Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-04-10

- Kansas ElectIsn--1he Way IL was Desc.
A census was taken Of Kansas, . short
time since, which showed population
of six thousand, Of which twenty-five nun
bred were voters. Inst fall, on TIM 18th No.
vember, there was an election for delegate 90
Congress, and 2,258 votes were cast Tor
Whitfield, the pro. slavery candidate, and
500 for others. This showed the fraud and
violence which marked that contest-for III.
ter the lapse Of two months il is ascertained
that the whole number OF voters in the Ter
ritory is 900 less than the vote cast for Gen.
Whitfield.
Another election has now been held, which
displays fraud on more extensive scale. a
portion Of the returns have been received,
from which it appears that the pro, slavery
ticket has succeed in Lawrence, IT'S % go;
Tscumseh, 266 to "a; Douglas, 23O TO 6 !;
Doniphan, 800 to Is; Shawnee Mission, ~
to Is; Leayenworth, S99 to co; Hickory
Point, o88 to 6. Here is an aggregate OF
1888 votes in . part Of the territory only,
or about 1000 moro than the census takers
found in the whole territory month and =
half ago. This Wholesale fraud was \ pre-
msditated ons-ths result of systematic ef-
fort on the part of the slavery leaders in
Missouri, for dispatch from Preston, MIS-
sour, of the 23d ult., Zone Ssak before the
election. \ states that ten thousand Missod-
rians hal gone into tho territory to vote for
slavery. The las. received Kansas Herald of
Freedom notices the encarnpmsnt in tents
and wagons Of one hundred Mssourlans on
the banks of the Wakarusa, waiting the
opening Of the polls, and says that SIMILAR
! prepara ions to debauch the election had
been made at o. her election p ecinc 5.
A dispatch from Ind pendenc., dated on
the 3lSt ult., shows that these arrangements
for sitting the voice Of the people Of tn.
territories bv fraud and .olsnoc, have been
fully carried out. II saws:
Several hun lred returning emigrants from
Kansas have just entered our city. They
were preceded by the Westport and lndepen-
dence brass ban 5. They came in II tn
vest side Of the public square, and rocesd-
cd entirely around it, the bands cheering US
with fine music, and the emigrants with good
news Immediately following the bands,
were about 200 horsemen in regular ord r
following these we're $50 Wagons, carriages.
&c. They gave repea,ed cheers for k"nsal
AMI Missouri. TIL report that not an anti
slavery man will b. in the Legislature Of
Kansas. We have male a clean swe p ?
Here they are, like SO many devils, howl
ing over the PROSTATE and bleedi & form o.
II lberty-ovsr the destruction Of the deares
rights Of American freem of the j hit o
self government. We agree with the A. OF
Courier that the above paragr rph is highl.
sign ficant. Several hundred returning pro
s.lv"ry emiganls the day after the election
2OD on hors back and $50 wagons AMI Car
riag ., load d with perjured men, procl i'm
ing, sswt have mad, clean sw ep." Hal
pa riat,c squ,tter sovere,gns The Arlbs o
the desert have been put to shame, as dspre
dators on the rights of man by your impiou
defiance If the laws VIII ch govern enllgh en-
ed freem n. They gave repeat cheers TO
kans and Missouri, did they? Pr baby
cilz n OF Missouri. is u bon Fl lie CIT z n o
Kansas. The lsgu aors of the past, W.T.
they living now. might W IN proprietv hold u
tn ir heals md ella IN to be virtuous, law
ab ding citizens, in COMPARISON it'll tn .
Missouri cru .aders ag nst hum'n rights
fire, dom and lsw.-[Ch Gag, Democrat.