New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-08


light nghts he will hardly take root on the prairie
but Is quite likely to be coming back ragged and
penniless next November, to proclaim that Kansas
bs humbug. trust, therefore, that sufficiency
of rifles will have been given to the Free-Stste
pioneers outright, so that none will be required to
buy for himself If not thus provided, let the pio.
neer of slender means go without gun rather than
be short Of seed and plows, believing that bold
hearts and strong arms will always find weapons in
the day Of trial.
have said that my hope is strong that Kansas
will be free without further violence or peril, and
that the House Commission will prove powerful
agency in this good work But the ordeal is not
yet past-it is only fairly commenced. There Is
still need Of signal wisdom and frmness on the part
OF the friends of Free Kansas in Congress- single
false step there might even now lead to ruin. As
yet everything done in the House has been, if not
30 promptly as could be wished, nevertheless well
done: trust it will be so to the end But the
Senate will pass Douglass bill, ignoring the Free
State movement and in effect frowning upon it as
rebelous; and then will come the trial of the pur-
pose and 6rmness Of the House. The Committee
on Territories will Of course substitute bill sub
stantislS like Gov. Stewards, recognizing the
present Free.State Government and ad-
hitting Kansas into the Union on
the Constitution thereby presented: and then
comes the struggle The Members from the Slave
States probably without exception, will vote
against the Committee and in favor of the Senates
bill; the Sham Democracy of the North will sue
cumb to them, as usual; We may expect like
course on the part of Messrs. Broome, II. NJ. Fal-
Ter, Whitney Walk and John Wheeler; and then
the fate Of Kansas will rest with Messrs. Haven
and Bayard Clark, Millward, Dunn, Moore, Scott
and Scott Harrison. / shall not anticipate the
decision Of these gentlemen; but say to the
country that Kansas is to be sared or lost as the
People shall manifest much little interest in her
fate during the merit tco or three months.
There are no more Elections to take place for
months, or will be none when this letter is pub.
lished. There can be no imaginable reason now
for placing this subject in any light but that of the
naked truth When / say, then that to pass
Douglass enabling act is to surrender Kansas
probably if not certainly to the Slavery Propa-
gands, but repeat what is urged by our Free
State friends from that region without one known
exception. And these are their reasons:
4. Should the House concur with Douglas and
the Prc-Slayery msority in the Senate it unites in
rebuking and discrediting the Free State move
ment by which only could Kansas have been saved
from Slavery. 1t sets the brand of usurpstiOn and
rebellion upon all the bold and true men who have
fought the good fghtOf Freedom and Justice on
this battlefield. Let them be thus "wOunded in
"tbe house of their friends" and who will hence
forth volunteer to fill the post of responsibility and
peril when Slavery is to be resisted and repealed.
G. To ignore the Free-State Constitution and
Government of Kansas is to throw all power there
in into the hands of orr deadly enemies. 1t is to
make the Border Rufian Legislature the sovereign
power in Kansas, and its appointees the judges
of her elections. Their Sheriffs and other func-
iionaries will be supreme in the counties; they will
direct how the polls are to be held, and will can.
Ssss and return the votes. What chance would the
Free.State men have under such auspicesl
8. The Border Rufians have repeatedly given US
notice that until the Slavery question is settled
they will carry elections in the future as they have
carried them in the past. You may find this in
Atchsons letters in Stringfellows editorials, and
throughout the circle Of BorderRufiian literature
The Yankee schOolmistress who wrote home from
Western Missouri a letter which The Neu-HareH
Register greediy published last November, admit
ted that the MissOurans had been over and carried
elections in Kansas, but said it would not mend the
matter to hold new elections, as they would do just
40 again. The naked truth is that the only honest
elections ever held in Kansas were those held
under the auspices of the Free State party, which
sent Reeder and Delahay to Congress, adopted the
State Constitution and chose Robinson Governor.
In all the others more than half the votes were cast
by Misourians who went over on purpose AND
they will do Just so again. only on larger SCALE II
fresh election shall be held under the auspices OF
their hackers and the management of their tools.
To consent to such election is to surrender
Kansas to Slayery-to surrender it shabby and
skulkinely. Rather than this, let it be given up
openly and outright.
- The only course for the friends of Free Kansas
in the House is to sustain their Committee on Ter
rtories in substituting Gov. Stewards bill (or some
thing equivalent) for that of Douglas and sending
this back to the Senate, there to be concurred IN
or rejected If the Senate rejects, the issue goes
up on appeal to the American People, and Will be
decided by them in choosing President, Vice
President and Congress at the ensuing elections
If they prefer that Kansas be Free, they will so
declare and vote; if Slave, their will must be SUD-
mitted TO. / zee no other course
Fellow-citizens who deem Liberty better than
Slavery will you not, by public meetings, oy
memorials, petitions, circumstances, letters ad-
vis, your Representatives TO stand fast BY Free