New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-07
WHAT KANSAS WANTS.

perfectly well understand. AiIba1g y. thr aln Vi
their tools the doughfaces-whose servility not
only in Congress but throughout the North Is De-
coming as the Presidential election approaches
every day more snper-seryiccable, a. though they
were I'll determined to Guido the serpent and Mr.
Toucey in crawling on their bellies and eating
dust--slresdy by this aid the slavedrivers have
contriyed 10 stave of for three months any Con
gressionsl inquiry into the Kansas outrages; and
the probability seems now 10 be, that tne dough-
faces will assist them in staying of this invesiiga-
ton for three months longer if not, indeed, in sup
pressing it altogether.
Such being the state of the case, what ought
Kansas and her friends to do To this question
the answer il as obvious as the question itself Is
pertinent Where the law ceases to afford any
protection, and stranger still, where those who
ought TO be the ministers Of the law and the guard
ans Of justice are in league with there's and rob-
bers, there remains to the endangered party but
enc resort. The parties thus threatened and as
smiled are thrown back on the law OF nature; upon
tbat great. paramount right Of selfdefense which
ubderies all laws, and is in fact the very found
alton upon which the idea Of government erecEs
itself.
The people Of Kansas and the friends Of Free
dom for Kanfas, must continue to do what they
have been doing ever since the passage of the
Kansas-Nebraka bill. Conforming 10 thc principle
ofSquatter Sovereignty, which that bill assumes
10 found Itself they must pour free settlers into
Kansas, well armed with Sharps rifles or other
convenient weapons, wherewith to defend them
selves against the Border RutTians who may attempt
10 cut their tbroats, insult their wives, maltrcat
their children, burn their houses, and drive them
ont Of the Territory.
The Klnsas-Nebraska bill instituted a scramble
in which the possession OF Kansas and the determi
nation of its future institutions was offered as a
prize to those who should first squat on its unsur-
veyed lands Such were the terms proposed by
tie authors Of the Karsas-Nebraska bill, and TO
those terms they must be held in spite Of their at
teInpts to fost into that bill two additional clauses
which, at The time of its passage, neither slave
drivers nor doughfaces dared to put into it--irst
a prohibition TO Free-State emigrants to move into
the Territory and secondly, that the organization
Of the Territorial laws OF Kansas and the enact
meIt Of her Territorial code shall be made over
exclusively to the Border Rufiians of Missouri
These slayedrivDg gentry, after challenging the
North to game of rough and tumble, finding them
selves fairly thrown and the Free North On the
top, are now endeavoriDg to bite and gOuge and
Mr.. Toucey in the Senate, and quite number of
dougbfaces in the House. with Mr. Fuller, late
candidate for Speaker, at their head, stand by as
conds and botte-holders TO the slavedriyers,
anxious 10 assist them in this new operation.
This, however, cannot be permitted. The North
ust insist on conformity TO the rules Of the game
and as both slayedIivers and doughiaces, as vel
in their Interpretation OF the Kansas-Nebraska bill
as in its original connection and passage, hay
shown themselves utterly aitbless, it is entirely Oh
the question to put the slightest reliance on their
Justice their truth or their honor In these points
the members of the BOrder-Rutfan party, whether
in Congress or out Of it, are precisely alike. In
deed, it is but justice to the frontiersmen of Mis-
souri, to state that the infamous outrages in Kansas
of which they have been made the Instruments did
not originate with them. Rude, wild, and reck
less as they are, they are yet not without some in
tincts Of justice and respect for rights, and II lett
TO themselves never would have ventured to invade
Kansas IS they have done. That invasion was
planned and Matched in Washington. The author
and nstigator of it had occupied for many years
seat in the Senate of the United States. Lately
be had presided over that body-we worthy, in
its present degradation, TO have such head. He
left his seat there TO engineer the invasion of Kan
sas; but, however essential his presence might be
in the Border Counties, at Washington bis absence
is not felt. No sooner is he gone than we fad
numerous Members of both the Senate and the
House anxious to step into his place, to justify all
that he has done, and to encourage him to still
further Outraees.
With the stream of justice and the fountain of
law thus turbid with the wsshings OF dough and
clogged with BOrder-R uffan distractions; with
the Territorial Executive and Judiciary, the Exec
utive Government at Washington, and the United
States Senate, through the alliance Of slayedr7ers
and dougbfaces, in the hands of the Border Ruff
fans, and with the House of Representatives
hampered and paralyzed by the same influence
surely the cOurse of the friends of Freedom is plain
strait one. We have but to go straight ahead;
we have but 10 keep on dong what we nave uOhe;
Ne have but TO maintain the advantage We have
gained.
Navigation is opened. The rivers are high
Now is the time. Pour into Kansas, brave meu
and true, with your rifles in your hands, and range
ourselves by the side of the brave men there
already, who, during the past Winter, have done
and suffered so much to maintain their rights and
ours, the great right aud cause of all the North
Freedom for Kansas.