New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-24

the threats and violent proceedings of the Save
drivers under Atchison in Kansas Before this,
We entertain no doubt, Minister PlenipOten-
tiary has been dispatched by the President and
Secretary of War to make conditions with the
leaders Of the invading forces. What these con-
dtions are We do not know, neither is il likely
We shall ever be permitted to know. But We
can form a shrewd guess upon them. We guess
that the brigands and cut-throats of the Slave
Oligarchy are promised the private moral aid
and comfort of the Administration in furtherng
and concentrating their designs to make Kansas
a Slave State, provided they will not conduct in
such way during the Summer : to force the Adj
ministration to protect and sustain Gov. Reeder
by military force This condition we have no
doubt Messrs Atchison Il Co. will agree
10. We do not expect therefore to find what
seems to be generally anticipated, that Governor
Reeder will be met with violence on his return
to Kansas. He will in all probability 90 back
in peace, remain while in peace, and then re-
sign or find successor appointed in his place.
The fearful strains of The Union excited
which sees in what dilemma it will be involved
if by any possibility il should turn out that the
Missouri mob are not fully under the control of
their leaders. The Administration il response
bic for the Kansas-Nebraska bill and all its con-
sequences, and that responsibility necessarily
weighs heavily upon it at the present threaten
ing juucture of affairs The Union undertakes
to shove of portion of this crushing load upon
the shoulders of those freedom-loying men in
the North who have tried to do something (alas
how little y 10 rescue Kansas from the dreadful
ills that eneompassed her when the benefcent
restriction upon slavery was removed. But so
hopeless a task as this must have chilled
the writer who undertook it. The North
never undertook TO do anything toward
peopling Kansas but what was fair, OPEN
truthful. aud honest. If the slayedriyers
Lad met their efforts by the same means,
though the act might have been deeply deplored,
vet no complaint of its fairness would have been
heard from any source But because the North
undertook to do a perfectly fair thing, for The
Union or for anybody to pretend to find in it an
excuse for totally infamous and outrageous
proceeding like that of which the Missouri mob
was guilty, is preposterous. The Union talks for
the sake of talking and to impose upon weakness
and credulity, when it reasons in such a
STYLE. The whole responsibility for the critical
condition of affairs on our Western frontier rests
upon the shoulders of the Administration. And
il is this pregnant fact that disturbs the Admin
istration and affrights The Union.
If the Administration fails TO compose
the disorders by peacefully restraining the Mis-
sourians after the manner of the programme
we have indicated, it will find itself in a
critical condition. For assuming that Gov.
Reeder is to return to his post, he must
be sustained by the forces of the United
States if he is assailed. And if the Missouri
mob cannot be held back by moral inhu-
ences, it must be quelled by powder and ball,
or the Administration must precpitately fly be-
fore it, and disgracefully abdieate its most sol
emn duties. As we have before said, we expect
to find the soothing process work, for we have no
idea that AtchisOn 4 Co. feel disposed TO come
in collision with the United States troops or
with the members of the Administration, or to
bear the brunt of shock between the North
and South on the Slavery issue. What accident
may light the flames of war on this subject
we do not know, but we expect nothing of the
sort as yet. In the inHammable condition of the
public mind, however, there is constant danger,
and we cannot feel secure against it. The in
famous trilers with the peace of the country,
who originated and passed che Kansas-Nebraska
bill, have reused the natoa to the very verge of
conflict. The close of that agitation cannot be
foreseen or anticipated until some decisive
backward step is taken by the National Legisla-
ture with view to resist the aggressiOns of
Slavery and restore our vast Western domains
to Freedom. Until thai time comes we shall be
in constant peril; and 4 it be too long deferred
a violent end 10 existing complications is newt
able. But accident alone will precipitate that
conflict now.
THE NETWORK POsT-OFFICE.