New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-23

unanimously resolved not to honor him with pub
lie reception.
Gov. Geary has for the present difficult part to
play in Kansas. 1t is his cue to put stop to the
Outrages and devastatOns which fast uniting the
| whole North on Fremont and at the same time to
satisfy Missouri and the Slave Power that the cleo
ton of Buchanan will give them all they desire.
| He was selected for his present post, not by Mr..
Pierce as he says in his Inaugural, but by MIR.
Buchanan himself and sent to Kansas to watch
over his interests in that quarter. Mr.. Buchanan
confdentally assured personal friends interested in
the fate of Kansas that Col. G. could be sent
out as Governor long before any such nomination
was made and We think before Mr.. Pierce had
decided to make it. And the Sage of Wheatland
assured those friends that, whenever Col. Geary
should make his appearance in Kansas as Governor,
the reign of outrage and violence would be at an
end and justice and peace would resume their nat
ural sway.
In the light Of these assurances, we confess to
some disappointment in the temper and scope of
Gov. Gesiy's Inaugural. The sword which he
aims at the heart of Liberty in Kansas is not so
well wreathed in myrtles as we were led to believe
it would be. True. there is good deal of Bun
combe interspersed through the Address; but every
tangible, substantial position is conceded TO the
Border Ruffians. Amid abewilderng fog of dec
lamaton in praise of the Constitution, the Or
eanic Act, and the right of the bona fde irhsbit
"ants of this Territory" to govern themselves
be tells those inhabitants that they must submit to
the claws" and the functionaries imposed on
them by the armed invasion of Border Ruihans in
March, 1855, and seek redress fer whatever is IN
bearable in those bogus claws" through future
Legislature. But meantime the Council chosen by
that invasion holds over through 1856 and u so that
the only hope Of redress warranted by Gov. Geary
cannot be realized till 1853. And suppose the
Missourians should swarm over and carry the next
Territorial Election as they did the last-what
them Must the People of Kansas submit in
definitely to gigantic, audacious frauds and usurpa-
tions which strike at the very life OF their rights
and liberties? If not, when will fOrbearance, on
their part, cease to be virtue7 And when will
their Governor stop talking to them of this right
I" of selfgovernment," "this great right of regu-
"lating our own affairs" &c, &C., when he appears
among them expressly to dragon them into ODE
dence to a ferocous despotsm imposed on them
by invading strangers!
Let us all begin anew. Let the past be buried
" in oblivion" says the Governor. VERY good"
responded the People; 'that is just what desire.
Let us rub out the Slave Code imposed on AS by
Border. Ruffian invasion, and take fresh, fair
start" ooh not at all, says the GOvernar, THAT
l.. dlv m
that Ruffian Code and repeal it if you can by-and-
by" Hear him
81 chcerfully admit that the people OF this Territory
under the Organic Act, have the absolute right of
making their municipal laws, and, from citizens who
deem themselves aggrie,ed by recent legislation
would invoke the utmost forbearance and point out to
them sure and peaceable remedy. You have the
right 10 ask the ner Legislature 10 rersc any and all
locs and in the mean time you value the peace OF
the Territory and the maintenance of future laws,
would earnestly ask you to refrain from all rotation Of
the present sf0tnfSS
~ en- sure there is patriotism sufficient in tho people
of Kansas TO lend willing obedience to the law All
the provisions of the Constitution Of the United States
must be sacredly observed, all the acts of Congress
having reference to this Territory must be unheslta-
ngly obeyed and ne decision Of Courts respected.
IL will be my imperative duty 10 SEQ that these sugges
tions are carried into effect.
If this is not mockery is not swindling what
could be- The people of Kansas are required to
submit to usurpation and the overthrow of their
dearest rights on the ground that they will by-and
by have a chance to vote, under election laws
framed by the invaders with the express purpose of
perpetuatng their sway-laws which disranchlse
most of the Free-State settlers, while extending
the Right OF Suffrage to invaders not yet day in
the Territory, and putting the polls and the canvass
completely i'll the hands OF the Missouri party. If
under such mOCkery of the name of Law the set
tiers can overthrow the Missouri despOtism, they
may; if not, they must submit to it unreservedly
and indefinitely. And meantime Slavery is already
established in Kansas by the acts of the bogus Leg
slature, and will go strengthening and forfyng
its position while the settlers are struggling for their
own liberties, until the time for uproOtng it will
have passed away forever. Such is the deceitful
Popular Sovereignty.
To fslsify or ignore public records is necessity
of the tools of the Slave Power in their dealings
with Kansas. When they cannot defend what has
heen done under cover of the Nebraska Act, they
can always assert that said act has been perverted
that "its true intent and meaning" was TO give
Freedom an equal chance with Slavery IN Kansas.
That this is false, We have repeatedly shown; but
lie stubbornly persisted in requires repeated reuta-
| items. and we deal with this one accordingly:
March 2 iS5I.-Mr Douglass Nebraska-hanS"S
bill beng before the Senate and the new section winch
declares The true intent and meaone 81 TINS a.t mol