New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-02

sas, minority voice in the registration, REVISION.
and among the judges Of election; but this is care
| fully denied. Even the Governor Is allowed no
substantial voice in the business from first TO last
| The People are not allowed to choose judge or
clerk Of election; the bogus Legislature and Its
creatures do everything from first to last. And yet
| The Commerciai proceeds on the assumption that
| this Constitutional Election is TO be fair one. or
that the Free-State men have the power to make 1t
| so, and lectures them over and again for their
| determination to lend il no cOuntenance!
That the Free-State men of Kansas would cheer
| fully waive all considerations of consistency and
abstract propriety, and submit the great question
at issue to vote of the whole people at any fair
election we know, and no one has reason TO doubt
| They have everything at stake-peace, security,
| prosperity, and Efe-and he is mad who magines
that they are prepared to sacrifice all these to
| punctilio or to partsanshp But they know that
the prospective Constitutional Election was never
intended to be a fair one-that il was conceived in
viainy and brought forth in fraud-and they treat
il accordingly. They know that it was never IN
tended to have this fair election, because
|. The Convention act fixes the 18th of March
(last) as the day on which man must have been III
Kansas to entte him TO vote at this election. This
time was nicely calculated as one at which thou
sands of Mssourians would naturally be IN Kan
sas. hunting claims ON the Indian reservations and
elsewhere while the Spring emigration from the
Free States could hardly have begun, owing to ice
and low water in the Missouri. Had the day been
fixed month later, it would have been thousands
Of votes better for the Free State side.
2. This election emanates entirely from that fac
ton which now dominates over Kansas by means
Of gigantic and notorious election fraud, wherein
thrice as many fraudulent legal votes were poled,
and they manifest no repentance for that crime nor
any desire to do better this time.
s. Most Of those who are now urging the Free
State men to walk into this dead-fall have made
themselves accessories after the fact to the original
usurpaton, by denying or concealng the facts, and
by all manner Of pettifogging pleas of 'estoppel'
&c, against every earnest effort to redress the
wrongs of Kansas.
4. Those who ordered this Constitutional
Election were careful not to provide for submits
sion of the Constitution thence emanatlng to
direct vote of the People Of Kansas; aud, even
though Gov. Geary once vetoed their bill because
Of this vital OMISSION they repassed it his head
unamended.
5. The utmost care is taken throughout the Con-
yention act to keep the power completely in the
hands of its Pro-Slavery cOnrivers, by committing
the census registration, holding the polls, canvass
ing &c, wholly to their creatures. Neither the
People nor the Executive is allowed any power in
the premises.
6. The Free.Stste men of Kansas, III whose
presence this whole drama of fraud is proceeding,
have resolved, with hardly an exception, to have
nothing to do with it. They did this before any
thing was said on the subject by their friends out
side of their State. We have simply followed
where they led. Are they net likely to understand
the subject better than Indifferent semi-hostiIe
people thousand miles away
Z. The Pro-Slavery faction is annoyed and irri-
tated by the prospect of refusal to vote at their
election on the part of the Free-State men. Their
reluctant testimony proves that our friends III Kan.
sas have taken the right position. Read the fol-
lowing testimony:
"JAcKsoSBURGF,, Ind, April II, 1857.
" 10 HE Editor Of The National Era
DEAR SIR: have Just returned from Kansas and
must confess thar my mind has materially changed
in respect TO the prOpriety OF the tree-Sase party
voting al the bogus election There Is no doubt that
they have three to five times the numerical strength
Of their opponents; yet taking into consideration the
past history of elections in the Territory, and facts
which learned while there, l am well satisfied that
the resolutions Of the Free-State Convention are eni.
nently night. On my way up the Missouri was told
by Missouian, into whose favor had Initiated my
self BY telling him the truth, but not the whole truth
that during the week preceding the I'D OF March,
Mssourians went up into Indian lands IN Kansas, in
numbers of 800 persons day, and located claims.
On inquiry how they could take claims on Indian re.
serves, which not subject TO claims, he stated
that that made no difference. We went up, drove
down stakes TO mark our claims, then returnedto
'WespOrt Missouri, and registered them there. This
satisfied ire; five hundred claims per day taken by
Mssourans and registered in Missouri before the first
Of April, and taken Indian land not subject TO
claims either; that will do. pushed my inquiry no
further but withdrew from the gentlemanly Rutian as
practicable.
"Whie in Kansas, stopped over night with an
ayCwed stakeholder from Georgia, who could not
conceal his wrath ard disappointment at the fact that
the FreeSate men would not vote at their election
After seeing what did in Kansas, and convers-
ing with men on both sides Of the question there, l
am well satisfied that the people of that Territory I'M
derstand their interests much better than those VINO
live remote from the scene Of action. And l most
ardenty pray that they may keep their resolutions,
and under no circumstanc allow themselves 10 be-
ersnsred into any entanglng alliances, so that when
the time comes, as come It must, when our National
Government will lend its aid to the support Of
Freedom, the Free-Stste party in Kansas can show
record clear of any pandering to policy for the pur-
pose Of striving for an uncertain victory.
We will only add that, if matters should be SO
adjusted that the Free-State men can vote at the
proposed Constitutions Election with reasonable Sc
cury sgainst fraud, We would advise them to vote.
But we expect nothing Of the sort-nay our cOnvic-
ton that the Pro-Slayery faction are resolved and