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During the retirement of the committee the meeting was addressed at length by Hon. J. S. Rollins in a speech, fully endorsing the policy of President Johnson, and condemnatory of the revolutionary pro- gramme of the Sumner-Stevens Radicals.
Col Switzler, from the committee on resolutions, reported the following : -
RESOLUTIONS.
1. That the citizens of Boone County, here assembled, loyal to the Constitution and the Union, and faithful to the principles which have carried the Republic triumphantly through the war, are convinced of the necessity of an early and complete pacification of the country, that the people may all engage in their proper pursuits and reap the just rewards of their labors.
2. That, therefore, we desire to see the restoration of practical and constitutional rela- tions between all the States and the Federal Government at the earliest practicable period, and to that end we favor the admission into Congress of all loyal representatives from the States lately in rebellion, who were fairly elected and can take the oath prescribed by Con- gress as a test of loyalty through all the pressure and peril of the rebellion.
3. That the Constitution is at once our charter and defence; no magistrate can go beyond it; no department of the government, however powerful, legislative or executive, is per- mitted to transcend it; and however benevolent or otherwise meritorious a measure may be, if it be not within the powers granted by the Constitution, it cannot be adopted, and we in- sist that every one of our public servants shall conform to the will of the whole people, as manifested in the great organic act, which is antecedent and superior to the government itself.
4. That we approve the general principles announced by President Johnson in his annual message, and in his late message, explaining the reason for withholding his assent to the bill for the continuance and enlargement of the Freedmen's Bureau; and while we express our unqualified approval we give him our confidence, and promise him our continued support in
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all proper measures for the restoration of constitutional government in all parts of the country.
5. That we cordially endorse the course of our worthy and patriotic representatives in Congress, the Hon. John Hogan, and Hon. Thos. E. Noell, for their able and manly sup- port of President Johnson, in his efforts to maintain the constitution and restore the Union of the States.
6. That the Honorable Chairman of this meeting is hereby appointed a committee to pre -. sent to the President of the United States a copy of these resolutions.
7. That the chairman appoint a county central committee of five, whose duty it shall be to adopt such measures for the organization and success of the conservative Union party of Boone county as they may deem proper.
8. That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Missouri Statesman and St. Louis Republican.
Col. Switzler accompanied the presentation of these resolutions with a brief and lucid exposition of the principles they enunciate, strongly approving the administration of President Johnson, and in opposition to the usurpations and tyranny of the Radicals, who are ene- mies of that administration.
Mr. W. H. Brand then arose and briefly addressed the meeting, en- dorsing the restoration policy of the President, and highly eulogistic of his heroic resolve to stand by the constitution.
The resolutions were then unanimously adopted, and the following gentlemen appointed county central committee : W. F. Switzler, A. J. Harrison, J. W. Harris, J. B. Douglass, M. R. Arnold. After which the meeting adjourned sine die.
REGISTRATION AND ELECTION - TEST OATH.
The Constitution of 1865 prescribed a test oath for voters, which greatly inflamed the people of the State and of Boone County, es- pecially that portion of them belonging to the Democratic party. The convention which adopted and the Legislature which enacted laws to enforce it, sought to justify the procedure on the ground that the best. interests of the country would be subserved by committing them at the polls to the arbitrament of voters who were loyal to the govern- ment, and who, during the Rebellion, had not attempted by force of arms, by sympathies, or by other methods, to overthrow the Consti- tution ; while the Democrats charged that the continued supremacy of Republican rule in the State - in other words, the retention of all the offices, by the disfranchisement of political opponents, was the governing motive of the enactments. At all events the process of registration, in Boone County, was under the control, in 1866, of Pierce Buffington, a Republican, as supervisor, and the following
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registrars of the various townships, all of whom were Republicans : - J. C. Gallanar, W. H. Fox, W. A. Graham, W. G. Green, Wm. Slade, Wm. Hunter, Isaac T. Jeffry, Peter E. Nichols and W. H. Dunn. Clerks of the Board of Review : - Thos. J. Sutton, E. S. Rhino and A. P. Selby, the latter now deputy clerk of the U. S. Circuit Court in St. Louis.
Paid out of the county treasury to the supervisor, registrars and clerks, $517.75.
The registration engendered great bitterness of feeling, sometimes approaching the verge of personal violence.
