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names are on that poll book who were at that time residents of this district. Please designate also those who were here when the census was taken from those who came here to reside after that time and before March 30. For this purpose examine carefully the census rolls in connexion with Mr. Babcock, who took it, and Mr. C. S. Pratt, the clerk of the election. Take time to prepare the lists and attach it to your testimony before it is signed.

Answer. In connexion with Mr. Babcock, who took the census, and Mr. Pratt, the clerk of the election, I have examined the census returns and poll lists of March 30, 1855, and from these and our knowledge of the residents, we find that of the residents who were here when the census was taken, 177 voted. The list marked "A,' contains their names. There are 192 settlers, whose names are in the census list, who did not vote, or, at least, their names are not in the poll lists. We find in the poll book the names of 55 resident settlers in this district, but who came after the census and before the election. This list, marked "B," contains their names. There are, perhaps, 50 others, and perhaps more, who came into the Territory in the spring of 1855 as settlers, and who are now residents of different parts of the Territory, many of whom we know. The others in the poll list were not residents, as I believe.

LAWRENCE, K. T., May 1, 1856.

E. D. LADD.

A.

Names on census-roll and poll-book, (District No. 1,) for March, 1855.

Stillman Andrews

Albert F. Bercaw

Samuel Anderson

John M. Banks

Ellmore Allen

Norman Allen
Asaph Allen
William D. Atwood

Calvin Adams

Robert Allen
John Baldwin
Lazarus S. Bacon
William N. Baldwin
George W. Brown
Henry Bronson
David C. Buffum
Jonathan Bigelow
Horatio N. Bent
Eli W. Burnett
Ellis Bond

Theodore E. Benjamin
C. W. Babcock
Napoleon D. Blanton

Thomas Burge
Thomas Brooke
Noah Cameron
Hugh Cameron
Hiram Clark
James S. Cowen
John W. Carlton
Edward Clark
John S. Crain
C. H. Carpenter
Simon Cook
James P. Corl
William Corl
Henry Corl

E. A. Colman
Clark S. Crane
R. A. Cummins
Luke Curlew
William Curry

Joshua Cummins

James H. Crooks

John Doy
S. B. Lindley
John H. Dean

James A. Davidson
Carlos Day
S. H. Davis

John C. Davidson
George F. Earl
William Evans
James S. Emery
Thomas Emery
L. J. Eberhart
Ed. P. Fitch
S. H. Folsom
J. H. Firman
John Fry
James Garvin
James N. Gleason
Joel Grover
John C. Gordon
H. D. Graves
George Gilbert
Levi Gates, jr.
Thomas S. Garvin
George Graves
S. C. Harrington
John Hutchinson
O. A. Hanscom
M. M. Hammond
G. W. Hutchinson
N. F. Herrick
William Hale
Franklin Hascall
John Hutchinson
L. D. Hubbard
William A. Holmes
Thomas Hopkins
H. A. Hancock
John S. Hopper
Simon Hopper
B. F. Hopper
D. B. Hopper
F. Hill
Edward Jones
Theod. Johnson
Benjamin Johnson
Alphonso Jones
Ira M. Jones
S. G. Johnson

E. B. Johnston
Charles Jordan
James A. Jackson
Frederick Kimball
Samuel Kimball
Samuel Kennedy
William Kitchingman
Wilder Knight

G. W. Kent
Otis H. Lamb
E. D. Ladd
John A. Lowry
George S. Leman
William B. Lee
William Lyon
N. B. Lewis
Samuel Y. Lune
George Long
George Lewis
John H. Lewis
Daniel Lowe
John S. Mott
H. S. McClelland
John C. Mossman
Jonathan Matthews
Thomas J. Murray
John H. Miller
John Mack

B. F. McDonald
J. F. Morgan
Harrison Nichols
J. B. Nichols
William H. Oliver
A. C. Pomeroy
C. W. Persall
Caleb L. Pratt
G. B. Page
David Pennington
Hugh Pettingill
S. J. Pratt
A. J. Payne
John Perott
J. S. Percival
Thomas F. Reynolds
Charles Robinson
G. W. Reed

William Randolph
James H. Reid
Albert D. Searl
Nicholas Snyder
O. D. Smith

John Speer
John Smith
Henry Smith

N. B. Short
J. E. Stewart
S. M. Salters
Thomas J. Stone
J. E. Stewart
James Sullivan

S. N. Simpson
Ab. Still

Daniel Sayre
Clark Taft

Francis O. Toller

J. B. Taft

L. F. Tappan
John C. Wood
William C. Wood
Harrison Williams
S. J. Willis
J. H. Wilder
S. N. Wood
J. J. Whitson
Sol. Wildis
Ed. Winslow
A. B. Wade

J. F. Wilson
James Whitlock
William Wallace
Rufus H. Wateman

B.

Names of those on poll-list and not on census-roll whom we know to have voted at the election of 30th March, 1855.

