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Y'All
Found at:
http://165.83.115.136/VFMuster/index.htm
a searchable database of the muster roll of Valley Forge
Muster Roll Data Sheet
Personal ID: VA08603
LName: CHRISTIAN FName: JAMES
Ethnicity: Rank: SERGEANT Rank Type: NCO
State: VA Regiment: 1 ART Division: SUPPORT DIVISION
Brigade: ARTILLERY BRIGADE Company: HENRY'S Co.
Personal ID: VA08068
LName: CHRISTIAN FName: JAMES
Ethnicity: Rank: PRIVATE Rank Type: RANK AND FILE
State: VA Regiment: 6 VA Division: 5TH DIVISION
Brigade: 2ND VA BRIGADE Company: CAPT NICHOLAS HOBSON
Monthly Status Data
December 1777: FURLOUGH
January 1778: FURLOUGH
February 1778: FURLOUGH
March 1778: FURLOUGH
April 1778: FURLOUGH
May 1778: FURLOUGH
June 1778: FIT FOR DUTY
Additional Remarks (if any):
DEC 1777 TO MAY 1778 ON FURLOUGH IN VIRGINIA
Personal ID: MD18175
LName: CHRISTIAN FName: JOHN
Ethnicity: Rank: PRIVATE Rank Type: RANK AND FILE
State: MD Regiment: 2 MD Division: 5TH DIVISION
Brigade: 2ND MD BRIGADE Company: CAPTAIN HATCH DENT'S
Monthly Status Data
December 1777: NAME ON ROLL WITHOUT COMMENT
January 1778: NAME ON ROLL WITHOUT COMMENT
February 1778: DESERTED 12 FEBRAURY
March 1778: DESERTED 12 FEBRAURY
April 1778:
May 1778:
June 1778:
Additional Remarks (if any):
AT WILMINGTON IN FEBRUARY
Personal ID: DE16877
LName: CHRISTIAN FName: JOHN
Ethnicity: Rank: PRIVATE Rank Type: RANK AND FILE
State: DE Regiment: 1 DEL Division: 5TH DIVISION
Brigade: 1ST MD BRIGADE Company: CAPTAIN PETER JAQUETT'S
Monthly Status Data
December 1777: NAME ON ROLL WITHOUT COMMENT
Personal ID: VA08070
LName: CHRISTIAN FName: RICHARD
Ethnicity: Rank: CORPORAL Rank Type: NCO
State: VA Regiment: 6 VA Division: 5TH DIVISION
Brigade: 2ND VA BRIGADE Company: CAPT THOMAS MASSIE
Monthly Status Data
December 1777: FIT FOR DUTY
January 1778: FIT FOR DUTY
February 1778: DISCHARGED
Personal ID: VA26088
LName: CHRISTIAN FName: WILLIAM
Ethnicity: Rank: LIEUTENANT Rank Type: COMMISSIONED OFFICER
State: VA Regiment: 10 VA Division: 5TH DIVISION
Brigade: 2ND VA BRIGADe Company: CAPT. JOHN SYME
Monthly Status Data
December 1777:
January 1778: RESIGNED JAN. 13, 1778
Life goes on -
Jim Christian - Chattanooga, Tennessee - jsxian(a)mindspring.com
RESEARCHING:
(Maternal)= Barnes - Beall - Burton - Cantrell - Dameron - Howard - Jeanes -
Jenkins - Ladd - Larcome - Nuthall - Odell - Perkins - Prather/Prater -
Ridgely - Steele - Sprigg - Tucker
(Paternal)= Burton - Cargile - Christian - Clouse - Huddleston - Hunt -
Leake - Mask - McMahan - Scott - Woodson -
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy
forget in time that men have died to win them." - FDR
Last April Linda P. transcribed and shared the Will of William Christian
of August County (I presume Virginia), which was written 25 Sept 1776;
proved 17 August 1779. It mentioned the following people:
Wife: Mary
Sons: Patrick and Gilbert
Grandson: William, son of Patrick
Daughters: Margaret, Elizabeth and Mary
Did anyone ever connect this William to their line?
Audrey Cox Vogelpohl
Seattle, Washington
Looking for information on mainly the BARNES line:
Richard C. CHRISTIAN b. 1861 in WV married 1882 to Sarah J. BARNES b. 1853
in NC. Their children were:
Walter
Charles W b. 1872 (my great-grandfather)
William F
Loula M.
