New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-17

MANY people profess inability TO reconcile the ac-
counts we receive from Kansas by letters and 9th
erwise some stating that the free-st"to party 10
largely in the ascendant and advancing to certain
ultimate Triumph; while others talk of outrages
committed by Pro-Slayery mobs on Eastern set
tiers and call for interpostion to save them from
oppression, degradation and probable enslavement.
Those who appear thus befogged forget that
Kansas is very large Territory, one thousand
miles long by two hundred wide, and thus much
larger than all New England. Practically some
settlements in that Territory, in the absence of
railroads and other means of transit, are further
from others than st. Louis is from Bangor. OF
course one section may be subjected to evils which
in other quarters utterly unfelt. Those settle
ments near the Missouri border are generally un-
der Pro-Slavery influence if not actual terrOrism
while Lawrence, Council City, Fort Riley Topeka
&C., may never have seen the face of avOwed
slayedriyer The resident in one locality writes
what be sees and knows; SO with every other; and
by publishing from all sides We give our readers
the means of forming an enlightened judgment.
There is no question, We believe, of the fact that
a large majority of the residents OF Kansas this
day are Free-State men, and will unite in framing
and submitting to Congress FreeState Constitu-
tion Many Of them were impelled to settle in
Kansas BY their desire to save her from the
clutches of Slavery If all outsiders would sim
ply keep hands Off Kansas would easily and nat
urslly grow into Free State.
But the Slavery PrOpagands will not per-
nit this. They have secret organizations aud
drilliDgs, not in Kansas only or mainly, but
in Missouri, and 1--WE presume) in other Slave
States. Whenever an election is TO be held
in the Territory, the Missourians are brought
over in regiments 10 vote the Pro Slavery ticket
and overbear all opposition. Thus Whitfield was
chosen Delegate last year; thus was chosen the
late mock Legislature, which has pretended to
establish Slavery in Kansas and fortify it by all
manner of inhuman penalties denounced against
Free Speech and other forms of opposition to Bond
age. Thus Whitfield was rechosen Delegate on
the lst inst. by voters who came straight from Mis-
souri, to vote, and were allowed to do so without
queston-to pay dollar and swear allegiance to
Slavery being substantially the qualifications for
voting in Kansas, as enacted by the Missourans
Legislature.
Gov. Reeder has since been chosen Delegate by
the real People Of Kansas; and now Congress,
Ordinarily the House, in awarding the seat to
Whitfield or Reeder, will decide whether Kansas
is Free or Slave Territory noto. 1t is no question
of what shall be or may be: if Whitfield is the
rghtful Delegate, he is so because the Missouri
ans Legislature chosen by Wholesale fraud and
violence last April, is true Kansas Legislature,
whose acts are valid and binding on the People OF
the Territory. If they are so then Slavery is not
to be established in Kansas-it is not question of
the future at a-itis already established there, and
whoever resists it or in any manner questions its
legality incurs the penalties of felony. But if
Reeder shall be recognized by Congress as the
Delegate, then the acts of the invaders Legisls-
ture are virtually repudiated, and Slavery left to
be adopted or rejected by the People of Kansas,
as they, ia some fairly chosen Legislature, shall
hereafter decide And, if fair play is secured