The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-10-31
kansaS Affairs.

Kansas Affairs.
The republican journals are SO dependent
upon "Kansas outrages" for political CAPT
tai, that they are driven to some shifts since
the late peaceable election in that territory.
Nothing seems to trouble them so much as
the triumph of their own party, and they
are now grasping at the absurd est rumors to
prove themselves defeated. In one district
they swear that Gov. Walker got the so,dir re
to vote and thus the republicans vere cheat
cd. The Herald Of Ffeed-,a.. however soon
comes to hand, a"d maintains that the SOL
diers had right to vote, and saws they voted
the republican ticket to a man, Then in
the OEiord precinct-nevcr before were there
such awful frauds Doubtless in the precinct
named bold fraud was attempted. Oxford
precinct is in Johnson coun,y-Lawrence is
in Douglas county. In Lawrence the re-
publicans had the voting all their own way.
and the democrats say they polled too many
votes. So in Oxford precinct, they under
took to beat the republicans at the same
game. But there is no proof that fraudulent
votes were cast in Lawrence, while in the
oxford precinct the game was played too
strong. 1t is said, when Gov. Walker re-
turned from Oxford precinct after investi-
gath the election poll there, he exhibited
the returns as curiosity. The poll list con-
tanned sixteen hundred and one names-all
written in the same handwriting
exactly fiftyfour feet in length. Al of the
names, ereept 100, uere copied from VII.
tidn's' Cincinnati Directory" those com
mencing with the same letter following each
other as regularly as they do upon the pages
of that very same book OF course Gov.
Walker at once rejected the returns, and
gave the certificates of election to the repub-
lican candidate, and lest his motives for do
ing so might be misunderstood, he issued
proclamation, stating the reasons that 90
verned him.
Annoying, therefore, as is the fact to our
republican friends, we see no way they can
deny or evade it, that they have carried both
the delegate to congress and the legislature
in Kansas, SO that the territory is now COM
pletely under their control.
While we thus willingly conccdc to the
republican party large majority in Kansas,
and turn the tel ritory over to their SWAY,
we must, however, correct an erroneous i'm
preston people have with reference to the
democratic party in that territory. Our OPP
ponents are in the habit of representing the
national democracy of Kansas as the "pro.
slavery" party. The designation is not fair.
The democrats in Kansas are no more all
pros slavery men than the republicans are all
aboiitionisis. The democratic party of Kan
sas, ike the same party Of the whole Union,
IS made up both Of pro-Slavcry and free state
men. y correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Inquirer, writing from Leavenworth few
days after the late election, says:
Of the three democratic councilmen elect
ed from the Lcavenworth district, two are
IN favor OF making Kansas free state. One
OF them, Judge Ha!deman. came to Kansas
Z pro-sisyery man Finding, however. that
Kansas would not become a slave state. he
long since abandoned, as a sensible man. the
attempt to make it such Alison c. Davis is
likewise ected to the Council. lie is a
firm undertaking free state man, but q demo
Graf.
The letter, after claiming (erroneously)
the victory in the election contest for the
democracy, remarks thercuFon:
We Goub- not the success Of Tie democra-
cy will be- charged by the abolition press ~
a pro s'aT-r ~ y.ct0iy-wc expect II. We
are satisfied that none other than the press
# that party WILL. Yet we can say. without
fear Of successful contradictions, that if the
democracy had carried at this election every
district in the territory. majority Of the
legislature would be, nevertheless, in favor
Cf making Kansas a free state: IN other
words, free STATE lien. In several Of the
districts hone DIt free state democrats were
placed upon .Ac ( -l,ct. We consider the
slavery question in Kansas as forever set
tied.
We have no dnni' the statement az the
correspondent is simple truth. for it accords
with what nearly every democrat from Kan
sas with whom We have couversed has as
sured US to be the case