In March 1855 at a Kansas election, 6,000 Southerners dropped by from Missouri to stuff ballot boxes. They had no right to vote, but they voted anyway, waving pistols to "prove their rights."
Only 2,000 Kansas settlers voted, so the winning legislators lived mostly in Missouri and favored slavery, which genial President Franklin Pierce, a Democrat, did not, but he recognized those Missouri ruffians anyway.
Scholars often list Pierce as one of our worst presidents--along with Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush.
Coming soon
in Thieves, Rascals & Sore Losers: A Saucy History of a Nebraska County Seat War by Marilyn June Coffey
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