John C.
Would like "history" - what these folks did for a living - e-photos of homes
they built in Washington etc.
Also- any decendants of Richard CHRISTIAN that still live in the Morton area
of Washington - these people may have some history.,
Thanks
Cindy
I am posting this for Beverly Brown, a digest subscriber, who is having
problems posting. It is possible that her e-addy is rejected by the spam
screen on rootsweb because it contains the word 'shop'. I will include it
here disjointed for those that may wish to contact Beverly off-list -
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Her message:
Who was Jim Christian?
He married Sarah Senova Sisson, b. 1847 in Alabama, d. ca. 1912 in Red River
County. Jim may have been born in Alabama, too. In the 1900 census, two of
his sons told the census taker their father was born in Alabama.
Together Jim and Sarah had three children, Sidney Anderson Christian, b.
1866; John F., b. ca. 1869; Charles Edward, b. 1872. All three of the boys
were born in Texas.
There was another man named Sidney Christian living in Red River County, TX
in 1900. He was born in Alabama in 1853. That makes him 13 years older
than my Sidney Christian--too young to be his father--maybe his uncle?
Maybe the other Sidney and my Jim were brothers and Jim named his first son
after him?
In 1880, Sarah was living with her three sons and a new husband, Herman
Eldred, in Johnson County, TX. Where did Jim go? Maybe prison? I would
have thought maybe he had died, but when Jim and Sarah's son Charles Edward
died in 1929, somebody named Jim Christian filled out his death certificate.
Could have been his father--I'm not aware of anybody else in the family
named Jim Christian.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Beverly Brown
Hi,
I am trying to find the parentage of one William P. Christian who
married Sarah Johnson (not Sarah H. Johnson) in Coweta County, Georgia
on 07 Dec 1852.
Joel Johnson's family Bible lists the birth of Sarah as 21 Mar 1825.
She was born in GA. We do not have a birthdate on William P. We assume
that he was born 1820-1830.
Sarah and William P. had these children:
Allen P. born Coweta County, GA on 05 Apr 1847
John Thomas born Carroll County, GA on 12 Oct 1851
Micajah C. "Cade" born in Coweta County, GA on 03 Mar 1854
Martha Jane born in Coweta County, GA 07 May 1859
Joel Marion born in Alabama on 11 Nov 1861
Marillen Elizabeth born 24 Nov 1864
Andrew Jackson "Andy" born 20 Apr 1867
Andrew Jackson Christian had, among others, a son John Christian to whom
he said that his father, William P. Christian, had died prior to his
birth. Thus our William P. died between July 1866 and April 1867.
In the Madison County, GA, 1860 Census, we find this family:
William P. Christian, age 34, born GA
Sarah Christian, age 36, born in GA
Ophelia, age 6, born in GA
George E., age 4, born in GA
Charles W., age 2, born in GA
James E., age 2 months, born in GA
Who is this William P. Christian? He cannot be the William Payne
Christian who married Sarah Maxwell, as he died in 1838. I have been
told that a William P. Christian married a Sarah Johnson in Elbert
County, GA about 1850. Is his wife the infamous "Sarah H. Johnson"? We
have no documentation that our Sarah was ever listed anywhere, and
certainly not in her father's Bible, as "Sarah H. Johnson".
The 1860 Madison County William P. is not ours, unless he had two
families, one on each side of the state. While the ages of the census
may be in question, the children do not match family records. Ophelia
Christian, above, was born about 1854. Our William P. and Sarah had a
son born in 1854, nicknamed Cade. Cade was not a twin.
Also, from "A Short History of Cobb County, GA", pp 542-543 refers to
Company L Rifle Battalion. On the roster was listed one William P.
Christian, private.
From Compiled Service Records -Confederate Soldiers of Georgia,
microfilm #M266, roll 593:
William P. Christian's record from the company muster roll--
enlisted 08 April 1862 in Marietta, Georgia.
November 1862, he was sent by the surgeon to the hospital in either
Winchester or
Richmond.
Company L organized as Blackwell Volunteers, sent to Hardesville, SC, to
be mustered into Phillip's Legion. They were ordered to the front
during the latter part of July, 1862.
Does anyone have any information on this William P.? If he is our
William P., he lived through the war and several years after that.
So, does anyone out there have any idea who "my" William P. is? I would
love to prove that he is the son of Charles Woodson Christian and his
wife, Mary Walton Maxwell. I believe that our William P. is a
descendant of Turner Christian of VA and GA, but I need help in proving
that.
