New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-03
me- pi.bng inside If il. The Pfo-Siayery party 70
the Territory did not Deed ~ learn that ths Free

state men bad q ms ior ty, but they di need - be
taught that the gone al fraud .as cot oinmpotent.
That the rsGls shoud have agteeably surprised
nlary fri, nds Of Freedom, j. not remarkable. The
Pfo-Slavtry party bsd plot, from which victory
might well have been hat med. IL was adequate u
,h- emergency; but it appears ,bat those who uadrr
t.oh 10 carry it .ut were not. They were wretch
sdly coarse and vulgar ia the execution Of details
They were rather INDECENT, witbal and did not
suenl money enough, or had il not TO spend The
fraud in the johnson County returIs ou9h, 70 nave
been extended aud divided with at least ore other
precinct and tie hast, TO make up a BIZ lis OF
voters should not have prevented crater accuracy IN
certify ing TO them. After all, the true secret OF me
Pre- Slavery overthrow lsy in their underestimate
Of what their opponents could do and the activity
Of the latter They counted pretty well upon their
own strength, but they mis- calculated mat OF the
enemy. They knew that those in the Free-Stat,
party, WHO had opposed the voting policy, were
formidable power 10 it, and they calculated Tat the
decision arrived at against the Judgment OF the latter
would split the party. They have been taught now
that this was II great mistake. 1he vote OF Law
renee alone was sufficient commentary on that.
But after all nothing bat the rejection OF the John
son County (er rather, the Little Santa Fe) vote
saved the Free.S.ate party. 1t was the Dangling
botcb- work of these reiurrs not their fraud, which
caused their rejection. The Free-Sta.e men had
0uly been able to save DOnphan County from fraud
by the skin Of their teeth. Lynn County, which the
PTo.SayeIy men thought they had, it now appears
that they have lost. The 200 votes from McGhee
County (Which are just so Isuch bOgus) has carried
the three representatives in the district to which 1t
was attached; but Shawnee County, which was
included 10 it as Council District, threw 6c- Free
Safe majority, which proved mscalcuitOn
the Pro-Slavery men, and saved the two Council
men.
Nothing could appear more contradictory and alb
- t~.,.. %Lah wt De-
cnct. Only small pOrtiOb-less than tenth
vote for the county officers. That the people of any
county would have made 81 n an omission is not very
likely Then in the vote for Congressman there was an
incoDgruty Doubtless, the fabricatOrs Of these re
turns had their own reasons for desiring TO keep an
investigation Of such vote out of any tribunal save
the Legislature ITSELF thus elected, but they did not
count enough on appearances. Men OF national
reputation like Walker and Stanton have no par
ticuar objection to fraud and political yllainy in it.
SELF but then they like to have some little cover IN
der which to take shelter. The Border Ruffians
we're not sufficiently considerate them They
wanted them to do work dirty that its filth would
inevitably choke them. Gov. Walker and Secretary
Stanton have both proved pretty concusively that
they were willing to do large amount OF dirty work
in the cause. They have done so rery much that
their rejection even of this Oxford farce gives ground
for many sbrewd specuations as to what could be
their probable motive. True, 1t was much more ir
regular and bare-faced: but why could he who
cheated Peter so unblushiDgly and Kickapoo make
go many sancimoniOus grimaces to Paul for the at
tempted swinde at Little Santa Fe!
The plan of the Pro.Slavery battle was this: To
carry Leavenwtrtb, Atchison and Doniphan by
fraudulent voting, and the heavy districts south OF
Kaw River by fraudulent returns. In Leavenworth,
by the active exertiOns Of Gov. Walker IN their
favor, they succeeded. In Atcbison, ditto; but in
Atcbison the task was easier. 1t required no super
human or Gubernatorial effort. The Free-State
men had, indeed legitimate majority, but 80 small
that it could be overcome by ordinary election
swindliDg and without the Intervention of fraud
so high handed aud brazen-f faced as to threaten its
own overthrow. In DOniphan County, the active
exertons Of the Free-State men and Gen. Lane were
Just sufficient to save it. Msr.hall County came
pobly to The vindicatipn tf Border Ruff anism,
for Marysville with not more than sixteen leglti-
mate votes, polled 100. Marshall could do little.
baltry representative was all that could be won
by such devotion. In Douglas County, the Pro-
Slavery men were astonished Their own precinct
at Lecompton fell into the hands Of the enemy, and
they felt Law and Order" influence about them
that ought to have done their professions good The
Free State men went into johnson County with
1900 majority What did the Rufians care 1t
might as well have been fifteen or 10, 900. On the
morning of the second day. Sheriff Jones and others
of that ilk together with high Federal official con-
nected with the Courts, made their hurried way to
Westport, Mo. There the giant ele;tiOn retlrn OF
1000 votes from Oxford was cOncOcted and Matched
cut as was the return ffOm McGee' County,
and the conspirators returned to LecOmptoA, feel
ing that National Democracy" was indicated
Luckily for the cause of truth and justice, and I'M
luckily for Them list of names covering some nifty
feet of paper is not 80 easily made. 1t requires
time and circumspecliOn. Osths have to be fixed
TO it, and while it is not at all essential that they
should not be perures In order to win the favor OF
Stanton and Co.. is essential that they should have
certain form. 1t is essential that there should oe
two copies of the polbOOk kept at each election or,
at all events it is essential that there shoua be teo
LIFTS purporting TO hare been thus Kept That was
too bad to expect mortal men TO get up two such
lists But on Investigation 1t proved that There
was no duplicate of the mammoth concern sent to
Iecompton. This was buuder. Ii was fatal
one. 1t was garng defect that could be proved in
n momep. at any time. To expect the Governor
and the Secretary to swallow il, therefore, in the
face of numerous protests, and still more numerous
threats. was too much. The people OF Douglas
County are accused of being radicals perhaps the
accusation is Just At al eyents the reception OF
the Little Santa F6 vote under such circumstances
was not very safe 1t would be surely disgraceful
in the end, and might be verse, that is 1t might be
dangerous, in the beginning. The vote OF Oxford
was, therefore, thrown out. This righteous oiiic Al
step was taken under cover Of another prOclama-
tioD, in which the Governor and Secretary Joined.
Having concluded to do it, they did it in a manner
in which they would be likely to make some capital
outside of the Territory, for they were shrewd
enough to know that if they did it at all, in any
shape it would not bring them much capital With
their own party init
The list of 1900 votes still adorns the official
records. There was not syllable applied to the
Oxford" vote that does not apply to this. 1t was
never voted. There is no duplicate in McGee