Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-14

The KANZAs ELECTION.-The KanZas cleo
ton, it is now no longer doubtful, was carried
for the pro-slavery candidate by the infamous
Atchison sortie, thousands of Missourians
passing over the line and voting, under the
instigation of that honorable Senator, who said
that the Missourians had as good right to
vote there as the squatter sovereigns from New
England. Gov. Reeder had divided the ter
ritory into sixteen election districts and APP
pointed three poll Judges in each district, who
were required to make and subscribe pre-
scribed form of oath, binding them to make a
true list of all voters and to permit no person
to vote who was not an &c actual and bona tide
resident and lnhabitant of the territory on the
day of election, and to reject the votes of all
and every nonresident having come into the
territory for the mere purpose Of voting"
How little protection against fraudulent vot-
ing was afforded by these provisions is evident
from the result. At the settlement called
Douglas, near Lawrence, there were but 81
legal voters, but the judges returned 283 votes
for Whitfield and 36 for all Others. The Mis-
sourians had full possession of the polls. The
Parkville, Mo-, Luminary, on the day before
the election, declared that immense crowds of
Missourians had within two OF three days,
been going over into Kanzas territory, to the
number of three or four thousand The GIas-
gov Times, an Atchison paper, said Zone
hundred persons left Saline county for Kanzas
in time to look after the election of delegate
to Congress Thus have the actual settlers
of Kanzas been voted down. Great is "popu-
lar sovereignty
At Lawrence City, Judge Wakefield, Free
Soil, received 1873 votes Judge Flennken,
T" the Governors candidate" 81 Whitfield,
pro slavery, 45; DR.. Chapman, pro slavery,
8; DR.. Robinson, the Mayor, Gen. Pome-
roy, q VIM. l.. Garrison, l. There seems
not to have been good understanding or
much concert of action among the Free Soil
voters. DIR. Robinson's influence and vote
were given for Flenniken, much to the dis
satisfaction of most of the New England set.
tiers. Flenniken is represented to be an Ad-
ministration Democrat, sustaining the Doug.
las doctrine of popular sovereignty, but OPP
posed to the establishment of Slavery in Kan
zas.
Gen. J. w. Whitfield, the Kanzas delegate
elect, is native of Tennessee has been in the
Legislature of that State commanded Ten
nessee regiment in the Mexican war; holds
under President Pierce, the office of Indian
Agent in Kanzas, and is represented to be en-
ergetic, persevering, INSCRIPTIONS in politics,
bunker of hunkers, and therefore pre- emf
nently fitted to subserve the Douglas scheme,
and secure the establishment of slavery in
this beautiful territory. Springfield Republic
can.
The same statements as the above are reit-
Grated at length in the correspondence of tho
N. Y. Tribune. One writer, who says he was
born and raised at the South, being present at
the election, says he bushes for the honor of
the country and its institutions, to think that
such scenes should be tolerated; and he pre-.
diets that the unjust, illiberal, and outrageous
conduct of the Missourians. will have ten
dency to arouse feeling all over the country
against them, and produce results they little
dream of. A correspondent writing from Law
renee, says that multitudes poured over the
lines, and extended themselves on the differ
ent routes over the Territory, to the various
election precincts, or, at least 10 those in
which they would be allowed to vote.