Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-07-03

turns, as brought in, show q trllling
advance on the first report but so trilling
that the difference is not worth mentioning
The County of Douglas, with | 900 regis
tered voters and three times that number of
real voters, has polled 22S votes. Shawnee
County, that forms a district with Richard
son and Davis, has polled 60 votes there being
no voting precinct in the other Counties
In Leavcnworth City the vote is reported at
DO As there was only voting at three
precincts in the central part Of Kansas Chat
Is, beside at this place,) the returns are yet
meagre. So far as heard from the ultra
pro-slavery ticket is elected
Gov. Walker is now denying that he tried
to interfere with the election. lie rcpud-
ates his understood patronage for the
Jnion' ticket Mr.. COe, n superlatiyc
doughfacc and oice-hunting cormorunt, who
claims such immunity through some mys-
teriOus virtue III his seli-styled Democracy
while trying to get the people of Lawrence
to vote for him used the words, Come and
help the Governor Coe had scarcely as
many votes as would rattle in Il walnut and
the Governor lodges the hOnors of 50 pO-
tent political firm.
To-day and tomorrow the most of the re-
turns will get in. Mess there has been an
invasion on the border there will not be
l,jOO votes polled in Kansas. The Cover
nor has taken the position that this COnsti
tutional Convention is to be sustained by
the General Government What will he do
now Will he back handful of usurpers
in their impudent attempt, when even their
own registry list shows them to be mere
handful, and when it is notorious that the
registry does not contain One-third Of the
voters
lean that Gov Walker contemplates
giving them certificates Of election. lie has
been appealed to, but says he has no power.
If he has no power to remedy SO palpablc
a perversion, when will he have any If a
faction Of men register only 1900 voters,
and are voted for by only POO Of these, are
they to be considered elected The people
protested against the election and the usur
pers who held 1T Their abstinence from it
Is their vote against it. That even the
bogus record shows. But GOV. Walker
must issue them certificates. This will
be the practical working of that theory Of
fairness and free expression Of the will Of
the people with which the Governor has
tickled the ears Of deluded people and hope
iul politicians.
One half the Territory is left without the
power Of voting. OF the other half not
more than half are registered and three
iourths Of these do not vote. Doubtless the
Governor feels it to be the very essence Of
Democracy to allow this miserable handful
to rule, and to maintain their rule by
United States army, as, otherwise, they
would at once be driven out by general in
dignation.
Mark my words nothing but sufficient
force OF the United States army will be able
to keep that Constitutional Convention m
Kansas The people have determined that
if 1T assemblies at all it must assemble in
Missouri, where 1t belongs.
Gov. Walker is trying to get up and
believe irighttul cock-and-bull story about
an election being prevented in Lawrence by
violence. There is not a shadow of truth IN
such an idea. No one ever attempted to
open the polls. No crowd ever assembled.
There were, certainly, jeering questions
from the passers by to each other Have
you voted y Sarcasm and waggery towards
the bogus election was its most fearful op-
position. | mention this, because Walker
made the charge to some Lawrence men last
night, and had it promptly contradicted,
Still, as hc keeps ii reporter, whose pen 1t
has been boosted by his friends can reach
the Republican press, think it better to
mention, and thus contradict this inbound
ed rumor, which nothing but the sheer des-
peration of their circumstances
them to adopt. nag DIVA,
HtHGr Is IN the horrors, Som'
/ tmnk he will leave Kansas soon. Should h.
10 So the State Government will 20 imme
/ dlately into active motion. The people her
rtu 6Vt'tns 'tIeu o' Vhis Tuoernatoria
,','ti" a''ei s''Ia -as oieh sent u b9l
- " '.o lu''H Oi these usurpers' lh
i4'siueh' must not thihK oI sending another
Correspondence oft the Missouri Democrat
LLAYENwURTu, X. T., Thursday,
June Is, loj7.
The returns 0! Mondays election CONF
IN very slowly, but enough are receiyel
| here to show that the whole affair ha
proved a most complete izzle
The number of votes polled here was but
22j. The whole number in this county
(Which is the most populous in the STATE
and could poll several thousand votes) doe
not exceed 800. jefferson county, whicl
has also a large population, is said to hav,
! polled but 30 votes. Douglas county
which includes Lawrence and Lecompton
and embraces large and populous regior
in that portion of the territory, gives -
ballots. In Franklin county it is claimeC
that there are 500 voters, but ! AIN assured
by gentleman who has Just arrived from
there, that there has practically been no eec
tion there. When he left, he could onl,
hear Of about so voters that had been polleC
in the whole county,
1t is believed here by those who have tn,
best facilities for knowing, that there ha
not been more than fifteen hundred vote
given in the whole territory. Selah lh
pro-slayery residents are greatly discounted
ami decl are that the free state men ar
a native Of South Carolina or Georgia
while in charge Of claim held by anothe