The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-09-12
Fer Delegate to Congress,
m AR Gus !. PARROT.
The Trick. Of ihe Enemy

election. Wehaye hesitated whether to
publish them, or to lay them before the
Executive Committee for their private ac-
ton, but we deem the whole public enti-
tied to the information, that they may
act concertedly in defeating the plans pro-
jected for our enslavement.
The Star Of Empire-H. Clay Pate's
paper-of the 9th inst, adopts its usual
style of doing business. by proposing to
break up the polls in ''rumpus," and
run off with the poll books. Hear the ed
itor, and see how anxious he is that the
people should govern
We would rejoice to see the ballot
boxes destroyed in Lanes districts, in a
military rumpus. OF course if the legal
ly appointed judges are driven away by
force, the election in that district amounts
to nothing, and when returned TO the office
of the Secretary of State, will be Topped
off as if those districts had never been IN
existence. Everything must work under
the law. The regularly appointed judges
must resign before any others can act in
their stead. If they are driven off per
force, they must make a report of the
same, or if intimidatcd must do likewise.
After all we believe the whole matter will
amount to another contested election in
Congress-
Our friends will take this matter BY
the foretop, and be prepared for violence,
and for the resignation of judges, as that
seems part of the programme. Hear
the scoundrel: Everything must work
under the law" We say so, too; and
the wretch who would devise such
schemes for wrestling from the people their
rights, should chang under the law" and
if found in the Territory on the day of
election, Che resides at Westport, No.
interfering in our affairs, he should be
disposed OF, "unier the law' of an out
ragged and incensed people. 1t is Gov.
Walkers duty to sec that the ballot box
in the vicinity of Westport is amply pro-
tected.
The next scheme is TO prevent the
several election precincts from being or
ganized, where the Free State party are
in the ascendaucy. The officers will ap-
point election precincts in the organized
counties, and designate judges; but the
judges will be privately instructed to be
absent from the polls, or no person quail
fed to administer an oath will be in at
tendance to swear such as may be ap-
pointed; hence the election will so by
default.
Another mode designated, is, to get up
imperfect returns, such as the officers will
be bound to reject, and thus prevent the
voice of the people from being heard.
This scheme is deemed very important
one, and unlessSthe greatest vigilance is
observed, it will succeed.
Agais, it is designed in heavy Free
State localities, where other frauds cannot
prevail, to suppress the entire election
returns. The people on the ground must
guard against this by such means as the
occasion may demand They must not
be allowed to succeed in this fraud, for if
they do,all our efforts Will be defeated at
the very threshold.
Contested elections for county officers
will he held before the Judges of the
District Courts. Cato has given an extra
judicial decision in advance of the case
coming before him, and without hearing
arguments, it will be seen that all persons
who have not paid Territorial tax will be
rejected, though admitted by the judges
of the eleotion-and thus the people are
to be disfranchised.
These tricks, and sundry others have
been communicated to US as the plan of
action to defeat the popular will To the
men concerned in this movement we say,
Beware! The people of Kansas scin net
ts ty!aed aeitl in this matter IF the men
who have charge of the subject will al
low justice to take place, and the people
to triumph, as they tciH do, all very we'll
Ifnot, though we have been constant in our
hostility to all unauthorized violence in
the Territory, unless in self-defence, yet i,
we will be the first to advise the unsheath- 7
ing of the sword to ayengs the wrong at S
tempted upon us. We wish an honest G
and peaceful adjustment Of ourTerritorial I
and We join hands with all E
men in an effort to bring them to tran i
quill issue; but we counsel no submission | !
TO wrong or violence. We advise no man |
TO allow Border Rnfianism to be revived S
On the soil of Kansas, and we trust it will {
not be allowed, though the prairies of
Kansas overflow with blood.
Upon Gov. WALkER deyolves fearful
in this crisis. 1t will test
bis fidelity to his pledges; and we firmly
believe it will result in placing him on
the top round of popular favor. We all
have felt that Gov. REEDER did not stand
firm in defence of his own
ideas of right. When threatened with
and surrounded by desperadoes,
be yielded his convictions of duty to per-
,onal safety, and the freedom of Kansas
lay PROSTATE at his feet. Gov. WALKER
viii be tested as few men have been test
ed; but we mistake his frmness if he is
not found equal to the contingency. +
CT Mayor ADAMS has been reelected e
Mayor of Leavenworth by over 200 ma lr