The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-12-30
FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER %. 1854
Kansas in Congress.

We, as we'll as every opponent of the exten
sion of Slavery into Free Territory, must fee
reJoiced to know, that the anti Nebraska mem
bers of Congress have already given the com
pact-breakers fair warning, that the sentiments
OF the Free North as expressed at the ballot
box in the recent elections, are to be carried
out by action, and by voting on the floors Of
the Senate and the House. The contest has
already commenced in the House, and the re-
pudiatcd adherents to the Nebraska and Kan
s1sbill of the last session are told in no I'M
meaning language, that the contest on that
floor is for the restoration of the Missouri Com
promise. That, and nothing else, is what the
people of the north meant when they reelected
Campbell and other faithful champions of
p:ighted National faith by thousands of ma
JorIties, and with equal decision repudiated
those who had betrayed the sacred trust re-
posed in them by too credulous constituency.
Mr.. Stephens, Of Georgia, has been trying
hard in speech in the House, to prove that
the Nebraska question had nothing to do with
the result Of the late Congressional elections
in the Northern and Western States II he
should happen to be member of the next
Congress. perhaps he will have an opportuni
ty of undeceiving himself by the observation of
practical results. He has been promptly and
boldly met in his sOphistical absurGitics by
Campbell. the Maine and Illinois Washburnes,
Mace and other members who go back with
large endorsements from their fellow-citizens.
Mr.. Oliver, of Missouri, undertook to show
that Senator Atchison had not interfered in
the late Kansas election. He was simply
laughed at by even a large number of members
who go with him for extending Slavery in
to Free Territory. By the way, we have
letter from one of our st. Paul emf grants to
Kansas, from which, in this connection,we will
make an extract. 1t has been some length Of
time in reaching us, but the facts are not i'm
paired thereby:
''Our election is over. and resulted in the
return of Gen. J. W. Whitfield, the proslavery
candidate, by nearly two thousand majority.
There were four candidates in the feld-Gen.
J. ". Whitfield, pro-slavery, had 1900 votes
Judge Flenneken, formerly Minister Plenipo-
Tertiary to Denmark, administration candi-
date) anti slavery, $40 Judge John A. Wake
field, e author of the Black Hawk War and two
unpublished novels of great intcresto also anti
slavery, 200 and something J. b. Chapman,
neutral. about 100 votes. There are probably
near one thousand legal votes in the Territory.
The majority are in favor of a free State. The
Missourians are determined to force slavery
upon us, and will do SO, unless the Government
interferes and assists us in keeping them from
the polls. have been in almost every district,
and have no doubt but three-fourth of the le-
gal voters are in favor of free State. The
district above US know has not over 40 legal
votes, but 1t returned near 800. The Nilsson
rians not only came over by hundreds, but by
thousands. saw a company of over one hun
dred on their way to the polls. Two men were
shot on the day Of election-one killed and the
other slightly NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. not
known. News has just come that the Indians
have robbed the mail coming in from Fort La
rarpia and Eillad oil tho r,op