New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-09
bee when we went to press this morning Inc
Fulton is about due at this port, and the Cunafu
steamship for Halifax is in her tenth day

The imminent deadly peril-nay, the ALMOST c'''
tain doom-of the Free-Stat settlers OF Kansas 'A'
cites general and painful interest. To appreciate II
fully II must be- understood that they are u'ter! c'
III from AL receipt Of intelligence. except through
MissOuri-tLat il. through the camp "i 'hrr i'i-
pacable enemies OF course they Will hear nolhihg'
until their fate il decided but just what thelr al
yersar.es choose 10 let them know. and ms j. ia
likely TO be fnsehood as truth. II be deemed an
ysabe Ia have the Free-Stae men believe that me
Government has declared on our side instead oi 'h'
other that news will be disseminated among ''r''''
They have no communication now open WIFE tnfir
friend. outside for the road to iowa aid Nebraska
is closed by strong force Of Border HUMANS en-
bodied IA Kansas Militia now subSsted ami 70 ne
paid at the Intimate cost Of the Federal treasury.
Thus hemmed in between Missouri and her hostile
regiments GA the east another body Of them pre-
tending to be Kansas Militia on the north, and the
iocdlcss, inhospitabe wilderness on tine south anu
west. With not food enough. even including green
corn to subsist them amonth. not half arms enough
to supply every one with musket or rIi!e ana less
ammunition than a days fighting would consume
il Were madness to suppose, or even to hope, that
they can stand their ground. With food and NUM-
tious. We believe them full match for twice their
number of the Ruffians: but 10 lead them into con-
fct with their brutal opprcosors against the enor-
nous odds now presented is simply to give pre-
text TO butchery and an exsnsc to murder.
If, then, our voice could reach our people III
Kansas We would earnestly lmpore them to seek
ont Gen. 7. r. Smith and surrender 10 him uncon
dionally Since the Federal sword has been
thrown into tho scale of the Border Ruiians. there
is no remaining hope for Free Kansss but in the
impending verdict of the American People. THEY
can snatch that sword from the hands of the OPP
pressor and convert il into shield for the Cypress
ed And, unless they do, Kansas is doomed 10 be q
Slave State and her Free settlers TO be pundered
abused and slaughtered. There is no other resource
or ground of hope remaining.
But il is said our people have made no war on
the Federal Government, have not defcd its au-
thority are not rebels and cannot Justly BE- treated
as such for only refusing 70 have Slavery thrust and
fastened upon them by the Bowiekniyes and ballots
of Missouri Invaders All this is very true, but it
does not meet the requirements Of the exigency.
III w num- luntN'' H"ii''"''' "'''"'
the President has seen fit to brand the FreeState
men of Kansas az rebels and outlaws, and lei
loose upon them the Army, the Militia and the
| Treasury The injustice, the wickedness Of all
this does not render il any the less fact To resist
or defy the atrocous Laws of Kansas" passed by
the Border Rufan convertible at Shawnee Mission
is, in the view OF Pierce, Gushing, jeff Davis and
/.i. "a 20 lat-t ~ bn
United States; so that we have Slavery first I'M
posed on haplrss Kansas by Missouri invaders and
then fastened upon her by Presidential elots and
Federal legiOns. This cannot endure, but il is
none the less present and deplorabe reality.
Then LEI there be no wanton. Useless bloodshed
even in the hottest of causes; but let the Free
Stale men captuate at once and so afford no pre-
text for the barbaries and outragcs which will
otherwise be nhicted-wl probably at any rate be
nnicted-on deienseless women and children.
The triumph of the Slave Power in Kansas will
be temporarily complete by the end of this month
All opposition will have been crushed out and the
Laws imposed on her by the Border Ruifans
in the 3Otb of March election and the resulting
Shawnee Mission Legislature will bear unrcsisted
sway. Those claws " establish and egaze Slav-
cry; they justify it by imposing all manner of
tyranncal disabilities and inhumun penalties on all
who shall venture to question The Legitimacy of its
sway. There is not remaining chance for the
establishment of Free Labor but through the
Wrestling Of the Federal Power over Kansas out of
the bands of the Border Ruffians and their Execu-
live serytors. The whole question of Freedom
Slavery for Kansas then comes home TO be settled
where alone it be finally setted-by the No
yember verdict of the American People.