The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-01-17
KANSAS CORRESPONDENCE.
KANSAS, Dec. 20, 1855.

the opportunity to write you few lines. L ]
wrote to you first of October, from Topeka, as
did your old friend Dr. G. w. Cutler. The
Doctor was taken sick at Topeka and was con- !
fined to his bed for three weeks. After ne
had reached home, he was arrested by the Dor
der Rufians calling themselves claw and or
der menu for treason. They took him to Lee
compton, sick and unable to travel, where he
had to undergo five separate trials. The only
charge that can be brought against him is that
he does not tolerate Missouri dictation. The
Doctor lives in the same county that do; he
is much esteemed, as a clever fellow with
bright prospects ahead. He starts to-day Tor
Lawrence, to attend the Convention for the
purpose of nominating State ticket lie car
ries up the polls Of election for the constltu-
ton. The Doctor an myself were members
from this county to the Constitutional Conven-
ton. We have the finest country you ever
saw, but we have had great deal of trouble
and difficulty with the Border Rutfians. But
the country is worth contending for, and it will
ola certainty be free State. There is not
one fourth of the settlers of Kansas that are
tpro-slavery men. | know it from the fact
that have travelled over the Territory, and
made acouaintances in every settlement in the
, Territory, and l again assert that there is not
one fourth of the people Of Kansas in favor of
slavery.
Last winter when the election was held for
delegates to Congress, l was not in the lsrri-
! tory lived in ST. Joseph. On the evening
of the election, | went down to the river. saw
one hundred and fifty men cross the river from
n Kansas, many of whom 1 knew to be citizens
t of Missouri all that spoke to- told me that
t they had voted, and that they had voted at
the election held for Council and Representa-
tives Last Spring was a citizen of the Ter
ritory, and we of the Free State party had
formed our ticket; but on the night before the
= election the Missourians came over armed Will
: guns, pistols, bowie knives, and large quaint
i ties Of whisky and drove our candidates of
the track, and gave their own candidate three
/ hundred votes At that time there was no
.r forty legal voters in the district. This fall a
- the election for delegate, we beat them in tn
same precinct Notwithstanding great MANI
:. of our party did not vote, some from temerity
~ and some thought that the election was lille
n although we had great difficulties to conten
ot with, such as guns, pistols, bowie knives ant
whisky. A. NJ. Reeder received 1864 votes
; The best of judges say that when the poll
are purged, that Whitfield will not have on
,e thousand legal votes in the Territory. Tn
AZ Free State party here have been imposed o
most rascally You know that l was Dor
Q and raised Democrat, and that l have al
"a ways labored to advance the interests OF tina
ut party.
now say damn Pierce, Douglas and Atch
If son. and thewhole of the selfstyled democra
2 cy; all Northern men with Southern principle.
ID Our peaceful and law-abiding citizens hav
2 three times been driven from the ballot box b
Of such men, and they from another State. Rec
E. der has been dismissed from office because
would not suffer himself to he made the toe
"A and cats-paw Of such men as Atchison and hi
n party. Shannon, another Northe n man wit
in Southern principles, is sent here as Governo
r and declares that we shall obey the most cd
Gus and tyranical code of laws that set
ID BLACKBOARD border ruffians could invent An
IT in order to compel us to do so, he calls out a
If army of Missouri ruffians to overrun the tel
10 ritory. But thanks to Providence and Sharp
rifles we are yet unframed, and all this
10 Democracy! 1t IS kind Of President maxim
Dogoao9.Yc,, tbof ,riH 9,e,,o. on lo,.oe mil ~,
use every means in my poa0er to defeat such nae
a AMI principles. am willing for the South t
n hold her slaves. and have no objection to then
to take their slaves into new territories, and
81 they beat us by legal votes 1 am willing tina
r. slavery may then and there exist But an
Is not willing that the citizens of any State shall
debar US from the right of suffrage by brut
% force, and impose on this or any other Territor
4 a code of laws SO tyrannical that they woulc
disgrace the greatest European or Eastern des
n pot. that reigns. asaiafa
IT hope that the present Congress will d.
c. something to relieve US. But should it rerust
Reeder his seat as delegate, or refuse to admi
n. Kansas as free State, and retain Shannon il
it Office against the wishes of three -fourths o
the people of Kansas, | go in for raising
}, breeze-a breeze that Pierce and the party il
e favor will not very soon forget
t, This is better country than Indiana, Hi
nois or Missouri. 1 am living II miles from
9 st. Joe. and think in the best part of the
: Territory. The land is high, rolling, very rief
and the bestwatered country ever saw Ours
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