New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-08

tina, of the inyadty Of the Territorial Legislature
ha, been deprived Of bis seat.
On the oh Of October the Free-State men held
an election for delegates to the Constitutions Con-
yenfon. and at the same time they elected Reeder
as Jelcpate t. Congress. II was on tbs ground
that Reeder contested Whitfed's seat; aud his
RIGHT 70 do So was recognized by the House, both
in ,he aupoirtmcnt Of the Investigating Committee,
and the paymeut Of Rceders compensation and
mileage.
The Convention assembled at Topeka on the 2|
Of October. and formed State Constitution "hch
WAS directed 10 be- submitted 10 the votes oi the
people on the 18th Of December.
Meanwhile. the Pro-Slayery men, confident III the
support Of the Administration aud of the slave
holders Of the Missouri border, were growing more
and more outrageous. On the Eth Oi Na!, hr'
William Phillips. lawyer at Leayenworth' WAS
seized and treated with horrible indlgnites by
Missouri mob IIe however, remained IN the
place, and il is he, probably, who by the last tee-
craphc dispatches is reported as having been muir
J,red On occasion of the recent expulsion of the
Free State men from Leayeuworth. A majority OF
the people Of LeayenwOr,h have always been rec
Stale uen. but were held in check and partially
oycrawed BY the neghborhood Of Missouri. On
th, 2Oth of MAY. Mr.. Baker of Osawattame was
l,nched in the same way. brutal murder commit
fed ON the 22d of Noyemberby one Coleman of lllck
ory Point on the person of Dow Free-State man,
with whom he had quarrel about claim, brought
the question Of the bogus laws to test and threw
the whole Territory into cOmmotlon. Instead OF
taking any measures to arrest and punish Coleman.
warrant was issued by one of the bogus Justices
Of the Peace against BranSon nelghbor Of Dow,
against whom Coleman dreading his evidence,
sworc a complaint that he was i'll fear of his life.
Brinson. being arrested on this complaint, was
rescued from the hands of d" Sheriff Jones by
some of his friends and neghbors whercuPon
Shannon proclaimed Lawrence as in insurrection
against the bogus laws, and in the character OF
posse. drew together an army of over a thousand
Border Rufiians who plundcred the neighborhood.
and threatened Lawrence with destruction. The
Lawrence men, however, stood on their defense.
and Shannon, frightened at the character of the
mob he had drawn together, entered into formal
treaty with the Lawrence people, and the invading
army retired. This was on the 9th ot December.
ON the 18TH the new Constitution was voted on.
Little interruption was experencedeXcept at L'aV'
pnworth. where the Frce-Stae citizens were over
aved and prevented from holding their meeting.
On the same day, the notorious Atchson addressed
letters to persons in the State of Georgia, pub
shed soon after in The atlanta Examiner, inyok-
ing aid from that quarter. On the 22d, while the
EDITOR of The Territorial Register, the Frce-State
paper Of LeavenwOrth, was absent attending
Convention to nominate officers under the Free
State Constitution. his office attacked by
Missouri mob and his press destroyed.
The President, in his Annual Message, had told
Congress that nothing had yet occurred in Kansas
that would justify any Intervention on his part.
But officers having been chosen under the Topeka
Constitution-under which Constitution the House
of Representatives has since voted TO admit Kansas
into the Inon-he FASTENED, on the 2ith OF January
l-o6, to send special Message, ndorsng tbcbOgus
Legislature aud code, and representing the iorna-
ton of the Free-State Government as equivalent to
an act of rebellion such as at last called for the i'll
reference Of the United States Government.
This was followed up by proclamation directed
against the Free-State men, dated the llth of Feb
ruary-the first of the Enclosures in Marcys letter
OF the Goth Of August to Geary, the new Governor,
as the basis on which his Administration is to be
founded, and forming part of the documents which
We to-day copy from The Union. The Enclosures
Nos. and are the instructions given on that Occa
sion to Col Sumner, commanding the troops, and
to Gov. Shannon. This proclamation and these in
structions assume the binding force of the bogus
laws and the duty of all citizens to submit to them
and to assist in their enforcement And SUCH not
whStandng the proved nullity and the admitted
atrocty of these laws, il, it seems, the basis on
which the new Governor is to act 1t is scarcely
necessary to say that the promises held out in that
proclamation that the organic law" (giying to the
actual inhabitants the determination of the in
sttutions of the Territory should - be executed
with impartial justice, and of immunity from
violence and full protection to the persons, prop
"erty and civil rights of the peaceful and law-abid-
ling inhabitants of the Territory" have proved as
worthless as have all the other political promises
ever made by Franklin Pierce in public or private,
in lis messages to Congress- or in his private com
muncations to Mr. Campbell, leader Of the House.
OF all the numerous murders rObbercs and ont
RACES of every kind committed upon the free-State
men, not one has ever been punished, or even pros
eculrd
Notwithstanding this proclamation, the Topeka
Legislature met and organized on the lth of March
They chose Senator's and passed certain acts, but
determined not to make any assumption OF the
actual administration OF affairs till Congress had
acted upon the question of the admission of Kansas
under the Topeka Constitution.
1t was upon the strength Of these proceedings
that indictments for high treason were found against