The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-10-24
Yainahia Items.

Valuable Items.
We clip the following items from the
last Starof Empire, edited by the valient
HENRY CLAY PATE. They are interest
ing. Speaking of the elections, he said
"The Herald Of Freedom, Kansas
Neaes, and other presses of the like stripe.
issued their thunderings of JOY over the
success of the Douglas district. The
Herald puts down the johnson vote as
very small, only about 800, and compli-
mented Missouri in the highest terms for
non-interference. Two days thereafter
when the news reached them of the large
vote, which was cast at Oxford, their joy
turned out to be the joy which the sick
eagle feels when he reaches his eyrie to
die. While they were hard at work try
ing to stop the leak at one end of the ship,
the other end went down with rush.
We pity them very much, that they made
such great fuss so early over their sue
cess. Our old nurse used to tell US that
it was a sign of death to hear hens crow
before breakfast.
The reason of the large vote at Oxford
was that the people came down from all
parts of the county and even from Doug
las to vote where they had certainty of
not being insulted.
For instance, the vote at Olathe ought
to have been about 400. The vote was
less than 100. The vote at Lexington
and Mechanism was also very small, nearly
all coming down to Oxford. The vote at
Shawnee was also about one-half what it
ought to have been. The Indian vote
at that place should have been 200 at
least. Many from about Lawrence and
Lecompton know the game the free birds
would play long before the election and
came down to Oxford. This accounts for
the large vote at that precinct. We are
glad to see our old friend Sheriff Jones is
among the members elect. He has made
many a noble sacrifice and achieved many
a valiant deed in our behalf.
Thus Kansas is secured for slavery and
the South. The Constitutional Conven-
ton will convene. again on Monday, and
can proceed with boom-out breeze IN
their business. Gov walker has provided
an elegant hall for meeting, with every
comfort, and there will be no delay in
molding an instrument to herald Kansas
into the Union.
SMUGGLING VoTEs.-Bloomers and chill
dren voted in Lawrence as soyereignS on
the day of election. Lawrence, with a
population less than Westport, cast nearly
1000 votes. In our municipal elections
we have been in the habit of casting some
thing less than 200 votes We overheard
a Free State man of the blue stripe account
for their overplus. They were reinforced
by the delegation from Arapahoe. who had
lately arrived from the Cheyenne wars.
In Topeka, two woolly- y-headed, fiat-nosed,
thick-hped negroes voted. What decent
place that isl 1t is hard to conceive, the
Anglo-So race could stoop so low.
The Free State leaders, were on their
stand of Justice crying out against Mis-
souri, importation, when it is known they
had companies in the North Western free
States enrolling men with the pay of S 80
per day, TO, come into Kansas and vote.
! The cry was come to Lawrence and vote,
we have i5 all our own way, and the world
will never know of the fraud. Day by
dav we noticed the Free State hump back
hireling, with the black carpet sack, sweep
through our streets. "Wbere bound? To
Anderson, to Lawrence, to Topeka" Low
water in the Missouri, and the deep keel of
our steamers, saved us and the country
from a fraud the most heinous in the an
mails of crime.
/ DELAWARE LANDs-The intruders on
these lands have nearly all left. There
were few who came from Wyandott,
Leavenworth and QuiIdaro, underthe i'm
preston that new treaty had, or was
about to be made, allowing white settle
ment. The great body of these intruders
were, however, from Lawrence and Tope-
ka, who came down to vote in the Lea
venworth district, hoping to overcome
the pro-slavery majority. This is the
plain truth of the matter. The report that
MisSourians went over there, and seized
upon lands without show of justice, was
simply Il Free State falsehood.
HIRED observation-disclosures three hun
dred Black Republicans landed at Kansa.
City on Monday night last, about the hour
of midnight. They had been sent on t(
vote in the election, but the low stage o
the Missouri, with the sand bars cut shor
r their black intent. They are Esw foatin:
: about the country for wages. No doub
they will meet with that disappointment
their subserviency SO much merits.