The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-26
KANSAS.

KANSAS.
The Leavenwortb Times of the 9th instan;
gives the following .,s the result Of the election
on Lecompton, Jun. as far as heard from:
Proposition rejected 7,9
Proposition accepted 1882
Free,State maj fity 6,47s
We have returns says the Times, of seven
counties entire, and portions of six counties
| There are Sc count .es in the Territory. Ali
right Our majors will increase every mail
The same paper as the following: III
| Orford.-Glori ns Oxford Like Kicka
poo, it boasted q vo q, in other days, of thou
sands. Now-only .hink of It'll Now, mighty
Oxford, gigantic o, ford, polls only-29 votes
all told | Nor is IL g all. 1t has only three
Pro-Slavery msjorit i Where are the Border
Rufians? Where, il where the unseen spir.
itual friends of Oxft I'd and Kickapoo2"
From the Leav nworth Times, Aug g.
When the heart full, words become fee.
BILE; the hour is Ii IN for feeling. We give
up to it, and we rev. |, and shout, and hurrah.
Amid bon6res, illuf irations, and the roar of
cannon, only, can " find vent for, or give sx-
pressons to, the co, mon joy.
Kansas makes an wer for herself! ls
To those timid I'D doubling friends who
feared lest her free aen might falter, we say,
hear their voice on he I'd day of August. Ii
is simple and msjess.c; it is pure and mighty.
Worn out and worn down by years of oppres.
sion and struggle; exhausted by conventions
and elections there, fter poor and tempted
yet, as if conscious the dignity of the great
issue and of its great ,r consequencee, see them,
as like selfsacri6cin patriots they poured out
and maintained thu integrity with the full
strength of Americ, d manhood.
To the people whcse eyes were fixed on Kan
sss IN hope and wit prayer, she points to her
vote, and bids them. bids all, the trustful as
well as the timid, the courageous as well as
the doubling, to work on and work ever for
justice and right. Her freemen did their duty.
The odds we're against them. A sister State
near by, the whole river interest, the forts and
their armed men, all the power and patronage
of Government, wers against them. Besides,
you, their friends, we're afar off, unable to help
them in their darkeea hour of trial and OF need
Yet they met your asd their foe, and mastered
him, against all these odds, and on the second
day of August clutched and killed his last act
| of despotismi
| Now their hope and their prayer is for and
with you, freemen of the States, who have thus
trusted the freemen of Kansas. The battle is
not yet over. The Constitution is beleagnered
by bad men, and administered by the Slave
Power against the decision of tho fathers, and
contrary to justice. The Judicial and all it's
departments are for class and q base sectional
| interest-for monOp0Iists who crush the poor
ichite man into the Dust, and seek to rob the
nation of its dearest rights, and liberty of its
most sacred guards. Initiate the example of
the freemen of Kans Is. Stand by, and stand
up, as they have DE- pe, for principle. Seize
the Constitution of tie land, through the bal
lot, and put and KEEP it on the side of Liberty,
and rend the power thich has perverted and
made it the defender IF Vrsnny-the practical
upholder of doctrii held to be infamous in
l776, and felt to be ysgrading as we'll as infa-
nous now-that, und " it, man may hold prop
erty in man.
For despotism, the freemen of Kansas have
only one word. Rem ember the second day of
August, 1858. As W., have in the past 60 will
we in the future, star by Freemen, Free Soil,
and Free Labor, With fidelity which no oppo-
sition can shake, an ntegrity which no power
can buy, courage " iich no foe can daunt or
defeat. ,,
The Kansas corr, lpondent of the Boston
Journal writes:
"The Supreme Co, rt of the People, with his
honor Judge Lynch e. the bench, has Just con
cluded its first sessio, in Sumner. On Sunday
last, Mr.. P II TApress his name for the
sake of his family,) v 30 came here from Atchi
son three or four MOI hs since, decoyed little
girl, FIVE years old, ius the woods, and at empt
ed to commit violeise on her person. Her
screams alarmed him. and induced him to de
sist. She returned 1me, and told her mother
what had happened. Early in the evening, the
affair became knowae in town, and excited g
tornado of public Indignation.
"a crowd gatheres in front Of the house oc
| cupied by the old miscreant (who is some Al
years of age, and has five or six children.
| Two or three of them entered the dwelling
dragged him ont of Il q bed in which he and hi
wife we're sleeping, I'D gave him time to dor
bis neither garments... At this stage of his fore
ed and rather hasty ,oilet, he sprang toward,
the head of the he'd as il seeking something
His nocturnal visiteri, supposing him in search
of revolver, instant caught him, and passed
him out of doors as he had been a stick o
wood. There he was taught by q score of men
who rushed him tows d the river. On the way
he snatched revolvl< from the belt of one O
them, and was juste cooking it, when he wa
knocked down, and is,was wrenched from him
|" His visitors so,n reached the steam fer
ry-boat; q rope was noosed around his bod,
under the arms, and he was thrown into tn,
| river. In few secC IDS, the crowd drew hin
up, permitting him o dangle rather roughl,
against the side Of L . boat; questioned him
but he denied the CHI, &c brought against him
dropped him in and tzew him ont again six O.
eight times, with the sme success. Finally, il
halfdrowned condil on, he confessed that tn,
little girls story was rue, and corroborated j
in several minute pa, ;iculars. he stoutly de
MED, however, any 10 iful designs, but said b.
had simply taken tn, liberties in fun Tn,
crowd replied, that ICY had no doubt of it
and that they also wetS in fun in the discipln
they were giving him
He was finally pc mitted to go home, on
solemn promise to ave the town early tn
next morning, never to return. 1t was witt
considerable difficult, that his captors were dis
suaded from tarring ,nd festhering or horse
whipping him. In th ir excited condition, the
would undoubtedly b, se taken his life, had NO
some of the more Il 9ughtful citizens excite,
their sympathy for b. family. As it was, b
has received lesson which be will not 500
forget and he is n " on his winding way +
the Arrapahoe counti I, Utah, or some other re
mote locality.
Mi nesota.
The attempt of the bogus Democrats in th
Minnesota Legislator to force an election &
United States Sens, q in the place of Genera
Shields, at thi, sess N, was defeated in tn
| a. &c lac (lav