The Independent Press

Slavery in Kansas.
The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier, in a late letter, makes the following paragraph in reference to the election in Kansas Territory:
The late election in the Territory of Kansas resulted in favor of the pro-slavery candidate by a majority of a thousand votes. It is attempted to account for this by the allegation that persons from Missouri in large numbers went over to the territory for the purpose of voting. But this aid was wholly unnecessary, and was not, to any extent, afforded. The fact is that a majority of the settlers, though not slaveholders, being desirous for the improvement of the territory, would not take such a course as would exclude slaveholders, and they were of course desirous also of introducing all the labor that could be obtained from any source.