Kansas weekly herald., 1855-07-21

kept sober, which is very far from what |
has been the case on other days. There
was considerable drinking in the saloon
through the day, and some got about half
corned before night. Once in the course
of the afternoon, three or four men got
into dispute and a pull-halr fight, but |
they all belonged to one party. saw no
knives, revolvers, guns, or caaanons dis
played, and there were none on the ground.
1t was one Of the most quiet and peaceable |
elections ever witnessed, where there
was so large crowd, and that too where
there was no restraining influence.
saw crowd of so OF rs men about
shade trees on hill, in the afternoon. I
went up to them, and asked what was
going on. They said they were Missou-
rians, and that they had supposed the free
soilers and abolitionists would gather in
from other districts in order to carry the
election in this, whose votes they intended
to offset by voting against them in case
they did, but as they had not they should
go home very soon, without taking any
part or going any nearer the polls than
they then were.
About twelve o'clock, the steamer Kate
Cassel came up. The boat is just round
from the Ohio river, most of the officers,
crew and passengers came up and voted,
polling the free soil and abolition ticket.
There is no mistake about this, as the
tickets were of different colors. No one
objected to their voting, as any man who is
citizen, and who happens to be in Kan
sas at an election is entitled to vote, and
he can leave half of an hour afterwards
| if he wishes.
At present there is no law in Kansas
regulating citizenship.
When the bill organizing the territories
| of Kansas and Nebraska was introduced
in Congress there was a clause in the bill
requiring man to be in the Territory
thirty days to gain a residence, but that
clause was stricken out by the northern
members of that body, who supposed that
it would give them great advantage over
southern states, as the northern emigra-
ton would move so much quicker than
southern, and vote at the first elections be-
fore southerners could get there. They
have been badly beaten at their own game.
see accounts in the Tribune and other
abolition sheets of 's border ruffins'' and
desperadoes" coming into Kansas IN a
strong force armed with pistols, guns and
Cannon, and camping out in tents, until
after election and then taking their line of
march back. Asto going back, many have
done SO, and many more will before next
| fall but / notice that two-thirds of those
going back are eastern emigrants. Seven
took the boat this morning bound for Mas
sachusetts and other eastern States to my
certain knowledge, after waiting here for
three days to vote at the election. AS to
camping In tents, / should like to know
what they expect people coming here now
to camp or live in, unless they live in tents
or wagons. I don't know as it is any un-
usual thing for people emigrating to wild
unsettled Territories to take a gun with
them, and the eastern people are no more
exempt than western, for notice they all
have guns when they arrive. As for can-
non being brought here to elections, that is
positively false, notwithstanding Gov. Rec
der's remarks to the contrary. Ii it is not,
am sadly mistaken, for I have never
been able to find a man in all my travels,
who has ever seen cannon In Kansas ex.
cept in the forts.
You are perhaps beginning to think that
have gone over, soul and body, to the
South. You can think what you please,
but can assure you that my principles are
| the same as when I left Chicago. I
should prefer to see Kansas made a free
State but if the majority of the citizens
in Kansas are in favor of making it slave
State, expect to submit to the poUers that
be, as we Democrats believe in letting the
majority rule, and to become identified
with the people and their institutions
The votes have been counted, and I
have just seen the returns, which stand
| thus
Matthias, pro sIav., 55s Edsel, free soil, 40
Payne, sc 500 Gould, &c 139
| Nc Meekin, 's Sol Pennock, &c 141
The free soil party have been beaten
four to one, by the actual settlers of the
country, and that too for want of votes.-
do not think the free soil vote would
have been more than 10, if they had not
rung In the Kate Cassel crew. must
say that regretted to see men in the free
soil party, who supposed were high-min-
ded honorable men, trying all manner of
low deceptive tricks TO ring In illegal votes,
merely to make respectable show. All
the precincts along the Missouri river are
as strongly pro-slavery as this, but in those
tdp the Kansas river there is not so much
difference, and in some precincts it is
quite the other way. But in the Territory,
think large majority is at the present
time In favorsof slavery.
| have net time to write more at present,
etc. N. A.