Nebraska advertiser., 1861-07-25
That Certificate OF Delegate.

As we have before stated and as is
known to most people in Nebraska a GER
tiicate was given MI. Morton, after can
vassing the votes presented to the Gov
ernor as the official vote of Nebraska.
Everybody who knew anything whatever
of the region of country known as the
Northern Precient" part of L'Eau-qui-
Court kneC there were not one dozen
voters within the boundaries claimed, and
not eve an organized precinct from
which was returned for Morton one hun
dred and t~uenty-tUo UOtes- all the Uotes
Claimed TO haze been cast The Gov
ernor took the position that without posi-
the evidence to the contrary all the votes
as returned must be counted, and a GER
tifcate given in accordance with the foot
ings. Thus Morton secured a certificate.
Shortly afterwards it was made knOWn to
Gov. Black that the returns from the
4" Northern precinct" was a fraud-the
positive evidence was furnished (and
when Mr.. Morton or his friends want
that evidence produced, it Will be forth
coming.) He therefore. as he should have
done, revoked Mr., Morton's certificate,
and gave Mr.. Daily the following:
1, Samuel w. Black, Governor of Ne
braska, do hereby certify that an election
held in the said Territory on Tuesday,
the 9th day of October 1860 for Delegate
to Congress Of the United States for the
Thirty-Seventh Congress, Samuel c..
Daily was duly and lawfully elected Del
egate to the said Congress; and whereas,
after the Canvass of the votes at the said
election, a certificate Of election was CIV
en- to J.. Sterling Morton, he having ap-
p%arently the highest number of votes
having nominally fourteen votes more
than Samuel G. Daily, the only opposing
candidate; and it being a fact that one
hundred and twenty-five votes were coun-
ted to the said J. Sterling Morton in
what is called the Northern precinct of
L'eau-qui-court county that being the
whole number of votes returned and
claimed as cast therein at the election a
foresaid.
And it further appearing conclusively
since the date of the said canvass and
certificate issued to the said ]. Sterling
Morton that the election in the said
northern precinct of L'eau-qui-court was
a fraud throughout, and should have been
rejected and not counted which would
have shown a legal majority of one hun
bred and eight votes in favor of the said
Samuel G. Daily.
Therefore, l, Samuel w. Black, Gov
ernor of Nebraska Territory do hereby
revoke the certificate of election issued,
as aforesaid to J. Sterling Morton as Del
egate to the Thirty-Seventh Congress,
and do cerify hat Samuel G. Daily was,
according to a fair and just count, duly
elected Delegate to the Thirty-Seventh
Congress of the United States for Ne
bra5ka Territory.
In testimony whereof l have hereunto
set my hand and caused the great
seal of the Territory to be affixed.
TSEAL Witness my hand at Omaha this
18th day of April A. D. 1861.
SAMUEL w. BLACK
Gov. of Nebraska.
We have the first man to hear yet,
Democrat or Republican, who does not
say that Gov. Black under all the cirCum-
stances done just what he should have
done. They honor him for finally secur-
ing for them the man of their choice.
We rather conclude that " Buffalo"
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