New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
GEYER'S LAST WORDS.

The auditors who assembled IN the gaueries aua
Hobbies of the Senate this morning TO hear Gov.
SEWARD on Kansas were disappointed. Mr..
GEYER held over" and, being the only Senator
from Missouri, seemed to think ne bad right TO
/, ct double dose of his tediOusness on the much
enduring listeners A few Of them (the case-hard-
ened) stood it; the larger number gos away.
was of the smaller and more unfortunate division.
wanted to hear what he could say for the Border
RufIian cause, or whether he could speak through
two mortal days without saying anything. Let me
give enc or two specimens Of the manner OF his
wisdom to-day:
He argued thatther could have been butfew Free.
Sellers in Kansas in Nov, 81, because at the cleo
ton for delegate then held, some 1900 votes were
cast for J. w. Whitfield and nearly 300 more for
81. A. Whitfield" evidently mistake" said he,
"aud meant for j. ". Whitfield Now these 25o
odd votes in question were not cast for any Whietd
ot all but for John A. Uaklfeld earnest and true
Ffee.S State man as lives in Kansas. His votes were
mainly east in Lawrence, whose citizens dstrusted
the steadfastness of Fenniken, the regularly noml
mated Free.State candidate. Wakefield is one Of
the new Free.State officers chosen last Winter
Of course, Mr. Geyer did not mean to mstate, but
he had no right to be ignorant on such point and
vet press it into his service. Had he spent one day
in informing himself on the subject, and COM
pressed his speech into the other he would have
made far more creditable figure.
This same blunder, confounding the votes for j.
A. Wakefield with Whitfelds, has been made at
least twice in the House this sessiOn-olce by so
clever a man as Alex. Stephens. have corrected
il at least once already yet it is still persisted in
The facts with regard to Kansas ara so seldom pre-
sented, even d.tOrtedly, by the Southern Press n'
GLIDING that Of this city, that hose who read little
else are kept in gross and perilOus darkness.
Mr., Geyer to-day reiterated divers story as TO
how the election of March, 55, was sprung upon
Kansas by surprse-hOw Reeder (who was then a
Nebraska Democrat and Pierce offce-hoder) gave
private notice of that election, first TO the Eastern
Abolitonists, who rushing in their voters be-
fore the Missourians knew when the election would
be held-how Oliver saw them going up the Mis-
souri, River by bOat-lOads-and how great part OF
them went back East soon after, saying they had
fulfilled their contract by vOting-and how
many MissOurians went over into Kansas, indeed,
on the day of election but only to watch the Yam
kee Free-Soers, and see that they didn't cheat or
bully the Pro-Slavery party, &c, &c.-cau 1t be
possible that any one now needs refutatOn of such
stpff as thisl If there be go benighted being l
beg him to keep an eye open for the evidence about
TO be taken in Kansas before the HOuse Commits
sion.
Nlr. Geyer came at length to the charge or
implication that certain Missourans had perured
themselves by swearing in votes at that Kansas
Legislative Election. That, he insisted was vile
SANDER, anyhow Missourans might be little
abrupt in their ways-they nigh. treat an Aboli-
ZIONIST rather roughly-but they wouldn't commit
perjury And he was trying to work himself into
sherccs over the atrOcity of the imputation, when
Mr. HARLAN of Iowa rose:
Mr.. HRLAN-"If the Senator from Missouri
will allow me- will state what l know on this
subject. l was at Council Bluffs short time be-
fore / came to attend this session. l there con-
yersed with several respectable citizens who were
present at this Legislative Election 10 Kansas, and
saw MissOurians swear in their--vOtes. One of
these (nsming HIM was Judge OF that election at
one the polls, and himself administered the oath
TO a number of MissOurians-well known to him TO
be such-who persisted in swearing that they were
actual residents OF Kansas, INOukH tHcy nCiO hc9H
from their Missouri homes, and returned to them
that evening"
One might reasonably suppose that this would
have shut up even Geyer, but he never seemed to
mind it, but resumed and went on, rather refreshed
by the interruption And he really thought he was
doing good thing fer his side when he cited lot
of bartarous and unjust laws once current in East
ern States (when they mainly held slayes) from
which Humanity and Intelligence have long since
banished them. thought he might as well have
proved that New-England was once inhabited by
Indians.
Bat will not follow him further. Suffice it
that his dullest of all lawyers dreary, heartess
speeches at length wore out, and he subsidized into
bis seat, &c the great relief of the t@o or three
dozen remaining. H. G.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April :, 1856.
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