Report of the Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas: With the Views of the Minority of Said Committee |
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... ticket , that it was not for Gen. Whitfield , cried out , " He is a damned abolition- ist - let him down ; " and they dropped him . ( 20 ) Others were passed to the polls in the same way , and others crowded up in the best way they ...
... ticket , that it was not for Gen. Whitfield , cried out , " He is a damned abolition- ist - let him down ; " and they dropped him . ( 20 ) Others were passed to the polls in the same way , and others crowded up in the best way they ...
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... ticket , because they were unwilling to run the risk of so unequal a contest , it being known that a great many are coming up from Missouri to vote . ( 2 ) Nearly all the settlers were free - State men , and 23 of the 25 legal votes ...
... ticket , because they were unwilling to run the risk of so unequal a contest , it being known that a great many are coming up from Missouri to vote . ( 2 ) Nearly all the settlers were free - State men , and 23 of the 25 legal votes ...
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... ticket . ( 2. ) Eleven men , recently from Pennsylvania , voted the free - State ticket . From the testimony , they had not , at the time of the election , so established their residence as to have entitled them to vote . ( 3. ) In both ...
... ticket . ( 2. ) Eleven men , recently from Pennsylvania , voted the free - State ticket . From the testimony , they had not , at the time of the election , so established their residence as to have entitled them to vote . ( 3. ) In both ...
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... ticket in Lawrence by eastern emigrants just arrived , and not entitled to vote . These figures and this fact show that the free - State ticket did not receive a majority of the legal voters in this district ; for if fifty be taken from ...
... ticket in Lawrence by eastern emigrants just arrived , and not entitled to vote . These figures and this fact show that the free - State ticket did not receive a majority of the legal voters in this district ; for if fifty be taken from ...
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... ticket , therefore , did not receive one - third of the legal voters of the Territory , even if all be excluded from the account who emigrated to the Territory after the census was taken . This fact was apparent to the majority of the ...
... ticket , therefore , did not receive one - third of the legal voters of the Territory , even if all be excluded from the account who emigrated to the Territory after the census was taken . This fact was apparent to the majority of the ...
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