James Christian

Sam. Merrill

G. W. Deitzler

H. E. Babcock

Thos. Still

John Wallace
Clark Stearnes
Oscar Harlow
J. W. Ackley
James Coyle
C. G. Hoyt
Martin Adams
E. A. Landon
Horatio Dunbar
O. T. Bassett
Geo. Churchill
F. B. Ackley
C. F. Doy

J. A. Ladd
E. H. Dennett
Increase Whitcomb
George Perrin
A. B. Perrin
Sam. Reynolds
J. L. Baldwin
Abram Wilder
Joshua Smith

Chas. S. Campbell

Jacob E. Strout
Adam Weilhart
L. Litchfield
Chas. L. Wilber
Geo. O. Willard
P. R. Brooks
David Brown
Lyman Allen
Jos. G. Fistler
E. F. Knight
H. W. Taber
Abner Davidson.
F. P. Vaughan
S. B. Sutherland
G. W. Goss
E. S. Scudder
John Lyon
J. Curlew
Wm. Harris

Chas. Harrington
B. G. Livingston
C. F. Keyes
Amos Trott
Jos. C. Miller
Chas. Dickson
F. J. Locke
Wm. Yates.

C. W. BABCOCK recalled.

I assisted Mr. Ladd and Mr. Pratt in making out the lists of voters from the poll-lists and census rolls, and whose lists referred to in Mr. Ladd's testimony are correct to the best of my knowledge. I have heard his statement in regard to them and concur in it. C. W. BABCOCK.

LAWRENCE, K. T., May 1, 1856.

C. S. PRATT recalled,

I assisted Mr. Babcock and Mr. Ladd in making out the lists of voters from the poll-books and census returns, as referred to by Mr Ladd in his testimony. Those lists are correct to the best of my knowledge. I have heard the statement of Mr. Ladd in regard to these lists and concur in it. I was one of the clerks of the election of the 30th of March, 1855.

LAWRENCE, K. T., May 1, 1856.

CALEB S. PRATT.

To Mr. Reeder:

NORMAN ALLEN called and sworn.

I came into this Territory about the last of September, 1854, and settled in the town of Lawrence, and have resided in this district ever since. I was here on the 30th of March, 1855. Several days previous to that time it was currently rumored here that there were bodies of men organizing in the State of Missouri, for the purpose of controlling the elections here. On the 28th of March it was reported that a body of about 600 men were encamped on the Wakarusa, about six miles below here. On the 29th companies were constantly arriving here, consisting of strangers, some on horseback and some in wagons, from three to a dozen in company. Some of them came into town; others passed through to the second ravine, west of the town, and there encamped. There were a large number of strangers in town, who said they came for the purpose of voting and controlling the elections. Many of them told me this in conversation with them. They said they considered they had a right to do so from the law, which gave residents the right to vote, and that they were residents while they were here. I went out to their camp on the night of the 29th, and strolled around from one camp-fire to another, and had some conversation with persons there. At one of the camp-fires they asked me what county I came from. I told them I was a resident of Lawrence, and they would converse with me no further. As I passed on, the cry of "spy" was raised. A few moments after a person cried "Oyez, oyez; all the companies are

requested to meet at Captain Jackson's camp forthwith on important business." I followed them in that direction. A company from one of the camp-fires came, headed by music; a man beating a drum came in. After they had all congregated, there were several speeches made by some of the strangers whom I did not know. One of them I recognised as Colonel Young, but I never heard his other name. They said they were satisfied that the citizens of the town and vicinity were not going to offer any resistance to their voting, and that they had a larger number of men than was necessary to control this election, and they wished about 200 of the young men; the old men being fatigued with the travel, would volunteer to go to the next district. Quite a number volunteered while I was there, and when I left and came away they were making up a company.

The next morning I went to the place where the election was to be held; I went about 8 or 9 o'clock. I found a large body of men assembled there-many of them with guns, and most of them armed in some way. There was a dense body of men against the side of the house, near the window where the votes were to be received. I got as near to the window as I could by crowding in, and found that there was a delay occasioned by one of the judges, Mr. Blanton, failing to appear, and they were selecting another in his place. I believe Mr. R. A. Cummins was chosen. The man that I recognised as Colonel Young then offered his vote, which the judges refused to receive, considering him a non-resident, unless he would swear in his vote. I could not understand all the conversation, but I understood enough of it to learn that he refused to take the oath prescribed by the governor. I thought he took an oath; and afterwards, in speaking to those who were present, he stated that he had taken an oath. I heard Mr. Abbott, one of the judges, questioning him; he asked him if he intended to make this his home, and the reply was that it was none of his business; that he was a resident of the Territory, and that was all the law required. After he had voted he got up into the window and made a short speech, stating what kind of an oath he had taken-simply that he was a resident of the Territory. He said other things which I do not now remember.

There was such a crowd at the polls that it took me nearly an hour to get to the window to offer my vote, though I was assisted very much by people leaving the window at the time of the disturbance connected with Mr. Bond. At one time two lines were formed extending several yards from the house, under the superintendence of Colonel Young and Captain Jackson. They stated that they wanted the old men to go in first, as they were tired and wanted to return to the camp. I was ordered out, but did not leave, and went in and deposited my vote After the men had voted, a large number decamped, and I saw them passing through town that afternoon on their return towards Wakarusa. Some three hundred, I think, remained in camp that night, and left the next morning in the same direction. I saw none after 10 o'clock the next day. I cannot tell how many wagons there were, but I should think there were over one hundred in all. I counted as high as twenty coming in at one time in a string. They

As I was in a hurry, I went in with the old men.

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