This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...from causes of fraud and informality in cases of ten Representatives and one Councilman, and ordered a new election to be held in those districts on the 22d of May, to fill the vacancies. At that election the Pro-Slavery men did not vote, but when the Free-State men at that time elected presented their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...from causes of fraud and informality in cases of ten Representatives and one Councilman, and ordered a new election to be held in those districts on the 22d of May, to fill the vacancies. At that election the Pro-Slavery men did not vote, but when the Free-State men at that time elected presented their credentials to the Legislature and demanded seats, they were refused, and their seats given to the Pro-Slavery men voted for at the March election. About the middle of April, Gov. Recder issued his proclamation convening the Legislature at the town of Pawnee, situated immediately contiguous to Fort Riley military reservation on the east. This town was ostensibly an enterprise of a few officers and attaches at the Fort, but it was in some way made a pretext by Gov. Reeder's Pro-Slavery enemies for charging him, in their prayer for his removal, with "speculating in town lots"--whatever offense that may be. Whether any sinister motives operated upon the Governor, inducing him to call the session at that point, is not known, of course; but be that as it may, there were reasons of a prudential nature quite sufficient to justify him in doing so. The site was very distasteful to the Legislature, as the Governor must have known it would be, and by a singular coincidence the War Office at Washington, Jefferson Davis being Secretary in those days, issued its orders extending the Fort Riley reservation eastward so as to include the ill-starred city of Pawnee. The Legislature duly convened at Pawnee, on the 2d of July, but on the 6th adjourned from that place, and on the 16th reassembled at the Shawnee Manual Labor School, some five or six miles from the Missouri State line. Whether the order of the Secretary of War, extending the Fort Riley reserve, ...
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