The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-10-28

confuse its perception of the truth. He
repels our surnise that be in bis turn
was becoming obnoxious to the Slavery
Propaganda and would probably be re-
moved, and be gives ample reasOn for this
when he states that all hope of making
Kansas Slave State has at length been
abandoned. Hence no more gigantic
villauies are enacted-tbe polls of Kan
sas are no longer usurped by Missouri
rufians voting fifteen or twenty times
each-there is no moro call for a change
of Governors, and be might serve a doz-
en- years without provoking any urgent
dem and for his removal. He is coming
away so soon as he may. simply because
he has bad enough of Kansas, and likes
his Washington Office better than the
GoverDorship.
MIR. Denver, as in duty bound, gives
his master general and sweeping certi-
fcste of good character. Mr.. Buchanan
and his Cabinet bavo been always anx
ous for the peace and happiness Of Kan
sas, and always desirous that ber people
should enjoy the fairest opportunity for
settling all questions vitality concerning
them at the ballot-box. Governor this
will not 90 down! The notorious facts
connected with the reputation of Walker
and dismissal of Stanton prove it untrue.
What your superiors may have SAID OF
written to you, may indeed be fair, as
talk is apt to be; but their acts refute your
eager inference. Had your masters real
ly purposed to treat Kansas justly, you
never need have gone thither. Walker
aud Stanton did just right in rejecting the
impudently fraudulent returns truDped
up at Oxford, Kickapoo, &c., last Oeto
ber to secure Pro-Slavery Legislature
they would have been recreant to eve
ry principle had they failed to do So
All through the struggle of 1556-you
know it. Gen. Denver! for you were a
Member of the last Congress-tbe cry of
your party was, why didn't Gov. Rec
der reject all the fraudulent returns-ii
such there were-of the election of March
80, 1867" The late Administration
we're held blameless in the premises, be-
cause one who was then their Democrat
ic appointee, but is now a Republican, did
not nullify election frauds of which be ap-
pears to have had no seasonable notice
Well: Walker and Stanton did, upon
ample evidence, what your party said
Reeder should have done, evidence or no
evidence; and they we're repudiatei and
Supe aseded therefor. Do you think you
can obscure these facts!
Then came the Lccompton fraud, in
all its hideous proportions. One of Mr.
Buchanan's office holders bossed that job
was lie removed for it, as Walker and
Stanton had been! True, be has lately y
been supplanted; but is there the least iu-
timation given to the public that the Lo-
gus Election frauds aud candle box re-
turns were cause moving thereto! Did
not the Presided adopt that monstrou-
fraud, BY trying to force it through Con
grcss by the ost desperate abuse Of pow
er and patronage! Why did the concoc-
tors of the Lecompton Constitution SO
carefully preclude its submission to the
People! Why was not the Presidential
influence rut forth to secure its submis-
sion, rather than its adoption by Con-
gress after it had been emphs tically re-
jected by Kansas! Do you think the
People do not see that your supporters
are always potent when fagrant wrong
to Kansas is to be eon-ummated or glaz-
ed oscr-impotent only when such wrong
is to be redressed or prevented
Mr.. Denver is mistaken in asserting
that the destruction of baIlot-box at
Sugar Mound By Capt. Montgomery was
suppressed by the Frce-State journals
1t has been repeatedly alluded to in these
columns, though it was no case of fraud
at all-no case of wrong or injustice to
MIR DIS party. The case was substauti-
ally this: An election had been ordered
by on,titutional Convention which the
Free-State men considered bogus and u
surping. The Free-State party held
Convention and decided to take no part
in that election, not wishing to reco nize
its callers as vested with any sort of au-
thority. A minority of the Free-State
Convention seeded, repuGiated the de-
cision Of the majority, and nominated
ticket. A division of the Free-S State par
ty necessarily followed One fraction
persisted in not voting, the other voted
While the election was going on at Sugar
Mound, Capt Montgomery and bis party
came thither, and, considering that the
votes cast there (entirely by Free State
mep) were cast under misapprehensiou
of the facts, stopped the poll and destroy
ed the ballots, without resistance or 80
far as We know objection from any one.
We never justified this act; hut it was
quite other than deliberate fraud But
the vital question is not-"Have frauds
and oatrages been committed by both
parties or ouly by onei' but "Has the
Federal Administration winked at and
shielded the frauds of the Pro Slavery
party, and Of that party aloncp Does
Gov. ID. plead to the indictment? Has
the present Federal Executive ever put
one active, earnest Free. State man--bsre-
ly one-into Office 10 Kansasl Has it