New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-26

renee. the heroic focus and citadel Of Free State
tated and burned to aches by the Border Rufians;
but most of its inhabitants still live and the cause
honOred by their courage and devotion il stronger
and more hopeful to-day than if their villain assail
Snts had again been driven back discounted as they
were last December. A few bare and tottering
chimneys, charred and blackened waste, now
mark the site halowed to all eyes as that where
the free sons of the North have for two years con-
fronted the myrm6ons of Border .Rufisnism, in
tent on the Transformation Of Kansas into breed
ng-grouDd and fortress of Human Slavery. Honor
to the brave and true men who laid the foundations
Of Lawrence, and who, for many anxious months,
have toed for and watched over its growth aud
safety Though one stone should never again be
there placed upon another-though the crime which
has crushed out Lawrence should have extiugushed
it for ever-the champions of Liberty through fu.
ure ages shall reverently visit it's site as another
Bunker Hill or Marathon. aud shall be inspired to
deeper sacrifices and nobler devotion by the ex-
ult though fearful contemplation Of its glorious
dust
Few details have yet reached us by telegraph,
and these entirely through hostile channels; but
they leave no room for plausible doubt that
the black deed was cOnsummated on Wednesday
last, as had been threatened for some ten days
previously No shadow of prctext for this gigantic
crime appears as yet to have been invented by the
Border Ruffans, though their cOnfederates in the
Free States will doubtless devise one ut the earliest
practicable moment. We shall watch the columns
Of The journal Of Commerce, Neo- York Observer,
and other organs of the Cotton gospel. with lively
curiosity until it appears. As yet with all the
light shed upon the deed by the Pro-Savery oracles
at Boonville, Jefferson City, st. Louis, &c, the
burning and attendant butchery would seem to
have been as wsnton and execrable as any
crimes recorded in history. The Free-State
leaders were ali in prison or far away; the Free
State arms had been in good part stolen in Missouri
or intercepted on their way up to Lawrence; the
remaining inhabitants of Lawrence had notified the
Marshal that they would not only make no resist
ance 10 any process he saw fit to serve, but would
aid in such service; they had sent deputation after
deputatiOn TO Gov. Shannon and to Col. Sumner
epreating that protection which the latter, under
his orders, could not, and the former would not
gives and at last, finding that they could do no good
by remaining they had left the town in large num-
bers-we Judge almost deserted it-when the kut-
fans marched in and destroyed it. Such are the
circumstances as we gather them from the tele-
graphic dispatches; the letters OF our corresPon'
dents giving full details will not be due for some
days yet.
OF course, the Ruflians, after assembling such an
army from all the Slave States, and providing each
soldier with Bible, are not to be satisfied win
the destruction of single town, however noble or
eminent Accordingly, we have their bulletins OF
the shooting of one Free-Statc man at Blanton's
Bridge, and another near Lecompton. That they
have falsfed the circumstances, is matter oil
course; but that they have committed these muir
ders, We see no reason 10 doubt.
Their most remarkable performance, however,
is that of which Kansas City, Missouri was the
theater This is the point at which steamboat pas
sepgers up the Missouri for Kansas generally de-
bark, and here large and excellent Kansas Ho-
tel hsd been opened. 1t was Of course as free to
one party as another; but it was conducted by &
Free State man. was said to have been built with
Free State capital, aud Free. State emigrants and
travellers were mainly it's guests. Here Mr.. e. W.
Brown, Editor of The Herald Of Freedom at LAW
renee, was stopped and imprisoned without war
rant as Gov Robinson had before been at Lexing-
ton-neither of them as yet officially charged
| with any ofense, but in the charitable hope
that they might be. NJ. +. Conway, leading
Free State map, originally from Maryland, aud
Gen. z. c. Schuyler, who was lately in this city,
have in like manner been kidnapped at Parkville
on their way eastward Their crime is an earnest
| effort 10 make Kansas Free State. But it does
NOT seem that even this can be proved by any overt
oct mon the Kansas Hotel, in Kansas, Missouri,
which has lust been sacked and destroyed BY the
RufIsns, along with one of the newspaper offices
in that place. Bat fec hires lost, is the Iele'
or.pb's consolatory addition; that circumstance
We presume growing out the fact that there were
but few aycwed or Suspected Free-State men IN
Kansas CITY to Kill. Wherever the game shall De
found in sbundsnce We may be sure that the re'ul'
of the batue will be more satisfactory to the dsci
pies Of Douglas and Atchson
All this devastation and butchey, be II re-
mtmbered, have been per ormed in the name ana 0!
the authority Of the Federal Union. Let the
Government supply stand aside, and the Free-s ate
utu of Karsas Will ask TO odds Of the Border
Il aiars rtJtforc,l IS lily baye Just been by age
a',iye,, irtm ic,,ti.tc t.h b. Il IL tlf (. ;.