Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-07-28
Why We do not Vote.

II is assumed by those who would be
guardians of Kansas politics, thar on. own
OF repeated prutcstations of the superior
ity IN numbers, and of desire to settle
the whole question amicably at the ballot
! bcN, as well as proper regard for tbs.
regulations OF our friends IN the States,
require tbs 10 pursue different course,
/ but we do not 50 regard it. Our durv TO
ourselves and 10 our country is plain. We
+ repeat with n full knowledge Of the. past.
that we are overwhelmingly in the ma
Jorlty-evidenced by the recent election
III Leavenworth, the only place of inlpor-
tance III the Territory, besides Lecomp-
ton, where the pro-slavery men haze ever
CLAIMED a maJorliy-wIlnessed also by the
recent heavy immigration, which Is uni
versaily acknowledged 10 have been Free
State ten TO one. We protest, also, tha,
We are yet, as heretofore, ready and anx-
luus 10 submit the question under proper
| safeguards, 10 the arbitrament of the ball
! lot box, authorized by the FEDERAL.
LAW. We must have higher authority
Tor 50 proceeding than the ambiguous en-
aciment OF mock Legislature, imposed
upon us 10y mob violence, at time when
the hands of the Free State party were
comparatively weak-and the law itself
under which we are required to act. a.
bounding IN regulations OF the gros. ca
injustice and sPecious duplicity, and from
which there is no appeal. No cuarante,
is given for the submission of the Consfi.
tuition to the people, after 1t is framed
and none will be by the Territorial au.
thorliles. Indeed, it would avail nothing
II II should be submitted, as the law pro-
vides that none can vote In either case
whose names are not contained In the
census returns as actual residents on the
18th day of April, and it is a notorious
Tact that not one III ten of the names of
known Free State settlers is contained in
those llsts-and it is an equally notorious
fact that th0us lnds of residents of the
State of Missouri are named III those lists.
and viii be here 10 vote on the day Of
election.
Put ihis and that together, and then
calculate the chances for 4 fair unbiassea
vote Add to them the fact also hat TN,
whole bogus machinery, from Governor
down TO Constable, is IN the hands of a
set OF men who have been appointed to
their respective positions for the purpose
of making this a slave State, and who
have heretofore manifested no compunc-
lions about the means employed for that
purpose, and some idea can be formed Of
the degrees of fairness with which the
canvass will be conducted.
Indeed, ia many portions of the Terri
tory where there - manifcst prepondcr-
ancc ot Free State settlers no en,umera-
ton whatever has been attempted, and
consequently, 10y the provisions Of the CEN
suS act, no poll can be held.
The lave party in Kansas are as onr-
Ious as any of their apologists in tho
North, that we shall go TO the polls with
them. But they have good and valid
reason therefor. They well know that
IN the event, If beaten as we certainlv
should be under the systematic frand
which Is 10 control the election. the Free
State party, have Understandings, and in
the most explicit manner, Acknowledged
the validity of the Territorial oroaniZa-
non, would In future be effectually debar-
red from further opposition to ii on the
ground OF the lllegality which :; is inher
ent wish
Their invitation is very seductive. bu,
II favors very much of the petty alleporv
OF THE Spider and the Flv," and The
moral Is too instructive TO be lost sigh, Of.
especially in politics. Topeka Tribune.