New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-06
claims were set aside, and MCGEE got his seat

claims were set aside, and MCGEE got his seat.
What farce!
This day week has been set apart for joint
session of the Houses to determine the location OF
the Capital As much dissatisfaction prevails, l
question whether a twothirds vote can be had in
favor Of any point. OF course all Free State
towns will get the goby
Gov REEDFR's situation is most trying Sur
rounded by yindctve and desperate mers-br0ught
daily in contact with them under circumstances
calculated TO stimulate their hatred to the utmost
cut off by the Intervention of hostile territory
from all bis friends in the East with the real cit-
zens Of Kansas who are bis friends scattered over
a large region, unable to afford any substantial
protection and ncumbered and OveraWed BY the
drilled hirelings of AtchisOn who swarm along the
border-any man of less fidelity and nerve would
Weld TO this immense pressure and cut the Cor
dian knot by resigning an Office whose chief re-
wards are danger, care and villiicatiOn. But
Gov RTfDFR is eminently the man for the place.
With calm, welLbalanced mind he unites the
most remarkable firmness and physical and moral
courage Deprived even Of the support which he
would receive from an upright and fearless national
administration he still stands in the breach and bat
ties for the nsulted liberties he has been appointed
TO defend Reflect, o ye favored sons of the North
whose nights and days are spent fearlessly under
the protection OF law, that the Governor Of Kansas
to-day lives within earshot Of hundred organized
foes: that be passes to aud from his every meal
through their midst, the recipient Of scOwls of
malignant hate-that be no more dares leave his
room without pistols and dirk than he would If
dweer in the midst of the savagest tribe OF
heathenesse-tlat he lives entirely conscious as 40
the family be has left behind lin in his eastern
home, that any day-any h0ur-he may be the vic
tim Of the assassn-refect on these things, and
then say whether anything is too much that you
can do TO end this shocking condition OF things and
place Kansas in a position TO defend her Governor
snd herself against the warfare nquty now being
waged. Bestir yourselves, we mplore you give
us men, to possess this unequaled land in the name
of Freedom; and send capital to developits latent
resources; and in the meantime see TO il that no
man. not sound to the core, gets any Office where
his influence can directly or indirectly affect this
greatest question of the day Freedom or
Slavery for the white men of Kansas" NEosHo.
Correspondence Of The n Y Tribune.
KANSAS CITY, Friday, July 81, 1856.
Stopping here for the night on my way up the
river to my home in the Territory, sit down to
give you description of the Missouri Legisla-
ture, row making laws for us at Shawnee Mis-
sion. dropped in upon the session of that hon
orable and sapient body yesterday morning
They were about TO enter into joint session to
consider and sign the memorial to the President
asking the removal of Gov. Reeder. In per-
sonal appearance the wise men may be CLASH
fed into DULLES, dandies and Aunkies The bull
lies are boisterous looking Il heard little said,
red-nosed frontier-men; the fops are early buds
prematurely clipped from the stalks of South
ern Universities, anxious by loud-mouthed
strife to win laurels in this promising field for
arge-talkiDg men without brains; and the last,
the fluDkies, are meek, piOus-eyed towards
from the Free States, who have been bought by
their vanity, interest or fear TO avow PrO-Slavery
sentiments, and thereby lose the respect OF honest
men of all parties.
had barely time to remark this much when il
was decided that there were tOomany witnesses Of
what was to be done, and motion carried to 90
into secret session, which was accomplished by
removing to the top Of the house. the open win
dows below being hardly favorable to pri-
vacy The secret session lasted for nearly four
hours, at the end of which, the grave legislators
with care worn and very thirsty appearance, came
pell nell down the stairs, the entire body making
u" break for private room containing the Terri
torial whisky. 1t shortly became known that the
secret session had among other very grave acts,
appointed Mr. Stringfellow Speaker of the House,
to bear to the President their compliments and
their memorial, setting forth the grievances
for which they pray redress. Truly ours
would be an unhappy country should nat
nra death, or rum, or their deserts rob
us of our ever watchful guardians, the Stringfe
low family. DO our cOnsciences grow sore, or
misgive us with regard to the Institution Lo
Kind Providence raises up Rev. Strngfellow to
show us the divine origin of African Slavery and
warm us into piOus emulation of the patriarchs
who could not do wrong. Lest the cares OF mind
ing our own affairs should annoy u.s. there appears
a legal StriDgfellOw generously ready to assume
command of our ship of State aud furnish his own
crew, and lest some sudden occasion arise in which
we might risk our Arcadian peacefulness in the
necessity for action, we have Dr. Stringfellow
kindly left with us all the time for purposes Of
general usefulness this time it being TO represent
our suferngs at Washington. Truly, we are
cared for with a tenderness unprecedented in his
tory, unless perhaps by the care of the Babes in
the Woods.
But the kansas troubles are not yet begun On
the one hand the Pro Slavery party are determined
backed by Missouri, to give by the enactments of
this Legislature the death blow to their opponents
while on the other, all through the Territory the
Free. State men preparing for organized oppo-
siton to all its laws Seine time the shock of col
lision must come. BY the first party Gov Reeder
is hated and feared, while by the second he is al
most lOved-and all this without any positive favor
ever shown them by him he has only been the
rock against which the storm that would have
swept them away has broken in vain fury His
exceeding unpopularity with the Missourians is be-
cause all their devices to evade justice as far as it
has been in his power to administer it, have failed
csjolement intimidation and sophistry have alike
failed to impose upon either his heart or his judg-
ment While we know that bis sympathes are
with US, his manner has never been such as could
be misconstrued in our favor, and with more than
ordinary discretion he has never allowed favor on
The one side nor persecntinn ON the other 10 cansa