The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-08-19

According to recent accounts from Washing
ton, the Government is determined to maintain
a large force Of regular troops in Kansas, and
even entertains the idea of collecting in that
Territory number OF volunteer regiments
What for? The convenient pretense is the
alarming accounts of Indian hostilities in the
West-about authentic, we suppose as the
story of al attack upon Fort Riley, which gave
Gov. Walker an opportunity to back out Of his
bootless Lacquer of Lawrence. We cannot i'm.
agine any need of regiments of SOlunteers to
be stationed in Kansas, unless it is that the Gov.
ernor thinks that the Border Rufians may re-
quire help in the October elections. Upon sew
eral former occasions the Missouri intruders
have made their appearance in the character
of Kansas militia, summoned to take arms by
the Governors proclamation. Gov. Walker is
hardly up to that, and the experiment of his
late treason proclamation against Lawrence will
probably make him more chary than ever. It
has been his way hitherto to shift off respon-
sihilty upon somebody else, and he would doubt
less prefer that the next invasion Of Kansas
should take place under the authority of the
War Department rather than his own.
But tits not, we conjecture, with view merely
TO the October election that this move is to be
made. The late most iniquitous apportionment
of the Territorial Legislature to be elected in
October, the making Of which was devolved by
Walker upon William G. Matthias, Speaker Of
the late bogus House Of Representatives, and
upon Thomas johnson, President Of the bogus
Council, is SO outrageously unjrst that it can
hardly fail to force even the most moderate OF
the Free State men to begin to consider the ex.
pcdiency Of putting the Topeka Constitution
into actual operation. The thirteen Council
Districts are SC arranged that eleven of them
touch on the Missouri border, thus putting them
within the power Of invaders, who will need to
do no more than just to cross the border, with
out the expensive and it might be, dangerous
operation of penetrating into the interior. The
Territorial House of Representatives contains
three times as many members as the Council
Of the thirty nine members, three only have
been assigned to the country south of the kaw
River, which contains nearly half the population
of the Territory, and is settled almost ex.
clusively by Free State men; while Of the thir-
ty six given to Northern Kansas, twenty-nine
are to be chosen in districts SO gerrymandered
as, like the Council Districts, to touch the
border, and SO to afford every convenience
for intrusive voting. The whole direction OF
the proceedings at the polls is to be under the
control OF bogus officers, but it is pretty certain
that in order to sustain them in their projected
scheme of packing the vote to suit themselves,
something more might be necessary than the
bogus law. or even the presence of considera-
BILE body Of intrusive voters. At the late Tope.
ka Convention, Gen. Lane was authorized to get
up military organization for the protection of
the polls, and 1t is no doubt the idea OF an Off
set to this organization, SO as to furnish the
bogus officers with force to sustain them in
rejecting resident voters and accepting intrusive
votes, that has led to the scheme said to be en-
tertained at Washington Of quartering youn-
teer army on Kansas.-[N. Y. Tribune.