New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-08
localities choose her FIRST Legislature and legalize
Slavery on her soil. They had nucleus 10 the
Southern Methodist Mission to the shawnees, and

was at that time delegate in Congress. 1t was OBJ
yious that Kansas would easily be made Slave
Territory and State unless some systematic eXor-
ton were put forth to prevent it.
6. Under these auspioes, a few advocates Of
Free Labor in the East formed e company de-
,irned 10 encourage Free emigration 70 Kansas.
They obtaine1 a charter from the Log stature If
Ms.sscbuset aud, this proving unavailable,
We believe tbty subsequently, procured another
f,,In that of Connecticut No considerable sum
was ever ~ bscribed to their stock, fOrthe pros
o. ct Of reimbursement was obviously remote
aud dubious Some money, however, was
raised. End devoted 70 locating lands in Kansas
and facilitating the removal of Free State men
tlither. Directly, the company has accom-
pIIshed very little, measured by the standard Of
its promises and purposes; but indirectly it
has bel of signal service 10 Freedom, in dra "
ing ATTIC ntion 70 the matter il issue, awakening
public interest, AID supplying \ nucleus aSouui
which Free State men could rally ia conscious Sc
cuIity. In the absence of such nucleus, Thousands
Of Free State men might have migrated to Kansas
and stood dumbly by while the Mis- 'ourians made
her a Stare Territory and State, because each
Free State settler would infer from the general
silence that he stood alone, and that any open
avowal Of bis convictions might subject him to So
cial outlawry and personal outrage 1t is quite
nrobsble therefore, that the systematic Eastern
efforts TO make Kansas Free have proved more
efficient than superficial appearances would in
dicate
Z. But they have at all times been open, public,
notorious The eastern emigrants have passed
through the length of Missouri, letting it be well
understood that they were migrating to Kansas
determined to make her Free State Nobody
doubts that they were real emigrants; nobody de-
pies that they are good citizens and valuable ac-
cessions to new territory. Nobody accuses them
of voting illegally, or Of going to Kansas merely
TO vote. Nobody denies to Missourians and other
shareholders the perfect legal right to form similar
association and send enigrants of their own
stripe TO settle in Kansas as our brethren have
done, there to labor and vote for Slavery if they
think proper Yet the Presidents organ de-
nounces those who melted and aided this Eastern
emigration as AbOlitionists who have resorted
"to uDjustifable measures to defeat the true
meaning and principle Of the Nebraska
claw"
8. The Slavery interest on the Eastern border
Of Kansas adopted very different course. 1t
organized secret lodges, with signals, passwords
and leaders, throughout the western counties Of
Missouri They collected money and enrolled
Pro.Slayery men, not to settle in Kansas and fairly
vote down our Free State immigrants, but to be
hurled upon her polls in armed regiments on her
days of elections, and carry them by storm These
were to vote without law, defing law; if the
Judges did not cOncede their right to do so, they
were to make judges who would And by such
long plotted, carefully elaborated, wholesale cor
ruption of the ballOtboxes, the Free settlers Of
Kansas were thrust aside or OyerbOrne at their
election last Spring and Legislature of Missouri
ais chosen b. an armed irruptiOn Of Pro Slavery
Missovrans, most of whom had spent but one
night in the Territory and expected to leave it next
day. And the Legislature thus UNANIMOUSLY chofen
has legalized Slavery in Kansas and made almost
any sort of opposition to it felony, in certain
cases punishable with death
Q. This Missouri band the President now recog
nizes as a true Legislature of Kansas; his new
Governor shannon uphOlds and threatens TO
enforce their enactments as valid laws of Kansas;
he is hand and glove with them in all things, and
votes at the election they appointed Tor Reeder,
The ayowed Pro-Slavery candidate for Congress.
Nay: the President balances the organizations at
the East to send bona .fde and desirable Free
state settlers to Kansas against the undeniable
wrongs and outIages commit tied by the Prc-Slavery
Missoursns intimating that the former are equally
reprehensible with the latter
10. And yet the President talks Of his neutrality
between the parties, aud his want Of power to in.
terfere ia the controversy. But be did interfere,
palpably, wickedly, when he removed Gov. Reeier
and appointed shannon in his stead. II is too
late for him to talk now of bis impartiality, when
he has stricken the Free State cause deadly blow
in its most critical emergency And the poor pre-
varcatiOn Of his organ in pretending that the real
cause of Reeder's removal was mslieasance in
Office. when the President tried TO buy him peace
ably out of the Governorship by giving him more
lucrative Office, only excites disgust on every side
The Slavery Propaganda despise the man who
serves them BY stealth and seeks hide his compi
city from the Free States while Free State men
losthe the preyaricator as intensely they detest
the betrayer of those whose rights he was bound
to defend
H. Nobody blames the President las The Union
pretends to suppose We do for not foreseeing
and preventing the incursiOn Of the Missourians
into Kansas" So far, the fault was ali their
own; his began with his connivance at their vii
lany by recognizing their nominee as the Legs
lature Of Kansas removing Gov Reeder who mad