New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-21

renee with painful anxiety.
Now that a bloody collision in Kansas seems oil
but inevitsble-a collision which can hardly fail to
shake the Union to its center-we are impelled
more and more to lament the infdelity of the Pub
lie Press to its plain duty of placing the facts as
they have transpired fully and fairly before the
community. Up to this hour, great majority OF
the American journals and preeminently those
belor ging to the so-called American party have
Systematically suppressed the most important and
interesting facts, and kept their readers in
gross ignorance of the procession of events
which were rapidly hurrying on the country
to the brink of murderous and desolatng
civil war. The utter debauchery and falsifcatiOn,
by regiments of armed conspiratOrs from Missouri,
of the three several Elections held in the Territory
under the provisions of the Nebraska act-the ex.
pulsion of the legally appointed judges of elections
from the polls, (by pistol and bowie knife, if requi-
site,) wherever they ventured to interpose any
obstacle to the polling of these tmpudenty fraudu-
lent notes.-the return by these means of an entire
Legislature, not one member of which received so
many legal as illegal notes.-the election from their
seat, without inquiry or debate, of every member
subsequently elected by the settlers of Kansas
In place of those whom the Governor refused
to commission, because of the audacous and already
demonstrated rascality whereby they were said to
be cbOsen-the extension by that Missouri made
Legislature of the laws of Missouri over Kansas,
thus fastening Slavery on people who loathed it
the passing Of additional acts Furnishing as felony
or treason all manner of resistance or question as
to such establishment Of Slavery-with the more
recent murders and other Outrages committed on
the persons Of Free.State men by the
minions of the usurping Oigarchy - these
constitute q succession Of villanies and
crimes which the darkest annals of man.
kind may safely be challenged to surpass; and all
these have been either suffered to pass unheeded
or hurried over as lightly and eurtly as possible
BY q majority Of the journals Of this country.
Hence it is that the country is now poised on the
brink of fearful abyss which would have been
avoided if the People had been seasonably apprsed
of its imminence. If the dire calamity of frater.
nal strife should now oyertake us, the blame will
rest heavily on those sentinels the watch towers
of the Republic who have, through Incidence or
blind devotion to party, kept the people in gnor.
ance Of the impending avalanche.
By reason ofthis unfaithfulness, the grossest mig
conceptions prevail on every side. Thus one of
our contemporaries asserted but yesterday that the
war in Kansas grows out of the Free State Govern.
ment with the attempt to enforce its authority as
against that Of the Territorial rulers when in fact
TO such attempt has been made. The Free-Sate
Government remains entirely in abeyance-its
legislature has passed no act and appointed no
Sherif-its Governor has assumed no power but
that of offering a reward of $500 for the arrest
of vhomsoeyer fred the shot at SHERIFF
Jones, which arrest can only be made by
Federal or Territorial officers, as none have vet
been chosen under the State organization. Nor is
there any better foundation for the premise of
another contemporary, that the organization of
State Government is per Sc an act of rebellion
against the Federal authority. On the contrary.
il is an act in perfect accordance with the spirit
and geuus of our complex system, and no more
inimcal or seditious than the getting up of me.
mortal praying admission into the Union. In fact,
this is just what the organization Of provisional
State Government amounts to.
We entreat those who are trying to halve the
blame of the impending tragedy, by talking vaguely
of faults on both aides, &c, to say distinctly in
what one point the Free-State men have been
w1opg Were they wrong in not with their naked
hands defeating and driving back the armed hosts
of invaders who surrounded their polls at the
legislative election Were they wrong in not
recognizing as legal and binding an election which
they had seen unquestionably carried by concerted
invasion and fraud Were they wrong in not
recognizing as valid laws the acts of body
which they had seen thus elected en-.
;,elv BY Mil,Ouri votes, Of which oae-tAtd Of the