Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-16
From the Baltimore Sun. %.
The June Election in Kansas Action of
the Free State Men

tne tree OCaCe men.
The Free State" men in Kansas have is.
sued an address TO the people Of the United
States, in which they avow their purpose
to take no part in the June election for del.
egates TO the constitutional State convention.
they allege, ms an excuse for their course,
that "by the lists Of qualified electors re-
turned by the shcriffs of the different coun-
ties, thousands Of free State voters have
been ignored, while the names of numerous.
unknown and mythical individuals are en-
tered MS qualified electors" All the ma,
'chnery of the election is 10 be controlled by,
pro slavery parliznns, and it would be suic
dial for the free State party to go into On
election in the face of such odds, and with
their pnst experience" This decision Of
the free State men renders il certain that the
constitutional convention will be pro.slavery,
and that on assembling in September next,
they will form constitution suitable to
their own views. This is conceded by the
free State men, and in view of this conlin.
gcncy the address says: q
We ask but that Congress may adopts
the Topeka constitution, which has already
Spassed the House, or TINT both il and the
zone that will be adopted by the pro slavery
! convention in September be returned to the
I people of the Territory with an enabling act
providing for affair and honest vote of the
bona file residents We ask no more than
this-we can ask for no less. None are
more devoted to our Union and our Consti-
tuition than the free Stale citizens OF Kansas.
For the institutions of our country none car
have a deeper or more loyal attachment
But we believe the purity of our govern.
ment and the eintegrty Of our institutions can
only be preserved by the admission OF Kan
sas as a free State K Wo
wish but that the slavery or freedom of
Kansas may be settled, once for all, by an
honest and legal vote Of the actual residents
in accordance with the principles Of the or
ganic act"
Among the names signed to The address,
are those of j. B. McAfee, of Maryland j.
A. Wakefield, of South Carolina; II. Miles
Moore, of Miss; j. II. Kase Of Virginia
Prof. w. Oakly, of Delaware, and A. A.
Griffin, of GA.
Letters from Kansas Ollege that the dep.
uties employed in taking the census meet
with much opposition from the free State
men, who refuse to give their names, with
the view Of keeping them off the voting list,
and thus permit the election to go by de-
fault. In Douglas county, 1906 voters
have been registered in Leavenworth coun.
ty 100, and in Johnston about 500, n large
majority in each being pro.slavery.
We find in the Union the following inter
estiNg Army news from New Mexico:
By private letter from an officer of
the rifles stationed at Fort Thom, New
Mexico, we learn thnt On the llth March
Lieut.. Baker, with detachment of thirty
five men of Company B, of that regiment,
overlook "a party of eighteen Apaches,
strongly protected by rocky and narrow
canon, and after a sharp action defeated
them, andrecovered forty two horses which
they had stolen from Senior Will Lieut..
B lost two of his men -one killed Instantly,
and the other mortally wounded. A scr:
geant, corporal and a bugler were Killed
and four wounded by the arrows of the
Apaches. The affiir was regarded as quite
creditablc to Lieut.. Baker and his men"
The RIvER.--A large freshet has been
occasioned in the Pee Dee, by the late rains.
Up to this morning at 0 o'clock, it has risen
over 80 feet, and is still ri,ing--great injury
will he done 10 the crops in the GLOW
grounds" and rs cotton seed is rather scarce.
some may find il difficult to replant. Some
say that Planters are" Gonstitutionally..
Grumblers," this spring will develop the
disease, at least in this section of the &C m
trv.-C Chera,o Herald
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