The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-10-18

KANSAS ELEcTIoN.-An election was held
terrific rial legislature and delegate to Con-
gress. j. ~ Whitfield was returned to
Congress, and as the free State men did not
vote, Of course the slave State men carried
the whole legislature.
The Chicago Press, rcmarking on this
= election says:
| .. The whole election was O farce. The
,-ree-Stat &c men constitute more than three
fou, tbs of tie eatire population of the Terri
tory. a nd in all probability not one of th"m
voted at he election. Had any portion OF
them been dis, 1osed to vote, they would have
been mobbed away from The polls.
A very probable ST. atement, 'ihree-iourths
would have been "mpbbed away from the
polls" by one-fourth!
No. There would have been 20 violence
at the polls, and that was not what keiH the
Free-State men away. They knew very WEI.
that if they had attended the election. and
peaceabIy defeated the Slave-State party at
the polls it would have put an end to the
shrieks for Kansas freedom in the States,
and robbed the Fremont party OF all their
thunder. Their instructions from Greeley
& Co., were different" keep up the Kan
sas fuss until after the election at all haz
ards !" was the game. After the Inaugural
ton of James Buchanan next March we shall
never hear another W ord about pro-slavery
outrages in Kansas.
MEETING IN EDEN-FUsIoN DEcENcY.-On
Wednesday evening of this week the democ-
racy of Eden called a meeting at Cedar
Point, and Col. Barber, D. P. Jones, and
j. Avery, Esqs., were invited TO address it.
The democrats assembled in respectable
numbers at the appointed hour, but as &C.
dar Point is in the centre of dense abol-
ton settlement, the woolly heads turned out
in full force, with apparently full determi-
nation to disturb the meeting. The speakers
were constantly interrupted with grunts,
Kisses, and other beastly noises, SO that,
but for the presence Of number of ladies,
there would probably have been serious
row. 1t is notable that chief among the fu-
sion rufians was Rev. Mr.. Mosher-a
minister of peace" probably of the Lovejoy
stamp. As might be expected, this ruffian
conduct hurt nobody but the fusionists
themselves, for several respectable Fremont
ers who attended the meeting were SO dis
gusted, that they declared they should no
longer act with the party.
IS. HAYS, Eso.-This gentleman is doing
yeoman service in the middle and southern
part of our State in the democratic cause
Last week he was one of the speakers at q
grand democratic mass demonstration at
Urbana, where he is thus spoken of by the
" Constitution" newspaper:
1.-The speech of Mr.. Hays was particular
" able. 1t will be recolIected that Mr.. II.
was warmly opposed to the repeal of the
Missouri Line and desired its restoration
When, however, the Republican Convention
met and ignored the restoration of that line,
and adopted set OF ult'a abolition and sec
tlonai principles, he could See, rs every man
who viii but open his eyes must see, moth
ing but disunion and the destruction of all
the hopes of the Republic IN the final sue
cess OF the principles of that party There |
fore he felt it his duty to rally in defence of
the Constitution and the Union in the ranks |
Of the National Democracy. His speech |
here was . calm exposition of the great is
sue, and replsts with sound, able, eepyinc- |
ine ayRumsntl"