New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18

Teons from service Of their m.sts sppscysx
.sd Act srioys stE ssrisHr 1850 ~S.Sss saes coa,
YER sy sI D.y ppssSss s g. TIE r.
Of the Und Sstes or Of State TsritOry .Ry
ry Thsi n sry ge.on osens shall bs eSsnssl asa
Su'S, ss an s;s E ss to r Il ,s ,s :,
vc5s Of The shove rseted Aets Of CSnue ard Of the Act
Cd An Ire the Territories 4 Nsbra.sa
snS rsas' apr ro,d Nav 80 1884, AMI hall rsfase 70 tsi.
h oath affirmation, the vote Of such person shall be
Tie oplv enactment by the General Assembly Of
that Territory which relates TO the insiisnting Of
uon tax /. the following:
ChsrtT S ,. go see L-Reyenue
A. to a. Act to provide for ae ooociOs
Be eaeeted by As ord Lsyi.aiire A.,s~by Of IA
Terriiory 81 ka-.c. a, tatts's
a. Ae, for the coeeoa o sysHSs ne .Ssss q S.ss
and every s9osty shall on ~ seiors the Ar, hSsdsy a
r sseh person the aid Territory II may
s sgi re. to vote .ss P''d'S aid
" The above statements by Tar TRrusx are fair
samples Of the numberless wicked, stupid fslsehoods
daily published in that journal respecting publis
Affairs in ksnsss."
Let me simply premise that the article on Kan
sas in the Tr,6sme Aluarae though revised by me.
was compiled from the newspapers OF that Terri
tory--the only authorities then attaiaable-by
a gentleman who has made Kansas a stady fer
wears. The legislative acts cited therein were Civ
en- as unquestionaby authentic, and l have no
shadow of doubt that they are just as those acts
stood when those papers were issued. But He
Union processes to quote from the Statutes Of the
Territory of Kansas, published by authority at tho
Shawnee NJ l.. School, aud printedb Jno. I. Brady.
public printer. This of course Is work which had
never seen the light when the TribsRc Ahno~se
was made up and which do not know who're ia
tbo fn huVo ind Rut ot
such work Issued or to be issued, and Whitfield
or shannon has shown copy OF 1t to the editors OF
The Union. l accept their citation as authentic
and ungarbled, and ask every reader to judge
uketker these acts differ essentially from those Pss'
Gshed in the Tribune almanac, and quoted N M
former Ltter3 There has evidently been recast.
and the acts as now published "by authority" are
more speciously cunniDgly worded than those
copied from the Kansas newspapers into tho Ai~s-
mac, but what is the real difference
The laws, as cited them, enabled any Border
| Ruffan to vote in Kansas upon payment of poll
tax of one dollar. Do they, as citodby The Un,sa.
| preclude this What are the prescribed quslifica-
| tionsl To be citizen Of the United States over
the age of twenty-one years and an iahabitdnf 81
the Territory and of the election district in which
| he offers TO vote. Hoo long an inhabitant' One
year1 Three months One month No! not
| one day nor one hour The man who became a.
nhabtant Of particular district OF Kansas at III
o'clock on the morning of any election is, under
this act perfectly good voter at one in the after
| noon. There is no definition OF the term "inhAb-
| itant"-no requirement that he shall have beea
such for even ten minutes before he offers bis vote.
| He has only to say he is an irhabitant, and swear
| TO it if challenged, to enable him to vote ut any
poll in Kansas, at any election that may be hold.
lust as the Missourians have already done at three
several elections, under laws more stringent than
this. And they understood how TO go over aud
surround poll in such overwhelming force a. 10
preclude the idea of challenging. But, II any
body should venture to challenge, they never hesi-
tate to swear.
Are there any other qualifications Yes, the
payment Of pOll.taI Gas already stated and n
challenged) an oath of fidelity to the Federal Con-
stitution the Kansas Nebraska act, and Of all the
Fugitive Slave Acts. OF course, these will never
stop Mssourian, however they may choke of .
Free. State man. Nne-tenths Of these latter
might refuse to swear falty to the last Fugitive
Slave Law of 1850 and thus be disfranchised.
while every Border Ruffian would roll that oath a.
sweet morsel under his tongue and lick bis chops
for more.
These acts, mind you, are not wicked, stupid
fasehoods" of The TRIBUNE. They are given By
The Union as from the /" Statutes of the Territory
of Kansas" published "by authority" They viii
of course be inserted forthwith in the Tribune III
manae ask every journal friendly to Free Kan
sas to give them immediate publicity, with the
authority on which they are now before the public
/ ask every candid man to judge whether they
were or were not calculated and intended to dis-
franchise the Anti-StareTy citizens Of Kansas, aud
alO,c The Border Rr6ans to cote BY thousands in their
stead There can be no more dispute about the
facts since accept the acts as cited "by author
| ity" in The Union. Am / right wrong as to
their meaning and evident purpose What chance
has Reeder, or any FreeState man, If the election
| of Delegate is sent back, under these laws
ask the verdict of an intelligent community. H. q.
| KANSAS IN BOTH HOUSES.
| Editorial cors.spondsnes Of The N. Trn~.s.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Feb. ia, 1856.
The state Of affairs in KANSAS came up in order
| in both Houses to-day-in the Senate, on Dir. VIII
sons resolution Of inquiry as to the condition Of
that TerrtoryA which was sharply debated on both