New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-16
resret to leave behind their cid leaders, but they
cannot turn back to keep their company.
KANSAS TO-DAY.

little impression on the great mass Of their hu-
nan cotemporsries. How many craving rooms
in oil Christebdom, think you, thrilled with sd-
miIa;iOn at the news that Columbus had just
sailed from Palos in quest Of a new world across
the Atlantic How many hearts were gladdened
by the tieinGs Of WashihetoD's appoint nent to
cCuul end the Continental Army Who treas
ures the names OF the patriots who resisted the
Usurpation OF Louis Napo con. sskiug not whether
there was chance Of success, but only where
wss the post Of duty, and whose bodies now
sleep in bloody sLrouds or axe wearing away
under the chafhg of embittered souls among
the deadly marshes of Cayenne
We wish to call attention to the actual cOndi-
ton of Kansas to-day
Two years ago, as for thirty years preceding,
Kansas was part of the unorgsnzed territory Of
the United States inhabited by very few white
men, and they mainly missionaries, hunters,
trsppers and traders with the Indians. few
negroes were held in Slavery at one or two mis-
sions belonging to the Methodist Church South
but each without particle of legality, and in ex-
press defiance Of an act of Congress-an actfound-
ed in a solemn Compromise imposed on the North
by the South. That act was q part of the funda-
mental law of this Territory, and it provided
that Slavery should never be legalzed in any
mart thereof. The first invasion of it took place
rearly twenty years ago, when, by supplement
| quietly smuggled through Congress without az
tracing public notice, a strip some forty miles
vice was teled off from what is now Kansas,
and added to Missouri making it Slave instead
of Free Soil 1t is from that strip, thus secretly
acqpired and treacherously surrendered that
Free dom in Kansas is nos threatened with yio-
lent subyersiOn.
After the triumph Of Slavery in the new Com
promise of 1850, Senator Atchsoa, represent
ing Missouri aud living on its western border,
commenced operations for a removal of the in
bibition of Slavery ia Kansas; bat, after t~o
years struggle, de sisted and declared his willing
less 10 have Kansas organized as Free Terri
tory, ayowing that be wished It Otherwise, but
the North would not consent, as he was ready
to give up the point.
Nine months thereafter, Douglas reported his
SUR, nder bill, based on the pretense that the
Missouri Restriction, which Atchscn had finally
lin 1857 admitted that the North would never
give Up, had in fact been giren up so long ago as
1850
The struggle was severe, but Presidential
patronage ard party drill were all-po@erfal and
the bill passed. Kansas was organized under
an act which repealed the Inhibition of Slavery
and left her to be struggled fcg u Northern aud
Southern prOpsgandism.
Both sides began at once to prepare for the
conflict-in fact, Atctison n Co. were secretly
organized already The partisans Of Freedom
IN the North formed societies 20 aid and impel
the bona fde migration of free farmers aud art-
sans TO Kansas; the cham pions Of Bondage organ
lied secret clubs or lodges throughout Western
Missouri whose members were pledged TO rush
into the Territory on the eve of an election,
take possession of the polls, and foist men of
their OWL stripe into all important Offices. And
this they have repeatedly done.
A Pro.Slayery Legislature, chosen by Missouri
voters, Missouri rifles and Missouri bowie
knives, composed in good part of Missourians
who lever spent week in the Territory until |
they convened as IFS legislators, is now making !
laws for Kansas. Among others, il has adopted |
at one dash the entire code of Missouri, which !
Of course includes the Law OF Slavery. At the |
back of this is new law prescribing the penalty
of death for the ofeDse of melting or aiding a |
slave TO escape from his masters and this new |
crime is so defined that he who answers truth
fully colored mans inquiry for the direct road |
10 any point in Iowa OF Nebraska would be adj
Judged guilty of it. There are more laws of this |
sort; but this will suffice, if enforced, to hang |
nearly every Anti.Slayery man in the Territory. |
The Missourians are now bringing in their slaves,
and il is lot safe to answer any question asked |
by colored person if this law is upheld.
And upheld we presume It will be. All the |
United States fupctonares in Kansas are warm |
supporters of the Nebraska bill, so called; the |
Secretary and majority of the Judges are from !
Slave States. Gov Reeder, an active Nebraska |
map, who undertook TO hold the balance even be- |
twiAt Freedom and Slavery has been peremptorily |
elected, and Wilson Shannon of Ohio takes his
place. The pretext for ReedeI's removal is his
alleged speculation in Indian lands; but there |
is DO where human being so blndly, stupidity |
besotted as 10 give this pretext iota Of credit.
Nobody dares deny that Reeder could have had |
a better Office in exchange for that of Governor |
of Kansas if he could have been induced TO take !
il. He is renewed simply and solely because he
stood in the way of the spectators in negroes,
and for nothing else. lie might have swallowed |
whole al Indian reservation without rebuke if |
he had but looked kindly or blindlg on the efforts
Of Aichison, StrinefelSw q Co. TO make Kansas
Slave State. Because ne did not and would |
not, he is stripped OF his Office; and that's the
whole story.