Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-08-10
From KRnzas Fraudulent APpor-
tiOnmemLs

From ARnzas-The FrauduteMt App0r-
uOnmenIs
The Leavenworth correspondent of the
Chicago Times gives the details OF the fraud
ulent apportonment for the next LIE 5islative
Council and House, Just made by the officers
OF the present bogus Legislature, Governor
Walker having failed to perform the duty re-
quired Of him by law. The Council consists
OF thirteen members. Leavenworth county
has 8, Atchison l, Jefferson and Calhoun /,
Douglas and johnson 8, Doniphan, Brown,
Nemaha, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, and
the territory west CT Marshall, Riley and
Davs,2, Shawnee, Richardson, Davis, Wise,
Breckenridge, Bourbon, Godfrey, Wilson,
Dorm, MCGEE, Butler, Hunter, Greenwood,
Madison, Weller, Coffee. Woodson, and Allen,
2, Anderson, Lykins, Linn, Franklin, and all
west of Wise, Butler and Hunter /. The
House consists of SO. Leavenworlh has s,
Doniphan 8, Atchtson 8, Brown and Nemaha
l, Marshall l, Jefferson 2, Calhoun l, Potto-
watomie and Riley 2, Douglas and johnson,
all west of Wise, Butler and Davis s, Shaw
nee l, Linn 2, Lykins 2, and some twenty
other counties in all.
Nineteen counties, which are allowed three
representatives, embrace the whole territory
South of the Kaw Kiyer, except five counties;
and, still further, two thirds of the free State
emigration of the present season have gone
into the distTanchsed region. In this terri.
tory are the hourishing free State towns of
Waubonsa, Ogden, Kanzas Falls, Emporia,
Ottumwa, Hampden, Neosho City, Leroy,
Hyatt, Dread, Pottawstomie, Burlington,
Mapleton, Ohio City, Centropolis, ana many
other new settlements, which are here Jumped
into representation a little more than one
half that of the single county Of Doniphan,
whin
But that is not all. Shawnee and Marshall
counties are entitled under this arrangement
to one representative each. Shawnee county
contains the towns of Topeka, Tecumseh,
Washington, Big Springs, Browuville, Bur-
Ilngame, Carbondale, and HebeIlings, and is
closely settled throughout. Marshall county
is up III the Northwest corner OF the Terri
tory, and contains only the Marysvifle station
on the Fort Laramie road, and half-starved
fragment Of Bufords thieves, who recently
murdered and plundered detachment OF Col.
Summers Cheyenne expedition. The entire
county does not contain two hundred inhabI-
tants. Calhoun county, two thirds of which
is on the Pottawatome Reserve and the other
third just open for settlement by the Del.
aware land sales, is on par with Shawnee,
and entitled to another representative and
Linn and Lykins counties, in the Southeast,
on the Missouri border and in convenient
proximity to Little Santa Fe and West Point,
from which Reid's army proceeded to the de.
VISITATION of Osawatomie last Summer-these
convenient counties are entitled to two repre-
sentatives each. To sum up the fraud in
grand total of "National Democratic"
swlndlmg, five counties on the Missouri Dor
der, Doniphsn, Atchison. Leavenwortn, Ly-
kins, aid Linn, control both branches or the
legislature.
Perhaps the innocent readers imagine that
we have now reached the end of this chapter
in Kanzas history. Not SO. The free Stase
men aould easily carry the five counties des-
ignated above, and the whole balance of the
Territory, but border sagacity again inter.
poses, and cuts off the entire emigration Of
1857. The free State men will undertake to
settle the business of Leavenworth County,
as against its entire pro.slavery population,
assisted by any number OF adventurous gem
tlemen whom Platte county may contribute
to the transient population. This is perfectly
well known. The free State men now have
a majority in every county in the Territory
Except, perhaps, Marshall.) Iowa Point,
Elwood Geary City, Doniphan Atchison,
Summer, Leayenworth, Delaware, GUM
daro. and Wyandotte, all river towns,
are in the possession of the free State men
by greater or less majorities, but under the
ruling of the bogus authorities, more than
two thirds of their aggregate population are
prevented from having any vote in the next
Territorial Legislature. Finally, as a proper
cap stone to this symmetrical structure bogus
judges of election are to preside over the farce
OF voting, assisted by limited number OF
Federal bayonets in each precinct, to preserve
the purity of the ballot box.