New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-03
trnnsaction az established by tie concurrent teSt-
nony Of the witnesses and nnrrasors from all sides

| The question which has distracted and de-
vastat,d Kanfas is purely one OF Slavery or Free
| dom. Remove this bone OF contention and 'here
woud be no shadow of contest, and no motive tor
anv. The fact that part of the Free-State set
tiers are from New.Eugland, though sometimes EN-
Moved By the Missourians aud Southrcns as an in
cjt.nent to acrimonious prejudice against the
cause they uphold, would amount to nothing II
they were only openly supporting or secretly con-
ni,ipg at the establishment of Slavery. There are
| n few renegade Northerners now enrolled IN the
| PRO. Slavery ranks-GOyernor Shannon, for one
| ard they are all regarded with contemptuous
sort Of liberation and cOndescendns fraternity py
the r. ffian cohorts Of Slavery. No man is obnox'
ions 10 them but one who avOws or betrays his
resolution to make Kansas Free State.
The Free.S,ate party are not struggling TOR
equality aid fraternity between Whites aud Ne
grtes A minority of them would prefer that the
law sbouh know nothing of a mans color in con-
nection with political rights; but the majority
who are mainly from the Western Sates, have de-
cided lot to expose Themselves to the fa:e accusi-
tion of being "negro-thieves or ''negro-worshp-
ers "and have enacted that the Free State OF Kan
,as shsl be open to settlementby Whites only. The
pretepse that Kansas, if admitted as Free State,
will become refuge and hiding place forrnnaways
fro IN the patrarchal discipGueoi the Missouri hemp
plantations, is therefore papable falsehood.
Freedom in KaDsas will be dangerous to Slavery IN
Missouri only by showing the superior tariff, en-
erqy, comfort ard progress of Free over Slave
Labor.
8 The attack On Lawrence was purely wantOn
and malicious. There were no persons in it that
the Territorial authorities really wanted TO arrest
and. if there had been, those authorities had been
distinctly and repeatedly notified that they might
serve processes aid arrest persons as they should
see st. Except for the purposes Of provoking
collision and destroying life and property, ten men
would have been jlst as efficient as the monster
posse mustered and led by Jones and Donaldson
upder the authority and at the cost of tae United
States.
4. No shadow of resistance was offered to this
array from first to last Donaldson entered Law
renee with small detachment of his force, ar
rested so many as he chose, ate his dinner in per
feet quiet at the FreeState Hotel carried off his
prisoners, and dismissed hi posSf Sheriff jones
Immediately summoned the same gang as has posse,
reantered Lawrence, aud demanded that all arms
held therein should be given up to him, which, so
far as such arms were within the control of the
authorities. was done. Having thus dis armed the
town without shadow of resistance, he brought
in bis entire force, armed and provided with bat
tory, whereniih he proceeded to fire at the Free
State Hotel after allowing a short time for its
evacuation. Most of the furniture appears in the
interim TO have been removed: the remainder,
with the stock of provisions, &C., was burned with
the house, after the posse had battered it for some
time without succeeding in reducing its heavy
stone walls to ruins. The Offices of the two Free
State newspapers were sacked and their printing
materials thrown into the river. GoSernor Robin
sons house wa fired and burned, Z" Dut not by au
thority," Gays Pro. Slavery bulletin
s. There being absolutely no resistance to any of
tbts outrages, only two persons were killed. One
was ii man who in Gov. Robinson's house
when it was fired, and who thereupon ran ont and
not hating hen required to do So, shot by the
incendiaries. TIE other was a member OF the
possf who fred rifeball at the chimney of said
house, and thereby dislodged stone which fell on
his head, and finished him.
6. The value of the property destroyed by the
Posse in Lawrence is vaguely estimated a. SJ0D,-
eco. TIE principal sufferers are the owners of
the Free State Hotel by far the largest and finest
building in the Territory, and the landlord, Mr.
Eldridge, who is probably ruined. Gov Robin
sons loss is heavy: that of the newspaper Offices
is total. But as it is felony, by the Territorial
laws. Low dominant in Kansas, to prn: an Anti.
Slavery paper there, this destruction will not
untimely. Some merchants and other business.
men We're robbed during the progress of the
affair; but, on the whole, the posse behaved much
better in Lawrence than they do outside of it,
where they Kill cattle and puDder corn-crbs when
ever their necessities or caprices mpel them to do
60. A Free State settler no matter now quiet and
inofensve, is held to be treated with uDmerited
leniency SO long as bis life is spared.
:. The posst was made up in god part Of the
seven or eight hundred SOutherners collected from
South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia, and led into
Kansas two months since By Maj Buford. The
settlers from Missouri at Atch:on, Doniphan and
other Pro Slavery dens in the Territory, were On
baLd but not many present residents OF Missouri,
so far as has yet been ascertained. Thus NJ ssouri
has been relieved By her Southern sisters in the
work of subduiDg Kansas, as Atchison and other
Border Chetans have often insisted that she ought
~ be.
6. All this has been done in the name of Law,
and under the authority Of the United States. IL
is the complement aid elimination ot The Special
Message and Proclamation Of Pierce. OF the Re-