Kansas Territory’s election of March 1855 is notorious for the fraudulent voting and violent intimidation that took place at the polls. It resulted in the election of overwhelmingly proslavery representatives who formed a territorial government considered by its antislavery opponents to be an illegitimate "Bogus Legislature." This broadside makes it clear that before a single ballot was cast, both sides were already hotly contesting the rules governing the election. The stakes were high, as the national parity of slave states and free states hung in the balance.