Any help in this enigma is gratefully appreciated!
Thanks bunches,
Mary-Margaret
Y'All,
I have found in some sketchy information at the Library of Virginia an
account of the family of one Edward Dunscomb CHRISTIAN s/o Henry Asbury
CHRISTIAN.
They have that Edward married Cornelia BURTON and that they were the
parents of William Asbury CHRISTIAN who married Anna Edith McMullan in 1893.
They have William & Anna as the parents of two daughters - unnamed - one who
married George P. Compton and was the mother of Asbury Christian Compton.
The other married Robert B. Hardaway and was the mother of Robert Beverley
Hardaway and William Francis Hardaway.
I have a Henry Asbury CHRISTIAN b. 1771 m. Lucy Wood Dunscomb.
Can anyone confirm that Henry Asbury CHRISTIAN is or is not the son of Henry
&
Lucy?
Life goes on -
Jim Christian
Chattanooga, TN
jsxian(a)mindspring.com
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." -- Oscar Wilde
CONTINUED FROM Part 1:
Mr. Christian's account runs thus:
"Upon the morning of the 30th of March, a clear sunshiny day, the
voters of Lawrence District began assembling about the door of the polls,
which was held in a small log shanty, quite a one-horse affair, situated
upon the outskirts of the city of Lawrence. In the mean time, the invading
army of Missouri voters, who had arrived the day before, to the number of
some eight or nine hundred men, were encamped in the vicinity of the polls.
At 9 A. M., the hour appointed for the opening of the polls, the
Missourians, well armed, walked down to the one-horse shanty, before alluded
to. Their leader, Young, then took the oath required by the judges of
erection. To avoid the rush, and prevent unnecessary crowding, the
Missourians then formed a line some
hundred yards in length, on either side of the shanty window, in which the
voters were to deposit their ballots. Through this alley-way the voters
passed in; but as the living stream was for some time continuous, and a
retreat through the lane impossible, it became necessary to adopt some plan
by which to get rid of the voter after he had been polled. This was no easy
matter; but, as a happy expedient, it was at length determined to hoist each
polled man upon the roof of the shanty, where he seized hold of the shingles
and thus assisted himself over until he had gained the other side, from
whence a second jump brought him in safety to the ground, leaving him at
liberty to supply tie place of some friend who had not yet voted. The vote
thus polled in the Lawrence District was upwards of one thousand, of which
two hundred and twenty-five were Free Soil and
the balance Pro-Slavery.
"The Free Soilers were so utterly confounded by this very energetic
action on the part of the Missourians, that they neglected except in some
three or four instances-to send in their protests in proper time, that is to
say, before the Governor (Reeder) had given certificates to the persons so
elected. The Pro- Slavery party had therefore a majority of two-thirds in
each House of the Legislature, where they could, and did, do as they pleased
with the members returned at the second election, which was held in May, in
accordance with the Governor's (Reeder's) proclamation, and, as was
anticipated, ousted the Free Soil members from their seats. This was another
outrage.
"This Legislature-styled Bogus, by the Free Soil party-met, in
accordance with the Governor's proclamation, at Pawnee, a paper city on the
extreme verge of civilization, with no house to shelter them from the
inclemency of the weather. I was present, and shall never forget the first
meeting of the Kansas Legislature; for to me, at least, it was a most novel
sight to see grave council-men and brilliant orators of the House of
Representatives cooking their food by the side of a log, or sleeping on a
buffalo-robe in the open air, with the broad canopy of heaven for a
covering.
"During this meeting of the Legislature at Pawnee, we had several
severe showers, and it was amusing enough to behold these Romuluses of
Kansas, as they scampered, with their beds upon their backs-like an Irish
pedlar [sic]-to some new houses which boasted neither window nor door, and
kept out but illy the pelting storm. There were but two things in abundance
at Pawnee-rocky mounds and highly-rectified whisky.
"Being fairly drowned out, the Legislature at length adjourned to
Shawnee Mission, whereupon the Governor vetoed the Bill; this was the final
rupture between the Governor and the Legislature; then came the tug of war.
