New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-03


| tice or decency-wss driven to discharge him. Az
the present. moment, an act of Judicial outrase ola
| for erosser aDd more serious ch.racter-by which
not merely the liberty but the lives Of many inno-
cent and est nsble persons struck ats IN the
process If execution itbout having yet attracted
1.-THE of the sttention thar it deserves. Encour-
| setd by the wpurity Of Kste, whom the lame
| pursuit If justice hes not yet ov'raken, but
who, we trust, will yet meet it'll bis deserts Chief
| Justice Lecoupte Of Kansas has striven to Guido
that Prrn,ylvaDis Jehrtys, and has stepped for
word to contest and that not without soccess, the
| leader,hip OF the atroclous Judges of America
We allu6e Of course, to the numerous warrants
Of arrest for high treason issued In Kansas, under
| which Governor Robinson and others are now held
| cose piisoners-Dot being even allowed Any CON-
! mubicaiion with their friends from one Of which
Cove II or Reeder is fugitive, and threatened with
arrest az such, and upon which new arrests are
made in Kansas from day to dsy-the United
States dragons, under the command of Colonel
Sumner, being employed at present a. the
chief instruments Of these infamous outrages
The pdictme nts against Reeder Robinson and
Others " no were arrested at the same time, were
based upon al alleged participation OF those gen.
tlemen in framing the Topeka constitution and ac-
ctptapce Of once under il But, according to the
latest accounts from Ksnsas as given in the lstters
of our special CORE spondent, the Border Ruffian
exposition of the law of treason has received
Dew interpretation While Donaldson, Jones,
Pate and Inc other scoundrels who sacked Law
renee and burnt Osawattamie 90 at large unmO
Tested, several of them still holding commissions
from the President as Federal officers of the Ter
ritory, Lee, mpte is now issuing aud the dragons
are serving, warrants for high treason against all
the mel who, hearing Of the danger of Lawrence,
assembled in arms and commenced to march
tbther with view of prote citing the town aud its
, inhabitants from robbery and murder !!
Whep, come time .ince, collec ion was pub
sbed of the lives Of AtrociOus English Judges, it
was objected BY some critics that the work had no
application to the present times and to US, and that
it was absurd t, in agine that among our Judges
here in the United States, any parallels could be
found for these Transatlantic monsters. Such was
the criticism then urged, and not without certain
degree Of plauribity; and Jet, among all the mur'
d. rous misspplcstions and stretcbiDgs Of the law
OF treason by which the English Bench has been
difpraced, ard which are set down ss the chief
atrocities Of the worst English judges, not case
Cen be found which, for barefaced abuse of author
ty, ard total disregard Of every principle OF law,
can be compared to these Kansas arrests. BY the
law Of EpglaLd, to imagine or compass the death
Of the King is high treason, and the Courts have
copprehended within that idea such numerous and
! xh,k tha yulinOa the
subject, of the very worst Of the English JUICES,
do Lot lack certain color and show of Law.
Warned BY the Sc abuses the Constitution of the
United States has expressly provided that treason
shall consist only in levyiDg war against the United
States-a provision in the very face and eyes Of
which these Kansas arrests have been made. The
most shameless g.h judges have never wanted
SOHO cOltring Of law. even fer their very worst
acts Chief Justice Lecompte proceeding in direct
dtfiance Of the law and contemptuously tramples
along with every sugges ton Of reason and color OF
Justice the Constitution of the Ufited States under
bis feet.
II this we're only the decision Of Border-RGffian
Chief Justice, or some wretched knaye or stu
pid fool such as Lecompte evidently is, who BY
come accident-like that which recently led Presi-
dent Pierce TO commission notorious gambler and
blsckleg a. United States Marshal for California
bad been appointed Chief Justice of Kansas, from
which flee be had been dismissed so soon as bis
scsndalous incspacity and gross corruption and
allure Of bis official authority became known, 10
that case the matter would be less serious. But
az the matter now stands it Is not Chief Justice
Lec0mpte, it is the President of the United States
and his interruptions Attorney General, Caleb
Cushing, who must be looked upon Is the response
bic parties for this abuse of the judicial power of
the United States for the most detestable Of pur-
poser 1t is not merely Judge Lecompte, il is the
President of the United States, at whose pleasure
be holds office, who is to be held responsible for
this Kansas law-far outrunning any English
atrocity-,hat to imagine or compass the exclusion
Of Slavery from Kansas is high treason.
Surely this infamous prostitution Of the Judicial
authority of the Government to the vilest party
purposes; this attempt, made with the cOuntenance
and with the tacit approval, if not BY the secret
nstisaton, of the President OF the United States
and bis law adviier, to subject to the penalties of
high treason the exercise in Kansas Of the most ell
ementary rights Of Free OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ex.
pressly guaranteed over and over again by the
Constitution of the United States; this deadly
blow aimed at the very vital principle Of our Demo
cratic Government, surely cannot be suffered to
pass without remembrance.
1t il impossible that Congress should adjourn
without distinctly taking notice Of this most afro
cious Outrage, and making every possible e1ertion