New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-24

transently overborne, can be really defeated.
Men and brethren are you preparing to vote on
the Main Question at issue in the Presidential
contest
That question is not Shall Slavery be extended
into Kansas or Shall she be left free and quiet,
to decide for herself whether Slavery shall be ill.,
troduced or not
Slavery is ALREADY there d! II was first admitted,
in violation of all honesty and good faith, by the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise which had
solemnly dedicated the soil to Freedom; it was
next established in the code of laws adopted last
year by the pretended Kansas Legislature which
the House of Representatives at Washington, after
full investigation, has pronounced spurious and
void; it was finally fixed and finished, by being
made irrepeaable for length of time, by test oahs
rendering it impossible for oppOsers TO vote or be
voted for by edcts forbiddng the discussion of the
subject, and by other laws, which even the United
States Senate has acknowledged to be infamous,
and fit only to be blotted out. Thus has Slavery
been already fastened upon Kansas-not by its
inhabitants, but against their will.
Kansas is NOW SLAVE TERRrTORY-inadc
such by inroSiOn and cOlenos and fraud and treaeh
cry. It's citizens cannot help themselves. They
are not permitted freely to vote, or to hold office,
& -
If Kansas remains as it is, ii remains Slave Ter
1itory, and becomes a SLAVE STATE in violation
of the ballot-box, of Free Speech, and of our Re-
publican Liberties-in virtual overthrow of the
American Constitution for the spread of Slavery
through the whole country, and with the speedy
prospect of despotic form of government over
these United States
Nothing can now save Kansas or our Republican
institutions but some reroatiOn of her affars-sOme
help for her from wihOu t-sOme Oreriurning of the
fraudulent legislation which has forced Slavery and
tyranny upon her-some restoration Of her former
Freedom that she may, as State decide her insti-
tutions for herself
The question s, Shall the Slavery which has
been frauduently imposed upon Kansas be over
turned? Shall that spurious legislation, and those
tyrannical enactments, and those violations of the
ballot.box and of Free Speech, be suppressed
and restore Kansas to her Constitutional Rights
Fremont, aid his platform, and his friends an
swer, YES We must, and we Will annul what
has been done by violence and fraud and We viii
mt Kansas where she was, with the Priritege OF
becominc A Free State, as her actual residents
desire.
Buchanan and Fillmore both answer, No. They
and their platforms, and their friends all say, We
viii not interfere in Kansas; will let her alone
TO remain as she is in Slavery, without the chance
things as peaceable and quiet as possible, for the
sake of the Cnion-lcaving untouched the fraud
and oppression IN Kansas, in order to appease the
South, who have brought it about. and who might
resent It's repeal.
The Southern portion of these parties-by far
the larger and controlling porton-are determined,
as all their papers show, TO keep Kansas in Slavery.
and the Northern portion quietly submits They
fell Us that Kansas is becoming peaceabe; but
wba, of that. while the tyranny and the fraud
remain
Fremont is for doing something, which alone can
save Kansas; the others are for keeping qHiet,
which is TO give her up to eternal Slavery and OPP
preston Between active correction and passive
acquiescence the real issue lies
Americans which is ym answer to the ques-
ton Shall the right, Of Kansas be restored or
shall she BE- left to the terrible doom which has
been fastened upon her,
This is The only question Il tbs election. Man!