After the registration lists had been made by the precinct registrars and thoroughly supervised at Columbia, the whole number of persons- who were registered as qualified voters, out of the 5,000 in the county, was 878, as follows : Bourbon township, Centralia precinct, 81; Sturgeon, 94; Rocky Fork township, 8; Columbia, 238; Cedar township, Ashland precinct, 86 ; Claysville, 94; Providence, 71; Missouri township, Rocheport precinct, 141; Strawn's, 43; Perche township, 23.
MILITIA ENROLLMENT IN 1867.
1867. In November, 1866, J. C. Gallanar was appointed by Gov. Fletcher enrolling officer of Boone County, and on November 26th gave notice that " all able-bodied male inhabitants of the State, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years inclusive, constitute the. militia of the State, and must be enrolled." This enrollment was concluded in January, 1867, and exhibited the following result :-
PRECINCTS.
WHITE.
COLORED.
Columbia.
508
240
Rocky Fork.
210
.....
Perche.
260
6
Centralia.
102
3
Sturgeon
189
18
Missouri
315
47
Providence
108
15
Claysville
120
1
Ashland
327
20
Totals
2,139
350
Total of all colors, 2,489, of which about 250 are exempt.
H. N. COOK VS. WARREN WOODSON.
These two gentlemen, at the November election, 1866 (as we have seen), were candidates for County Clerk, and Mr. Woodson having
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been declared duly elected, Cook sought by proceedings in the courts to dispossess him of the office on several grounds, among them that he was disloyal to the United States government ; that he had com- mitted some of the acts specified in section 3, article 2, of the State Constitution of 1865 ; that therefore he was ineligible to hold the office of County Clerk, and that the votes cast for him were nullities.
In January, 1867, a writ of quo warranto, issued by the Supreme Court of the State, was served on Woodson requiring him to appear before that body on Saturday following and show by what authority he held the office of county clerk. Although this proceeding was all in the name of the State and, in the event of the State's failure, at the expense of the State, Mr. Cook was the real prosecutor.
Judge Woodson obeyed the writ and by his counsel, Wm. A. Hall, of Randolph, made answer. Quite a lengthy discussion ensued between Judge Hall and Attorney General Wingate and A. F. Denny, much of which concerned the meaning and bearing upon the case of a recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. The case was submitted to the court, which took it under advisement until its July term, when a judgment of ouster against Woodson was ren- dered and a commission issued by Gov. Fletcher to Cook, Judges Thos. J. C. Fagg and David Wagner concurring, Judge Nathaniel Holmes dissenting. (See Mo. Reps., Vol. 41, page 228.)
Woodson appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the United States and retained the office till his death, which occurred October 4, 1868, up to which time the appeal had not been heard. It was then dismissed, and Cook was appointed by Gov. Fletcher to fill the vacancy.
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS IN 1868.
1868. - Since the last registration of voters the Legislature passed a more stringent law on the subject, and for this and other reasons the registration preparatory to the election of 1868 was wholesale in its character and ended in the disfranchisement of 3,000 citizens of the county, only 411 being allowed to vote. So general and sweeping was the ostracism that Gen. Grant carried the county for President over Horatio Seymour by six majority.
This extraordinary proceeding inflamed many of the people to fever heat and at times there were outbreaks of individual and popular fury which not only menaced the personal safety of the registrars but the general public peace itself.
And this was in fact no marvel, for the political ostracism of so
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large a number of citizens who had been accustomed to vote, many of them being old residents and taxpayers, was well cal- - culated to upturn the foundations of society and to incite the disfran- chised and their friends to the fiercest denunciations, if not to open violence.
E. L. Clough, Pierce Buffington and William Dunn were the regis- trars, who, after subjecting the lists to days and days of manipula- tion, finally deposited in the County Clerk's office the following : -
RECORD OF ACCEPTED VOTERS IN 1868.
COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP- 110.
Allen, T. M.
Ficklin, Joseph
King George
Allen, W. H.
Gentry, Thomas B.
Lamme, Josiah W.
Arnold, Thomas A.
Gordon, Boyle
Lukens, A. J.,
Adkinson, James
Gallatly James
Lukens, A. N.
Stewart, James L.
Berkebile, John
Gordon, David
Lukens, George W. Lukens, Wm. A. Livingston, Wm. Lee, Wm.
Schwabe, H. C. Saunders, Thomas Scott, James N.
Black, Thomas
Green, Wm. S.
Shanks, James M.
Berkebile, Robert
Gordon, Wm. J.
