New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-28
pairing him to Don QuiIote Don QuiIote would
have scorned to strike an unamed man, and more.
over in other respects was vastly superior to this
insolent apoogist for the most ntolerable crimes.

The journal Of Commerce. not daring to encoun-
ter the stern sentiment Of indignation with which
the late outrage committed in the Senate Chamber
OF the United States ia regarded in this quarter by
all who make any preteniions to decency turns to
the topic Of Kansas in hopes Of being able, By its
malignant comments, to afford some aid and CON-
fort to the Border Ruff Ans in that quarter. Not
CONTEXT with the destruction Of Lawrence, The
Journal is quite indignant with the Prostate men
for having abandoned the town and not staying
there to perish amid its ruins:
owe withhold comments until we learn the facts;
only remarkirg that worse policy could possibly
have been pursued than to make m ghty flourish OF
Sharp's rihes and cannon-defying the Border Ruff
fans TO come and take them-and then, when the
hour Of trial arrived, away surrender at dscre
ton. leaving the rifles TO the enemy. We do not say
that this last has been done but the story of The
TRIBusEs infoimants clearly imph it, When East
clergymen undertake to play bowieknfe and pistol
with Border RufiaDs.' they pretty 10 get
wOrsted Their strength ies in the arts Of peace and
the principles OF religion. Had they stuck to these
and bad tie emigrants doLe go likewise the present
troubles would hot have existed. The pride and pas
sioDs Of the South and South. invest would not have
been Housed, and Kansas would have been peoped by
an overwhelming majority Of Fret-Sta.e men. Who
can cOubt II"
II the FreeState immigrants had done as The
Journal Of Commerce does, gone infor the extension
of Slavery, confessed the entire moral and legal
right of the Border Ruffans to introduce it into
Kansas and inveighed against all attempts 20 pre-
vent it's intrOduction-w we suppose is what
The journal means by practicing the arts OF
peace and the principles Of religion possibly
they might have escaped the violent attacks which
have lately been directed against them. So il the
men who fell at Lexington and Bunker Hill had but
held their tongues the subject the Boston Port
BILL the repeal OF the Massachusetts, Charter, and the
substitution of Gage backed by his troops and bis
mandamus cOunselOrs, in the room of the legal
Government and had thought Of nothing but their
farms aud Of going to Church Oh Sunday, they too
might have saved their own lives, and the town OF
Chsrlestown from being burnt to the ground. But
does that afford any excuse either for Lord North or
President Pierce, or for The Journal u Commerce,
which seems to aspire to be the Rivingtons Gazette
of this new attempt at tyranncal subsection And
suppose the Territory of Kansas had been settled
by an overwhelming majority" of such wretched
doughfaces, of what advantage would that have
been toward the maintenance of the principles OF
sas from the grasp of the slayeholders'
With respect to the bad "policy"-of course
The Journal looks not at the principle but at the
policy of actOns-Of making mighty flourish OF
Sharp's rifles and cannon, and defyin the " Boz
der Ruffians' to come aud take them, aud then,
when the hour of trial comes, running away and
leaving the rifles to the enemy; we must say that
as to this subject the ideas of The Journal Of Com
merce are little confused. The defiance to the
Border Ruffians was intended for the Border Ruiz
fans and not for the United States. Those who
aided in sending rifles to Kansas did it with a
view to resist the Outrages Of the Missouri mob; it
was never dreamed of that the President Of the
United States would convert this mob into an
armed posse acting under the authority of the
United States, ard would thus assume to himself
the responsibility of burning the houses of the Free
State men and driving them from the Territory.
Suppose the Free-State men had gratifed this sud
den passion of The Journal Of Commerce for a
fight; supposng they had met and had repealed thu
Border Rufians, that would only have exposed
them TO the attack of Col. Summers Dragons, and
if they were repulsed, to that of the whole army
ard militia of the Union.
Under these circumstances, could they do better
than TO abandon Lawrence to the Presidents posse,
looking to him and to the people of the United
States for indemnity The Journal Of Commerce,
in its extreme anxiety to involve the Free-State
men of Kansas in questionable resistance to acts
done in the name of the law, seems to have fallen
into the error, natural and pardoDable enough in
that print but still error OF confoundng together
Id D...g
the authority of the United States.