New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-30

We print herewith the bogus functionaries Off
cal returns Of the Legal Voters of Kansas Terri
tory. made in pursuance of the act of their late
Legislature. Our correspondent at Lecompton
telegraphs us the facts needed to complete the ex
position There are hiry-thJes counties in Kansas
which contain larger or smaller number of white
settlers. OF these counties the row wing directly
| along the Missouri border contain all the Pro-
Slavery there is in the Territory, except that
which clusters around the Federal offices at Le-
compton, in Douglas County. OF the SiIty dele
gates who are to compose the Constitutional Con
yention, Sec eary Stanton (whO cannot help him
self under the bogus laws has appOrtioned thirty
Strcn to The counties on the Missouri border with
eight more to Douglas County, making just three
fourths of the whole number to the counties which
contain all the Pro Slavery strength and perhaps
half the voters in Kansas.
The bogus officials pretend to have taken the
census of sixteen Of the thirty three countless but
have really taken it in but ten, eking out their mea
ger list from the returns of their last years vote in
the six other counties. The reader will observe
that, though their Legislative act peremptorily re-
quired census of the entire population as well as
of the legal voters, preense of having taken the
census is made except in ten counties, while
dozen counties well filed with Free-State voters,
have had no bihd of census, even of voters, taken
at ALL And thus The bogus lists report d little
over Nine Thousand IOterS in the Territory, while
there is not one man less than Twenty five Thou
sand American Freemen of due age in Kansas, at
least Fifteen Thousand Of whom have been there
long enough to enttle them to vote even under the
bogus Convention Act.
If those who blame the Free State men for de-
Ginning tie part assigned them in this monstrous
fraud, and wonder why they don't get themselves
registered, will not remember that the strongest
FreeState Counties, many of them largely peopled'
ntrer had any bogus officers 10 do the rgistTing,
they will perhaps, little further into this mill
stone. Nobody is authorized to register but the
county oficers appointed by the bogus Legislature,
which is not now in session, while these counties
never had any bogus officers, having no raw mate
rial out Of which they could be manufactured.
How, then, will some grumbler inform us, were the
Free State settlers of these counties TO get regis
tered if they had wished to take part in the bogus
Election!
Well! the National Democratic party and
the National Democratic Free-State party are
to have the next bogus election all to Themselves
a nice pocket arrangement, which will obviate the
necessity Of bringing their Missouri allies this
time They will of course lovingly elect their Con
yentiOn, and thereby frame their Constitution,
which will be SO shaped as to keep Slavery in Kan
sas as long as possible though under the pre-
tense of driving it out When they shall have
codded it up to their mutual satisfaction we dare
them to submit the Main Question to a fair vote of
the ,chole People of Kansas, each bearing on his
ballot Topeka Constitution" or "Lecompton
Constitution" as he shall judge best If they
make Constitution which the People of Kansas
shall deem preferable to the Free-State one already
in existence there will be the end of the matter;
but if the People do and shall cling to the Topeka
Constitution as that under which they choose to
live and die, who has right to say them Nay