Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-04-19
The Election by Courtesy'---How the
Buiiies Carried it---iHfnmous
PrOcrnd nus.

EioCVeolngN
Correspondence OF the New.Yark Daily 1inies.
KANSAS, Saturday, March al. 1856
The election $50 called by way OF courtesv)
which was expected to provide this fine Ter.
r,tory with Legislature and special laws,
was held yesterday; and enough returns have
roIne in 10 enable me to present The whole
thing without naming a single majority. In
fact, figures have nothing whatever 10 do
with the result, unless it may be rhetorical
ones as are necessary to describe the fraud a.
guin practiscd upon the citizens of the Ter
rtory and the Uniot,. Hereafter it seems to
have been dccreed by the slavcocfacy, that
! the election returns shall be prepared ofore-
hand, and the programma be carried ,ut by
brute force. ltmatters not what may happen
to be the views Of simple citizens who were
weak enough to suppose that the "pol ular
sovereignty" of Southern men could mean
anything but abjcct submission TO their dicta;
the only material fact now entering into the
political calculation, need only be what num-
Der of msrauders shall be detailed from Mis-
sour: to bring the pro.Slavory majjrties up to
the necessary point.
In sober fact, the outrage OF last Fall has
been repeated wiki circumstances OF fresh
atrocity. Funds have been raised in Alssou-
ri and men hired by thousands to come over
into the Territory and do all the voting
Three thousand mru are said to have been
encsmped about Lawrence, and to have vo-
TED without the slightest regard to actual rcs-
idence. The same thing, to less extent,
has been practiced everywhere. In the
Doug las precinct, the first Missourian offering
a vote refused to take the prescribed oath, and
the mob SAID seriously to the Judges, "Yield
us up the pcl!-book and let US select dgcs
OF our own, or wa will in five minutes unroef
the house and storm it," The Judges saw
pre- parotions made to DO this, and yielded; but
the poli.book was not to be found. At last
it WAS seized in possession of the Clerk, and
he compelled, under the most solemn prcm-
ses OF being Instantly hung if he refused, to
deposit Pro.Savery vote. Instances are
numerous where candidates have been made.
under penalty of instant death, to vote Pro-
Slavery ticket-in some cases to make Pro-
Slavery speeches. Not the slightest regard
was paid 10 the legal requirements; the polls
were seized and the drunken cohorts marched
up and permitted to vote without challenge.
And 50 great was the pre2onderance OF nu NJ
bors that the Frce-Soers saw it was in vain
and would be madness to resist; and 60, in
many precincts, refused TO share at 6il ia such
shameful moCkery.
y! the glory OF tba free elective franchise!
1t was thought that an attempt would be
made to make every voter seem resident;
but the oppreht nsiJns OF The tre-eaters were
too great for their discretion. 1t is now
ugeniy proclaimed that Missouri vii turn tho
1 balance with her heavy hand. Threats aio
made against the Yankees, that in a civilized
land wCuld o6lige the rnokefs to give bonds to
keep the peace. Il asked whether they sup
pose that Gov. Recder caa sanction an cleo
tion SO acknowIedsedy fraudulent, the reply
is, hat il ne 'es not his life shall pay the
tor eli; he will never see his friends again
And it is understood that, at this election,
Rev. Mr.. John'nn has been balloied for (and
OF course electsdD for Governor; and that he
wiil grant cerlifcs;es, and Pres Ideut' Pierce
staU remove Reedcr and appoint tis choie' Of
tic peopic! Can bravado 50 further!
But, thouah brave men fear foi him, the
Governor does not fear fur himself. His path
OF duty is plain, and at all hazards he Will
walk therein. This jest OF an election he
viii probably disown, AMI Immediately carry
his case to Washington in person, il indeed
some drunken desperate does not fulfill the
bloody threat and add his murder 10 the out
RACES already committed.
The emi igration promises to be large from
| the East, but it 10 aIso increasing from the
South; and the crowds Of New EnglanderS
who come on, seem to have started on plea
sure trip, and when they get here and find
suins hurdshpS to be endured, too often turn
| back discouraged. Where is the old Purh.n-
ic courage that wrested Massachusetts from
barbarisuI, by tolls and through suilerings to
winch moarsn emigration is indeed pleasure.
travel! IS no trsce Of it left in their dcscen-
dansl
| Fur part of this failure the Emigrant Line
| Companies are assuredIy responsible. When
they shall refuse to send any Till they have
| fully described to them all the difficulties aud
prvutions to be endured, then shall we have
less OF this unifor complaining among the
new arrivals, and be panied by fewer specta-
cles of the dshcartened return of those who
had intended to make Kansas their kome.
LITERAL
! 0IyThe following remarks were made by
" B. Nichols, Esq, at the close of his school
in District No, ., in Union tp:-
Ny YOUNG FRIENDS: The time has again
arrived when you are to be disbunted from
school. 1t will be rare occurrence if you
are all permitted 10 meet here again the fol-
lowing winter. Some Of you young men
whom address, will have passed the oge,
that the law permits the public money to be
appropriated to your instruction, some oGyou,
doubtless, will be seeking in western and
foreign climes, employment, wealth, and dis
tinction. Disease, and the many accidents,
aud casualties 10 which our natures are sub
iect, will doubtless have swallowed up some
Of your number. At this time one Of the
heallhiest Of your number, lies stretched up
on bed unable to help himself, warning yod
against accidents of similar character, and
calling loudly for your sympa'hies.
Permi. me to say that you are yet young,
that you have just commenced your educa-