New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-08-25
thousand to fight. Having first, by force aud
fraud created their bogus Legslaturein Kansas and

thousand to fight. Having first, by force aud
fraud created their bogus Legislature in Kansas and
given Piercean bis fellow consprators the pretense
Of de Jaoto Government, the game was in their
hands. Tie Border Rufisns were organized into
posse oom,tdtus and invested with the authority
Of lawful force. Their murderiDgs, burnings
rObbngs and rayshiDgs were all done &C ,ordlng
to law, and by authority Of the Cabinet at Wash
iDgtOn. When the instinct Of selfdeiense endan'
gered this Law and Order, then the troops were
sent in to help to establish it, by putting down all
resistance and arresting the more dangerous OF the
Free State men. Now, the Free.Stste men could
have swept the Border Rufians into the Mississippi
or the SyI had they been left TO battle II out with
them alone. They might have made short work OF
it with Col Sumner had he and his Dragons had
no strength but what lay in their sabers. But they
represented something indefinite aud terrible.
They stood for the Nation, and to empty any of
htir saddles would be treason BY the laws; or, at
any rate, would be 30 ruled by the United States
judges. The instructive love of order and habits
Of subordination which are formed and nourishcd
by civilization, shrunk from this extremity till
every other eIpedient had been tried. And 50 this
handful of dragons have been as effectual an in
,trument to Pierce aud Jefferson Davis as the
whole garrison Of Paris was to Louis Bonaparte
and st. Anaud
Now If things had gone as these cOnspira!Ors in-
tended, and they may 60 yet if the rising spirit
Of the North does not defeat them, Slavery would
have been violently fastened upon Kansas, she
would have been forced through Congress, and, by
turning the balance of power in the Senate, have
compelled the Free States to choose between IN
conditional submission to the behests of Slavery
forever ard withdrawal OF themselves from the
partnership. This mighty revolution, therefore,
whichever shape it ght have taken, would have
been accomplished by few hundred soldiers Off
cered mainly by shareholders or their Sous. And if
this coup attat is hindered from striking as il was
designed it will be no fault of the dragons. They
have done their work as we'll as the troops of
O'Donnell did theirs last month in Spain. If Lib
erty survive the blow abe owes to them, though
none may have been actually struck with the
sword of steel, it will be through the good proyi
dence Of God and the aroused energy of the North
ern people, aid lot BY any laches of the soldiers.
Now il NAV be said that these men only Obeyed
their orders and that it hard not to pay them
the wages they have earned Then let the men
who gave them the orders give them the largessc
too. 1t is hard that we should pay men for help
ing to rob us of what we hold most precious. At
least is it most reasonable that we should not pay
for this robbery until we are guaranteed against
its being attempted again. We hold, therefore,
that the House of Representatives have done but
!he simplest duty in refusing to keep men In pay
except on the express condition that they shall not
be employed in cutting our own throats.
We trust that the House will be firm and un
yielding on this point, let what will come. Moth
ing 50 bad can come as the perversion Of the mill
tary arm of the nation from the defense to the
destruction Of its liberties under which We now
sufer The worst that can happen will be the
6isbandDg Of the army, AMI we wish the expert
ment could be tried for little while of doing with
out one. OF what use is the army now Mainly
to keep the slaves from rising and to hunt indians
on the frontiers. Now, we humbly conceive tbs.
those who think Slavery divine and beneficial in-
stlutiOn, should assume all the expense and trouble
incident to maintaining it, And as TO the Indians
We are convinced that Gen. Wool tells the truth
when he rays that the Border R1ffiaps along the
frontier and the Indian country are much more TO
blame than the Indians for the troubles there Lee.
the hope of being backed by national force be
taken from these gentry, and Indian wars would
be far less frequent ard costly than they now
are The new occupation which Pierce and
Davis have found for the army, of subduing Lib
erty in Kansas, we think Congress should take
away from it, now and forever even at the risk of
depriTiDg it Of the other two And this, without
any fear OF consequences anywhere else. Of what
use would the army be to the North in case of a
war with England New-iork and Philadelphia
and Boston would have to defend themselves
exactly as il no such body existed. 'In native
swords and native ranks their only hope would
dwell. These might take form under a nstonal
organization, if one existed, but they could do
perfectly well without it. No trade is 80 easily
lesrned as fighting. In the present state OF scien
tfc education, there could be 10 lack of officers
and the occasion need only appear to furnish the
men. The idea of the necessity OF standing
army in this country in time Of peace is delusion
and we shall have escaped happily if we do not
find that it has been snare as we'll. We shall
have had our experience to email purpose If We do
Lot use it to protect ourselves for the future
Although the Free States of this Union have