11 From this table, Eased upon the census, it is clearly established that there was a majority of the actual settlers from the North in the Territory in but three of the fourteen representative districts. These 'were the second, fourth, and eighth—electing in all but five members out of the twenty-six. But I cannot dwell upon these exhibits. No man can gainsay the facts they disclose. They are based upon the census, and the .organization of the districts by Governor Reeder; and these two exhibits show conclusively to my mind, and as I think to all candid minds, that if the vote in the Territory had Keen confined exclusively to the actual resident registered voters in February, the result of the election would not have been different from what it was! The census shows that there were then a majority of 652 residents in the Territory from the South, over those from the North; and it is well known that great numbers of the emigrants from the North voted with the southern settlers against the Free-Soil party at the election. Four of the members elected to the Legislature, voted for by southern men, were from the North. Mr. Banks, a member of the House, went from Pennsylvania; Mr. Water- son, from Ohio; Mr. Lykins, a member of the Council, was from Indiana, and Mr. Barbee from Illinois. These men, though emigrating from the North, were members of the Legislature, and belonged to wliat the gentleman styles the proslavery or “border ruffian” party in Kansas. The whole 44 Free-Soil vote,” or 44 free7State” vote, as the gentleman calls it, in the entire Territory on the 30th of March, amounted to less ; th’an 800, as appears from the exhibits of the com- ; mittee’s report, (pages 31 and 32.) This is more | than 200 less than the number of emigrants from the North in the Territory, according to the census, aijd less than one third of the legally- registered voters in February. Now, as no witness swears that any man of that party was prevented from voting, the whole ‘ evidence taken together clearly indicates, if it does not establish, the fact conclusively, that the Free-Soil party in Kansas was largely in the minority at the March election, and that all this cry about an invasion, and the election having been carried by Missourians, is nothing but clamor. It is an after-thought. As to the statement of old man Jordan, it is sufficient to say, in reply .to it, that there was no Free-Soil ticket run at the election where he was, in the third district. There was no reason, therefore, for any attempt to keep him from voting. It is very possible, Mr. Speaker—it is even probable, and I do not mean to say but what it is altogether true, that a great many illegal votes were cast at the election. It is certainly admitted, also, that great numbers of the citizens of Missouri went into the Territory on the day of the election, but there is no proof that any great numbers of them voted. They went, according to the testimony, to see that illegal voting should not be allowed by parties sent out by the eastern emigrant aid societies, barely for the purpose of voting and returning. The main point, however, 11 am now presenting is, that if every vote be I rejected and cast out of the count but those of the । actual resident registered voters in the Territory in February, the result, upon all reasonable and rational grounds of calculation and conclusion, would have been the same as it was. These views are founded upon fixed and ascertained facts— upon a registry of the legal voters, with the places i from which they went, and not upon loose state- I mehts of one-sided witnesses about the polls be- । ing crowded with strangers, and great multitudes ■ of people coming upon the ground in wagons, i&c. Why, Mr. Johnson .(one of the judges of ‘election, too, at a precinct in the seventh distn. j swears, on page 261, that 44 a great many of the people in that district, whom he considered legal, voters, came to the polls in their wagons, I have no doubt, as I came there myself in my wagon. It is the habit of the people in the Territory to go to gatherings in their wagons.” And in this immediate connection, too, he states, 44 and as a judge of election, I am willing now to swear that we allowed no man to vote that we did not consider had a right to vote.” The tale told by all the witnesses examined by Governor Reeder amounts to nearly the same thing. They all had their 44 story pat.” A great crowd was assembled about the polls. Some had guns, pistols, and knives. Well, sir, when and where was there ever an election held at which the people did not crowd about the polls? And is it not strange, that this army of invasion, with flags, banners, and music—guns, pistols, and knives, did so little mischief? Not a man was hurt by them in the whole Territory! Not a i homicide committed ! Not even an assault and battery about voting in the whole Territory! For from all the testimony taken it appears that there were but three or four fights in all Kansas on the day of election; and these fights were not about voting ! Why, sir, in the municipal election, in this city, the other day, at one precinct alone, there were half a dozen men knocked down— some were shot—one has since died of the wounds received in the affray; and one man, two or three days afterwards, was killed in the streets merely for hurrahing for his candidate! But in the invasion and subjugation of Kansas on this memorable election day, no man was killed—no man was even whipped for, or on account of, his voting! Strange invasion and subjugation was that! A subjugation without a life lost, a bone broken, or a bruise given, and about which no complaint was raised until months afterwards! And why, Mr. Speaker, was itgotup afterwards? Why do we hear so much of it now? What ia the real cause of all this clamor at this time, in this House and out of i. about the illegality of the election of the Leg mature in Kansas, and । of a pretended down- drying out for redress imposed upon them by ng State ? I understand ■a, top, doubtless, under- md it. There is a party i d to 44 rule or ruin ’ ’—nbt mghout the Republic. It , geographical lines against these pretended grievar trodden majority th- against a system of I the people of a neig it, sir, very well, au stand it. We all u11 in this country do, only in Kansas, hi,' I is a party forme J uj m
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