New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-03
!. with the spirit Of Liberty and Humanity,


H. his work, and his exposure of the deadly an
,,onism Of the views nov advanced by President
I,;e,ce respecting the right of the People of Kan
l.. 10 form State Government without permission
Inn the Territorial authorities, aud the doctrines
Il this same Mr.. Pierce, backed by the whole
democratic party OF New-Hampshire, as to the
oorr constitution and government of Rhode Island.
here most whitening. The wrongs and outrages
kAicted on the Prostate people of Kansas. the
osoepce of the Border Ruffans, the glaring COM
Lcity of the Federal authorities, the iodsposltion
N the President TO do anything in defense of the
dearest rights or even the lives of the Free-Stste
eople, and his esgerness to dragon them into sub
Inission to the atrocious laws so audaciously I'M
,csed on them by the Border Ruffans, were v'Vidy'
EHectiyely set forth | thiuk Mr.. Hale never be-
re had so large so attentive, nor so sympathizing
La auditory in the Senate, and when he closed with
pledge of his devotion to the Union and bis con-
laenee that it would be preserved by the People
Issinst all pers and assaults, murmur Of appro-
Iston peryaded the assemblage.
Though the hour was late, Mr. Toombs OF Ga
Csc at once and insisted on speaking to-day, as he
lsteuds soon to leave the city. Mr.. TOOmbs is an
lille man. very thoroughly engaged in his cause,
Ind of course made an able speech. If wrong were
,sbt and the devil were ruler of the universe,
smipht fairly be called good one. He stood
Ike Sbylock ON his bond and would have his
pund Of flesh at all hazards. There were the
avs of Kansas--he would not inquire how they
anne to be laws-it wss the Presidents duty to
lnforce them and that Of the people OF Kansas to
hey. If they did not they must be shot down as
kbels or swung of as traitors. There were vicious
h absurd laws everywhere; suppose some of these
sere of that stamp, what Of it, Law and order
must be upheld, though evils are endured and ind-
dduals perish.
Mr.. Toombs is a harsh but not tricky man, and
would not do a dishonest act, at least where Slay-
ry is not in question But is it honest-I ask, and
await An answei-for him and others like him to
ay. 'Let the people of Kansas settle the Slavery
lmestion for Themselves" when they hold that said
leople have no legal right or ability to keep out
slavery 10 long as they remain in the Territorial
Iuudition, and when they hold that meantime they
nay be subjected by fraud and snap,judgment to
lmcb Internal laws az those of the bogus Legislature
which Mr.. Toombs is now unfolding, and urging
the President to enforce at the point OF the bayo-
ptl Here is Mr.. Toombs expressly justifying the
lboQus laws which make any questioning OF the
uesent validity of Slavery in Kansas felony
which dsfranchse every dssident from the Kansas
Nebraska act and the Fugitive Slave Law-which
dlow every "inhabitant to vote, with the Mis-
1nn md irin
| # him prior residence of even an bOur-and yet
uynR out "Let Kansas accept or reject Slavery
her people shall freely determine" Is this
candid
So on another point, Mr.. ToOulbs constantly
assumed that the exclusion of Slavery from the
Territories would be a virtual exclusion therefrom
dtbe whole people Che made no distinctOn) of the
ifteen slaveholding States. Yet the Census shows
hat. while the Slave States are far more sparsely
ppulaed than the Free, there is far larger volume
demigration from the Slave to the Free than from
/ he Free 10 the Slave States. In other words, the
people of the Slave States see fit to migrate in
arpe numbers to those very States from which Mr..
Toombs represents them as excluded! Land is
cheaper and far more abundant 10 Slave States, UT
The balance of emigration is against them and in
lhyor of the Free. Need word be added
touch but on one further point, and this merely
to show how grossly misinfOrmed Southern states
men are with regard to the essential facts in this
.ase. Mr.. ToOmbs asserted as undoubted truth
that the men who met as Legislature of Kansas
At Shawnee Mission, and passed the atrocious laws
IN question, were all returned without exception
ind had certificates of election from Gov. Reeder.
Northern schoolboy could have told him that the
,eats of part of these men were contested before
Gov. Reeder. and by him declared vacant by rea-
son of fraudulent voting and new elections ordered
10 fill them These elections were duly held, and
IN the absence of the Border Rufhans, who did not
consider the game worth the hunt, Free-State men
we're in every case returned. But when the Legls-
hture met, every one Of these Free-State men
was thrown out by the Bordcr-Rutiian majority
with about as much decorum as would be evinced
by 80 many hogs ia fresh corn-fed and the elect
Of the Border Ruffans, whom Gov. Reeder had I'M
seated, were pitched into their places! And am
assured by Mr.. Conway, the only Free-State Sena-
tor returned whose seat no Border Rufiian con-
tended for that, upon his refusing to act with or
coun.enance this Missouri mob, they (tbe pretended
LEGISLATURE prOeeed,d to elect or appoint man to
his seat Aud it is to such legislation as this that
Mr.. Toombs summons the Free-State men to sub
nit unresevedly or be turned over to military exc
cutiOn. They appeal to the Grand Inquest of the
Nation, and their appeal will be heard. H.G.
FROM KANSAS-A CONFLICT APPRE-
HENDED.