New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-23
KANSAS.
THE RECENT ELECTIONS

Territorial Elections. The Slavery Extensonists
will endeavor to make great capital out of it, and
they already assert that it dehnitively settles the
question of Slavery in Kansas The result is simply
this: The Prostate people took no part whatever
IN the matter repudating the bogus Missouri Legs-
lature, under whose authority and under the control
of whose appcintees, it was held. On the other
hand three-ourths Of the vote given was thrown oy
Nissourians. who entered the Territory for tha'
purpose ten days prior to the electlon-day ana
commenced leaving, on their return the moment
they had voted. The difference in this last election
from former ones was simply that they did not co'0
rs an army and seize the polls. Inc Pol' "'i0
already in the hands Of their minions ana LOT
week prior 10 election, they swarmed III quio"!,
under pretense Of returning. and were 'nuS Pos'u
Mt the different points, ready TO Vote' Inc rIo-
Slavery men. before anything definite coud be
tnovr of the result. declared that they had polIed
FIVE tbousand votes. but so far as the result is
known. should Judge that the vote would stand
close ON three thousand five hundred. Oi these
NOT more than eight hundred could have made any
claim TO being voters before an impartial tribunal.
In Lawrence there were but seven votes thrown.
No one paid any attention to the election. Early
In the forenoon Sheriff Jones, accompanied by three
or four others, came down from LecomptOn bring
ing with them ballot box, some tickets, and what
was intended to represent poll book. Jones and
one Of his companions, a man who came from GeOr-
sia few days ago, acted as judges The little
Irish Pro-Slayery lawyer in this town, named
Christian. acted as Clerk and was the only resi-
dent of the town who participated. One of the
Donaldsons, and another PrO-Slayery man who
came with Jones' party, voted, and wenton t0Lea-
wentworth on horseback, where they, doubtless,
voted again. Jones and his colleagues voted. An0-
fher man who lives near LeccmptOn, came down
during the day and voted. There are several Pro-
Slavery men residing within few niles OF Law
rence but none of them would vote 90 TO the
election except one. One man, living mile or so
from town. came in, and Sheriff Jones induced
him to vote by paying the required fifty cents for
him. Thus was aggregated the seven votes
when Jones and his confreres, seeing that there
was going to be "no more business that day.
closed up and went back to LecomptOn. What
striking commentary, this vote, on the eighthundred
Pro.Slavery votes poled at Lawrence by the invad-
ing army, at the last Legislative, or March ee c.
zion, 1855"
The money qualification to vote at this election
was only fifty cents, instead of one dollar as for
mery. Among the funny quips and cranks OF the
bogus Legislature, it appears that they had deter
mined the tax to be paid before voting at the last
October Delegate election to be dollar, but that
she poll tax subsequently should only be fifty cents,
and that the payment Of this should be condition
a.. an md
planation of this graduation of the price of Border
Rufian voting. / need not tell you this rule was
only observed in certain localities; wherever
heavy body of Missourisns voted it was partially or
totally dispensed with.
To the Shawnee Mission votng-place, out from
Westport, there was sent from the latter place,
fust before the election two barrels of whisky and
large lot of provisions. There they cannot honestly
poll dozen votes, but hear there has been heavy
vote thrown, all Missoursns. AT Wyandot, close
on two hundred and fifty votes were thrown
There the legal voters are short of forty including
Nil Of the Wyandots, who are halfcivilized. Most
Of the latter, however, had gone up the country 10
vote. The Wyandot vote came mostly from Clay
County, Mo. At Capt. Sanderss, on the Santa tie
road, there We're upward of three hundred votes
thrown. The legal Pro-Slavery vote of that region
does not exceed fourteen. The others had been
coming in and camping there for eight OF ten days
MANY Of them voted several times, and they began
70 leave for home ON the afternoon of the election
At Iecompton four hundred and ffty-six votes
~ere polled OF these, one hundred and fifty, or
one hundred and sixty, might be entitled 10 vote;
the greater portion of the remainder We're from
Missouri. A reliable person, who was present
during the whole election at that place SAID that
not less than sixty persons, who had voted LETT for
Missouri on the afternoon of the election, ayowlng
fhat they were "going home" and they have been
leaving every day since, this week. party OF
those who had voted at Lecompton, started up to
Tecumseh TO vote and there was party down from
Tecumseh in the evening, who voted at Lecompton,
although there is no doubt but they had previously
voted at Tecumseh. l have not yet learned the
returns from the towns along the Missouri River,
north. but. so far as have heard the vote thrown
Is double OF treble the legal Pro-Sayery vote. In
this more quiet, but not less outrageous way, have
the poll, of the Territory been invaded once more,
and thus will every voter be outraged until the
oppressed people of Kansas are permitted TO defend
their dearest civil privileges This ballot however,
was not the ballot of the people OF Kansas Ii was
only the creature and excrescencc of the former
Missouri usurpation, and was repudlated BY the
settlers who left the usurpers who planned IL sun
further to corrupt and pollute their own work.
Some who are ignorant of the true character Of
the struggle NAV be inclined TO censure the Free