Thomas Ewing, Jr.
James W. Denver
Theodore Garrett
Samuel M. Satters
William Weer
John Calhoun
A. Danford
Robert B. Mitchell

These documents include letters and affidavits documenting election fraud that occurred in Leavenworth, Johnson, Coffey, and Linn Counties in Kansas Territory. Kansas citizens voted on January 4, 1858 to determine the fate of the Lecompton Constitution and to elect state officials. These documents refer to incidents of “enormous fraud” including men voting repeatedly under false names, falsifying poll books, and destroying ballot boxes “by violence and force.”

January 5, 1858-March 15, 1858

Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Border Ruffians
Guerrillas
Popular Sovereignty
Lecompton Constitutional Convention

Thomas Ewing, Jr.
James W. Denver
Theodore Garrett
Samuel M. Satters
William Weer
John Calhoun
A. Danford
Robert B. Mitchell
Thomas E Ewing

Lecompton, Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas
Linn County, Kansas
Leavenworth County, Kansas
Johnson County, Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Government Document

Kansas Historical Society

Kansas Territorial Records, Box 5 (27-01-04-02): Folder 33

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