New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-23

mX. ,ttsrly frstlcss. Soue DAYS ago ou@her
81. s,,paje dispatch to the President, stating
-, he believed the PeOIe OF Lawreaoe and the
r.nisop would submit 70 United staes sa'hority
. "a Usit.d States Msrshsl, and asked whether be
.houd u,e the troops in sustaining the county off,
aer appointed by the Territorial Legislature. No
snsyer has been received up to this time, although
even If it be sent by letter, il will soon be due.
The Pro-Slavery newspapers OF the Territory arc
Alled with the most incredible and malisaAnt i'i'e'
Aeods against the Free-Sate men. hoP'''! j" '"9
Territor, believes these stories; they are '0u
n excite the Missouri BOrderers, ana W give s"'u
.x.,so, of their conduct abroad as VIII Keep 1ner
M. :, ,h. Soutb and North in countenance
-, n;cbt and this morning had been appointed
- EEL on Lawrence; but think it viii be
Assrred few days, at least A party OF men,
,,u,ed and mounted, from Platte City, crossed at
,bs ferry some miles shove this yesterday. They
,,oceeded toward the scene of operations. Butord
And bis men were close TO Lawrence. Many have de-
serted. but their places have been filed by Mis-.
souriaps. Ny reasons for thinking that the attack
will be postponed are these: The intention Of the
Marshal and those with him (for be is mere tool
il 10 place the settlers in opposition to the United
States authority before the attack is made. They
predicate the war they intend to begin on President
Pierces proclamation, in which 1t Ia declared that
the whole force of the United States Government
will be brought 70 bear in the contest. 1t is this,
and not the fear CT the men now around Lawrence
ITSELF that has paralyred the Free SCate men; and
they now want ON able leader whom the people
will trust. As matters stand however, the people
OF Lawrence are not exactly in the attitude 10
which their enemies want them. Hence these out
RACES by the parties around Lawrence, all Of which
are designed to arouse resistance and preciptate
quarrel. Still, rs these outrages are most lawess,
and have not even the color Of Law, | think that
every such instance should be promptly met and
repelled. War has isdccd begun. Armed bands
that run about the Territory, plundering and taking
prisoners and shooting, can only be regarded
by the citizens in light, and in that light fear
lessy met. Many of the Free-State men wish to
avert an issue, TO evade the Territorial law and its
officers or submit to it, until the testimony now
taken before the Committee shall be laid before
Congress and ,be country. But meantime the con-
quest of Kansas to be completed BY their enemies.
So long the mohstroUs usurpstiOns Of the Terri
tOrial Legislators afford q cover. those who build
their hopes on them must work. II may be reck
less, perhaps a suicidal course but thOse who begin
by fraud and violence must end with it, where they
neither abandon their desigus nor seek repentance
Gov. Shannon has dispatched messengers TO Lex
ingtOn Mo, with requistiOn for Robinson. 1ndoDg
% Shannon is clearly acting with the Border Ruff
fans. Without the pretcnse of law even, mob
takes man byviolence from boat; they send mes
seDgers, who are as much prirates as themselves,
TO Shannon informing him of their capture and he
responds by this requsitiOn. have not ascertaiued
that this requisiton is on the Governor of Mis-
souri, but have been informed, and think it highly
probable that this is mere requiSiton on the mob
who committed the outrage.
Another outrage was committed at Kansas City
two days ago on the person of e. W. Brown,
Editor of The Herald Of Freedom, Published at
Lawrence. He had just come up the river and
was at the American Hotel, Kansas CITY. His
name being on tho list, a mob led on by Mased,
who lives between Kansas City and WestpOrt, en-
tered the hotel, and finding Mr.. o. C. Brown OF OS-
sawattemie, carried him of toward Wes'pot. On
Brown (the Ossswattone man had better change
his name), so they oame back and Sid get the
Brown they wanted. They took him - Westpot
and would have lynched him, but some Of the lead
ing men of Westport have got him new in charge.
They intend delivering him up 10 the Pro Slavery
authorities in the Territory for trial. he has no
Office, aud cannot be indicted for taking any oath
or other step in the Free.State movement. His
crime understand, for which they expect to pun
ish him. ia publishing articles denying that Kansas
had Slavery existing in it; crime punishable by
the Territorial laws. Mr. Jenkins was also tskou
at or near Kansas. l close in haste. Tho Com
mittee has been in secret session all day. examining
the murder cases of Clark and Brown There is
considerable difficulty and risk in getting any cor
rsspopdence of. 1t may be taken. l sent great
deal lately.