The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-25
KANSAS AFFAIRS.

The Leavenworth City Herald OF the 18th instant gives
the details of late nereences by citizens of Missouri in
local election which held locate the seat of justice
Of Leavenworh county. Without going into the details
we extract the following from the Jeavenworh Herald, as
showing the Of proceeding in the election alluded
to:
On Monday the election for locating the county seat
of county took place in accordance with the
law. Polls opened at this place, kckapoo, Delaware
Wyandot Alexandria, and Summerville. There four
contendng pontsLeavenworth city, Kckapoo, Delaware,
and CQntrevlle. 1t purely local question:, which
belonged exclusively the citizens of the county settle
and the place receiving the highest number of Of the
habans Of the county for the county seat should decide
it must, the question, and give satisfaction to all.
To say that the inhabitants residents Of eavenworh
county shall govern in local election, but that
citizens of Missouri have right to come in and vote and
thereby dictate not only where county seat shall
be- but in business shall be transacted is
say the least unworthy the character of free people
That Msourians have in and voted at this election
used extraordinary to control the result does not
admit doubt In proof of which let submit few facts
to candid public and let them Judge of the consequences
that result from such To say nothing of the
injustice and niquity Of the proceeding it is striking fatal
stab great interests Of the prosayey Of Kansas
and those in Missouri whose interest that question is
identical with that of ours"
is matter of surprise to that the people of Missouri
do not see that such proceedings the Herald here
their wishes and interests in Kansas The Herald is not
an abolition Journal Of those which have been loud
in denouncng the Mssourans 1t is not to be disguised
that whilst the sentiment of the southern people has been
in sympathy with the prosavery party in Kansas it has
never justified the resort to force and violence which has
been charged upon the border Mssourans II has seen,
in the provocation offered by the New England abolition
Emgrant Company palIiaon for their interference but
not justification But it requires superior knowledge
Of the Of justice and moderation which tho
public sentiment Of the South oresee that such interior
ences as the Herald now describes will produce Revision
even in the South which will result in exngushug the
sympathy that now exists in that section with the pro-
slavery party in Kansas.
The South claims superiority the Northi'
ang and less liable to extreme exhibitions of popular
feeling; whether this claim well founded not ii must
be conceded that whilst the North has been stirred up
fearful commoton the Kansas affairs, the South bias
been calm unmoved, but by Indifferent to the
scenes that Territory Whilst the people have been free
TO avow their sympathy with that party which has mani
tested regard southern rights and institutions, they
have not chosen become the advocates but most the
apoogists Of the Mssourans who stand charged with
forcibe interference But when this mode of interfering
resorted to in regard to local questions like the choosing
Of the site of town. cannot be expected that such inter
ference win find sympathy much less Justification any
where so far from it, the inevitable result viii be fatal
questions in which the South has an interest