Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-02

investigating OOmmlttee Consists In Qetalllng
the acts and sayings of these companies. The
committee had before them the poll books,
census rolls, &C., showing who were legal as
well as who were illegal voters; and according
to their report, it appears from accurate and
almost absolute proofs that of about six thous-
and three hundred votes given at that election
i've thousand were those Of nonresidents. The
majority of members of both Houses of the
Legislative Assembly, the committee say,
would have been Free.State men, had there
been no invasion Of Missourians
The Governor set aside the result of the
elections in some of the districts on account Of
lnfOrmalities. A new election took place in
those districts on the ed of May but this did
not affect the result. At these new elections
Free-State men were chosen, except in Leav-
enworth, where there was illegal voting
The committee took large mass Of testi-
mony regarding the proceedings of the Legis-
lativs Assembly, which, they say, are charac-
terized by recklessness and injustice. They
likewise speak of the crimes committed, such
as murders and robberies, which, they state,
were frequent, and that in no case, with the
exception of that of McRae, "a Free-State
man, was there any arrest, indictment, or
prosecution for these offences.
The report contains many particulars of the
condition and events in the Territory of Kan
sas prior to the 10Th of March last, and de-
clares that it is clearly and distinctly proven
that Samuel j. Jones, tho sheriff of Douglas
county, was the cause of the recent disturb
anoes in which he SO prominently figured.
The conclusions Of the committee are that
each Of the elections in Kansas was carried by
invasiOns from Missouri; that the Legislative
Assembly is an illegally constituted body, and
therefore has no power to pass valid laws.
And for these reasons, the report contends, the
enactnents Of the Legislative Council are
void.
The election of j. w. Whitfield was not
held under any valid law, nor was the cleo
ton Of Reeder held in accordance with law.
The committee suggest no remedy.
The report treats of distractions thrown in
the way of the committee, and of the general
violence which prevails in the Territory. 1t
ia very voluminous, and is signed by Messrs.
Sherman and Howard.
The Restoration Of the Missouri Restric-
tion.-No other member of the House has
been SO bitterly abused and foully slandered
by the Republican party press, as Mr. Dunn
of Indiana; his offence being simply refusing
to act on the great question of the day mere.
ly with the view to make political capital out
of it, and in such a way as that greater and
more dangerous arrangement between the
people of the Northern and Southern States
must be the consequence. His name is never
referred to in the press of that party unaccom-
panied by denunciations and misrepresenta-
tions Of his course. The truth is, dread of the
weight Of his talents, and Of his manly indie
pendence and his powerful eloquence is at the
bottom of their prolonged concerted efforts to
break him down a. home, because he steadily
refuses to do their partizan biddings in the
discharge of his public trust. They proclaim
him "traitor' to the cause of "free terri.
tory" They threaten all sorts Of dire calam-
ties upon the country, the South particularly,
because of the repeal of the Missouri restric.
ton, which they avow to be the head and
front of the offending of the advocates of the
right of the people of Kansas to choose the
manner Of institutions under which they will
live. Yet not a man of them came forward
in the course of this long session to propose or
even to advocate sincerely the restoration of
that over the removal of which they have
been pretending to weep, wall and gnash their
teeth. That task was left for the Hon. George
G.. Dunn, the unrelenting and bitter enemy of
the cause of Free Kansas" according to their.
malicious misrepresentation of that gentle
mans position.
Differing as we do from Mr.. Dunn upon the
Kansas question as widely as the poles, We
nevertheless recognise in his conduct as
representative, degree Of manly and intel
ligent consistency which challenges our admit
raficn opd That ofo oil
ing contrast with the course of those who
while bowling for the public ear over what
they term the violation of compact as sa-
cred as the constitution itself, and an act, too,
fraught with dire consequences to the public
interest, in private conversation scout the idea
of seriously seeking its restoration, as a mat.
ter not worth contending for; proclaiming, at
the same time, such opinions Of it as they
were wont to express when its existence
seemed likely to prove some slight bar to the
execution Of their ultimate designs bearing
on slavery in the United States. He has
been manfully and honestly contending for
what they tell the public is the right; while
they have been proving to all who have taken
the trouble to note their speeches and votes,
that they are not in earnest in what they
have been saying for the past year upon the
subject Of the Missouri restriction. On the
day before yesterday, they fastened it upon
Mr.. Stephens substitute for the Topeka-ma de
constitution of Kansas, only to make it GER
tain that, as thus burdened, the friends of
the Nebraska Kansas bill would not touch
that measure; and then, when the question
required upon the re establishment of their
so lover the left ardently commended for mea-
sure, they voted against it to a man.
The Very Last dodge The movement
OF the Republicans, yesterday, to get in the
budget of perjury and exaggerstions, raked
together SO industriOusly by Messrs. Howard
and Sherman to sustain the cause of Abolition.
ism in Kansas, was a mere dodge" to stave
of vote upon Mr.. Barclays motion to recon-