Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-09-10
Kansas Affairs.

by hundred and SlXty-three oeieSateS, ahu
held for the purpose of nominating delegate
to represent the Territory in Congress at the
ensuing October election. Marcus d. Parrot,
of Leavenworth, was nominated by acclama-
ton, being the only candidate named. lie
accepted the nomination, and addressed the
Convention on the Importance OF the issues ln-
volved in the pending election.
On motion of Gen. Lane, an Executive Com
mittee of twenty was appointed to take eharge
of the election, on which were placed we'll
known representatives of all shades OF Free
State opinion A resolution was also adopted
Recommending the citizens OF each voting pre-
cinct to appoint a committee OF three respon-
sibe men to record all votes offered, and
where there is a refusal the reason of it. This
is an excellent provision which we hope will
be universally adopted and carried out. The
knowledge that record is kept of all their
frauds and rascalities will be q great check on
the bogus officers who will be appointed to
preside over the election.
The other Convention, held on the the same
day, was a Mass Convention, composed of
about five hundred persons from all parts of
the Territory, met, not in the character of
Convention of the Free-State party, but simply
in that of a Convention of the citizens of Kan
sas At this Convention the question was dis
cusSed with great earnestness, though appa-
rent.y without undue warmth or excitement,
of the policy of of voting at the ensuing Ter
rtorial election \ Committee Of Business of
twenty-five, geographically distributed, SO us
to fairly represent all parts of the Territory,
was appointed, of which General Lane was
chairman. This Committee appointed in favor
of voting. That policy was opposed by james
Rcdpath, Judge Conway, Mr. Phillips (our
intelligent and indefatigable correspondent,
and by the Rev Daniel Foster 1t twas favor
cd by Judge Smith, General Lane aud Gov
ernor Robinson, and was sustained by a vote
adopting the resolutions proposed by the Busi
ness Committee. These resolutions were eX-
pressly based on the repeated promises of Gov.
Walker that the people of Kansas shall have
full and fair vote at that election, and they
are accompanied by protest against the en-
actmcnts forced upon the people of Kansas by
the bogus Missouri Legislature. They also con-
tain two other very important and as it seems
to us, very judicious provisions, viz E: the ap
pointment of a Committee to wait upon the
Territorial authorities, and to urgently press
revision of the late iniquitous apportionment,
and an authority given to Gen. Lane to ten
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the former under the resolutions of the Tope-
ka Convention for the protection of the ballot
box. The concluding resolution expresses a
firm attachment to the the Topeka Constitu-
tion and Government, and that all that is done
shall be done with q view toward setting that
Government in operation IN legitimate man.
Hcr, at an early date.
Now that the resolution to take part in the
Territorial election has been thus formally
adopted, we trust it will be carried out with
heartiness and zeal by all the grades of opinion
and that such will be the case, We think, is in
dicated even from the speeches made in oppo-
sition to voting. Those speeches remind us
little of the advice of the Quaker to his friend
who in spite of the conscientious objections
urged to the use of violence on any occasion,
had resolved to shoot the leader of a mob
which was threatening to pull down his house ::
Friend, if thee will shoot aim little lower
Those gentlemen opposed the policy of voting,
but insisted that if voting was resolved upon
and the Legislature was carried, it should be
used to annihilate the whole bogus Amnstra-
ton
We have the not the least objection to
that but the first step is to get possession of
the Territorial Legislature With the scanda-
lous and outrageous apportionment made for
the express convenience of intrusive voters
from Missouri with the bogus officials to pre-,
side at the polls: with the false voting lists
already made up, with with the probability OF
fresh inroad from Missouri with the frauds
of all sorts that will certainly he practiced
and the probable violence, with United States
troops to back it we judge that although
the Free-State men may out-number their
opponents ten to one, yet the official re-
turns will elect Border Ruffian Legislature
But even if that should happen, We can still
see great advantages from going into the elcc
tion. With thousand United troops in Kan
sas, and Gen. Lanes volunteers at his disposa
if Walker does not defend the polls from vio
lcnce on the part of Missouri invaders, it will
he plain enough that it is only because he is
resolved and instructed not to do So As to
fraud and false voting, that may he expected
in any quantity but if the recommendations
of the Grasshopper Falls are carried out, that
fraud and its precise extent will be made patent
TO the world. 1t is time to stop Mr. Buchan
all from gabbling any longer about the Gun
willingness of portion of the people of Kan
Sas to trust to the ballot-box, that certain
American remedy for redress of grievances ;
and since he steadfastly shuts his eyes tc
all the Border-Ruflian violences and unsurpa
tionS perpetrated under Pierce's Administra
ton, it is time to give him and his officials ir
Kansas an opportunity to exhibit themselves il
this matter, as they have done in so many
Others not only no better than Pierce's, but {
good deal worse
One Of the two things is sure to happen
either the Free State men will possess them
selves of the TERRITORIAL Government, or Walk
or and Buchanan will stand before the worlC
stripped OF their sleeps clothing and stoel
feathers-the one as a chattering magpie, th
other as a tFeacherous and bloodthirsty wolf
who in character of sheep, has sneaked int,
the fold for the very purpose Of killing th