The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-06-27
The Bogus Eleedon-A Suggestion.

ty, has now closed. The results are Just
what we expected, and no more. We
have not the returns complete, but suffi-
Gent to know that the vote cannot equal
two thousand.
Douglas county polled at Lecompton
200 votes, and at Willow Springs 40 votes.
No other poll was opened ip the county.
At Lecompton it has been asserted there
were large number of fraudulent votes;
but this is matter of no account, as the
whole thing was fraudulent of ITSELF
Eight representatives were elected.
In the Leayenworth district, the regular
pro-slavery ticket received from 500 to
416 votes, and the independent ticket from
64 to "a votes, making 466 votes, the
whole number of voters in Attendance
Twelve representatives were elected.
In johnson county there were polled
ia votes, and two delegates were elected.
Jefferson county polled 12S votes in
four precincts.
Lykins county gives IS votes.
Linn county gives 120 votes.
Doniphan county, with four precincts,
gave 251 votes.
Shannon has 108 votes.
Marshall county polled 80 votes, and
elected one Delegate to the Convention.
Atkinson county. polled 200 votes,
out of the 800 registered.
Making in the aggregate, as far as heard
from, 1881 votes. There is but one
more county, which was registered, to
hear from. This cannot vary the figures
materially.
Gov. WALKER took occasion at Topeka,
and subsequently, at Big Springs, to take
exception to the smallness of the vote
cast for the Topeka Constitution, and asked
whether it would be right for the 10000
voters of Kansas to be governed by Con-
stitution adopted by only 1,731 votes
1.-THE Governor deemed that small vote,
will he be so kind as to go back nearly
two years, to the time the Delegates to
the Convention to frame that Constitution
were elected, and he will find that We had
not one-fourth the population then that
we have at this time yet there were poll.
ed, of honest votes, for Delegates to that
Convention, nearly 1880 votes, or about
twice the number cast for Delegates al
this time. 1t was estimated that We had
5000 voters in the Territory at that time
Nearly one half of this number was rep
resented by delegates in the Topeka Con-
vention. Had the same proportion Of
voters been in attendance at the polls or
the 18th inst, instead of LOO to 2,OO(
votes there would have been 1000. Oh
even taking the ten thousand votes as reg
istered by the bogus authority as the
strength of the Territory, and there should
have been near :, 0OOvo polled, and YET
there is not half that number.
The vote appears small for the adop.
ton of the Constitution. We were de-
frauded of at least 500 lawful votes al
Leayenworth on the occasion of the ratif-
cation of that instrument by the violence
of the pro-slavery party, they having bro
ken up the polls, and run off with tn,
ballot box and poll list. Besides this, tn,
vote was taken in December, just as tn,
"Wakarusa War" closed, and before mos
of the voters could arrive at home afte
being disbanded from the defence of Law
renee. The whole Territory, in conse
quence of that move was thrown int,
commotion. aud was unorganized. TIL,
vote was large, in view of the circumstan
ces, and it should not be alluded to dis
paragingly by Gov. Walker, in conse
quence of those facts.
The late election can be looked upon b,
all men only as farce, and the Constitu
ton adopted by this handful of men vii
be looked upon as a still greater one
Gov. WALKEn has erred in giving vitalit,
to the movement by endorsing il. but a
he has done so in ignorance Of the tru
state of the case, now he has learned wha
is true, We trust he will retrace his steps
If the Constitution, framed by these dele
gates, shall be submitted to fair and ful
vote of the people, it will be rejected b
10000 majority. If it is not submitte.
to fair and fun vote of the people, it vii
be as worthless as would be the presen
Territorial Government, were it not fo
the federal authority which sustains it.
The people of Kansas are determine
to bereiieved from political thraldom, an
they viii be. No fraud or violence ca
permanently triumph Our people hay
borne with the past in the full confdenc
that justice would yet be done them
When the hour shall come that hope die
out for effecting a peaceful exit from on
present embarrassment they viii seek
in another way. What that way shall b
NE leave to the people in their sovereig
capacity to find out.
Will not Gov. WALKER do himself tn
credit the people of Kansas the favor, an
place the lovers of the American Unio
under lasting obligations by issuing
proclamation forthwith, asking the peopi
70 elect delegates to new Convention
which shall assemble under his proclams
ton, and let that Convention frame
Constitution and submit it to yote Q
the whole people. The people viii res
pond to his call, and viii turn out en- mass,
and viii roll up vote Of 1900 for del
egsses to such Convention. Treat tn
other election s. nullity. It had no lega
existence. Congress did not authoriz,
the Territorial Legislature to form Stat
government, but they did endorse tn