New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-19

The Kansas Letters which we give to-day, both
from Lawrence and LecomptOn, show the opera.
ton of ave will subdue you" in full blast. The
Border. Rutian Legislature having failed and Gov.
Shannon having failed in that undertaking, String
fellow and the rest stand aside for the moment,
leaving the adventure to be accomplished BY Chief
Justice Lecompte. 1t is well known that among
the most afr ocious scOundres recorded in history
Chief Justices figure csnspcuously, and this Kansas
Chief Justice is evidently anxious to have place
among the number. Jones packs the Jury and
Lecompte charges it-how will be seen in our cor
respondents letter-and the bills found under such
circumstances are such as might be expected
bills for high treason against the United States in
conspiring against the authority OF the bogus Leg
islature. These indictmentsfor hghtreason against
Robinson, Reeder and the other two indicted par
tes founded on the fact nd the sole fact that they
had dubbed Themselves, Is the Judge expressed 1t,
ard had been dubbed by others, Governor, Lieut.
Governor, &c. would be supremely absurd-as
absurd Ia the law laid down BY Lecompte-were
it rot that they actually put in jeopardy the liberty
aid even the life of the leaders of the FreeState
party. Should the Border Rufians be sustained
by the result Of the Presidential election, it will
be the signal for hanging these four citizens, and
for like seventies against every one else who
has ever said word for Freedom, and who persists
in refusing to throw up his hat for Slavery. Shan
mons campaign sgainst Kansas resulted in only
two or three murders; Lecomptons bloody
assize," under such auspices, would be likely to
boost twenty times the number. II the counter
ance of the President and the aid of detachment
of dragons encourages this judicial rufian to 90
so far az to indct, who can doubt that, sustained
by the voice of the people of the United States,
he would feel himself at liberty, and, indeed inst-
gated to hang?
The people of Kansas. thus goaded and provoked,
are expected to resist these outrages, perpetrated
in the name of the law. Indeed it is evidently
the very object of these outrages to provoke the
people to resst and to be prepared for that emer-
gency, a new force to back up the United States
dragons is according to our intelligent aud trust
worthy special correspondent, to be brought into
the field The body of men lately led from Georgia
to Kansas by Major Buford, and whose support
from day to day proves rather heavy burden upon
their friends in Missouri are it is sad to be organ
lied as sort of Territorial standing army, and
taken as such into the pay of the United States!
II appears that at the very time that Judge Le-
compte sent an officer to drag Governor Reeder
away from his duties before the Territorial Com
mission, upon pitiful charge of having neglected
a summons to appear before the Grand Jury, that
very Grand Jury had already found an Indictment
against him for high treason. Probably had the
small charge worked, the greater one would
have been kept in allegiance for subsequent use.
Should not the depriviDg the Commission OF the
services of Reeder result in enectually Gripping
it, perhaps the learned Chief Justice will
recommend TO his Grand Jury to find bills
against the Commissioners themselves, or at least
against the two who belong to the tiBorder-Ruf'
fan party. Upon the law laid down in Judge Lee
complies charge, there isjus az good groundforpro-
ceeding against them as against Reeder and Robin
son. The tendency of their inquiry is to upset the
Border Rufian Legislature by showing the violence
and Illegally of its orign-clear evidence, conspir-
inc 70 resist the execution of the Border Ruffian
laws amounting according to Lecompte's law, to
a plain case of constructive treason. 1t might be
started as an objection that the Constitution OF
the United States does away with all constructive
treasons, and makes treason to consist solely in
leyying war or in adhering to or aiding those VINO
do lew war; but the Constitution of the United
States lie not in force in the Territory Of Kansas
Judge Lecompte's charge ignores it entirely, and
of course it can hardly be expected to influence the
finding Of Border Ruffian juries
Seriously, however, is it possible to imagine
greater outrage upon Congress than that committed
by Judge Lecompte and those acting in concert
with him II would be curious inquiry whether
the President is party to this insult to the House
of Representatives A question is raised IS to the
right of certain body, claiming to be Kansas
Legislature to make laws and appoint local officers
for that Territory. Congress sends a committee
of its own body to the Territory to investigate the
subject, and while this investigation is going on
Judge Lecompte, with an evident intent to put
obstacles in the way of that investigation, pro-
ceeds to prejudge the matter, and to take for
mtee is sent to investigate, even going 80 far as to
cause bills for high treason-which would be
groundless if the bogus Legislature were ever 80
legal-to be found against those who have acted on
the contrary opinion on the ground that they have
resisted the authority Of Congress in declining to
recognize the acts Of body which Congress itself
hesitates to recognize
1t is possible that the present House Of Repre-
sentatiyes may prove too weak and divided to vim
dcate itself as it ought against these contempts of
ts acknowledgements this Lecompte might learn