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Charles Sumner: “Thus, at the Delaware Crossing, where there were but forty-three legal voters, four hundred were returned; at Oxford…”

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Thus, at the Delaware Crossing, where there were but forty-three legal voters, four hundred were returned; at Oxford, where there were but forty-two legal voters, a thousand were returned; and at Shawnee, where there were but forty legal voters, twelve hundred were returned.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner provides specific examples of electoral fraud in Kansas to illustrate the extent of the corruption.

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