Both parties from this moment broke out into open hostility. The Governor
and his Free-Soil friends repudiated the Legislature and its acts, and bid
defiance to both; they spoke of it as the Missouri Bogus Legislature. The
Legislature, on their part, were not slow to retaliate; they racked their
ingenuity to insult and aggravate the Free Soil party, and if possible widen
the breach already existing between the two contending factions, for I can
scarcely dignify with the name of party those who condescend to such a petty
warfare as
exists between the Kansas agitators. The Legislature, in the first place,
memorialized President Pierce to remove Governor Reeder, which was done, but
avowedly for another office, the Kaw Land speculation. They then attempted
to padlock the mouths of the Free Soilers by preventing their expressing an
opinion as to the right of individuals to hold slaves in Kansas Territory.
Their next move was to appoint officers to put this padlock on, or in other
words to execute their laws, and as most of the members lived in Missouri,
it was no very singular thing that they had friends to reward in that State,
who were patriotic enough to "move into Kansas" if they could get an office
there; this several of them did, and accordingly came into the Territory
with their commissions in their pockets. In due time the Legislature closed
this, their labor of love, and returned to the bosom of their families, with
their well-earned pay in their pockets, with which to improve their farms in
Jackson and other counties of Missouri.
"The Free Soilers now took the field in earnest, by holding
conventions, passing resolutions, and listening to inflammatory appeals to
the worst passions of their nature, to resist even unto death the
enactments of the Kansas quasi Legislature. Things went on thus until the
26th of November, 1855, when a warrant was issued by a justice of the peace,
and put into the hands of the sheriff of Douglas County, for service. The
sheriff was met by a body of armed men and his prisoner-one Jacob
Branson-rescued.
The rescuers then brought Branson into the town of Lawrence, during the
night, where their drum beat to arms, and by eight next morning a town
meeting was called, and a committee of safety appointed, to take measures
accordingly. From this moment our troubles began in earnest-Sheriff Jones
sent an express to Governor Shannon for aid to protect him in carrying out
the laws. In the mean time the Governor issued his proclamation calling out
the militia to enforce the laws. Others sent runners into Missouri, for
assistance to aid the militia, and by Saturday, Dec. 1st, the forces on both
sides began to arrive in great numbers. The Free Soilers flocked to
Lawrence, the militia to Lecompton, and the Missourians to the Wakarusa
camp. The Free Soilers were occupied from the lst to the 8th of Dec. in
throwing up breastworks to defend the place. All work and business was
suspended, and martial law ruled supreme.
"Picket guards were sent out every night to observe the army of
invasion. Prisoners were taken on both sides-the allied, or Pro-Slavery
army, examined and pressed whatever came ill their way; even the United
States mail was detained and stopped upon the road; in fact, all
communication with Lawrence was cut off on the side nearest the State Line.
On Friday evening, Dec. 7th, an express was sent to Governor Shannon, who
visited our town and inquired into the state of affairs, and acknowledged
that he had been greatly deceived as to the position of the citizens of
Lawrence. His Excellency finally concluded a treaty of peace with the
officers of
the Free Soil army, by which it was understood that there was to be no more
forcible resistance to the law, but all should have their legal remedy
through the courts. Thus ended the Kansas war. The sheriff, Jones, has made
several arrests since the compromise without interruption, and a better
feeling seems to prevail. So mote it be.
"Now, in justice to the people of Lawrence, I must say that a large
and respectable portion of this community did not endorse the acts of the
rescuers of Branson, nor did they countenance an armed resistance to the
law. This spirit of lawlessness came from the rabble as a general thing-or
the most notorious Abolitionists . I have lived among these people for the
last ten months, and have heard most of their speakers, and have listened to
but two who advocated an armed resistance, and neither of those were here
upon the day of the disturbance. I do not say that they were frightened,
but they had business which unfortunately took them away just at that time.
"Though the Free State men deny the legality of the acts of the
so-called Bogus Legislature, and are determined to resist them to the death,
they are not prepared to adopt the ridiculous alternative of preventing the
execution of their enactments - unless by a legal process through some
regularly established Court of Justice. It was the threats of the
Missourians which induced the people of Lawrence to fortify their town, and
organize them selves as a military force:-they did not, therefore, desire to
bid defiance to the law, but to defend their lives and property from
anticipated violence."