Shultz, Aug.
Berkebile, C. F.
Gans, J. C.
McKasky, Robert Marshall, Charles Miller James, McCarten, John
Sexton, Enoch Scott, Samuel F.
Bishop, Silvanus F.
Hickey, John E.
Miller, Benj. F.
Scott, A. L.
Bowman, John A.
Hinkle, John F. Henderson. J. A.
Murphy, John : More, Stephen J.
Stewart, Benj. F.
Booth, Wm. P. Boggs, James M.
Hubbard, Paul
McKay, Neal
Scott, Wesley Switzler, W. F.
Boswell, James M. Cook, H. N.
Harris, James T. Hume, Reuben
Maynard, James A. Northcutt, Wm. H. Nichols, Philip P. . Pierson, Wm. F.
Todd, W. W.
Conley, John C.
Henley, M. J. Hugle, Arnold Helper, Wm. M. Hume, James R.
Prewitt, Moss Power, Thomas F. Potts, Charles J.
Warren, Harris N.
Campbell, John Cannon Hugh Cully, Samuel M.
Waugh, James H. Warren, Wm.
Carlisle. R. G.
Keene, Alf.
Ripley, E. L.
Westerlage, P.
Dailey, Edward Douglas, Joseph B. Evans, Frank D.
Kelley, John M.
Robnett, Wm. C.
Weist, Simon
Werdemann, A. D.
PROVIDENCE-33.
Acton, Wm. Bullard, Jesse Colvin, Garland Crane, Wm. W. Crane, John A. Crane, Darius Crane, James W. Dozier, Dennis Edwards, Frazier 32
Gilpin, Ambrose Grindstaff, Samuel Gilpin, George A. Gilpin, Elias Hickam, Scott H. Hume, Lewis Homell, J. C. Hume, Sidney
Hessleman, Lewis Hopper, Sidney W. Jeffries, John Jeffries, Perry C. Lunda, Wm. N. McBain, James T. McBain, Turner Maples, Robert
Perkins, Reuben Rogers, Jesse Stewart, Charles Senor, John O. Senor, Wm. T.
Stickdaub, C. W. Teeter, John E. Vamer, Paul
Baumgartner, G. M. Blair, John N.
Guitar, Odon Gordon, Carey H.
Schwabe, H. C., Jr.,
Batterton, John T. Berry, Edward
Garth, Jeff Hume, Lafayette
Bealmeaer, James M. Hamm, Fred
Sellinger, Jacob
Thornton, James H.
Corbit, John
Hunter, Wm.
Root, Oren, Jr.,
Read, Daniel
Kehr, Chris. Kimmell, E. J.
Rollins, James S.
Russell, F. T. Sturgeon, Edward S. Switzler, Lewis M.
Scott, N. F.
Todd, Robert L.
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HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY.
PERCHE- 17.
Allspaw, Reuben
Long, James
March, Absalom, Sr., Schwabe, Henry
Botner, Jacob
McAlister, Wm. T.
March, Absalom, Jr., Schwabe, Bennett
Caton, Thomas
Merry, Johń
Palm, Jacob
Stewart, William
Glass, Robert R.
March, Wm., Jr.,
Schwabe, Robert
Williams, Wm. T.
Gentry, N. M.
CENTRALIA -19.
Adams, James
Bower, Throp
King, W. E.
Shultz, C. H.
Adams, Wm. B.
Faukner James
Myers, John L.
Booth, Horace
Fretwell, Silas
.Phillips, James
Baker, Allen
Gallop, Simeon
Stemmons, John T.
Booth, W. J.
Herbert, James A.
Tuly, James
STRAWN'S SCHOOL HOUSE- 12.
Cook, Levi Grant, Columbus
Graham, Wm. A.
Gordon, James M.
Searcy, D. G.
STURGEON - 75.
Allison, John B.
Dingman, Chaney
Harris, M. H.
Roberts, Jno. C. Randall, Jno. W.
Barnes, Thomas M.
Eagle, Joseph
Helem, Chas.
Butler, John
Fretwell, Joseph
Jarman, Jas. J.
Roher, Philip
Brown, Jacob
Farr, Edward
Jarman, John F.
Smith, Dunweterfield
Barnes, Brinsley
Fisher, John F.
Keiser, Oliver
Baker, Thomas J. Broomfield, Thos. E.
Finley, John W. Fantes, David F. Fuer, Andrew Green, Wm. J.
