New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-27
FROM FLASHING TON.
From Our Owa Correspondent.

From Our Owh Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nay Is, 1856.
tie quite manifest war of determination Is to
be vs2ed against the Free-St4te men of Kansas.
The game no. ID to "subdue" them with 4 Missouri
posse ,nmoned by Shannon, and iOrce Of United
States troops sufficient TO prevent resistance.
With imperfect Preparations, limited means OF
aeEt pse, and efficient organization, they cannot
encounter these odds. They will probably yield or
retire TO prevent bloOdshed.
All history does not furnish such an example Of
infamous and deliberate tyranny. Here N the
midst Of The Nineteenth Century, ia the very heart
OF what is called Republic, aud under tue
auspices Of q Law professedly designed to illustrate
"Popular SoFereignty;" small band OF frecmen,
for carrying into Kansas an Instructive love OF
liberty, for SIMPLY exercising the cOmUonest rights
ef American citizens, aud for refusing to sub nit TO
the oggrefsons and Outcages of neghborn g
State have been visited with every form of Oppres-
sion, and subjected to every device of CALLING
power. Their towns and villages are garrIsoned
with armed levss and their Judicial tribunals are
the n,trumen of usuTpng authority. Lett With
out redress, appeals disreg 4rded, aud prejudice
confirmed against them here, toeir last aud only
hope is in the retributive justice of the people
throDgh the ballot box.
All this wrong could have been prevented by the
exercise of proper discretion on the part ID tue
Executive Why pursue tbesc men with indlct-
uents for treason when they were offer NJ no re-
,i,taree 10 the laws Even the pretense Is " ant
ng tia. they attempted to set up the State Gov
eminent in opposition TO the Territorial, which
oh tbe into fio of
re,t WAS oriqira ally rested One frOwn from
Washington would have kept LecOupte, Donald
son and the other vicious emissaries OF strife Silent
and powerltss But that precautl0n would not
Lsye served the end which is aimed at, or have
had the effect Of exciting and alarming the c0un-
try, and thus of ensting the jealous sympathles OF
the South at Cincinnati
The Senate Committee appointed to investigate
the outrage upon Mr.. sumner Will content them
sel,es with a smooth and gingery recital oi the
facts, c0lored to salt the present necessihes Oh
party feeIing in that chamber. Next IN ineanheeS
t. the act itself was tie manner oil selecuog tnis
inqusitiOn, which was not only departure iro'n
the ORDINARY cnurtesies in not allowing the MINOR
ity To Indicate their preferences, but III total eX-
ciusion of every iudN idual supposed 10 sympathHe
with the aggriey, and injured person. Mr. Pearce,
the Chairman, is undoubtedly falr and liberal
gentleman. But Gen. Cass bad condemned the
speech of Mr.. sumner, upon which Brooks at
Missouri, is almost an interested person III ms
Kansas question however unexception able he may
be in other respects. OF Dir. Dodge The Senate
has had some little experience, and Mr. Allen, OF
Rhode Island, will have the opportunity OF proving
what he is.
Itis already foresbadowed that nothing substan-
tial will be done upon the pretext mat nothing
Can be done. This conclusion proceeds upon tue
assumption that the House will not agree Ia tue
punishment Of one Of its members an assumption
wholly unauthorized. Aud even II the senate
should take step, which is now considered m
probable, and the House concur, as u course II
ought to do, in cOnsenting to the imposition OF some
MAJ ked penalty, the mere giving of Brooks Into the
custody of the Serge ,nt-at- Arms would be but a
broad farce, involving nothing more tnan 'he legal
ceremony Of al imprisonment without tue .eas'
personal restraint aud with large cost 10 ,he lrea
sury. Let il be done rightly, or not at all.
The distinction between the influence OF power
and position in public life, and OF povert! ana num-
kenesa in private life was perhaps never So strik-
irely-and il might be added, shamefuly illus,
tsted as in two recent instances, IN noth OF
which life was sacrificed, but under very dlnsreht
circumstances. The facts VIII SPEAK s''onee' tol
themselves than any commentary can pIeau LOT
them Mr. Herbert q Member OF Congress from
California came late TO the breakfast table OF MS
h,tel He cursed several walters, subsequently
became engaged ia a collision with one oi thtm'
and shot HIM dead on the floor The forms oil Ia"
were executed as II they we're luteudcd 10 oc
nockery. lie was ordered to Be committed by tue
examining Magistrates until u hGseds eorpas was
sued out before one of the District Judges. But
his feet were never desecrsted by contact Win
the Jail. The Marshal and his underlings took
him into the custody Of their own houses. where
he was on psrol, with every comfort, until re-
leased by Judge Crawford on bail.
Now mark the contrast of the other case.
young mechanic named Jar6ae, living at the Navy
,a mere, being satisfied that person named
Ton! nsa sedueed his sister, and eXSsperated by
We ieueeuon upon his and her honor, determined
70 nav some reparation or 10 wash cut the stigma
WIN Ae blood Of the offender Nally aud his
pIVsne1 Neie returning from dinner ten DAYS SGD,
~heh 'sibae' accompanied by his unfortunate sis.
yer s1uoehIy Came upon them and demanded of
the seducer, do you intend marry her ," and
being answered No" he drew vi.to, .d,,;,," nJ
TO be prepared for the occasion aud sha, b','
Down. He died soon after. The mn.is,r",, ''.A
lered him TO he committed for trial aud he il oo,
in prison awaiting the doom Of the law. The,s
10 no party la Congress to espOuse las eause-no
Democratic organ to volunteer championship, and