New-York daily tribune., 1856-02-12

1 they shall receive aid We are also told that " Il is
10. the duty o the President Of the United States
volunteer intepOston BY force to preserve the pu
rity OF elections" I am not the judge Of any mans
duty but my own; bus viii any man insist, after
tis utmaium Of the President that there is any other
course for tie Frce.Sta.e party Of Kansas than the
one they have adopted 1t Is no wonder that David
Il. Atohison, WIKI the help of the karsas-Nebraska
It'll in making his fist raid apon that Territory and
securing Missouri legislature whose legislation by
the terms of that bill exempted rom revision BY Con-
gress thus establishing new ard dangerous prece-
ccLt ana whose appointment Of county officers down
10 Constable for SIX years in advance perpeuates the
present order of things and in his knowledge of the
fact that the General Government would do nothing
to disturb that legislation which made the expression
of mans opinion felony, and deprived Freemen Of
the right OF suffrage unless they would swear to sup
port the kansas-Nebraska bil and the various Fug.
tive Slave Laws, and which gave Mssourians license
to vote in Kansas BY the payment Of Silt is Won
der, | say, that David K. Atchson and his contede-
rates could boast that they had got the hands of the
i'd Aholitioni-ts tied" large majority Of the
Free state men entertain no opinions verging toward
Abolitionism understood at the East. need
scarcely say no is Abolitionist in the Missouri
acceptation OF the term-hat = a negro sealer. They
are in favor of a Free State, not from any philan
thropc feelings toward the blacks but because they
believe viii better promote the general prosperity
II may surprise Eastern friends to learn that there
j. reason to believe that Kansas will enact law
cluding al blacks Much the larger portion OF our
Free-State are from the Western and South
western States. They have seen much OF free negro
society and consider it demoralizng, and they think
that the superannUated and vicious negroes of Missouri
vii be turned loose upon unless exclude them.
DO not share in their fears but have doub. they
are honestly entertained. know from personal obser
walton that there is a great deal of sound coaserva-
tive moral public sentiment, in the very counties
which furnish our Oppressors. | believe that public
sentiment Is every day growing stronger and more felt
in its influence where is eXerted Missouri has shown
her estimate of Atchison in refusing TO honor him with
n seat in the Senate Of the United States. But for the
late Message of the President, would have hoped
the worst for Kansas past Here we all stand
face 10 face President Borderer and citizen of Kansas
each protesting his innocence, each one ayerng
that he is acting from the dictates of his conscience
and his judgment Let our country judge between
us The great fault found with us Eastern people Is
our Emgrant Aid Societies. believe their benefit to
Kansas and their injury to the peculiar institution,
has been extrayaganty overrated. As means OF
colonizug this Territory and influencing ts votes the
Northern Emigrant Aid Societies and the Southern
have failed. Men who go on crusade to Kansas,
won't STAY there, and most of the Emigrant Aid So
ceties have been mserably mlsmanaged that
they have proved humbugs. There are plenty OF
Free-State men going there from that best OF
all motives land only jusfable one), to make home
for themselves Negro-owners are not as migratory
a. the citizens of the Free States and notwthstand-
ing the statements of The Squatter SoreregH, they
do not take up their abode in Kansas in great numbers
but only for n short time on election days. II very
irritating TO portion of the Mlssourans to see
crowd Of Eastern people passing into the Territory
together for they have the most extravagant notions
of what evils would bring upon them if we could,
through their peculiar institution. Though nineteen
twentieths of such crowd may use perfect ,ircum-
spection Yet very frequently drops az uAior-
tunate remark which rankles, and all have to share
the odium. think the chances of a real gentleman
or lady for being insutcd less when travelling alone
than in such Il company, and | have the authority OF
some of the most respectable of the w'England
emigrants FOR saying that by waiting at the general
rendezvous for their companions, their expenses
amounted to much they had Travelled by them
selves. Nineteen twentieths of the Buncombc used
TO stimulate the forays upon our Territory have been
miss;atoments and extrayagant comments with regard
10 the objects Of the Aid Societies; and this has fur
nished the cork-Goat which has kept Dayy Atchison
from sinking in the waters OF oblivion. Would our
friends who wish to do Us practical good of incacu-
liable value only provide the funds and some really
competent business manage them and build twenty
or thirty steam, or even horse saw and grst-mis
dnripc the coming season, it might be made paying
investment, and assure them that our Pro-Sayery
neighbors would welcome them in doing this as heartily
as we should. A community of wants does good
deal toward producing community OF feeling. 1t is
every mans priviege-nay, duty-in frontier coun-
try to keep-no tocauy-some weapon OF self-detense
and Sharps rifles proved to be such effective promo
ers Of peace at Lawrence that hope our friends will
suppy them too "a well as the mills, that like the
other members Of the Union, we may have peace and
plenty.
The President notices particularly our Constitu-
tional Convention, characteHzing 1t as revolution
ary' and the Shawnee Legislature as "vaId' and
"legal" assure his Excellency the former received
three votes of the actual inhabitants of the Territory
to one for the latter and can but wish it had hap
pened to him. as did to me, to attend some OF the
deliberations Of each body. The most chvalrous re-
gard for he rights and Difference for the opinions OF
others marked the acts Of the Convention. In the
LEGISLATURE on one occasion bill was under consider
alton for granting ferry across the Missouri River
Platte County had already licensed the applicant on
the side of Missouri and yet these Soons refused the
assent Of Kansas on the ground that the applicant was
a Free-Soier and would grant negroes facilities for
escaping across into the new and unsettled Territory
from Missouri W. Free-State men had up to that
time induged in the deuson that Platte County was
for ba into Of
owners in Kansas The Prostate party have 50 de-
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