The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-01-07
KANSAS AFFAIRs-CIvIL WAR.

It. is almost impossible to obtain accurate
reports of the state of things in Kansas. Let.
ters written are excited and fragmentary; tele-
graphic dispatches contradictory.
The intelligence may be briefly summed I'D
as follows:
The special session of the Legislature had
closed In peace, but it is said that the militia
act, and the other acts passed over the Acting
Governors veto, had failed to become laws. in
in consequence of the presiding officers not
having affixed their signatures prior to adjourn
ment.
Mr.. Denver assumed office on the 2lst De.
cember; approved, it is stated, of the acts of
his predecessor delivered an address, concili.
atory in tone; and, at the urgent request of a
large party of Free State men, gave up the arms
taken by Governor Geary from the emigrants
under General Eldridge.
On the 2lst, the Constitutional election took
place. The Free State men were at the polls.
taking note, but did not vote The Constitu.
ton with Slavery was of course carried. A
large spurious vote was cast-the famous Ok.
ford precinct with its thirty voters, casting thir-
teen hundred votes for Slavery Missourians
crossed the border in many places, to take part
in the election. Numbers of them went over
to Lesvenworth, but the Free State men, turning
out in body, soon put an end to this fraudu-
lent voting. Several Mssourians were arrest
ed-said they had voted innocently, having
been told that the law had been changed, so as
to enable them to vote
The Kansas Daily Ledger, a neutral paper,
published at Leavenworth, after stating these
facts, remarks:
GAS an independent public journalist, belong.
ing to neither of the political par ties of Kansas,
we have endeavored to give truthful account
of the matter, and it can be relied on as sub
stantially correct"
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
an Administration paper, writing from Leaven-
worth, on the night of the 2lst ultimo, goes
more into particulars. He says:
"To-dsy was the election held under the
acknowledgements Constitution to decide the
Slavery question. The result at this precinct,
one that polled at the election last fall, when
the six months restriction disfranchised proba.
bly, one third OF the voters, some eight hundred
votes, and which can, under the provisions of
this Constitution, to-day poll legitimately twelve
hundred votes, polled two hundred and 'fifty-six
votes, of which number two hundred and twenty
were for the Constitution with Slavery and
twenty seven for the Constitution without Slave
ry,' and nine for ticket printed somewhere as
follows: 8 To HI with the Lecompton Consti-
tuition
"Rumors from Delaware and Kickapoo
show an enormously large vote. All the Free
State men, as well as the body of the conserva.
tive Democratic party, Free State and Pro-
Slavery, refused to vote.
kansas has again been invaded by large
numbers of Missourians they have voted here
and elsewhere. The result has been, unques-
tionably, to give large nominal vote to the
Constitution with Slavery That such has
been the case, none can deny. Your CORES
pondent found, in passing last week through
Missouri. the country papers virtually advising
the people of Missouri to vote, and the people