And so endeth the narrative of this Pro-Slavery Christian. We have
read it over to several of our Lawrence Free State friends, who seem to
consider it a very impartial document- the only passage excepted to being
that in relation to the want of accommodations for the Kansas Legislature,
while in session at Pawnee, in regard to which our Free State informants
affirm that there were some houses there, and that if the Kansas
Legislature, or to speak more correctly, its components, had really wished
to obtain "board and lodging," they could have found both, either at Pawnee,
or within a very short distance of that place; but it is alleged that
the "Missouri Bogus Legislature," as the good people here delight to
designate that august body, rather preferred to play at camping out, until
the "severe showers'" came, with "healing in their wings," to give these
Romuluses of Kansas, as Christian calls them, a reasonable excuse for
transferring the scene of their deliberations from Pawnee to Shawnee
Mission, which, as the reader will perceive, was, so far as the names of the
places are concerned, a mere matter of moonshine, insomuch as there is only
a difference of two letters. Having never seen Pawnee ourselves-though if it
be less endurable than the Mission, it must be comfortless indeed-we are
rejoiced to say that we cannot throw any light upon the matter in dispute.
Nor would we if we could-for we haven't made up our mind upon the Kansas
question yet, and don't intend to-at least upon paper; for our object in
writing this book-besides its purely selfish ones-is to give the facts, and
then leave that sagacious individual, the reader, whoever he may be, to form
opinions for himself. So "pitch in"
either way, gentlemen politicians, Pro-Slavery or Free Soil, as your fancy
leads you, and may the printers' devil, or whatever other saint watches over
the destinies of scribblers, forbid that we-the author-should pen one line
that might bias your inclinations-" av' they be vartuous [sic]."
END TEXT________
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Another account of Mr. Christian is from:
Robinson, Sarah Tappan Doolittle (Lawrence)
Title: Kansas: its interior and exterior life. Including a full view of its
settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions,
scenery, etc. .
Publication Date: 1856
City: Boston Publisher: Crosby, Nichols and company; S. Low, son & co.
<etc., etc
James Christian, Esq., a very honorable and high-minded pro-slavery
gentleman, writes to a friend in Kentucky as follows: "I believe I informed
you before that I have been appointed clerk of this (Douglas) county, under
the territorial Legislature; but we are in such a horrible state of
confusion in regard to the laws that it don't pay anything. The free-soilers
are in a large majority in the territory, and they are determined to pay no
regard to the laws; consequently they will not sue nor have any recording
done, so my office is only in name. It is the same all over the territory."
END TEXT______________
The Irish born James Christian was county clerk of Douglas County, Kansas
Terr., in1855 and is mentioned in a text on the problems of those times.
Below are the pages about him -
WAR IN KANSAS
A Rough Trip to the Border, Among New Homes and a Strange People
by G. DOUGLAS BREWERTON
Published by DERBY & JACKSON
New York 1856
pages 283-293
A GOOD AND FAIR CHRISTIAN.
JANUARY 4th.-We have spent the greater portion of to-day in the
prosecution of our Kansas news-hunt, in pursuing which, we wandered into the
"preserve" of a certain Mr. Christian, we don't mean a hard Christian by
the way, but a good Christian, who, being naturally a jovial little fellow,
with a good-humored face, laughing eye, and keen appreciation of the
ridiculous, suited us at first sight, so we have fraternized wonderfully, as
the reader may suppose.
We had not been very long in our little friend's somewhat diminutive
office-which was indeed so small, that it quite realized our idea of that
cockneyism, "a box in the country " -ere we discovered that he not only
handled the pen of a ready writer, but indulged it at times in scribbling
for the newspapers. So we complimented his style, and finally managed to
overcome his diffidence, for we all know that the genus Author is but human
at the best, until at length we had persuaded him to give us a peep into the
manuscript, and as our peep convinced us that it was worth reading, we will
write him a preface first, and then give you Mr. Christian's very fair
explanation of the "Kansas embroglio," for which - Christian's account we
mean, and not the embroglio - multum in parvo would be no bad heading.
The following is a letter addressed to a member of the Kentucky State
Legislature, in answer to one requesting information as regarded the state
of affairs in Kansas. Its writer, James Christian, Esq., is a citizen of
Lawrence, and we are disposed to call particular attention to his statements
from these circumstances: Mr. Christian holds an appointment under the
Territorial government, as County Clerk, of Douglas County, K.T. He is of
the Pro-Slavery party, but withal a strong union and conservative man. We
hear of him from the Free State people, as a person much respected by both
parties. He has been retained by Coleman as his counsel in
the Dow matter-is in favor of making Kansas a Slave State-has lived in
Lawrence since the middle of March last-has his family with him and intends
to remain in the Territory-is spoken of as being a straightforward, and
strictly honorable man -is an Irishman by birth, with, to use his own
expression, "a slight touch of the brogue, and a considerable taste of the
blarney," and finally, Mr. Christian has resided in the State of Kentucky
for fifteen years, has never had the good fortune to "own a darkey," but
would like a couple if he could afford that luxury, as he thinks they might
be made useful.
