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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 17 (search)
onstitution without Slavery567. So the Constitution with Slavery was adopted. But, meantime, an election had been held, on the first Monday in October, for a Territorial Legislature under the bogus laws; and at this election most of the Free-State men, trusting to the assurances of Gov. Walker, had voted. Over 11,000 votes were polled, of which 1,600 were taken at a little precinct known as Oxford, on the Missouri border, where there were but 43 voters; and 1,200 were returned from McGee County, where no poll was opened. But, notwithstanding these enormous frauds, the Free-State preponderance was so decided that it carried the Legislature and elected a delegate to Congress. This Legislature, whose legality was now unquestioned, passed an act submitting the Lecompton Constitution to a vote of the people for or against it, on the 4th of January, 1858. This Constitution provided that the rights of property in slaves now in the Territory shall in no manner be interfered with, and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
kansas by flatboat down the Arkansas River......Aug. 20, 1875 The annals of Kansas, by Daniel W. Wilder, published......November, 1875 Incorporation of the Kansas State Historical Society......Dec. 15, 1875 Legislature abolishes all distinction of color in the laws......March 4, 1876 Kansas fruit is awarded the first premium at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, and her agricultural products attract national attention......October, 1876 Discovery of lead deposits in Cherokee county; Galena and Empire City spring into existence......1877 Monument to John Brown dedicated at Osawatomie......Aug. 30, 1877 First refugees to Kansas; vanguard of a great migration of colored people from slave States on the Mississippi arrive at Wyandotte......April, 1879 Kansas Pacific Railroad seizes the telegraph along its line; a step in the American Union and Western Union telegraph war......February, 1880 David L. Payne and followers crowd into Indian Territory in an att
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 96 (search)
the people, were not satisfied with the result. Having failed to seize the polls again by force, they resorted to frauds and forgeries unparalleled in the history of the world. You have seen, fellow-citizens, the substituted Cincinnati Directory for the returns of the vote of the people. You have seen the pretended returns at Oxford, where the names of the clerks and judges were forged, substituting 1,900 votes, where nineteen only were given. You have seen the pretended returns from McGee County, a vile forgery upon their face, where no election was holden, and not a vote given; and yet where more than 1,200 fictitious ballots were returned to me. These forgeries were all transparent. They were clear upon their face. They were not returned; they were not sworn to by the judges and clerks of the election, as required by law. They were as perfect a nullity as if a mere newspaper had been thrown at me for my adoption. These forgeries were rejected by me; and the result was that t