The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-06
The Late Election.

recent election Of Delegate to Congress
from this Territory. lii our eastern ex-
changes, We feel that a statement of facts
Is due them, that they may put the matter
right before the pubic and yet we find
it impossible, at the present moment, to
get hold of such statistical information
as is desired.
Many members of the press are dispos
ed 70 receive the election of Mr.. Whitfield
the Missouri candidate-as evidence
that the pro-slayery party in the Territory
are in the ascendant They find him re-
eei,ing majority of the votes east at
that election and without going behind
the record to learn the facts. receive it as
eonclusiyeeyidenee, whenatruthful state
ment of the circumstances warrants no
such conclusion.
There were seye:al candidates in the
field, all independent ones, save Mr.
WHITFIELD, who, it is said, was nomina-
ted at convention of Missourians held
in Platte county, Mo. Mr.. FLESSIkEN
was said to be anadministration caudida.e
He was formerly from Pennsylvania but
at the time of the election resided at Lcav-
enworth. Heexpresscdliimsclf through
cut the canvass as i'll favor of making
Kansas afree STATE hence received many
Freesoil votes. Mr.. WAKEFIELD resided
in the vicinity Of Lawrence, was west
ern man, and has been formerly iicn:i-
fed with the Freesoil party.
So Ear as the legal voters of the Terri
tory were concerned there was no unity
Of action whatever. I'm fact, the brief
period allowed after the proclamation for
an election was issued to the day of cleo
ton, preehded the possibility of concerted
arrangement on the part of the people of
the Territory. Not SO. however, with
tho naopLa of Missouri Tn. ipr th,, lllsl,i-
y. n-
ees VI ''''''vo' a Aio'''o' N'f ''s '.'
ident OF the United States, they succeeded
in forming secret society, the object OF
which was to send voters into the new
- e a.. c.. :, s.,a.;o,,
'-''' .'"'
-huhioefs 'ooserf'ae the P'puiaf viii aiio
elect their candidate to Congress. The
inception of this movement was Swallowed
forth in a sneeeh of Senator ATc,1sos
d. n ct 6
- - '''e , ~. y" WY
november, anu rePor"u III the ia''e
-iryus, violent pro-slavery paper, an eN-
tract from which reads as follows.:=
,.,.
s5"-.sA, hetal neei'iso.s ss''e u'''. i.is 'hl
s.oi 81 ne'e " u', "'9'h pos',o -, o"""A." ~"
ahead. and to suggest the means to avoid
1t. The people of Kansas, IN their ilrst
eiset,ohs' "oaii oecide sne ques'iUh'
''I'I'I ~ =. :sJos,1.J -, -
zi;v of the votes east a. the polls. Now.
ii set of fanatics and dema3ogues.
thousand miles on, could afford To ad-
.','ee men ni'i'e. as IhI eAc.' e.Ji' 1 nIi,e
the slayebolder when thew have NOT the
least personal interest, what is your duty?
When you reside IN one days journey of
'he iefrl'ofy' ana Whel your l'e'cG' your
f1.e'' "':d o1, Paop; 80 na ta, uo"
t;on send i've hundred of vour voung
men who viii vote in favor of your illsti-
taions. Should each county in the S;:'te
OF Missouri only do lts duty the question
.,,a ~ ILL ~ 49, hoS if MY ,ra dde.,.e5 H. o.
Missouri and the other southern States
will have shown themselves reereant to
their interests ana VIII deserve ''ieir ii''.
That the people of Missouri acted upoa
this advice. and that secret organization,
similar in itsoperations TO the kaow-Noth-
iiigs, was effected, we have indubi'able
proof, were it wanting but it is a fac. that
for two days prior to the election large
bodies of Missourians, in companies of
oaeto three hundred, were passing through
the border towns in Missouri, fiourishiass
their bowie-kaiyes, reyolyers, aud bottles
of whisky, telling that they were going
into the Territory TO put down the ..Abo-
litionists;" and then the fact of their cross
ing the ferries at all the prominent places
along the riyer-the charges being insa-
riably paid BY single indisilual-their
arrival in the Territory, aud 80 far taking
possession of the ballot-box. in some dis
tricss, as to prevent any person from yot
ing, unless known to be in favor of Wmr-
FIELD, else compelled to exhibit lis ticket.
and if not satisfactory, forced away from
,tn,,li. S,oh xo ar, aSSura.i a uaS th,.