New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-08
A MANIFESTO AT LAST +.

The special organ Of the Federal Executive
the UniOn) has long and carefully written
leader On the state of affairs in Kansas evidently,
almost avowedly, dictated from and revised at the
White House 1t is in fact the answer of Mr..
Pierce and his Cabinet to the urgent demands Of
the Free states that the Free settlers of Kansas
shall be protected from the ruthless tyranny which
now Expresses and threatens to silence or exter-
inmate them. That answer is cautious and
diplomatic but absolute denial. The Presden
will do nothing for the Free settlers but Gin effect
everything against them. The work of enslaving
Kansas, virtually begun by Douglas, is to be con-
summated BY Atchson, Stringfellow Il Co., under
color of law and by the support, if need be- of the
bayonets of Federal troops. Such is the glst OF
this canting and cold-blooded manifesto Let us
analyze it somewhat in detail;
|. The Buffalo Commercial, a Silyer-Gray and
Know.Nothing journal, seeing that the outrages
in Kansas and the cOuntenance afforded them at
Washington is sweeping the people of the Free
States irresistibly into the Republican camp, ap
peals 10 President Pierce to stop the high-handed
proceedings of AtchisOn and his followers and
restore to the actual residents of Kansas security
urges, " Mr. Seward and his sectional allies will
have everything their own way, and the cOnser-
"vatve National sentiment of the North be COM
pletely " crushed out
2. Thus touched in the tenderest point, the Ad-
ministraton responds through its organ that it is
not ignorant of the dOings of AtchisOD & Co. in
Kansas and does not per Sc approve them But 1t
holds them provoked and justified by the conduct
of the Abolitionists" in sending or impelling emf
grants TO Kansas with the avowed purpose Of
making her Free State Such is the substance
OF The Unions response. Let us consider it:
3. Kansas was formed from territory expressly
shield ID against Slavery by an organic laT of the
United States supported by the all but unanimous
South and very small fraction of the North.
This law was for thirty years acquiesced in and
eulogized as forming an irrepealsble Compact, the
South having received full consideration for this
restriction and being neither able nor willing to
II turn that considerations In other words, 6,
long as Missouri shall remain in the Union as
Slave State, the South must remain under the
strongest moral obligation to join in keeping
Slavery out of all territory north and west of her
which belonged TO this country in 1871.
4. The Nebraska Kansas BILL as finally shaped
by Mr.. S. A. DOu glas and passed BY Congress in
1854, repealed this Missouri Restriction and al
lowed Slavery TO 60 into Kansas, provided the
settlers thereof should see fit to legalize that
Institution. But the Northern supporters of
the measure, with one or two Of its nominal
adyersaIies,) nearly all assured their constitu-
ents tba. this repeal was a mere abstraction
that Kansas was marked out for Free State
by inexorable natural laws-.hat her pioneers
would inevitably be free laborers, not planters
or sayebreeders-and that the only effect Of
this repeal would be the disappearance OF an
irritating stigma on the South and her 'pecu-
liar institution" BY virtue Of such sssur-
ances, and Of the utmost exertien of Executive
influence and patronage, the passage of the
bill was carried.
5. But twas immediately made manifest that The
shareholders of Western Missouri intended to take
possession Of Ksnsas, seize upon the most inviting