History of American conspiracies: a record of treason, insurrection, rebellion & c., in the United States of America, from 1760 to 1860 . isions and tents, and so marched into the details of this invasion from the mass of the testimony taken byyour committee are so voluminous that we can here state but the lead-ing facts elicited. These leading facts were considered enough to prove tothe- most incredulous that, in most of the districts, the electionwas worse than a mockery—it was a crime. So apparent wasthis from the returns and the known presence of bodies of Mis-souri ans, that
History of American conspiracies: a record of treason, insurrection, rebellion & c., in the United States of America, from 1760 to 1860 . isions and tents, and so marched into the details of this invasion from the mass of the testimony taken byyour committee are so voluminous that we can here state but the lead-ing facts elicited. These leading facts were considered enough to prove tothe- most incredulous that, in most of the districts, the electionwas worse than a mockery—it was a crime. So apparent wasthis from the returns and the known presence of bodies of Mis-souri ans, that Governor Reeder felt called upon to order specialelections in several of the districts where invasion, bos stuffingand forged lists were too undisguised to pass them with Execu-tive sanction. This second election was set for May 22d. Ofcourse it aroused the pro-slavery men to violent opposition. Ameetmg was held at Leavenworth, April 80th, of those repre-senting Southern rights. It was, as stated by local papers, ably and eloquently addressed by Chief Justice Lecompt,Colonel J. N. Burns, of Weston, Missouri, and others—Judge r. i i ViGILAl<rCE COMMITTEE OPEEATIONS. 469 Lecompt being Mr. Pierces appointee to the higli office ofChief Justice of the Territory, The meeting resolved : That the institution of slavery is known and recognised in this Ter-ritory; that we rejDel the doctrine that it is a moral and political evil,and we turn back with scorn upon its slanderous authors the charge ofinhumanity; and we warn all persons not to come to our peaceful fire-sides to slander us, and sow the seeds of discord between the master andthe servant; for, as much as we deprecate the necessity to which wemay be driven, we cannot be responsible for the consequences. And to cany out the resolve a committee of thirty was ap-pointed whose special duty it was to spy out and report allsuch as should, by the expression of abolition sentimentsproduce a disturbance to the quiet of the citizen
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