Keller, Lewis Kelly, Wm. J. Lockridge, Jas. S. Long, Matthew
Spelman, Philip E.
Batterton, John Y.
Clinton, Samuel
Gyer, Henry P.
Manahen, Michael
Seymour, Wm. Seymour John H.
Taylor, Joseph
Chalmers, Goldsmith
Gordon, Robert Gray, Henry S. Halburt, Hosea Harbins, John D.
Palmer, Thos. Palmer, Jas. D.
Tucker, Benj. F. Usry, John Wadkins, Tracy J.
Croswhite, Wm. P. Clark, John J. Cain, Amon
Hayes, James P. Harris, James L.
Rothrock, Lazarus S.
Wilkins, Geo. R. White, Chapman
Croswhite, Jacob
Holman, Henry
Rowland, Wm. C.
Carney, Michael
Hawkins, John
Riggs, Zadock T.
HALLSVILLE-16.
Austin, J. M.
Brown, John R.
Kent, O. S.
Moody, John S.
Angel, Robt.
Brown, Edward
Kent, Carlos
Tucker, W. W.
Ayres, Nath.
Dunn, W. H.
Masterson, S. S.
Varnon, J. S.
Austin, Stephens
Haggard, Alvin J.
Masterson, C. M.
Stewart, Wm.
ROCHEPORT- 25.
Acton, Aaron
Boggs, Thomas J. Grindstaff, Sol.
Slade, Wm. Sampson, Thos. W.
Boggs, Wm.
Bowen, Thos. H.
Grossman, L.
Bisfield, Thos. A.
Crawford, John
Hultz, M. J.
Tumy, Henry.
Boggs, Christie
Daley, Jas.
Harris, F. G.
White, A. D.
Boggs, Chas M.
Daley, Thos. A.
Deitrich, Aug.
Mooth, Henry C.
Henley, Samuel
Burroughs, Levi Boggs, Jas.
Graham, James
Lamme, W. W.
Hultz, C. P.
Register, George W.
Sharp, Lewis Sharp, George W. Todd, Samuel B.
Slotz, John. Seymour, Jas. M. Spelman, Thos. Stephens, Wm.
Brundy John S.
Seymour, Francis M.
Cross, S. F. Croswhite, John F.
Gordon, Hiram
Patterson, Mason W.
Patton, Jno. M.
Carpenter, Edward
Redmon, Jno. T. Roberts, John W.
Gentry, J. C.
Waddle, W. E. T.
Wainscott, R. A. Wheeler, W. H.
Wert, James.
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HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY.
CLAYSVILLE-51.
Arnold, James, Jr.
Foster, Wm.
Kilpatrick, Greenb'y
Smallwood, Jas.
Buffington, Thos.
Gilmore, Samuel S.
Kemp, John G.
Sappington, R. G.
Buffington, Pierce.
Gleeson, John.
Legate, Otis.
Sapp Noah.
Bledsoe, Abraham
Graham, Solomon J.
Legate, H. M.
Sapp, John H.
Bledsoe, Leroy Butler, Wm. Biddle, Jacob.
Hover, Jonathan Henshaw, Amos R. Henshaw, Able.
Madden, Wm. Matthews, Franklin
Madden, Jacob Jr.
Waters, Jas. M.
Clough, Lewis E.
Hickman, Jas. S.
McClenn, John.
Waters, John H.
Clough, Herman E. Chatterton, Horatio
Hilburn, Jas. H.
Perkins, Windall
Zumalt, Joseph
Ewing, C. P. Ellis, Peter F.
Jones, Wm. M.
Rader, Reuben
ASHLAND - 53.
Acton, Harrison
Goodwin, John
Johnson, James
Peake, Reuben B.
Blackburn, R. J.
Goodwin, P. J.
Little, A. J. H.
Pauley, James W.
Bennett, Wm. B.
Hardin, Rufus T.
Little, Wm.
Russell, Wm. H.
Brown, Hezekiah
Huttinger, Arnold
Little, Geo. W.
Ridwell, G. B.
Brown, John W. Bennett, Jeremiah Blythe, John Bearce, Eli
Haggard, Chas. E.
Little, Nathaniel
Riley, Lawrence
Haden, Jeptha Haden, Francis
Monaghan, John Nolan, Simeon
Shelnutt, Lewis
Brown, Geo. W.
Johnson, John M.
