The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-11-05
uur Gurrespon0enrG,
FROM KANSAS.
Correspondence Of the Potter Journal.l
QUINDARo Oct. II, 1857.

last letter home, to give yo1 the part3cu-
lars OF the late election, will endeaYor
TO do 50 TO the best of my poor ability,
for an not perfect in Syntax, so you
VII pardou me If it is not quite 50 inter
es.ing to you as it would have been had
you seen it in some one Of our papers in
tbis paEs qf he earth, will you? Well,
to begin with, on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, there was seen to be scme $50
or go Missouri ans cross q few miles
absxe, and below this City. That looked
encouraging to the Free State men Of
this place, did i rot?
Well, it was Q4lg for our good that We
sag .hem, for before we had thought that
W. should have at least justice done to
u, as Gov. K. j. Walker, Chat venera-
bic old scoundreD had sworn to US (the
Free State party, as you Of course under
stand that he would see that there vas
no illegal voting done, but we after~ards
found cut, that was only a scheme to keep
Us eff our guard 80 when We saw the
N!ssourlans crossing every day We began
. think that Walker was playing some
Of his old TRICKS with as. We prepared
ourselves earned ourselves to the teeth"
sud marched to the poll, which was two
ailes and half from our City, at Wy
andotte City, a pro-slavery hole in our
precinct, which was the place selected by
Secretary Lecornpte Tor the poll (for we
are not allowed to have the election held
in more than one place in each precinct }
They would not even let US have one Free
State Judge, and at first refused to Jet u
have a challenger 10 challenge such men
as We thought would vote illegally, but
ws ,sl@ them that if they did not allow
us to have challenger we would take the
polls away from them entirely, and SO
when they saw the determined spirit with
which We maintained our rights, they con-
clude9 TO let US have our challengers and
one or two men to keep tally Of the votes
cast so that they could not swindle us,
was not that right? Well, towards eve
ming two or three Missourians came stalk
ing up to the polls to vote, but they were
met by us and told that if they did not
get into their "crafts and put back into
their State, we would put them where
they would never have another such an
opportunity Of going home, or in other
words, we would avcugc our Free State
men who had persisted by their hands in
the early struggles for Freedom. Well,
they finally concluded to 50 home and not
vote, though they went with bitter curses
falling from their polluted mouths upon
Us, but they did net hurt Us. There were
about one hundred Free State votes cut
off By that six months law proclaimed by
his HopoE, Robert ], Walker, Governor
OF tbe Territory Of Kansas, in order to cut
of the Free State spring emigration to
the Territory, which they knew was very
great, and they knew if they got to vote,
We should beat them 50 bad that thev
(even the Border RuGians) would be
ashamed Of themselves. However as it
was we carried our precinct by about sew
enty-fve votes. There was one hundred
and ten votes polled from Quindaro aud
out Of the whole there was but one pro-
slavery vote polled How will that do for
Free State town with fifty foreign Yot-
ers in ii, aay7
Lawrence polied $50 votes all together
and out of that the Free State men got
743 of the votes. The Pro-Slavery Judg-
es became SO obnoxious to the people that
they took possession of the polls them
selEes and carried the election on legally,
giving every man his rights. At Le-
compton the Flee State party were also
triumphant, in fact, they gained every
county in the Territory but tgo, and they
were fraudulently gained by the other
party through Gov. Walker who was Ct
Kickapoo, and after he found that the
Free State Party were going to win the
day he sent to the Fort for 800 soldiers
and disguised them as citizens and then
made them vote pro-slayery. On the
next day (for we are allowed two days for
election) the Gov. got on 2 "big drunk
and made speech to the troops, and told
chem that it was their right to vote, and
made them all vote again. That was 6J0
fraudulent votes in LeaVenworth County.
lie aftcrWards made a speech to SONG
AiennI1ri and told Il nrrn " unta nS