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Beauties of the late Kanzas Election.

Beauties of the late Kanzas + Election.
We are Just hnr;r-;-. T., rece;va tho er;-
dences OF the stupendous iniquity by which the
election in Kansas was turned into farce
and balloting changed to mockcrv. A Kan
sas correspondent of the Nep York Times.
writing the next day after the election, saws
" In sober fact, the outrage of last Fall has
been repeated with circumstances of fresh
atrocity. Funds have been raised in Missou-
ri, and men hired by thousands to come over
into the territory and do all the voting -
Three thousand men are said to have been
encamped about Lawrence, and to have voted
without the slightest regard to actual resi-
dence. The same thing, to less extent, has
been practiced everywhere. In the Douglass
precinct, the first Missourian Offering a vote
refused to take the prescribed oath, and the
mob said seriously to the judges, yield u.
up the pol.book and let US select judges of
our own, or we will in five minutes unroof
the house and storm it,. The judges saw
preparations made to do this, and yielded {;
but the poll-book was not to be found. AT
last it was seized in possession Of the Clerk,
and he compelled, under the most solemn
promises fbeing instantly hung if he refused.
to deposit Pro-Slavery vote. Instances are
numerous where candidates have been made,
under penalty of instant death. to vote a Pro-
Slavery ticket-in some cases to make Pro-
Slavery speeches Not the slightest regard
was paid to the legal requirements the
polls were seized and the drunken cohorts
marched up and permitted to vote without
challenge. And so great was the preponder-
ence of numbers that the Free Sellers saw it
was in vain and would be madness to resist
and So in many precincts refused TO share
at all in such shameful mOckprv
o the glory ofthe free elective franchise
1t was thought that an attempt would be
made to make every voter seem resident
but the apprehensions of the fre-eaters were
too great for their discretion 1t is now
openly proclaimed that Missouri piH turn
the balance with her heavy hand. Threats
are made against the Yankees, that in a
civilized land would oblige the makers to
give bonds to keep the peace. II asked
whether they suppose that Gov Reeder can
sanction an election 30 acknowledgedlv fraud
ulent, the reply is, that if he does not, his
life shall pay the forfeit he will never see
his friends again And it is understood
that, at this election, Rev Mr.. johnson has
been balloted for land Of course elected y
for Governor, and that he will grant certif-
Gates, and President Pierce shall remove
Reeder and appoint the choice Of the people =!
Can bravado go further
But though braro .--" reai roA MN, tne
Governor does not fear for himself. His
path Of duty is plain, and, at all the hazards,
he will walk therein. This Jest of an>elec-
ton he will probably disown, and immedi-
ately carry his case to Washington in person,
if, indeed. some drunken desperate does not
fulfill his bloody threat, and add his murder
to the outrages already committed
Other evidence of the brutal natures of
those who controlled the election is found in
the columns of the pro-slavery papers of the
Territory. Witness the following paragraph
from the Kansas Pioneer:
We would not like to see the Governor
dangling in the air, by his neck-he will soon
be dead, dead, dead, without that-merely
because we consider him fair specimen of
Eastern chivalry, and very fair sample Of a
Free Soiler; but if he is an AbolitiOnist at
heart and in action, and would abet in run
ming off darkies into Canada, it might be
well enough to place the moose around his
neck, by way Of experiment, lift were only
TO hear him cough and see him make pretty
faces"
We allow our readers to draw their own
differences from the following correspondence
of the st Louis Republican
d" KANSAS Is BOUND TO DE A SLAVE STATE
Emigration Aid Society to the contrary not
withstanding. We have both the numerical
and moral strength to make it 80 ; and if, by
accident and fraud, we should now be beaten
the geographical, geological and agriculture
character of the country will render it neces-
sarily SO. 1t is suited and adapted only to
slave labor. Hemp will be the chief product
if not the staple Of the country. and all who
have any experience know that in its cultiva-
ton, slave labor is indispensable. And be-
sides, the subjects of the Emigration AID
Society can never get foothold here. 1t
is too expensive for them. Rails and lumber
have to be bought at large price to build
houses and fences with and to break the
virgin soil will require an outlay of from thre,
to four hundred dollars per acre-so that the
equipment and cultivation Of a farm will be
beyond their reach. They have not the
strength nor the system of labor to do menial
work indeed, they are not suited for any
thing, in q country like this. Even theil
appearance is against them. Have you evel
seen any of them Twill draw you a small
picture, which is q correct portrait of then
all. From five feet seven inches to six fee
| high, (or rather of an indefinite height, fol
| they double up and stretch out, to SUIT occa
sion.) sallow complexion, lean and stngy
uspicious-looking, nervous movements, pre-
sumptuous, inquisitiye, cold and hungry
the skirts and sleeves of their coats and tn
legs oftheir pantaloons too short, and thei
whole appearance forbidding such are th'
creatures who are being deluded and shippo'
into this country to suffer and many o
whom would have starved and frozen las
winter, but for the humanity and generosit.
of those people whose institutions they wer
sent here to destroy
co,, Joyu ions n tho elarti0D String
fellow addressed n crowd at St, Joseph, Mo
and laid down the following programme @
operations for the election
~ tell you to mark every scoundrel anon
YOU that is the least tainted with free sol
ism or abolitionism, and exterminate him.
Neither give nor take quarter from the d
rascals. | propose to mark them in th
house, and on the present occasion, so 20
may crush them out. To those who hav
qualms of conscience as TO violating law
state or national, the crisis has arrived whe
such impositions must be disregarded,
your rights and property are in danger an
advise you, one and all, to enter every eie
tion district in Kansas, in defiance OF Reed'
and his vile myrmidons, and vote at the poll
of the bowie-knife and revolver. Neith'
give nor take quarter, as our cause demant
it, Itis enough that the slaveholding int
est wills it, from which there is no appea
What hit hos Gov. Reeder to rule hisso'
rians In Kanzas His proclamation az
prescribed oath must be repudiated. II
your interest to do SO. Mind that slavery
established whore 1t is not prohibited.
This atrocious advice was fully carried o'
, in letter and spirit, and thus Kanzas has
, legislature elected by tho organized rutta
ism of Missouri. Lotan Smith, the agent
the New York settlement company writ
9 from Council city, the day after the election
n ." Our election was closed up yesterday.
o ! The Missourians, to the number OF abo