Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-12-14
Matters in Il aUSaS

f. d. LADD, formerly of Milwaukee,
writes as follows to the Milwaukee SEN
tinel, with reference to the recent cleo
ton in Kansas, and other matters of in
terest:
The blissourians came up in force, on
horseback and in wagons, the day pre-
ceding the election and made no secret
of their residences in No, or their object
to vote at the election. They were per-
mitted to vote without question, chal-
lenge not being permitted, one of the
Judges of election even using the follow
ing language, as near as | can repeat it
as told me. Don't let id Yankee
Abolitionist vote, but he offers to. knock
hm down, kill him and throw him into
the Kansas River"
In the district south of this it is repor-
ted by Methodist Clergyman who came
from there yesterday. that there were
500 MissouTlanS there voting, and SINH
lar reports come in from other districts.
Steps are being taken to contest the vote
Of the Douglass district, and tomorrow
the sano will be done in reference to
others.
There is no doubt but that Whitfield.
the pro-slayery candidate. would have
been elected over the rival Free Soil and
Anti-Slayery candidates, had there been
no importation Of foreign voters but |
apprehcnd they have, as in the Nebraska
bill uyerreached themselves, and promo
ted the very object they wished to de
feat. If the returns Of the Illegally vot
ing districts are rejected it will elect
Wakefield beyond doubt. as those dis
trictS were strongly pro-slavery without
said vote. On the other hand if a new
election is ordered. think you may re-
" upon the Auti-Slavery vote being uni
ted upon one man. which will insure his
election. BE the result as it may, there
is strong Anti-Slayery majority in the
Territory, and this colonization by Atch-
is0n Snd his friends proves that they know
il too. | need not say colonization, as
their long professions Of horsemen and
Of loaded wagons did not hesitate to say
that they lived in Missouri, and that their
business was to vote. The following was
answered, in words or in effect by mum
beers Of them while passing up the coun-
try, to the inquiry as TO the rigitfulacsS
or propricty of their so doing in viola
ton Of law. by Cd, sir, our inter-
ests are at stake in the vote of this Ter
ritory. and We have a better rie Int to vote
here than the id Yankee Abolitionists
from the North"
Yesterday the first blood was shed by
violence in this vicinity. \ man. who
had been very violent at the polls, threat
cning the life Of one Of the judges. under
the influence Ofliquor which was brought
on to the ground in barrel on a wagon
by company of MissourianS, was shot
IN the breast with buck shot, eight shot
having entered his body, while on his
wac home on foot, by man in company
with several others, in a wagon, also re-
turning home from election. At is re-
ported to-day that the man who did the
deed lives about Is miles south Of here,
that he says he did it in self defense to
save himself from the knife Of his assail-
ant. aud that he is ready to deliver him
self up TO q legal officer, but he is afraid
OF the Missuurians who have threatened
to lynch him If found.
Another act of violence was also com
mitted in our city yesterday. DR.. boy
shot a man in the calf Of the leg, as he
says in self defense, the man threatening
his life with an axe. The DR.. is now I'M
der arrest, and will have his examination
tomorrow morning.