Noakes, John
Sharp, Milton
Brown, Hiram
Johnson, Wm. T.
Nichols, P. E.
Shultz, Geo.
Chase, Nathan
Johnson, Geo. W.
Nichols, Eli.
Shelnutt, John G.
Goodwin, Walter
.
Johnson, J. B.
Nichols, Wm. A.
Stewart, James L.
Goodwin, James Grindstaff, Wm.
Johnson, James R.
Perkins, David W.
Vandiver, Carlton D.
THE LOUISIANA AND MISSOURI RIVER RAILROAD - ELECTIONS ORDERED BY THE COUNTY COURT.
On December 8, 1868, a petition was presented to the County Court from a number of tax-pavers in Rockyfork township, asking the court to order an election in that township to ascertain the will of the qualified voters in regard to the proposition to subscribe $25,000 to the capital stock of the Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad. The court, after consideration, complied with the prayer of the pe- tition, and ordered the election to be held on Wednesday, January 27, 1869.
A similar petition was presented from a number of tax-payers of Perche township, asking an election on a proposition for that town- ship to subscribe $25,000 to the same road. The court ordered an election on the matter, to be held on Tuesday, January 26, 1869.
Still another petition was presented from tax-payers in Missouri township, asking an election in their township, on a proposition to
Hunt, Joshua
Madden, John C.
Smallwood, Irvin
Tuck, Finis
Webber, Nicholas
Boqua Wm. P.
Hudinger, Jacob
Perkins, John
Westbrook, Edwin
Hickam, Geo. H.
Risk, Wm.
Zumalt, David
Hazle, Randolph
Little, John H.
Rollins, Henry
Sargeant, G. W.
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subscribe $65,000 for the extension of the Boone County Railroad to a point on the north side of the river, opposite Boonville. The court also complied with this petition, and set Tuesday, January 12, 1869, as the day on which the election should be held.
Judge Lackland, of Mexico, was present and addressed the court in the interest of the Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad. D. H. Hickman and Gen. O. Guitar addressed the court in behalf of the proposition looking to the extension of the Boone County. Railroad. There was no opposing interest to either road before the court.
As has been seen by the foregoing list of accepted voters there were only thirty-seven in Missouri township qualified to vote on the propo- sition to subscribe $65,000 to extend the Boone County Railroad, via Rocheport, to a point on the river opposite Boonville, the road thence to be continued to Arrow Rock, etc. As the mass of the tax-payers in this township were disfranchised, it would have been manifestly unjust for the thirty-seven registered voters to decide whether or not the township should be taxed to the amount of $65,000 to aid in the construction of the proposed road. 1
A remedy was proposed, to avoid injustice being done in this way. A separate poll for the disfranchised tax-payers was opened, and they were permitted to vote; and it was understood that if a majority of these was not in favor of the road, the County Court would not make the appropriation, and this mode of raising the money was to be abandoned. If two-thirds of the legally qualified voters did not vote for the appropriation it could not legally be made, and of course, would not have been, though a majority of the disfranchised citizens voted for it. .
THE RAILROAD ELECTION IN MISSOURI TOWNSHIP.
1869. - On January 12, 1869, pursuant to the order of the County Court, an election was held in Missouri township, upon the propo- sition to subscribe $65,000 towards extending the Columbia Branch of the North Missouri Railroad, which resulted as follows : -
ROCHEPORT.
Yes.
No.
Votes.
36
3
Legal
181
19
Disfranchised
227
22
Totals
205
Majority for appropriation.
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STRAWN'S.
Yes.
No.
Votes.
5
Legal.
44
Disfranchised
49
Totals
45
Majority against appropriation at Strawn's
40; No. 8
Majority of the legal votes, 32, which was more than two-thirds, the number necessary to carry the appropriation.
RAILROAD ELECTION IN COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP. .
The proposition for Columbia township to subscribe $60,000 to the extension of our railroad west to Boonville, via Rocheport, thence to Arrow Rock, to be continued to Marshall, Lexington and Kansas City, was carried on Tuesday, February 9, 1869, by an immense majority of both legal and disqualified voters. The vote stood as follows : -
QUALIFIED VOTERS.
54
For the proposition
3
Against the proposition
51
Majority for
DISQUALIFIED VOTERS.
204
For the proposition
46
Against the proposition
158
Majority for.
RAILROAD ELECTIONS IN PERCHE AND ROCKY FORK TOWNSHIPS.
