The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-23
Moi SATISFIED win the Decision.

? -
unfair means; that counties were repre-
scented by persons who knew nothing of
public sentiment In such counties : that
Allen, Breckenridge and johnson counties
were each compelled to occupy false posi-
tons; and, consequently, that the party
was placed in false attitude before the
country. We showed that the veEs Of
Allen county was cast by G. A. Cutler, of
Topeka, and B. W. Woodward, Of Law
renee. The former admitted he had not
been in the county for two months before
the election; and it is probable the other
had never set foot on the soil of the coun-
ty he undertook to represent. The vote
of breckenridge was given by MI, Hinton,
and so on to, the end. --, -s1r-7 fte =
Last, week we published the proceed
ings of a public meeting held in Allen
county. in which the people there protest
ed, in the strongest terms, against nom
residents and Others who have no knowl-:
edge of the wishes of the people there
assuming to represent them in Conven-
tions, and begging all. future, conventions
to refuse persons seats unless they come
properly endorsed. ,
We have before US letters from several
prominent persons in Breckenridge county,
protesting that Mr.. Hinton was never ap-
pointed by the people of that county, to
act for them in Convention Of the Ter
ritory. They do not recognize him as an
exponent of their views, and were they
to appoint any person to represent them
it would not be that person. Around En-
poria there, was a division in regard to the
propriety of voting, but beyond the inn
mediate vicinity of that town, and the
limited influence of the paper printed
there, everybody was in favor of contest
ing that election of the 4th inst These
letters are corroborated by the statements
of several Free State men whom we have
conversed with from that county on the
same subject
| Riley county, too, cast its vote in the
Convention against the voting policy by
some unauthorized person who assumed
to act for the people of that county, when
the people had resolved, with one voice,
to paftieipate in that election. .rrlhe per
son who cast all the votes for that county
in the Convention against voting is wholly
unknown to the people of sRiley county.
If he exhibited any credentials authoriz-
ing him to act in behalf of the people
| there, we have the statement from residents
that they were fraudulent, like the Oxford
/ election returns. We have conversed
with several gentlemen from that county
among whom are Mr.. BARREY of the House
and Mr.. MEAD of the Council in the Ter
ritorial Legislature, each of whom ex-
pressed himself in very indignant terms
at the false position in which they were
placed by that Convention. A letter from
DR.. J. w. RoBISsoN, a gentlemen whose
name carries great influence with it, writes
us over his own signature, from Msnhat-
tan, on the 11th inst, as follows: 81
"What right had any member of that
Convention to represent Riley county, and
then make her vote against going into the
/ election for State officers? This was
done, I understand, and we are Justly in
dignant at those who assumed this respon-
4 sibility. To be sure, we were in fault by
not having our own Delegates there, but
they had No right to misrepresent Us, OF
take advantage of our absence. We
deemed it of no sort of importance to be
represented there, for it was generally un-
derstood when our Councilman, Mr.. MEAD
left, that we should participate in the
election. For my own part / am tired
and sick of that miserable little unscrupu.
lous minority, who have sought to control
matters in their own way, and have been
too successful heretofore. There is lit
4 tie clique about Lawrence and Topeka
/ who seem bound to rule or ruin.' It is
high time that other portions of this, Ter
ritory had thrown off the fetters and die
i ttation of these fre-eatiny blunderheads,
Il hand assert their independence. We, in
this portion OF. Kansas, sciH do it You
see we had our county and Marshall pret-
ty thoroughly drilled. In our little town
we gave III votes Free State ticket
4 1853; Democratic, 81; and the same vote
for the Constitution. have no doubt
friend Brown. it is a matter of consola-
ton to you, as it is to me, that large
| majority are adopting the same line Of
| policy you have SO increasingly ineilcated
for months. Consistency is a iewep'
verify, but these fellows who have op-
: posed you so violently have not learned
to appreciate it" Losli -u9
| An article copied from the White
Cloud Chef in another place, shows how
Doniphan county, which cast sixteef
votes through three delegates, in the Con.
Fention against the Eoting policy fell
upontie subject With al the influence
which Balputh aud the Era could WELD
against voting, 183 votes. or fifty majority
Lever the pro-slayery ticket, was given fol
| the Anti-Usurpstion State ticket at White
! Cloud. 80 1sxo Is 50 3! -sz.s.8
8 To this we might add letters from near
ly every part of the Territory, all breath
| ing similar views, and equally denuncia
tory of this movemehtiof afew individ
I uais to pack Delegate Conventions, and B.
, fraudulent means to control public senti
Ement. Il twss thought that such unjus
; lexpedisnts would be submitted TO; ba
those resofting to them shoald have re
membered that the Free State party o
: Kansas has been contending against th,
/ usurpations of the slave power for tire
years, AID upwards. and that they are JUS
: as much rssoived not 10 submit % thl
!. slayerEof their own party, IS they Een
I not to submit to the slavery of the rtop