New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-20

hour with 20 few TO act challenger, ana ID crVso
composed mainly Of drunken and desperate men, %
the troors were not stationed at the polls , =,
we think nearly every legal vote was poed be-
fore one O'clock We cav few before that time tnat
We had reason TO think illegal; and few alter tha'
were not certainly or the frauduisnt 49, -,
were identified BY their real names, ana y,
arrest are ont for them There were some ior'y OF MY
80 - IA ,be doubIe voting; and frequently the
sane man. after voting, rcappeared WITHIN ,en hu.
utes under a new name and voted again. boys no'
over fourteen years Of agev voted ana one Vi 'nen
The boyy at Kickapoo always votes. CIo" va W
horsemen who had voted left the town IN enu .,
noDn and said they were going over -'ntal y! ~
course TO NJ ssouH. We think there were aooulh i'!
MlssOurans voted there. ,.j
ON This way there were given, legal and fraud9
lent about 400 to $50 votes. The vote as % m
b,weyer AT the closing of the polls, was ?uo. me
poJ-books could only show that number by inserting
AGO or 500 names not given by voters. lherc wa ~
no rarid voting-there being frequent intervals o.
fifteen Minutes when scarcely vote was p'i1eI. "a
SQUAD would come TO the polls, scatter through tne
crowd vote and return to the grog-shops- nth lne
neat squad came up, scarcely ticket would be pre-
sened AT these intervals the business was ~ voIl-
pletely drag that judge OF the election, "ilan,
Franklin repeatedly called out, " more Vy'es
when they would pour IRON the grU5-shoPs anu Ton
1.-THE poll. were open u hours, having been closed
On hour at noon, and closing finally at 81 oc.ock.
Exac y at At o'clock one of the judges announced 10
polled. At FIVE minutes before o'clock, the com,
handing officer by request, made inquiry again and
told by the judges there were ooi poneu' floi,
that until the close, there were but nlne fo'erS anu
the aggregate was then announced as 9Oo. FROM II
O'Clock until the close, there were certainly not more
than 80 votes poled that the aggregate announce
could only be made up by an enormous oricia irsud'
We might give scores of extracts from letters,
but the above is the deliberate report of careful OBJ
servers, signed by Thomas Ewing jr., l.. G. Losee,
J. W. Morris, II. c. Fields and others, who are
widely known as men Of character and problty. 1t
csnno, be necessary to corrobOrate these two sub
stantiay accOrdant statements, written from widely
different stand-points.
OF course, the frauds committed at Oxford
Shawnee, Delaware and other Pro-Slavery dens
along TIE Border, were more barefaced, as there
was less Free-State scrutiny at those points. Let
us rather elucidate the frauds at other precincts
The following is from the Lawrence correspondent
Of The Chicago Tribune:
at the ferry where the military road from Fort
Leayenworth to Fort Scott crosses the Kansas River
a village has sprung up the Delaware Reserve
and about dozen white persons live there by suffer-
ance Of the Indiana. This point was made precinct
by Calhoun, and on Monday it is said 500 votes were
cast there No doubt exists of there having been
large number Of MissOurians in attendance, but the
exact figures | could not ascertain.
At Delaware City at the usurpers polls, one OF
the Judges sat. at a window with handful OF Demo
cratic tickets concealed in his sleeve, and when a
Prostate ticket handed in it was dropped on the
ground and Marshall ticket inserted in it, place
This trick was not discovered till noon when the TEL
low was driven from the window. Writs were pro
cured against the Judges, but one OF them escaped
into Missouri another c. u. Redman, r member OF
tie late Feon Convention, arrested ana brought
before Judge Purkins, who committed MN uhuer 'he
new law ~, c,.
Here il spccimen-also from The Chicago
Tribume-o of the Pro-Slayery voting at one of the
interior precincts:
Gone of the teamsters who had charge of the Gov
eminent trains recently destroyed by the MOrmons,
passed through here last week, direct from Fort
Bridger, where they were discharged. Among other
Incidents of their journey htherward he stated TO me
the following: He and seven Others, all Missouran
except himself arrived at Blue City, the Big Blue
River in Kansas, on the morning of the 2lst of De-
cember. On entering the tavern at that place.
they were at once informed by the landlord
that this was the day for voting on the Constl-
of course would vote, and that he had plenty
of 'Pro-Slevery whisky there, to which they might
help themselyes They accordingly took drink
back and took another drink. They were then
told that if they had any frends who would if there
probably vote Pro-Slavery they had r'ght 10 pote
ior than. They accordingly went back, and after
friends they quietly passed onward to Missouri. 1t
occurred to me that this incident might be worth
noting as specimen ~ the legal vote OF the 2lst,
for the Lecompton Constitution with Slavery
Such are the means whereby Kansas was kept
for years under the feet of the Border Rufians, in
defiance of the indignant protest of three-fourths
of her People Such are the votes, on the strength
of which the Lecompton Constitution is now
crowded upon Congress. Such are the villsines
which have passed for "Law aud Order" Elections
in Kansas, and in full view of which the Free
State men have been insultingly asked by Pierce,
Buchanan & Co.-"If Won don't ike Slavery, uhy
"not 90 to the polls and rote it dorn'" Such are
the votes by virtue of which Calhoun is about to
proclaim Frank Marshall Gov .rnor elect Of the
State of Kansas, with full State Ticket Of the
same sort. Such are the crimes which, if indorsed
and rewarded by Congress, are about to redden
the rivers of Kansas with blood. Why should not
clear seeing Democrats, for their partys if not for
their countIys sake, insist that the cloak of Ex-
ecutiye favor shall no longer shield the perpetra-
tors of such infamiesl
A trial for murder has just been concluded in
Philadelphia, which, in some of its domestic de-