Kansas weekly herald., 1855-01-12
HosU the Kass0s EtectSoss
sO1s Carried.

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Under this vaplion tbeE Ehicage Remo-
cratic Press, aud aher boliEonS pa srs,
attempt to accht 81 ths eletioppl y hit
field. They hlge thas it tas Strlsd by
fraud. And Hssrdo the prove il by the
Letter of an individual well known here,
who though protesting great veneration
for Southern institutions was heard to utter
many Of the sentiments contained in this
very letter published in the TT be, Press,
and other Abolition papers.
That Gen. Whitfield was duly elected by
2 large majority Of legaI.and quali6ed.ze-
tiers, no one who knows the faets.or lives
heEes presendsto Doubt The highestnum
Der his most formidable opponent received
was only three Esadred and fee votes, out
ot otap4ards Sf t@o thousand eight hundred, ~
and.yesitis Uhargeds the election was CARR!
edbyfa stupendpns faud.n 'What nigh
Ity fraud. 70. beatL3e5 s6sest The' whole
free soil and abolition yete in the territory
/ for all their candidates does not amount to
SIX hundred: And if theeiir: whole vote y had
been uRited Son.eile man, they woald have
Estil been svsrYhe elming1y defeated BY the
bona fide1 s4uatters Of the territory aoI!
A most sIanderous and nfamoously false
Eaceeuht is given Of the election at Leayen-
worth, by.othis Letter wliiiter, who says he
was on. the ground at the election. He
Echarges tina; men swore falsely. that thirty
For forty rphabs took possession of the polls,
and in violation Of law, justice and their
oaths,,i would vote themselves, and drove
away men who were not for Whitfield, and
that drunkenness and fighting was the or
der of the day, pistolslwere fred into the
window, IN the room occupied by the judg-
es, &c. - -..3 Z.
The Editor Of the Chicago Press says
the writer of this information, was at West
port on the Sunday and Monday previous
to the election, and atLeayenworth on the
day of the election, and the day after. the
election passeddown the river. d
The gentleman who made these travels
at that time is known, and iflever he shows
his '.phiS" here again, he may be required
ITO account for his wanton, unprovoked, and
slanderous report of the election at this
place. We positively assert there was no
fighting, on the day of election, neither
were any pistol shots fred in the window,
nor were any persons driven by force or
otherwise from the polls. There were only
302 votes given at the Leavenworth polls,
and no well informed man, will dispute the
fact that In this election District, including
our town, there are not more than 302legal
voters, who are actual settlers. This Dis
@trict includes a scope of country that has
hundreds of actual settlers, and at the next
election, the sguatters will come out in their
strength and show their power, and num-
bers., And mark our prediction, it will er-
ceed five or six hundred.
IL The fact is, after failing in importing
enough voters last fall to carry the election
ofa Delegate to Congress, the Aboiitionists
iat the North, are making another death
struggle to carry the next election, of men,
bers to the Legislature. Hence the SLAM
derous reports about Missourians, perpetra-
ting stupendous fraud. in order to excite,
the Abolitionists to double their efforts, in
importing voters into Kansas. They must
expect their efforts at aboliionising this fair
territory, to be met with determined re-
Isistance, and they, least of all, have less
right to complain, if it is. done even by an
organization extending throughout nearly
every county In the State, of Missouri
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KnOw-NOthingism AbOlitiOnisIn
a.. and the Kansas Pioneer. ~ ..;.r
A few weeks since we gently chided the
Editors of the Pioneer, for exulting over
the elections in Pennsylvania, New York,
and Massachusetts, claiming that the "a
imericans, { alias Know Nothings) had swept
every thing before them. - We showed
5conelusiyely that with rare exceptions the
Know sNothings in those States had coal
esced with the Abolitionists, and especially.
in Massachusetts,, where the Know Moth
ing candidate for Governor, was an open
and avowed Abelitionist. We thought it
strange that paper rctsssing pro-sIavery
sentiments, should rejoice over the election
in Massachusetts, But now after mature
deiiberatioh that paper endorses an article