New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-03

The hiJGBy Argus is driven to take ground which
inevitably rrecludes the exclusion Of Slavery from
Kansas. 1t holds the acts of the late Bowie knife
sssemblsge Of Missourians at Shawnee Mission to
be valid as laws of Kansas, and recognizes Gen.
Whitfield az the true delegate from that Terri
tory" Having thus decided the whole case in
favor of the lavery party, The Argus proceeds to
assert in utter contempt of the facts, that the
Free state uen will somehow be able to get out of
the prisou in which it has aided to cOnfine them.
Hear The Argus:
sIftte majority Of the settlers are opposed to Slavery
and 70 No preseLt l4Ss allowing it, they will of course
be abb ~ legal way to give efficacy to their opinions
They en- be KEEP a. slaves and prevented from
doing 90 they will do il without the necessity of
resort 10 itc extreme remedy of a revolution
-"Ifa hing is to be DONE" said Mr.. Webster,
in reply to Hayne, the gentleman can tell US
"hO,o it is to be done" We have printed the acts
of the Shawnee Mission conventicle aforesaid, in
which it assumes to dsfranchise all men in Kan
sas v Lo do not swear fidelity to the Kansas-Ne-
braska fct the Fugitive Slave Law and the acts Of
this Ltg stature One Of these acts extends the
laws q" Missouri Including those which establish
slave over Kansas. Another Furnishes as felO
Dy an, 'reech or publication questioning the right
TO h, ID tlaves in Kansas. Another denounces the
penafv of death for any act calculated to excite
slaves in Kansas to resist the authority Of their
mastc~s BY one of these laws, no lawyer can prac
tee TO- Kansas without taking the oath aforesaid
The eI, ction law already cited allows any one to
vote IN Kansas who pays dollar and takes this oath
Of fidelity to Slavery. In the face of these laws
We see no possible way 10 which majority of
ate 81 Tiers" can resist and exclude Slavery in
"a lcg3l way" without repudiating the pretended
q sla,lre and all its dOings as fraudulent
u,ur, irg aRd of no rightful force whatsoever OF
cOuI,c MS makes Rceder, not Whitfield, the Del
ecst' But The Argus says this ia DOrrism. No, it
ism DOrrism was the assumption that mass
mee.lnG could set aside legal and undoubted
Go,c.r rcnt, which had endured and been re-
sp.c,. ior more than century. In the Kansas
csse p hold that there has been no legal choice
ola -lslature under the Nebraska Kansas act
that the attempt to elect one was frustrated by the
Miss0uri rufiians, who rendered it a nulty and
farce There being thus no legal source of Terrific
rial authority, we hold that the People were thrown
back % their rights under the law of Nature
their right to get out Of Anarchy into Order
as they best may. And this we think they have
done in the election Of Reeder and a Constitu-
tionsl Convention. We should have preferred that
an oreanization could have been effected under the
act of Congress but that was prevented by
stupendous and concerted fraud on the part of
Senator Atchsens Missouri discples-a fraud
which its authors have no right to plead IN bar Of
the inalienable rights of the People of Texas. But
this they do, and The Argus is helping Them to
win by it. Were not that journal thoroughly
stepped in treason to Justice and Liberty it must
be ashamed of the base uses to which it is