New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-10
THE GREAT STRUGGLE.

1t seems 10 be quite evident, from he tone Of
the Pro Slavery psper,o Of Kansas. that that Ter
ritofy 10 deemed and taken to belong exclusively
to TIE Sisvetolders. Al their articles upou tue
subject proceed upon the assumption that all
persors Woo are oppesed to the introduction OF
Slavery there. are in9uders to be expelled by
the revolver and bowie knife, Or il they psrsstin
remaining, to pay the peualsy Of their here'y By
being lypched. The M,s.ouri.ns are invoked to
come armed and WITH plenty Of emnuaidon to
drive out the immigrants from the Free States,
and even the Cove rnsr himself is thres ened with
hanging as the following beautiful extra:s from
The K0nsas Pioneer shows:
1--WE would Lot ike to see the Governor dangling
in the air by the reck-he will soon be dead oeio,
cead with, Ut tba'-befely because We consider 81 n
fai. specimen Of Eastern chiysry and very falr
san pie OF F-ee-soileri but if be ia AbJtonist
at heart and in action. and would abet 10 running of
da kies il 10 Canada t might be well enough TO place
The moose around his neck, by way OF experiment 1t
it we're only TO hear him cough aud see MIN make
prtny fac,s."
These ami.ble gentlemen talk about hanging a
man with jsun,intss OF air and piraticsl co)l-
less that savors Of the Guioe. slave trader. 10
deed Slavery necessarily begets moral monsters:
aud tie difference 10 kind of the men who
carry on the slave. trade whether it be within or
wirbou, the limits of the United States, whether
they figure on the Coast Of Africa or in the heart
Of KaDsas, is entirely perceptible. They are
alike uen of violence AID OF blood, and alike
gui ty of crimes for which society has, in it,
be.t estate, demanded e1piation on the gallows
The tone and bearing of the Kansas papers are,
however not only thus strocicus they are striking
commentaries upon their own pretebsicn that the
immigrant population should settle the question
of Slavery for the Territory. They hold TO the
doctrine of Squ.tter Sovereignty, aud yet,
if q ,quatter syow himself opposed to
Slavery, he is to be set upon as an in
terleper and an enemy. This 10 the kind
of freedom that the Nebraska conspiracy has
spawn ed in Kansas. This is the state Of things
brought about by those in the North who declared
TIA. the repeating of the Missouri Compromise did
DOT ere ate any danger that Kansas would become
a slave State. The slave holders have staIked 10,
ed to the teeth, with their cb aims aud blood
bounds and gangs OF helpless slaves, men, women
and children driven along by the bloody lash, aud
ritory, tbresten war and destruction upon all who
may come with the benefcent purpose Of eradicat-
ing such baIbarism, and spreading the bOuuties
aud blessings Of freedom. Such is the position
they hold TO day. Such is the idea Of Southern
shareholders as to what constitutes tae right of
the people of Territory to establish their own
institutions.
put Ia< M mt ha urdaystond a. init m atino our
belief that these gentlemen will be able to carry
out their programme What they desire to do,
ar what they threaten to do, is quite different
thing from what they are likely to do. Ills easy
to call upon the slsve holders of the South to
come up to the help Of AtchisoD, Douglas & Co.
i'll Kansas, as it is easy to call spirits fro the
deep. But their coming Is quite another thing.
1t will not be difficult to thwart all the machinery
of the slave holders, not difficult to breast and
bear down the rampant spirit of Pro Slavery ruff
faniim now abroad in the Territory. 1t can be
done quietly by the mere force Of numbers. Let
the immigration from the Free States pour in.
That from the Slave States is, and always must be,
com psratively small. While the population of
the Territory is so extremely limited as it is now
it is the easieat Shing in the world for the border
counties of Missouri to send In men enough TO
control the elections. But the aspect Of affairs
will be bravely altered when Kansas shall be
able to number an established population of fifty
thousand energetic settlers. The votes of such
body of men the Mlssourians will fnd hard to
beat. Kansas is the battle ground Of freedom,
and must never be surrendered