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It was the result of an organized invasion from the State of Missouri, a lawless seizure of the conduct of the election, and the open voting by thousands of persons who neither resided in nor pretended to be residents of Kansas.
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John Sherman
Ohio

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Sherman describes the organized and unlawful nature of the invasion that disrupted the Kansas election.

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