New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-27
GROVER vs.. TRUTH.

Mr.. Martin Grover was formerly Member OF
Congress from Allegany County in our State, and
has been once or twice Delegate 70 the Demo
cratic National Convention. He was bitter
Barnburner, and has protested the most intense
s,upathy with the effort to exclude Slavery BY
positive legislation from the New Territories.
He helped defeat the Democratic State Ticket in
Is47 simply because Gas he and his coniederates
sIIeged) the Syracuse Convention which NOM
mated il laid on the table Mr.. ID. Dudley Fields
,e.olve that Slavery should be excluded from the
Territories. Yet Mr. Grover made speech Ia
support of the Soft ticket in Tammany on Thurs
dsv evening, wherein he is reported to have said
Of the Republican party
"They tell Us toat there have been usurpsons per-
netrated in Kansas by the cuzeus OF neighborag
Stste AID thar tho elective Franchise hiss been irhet
- There may be some ruth in that and 30 far az
that goes men of all parties throughout the state OF
New York, throughout the whole North-dy, ana tAe
South ioo-riA unite IN eondemnlng ~ ana IN leaving
the question of Slavery to De settled oy the 0OR0 de
settlers of the Territory
Now. Mr.. Grover had just before intimased
that he reads THE TRIBUNE daily; consequently,
he not plead ignorance Of the truth in the prem
ises We hold that the assertion we have talcised
above is not merely untrue but that is consciously,
vickedly false and intended to misead the electors
of our State IN regard Tn the 'st important ques-
ZION to be affected BY the result G our approaching
election. We say that it is consciously false be-
cause
T No Southern convention, meeting, legislative
resolve or Governors message, has condemned
those usurpations of power in Kansas by invaders
-. tha ~
the Convention of Missouri SHAREHOLDERS at Lex
inotop significantly audes to those very outrages,
and holds them justified by the necessity of the
case and BY the projection of bona tide settlers
into Kansas by Eastern Emigration Societies. And
this scandalous defense of most fsgitious usur-
nation il virtually adopted and repeated by Gov.
SEYMOUR in his late speech in this very Tammany
Hall. at the last Soft meeting prior to that ad
dressed by Mr.. Grover.
TT The Union at Washington, holding the posi-
ton of National organ of the Soft Shells, has never
exposed nor reprobsted the repeated outragss by
armed and drilled bands from Missouri on the
Riobt of Suffrage and Popular Sovereignty OF
the settlers in Kansas. On the contrary, It's in
huence has constantly been exerted In their sup
port and justification.
III. The tone of the Southern journals, several
hundred in number, stamps Mr. Growers assertion
untrue We exchange with two or three hundred
Of them. and not ore among them condemns the
conduct of StriDgfellow & Co in subyersion of
the liberties Of Kansas The only apparent and
martial exceptions are The iatcLtigescer and The
Democrat, ST. Louis-both inheIibly though quietly
hostile to Slavery in Missouri as well as IN kansas
These are in fact Northern journals, supported by
Free Labor patronage, though printed just across
the State line.
". OF the hundred or more Members of Con
gress Cncluding senators) already chosen from
the Slave States, not one, even Of those who OPP
posed the repeal Of the Missouri Compact has
AVON ed himself in favor OF tina: course which Mr..
Grover SAYS ~ the whole South " will take. We
trust half dozen Of them will vote right on the
question; but not one of them has yet ventured to
say be will.
But we weary of png proof upon proof OF
tbe untruth of Mr.. Growers assertion. The nan
has deserted the principles he long protested TO
cherish in order to cling to his party. Many have
hoped better things OF him--hOped only to be
keenly disappointed. He Will have toesince integ-
rty and fidelity to principle in order to disappOnt
them again.