and of
MIR. Ewing, with himself, having voted Just be-
fore the polls were closed and yet upwards of
tour hundred names appear on the returns after
these gentlemens names are recorded"
but the Delaware Crossing returns (says
the Kansas Herald) seemed the most important,
as on these depended the whole question.
Counting all the other frauds as legal, the re-
turns from this district provided those which
have been sent in since the counting were not
included) changed the entire result in both
branches of the Legislature, as well as the en-.
tire State ticket. Rejecting these return s, then
Leavenworth county would elect her eight Free
State Representatives and five Senators. The
evidence of too of the judges of the election
established that but forty three votes were poled
at the election on the 4th ultimo but here
was the document itself, which, with Calhoun,
was prtma fdcie evidence that all was fair at
that POLL An examination of it showed where
the cernhcate to the returns was cut off, ap-
parently with pair of scissors, and upwards
of three hundred names were added in DIFF
ferent handwriting, to which the certificate was
again attached. With the disclosures which
are now public in regard to those returns,
even Calhoun dare not take them into consider
alton In making up his final decision"
The Constitutional Convention bill passed
both branches of the Legislature, February 8.
The election is to be held on the second Tues.
day in March, and the Convention will meet at
Minneola.
The subjoined official expose of the Oxford
fraud is published in the Kansas Journals.
LAWRENCE, February 8, 1858.
The undersigned was appointed by the Ter.
ritorial Legislature one OF the commissioners
to take the census of all the white male inhab
itants over twenty-one years of age in the
townships of Oxford and Shawnee, in the county
of johnson, and, having discharged that duty,
has repor ed to the Governor as follows:
Whole number of inhabitants over twenty
one years of age in Oxford, AZ of which only
fourteen dated their residence prior to April S,
1857.
Whole number of inhabitants over twenty
one years of age in Shawnee, lis; of which
only forty-eight date their residence prior to
April s, 1851.
The vote returned from Oxford township at
the January election was about $50.
The vote returned from Shawnee township
at the January election was 1874.
CHARLES MAYO, Commissioner.
The Topeka Legislature assembled on the
18th inst, when concurrent resolutions we're
introduced, setting forth that, as the President
advocates the passage through Congress of the
Lecompton Constitution, Gov. Robinson be
to correspond with the Governors of
States friendly to the peoples Government in
Kansas, soliciting aid in case it should be me-
cessary to resist such encroachments upon the
principles of Republicanism.
The election at Atchison county on the 9Th,
for member of the Council, to ELL the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Carr, Dem
ocratic Congressman, resulted in the choice of
Challiss (Democrat) over Wheeler Free State)
by ESQ majority. On the 4th of January, the
same county gave over 100 Free State major
ity.
The Kickapoo correspondent of the st. Lou.
is Republican says that on the night of the 9Th,
3 party, headed by Charles Lenhard, burnt the
office of Mr.. Boyd, lawyer, and Mr.. Davis, ply.
stefan, and destroyed all their property. Messrs.
Boyd, Davis, Kelly, Laughlin, Lynch, ard
many others, had fed to Missouri. Much ex.
element existed.
The committee of investigation into the
election frauds had discharged Diefendorf.
Report says that Governor Denver has issued
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