New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-17
SCENES IN THE KANSAS ELEC TIOy.

Kansas by the slave-5rivins hordes Of Missouri,
becomss more and more trsnsp.rently Infamous
a. ea-b Lew development Of its details CO nes -
view. We compile from various sources ,till fur
Their illustrations of tho beauties Of ,qlsster
sovfreisbty, sbd OF the sOunsBe.. oSths opinion.
OF Mr Everett Senator Badger and other DIS
tiDguishet persons that Kansas hsi no chance OF
being slsve State. The testimony which these
icepes bear 20 the character of ts.t Nir,her1
trescbery prscti,ed by Pierce D5us.as, Toucey
& Co in tie ps'ssgs Of the N-,rs.sa bill. is 80
cOLciusive I'D dambiug a. to require no word Of
comment. We extract from The Herald Of Free
dom:
TBE VoTisG AT L,wREycy.-fn this District
vtre the late repor, indicate but 800 voters
TIE election shows there wers l 039 votes pOlsd
reG three times as great a number iegitini ely
teoi geo here. and YET s'ge number OF oar actual
residents aud particularly hoe from A distance, lid
LOT exercise their right 10 the elective frslchise
they found they could not 30 without .ndangsri1g
their live. The Free-Stare strength this Dutricf
r idl five 10 one, and yet the Pr0S.aYery tcze. hes
d uejori'y of ncIe than three W oDs
Mr.. Edwin Bond. VINO went to vote in the mornic
h,cibly tj.c,ed r. rom the ground and parsued by
angry cIosd to the bank OF the river Nth curses
and tbres'eniugs of destruc,iop aad compelled 90
jump down tie deciivity. when revolver gas dis
chssged a, hin, AID hail narrowly escaped his I'D.
HersI along TIE beach aDd nslly capped unscathed.
NO7ERs ARMED We Tepered 70 the polls about
10 O'Clock ia the morning, but retired the sssur-
arc. OF numerous frencs inst were in great per.
sOp doDger thinkog best TO defer rights An
eector "a later period in the day when il bopoi
better orcer wouid preva At about o clock We
hgsn visited the polls, and discharged duties
freeman Without moeraiion. II WA the first time
ever appeared at the bGiOt-hOx with an instrlnen
Of oeftrse, aid tust il will be the last tine will
he de+med nece-s.ry TO be cassded with retnue of
Fields, eacn provided with bowie knives and re-
yOveTs, besides having several Of the latter instrl-
epis about our own person really for Immediate
TIE VOTISG At TYcUMsYH After it s'isfac-
trily asCertsiued that the number Of parsons in
Yorte1 into Lawrence, from Missouri grestsr
tnan the occasion demanded, a company OF 200 vas
detached ron ;he main body and took up their line
o. march for Tscu n%eh, With the view Of overb1l-
oDciDg TIE large number Of free voters IN that Dis
trot, EejOriy Of whom are located At T0peks.
They siIived at their destination in time 10 psr.ic
pate IN the aud there prsctced upnn the O,o;-b,I.
When they hsd accomplished tie object Of 'bsir mls
sor, they returned in body to their eDcamp nsnt
near Lawrence, ~here they remained ull Saturday
morning, when they took their fua departure for
Missouri
Mr. Burgess, one of the judges appointed by
the Governor was violeotiy threatened; a pistol
~ss three iimes snapped in bis face, a club
foOrsbed over hs head till finally he was com
PEELED 10 proclaim the election adjourned.
The mob then selected new Bond with two
drunken Secretaries who took posss sson of the bal.
lot btx and allowed 40 person to spprosch it unless
be MSS right on tho Goose question "A slang
phrase Used among the Missourisns, Implying they
ID favor Of extending the Institution OF Slavery
ever kaosas.
No questions we're asked the vo,er IA to his citi-
7enabip or place Of residence no oath was admins
tsreG, other test reauired, save an assurance Of
support 10 ths Pro ST. very ticket
Ant ged gentleman. who felt disposed 10 exercise
the privileges eopferr d upon him by the laws and
CoDsiii utiOD, apprOscbei the ballot box, whsn he
wss offered Pro slavery vote. Hs remsrkei that
he old 40, vote that ticset. when knocked
Of HE lat, another clfed him, while a third applied
the boot and forced hin from the ground, threaten
ing TO put d bullet through him unless he left IN.
sf0ner.
The friends OF Freedom finding Themselves borne
By the inv sdes quietly retired from tue polls
and We are assured No Freo-Stste votes other thaa
three or four cast IN that strict though that
party was largely IA fbe majority; whle the Pro-
S'6y ery marsudsrs from Missouri poiled between four
and Fl sc hundred,
The is.s census re;,us showed that thus far ersry
Lection Ds.rtctR TIE Ier,Hury Sas settled by sisse
majority If voters from the FIRES states. and tnA,
eti Ia the ordinary II things, the Lea-lstve
Assembly Of the Territory would Dc n unit upon the
suf tC o! humap nights
PROCEEDINGS AT LEAyESwORTH A CORE
spoudent Of THE TRIBUNE i-0d US the following
under date Of March 80:
II is usw o'clock in the morning OF the election.
For this whole night The couctrs round has besn
xoc. with carousing az the nm granite sent ners by
toe Pho SLAVERY Immigrant Aid Society ana the
having OF our cOzs answering H. iheif howug. not
the camp OF the arch fent when lie made war on
Heaven, could present more ho1rit picture OF de-
prayty than has been exhibited IN the WOODS within
sbo,t distsace of my resdence during the lat NO
dsys Last pis ht seventy five we're ehcamped 81 one
place within half mile hundred at another,
within . miller three hundred at ansther, within
miles; three huodreo st another within p miles
sld band of fifty rithin Of nie. Beside these
pangs there are NOS :sons FIVE or six hundred -n-
csmpea on the east side of the who Sil be over
IS soon A. the bos's CARY them with barrels of
vbiky accompanying
| There are also about hundred persons in
| house owned by DR.. Mills, of the u ). A., sbcat one
mile west of this TOW D. all of whom came from one
| counfy-on. hundred miles ostant from this psca.
| r S-MaIcb 81 The true vote Of tns pa re would
be about 25O Free to i75 Slave. As declared II WAS
s99 60 G0-he rest " cur voters having been fright
ered or driven from tbs polls