Identifier: lifeofgenjameshl01spee (find matches)
Title: Life of Gen. James H. Lane, "the liberator of Kansas"; with corroborative incidents of pioneer history
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Speer, John, 1817-1906
Subjects: Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
Publisher: Garden City, Kas., J. Speer, printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n, on this day, or hereafter,claiming the right to act as our agents in making a constitution forour common observance ; that we delegate to no finite power the re-sponsibility of representatives, unless the people are first the freeinstruments of their election ; and that it is the duty of the wholepeople to fervently repudiate and spurn any attempt to force uponthem so contemptible an imposition as the professed work of thatmisnamed convention, and to set at naught whatever may emanatefrom them. Lane did his full duty in the canvass, day in and dayout, till victory was won at the polls. The preparation forbattle warned the people across the line that danger wasin the wind, and Lane in the field. The enemy .adopteda lle^v plan. They forged enough of election returns intwo districts to carry the election of members of the Leg-islature—900 votes at Kickapoo, in the Leavenworthdistrict, 1632 at Oxford, in the Douglas and Johnsoncounty district, the whole vote at Lightning creek, where
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Shouting Defiance into the Conventions Ears andTHE Batterys Muzzles. BARELY ESCAPE THE HANGMEN. 141 there was no polling place, because it was an Indian res-ervation, and had no voters ; and they disfranchised allthe people in eighteen counties, by failing to report thecensus, and leaving them out of the apportionment,thereby depriving them of three or four representatives.When such returns were ascertained to have been sentin to the Governor and Secretary, who constituted thereturning board, an aroused public sentiment preparedfor battle. The number of members returned as electedwere twenty Pro-Slavery members out of thirty-seven inthe House, and eight in the Council out of thirteen. Ofcourse contest was impossible of success. To accomplishthis result in the Douglas and Johnson district, thejudges of election at the Oxford district, on the Missouriline, a precinct that had not fifty male inhabitants ofvoting age, crossed the line into Missouri, and made up apoll list of 1632 votes, c

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