Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-28


been returned by the vote of Missourians, who,
to the number of two thousand, crossed over
INTO AanZas, took possession, in some in
stances, of the polls, and deprived the resi-
dents of their rights of suffrage, and over
whelmed the legal voters.
The vote, as it has been officially declared,
is reported to be as follows:
J. w. Whitfield, pro-slavery, 225S
J. A. Wakefield, anti-slavery, 24S
r. p. Flenniken, $3.50, sos
J. B. Chapman, 16
Scattering, 6
Total, 1888
When it is known that of the 1888 votes re-
turned, less than nine bundled were cast by
citizens Of Kanzas, and that of the 2258, pur-
porting to have been cast for Whitfield, hard
ly two hundred and fifty are presumed to
have been legal, it will at once be seen what
gigantic and wicked crime against popular
liberty has just been enacted in the name of
popular sovereignty. Although the legal
voters of kanzas who favor freedom were di-
7ided at this election, it is nearly certain that
both of their candidates received more votes
than were legally cast for Gen. Whitfield.
And yet, in the face Of these facts, we find the
organs of government accepting this result as
a triumph OF the principles of the Nebraska
bill What confession more damning could
be asked, of the mfamy of that measure, than
an outrage so atrocious as that which has just
been enacted on the virgin soil of Kanzas,
where her own people have been defrauded
aud overpowered by imported voters, and
where slavery has, for the time, triumphed in
its successful preparation
LAWRENCE, Kanzas Territory, }
December 8, 1854.
Messrs. Editors, Our election of Delegate
to Congress has come and gone, and a man
From Missouri, by the name of Whitfield has
started for Washington, with certificate of
election from the Governor. Over 1900 votes
were returned for him, while about 600 were
given for all others. About 500 of all the
votes cast were by persons residing in the
Territory, and the remaining 1000 by citizens
Of Missouri.
Gen. Whitfield declared, before election,
that he would take with him, from Missouri
1000 men to elect him and he, for once, told
the truth. Senator Atchison, of Mo-, told
the young men and the Shareholders of his
State to go over and vote in Kanzas, and they
obeyed him. The result is, that citizen Of
Missouri has been elected by citizens of that
State, to represent the interests of this Terri.
tory in Congress.
Several days before election, the Missouri.
ans were seen in gangs of hundreds, on their
way to certain precincts of the Territory,
where it was well understood beforehand,
that any one might vote without challenge.
Precincts in which not twenty citizens could
be found, three days before or after the cleo
ton, returned several hundred votes for Whit
field. In some places the votes were examin-
ed i'll the hands Of the voters, and if not for
Whitfield, were not allowed to be deposited
III the ballot box. In other places, the Mis-
sourans formed line about the polls, and al
lowed no one to approach the box, who was
not OF the right stamp; and in others, still,
threats were used against the life of any per-
son who should attempt to challenge the vote
of any man from Missouri. Even at Law
renee, gang Of men appeared with rifles and
other weapons, evidently intending, if they
dared, to interfere with the voting. They,
however, concluded that discretion was the
better part of valor, and after making an ex-
hibitlon of their bcasty drunkenness, and
other traits peculiar to things of their stripe,
they went away. Before reaching their homes
they managed to get up quarrel, i'll which
one of their number was killed. The day at
ter election, Il gang of Missourians, OH their
way home to the State, stopped at house, on
the Santa Fe road, and in the absence of the
husband, commenced abusing the landady
and her child. One of the chivalry took
rifle belonging to the family, and broke it up
on tree near the house, and then present.
ing his pistol at the breast of the mother,
time Threatening bor i;fa If sbe ref,,seJ Az
tor,yords bo ,,ro,o,tad ~, 80 -. 49, -, -
of her child, and followed it about for some
time, threatening all the while to kill both it
and the mother, if she interfered.
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for soroo rafrosh,olt ottoiIod ~ .ioueo
and was i,nmed;otol,r sbot i, ~ ~ NJ.
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