The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-10-24

hfin Ia tie scotch towns anu attending hts
departure. Public breakfasts have heeI
given Ia him In number of places.
LaaeA frso kasaaA
+. F,aa.iaisai R,taras II Niztaa H.ad.oi aad
TNcafG Fs,t cahs ,,oa~ Johnson Caaafs
tcaur.ron.ienrs Of tho Missouri Democrat,
I LAwRrscr, X. T., Oct. IL, ls5.
az all the bold and unmitigatcd frauds
which have been recorded in Kansas, there
has never been one chronicled so un.crupn-
lcu., 50 tiainnablc, SO glaringly unjust, ~ de-
VOID of all the dregs of principle, which nsu-
ally fingers IN rifiianly characters, a. the
one practiced at the Oxford precinct in
johnson County Men were sent from this
place and Wyandotte to tho different pre-
cincts in johnson County, Ia bring up the
result rs son As the polls were closed.
was in Nyandottc and saw men who did
not leave until the polls were closed, and
closed in all the precincts in johnson Coun-
". They produced tho result. irving the
pro-slavcsy party two hundred and forty
one majority. On my arrival in this place
corroborative news was In circulation No
one, free state or pro-slavery, doubted Cor .
moment but what this district, which in
cludes Douglas and johnson Counties, has
gone Overwhelmingly in favor Of freedom
Last night the Official returns reached
Lec",npton, and to the surprise Of oil hut
those who were not implicated, q manu-
script just fifty feet long was unrolled, con-
tanning l,624 votes, eli from one precinct,
Known as Oxford on the little Sante Fe
This neutrAlixcs tie entire Free State vote,
a,.I 81 -
oouneilmen and eight representatives, to
the pro-slavcry party. At this rate they
will have majority in the Legislature.
johnson county polled over II 600 votcs,
md not one-third Of the inhabitants can be
found in the county, TO "a, nothing ofthcse
who are entitled t. the elective franchise
under the sis months prescription. The
election was risa geet and nowhere in the
territory over SO votes cast in ono day
II is an utter ,mpp~sibiiity TO write the
names in two days Tor sixteen hundred vo-
tiers, yet Oxford overdoes it, The truth il
this, the poll- we're closed until the news
reached them from Douglass county, in or
Ter that it might be ascersained how many
ballots it would require 10 throw the scales
IA favor 81 the pro-slayerites, and all the in.
tcryening time mp to the return &c the poll
loroks, has been consumed in adding new
names to the list
The fraud Is bAre-laced, that even
briggs, editor IL the Leoompton National
fltaocrat, spoke denanc.atory IL the pro-
cecdings, and declared that Stanton would
ncses permit the certificate 10 BE- giv
sn 10 any bui tis-e elected by legal
,oters--tL" Free State candidates. The
rufiisns we're aware that the election could
NOT b. carried by lair means, and .onse-
gently have resorted 10 fraud The, knew
that II the Free State party succeeded, they
could nay Oihello's oecupation's gone. J.
To them IL was The death struggle the In
fervening spscc between them and eternity,
u once lost, forever lost and long score Of
accounts Ia settle, which are Of such M
tnre that " might cause some II them to
stand "a nothing and look up rope -
The outrages VI 30 have again been enacted |;
the ballot -hoxes have been invaded; the
Government u-arpcd b, pro slavery dsma-
,ognes, and their daulnahlc proceedings in
.iigated anil sanctioned by the governor
an secretary II the territory. A pitiless
minority trying b, the aid u L. 5. ORA
soons and drunken slave propagatlng gov
~rnor, "a rule with the iron heel uf dcsp,-
tisnl Nm os~rwhelsine n,ajosity For thrss
wears hate Oh. fr~emcn III tins territory
Struggled against oppression, forced upon
them by the general government, and for
what because they preferred freedom 10
slavery. For three years the people 81 this
territory have petitlnned and demonstrated
Tor redress OF grievances, and for the same
length u time have their petition- been
sighted, and their remanstrAnces spurued
with contempt t. the iiat II = more con
temptable rascal than ever Jeffr~ys was.
Walker i but political trickster, sent here
~ revive the yitlated ranks of the pro ala
very party. lie has quartered the army Of
the United States around Lawrence for no
other purpose than to convey the idea in
the east and south that Lawrence IN rebel.
lious and insurrectionary, = and that the on
~ rial rufians belong IN the free state par
~.
Cannon ii sufficient sue TO crun.ble the
citAdels NJ Russia, and more bodily calibrc
than the Governor has mental, are directed
upon the city Of Lawrence for tho purpose
" carrying by force what cAnnst b doae
BY fraud and usurpation. The artillery
sooms forth warlike sound upon the ears
Of 2 peaceahls cDmnunity II the spurious
oe1ioes are not cast out, there IL but one a.
formative lett--A resort to arms.
The Tree men Of Kansas deserve To BE-
slaves u they permit tAk wamton ,trsrv
to b forced upon thssn- Government i
coastituted by the consent of the governed.
and tho people Of Kansas have tho right %
ny whether they will - bond or frss.
When Intercepted conserving the certif-
Gates. Secretary Stanton said he beloved
the whole tanstction II Oxford TO have
been coscocted preparatory to the election,
Md tLst i was bass fraud from beginning
70 end, and that - sA0uld Withhold them
ane,l evidence could be sdaueod 70 proye 4 |
= sch, unless that number VI men isixtsen
hundred and <wenty-scur) did actually vu. |
4 OXFORD prscizct, and then, the proper |
reanal was the legislature The frasd 4 |
. palpably uRj1st, tn IL even makes Wal.
per tremble in bis boots. There i NO dorhs J
1t whas the Prce etate men will have .
.sgislaeurs Al Sc. Marys, in ID. nj. ne
over prscincs, one hundred and . -. Dsss
sere polled, and O. - II a.. 49,
Tree State. lse svss twv- - 80, -. nI ,:l
b precinct. In Atct' .,. 800. $500 nssm
- 4Mnd w@ con. ~;ss..i =. ,,I
- 49, VS. seq 20 hug . Asnkso 80
under very many okliGnfions
~ os voting" The 0ovesnor -
salubrious.n Al IL Yica.poo
- thsss Aun1ssd ilIsni Aarloe. -ere |
sroess qajorisy u abost Avs shsur