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KANSAS. 
the party came in on the evening previous to the election, and on 
the morning of the thirtieth of March about one thousand men, 
under the command of Col. Samuel Young, of Boone county, and 
Claiborne F. Jackson, came into Lawrence. They came in about 
one hundred and ten wagons, and upon horseback, with music, and 
banners dying. They were armed with guns, pistols, rifles and 
bowie-knives. They brought two cannon loaded with musket 
balls. 
The evening preceding the election, these men were gathered at 
the tent of one of their leaders, Capt. Jackson, and in speeches 
made to them by Col. Young, and others, it was declared, “ that 
more voters were here than would be needed to carry the elec¬ 
tion,” and that there was a scarcity at Tecumseh, Bloomington, 
Hickory Point, and other places, eight, ten, and twelve miles dis¬ 
tant. Volunteers came forward, and the next morning left Law¬ 
rence for those places. 
When this band of men were coming to Lawrence, they met Mr. 
N. B. Blanton, formerly of Missouri, who had been appointed 
one of the judges of election by Gov. Beeder. Upon his saying 
that he should feel bound, in executing the duties of his office, to 
demand the oath as to residence in the territory, they attempted, 
by bribes first, and then with threats of hanging, to induce him 
to receive their votes without the oath. Mr. Blanton not appear¬ 
ing on the election day, a new judge, by name Bobert A. Cum¬ 
mins, who claimed that a man had a right to vote if he had been 
in the territory but an hour, was appointed in his place. The 
Missourians came to the polls from the second ravine west of the 
town, where they were encamped in tents, in parties of one hundred 
at a time. 
Before the voting commenced, however, they said, that “ if the 
judges appointed by the governor did not allow them to vote, 
they would appoint judges who would.” They did so in the case 
of Mr. Abbott, one of the judges, who had become indignant, all 
law being outraged, and resigned. Mr. Benjamin was elected in 
his place. Soon after the voting commenced, some question of 
legality was raised in regard to the vote of a Mr. Page. Col. 
Young interfered, saying he would decide the matter. Mr. Page 
