New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-07

wy tihc ictuins WCtC set ostuc w tuc oV'o'S~-f
and new election was ordered To guard agsinst
fresh Missouri invasion on the day appointed
for this second election, an invasion which was
previously threatened, the people Of Lawrence
asked and received froI their Eastern friends
hundred or two Of Sharps rifles the news Of me
arrival OF which, packed in boxes and marked
"bOoks," produced 3 great gnashng OF teeth,
knocking Of knees. anc much swearing among the
Dor der rbfiisDS but also insured to Lawrence
very quiet election, free from any foreign inter
ference The experiment having worked 90 We'll
ether settlements OF the Frte-Stae men asked ana
received from their Eastern friends similar ASSIST
ance toward the preservation Of peace snd order
Such is the history Of the supply Of arms which
gives 20 much annoyance to The Journal Of Com
meyee, but which is-and that we take it 10 the
rub-tbe Ouly security which the actual settlers
| Of Kansas have against being driven from their
houses any day or night and murdered like sheep
n cold blood.
tits allvey well for journalists here in New-fork
to refer the settlers of Kansas to the Interference
and protection Of Congress, and to call upon them
to submit, for the time, to the laws enacted for
sbcm nuu VIC vhiOtio put Ofcf thcm ~ WV 800
souri, mob. But what consolation or remedy
would the tsrdy interference Of Congress be, even
opposing it should come 1t last. opposed TO those
VINO in the mean time might be tried, hung, drawn
and quartered by these ping officers, and
under color Of these mock laws Had The Jour
nal Of Commerce been published in the year 1873
we very much fear it would have strenuously ad-
vised the patriots Of those times to pay the tax
drink the tea, and wait for Parliament to repsa
the law. But to have done that would have been
to encourage the British Parliament to pereesere
and to submit to be arrested and tried by the mock
authorities Of Kansas, would be in like manner to
yield up the whole point in dispute.
Such being the care, we are surprised to End
The Commercial Adrs-tiser of yesterday evening
taking of the edge of otherwise very judicious
article. by the following most lame and impotent
conclusion.
"Sho gly We have opposed all the measures
copr ected with the alton OF into L rntOry
apo the means by which its present Leyis atlre ~4s
elected osn give 10 approval to armed resistance
TO civil wsT-untll the proper and legal remedies
which our Institutions 30 lberall, supply, hsve be5n
TIED without success. No evil Gao result from obsdi
euoe to the existing laws until by the popular wi
they are repeaeo that can be for mo nent CON-
psred with the evil of armed resistance to taem. us
is too plain require illus ration. Tue caseis sDpe.
II the oploie nts Of the present Legislature tbs
usor ty of the people, another cleo lou will show it,
oud The ace of the Legislature may be repudistsd
repealed l. the Sc is the fact then also the pext
et Cton will demonstrate IT, auG it will be the duty OF
tbe opposition 10 obey the Government aud the la Vt.
Armed resistance to Law in repue, wnete the
people are sovereign and can make ana I'm make both
laws ano laSeiveTs is uppstfiOtic and would be dan
geroUs, if hot fatal to the very existence of freedom
ana free gcvernmt Mt"
Armed resistance to law in a republic where the
people are sovereign and can both make and un-
make the lawgivers, is we are perfectly ready to
admit, unpatriOtic and dangerous; but this danger
has no application whsteyer to the case of Kansas
So far from the people there being able to make
and unmoke their lswgivers and tier laws, both
the one and the other have been made for
them by mob of invaders from Missouri; and
il not the sovereignty Of the people but the
sovereignty of law as opposed to brute force
is to be indicated it can only be done by retusaI
to submit to this attempted Eruption. To sub
NIT to the laws of the existing Legislature and to
the officers appointed by that Legislature 20 hold
Office for the five years next ensuing, would be for
the people o. Kansas to stultify themselves to
consent to their own disfraDc hsemept, to disquali
{, themselves frsm voting at the peIt election, to
Invite rept titiOn Of the Outrages hitherto prac
tised upon hem. What 10 true and what is proper
in State actually enjoying republican Govern
ment has no application to State like Kansas,
already 0yerrUD, snd again threatened Dy an ins0
lent invasion from abroad.