New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-29


Buffan csmp-the withdrawal by the Governor of
his further CONFERENCE.-THE the evident conclu
sion to which sll the more intelligent Leaders Of
The invading forces had arrived. that the lawrence
men would fight and tina. any attack upon the
town would prove a blood! and serious affair
these several cooperating causes would have dis
persed the Missouri army even had the Free State
leaders declined to come to arr understanding With
Il Governor.
II is also tree as our cOIresDondent Suggests
that the entering into any terms at all with Gov
ernof Sharon helps to save the pride and to raise
the hopes Of the Border Ruffans, and prevents
their failure from appearing to themselves and
the world 80 complete md entire as it other
wise would. And what tends to sggravate
This. is stipulation which Governor Shannon
obtained by grea. deal Of urgency from the
Free State Committee with which he treated,
and to which they unadyisedly AID unwisely
acceded that The precise treaty as entered into
should not be published. OF this non.publicssion
the Border Rufiars have of course taken adyan-
taee to pretend thai the FreeState men had
made great concessions that they had agreed to
6uDIUlb W TIC laws vi tuO pVbuo ICgtbinNN'"t N~N
even to give up their arms. Being in possession
of copy of the treaty, aud no party TO any prom
ises to shannon that for the sake Of saving his
feelings and to avoid e1asperating the Border
Ruffans against tim it should lot be published,
We have no hesitation in placing it before our
readers aud the country. The terms OF it demon
strate the total fasiy Of this Border Rufian brag
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nails baye not hestated TO give currency, and such
outhe ntcation as their indorsement of it could
afford.
The text of this treaty to which is appended a
copy of the authority given by Shannon to Gen
Robinson TO repel by force any attack which the
Border Ruaians night make upon bim-cOncedes
in fact Nothing whatever so far as the Free State
the part of Shannon, ard on his part, it must be
confessed, they are not little humiliating.
The FIee-State men agree Of course to obey the
laws. They are and were, and always intend to
be, law.abi6ing men. But they take care to have
it inserted 10 terms in the treaty that they are
not to be considered as recognizing law the act
of the bogus legislature. They recognize tie
authority of Shannon as Governor, and they agree
not TO resist the service of legal process but the
only process to which they thus agree to yield is
that issuiDg out of the United States courts; and
they take care to provide that any FreeState
nan who sbsll be arrested shall be admitted TO
bail.
On the other hand, the concessions of Shannon
are ample He confesses that n this whole pro-
ceediDg be has acted uuder mistake He disa.
vows the entire body of his Missouri alliesthat 10
TO say, nine out Of ten of the rnisns he had drawn
together-and denies that he had ever invited them
into the Territory. A lie, no doubt, but on that
yery account so much more humiliation to the
Governor. And he further stpulates that he will
DO his best to obtain indemnities for the damages
done BY the invaders, and that in any future at
tempts be may make to enforce the laws, he will
invite no more assistance from out of the Territory
Finally, i'll the paper appended to the treaty he
clothes with the sanction Of hs approval and au-
thority those very men whom in his proclamation
be had denounced 90 rebels in arms to prevent the
enforcement Of the laws
On the whole so far from joining in any censure
mon the Free.Stote leaders for entering into
.hsse stipulstions, We regard il as another In
stance of the great moderation, prudence and
,aoscity. which they have exhibited throughout
he whole affair from first to last The only thing
re have TO find fault with is their cOnsentng that
tbe treaty ehould not be published and that we
nave yentured 70 set right upon our own re
'ponsibilty.
As the Government of the United States, so very
iiliaent and active in stopping Nicaragua hllbust-
ere, did not lift it's finger to put stop to this fill
clustering expedition from Missouri, which was in
deed encouraged by the Presidents ambiguous dis
patch, and which supplied itself with arms, ammu-
nition ard cannon by rObbins United States
under these circumstances, the
very least the United States Government can do
is promptly to reimburse to the volunteer defend
els of LAWRENCE clothed now with the approval
and APPRECIATION of Governor Shannon himself-all
their expenses incurred, with handsome cOmpen-
sation for their time and trouble. Is it too much
to expect that the President will insert in his
Message Recommendation to that elect Should
he omit to do so. we hope the House OF Represent
alive, will add such provision as rider to that
clause Of the civil appropriation bill provides
for the payment Of the Presidents salary.
Is it too much, too, to expect that the President
will take instant and eiIectual means for ferreting
out the murderers Of Dow and Barber, that Bar
Der whose dead body lay at Lawrence while the
epotiation was going on, and whose blood no less
than the tear. Of his desOlste widow cries aloud
for gal interposition
tt Gre is ore thing more thst Congress N do to
show its respect for the gallsntry OF the Lawrence
men. Among other things left behind BY the Boz
der RuHians in their retreat from their camp on
tbe Wauksrusa was brass cannon which they
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