New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-06
THE CONDITION OF KANSAS.

We are among those who labor in faith to
make Kansas Free State. BY nature and By
fair, solemn compact between the two sections
of tn Union, such is her proper destiny She
can be cursed with Slavery only by the pc.
tency Of unnatural and extraneOus influences.
The South qutclaimed her to Freedom ia
1891, receiving full consideration therefor.
She now, aided by Northern recreants, repa
dates the contract while holding fast to the
consideration. Her borderers nfest and srav
erse the Territory, threatening with vengeance
and legal penalties all who resist the establish
ment of human chattelhood on her soil. We
trust they are ultimately to be baffied and
beaten, but to-day their star is in the ascend
ant Before the massage OF the hansas-Ne
bIaska bill there were slaves in what is now
Kansas, but they were held in bondage
by the sheer superiority, intellectual aud
otherwise, of their masters, and 10 violation of
law. The lie gal interdict was removed By the
passage of Douglass bill, and now they have
what is called law on the other side. a Terri
torial Legislature chosen by Missourians has ex-
tended the Slave Laws of Missouri over Kansas,
and has heaped new penalties and privatiOns on
the opponents Of Slavery. Toproclam the Mis-
sourians Legislature a usurping body and pro-
nounce its Slave Laws utilities, is to incur the
penalties OF felony; to say in Kansas that Slaves
cannot rightfully be holden there is to brave the
infection of Death. No la wyer can plead at the
bar of the United States Court there without
first swearing obedience to these Infamous laws;
the new United States Governor concurs with
the United States Judges in prOnouncing these
atrociOus enactments valid lava of Kansas, to
be obeyed by all residents under penalty of the
infections therein set forth. Thus we have seen
that MCrea, Free-Soiler, who shot Clark, Mis-
sOuriaD, in self.defense, is not allowed by a
United States Judge the counsel of his choice
on his trial for life or death, because that couu-
sci will not take the oath of fealty to these
abominable Slave Laws which the Missourians'
Legislature has prescribed for all lawyers prac-
ticing in the Territory. What chance MCrea
has under these auspices can readily be i'm
agined.
Ostensibly and specifically, then, the establish
ment of Slavery in Kansas must be deemed
present fact. What is recognized at Washington
and by the United States Judges in the Territory
as the Legislature of Kansas, has done its worst
TO make her Slave Territory the Federal Cover
nor apd Judges proclaim their work valid and com
plete According to the view of these function
aries, Kansas is as clearly Slave Territory now
as Arkansas or Florida ever was.
But the Free State men who abound in Kansas
take quite another view Of the matter They re.
pudste the Legislature impudently chosen for them
by the Missouri invaders, with all its doings and
belongings They refuse to be governed by the
acts Of that Legislature or TO vote on the day Of
election thereby appointed They have got up
rival organization on the basis of real "squatter
sovereignty and will next week elect Gov.
Reeder as their Delegate to Congress in place Of
Gen Whitfield, just chosen BY the Missourians.
They will supply him with evidence that he is the
choice of large majority of the actual residents
OF Kansas, and thereupon demand that the seat be
accorded to him instead OF TO Whitfield. II it
should be, the reign Of despotisn and violence in
the Territory viii be near its end, and the expul-
sion therefrom Of Slavery viii be secured
But LET Congress give the sea. 70 Whitfield
instead Of Rse1er. sad ths sway Of violence,