The former was held January 26, and the latter January 27, 1869, on propositions respectively to subscribe $25,000 in eight per cent twenty year bonds to the capital stock of the Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad on condition of its location through said townships, the vote being : --- IN PERCHE TOWNSHIP.
17
Whole number of qualified voters only.
13
For the bonds.
none · Against the bonds.
IN ROCKY FORK TOWNSHIP.
16
Whole number of qualified voters
7
For the bonds.
Against the bonds. none
A remarkably small vote and a remarkably small number of voters in two entire townships of a populous county to decide such a ques- tion ! But they did decide it according to the forms of law, and
4
4
Total legal vote- Yes.
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HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY.
on their decision the bonds were issued, delivered to the railroad com- pany and sold by them.
Previously, however, the railroad company located its road from Mexico via Hallsville and Harrisburg, through the townships named to Fayette, in Howard county, and proceeded to grade and bridge the track, but the road was never completed, and, perhaps never will be.
Nevertheless, the bonds of the townships were in the hands of inno- cent purchasers who had paid their money for them ; but this fact did not prevent the tax-payers from being very reluctant to pay them, for they had received no consideration in return except the inconvenience and damage which an abandoned railroad track, with its cuts and fills, entailed upon the county.
The Supreme Court of the United States in the case of G. W. Hartman, plaintiff in error, vs. Bates county, Missouri, having decided similar bonds to those authorized by Perche and Rocky Fork to be null and void, the people of those townships, at the June term, 1876, of the Boone County Court, petitioned the court to make an order re- straining the tax levy on them for the payment of either interest or principal of the bonds, and the court agreed to do so as soon as the citizens of each township filed a bond of $10,000, and deposited with the county treasurer $500 in cash, to indemnify the county against any loss or expense which might accrue in consequence of said order. The conditions were promptly complied with and the restraining order was made.
In the course of time, however, the courts, State and Federal, ren- dered adverse decisions to the one above mentioned, and suit was in- stituted against the townships by the holders of the bonds, Henry A. Cunningham, of St. Louis, being the attorney for the townships. Passing over the intermediate history and coming to the final result, suffice it to say that in 1880 a compromise was made between the bondholders and the tax-payers on the basis of 662/3 cents on the dol- lar, by which each township made some $12,000, and at elections - in Rocky Fork on April 13, 1880, and in Perche on May 25, 1880 - a constitutional majority was secured in favor of the compromise and funding the bonds at 6 per cent, as follows : Rocky Fork, yeas, 163; nays, 12. Perche, yeas, 78; nays, 14.
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HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY.
CHAPTER XIII.
FROM 1870 TO 1882.
Methodist Conference - Registration of 1870- Public Meetings in Honor of Gen. R. E. Lee -Railroad Meetings in Ashland - Cedar Township Railroad Vote - Boone County Registrars - Decoration Day at Centralia - Political - The Passive Policy Indorsed - Presbyterian Synod - Sale of the Boone County Railroad - The Lost Found - The Dead Alive -- Stock Law Election - Columbia and Rock Bridge Gravel Road -The Centennial Year- Evidences of Patriotism - Martha Washington Reception at Colum- bia - Fourth of July at Ashland - Census of Boone County of 1876 -Election to Refund County Bonds - A Temperance. Wave - The Blue Ribbon Movement - Missouri State Grange - State Convention of Colored Teachers - Fire in Columbia - Missouri Medi- cal and Press Associations - Grand Lodge of Good Templars-Death of President Gar- field - Public Honors Paid to His Memory -Sad Accident on Thanksgiving Day.
ELECTION RETURNS FROM 1870 TO 1882.
* Those thus marked were elected.
ELECTION FOR GOVERNOR, 1870.
*B. Gratz Brown (Liberal) ... 1,393
Joseph W. McClurg (Republican). 667
Brown's majority over McClurg.
726
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
No. 1-Abolishing District Courts :
Yeas 2,063
22
Nays
Majority 2,041
No. 2-Abolishing oath of loyalty for jurors :
Yeas. 1,994
Nays ..
98
Majority. 1,896
No. 3 .- Abolishing double liability of stock- holders in private corporations :
Yeas. 2,023
55
Nays.
Majority. 1,968
No. 4 .- Abolishing oath of loyalty for voters :
Yeas. 1,951
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Majority. ... 1,823
No. 5. - Abolishing certain disqualifications to hold office on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and on account of former acts of disloyalty :
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