The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-08-13
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Tie D.. - with M refreshing '''''
ness. saws the r,aaaa ttea mail nhn"'hS "
pro-el,yer. n.n IA hama have thu Ia
rulr1 III majority ma u,aa, the laAs Ac#
e., that t5rnta5y. hc.8a-c 81" = -
IT. ,.ivi.td tlc Free state men not to vote
Il. M, ri tLc election Now dee onl
ne;-f.b5- mean ~ "a. thar at the election q
member. II the Territorial Legislature tbs
f.ee state men did not try 10 vote lila
III. sa-ac,aaa neigl.bar vet denied that IL.
Nj ..5ur ruiiian took the polls, drove H.
free state men away, and voted and voted
a-ain ior the pro-alavery candidates, soinc
eg whom were citizens OF Missouri 2 AMI
were these outrage upon law, order and
agency, and upon the righlsoi the MAJORITY
ot the citizens ol kansas ever rcbnkcd by
the Dcmc.'rltir press Nortlor South ha
not tbe Democratic party Imported tbs
laws or tAis baeu, legislature ever since
Did not the Administration II Pierce recot
u.zc iii. bogus Legislature aud It iniamou.
laws against irec speech, free action, ana
e-cn free thought, and Las ~, the Buchanan
Administration done the same Did not
Democratic Administration tnrn two 81 ~
own Governors on, II office because they
rcrt lot disposed to lend Their aid 10 crush
the Free State majority aud Ia withhold
from them their rights Has not the Dem,,-
cratic Administration now 4 tool ia kansas
acting o. Governor who has backed himself
with T. $, troops 10 keep the majority II
tac territory from rractielng any Treason
against the acts of this bogus, Border Eui
nan Legislature, constituting every thing ni"
treason which 4 moi trucking suhnIs
lion iIa,, not the MAJORITY earnestly
hoaest, and Ia cvert lsir means IA thcl.
power. cndeayofcd a. secure their rights.
and a goiee ia forming tue domestic institu-
tion. IL kansas Aud have they, a MAORI
Is Of twenty 10 one, succeeded IN obtaining
tliese right Have they been cnsolcd to
secure a fair election oi any kind, OF Tor any
object, even for members OF Convention Ia
form State Constitution Wac not the
election for tlics. Delegate. held under the
infamous Census Act Of the Bogus Ierisla
turc. which gave this minority vi one Pro-
Slavery citizen to every twenty q, Free
State men, the power "a elect almost every
Delcea,. Vi their own stripe Have not
the Administration and the Democratic
press and the Democratic party, aiven all
their ssmpathies. all the aid and comiort
ia Their power, from first Ia Last. Ia the pr"
slavery men, aud thus enabled them, IA con-
remp,iblc minority, % rule the majority and
regulate the affairs III the territory. even To
the making NJ IL laws Aud vet the Dem
vcratlc organ ofthis city, eoolly turns around
aud tell "a that the reason this minority
Lave thus ruled the roast l. SIMPLY he
cause the New York TApAe advised the
free State mca not u vote AZ the territorial
elections How liar. even ths S'ate Btmy
immunity How dare IL tell Us. a. Il does al
Substance, that the hansas correspondent
81 Republican papers, more respectable iacn
probably than our neighbor himself have
been lying from the very start aud w,llally
iaisrclsrt chting evoa3 thing ihaut tie niialrs
q hansas- anu that tie people Aav, had no
mean ahalerero Of hearing the truth except
from tue halsas correspondents Vi the Pro-
slavery paper, Is there an intelligent,
man u It's own party who believes such
lsasegse a this, to call il hy its lightc~t
name ! Such articles a. that in the Demo
csai Can iniare no party hu, its own A
more ridicaloa mes Of absuriitics Nas
never before perhaps, Submitted even O. the
readers Of = Democratic paper IL : really
TOO laughahle i,.r serious comment bat We
have given importance t. oEe part u the
article L. illustrate the sbsnr,litv uf the
whole We be- oar readers t. get copy
81 the whole article, aud see last what IL
takes 70 make up a 9 leader" Ger the D.ao
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