5, 1857.
Governor Walker executed his public promises to the letter.

A movement of United States troops to Utah was in progress, and about two thousand of these were detained by order until after election day.
Stationed at ten or twelve different points in the Territory, they served by their mere presence to overawe disorder, and for the first time in the history of Kansas the two opposing parties measured their strength at the ballot-box.

The result was an overwhelming triumph for the free-State party.

For delegate in Congress, Ransom, the Democratic candidate, received 3799 votes; Parrott, the Republican candidate, 7888--a free-State majority of 4089.

For the Legislature, even under the defective apportionment, the council stood 9 free-State members to 4 Democrats, and the House 24 free-State members to 15 Democrats.
[Sidenote] Stanton, Speech at Philadelphia, February 8, 1858.
[Sidenote] Walker, Proclamation, October 19, 1857.