White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-22
The Election-wiu Kansas be a Slave
State :

that the Pro- Slavery party have major
ity in both branches of the Legislature,
and that the probability is. that Ransom
is also elected. If this is true, it viii not
now surprise Us a particle. We had
hoped there would be fair election and
the many fair promises which Governor
Walker made to this effect, led us to be.
lieye that no other than fair election
should be held. But since we have learned
that the Governor himself was the ring
leader in the basest frauds at the polls,
we will not be surprised at any news
which may reach us, unless it be that the
Free State party have succeeded.
The vote shows that the most sparselya
populated Counties and precincts have
almost invariably polled the heaviest vote
and it is needless to say in favor Of
which party this vote counts. For ex-
ample, Douglas County, which was one
of the first settled Counties in the Terri
tory, and is one of the most densely pop
ulated, containing the towns of Lawrence
and Lecompton, and numerous other
towns, polls some 1900 votes. johnson
County, which contains not single town
Of any consequence, and is mostly an In
dian Reservation, where the lands have
not been open for settlement long enough
to entitle settlers to vote, and where the
population is sparse, also gives some 1900
votes and they are almost unanimously
Pro-Slavery. This County was at first
returned as giving some 260 Pro-Slavery
majority, and about the true number of
votes which the County contains, were
given but Douglas, which is in the same
District, having given 1900 Free State
majority, another return was sent from
johnson, making the Pro- Slavery major
ity 100! Doniphan, which is the third
County in the Territory, in point of pop
ulation, and is thickly settled, gives only
some HOO votes. And look at Kickapoo,
another insignificant hole, giving ire
mendous vote, sufficient to turn the scale
in the large County of Leavenworth. In
Marysville, Marshall County, where there
is military road, and station, we learn
that an immense vote was also given, in
proportion to the population, only one of
which was Free State Transfers and
soldiers were collecting there for several
weeks. For aught we know, voting may
be going on in Johnson and some of the
frontier Counties yet. An immense vote,
all Pro- Slavery, may be looked for from
the extreme frontier Counties, where there
are few trading posts, and scarcely any
settlers.
There has one thing looked suspicious,
to say the least, in elections for several
years past. We have noticed that in
important State elections, where there
was close vote, there were some few
sparsely populated Counties, from which
no returns could be received, until all the
rest of the Counties were officially heard
from, when the missing Counties would
come up with rousing Democratic ma
jority, sufficient to decide the election in
their favor. Look at Lower Egypt"
in Illinois, at the last Presidential cleo
ton. Look at Missouri, in the late Gu
bernatorial contest. And now look what
is being done in Kansas
Any one who will travel over Kansas,
cannot but be convinced that she contains
at least FIVE Free State men to one Pro-
Slavery man; yet the spectacle is presGn-
ted, of her giving Pro- Slavery majority.
This news will be sent by lightning
throughout the land, and will be taken as
conclusive evidence that Kansas is in re-
atty Pro-Slavery. Her citizens will be
expected to submit to any and all laws,
however tyrannical and unjust, or be set
down as law breakers and rebcls--because,
forsooth, Gov. Walker pledged himself
to see that fair election was had, and
the Territory has gone Pro-Slavery ! The
tremendous illegal voting that is charged
upon the Pro-Slavery party, will be BRAN
ded as lies by those who shut their eyes
because they do not want to see.
Will Kansas be Slave State? We
have heretofore believed this to be impos-
sible, because of the immense predomi-
nance of-the Free State sentiment. But
since the result of the election, and the
disgraceful means resorted to by those in
power, to bring about this result, we have
no hope that she will be Free. Some
profess to think that the Democracy, ha-
wing carried the election, but still know
ing that large majority of the people of
the Territory are in favor of Free State,
viii either prohibit slavery, OF bring in q
Constitution silent on the subject. and
thus firmly establish the party in the
North. But, to use slang phrase, we
do not believe they are " around doing
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