Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-04-22

per year will be invOridby demanded
for all arresges. sia1 o.
Affairs IN Kansas.-WM the Free State
ss Men Votei ia5Hsb
The Trumbull Democrat of the 9Th
inst, quoteda long article from the Stark
Co. Democrat upon Kansas Affairs. in
which, like all the writers of his kidney,
the editor attempts throw the blame of
making Kansas q Slave State, il case it
should be done, upon those who are us
ing every exertion to make it free. Here
is an extract: "If the free State men in
Kansas are largely in the majority, as
they no doubt are, hey have only TO
vote in the election of members of the
Constitutional Convention and thus make
it q free State. If they fail To do so tits
their own fault. and any attempt 10 fast
en- the fault on others will be a palpabie
and useless felshood." rq a7a NJ
II is scarcely possible to imagine any
thing more absurd than this. No man
we fancy, however bitter may be his
political predjudicies, however warped by
the habit Of belieyeing his party can do
nothing wrong. ever yet has lhoughtthat
the free State settlers in Kansas were
DESTROYS of making it a Slave State. 1t
seems 10 US, that no man can be so in
tensely ignorant as to be duped to believe
IL.
Yet this Scion gravely tells his read
-ers, hat the Free State men in Kansas,
have ii in their power by their votes to
make il Free State.
The beautiful consistency Of such
an argument, and the very fair opportu
nifty which the free settlers have of max
their wishes known al the polls. is shown
by the following extract from the Lee
compton correspondence of the Missouri
Democrat, written April Oh.
OUrR1eEs UNDER THE coSsrrruTrosAL
CONVENTION LAw.-The law under which
the census was to be taken. and a con-
slitutional convention called, is carried
in a manner still more fraudulent than
the law itself. The county courts, I'M,
der il, decide what shall be the precints
in each county, and the places of voting.
The county court of this county. recent.
ly appointed BY the bogus Legislators,
have taken this step. In doing so they
have been guilty of a great outrage
They have made four p~reeinls and vot,
ing places in Douglas county. In these
Lawrence is omitted. Lawrence and the
vicinity around it contains half the in
hxbitants of the county. but has been
denied a voting precinct. Lecomp,on
is one, and this is not a sixth part as
large as Lawrence, The other precincts
are located at obscure points. where
there are a few pro-slayery settlers. The
census list is a great fraud, SO far as
known, but the lists have not yet been
posted up publicly, which ought to have
been done on the first of April, accord
ing to the enactment of the bogus legis-
lature. 1t is not supposed that it win be
done. This is going TO be the grandesI
of all the Karsas saindles.
This being the state of affairs, moth
Jog would suit the pro- slavery men bet
ter than 10 have those who have denied
the authority of the officers of the bo-
gus legislature, and the validity Of it:
laws. now virtually admit both by going
to fhe polls and trying to vote. Let
them go to these out of the way pre-
-ciucts, where their names have not been
registered by the pro slavery officials,
and they would be driven away as they
were in the first instance, with insult and
with force. Let them do this, and then
these nationci democrats would say; they
had an opportunity to vote, but they
were TOO few. Hurrah for popular SOY.
~ereigrty. If they do not vote, then liks
the quotation above, these advocates Of
Squstter Sovereignty viii say, served
them right, they had the majority, they
might have voted aad Kansas Roult
have been a free State.
These northern paper followers of Pro.
Slavery leaders, admit the plain and in
dubi,able fact that the Free Stote men !,
RansGs are largely in the mejOrity. Nov
suppose thrse men Should go to the polls
and vote legally. but Uots at al hazards
and Il any attempt vas made to prtven
them By force. meet force by force. sn'
shat then would be the consequence
Does any one doubt that they would b
iadisted for treason by thousands, ant
ahat by order oftheGeneral Government
she U. S. troops would be ordered to ar
rest them. and enforce the execaiion Q
those census laws made BY Missourians'
We irow not.
A S7EP FcEwARD.-The New YorI
Legislature is meDoralizipg Congress Il
open. or rather reopen the communities
ton between the Hudson and East rivers