New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-08
KdNSAS AFFAIRS.


The telegraph announces the removal OF Gov.
Reeder After this act, which the procliyities of
Pierce and his Cabinet Jed Us TO fear, but which
We could not persuade ourselves would be perpe-
trated. who shall say that Slavery is not King at
Washington and that handful Of Missouri multi
fers have not more influence with the President
than the entire North
Three months ago | wrote you that Kansas
wns TO be the victim Of conspracy-that Atch-
isrn had accepted BIS his A" mission" the task of
enslayine hat Territory at all hazards. Circum-
stances, additional to those | gave, are revealed
and show completeness and perfection worthy
a better cause After the success Of the cOnspi-
rators in securing Reeders removal, the most
important movement is the rumOred cessiOn Of
the Plate region from Missouri 20 Kansas. This
tract. comprising some hall dozen counties Dor
dering on the Missouri River, north Of the june
ton IF the Kansas is called the Platte country
Il see some papers enormously mention the
scheme as embracing only Platte County, IL was
originally seized by Missouri and incorporated as
part and parcel of the state in defiance of the
Coupromise Act and now ii having been thor
ouobly peopled with Shareholders Missouri is viii
ling 10 relinquish il for the purpose of giving
Slavery q pseponderating influence in Kansas.
Could this scheme be successfully executed, (and
who shall say it cannot be y the incorporation OF
such fertile and deDsely populated region into
Kansas would. of course, throw Freedom there
into hopeless minority and as good share Of the
present selstyled Legislature Of the Territory be-
long in this identical Platte County, and were
elected by the Platte County voters, the task OF
kpah-ing that body and their enactments would
be an easy one However, | still trust in Congress
to defeat this iniquty to accomplish 1t in de-
fauce of that BODY (which AtchlsOn has the hardl-
heod 10 attempt Will be steP in the way OF multi
fcation which believe even our subserYient Cen
eral Government will hardly presume to take.
Meantime sentiment at the North is not en-
tirely right / think il is wrong on two points.
Hirsr il is not realized that the result Of the elec
tiops in Kansas is due entirely TO traad-that fraud
lies al the bottom of the whole matter. IL Is diff
cult for our honest yeomen 10 credit he story that
armies Of MissOurians actually did march into Kan
sas seize the ballOtboxes, dep0se the Judges sup
ply their places with persons who dispensed with
tie required oath Cf residence electlng almost
without opposition, the candidates they took out
with them. When we express hopes for Kansas,
our Northern brethren ask, " Did not the Pro
Slavery men carry the elections :" not daring 10
believe the full extent and audacty OF the outrage.
And now, when they read that there Is only one
Free Soil member of the Kansas Legislature, they
somehow ketM 70 InlDh llt ibllg "h-
lucky But DO they realize that of these legislators
the election Of nearly dozen was contested and
new election ordered, and that the whole would
have been but for the peculiar hinderances incident
10 So new country. Yet this was so, and
in nearly all the precincts at this new election
Tree-Stste candidates were returned by very large
maiOrities. This was the case everywhere IN the
interior where the Missouri armies did not see hit
"a 90 third time but on the frontier, IN two OF
u1o
scale we're sent over from Missouri. Yet all this
amounted 10 nothing for when these contestants
the only legally elected members Of the bOdy-ap-
p,sred to claim their seaf the majority very coolly
told them that their certificates would not be ex-
amined-that they had decided to give seats to
none Of them, and that they would not waste
time in the matter Still, these men, with unpara-
leled effrontery. have the hardihood TO mpugn Gov
Reeder'smotyesin attemptingtO check themin their
lsUless and reckless career In private, however
they laugh at their own impotence not even pre-
tending that their proceedings are legal Even in
their public debates the absurdity of the entire
performance not unfrequently puts to flight the
mock gravity assumed for the occasion, and the
members, With dry humOr quite amusing, assume
that thew are better qualified 70 make laws for the
Territory than if they were actual residents them
selves. inssmuch as their minds are not biased by
local preiudces Let the North understand these
10 be actual facts; that the first step OF this body
has been 10 vote the whole general code OF Missouri
into operation in Kansas, Slavery laws OF course
included and that they have since ordained that
they will themselves appoint, for four years, the
Justices OF the Peace, COnstables, &c, for the
Territory. thus cutting off the people from the
very commoneet rights wont TO be enjoyed BY
American freemen And finally, in view OF these
facts LET the North understand that all Kansas -
whose voters are three TO one in favor OF Freedom
lis indil nant at these proceedings, which VIII be
treated 81 a dead letter, and that all Missouri VIII
net be able to compel obedience 70 laws brought
into existence by so reckless BODY OF men
The other point on which the Northern mina
seems befogQed is the real merits of Gov Reeders
case Men say that the Governor Is all right II ne
is auiltless of the charge Of speculation in the
public lands What man Of sane mind, having
read the facts which have been made public, can
question the entire propriety Of bis course The
worst thing that can be charged against Inn
Is that in connection with two Of the Territorial
Judges ard the United states District Attorney De
agreed 10 buy some land of some bali-breed kaw
lndisDs ar more than double Government prices,
Erorid,d the Government sanctioned the arrange
meuti These lands, bear in mind, we're individual
property-uot belonging 70 ans tribe, as such
ana Gov Reeder hsd clearly as good night to buy
edheripC 10 the legal forms, as the meGnest unOul-
Cial citizen Of the Republic. These facts VIII be
Known. for tie Pro slavery Pre- itself Is pro-
claim Ing tLem-indinant that tie decapitaton they
have so ardenty invoked for political causes should
be based On grounds 20 ridiculous and frivolous
SEOSHD.