MR. JAMES CHRISTIAN'S HISTORY OF THE KANSAS DISTURBANCES
LAWRENCE, K. T., Jan. 1st, 1855.
MY DEAR:
"I suppose you have heard of the troubles in Kansas, and read,
perhaps, some of the many falsehoods which have been scattered broadcast
over the land. I have, as yet, seen nothing in the public prints, which may
be regarded as strictly true, on either side of this question, for editors
and letter-writers are like lawyers, very apt to tell but one part of the
story, and that in their own way; indeed, like the Jews of old, they can
never discover the' beam in their own eye,' but seek rather to pull out the
mote from their brother's.
"The true cause of these Kansas troubles was not an arrest by the
Sheriff under the Territorial law; it had its origin far back in the halls
of Congress, when the Nebraska and Kansas bills were passed, when the
Missouri Compromise was declared null and void, and ultra men boasted in our
Legislative Assemblies, that if they could not defeat these bills in one way
they would in another, and returned to their homes to organize 'Emigrant Aid
Societies,' and 'Kansas Leagues,' with the avowed intention of defeating the
objects of the Kansas Bill, by Abolitionizing the Territory. This was the
first wrong, and it aroused the indignation of the 'Fire Eaters' of Western
Missouri, whom Benton, in his peculiar manner, styles nullifiers, scamps,
and rottens;
these were headed by such men as Atchinson, B. F. Stringfellow, C. F.
Jackson, Col. S. A. Young, with others of lesser note, but all tried
soldiers of the Anti-Benton campaigns, from 1849 to 1855, when Atchinson was
beaten as Senator.
"When the first election in Kansas (for delegate) came on, these
gentlemen called out the Pro-Slavery forces, and marched their men into the
Territory to cast their votes for Whitfield. This was done to counteract the
influence of the Boston Aid Societies and Kansas Leagues, already alluded
to. This might have been all well or ill enough, if the evil had stopped
here, as the Free Soilers, when they came in, ruled it with a high hand in
many instances treating the Pro-Slavery and Western settlers with the
grossest injustice, by driving them from their improvements, or cutting
their timber before their eyes, at the same time bidding them defiance, as
they (the Yankees)'had the power, and meant to take the country.' This it
was that prompted the Pro-Slavery and Western men to seek protection from
their friends in Missouri, who, to do them justice, were as zealous in
giving assistance as they were prompt to ask it. Things were in this
condition when the spring elections came on for members of the Council and
House of Representatives. This took place on the 30th of March, 1855, and
the people of Missouri, delighted with their success at the fall election,
came in with renewed vigor to the Kansas ballot-boxes, bringing with them an
ample supply of their favorite institutions-bowie-knifes, pistols and
whisky-to the great terror of the Yankees-not to mention the trepidation of
the liege subjects of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. But to continue, the
Ides of March came on, and the 30th of that month is a day long to be
remembered in the history of this Territory. Missouri poured in her citizens
to the number of some five or six thousand men, who carried the
election, and returned every Pro-Slavery candidate in the field by
overwhelming majorities; thus securing every member of both houses of the
Kansas Legislature. To effect this, they in some instances replaced the
judges of election, appointed by Governor Reeder, by substituting men of
their own principles. It is but just, however, to state that they chose
for this purpose bona fide residents of Kansas, which the Governor's
proclamation permitted, inasmuch as it gave authority to the electors, in
case any judge should refuse to serve, to elect another to fill his place.
The judges alluded to were N. B. Blanton and James B. Abbot, of the 1st
District. (See Governor Reeder's proclamation of the 8th March, 1855.) The
judges, so substituted, disregarded the instructions of the Executive, in
striking out the word 'legal' from their certificates
of election. This was their first great wrong."
NOTE.-Though not embraced in this letter, our informant has given your
correspondent so graphic a description of this election and its attendings,
as it was carried on in the Lawrence District, that we have requested him to
describe it for the amusement, and it may be instruction of our New York
politicians. I mean-those of the hard shell rough-and-ready order.
Mr. Christian's account runs thus:
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