New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-25
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From me n 6nSdS 1T1OhNe, OF Juig ~ We Bathei
come additional facts about the Ksnsas Legislature.
1t seems that the Pro- Slavery members, who were
chosen by the Missouri mob declined TO present the
Governors certificates evidence Of their election,
but coptented themselves with fling icturn Of the
fraudulent votes polled for them The Free State
members presented the Governors certificates a.
their credentials, which referred 10 commit
tee. The Tribune tells the remainder Of the story
thus:
son Wednesday morning the House Committee on
Credentials reported against all the Free State men
obtaining seats. They were elected unanimously ex-
coIt one vOte-s Free State man whose seat was In
disputed. The House adopted the Missouri Code Of
LAVE (but the Senate had not acted upon IT, when
they adjourned TO the Missouri State line-Shawnee
Mission-to enjoy the heathfn breezes Of the West
port No.) Frog Pond and other fumes equally reviv-
ing always TO be found in that enterprising neigh
boTbood.
The action Of the Council very similar. The
Free State were elected by about the same pro-
GERS, but one voting against it-Mr. h. Chapman,
of this place.
Both Houses refused 10 consider or hear the pro-
tests and affidavis in relation TO the first election,
and denied the right TO go behind the first judges
certificate of election. Such was the position taken
by all the Pro-Slavery speakers. They were bitter IN
their denunciaton Of Free State men, and declared
that so long they hired Kansas should not be Free
State any low.
The action of this selfstyed Legislature is but the
the polsoutrages unparalleled in the history OF this
Government.
And 80 the Free State members legally chosen were
expelled, and the Missouri men claiming seats admit
ted in their stead The Governors certificates were
treated with utter contempt. The Legislature is now
composed almost exclusively of Missouri men, the cit
liens of Kansas being excluded from all participation
in IT, The Tribune adds
"Tbe adoption of the Missouri code, we suppose,
in No
know-and by easier construction OF law than some
we have heard-makes US COLONY OF Missouri. Let
them work. The people cannot be made to succumb
10 inyaGers-ther tongues cannot be silenced but
they will continue to proclaim their honest sentiments
and act their honest convictions, despite OF Missouri
ire-eatng mobs, whether they assume the bragga-
docia and tyran in the shape of legislative bodies or
as armed invaders of soil. They Will probably
make treason TO denOunce Slavery as moral or po
litica evil Let them. Who cares For our part,
so long as we have control of a free press, we shall
continue 10 denOunce II as the sum of ali III Alnes
and 10 TTOye that deserves the appelhton by the
conduct of this corrult self.syled Legislature We
seek TO invade mans rights, but the rights OF the
people canno, be trampled upon, and we shall regard
oractments of the body in session at Wesport as lus
as much binding and more, acts OF the Leaven-
worth mob or the resolutions of the Weston Sel-De-
fensve Associationto be needed only as the rawlings
Of Infatuated and misguided men,"
Fyen The Boston Adrerfiser, July %.
Letters received from Kansas Saturday show
that the affairs of the legislation of he Territory have
arrived nearly at a crisis. We had been already IN
formed by telegraph that the Legislature had adjourn
ed from Pawneea town near the forks OF the Kansas
river where Governor Reeder had called Ito tue
Shawnee Mission, in the immediate l,eighborhood of
the Missouri line. Our readers will also remember
that Governor ReeSer, undoubtedly seeing the object
of this Procedure vetoed the vote for adjournment
TIE Legislature, however, passed the vote anew, by
more than two. thirds, over hs veto.
The telegraph as is usual with it in Kansas matters,
os in IFS passage through the negative electricity OF
Missouri the much more important news, that the
LEGISLATURE had first unseated the eleven " Free State
members who in spite Of Missouri invasion, had been
returned TO the lower house. The fifteen members
elected by the army of General Stringielow seem to
have feared even the presence OF minority OF men
legally elected and 30 initiated their proceedings by
vacating their seats. 80,
They had also we learn, with remarkable rapidly,
voted that the whole code of Missouri should be the
law of Kansas 1t was then that for after purposes,
they adjourned to the immediate neghborhood OF that
Stale 10 the Shawnee Mission.
We learn from private sources that the elected mem
bers of the Legislature TO meet on the 18th a.
Lawrence Meetings of the people at different points
through the Territory everywhere dsavowing the
authority of the worse than Rump Parliament, which
is forcing on them the laws of another commonwealth