New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-28

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rectIy from Missouri for the occasion. Nobody ques
ions IT, nobody doubts IT, The free expression OF toe
will Of the people is fremped under foot, and the
principle Of even the popular soyereisnty OF Doug,
lac and Whitfield SET at defiance by the latter through
his ouscrupulous tools in Missouri.
Gov. Eeeder, on the 5;h inst gave TO Whitfield his
certificate Of election, after several days delay aud
persistent refusal ard he started that evening for
Washington. What moral force such a mau, so
elected, and returned, can exert IN Washingon-lI
me- an i'll Congress not in the saloons where ne is per-
fectly at home) he will probably ascertain after he
gets there.
paIcts made use Of particularly in District No 2, at
Douglas, where ore Of the judges ADVISED II any
I'D Yankee" should offer 70 vote, he should be
Knocked down, killed, and thrown into the Kansas;
ard where also one Of them tore up at least one of
the Wakefield tickets, saying as be did so that II was
rotten and supplied lie place with Whitfield ticket.
Gov Reeder said that at TT. LeavenwoIth the Whit
6eldes formed line, arm in arm around the polls
and every offered was inspected and If right it
was passed over 10 the box If not, II was not per
nitteo TO pass. We are also Informed by other
authority that it currently reported there, and be-
Ieved that Wakefield had withdrawn from the can
ysss This explains the fact of his not receiving a
vote there, and this is probably true also OF other
districts
In the District including the Kickapoo Indians
two barrels of Whitfield whisky were rolled out for
rratuitous use gun fired over the heads of the
judges the Indians were made drunk and melted to
an attack on the JUDGES, who escaped with the ballot
boz cut OF back door. A man who claimed TO be
Free State man. but acknowledged he voted Whit
6eld ticket in District No. 7, because 1--WE were
"schoo. mates together and what else could do y
told me he saw hundreds of Mssourans there, armed
with pistols who voted the Whitfield ticket. In that
District II legal votes do not exceed $50, yet there
were over COO votes cast
In tie lid Diltrct there 81 legal voters, and
zee cast. Even IN our quiet peaceable city. 40
Whitfield votes casi by outsiders in the district,
Who came together, most of them, at least, armed
with guns a.ound barrel Of whisky mounted on a
vseon. They tried on several occasions to provoke
aQGsIIe with US so as to give opportunity TO seize
upon the balio'.box, IL possible and destroy IT, This
they hsd threatened beforehand TO do. Twice they
MADE systematic attack upon US, in various ways,
by abuse, challenges, &c, without effect, when
Of them, Henry Davs, called them TO the whisky
barrel again, saying: "One more drink all round,
boys, and We shel get up fuss They tried
again and again failed. On one occasion, Davis
commenced furious attack, with al2ave epithets
and the most foul and profane Language on me, one
Of the Judges Of Election, ostensibly we had
required hiD 20 IN his vote, old every
not personal known 10 come one or more of the
Bosid, threatening 10 break down the door Of the
room, snG many other very violent things, and TO
shoot me in my place and those outside thought he
went 10 biz fit nds and provided himself with pistol
But paying no attention to their attempts their fury
finally exhausted ITSELF and about the middle Of the
afternoon Davis left saying he should 20 home as he
could not get up fuss With the id Yankees
j am thus particular, because consider this as a
part only OF grand pefaIious scheme to carry this
election for Whitfield and proSavery at all hazards.
They knew they could not deposit t1er illegal votes
in ballot box, and go they determined 10 destroy
il, and thus apparently secure majority in almost
every District in the Teritory-at least they would
destroy the poll Of the central Ant-Slavery feeling
and influence.
But poor Davis did not 90 home. On his way, he
succeeded in "gettng up fuss with man, from
Iowa, who also going TO his home, some sixteen
miles touth Of here, on whom he maie a desperate
attack with large knife, ana by whom he was shot,
IN self-defeIee, with pistol charged with buckshot,
in his breast and he was carried TO his home corpse
l spoke Of this case in my last letter. kibber, the
man who shot him, was examined before Associate
Jude Gilmore, Of the Territory, on the 9Th inst and
committed for trial for murder. This decision of the
Judge received with surprise, and so far ~ l.,
who was present, heard, with universal disapproval.
But suppose il is all necessary to secure one great
object. Davis was southern pro Slavery man. aud
Kibber a northern Anti. Slavery man. Had he been
liberated, il is believed he would have been lynched
or assassiDated, sooner iater-probsbly before he
arrived hone-though there were fifteen or twenty OF
hs friends present, well armed, to protect him.
Permit me here 10 relate an anecdote, although
never possessed the faculty of making even good
one interesting. Two lawyers, Of Wesipoft, No.,
feed by citizens of that place TO attend this ex-
amin alton and volunteer their assistance TO the Attor
ney General the part of the people, one of whom,
Hutchinson, of Westport, was 10 close the summing
up. He arose gracefully and magsterialy, and com
neDced somewhat as follows: May II please the
court, agree with the counsel for the prisoner
"porant, Sir, for various reasons raising his voice
and bis form. The whole country, Sir is interested;
both North and South, Sir, are locking TO this Ter
ritery with anxious eyes, watching every move
"ment and being settled, Sir, ~ il is, by men from
"both the North and South, in almos; mortal COM
"bat-" aud never did eagle in the piide Of his
srept tn ard daring, expand his pidions ana wing his
lofty light away from earth toward the regions OF the
sun, more proudly and with more consciousness OF
power. than did Mr.. Hutchinson of Westport, Mo.
raise himself to his full stature extend and elevate his
arms, raise his voice to the appropriate key and ap
parenily lose himself entirely in tue immensely and
importance OF bis suotct.
The cestinies Of the Union and of the world and
more tspt eialy of the Soath, were al stake trem.
bling in the balance and the decision OF this case for
or against the AMI. Slavery prisoner at the bar, was
marx sman more suddenly 6roop the wing, pNalyze
the powers put out the fire OF the blazing eye, snd
bring down the eagle from his etheiiai hight TO the
Rross material earth, than did the exclamation OF
Judge ElmoIe, az this moment in his commanding
voice, That is not in the record, Mr. Hutchinson
cause the appraised form 10 droop the arms TO fall by
his ride the TO seek the floor. the knees 10 trem
BILE, and Il face 10 be sufused with shame and COZ
fusion, Of Mr.. Hutchinson Of Wespori Mo-, the feed
lawyer who undertook to make pro.slavefy speech,
and produce an agitation this subject; the a.
zion Of the e1a0instion Of man charged wiki homi.
eide. After somewhat extended pause he s,smmerei
ont, presume--your Honor-itis not-necessary-
"for into argue this question-fur,her-so sub
init the case'-ard Mr.. Hutchinson, Of WestDort
Mo, took hls feat AMID the Unsurpassed tiHerlngs
and profound scorn and con'eDp. OF those present.
Whitfield and his associates have determined upon
the course TO be taken in reference this Terri
tory and the question Of Slavery in H. The Governor
must have the census taken Immediately preparatory
to the disfrotipg Of the territory for the election OF
Legislature; and in this, understand the Governor
comedies Then the elections must be- Immediately
held say in Mach at the fartbes as Whitfield says
"the sooner the better" reference 10 the time of
booipg the elections, 1 understand the Governor is
not decided. He says he canDo, put it of until the
opening of nssisat for that reason of be
cannot but am AFRAID he will be forced into yielding
70 he demands Of the save power. believe hin 10