Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-02-18

] without the slave trade. Kansas MAS Z
De q Slave State anyhow. In order 4
make Il Slave State without the slav
TRADE, the voter had to vote for tho cors, );
tion./ No one could vote against i
was one oithe most stupandous insults 10
tree people that body of usurpers eve
! offered They, took thoir votes. The
haee'retarnea six lhousand seven hs,,nndr, !
votes at that elec'ion--thiteen bundrc,
down at this little township of Oxford
The town Of Kickapoo gave nearly sIsv
en- hundred xoters.i -Four OF fve to-,
make up three thousand fraudulent vote
given on that day No man WI,
Knows anything 'of Kansas bslieye,
that there were moro than twsnty-fiv,
hundred at the utmost, n legal vote,
gwen IN Kansas on that Consfitution, =
INC Legislature have sent icomn,;S
Son TO kickapoo toAaexahine into Il,
''" .ru l. .issiw sd aoii31q 1ol
ihe St Louis Republican publishes .
letter IN regard to this investigation. and
l Wish to call the. attention of the Senate,
to it. especially the Senator from Missouri
The st. Louis Democrat makes an abstrse,
OF this correspondence ao.i. s,r.Iai5 10
3, "On the original poll book of the vote or
the Constitution, December 81, 1857
which book is now on the file in the County
Recorders Office in Leavenworth, it was
discovered that James Buchanan, Pres.
ldent OF the United States. cast tho two
hundred and SEVENTEEN Vote
Mr.. Seward. What day was this9
Der. = - = '''
DR.. Green For ac Or against IS slava.rn,,
Dir Wilson. "For the Constitution
with slavery" Of course. The senator
need give himself no anxiety about VIA,
vote James Buchanan would give in Kan.
Sas or out of it. l wish the President
would so to Kansas. He has sent out his
uovernsfs. there; and they went as men
sent out of oil to carse the people. and
they came back blessing the people. If
the Presidentywas there a few weeks he
would become . wiser and better man. In
steal OF denounciny these people as
rebels. l think he wouhl come back and
say 'nat he found a people loving liberty,
law and order. who had boon opposed .bv
cials. l'.@
Next on the list of ,iistin -uishci names
appears as the two hundred and seventy.
sixth voter. William II. Seward, of New
York Laughter. ie l....l
They do not say how William II. Sew
ard voted on that day, but we all know
how he would have voted had he been
there.
1921. Thoma, F. Marshall, of k,n.
lucky. 7l4th George w. Brown. c,litor
Herald Of Freedom. Then, 359th. John
fremont Laughter. / io 4 oai
Mr Grccn--How did he vote? -ss,
Mr.. Wilson.--It does not tell how any
d them voted except Buchanan.
"Then comes the eight hundred and
seventy sixth voter j. w. Denver, Gov
'rnor of Kansas. who hal only taken
Ills place. the day before, anil was then in
.ecompton, fifty miles distant. Thomas
4. Benton appears "a the nine hundred and
fifteenth y to-. And now it was a ,rk. The
'ohs being kept open until half-past six
clock, when, alas! for frail- humanity,
or the computations visiting of con !
e'enec, IN slips Horace Greedy. laughter. I I
md stealthily deposits his ballot az the /
me hundred and ciyhtielh voter 1t il !
ow half past six o'clock. and the curtain |
iSeS on the last act OF the drama. and in !
teps, IN all his majestic proportions, Ed |
I'm Forrest. as the ono thousand and |
wentyrsixth voter. This is Mr.. Forrest |
rst appearance on a Kansas stage, !