New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-19
KANSAS.
THE LATE ELECTION.
Pan o.rsr.tll Corr.pond.rl

HublC teut'mtNL mere - dgdln nv AuO 'N+'''t
point. The frauds aud obnoxiousIy desPotIc man.
ssement OF the late election, coupled with 'pecn.a-
tions az 10 the possibility OF the acceptance OF inc
bogus Government by Congress, have created
general ferment. While no actual hgh'Ins nds
occurred We have had movements % all d're'''ons
sf yarIke character and which show mat the
,ublic mind looks 10 such a remedy ~ probable
,eul, II very evident, too, that Acting Gov
Denver hss large if not exclusive sympathy "th
,hn Ultra Pusssn faction under Calhoun. The m
Scnant sentiment which this srOuses is not peculiar
n.nv locality. Here in Lawrence IL IS nd Gated
nv no startling demonstrations; bdt tLe IeeiIht
here, as elsewhere 10 intense.
The official returns OF the recen, eIectloh are hOI
no, but have heard from suf'icicht number OF
.recinefs 10 know bow the vote as recorded was,
bu, how the vote as returned viii be il would be
utterly impossible 70 conjecture. SO far as have
heard think that al the election held under the
auspices Of the Territorial Legislature, by law
passed at It's recent session, there were some
f000 or 1900 votes cast against the LecOmpton
Constitution q greater number than was thrown
at the pretended election for bogus submission on the
2lst ult. Four-ffths Of the vote pretended 10 Dc
thrown at that time were purely bogus, but at the
hfe election the people threw some 2,OOO votes
more than the whole Of the other, bogus returns
and all. One reason why the Free-State vote was
not much heavier was the shOrtness OF the tlme ana
the actual lack of notice IN some OF the back dls-
fr,ets which are exclusively Free State. Beside
this reason, however, there were many ether rea-
sons that tended TO reduce II.
About the election for State officers more uncer-
taiDty exists as all the returns in the hands OF
Calhoun and his myrmdOns, who will probably ar
range them TO suit any occasion that suits them.
Only about One-third Of the Free State men partici
pated in that election. In LeayenwOrtb participa-
Ion OonaraI hut in ms other Districts they
altogether refused 10 vote. Even as II was, the
portion of the Free-State that did vote threw
more votes than were actually thrown on the other
side; but as the Border Rufian plan is carried out
BOW chiefly by bogus returns, there is not the
slightest dependence to be placed on anything until
Calhoun shall declare the result Those OF the
Free State men who participated in the election
claiming victory.
At the recent election the orders given to the
troops were TO hold themselves in readiness ut the
call of the Judges of Election Calhouns creatures)
and to act only at their request. In fact they were
70 protect the fraud, not the people, and not the pu
rity Of the polls. At Oxford Shawnee, Delaware,
KickapoO, and almost every other Border Rufiian
place the chalengers Were driven from the polls by
armed bands of Border Ruiians. AT several of the
places the officers in command of the troops frankly
confessed their inability TO do anything. At Oxford,
when the chaengers were driven of, they applied
TO the officers Gas they did at other paces) and
canddly informed that they were not there for their
protection The officer at that place showed his
orders, which placed him at the disposal of the
Judges of Election alone. One officer whose out
ragged sense of prOpriety mpelled him to do more
than the programme, expressed his indignation at
the operations in a rather singular manner. He had
been observing the Calhoun official who sat at the
door Of the election building, and did not like his
operations That functionary received the ballots,
and when n Free-State man offered his vote he
would take il and tear it mp and put Pr0-Slavery
vote in the box, a handful of which he kept and
which he kept handing TO the other Judge when no
voter was presenting himself, thus losing no time,
but keeping up constant rOtng The officer in COM
mand of the troops " to guard the ballOt-bOx hay-
ing watched this operation till his blood boiled,
drew his sword, aud stepping up to the rascal,
threatened to cut his throat if he did not quit 1t
is threatened that complaints will be made against
Che officer in question, and that he will be cashered.
The mode of voting have mentioned prevailed
at nearly all the bogus points, and Will account for
the largeness of the vote thrown.
At KckapOo they poled only some 900 votes,
with all their frauds; but finding that they would
need more in that county, they have since given out
the vote as 800, at which figure 1t will probably
be counted. Hearing of this, baud OF ltree-State
men from LeavenwOrth went up to KickapoO to get
possession of the ballOt-bOx and pOll-books This
was day or two after the election They could
not find what they went after, but got piece OF
brass artillery which the Border Ruffians had
brought there from Missouri The Missourians
have threatened to burn LeavenwOrth, but they will
hardly venture.
John Calhoun came over from Fort Leayenworh
TO Lecompton, carefully guarded by force OF
United States troops. He is going to count the
votes, though all of the returns are not yet IN.
The Legislature has as yet done nothing; neither
has the Topeka State Legislature. Gov. Denver is
here. He is operating with the members of the
Territorial Legislature 10 get them TO ignore the
State Legislature. He has threatened to break
mp the State Legislature if it dares to proceed.
caucus was held here last night. great effort
has been made to prevent the State Legislature
from proceeding aud as some of its members have
been got to abstain from its sitngs it is possible it
may have TO adjourn for want OF quorum.
CouespoDdenOe Of The N. Y. Tribune.
Iowa POINT X. T., Jan A. 1853.
We have just closed the polls OF our election
against the LecOmpton swindle and L have no
doubt we have given twice as many against it as
the Pro-Slaverytes did for ii on the 2lst of last
months and as both these elections have been de-
cared legal the result is the same as if we had all
voted at the same poll. Thus the LecOmpton
usurpatiOn is voted down by two TO one, and efec
fualy condemned by the voice of the People. Now
we shall see if Congress will still insist on fastening
on an unwilling people the of this usurpatOn.
We are badly defeated, probably, on our State
ticket as many of our friends would not vote
under the accursed swindle. In some towns no
votes were east Our town has done nobly. Last
October We heat them only three votes; now we
have swept the board by fifty majority Douglas
did well to recommend Congress TO send the regl-
nents with the Constitution; for, sure that
iniquy shall be perpetrated, there will be use for
many of them. Yours ever Il.
P.S. The SlayeEites poled l2S votes for the
swindie; We polled 1872. So goes the battle