The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-11-03
From tn, Kansas Free State. Oct. %.

SlGSs OF THE TMEs.-One Of the best ev
licences of the utter hopelessness of Shannon
and his party, is the refusal to publish the
returns Of the rufian election, or to tell any
one what they are. Men must be sunk into
the lowest depths of political degradation
and despair, when they resort to such vile
expedients as this to tantalize their oppo
nents, though some say that it is for a more
base purpose than this. That the design is
TO wait until they have the result for Reeder,
then make their vote correspond, knowing
that as returned, it is considerably less than
Reeder's. This, however, would be very
high handed game, and one they cannot sue
cessfully play.
We learn from good authority from Mis-
souri,, that the leading pro-slavery men have
given the contest up as bad job, also that
Gov. Shannon was at a great loss 10 know
what course to pursue. We will bet high,
that shannon, if he will tell the truth, must
admit that he has been the most deluded man,
as we said before, that has ever set foot on
Kansas soil How miserable must he feel,
after coming here and clustering so loudly
in behalf of the pro slavery party, and actu-
ally voting for Whitfield, when he finds that
Whitfeld's legal vote in the whole Territory,
is not over 500, and that Of Gov. Reeder is
NO. lt1S tiul osupb. " ihi % ihinti hbAN 49,
dition has he got into? Truly
'Old politicians chew on ,cisaom's past
And totter on in biunders TO the last
Everything at present indicates the advent
of political day, and the liberties of the peo
pie. Never was there more brilliant peri
Cd in our history. The Free State Party has
settled into that cool and calculating deter
minaton to demand the one thing, which
strikes terror to the hearts of tyrants, fren-
zes the mind, and palsies the hand that
would dare moveeagainst the liberties of the
people of Kansas. What four thousand
men engaged in lust cause. who have had
''wrongs that would stir n fever in the blood
Of are and make the infant sinew strong as
steel" talk about coercing such men. Our
ancestors thought that 100000 Americans
could withstand all Europe, 10 avoid paving
a small tax on tea. Does any one suppose
that the Free State Party in view of the mon
stroslty of the crimes that have been perpet-
rated upon can do anything else IN yndi-
cation Of the course they have adopted, but
to prosecute il to IA successful issue, or sac
rifce their all in the attempt, as the Spartan
bands did at Thermopyla?
The Anti Nebraska ticket has not been so
successful in the States as we would be pleas
ed to see it, but it makes no manner of diff
ference what kind of a Congress we have
next winter, whether it be Republican, Know
Nothing or Democratic, slavery or Pro-
Slavery, one thing is certain, they must adj
NIT Kansas as IA Free State, or we shall guar
antee more intense excitement, throughout
the Union, than has ever existed yet, since
the foundation Of the Republic, as not less
than two-thirds of the best citizens Of Kan
sas have determined to demand the one thing
and tho one thing only, that is that Kansas
be admitted rs /. Free State this winter, and
NJ earthly power dare refuse that demand
with impunity.