New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-26

70 abroad, NOBODY lnsgines tha. the Pro-Slavery
men Of Kapsss, with the help of Ba'ordS
regiment, can hold iheir ground f,r a moment. Ga
TIE contrary, there is aa immediat9 AID urgeit
call On Platte County, Lafayette, Clay, &c.-aIl
in Missouri-,o ,pu,.cr lbeir armed thousands 20
flht the battle. Of Slavery agsius. Freedom.
There are probably at this moment no. less
than txo thousend armed MissOuriuns in ka' sa',
not counting those who pretend to haze taken
up their residence III tba. Territory. Need another
wod be said as to the relative strength of parties
-
The doctrine of treason, and especially Of con-
structiye treason, has been famous hobby With
the English lawyers. On the whole, hOwegcr it
has proved very ticklish beast to ride. Some have
ridden it into chic justceships AID some into
peer8g.s; but by lar the greater part baye brohea,
if not their necks, at least their regulations, il the
enterprise.
Tnese mishaps however have not deferred cert AN
adventure us American Law, ers frcm NO lntins on
the same hobby more desperate enterprise on
their part, since At The very frs. step they en-
counter six. barred gate ia the shape of pro-
vision of tie Federal Cox sitution, p.essly de-
signed to exclude and shut out from criminal
courts all entrance to the doctrine of construc
tive treason. But to bold lawyer, an express
cons itutiopai prov sion ia the way is no mJrc than
elk barred gate is to d bold rider and III one
respect the lawyers may be SAID to have the ad-
vantage since, beside the chance Of leapiDg over
it. stcy have the additional resource, not available
for ordinary hOrsemeD, Of creeping under. This
constitutional obstruction once firmly surmounted
or eysded our American Office servers pranca
away at rate which brings them fsirly up a.
least to an average with their English exemplars
of the good lid tunes OF Charles II. AID James III.
Tie first to lead off in this new display of legal
.eihty wus Mr.. George L. Curtis Of Boston, the
famous slave catching Commissioner, who, in
t,lrgraIhic dispatch to Mr.. Webster, then Sec
retasy of State, suggested that the rescaers OF
ShsJrach-tsken up by The Marshal on warrant
from Mr.. Curtis, and contrary 10 the law Of Mas
iachus, tia Ltll prisoner in the Boston Court
HOuse-hSd been guilty vi high treason, and
ought to be Indicted and punished therefor.
Tie idea thus started by this Boston slave
catcher was eagerly seized upon by the no less dis
tpeuished Judge Kane of Phade phio, who on
occasion of tie famous Christina rio, go. large
lumber OF persons indicted for high tro,soa be-
cause they declined TO assist United States Mar
shal in arresting fugitive slaves.
The next pe:son TO mount this treason hobby,
and to Ouirde both the others, was the atTocio1s
Chief Justice Lecompte of Kansas, III bis Infamous
charge to the Border Rutfan Grand jury of Doug
las Coupty, which charge resulted in the lnfict-
ment for tason of Governor Robinson, and all the
OTHER principal Free. State men of Kansas-;ndict-
mehts under which they are still held close prison
ers the most cruel, wicked and barefaced abuse
of authoIi., ever heard of in this country, and an
outrage for which President Pierce aud Caleb
Gushing, his Attorney Gee eral, will yet be called
to strict personal accountability.
Pierce and Gushing, Quits, Kane, and Lee
couptc have all mounted high oa this treason
lobby. but he Hon Rufus Choate Of Massachusetts,
is not man to be oudone by any body in the cut
ting up of legal captrs. III bis late letter giving
his ressons for going over to the support OF Ba-
chanaD, be mounts this same beast aud rides it in
marvellous manner. He starts the idea AID makes
il the occasion for parading him elf before the pn)hc
ON this treason hobby standing OF his head and
-
licsn party to have presumed to nominate car
cda.e for the pfcsidency without consulting the
wishes If the slaythOders, is evidence Of trea-
soLable conspiracy on their part 10 overthrow the
Constitution and to solve the Union. Mr.. ChOate
has indeed vast deal to say about the Constitution
and the Union, but he uses these words il Il Pc
cusr sensc of his osn He Identifies them with the
Slave Power to scch an extent and completely az
Ia find IN ali attempt to repress the insoence aud
usurpations Of the slave holders an overt act Of
levy ing war against the Consultation AID the Union.
TIE Slave Power evidently occupies, ia Mr..
Choates idea Cf our Federal system, precisely the
seine petition that the King occupied and still nom
rally occupies in the Tory Interpretation Of the
Enelish Constitution. That the king can do no
wrong. that he is entitled to rule at all events no
matter how he conducts himself and that any in.
dispostion TO acknowledge this i4def,aslble risL.
ON his part amCuLts to trt Is the doctrine OF
the Errli.h Tory lawyers; and oil this Mr Cholte
adopts AID arpl.,s t. the Slasc Power Ths Slave
Power car do no wrong, or at least none which
viii Justify any attempt 20 deprive It Of TIE scec
ton Of Presdtu's and the control Of the Executive
administration of the COIhtry; AID hay such at
tempt an QUITS t. treasOrablc conspiracy against
Tie Cors,i,ubcu AID the Union. Such Is the dc
ti'uo which Nr Chca'e labors to a. force from az