New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-12
THE RISING CLOUD.

ia gradually approaching. Yes the country is
every where qui' t, end she pubic iranq lhry no.
disturbed. Not even she distant Jun,e Of the
tempest il fesrd. Tue little cloud that denstes
it bowers only over handful OF people Ia The far
West Ia Kansas alone exists the speck tba.
foJesbsdows the coming storm. Kansas has been
invaded by Slavery. 1t is threatened with the
unen0.Dg cures of that Insatlrion. A county
lar &c nough for BiDs don is there to be wfes,ed
from the possession OF the Free STATES ald black
eped with African bondage. Tne impuien ,e Of
this stseWp' is paraleled only BY ito atrocity.
fit 10 successful and if House of Representa-
!ives Can ever bs found that will consent 10 con-
,ummste the deed the people of the Free States
will have fallen into CONDITION SO degr 1ded that
earth might well open ADD swallow the pre-
tenders to manhood. They wi st.io the ground
wber, On they tread AID deserve 90 better fate
than the chains and fetters that bind the Black
lace in ,he South. II a mao can be found in the
Free States to counsel surrender OF Kansas TO
the slave power, now or at any period be Is
coward aed q slave ia soul. That pc yer has
entered upon career Of subjugation and con-
quest The free Territories OF this Union are the
possessions it cOvets, and il has ms-sh ,led
its forces ard armed it's mer5ensry hosts to con-
quer them. TIE battle is begun. Northern raj
tors, who bad stolen t. power in the guse of
Democracy, opened sbe way and ex posed to plum
der ard spolston the smiliog plsns Of the great
West. The brutal hoIdes OF S avery were by
them invited TO enter upon their career Of invs-
zion. As the real authors of tb, enterprise the
names of Douglas and Pierce will live along with
that Of Arnold in eur future history.
We call upon the people Of the free States to
ponder well the existing condition Of thiog' in
the coustry, in re'pec, to Slavery. Lettbem begin
to brace their nerves aud grid their loins. LIT
them begin to consider the question whether they
propose to live and die fubjug.ted or an inde-
pendent race. Let them say if they prop)se to
,ubmit tsmely to the invasion of the s,il OF
freedom, or if they will resOu'ely resist and
repel the invasion. Let no milk-snd- water sng
sestion of orr being one people deter men from
looking the coming crisis ia the face, or make
them undetvalue its Importance. We are no. one
people We are two peoples We are speOpIe
for sFr,edom aud a people for Slavery. Be-
tween the two conflict /, inevitable. A victory
will be won sgainst Freedom. or Slavery will be
driven back over the ruins of it's gross usurp
atiops and confined within It's legitimate limits
under the Constitution. Look at Kansas. Read
the letter we publish to-day. Behold the hOrdes
that have oyerruu her from toe Slave States,
trnnpng down every defense Get up by law AMI
Executive authority, and say if we exaggerate
the impending danger.
Kansas belongs to Freedom. She w4s set
apart to Freedom by the last generation. The
Fres States are her godmothers They are re-
sponsible TO history and to humanity for al the
wrongs she cutters. To attempt to wrest Xmas
from her position as child and sppendage of the
Free Slater, lie just as much an assanlt upon them
as if foreign enemy were 20 descend upon tseir
shores, and, planting his flag, undertake to con-
quer and keep portion of their soil. The idea
Of submission in the one case IL no more to be
entertained than in the other. The man who
would not counsel resistance to such aggression
is as much traitor in one cafe as in the other.
Indeed, the man who would not resist the az.
ertssions Of Slavery is the traitor of The deeper
oye Heis not only traitor to his country but
to humanity.
But the mischief that lie brewing is not alone
in K.Dsa'. There are deep-laid plots of treason
to freedom consummatipg 10 Washington. The
arch diiuniOIist Jefferson Davis, who sgnalized
bis career in the Senate of the United States by
advocating an overthrow Of the Government in
case all Of our California acquisition below
So 30 was nos surrendered to Slavery BY special
d, 10 &c Il.
Chief of the Army. He is Mr.. Pierce's Sec.e
t.ry of Wir, and leading nan in the Cabinet
Should be achieve his object, ali that We know Of
his sDtecedents leads us ~ believe that he would
not hesitate 70 use bis influence TO spread Slavery
into the Wet and North " the point Of she bay
opet, and if attempts were made to resissisinany
effective manner. be would exert sll bis power
to subyert the Government. The Free States
sre surrounded by plots and tolls ard compiler
lions, in respect to the suhjugston Of this Gov
eIIment by the shareholders, of which the people
little dream. Next week, Col. Kilneys eXpedi-
ton to Central America will sail, in a steamer
procured for the purpose with every arrange
msDt to overrun and subdue the feeble republics
of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Ri,a. When
conquered, thek conversion into Slave States
will be soon accomplished More threatening
even tbsn Ibis, the President has ordered feet
10 the Gulf OF Mexico, to bring on war with
Spain for the possession of Cuba We are ap.
preaching the crisis which will decide whether
Slavery or Freedom lie to mold the des'iuies Of
America.
The slave power is determined to control the