The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-10-31

Latest FROM Kansas.
Fraudulent Returns of Sixteen Hundred and Twenty
Four votes from johnson County.
LAWRENCE, K. T.. Oct. IA, 1857.
Of oil the bold and unmitigated frauds
which have been recorded in Kansas, there
has never been one chronicled SO unscrupu-
lous, so damnable, so glaringly unjust, so de-
void OF all the dregs of principle, which usu-
ally fingers in ruffianly characters, as the one
practised at the Oxford precinct in johnson
County. Men were sent from this place and
Wyandotte to the different precincts in
johnson County, to bring up the result as
soon as the polls were closed. was in Wy
andotte and saw men who did not leave until
the polls We're closed, and closed finally in
all the precincts in johnson County They
produced the result giving the slavery
party two hundred and forty-one majority.
On my arrival in this place corroberative
news was in circulation. No. one, Free State
or Pro Slavery, doubted for a momsnt, but
what this district, which includes Douglas
and johnson Counties, had gone oyerwhelm-
ingly in favor of freedom.
Last night the official returns reached Le-
compton, and to the surprise of all but those
who were not implicated, manuscript Just
90 feet long was unrOlled containing 1924
votes, all from one precinct, known as Oxford
on the Little Santa Fe.
This neutralized the entire Free State
VOTE and gives this district, which elects
nj ~.
to the ro-Slavery party. At this rate they
will have majority in the Legislature.
Johnson County polled over Is, 900 votes,
and not one-third the inhabitants can be
found in the county, to say nothing Of those
who are entitled to the Elective Franchise
under the six months prescription. The
election was cira rOce, and nowhere in the
Territory was over 30 votes cast in one day
1t is an utter impossiblity to write the
names in two days for sixteen hundred vot-
ers, yet Oxford overdoes it. The truth is
this-thc polls were closed until the news
reached them from Douglas County, in or
der that it might be ascertained how many
ballots it would require to throw the scales
in favor of the pro-slavites, and all the inter-
vening time up to the return of the poll
books, has been consumed in adding new
names to the list
The fraud is so bare-faced, that even briggs
the editor of the Lecompton National Dem
ocrat spoke denunciatory of the proceedings,
and declared that Stanton would never per-
init the certificate to be given to any but
those elected by legal voters-the Free State
candidates. The rufians were aware that the
election could not be carried by fair means,
and consequently have resorted to fraud
They knew also that if the Free State party
succeeded they could say "Othello's occupa-
toms gone.' To them it was the death
struggle; the intervening space between
them and eternity, if once lost, forever lost
and long score of accounts to settle, which
are of such nature that it might cause
some of them to ''stand on nothing and look
up rope
The outrages of 80 have again been enact
ed the ballot boxes have been invaded the
Government usurped by pro-slavery dema-
gogues, and their damnable proceedings in
stigated and sanctioned by the Governor and
Secretary of the Territory A ptilcss minor
ity trying by the aid of U. s. Dragons and
a drunken slave propagating governor, to
rule with the iron heel of despotsm an over
majority. For three years have
the Freemen Of this Territory struggled
against oppression, forced upon them by the
general government, and for what because
they preferred freedom to slavery. For three
years the people of this Territory have petit
toned and demonstrated for redress of griev-
ances, and for the same length of time have
their petitions been alighted, and their re-
monstranccS spurncd with contempt to the
fiat of more contemplate rascal than ever
Jeflreys was. Walker is but political trick
Ster, sent here to revive the vitiated ranks
Of the pro-slavery party. He has quartered
the army Of the United States around Law
renee FOR no other purpose than to convey the
idea in the east and south, that Lawrence is
"rebelliOus and discretionary" and that
the only real ruffians belong in the Free
State Party.
Cannon of sufficient size to crumblc the
citadels OF Russia, and of more bodily calibre
than the Governor has mental, are directed
upon the city of Lawrence for the purpose of
carrying by force what cannot be done by
fraud and usurpation. The artillery bOoms
forth a warlike SOUND upon the ears of
pcaceable community. Ii the spurious bal
lots are not cast out, there is but one altern-
alive left-a resort to arms.
The free men of Kansas deserve to be
slaves if they permit this wanton outrage to
be forced upon them. Government is con-
stituted by the consent Of the governed, and
the people Of Kansas have right to say
whether they will be bond or free.
When Intercepted concerning the certif-
Gates, Secretary Stanton said he believed the
whole transaction at Oxford to have been
concocted preparatory to the election, and
that it was base fraud from beginning to
end and that he should withhold them until
evidence could be adduced to prove it as
such, unless that number Of men sixteen
hundred and twenty-four) did actually vote
at Oxford precinct, ard then the proper tri-
bunal was the Legislature.
The fraud is SO palpably unjust, that it
even makes Walker tremble in his boots
There is no doubt but what the Free State
men will have the Legislature. at ST. Ma
rvs, in the Blre River precinct, one hundred
and sixty votes were polled, and one out of
the number Free State. Not over twenty
voters live in the precinct. In Atchison
county outrageous fraud was committed.
AT Kickapoo Walker was seen to hug a
drunken soldier, and say, Il am under very
many obligations to you for voting" The
Governor was slightly ''salubrious" At the
kckapoo precinct three hundred illegal bal.
lots were cast.
PARROTS majority is about five thousand.
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