Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1855, MARCH. 198 PARKS PRESS. J1 arch 2.lThe C-hristian Church buys Lot 1. Block 32, Platte City, and proceeds to erect a. house of Worship. The lot cost $613. On the Kickapoo ferryboat, the following notice appears: Some illy-disposed persons have tried to injure-my ferry, by stat- ing that I refused to cross persons, last fall. to the election. This is false. It would be difficult to nd one more sound on the goose than I am. [Signed] John Ellis. KANSAS ELECTION. MARCH 30, 1855. Result in the Territory: Pro-slavery Vote, 5.427; Anti- slavery vote, 791. - Among councilmen elected were. Ym. Barbee. A. )1. Coffey, John YV. Forman. and R. R. Rees. For the House: 0. H. Brown. J. H. Stringfellow. V. H Tebbs, Jas. Whitlock. and Allen Vilker- son Though frauds were perpetrated, yet there Was at this time a large majority of Pro-slavery men in the Te1ritor. A PHIL. .-lpril 2 J erry 0-ods is elected niayor of Weston. Population of Leavenworth, 500. DESTRUCTION OF G. S. PARKb PRESS. The Platte County Self-Defensive Association held fre- quent meetings in the. spring of 1855. Senator Atchison, Dr G. W. Bayless, and B. F. Stringfellow were popular speakers, and their Pro-slavery harangues provoked the people to frenzy and outrage. Those living east a.nd south of Platte City became al- most insane. Dr. Yalker, Capt. K J. Miller. J. V. Cockrell, L. Shepard. and Col. J. H. Winston were untiring in their efforts to arouse the people and to get them into Kansas. The Kansas League held frequent meetings in secret. They appointed com- mittees to carry their decrees into execution. Northern Methodist preachers had stated meetings at their church. ve miles so-uth of Platte Cit). Committees waited on them. a11d commanded them to desist. and enforced their charge with threats of tar and fea.thersand if these were not sutcie1Lt. they would be hung. ti-harles llorris, one of the preachers. deed them. and persjsted in preacliing. His temeritv cost him his life. and, in 1864. was the cause of the death of Dr. Jos. Valker. in retaliation. . fter the frauds perpetrated in the Kansas election o-f March :10. 1953. the following article appeared in the Imlus-trial Luniinr/rz/. plll)ll.slW4l at Tarlville. by Park and Patterson: lhere is irtuallv no law i11 Kansas. and no securitv for life HI ]vI0per1. save in the sense of honor and justice cherished by -erv true pioneer. This may save the countrv from bloodshed; but the Hovcruiueut is held up to ridicule and contempt. and its authori1 disrc;g-,:u-decl. Judges of elections have been displaced.