Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-09

AhO IluDlCOn was 1afEe0-thN
danger did not lock so overwhelming. and it was
!eit that energy, courage, ard devotion enough ex.
lstea IN tue Free State party of Kansas, to stand
the Druht and consequences of the act in which
issue.
From The Correspondence Of the NJ y Tribune.
AT Lawrence on Dec. 2lst, the polls were
opened, but not one vote was offered. No DEM
ocrat was found so pure, so ultra, and so unter.
rihed, as to indorse the Lecompton swindle. In
~Leeompton, the POLLS we're opened with a little
better success. One hun ired and forty ono vote,
were polled. OF these, one hundred and two
were Tor the Constitution with Slavery, and thirs
ty-eight for the Constitution without Slavery.
L~eavenworth, 228 votes were cast for Con.
stitution with Slavery and 20 for Constitution
without Slavery. Nine Free.S:ate men voted
this ticket: "To hell with the Lecomrton Con-
stitution."
As usual on election days, the Missourian,
were seized with q desire to go visiting and see
their friends on the other side of the river. Early
In the day q large number Of them came over
to Leavenworth. The Free State men Immediate
ly provided the greater part of them with n mas
sage back again-others they arrested and placed
"HN 'HN hhhind EO tuOT-
oughly frightened that they did not show them.
selves again.
A Free-State Delegate Convention has bean
called, and meets in Lawrence tomorrow. IL
VIII be composed of the same delegates as Al.
tended the last Convention.
The Convention met on the day appointeG-the
object was the consideration of the question of par.
tlcipating in the bogus election of January 4th. so
as to elect State officers under the Lecomnton
Constitution. Those who advocated this measure
did SO purely on the ground that Congress might
be base enough to admit Kansas under that in.
strument, and that the men thus elected could. in
such a contingency, throttle it to death, On this
su'Ject there is an intense feeling among the peo-
pie AS q general rule they are hostile to such a
poiicy, and not the least thing to determine is.
whether Influence sufficient can be welded to in
duce the people to participa in any such election.
from any consideration whatever. No one pro-
poses that the people should organize under it.
Should the Convention determine to 90 into the
election it will, after doing 50, proceed to mako
nominations. In urging the plan, some contend
that the officers thus elected shall be the same Al.
under the Topeka Constitution, so as to have no
confusion and avoid, if possible, anything like the
danger that these men would hold on to such
ofhces after they had got them, if improper pres.
sure was brought to bear on them.
In the Convention q Committee wss appointed
to draft resolutions. The result was the presents-
ton OF three reports yesterday afternoon. T.
Dwight Thatcher, esq, of The Laurence Repuhi.
can, Chairman of ,he Committee, presented a ma.
|Jority report. 1t opposed the voting policy, and
reiterated The same position as tax en- at the past
Convention on the 81. A minority report WINS
presented by Champion Vaughan, esq.,, of The
Learen~0'M Times, signed by two members of the
committee. 1t took "A position il favor Of voting
at tho election for State officers, that the instru-
ment should be wrested from the hands of the
Pro'Slavery men in case of necessity it also reit-
Grated devotion to the Topeka Constitution. A
second minority report was made by james Red.
path, esq of The Crusader Of Freedom. This
report proposed that the Free State men particle
pate in the election that the parties nominated
be pledged to destroy the government under said
Constitution in case Congress should admit Kan.
sas under it ihat the Convention still urged ON
the Territorial Legislature, should it convene in
January, that it submit the Topeka Constitution
under forms of Territorial law to the people. and
reafirming all the positions taken liz Convention
on Dec. I'd.
The discussion on the various points involved
has been animated. Every point is debated with
the utmost keenness. So far, it would be diff
fcult to say what will be the result. At first the
impression was that the voting policy would be
adopted, as most Of the prominent Free.S.ate men
were in faycr of it. At present the matter looks
more doubtful.
LAWRENCE, X. T., Dec. "a, 1857.
So far, | find that few election returns are in.
In Lynn County there was no voting. In Lykins
County some 43 votes were polled at Paoli. In
johnson County less than 100 votes were actually
thrown, but it is supposed that another long bogus
list will be sent from Oxford. At Kickapeo the
Pro-Slaveryites claim 500 votes. In Leavenworth
County, at the other points, some 300 or 400 votes
were thrown. AT Lawrence the polls were opened,
but no votes. polled. The vote at Lecomp,on was
very light. So far, | think the actual vote will OK.
hibit the smallest affair in the shape of an election
ever held in Kansas, but as there has been a sys-
tematic bogus attempt in several places. it is quite
likely that a larger vote will be declared as having
been received than was polled for the delegates
last June. One very noticeable feature l would
remark: Tickets of a certain kind were secretly
sent to every precinct; even where no polls wero
opened they were sent in expectation that they
would be. The ticket read thus:
DEMOCRATIC TICKET:
CONSTITUTION WITH SLAVERY"
Let the minions in the States cover it up as they
will, such is tho true democracy.
On election day there was some excitement in
Leaycnworth, about which you have probablv
heard. The Free State men took possession Of the
Territorial arms in the hands Of the Border Ruff.
ans of that place. They got only some 70 or so
stand of Mississippi rifles, however. Troops were
brought down from Leavenworth. but they did not