New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-26


Buchaneers, and the whole country knows it.
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We print in another place the letter of Mr. l..
Bridgman, of Wisconsin, complaining that The
TRIBUNE does not urge the Free State men OF Kan
sas TO resist the Federal authorities and troops and
call on the Free States TO back them With men and
money in so doing. As this letter is far sample
of class we propose to give It more attenti IN than
its individual merits might seem to justify. Look
here, Messrs. Brideman and Company
/. The Free State men of Kansas have just been
heard on an appeal from their oPpressors to the
American People In support of that appeal we,
with thousands of others, have done our very
utmost for the last six months; grudgiDg no time,
10 effort, no sacrifice that could insure their sue
cess-yet We have failed to procure them redress.
On the contrary, new Administration, supported
and copfided in by the Border Rufiaus is about to
be inaugurated, while not less than twenty Mem.
bers of the present Congress, who have eOns their
nobIest and best in behalf OF the People of Kansas,
have been supplanted BY enemies of the Free-State
cause. True there have been some changes also in
the other direction but Pennsy vania, New Jersey,
Indiana and Illinois-all Free States, and
all represented in the present Congress by major
ity of friends of Free Kansas, will be represented
in the next by majority Of Buchanan men, who
will vote for Howell Cobb or some such deadly
enemy of the Free State cause as Speaker. ma.
iorty of the American People have thus decided
that there is nothing in the policy Cf Pierce, Doug
las & Co., with respect 70 Kansas, which demands
their emphatic and indignant apprehension. We
wish the fact were Otherwise-we have done our
best 70 have it otherwise but thus it is, and We
feel bound to respect it as fact expecting thus to
hasten the day when it will be fact no longer.
II. The vital truth is, that great many good
citizens have not yet ascertaned the essential facts
with regard to the troubles in Kansas. The more
intelligent citizens of the Free States do understand
those facts; bu. that very large portion who read
little, think ess and vote the ticket Of their party
have been content TO say, so, Buchanan Tor Fill.
morel will do what is right-he will settle the
Kansas question fairly aud justly" and 90 have
put their ballots in the boxes aud gone home con-
graduating themselves that they had saved the
Union and crushed the fanatics" and agtators.
Now, the correction Of their mistake is work of
time, and patience, ard labor, and patriotic self
sacrifice; but IL can be done. A great deal has
been done within the last six months; great deal
more can be within the next year. The drunken,
the goddess, the debauched, the prodgate, the in
veterately ignorant aud debased, irrevocaby
against us-nOw and evermore. Wherever in any
community there is section as morally rotten as
our Five Points or "HoOk," there Buchanan
aud Slavery have just poledS vast majority and
viii continue to do 80. These we surrender
hopeless; but these can never control the Gov
coed men in the Free States who, for
psr'y's or Unions sake, supported tie policy of
Pierce snd Doug'as with respect 70 Kansas, we
have been gradually winning over, md we can 50 on
winning them II peace is preserved; but il we were
to incite torcbe resistance to the Federal aath0r
ties, We should win over no more, but lose thou.
sands who are now with rs. Fer Kausas's sake,
Tor Freedoms sake, We protest against any fOrcble
resistance IN Katsss to Federal au.he ri!y. Let the
FTte.S,ste mtn resist plunde-ipa, raVistng muir
derlDg Rufiars when they must, but subuit TO tie
abused symbols # Federal power. Let the Fed
eral authorities arrest con'e,, imprison, aud even
hang if they will; every such act o. yranry and 10
Justice makes converts 20 our side; but rebellion
against the Fedora Governmen. would ruin every
thing.
III. The tax OF maintaining cisil war in Kan
sas by combination of the Free-Soil States, il
simply, ridiculous. We should have to support
both sides of me war-pag ten dcEars into the Fed
eral Treasury TO sustain he United States forces
one dollar TO the State Governments to resist these
ferces, and two more 70 get tie frs. dollar 90. its
produci) into Kansas to. keep up the fight. Every
combatant OF our eide would naturally have to pass
through Indiana and Missouri, which haze Just
gone heavily Border. Ruffan, ard Illinois, which
has given Buchanan plurality Of rs votes. We
have 70 ordra.ce, arms, military stores; he Fed
ersl Government has al these, with Twenty five
MiIoLs L he Treasury AID az annual income Of
Sixty o. Severity Millions. The subsistence Of
every so.dies fgS';Dg % he Free State eide in