New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-12
BARBARIAN DESCENT on KANSAS.

From Our Own Correspondent
STEAMER NEW Lucy Kansas River, April /.
The great fight" 10 Kansas has proved near
ly as fair q CONTEXT IS the struggle between Ia.
gary AMI Aus,Iia-oDly thaI the Gar, when ne
overwbelmed the M,gyAts with his lesions, oh
seIved more Of the amenities Of civilization t1an
have the Cos,scks precipItated upon US by Atch
son. What think yru Of free election in the
Territories Of these Utitsd States of America ia
the year of grace 1855 where a thousand "Out-
side Barbsriaps rush in, wrest the polls from
their two or three hundred legal guardians max
ing lew Judges, OverturnDg the whOls ma.
cbipery, and allowing every man access who has
Pfo.slavery ticket in his hand, O white ribbon
in his button hole, aud all the wLi-ky in his skin
be can hold; and in many instances compelling
knnwn Free Sellers to take the came dose and
vote the same ballot, under serious threats of iu-
.isLt death by she cord in case of refusal Brave
d,ings, these! snd bravely has the freedom of
our eec'ise franchise been vildca ed before toe
world Who gill refuse T. huzza for Popular
Sovereignty
AL that bave here implied is sober fact On
the lOrh day Of March, an army rom Missouri,
regularly organized, armed, off cered and disci-
pinned, AMI literally supplied with ratsns and
wbisky. tezed On the polls 10 each election dis
trict In Kansas, sppOi,ted their oTa Jud ses pre-.
scrihed tn, r own rules 40 cast three fourths of
oil the ballots N Dre or less what m alter a few
figures 1T 10 enough that they were prepared
10 overwhelm any legal vote that could be c,st,
ard thus they did it, What matters it whether
The pro Slavery majority is one thousand, or
ten-tbe right, the jnaice and the result are the
same.
All this will read like fa5le in the East;
would that it were 20. But it is fact, plain un.
vanished; and will receive its colorios from TIE
arccieus details which will soon reach you.
TIE invading army was d yided into bsttsions,
which were detailed 10 various points az wanted.
They were be d asa reserve corps, to be brought
into sc,ion if needed The nsio force was
directed against Lawrence, and that devoted city
was completely overwhelmed. Resistance would
have been nadDess against an armed and in
furisied mob, cTozed with passion aud whisky.
IL vas ony by submission that boodshed WA
avoided; ard even with it, it is raid that Mr.
Brown, editor OF The Herald Of Freedom, was Q
mark for the bullet Ct despersdO named Wallis
As for the Governor, men who ough. to be
respectable, are daily beard to say that his life
is rot worth al hours purchase if ne refuses to
sanction this sudacious mockery Of al election
But the Governor, thus far, has gone straight on;
srd have that faith in him that believe he will
die, if need be. at bis poet rather than violate
bis oath by any such sanction. And | also be-
leye that this fr@ness Will produce it's Legitimate
effect aud thar no hand can be found animated
by courage or deprsviIy equal to the execution
of the horrible threat made against him. IL is
TOW said Il at be viii refuse the certificates, and
GO in person 10 Washington with the matter; but
Slavery swesrs tbas he ANAL no. quit the Terri
roIy alive.
On tnir b, So sre bunGred men frou the n.e
nor OF Missouri, who are returning fro "A the
election; many Of them seriously i'll from the Of
fectr Of whisky and exposure. TneJ are an army
Of semi barbsrisns; they carry ones mind ire
.issiby back to the Dark Age,, when mi ht made
right, ard the weakest went TO the wall. Such
might have been toe bullying aud prof,ne crew
who tore the Dust of Milton from lie grave, aud
tutcber.d the Covenanters az their affairs.
Slavery bss in them .mOslmed and perpetu.ted
tie vices and bartarisms Of the p.st.
| vii the Norih-the Union-abide these insuts
sDd these wrongs Leu cause has overturned
| States Let the Free States, if indeed they are
| free, arouse and act Let them erase the vain
glorious bossting which has ans wered no purpose
., yet, but ~ ihiuriste the South, and proceed
cslmly AID strongly to work. A few thousand