Kansas weekly herald., 1855-01-26
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ing our late election, when our attention
was arrested by am article written for the
Lancaster PA Intelligencer, dated siLea-
senworth City, Dec. 4th, 1884" which,, for
scurrility and -depraviity. casts the miserable
Conway in the shade. There is not q
creeping thing" so loathsome as the fawn-
ing, iow-bred miscreant. on whose face is
written, kar-defanser We know this
fellow; and were he the veritable Escula-
Plus, instead of the wretched q,tack that he
is, his skill would fail to invent disinfect-
ant Of enough power, to cleanse his scurvy
heart of single blotch. We have not the
patience to dwell on the qualities of this
yermin-polluted yagrant, nor words to ex-
press our adherence if we had the patience.
But does Governor Reeder sympathize with
the depraved whelps, who have SO vilely-
slandered a large body of our most worthy
citizens2 Does he endorse their statements,
which, if true, reflect with double violence
on his own integrity. for giving the certif-
cate of election to man, elected through
fraud 'force,' and perjury Only think,
We old men, whose heads have become gray
in pioneer ile-whose hearts never beat to
aught but manliness and truth-you are the
men these thieving hybrids, these black
hearted Abolitionists, say, are "rufians''
and perjured villiansr' aye, that is the
word. .-"perjrcd Williams What shall
be done with them? And, Governor Rec
der; we learn that you have given these
men Offices! Explain yourself Governor.
Why do you feed, and nurse, the liar, de-
famer, and vampire?
We give, for the benefit of the "rufians''
and.perjured Williams, the entire production
Of filth, as it appeared in the paper to which
it was addressed, and since copied into the
Genius Of Liberty. paper endorsing Elem
niken, and published in his town. We
shall also publish hereafter, letters from Col.
ALEXANDER and B. III. TwoMBLY Esq, in
rindication of the "Leayenworth polls;,"
from the wicked aspersions so wrecklessly
told by abolition spaniels.
LEAvENwonTH CRY. Dec, 9TH, 1854.
Geo. Sanderson, Esq-Dear Sir: In
my letter from the Shawnee Mission,
stated that on my way from Fort Scott |
met large number of Missouri fire eaters,
going into the territory to vote, and express
ed the opinion that they would attempt to
violate the purity of the ballot box. This
opinion was correct, for never In my life did
/ witness conduct, so shameful and outra-
geous, as was that of some four hundred
Platte Co. Mo. rowdies, who came to this
precinct, took possession of the polls, and
many of them perjured themselves by swear
ing that they were actual settlers. Mis-
souri, courage was here exhibited. 1t con-
sis.s in half pint of whisky, a Colts revol-
yer, and bowie knife Men who were
from free States were denouoced as aboli-
tonists and numbers of the chivalry openly
declared they would rather see Kansas
sink 10 He'll, thanit should become free |
State.
More than fifty of the friends Of Col. |
Flenniken, who was the National Demo-
crat candidate, did not vote, for they were
peaceable men and did not want to raise |
disturbance at the polls. Two of the
Judges appointed by Gov. Reeder, theRev
David Z. Smith and Col. B. H. Twombly,
were fair, honest, honorable men; but the
other appointed by these fellows claiming
to be settlers was really citizen of Platte
Co. and was ready to assist them in perpe-
trating frauds upon the ballot box. He
was selected in the place ofone of the ludg-
es who feared the Missouri influence and
would not act. Messrs. Smith and Twomb
ly wee firm and decided Notwithstanding
they were fired at through the window, and
in spite of the threatening letters that were
written them. In my hearing, some of
them swore they would swear to anything
the Judges asked them, but vote they would.
They even attempted to drive men from
the ground who were opposed to Whitfield
their candidate, and succeeded In one In
stance.
About half past 4 o'clock they declare
that no one should vote without their per-
missions, which was greater outrage than
all the rest. One young man who was de-
termined to vote, an actual settler too, had
recourse to stratagem to get his vote
Huzzaing for Whitefeld, at tine top of his
voice, until he attracted attention he swore
he would not stay any longer unless they
gave him chance; when they picked him
up, and raising him over the heads of the
crowd got him to the window. The instant
he got there he changed his Whitfield tic
ct, for one on which was printed the name
of Robert P. Flenniken, and got it in just
as it was discovered by them. They drop
ped him like a hot potato, and had it not
been for some of them who appreciated the
"selr' he would have been roughly handled.
And this was not the only poll at which