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