New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-10

We have more than once had occasion to call at
tention to the deceptive and treacherous co1rse of
The Comme,ei eial Adrertisr of this city. That pa
per may justly be described IS the snake in the
grss. Of the New-York press. With great
proft ssons of respect for law ard decency and
r.h i, devotes all its efforts to perpetuate the
Border Rbfians in their present unfortunate pos
session of our National Government, by seeking to
ftmtnt jeaousies and suspicion' among their oppo'
nents Lately, indeed, it did seem to exhibit
something of proper sersibility and spirit BY ad-
mittipg into its columns number of articles on the
Ksnsas outrage evidently emanating from source
which very seldom finds expression 10 that quarter,
and written in tone quite opposite to its hioltusl
style. Upon reading these articles We began to
have some hopes Of remarkable conversion; but
The Commercial has already relsp,ed into its o'd
farOrte and easily besettiDg sin of backbltIng
the Republicans-an excellent means, no doubt
whether so intebded or not, of affcrdng uuderhaud
aid and comfort to its Border Ruffsu allies.
Having sought to make tile capital for ITSELF
and to acquire some credit for manly sentiments
and proper self respect, by falling in with current
of popular Indignation on the Sumner outrage too
strong to be IT sisted, The Commercial as if seeking
to demnify itsef and its Border Rufian allies for
the words of censure il was constrained to reecho
through its columns by repeating after Douglas,
The journal Of Commerce, The Union, and Tae
Richmond Enquirer the base, malignant calumny
against the Republicans that they have stirred up
and are desirous of keeping up civil war in Kan
srs Are We to understand, then, that The Com
mereial Adrertiser in spite Of all the accumulated
evidence lately taken under oath before the Con.
gressor al Committee, is prepared to indorse the
bogus Kansas Legislature as duly elected or as
rghtfully exercising authority Are we to under
stand that journal to accept as binding the atros
cious acts passed by that bogus Legislature,
and their appointment of Missouri Postmas-
tiers to the office Of Kansas Sherlfs Are
We to understand The Commercial Adreriser
as acce ping for coed law the ridiculous charge Of
Lecon pte to the Grand Jury Of Douglas county,
al the absurd bills for high treason found against
Messrs Robilson, Reeder and others bona Fl De
judicial proceedings DOES The Commercial in-
dorse, in like manner, the act of that same Grand
Jury in assuming to denOunce as uuisances the
hotel and the printing Offices at Lawrence, and
does it accept that presentation as in itself alone
and without any notice, even to the parties n-
terested, TO appear to show against this abb
surd procedure as lawful warrant for attacking
Lawrence with an armed force, battering down
and burning the hotel, plunder.ng and destroying
the printing Offices, and robbing every private
house in the cityi
The Border Rufians of Missouri repeatedly in
sda tba of Kausaa driye the eoal
vote .s from the polls and decide the elections to
suit the mselves. They choose Legislature, and
that legislature assumes to enact laws and to ap-
point tfhcers for Kansas. One atte opt is made,
without success, by force of Border Ruffans, to
destroy Lawrence. A regiment Of some four or
FIVE hundred armed ruians is subseque nty enlisted
in s. nth Carolina, Georgia aud Alabama, brought
to Kansas and armed with United States rifles.
They waylay travellers, many Of whom they pu. in
DANGER OF their lives some pf whom they kill, and
oil of whom they rob Of their arms and their
hOrtes; they steal oxen from the plOw rob farm.
houses of therstock and provisions; sack Lawrence,
as alrt ady described and make general plunder of
all the houses in the town. All this is done, and
The Commercial has not one word 10 utter against
it; but when it is proposed to enable the Free
State men to defend themselves aud their families
sgSinst such rotberies, then il ra the cry of
treason and civil war There is evidently con-
spracy, into which even the United States officials
Of the Territory have entered, to drive the Free
State settlers out Of Kansas by Of all kinds of
Out:sges or to compel them to unconditional silence
and submission, and TO leave the whole control of
the politics OF the Territory in the hands of the
Slavery party and when it is proposed to assist
these noble. hearted Free-State who still re-
solve to stand by and battle for their rights, with
arms, money and reinforcements to enable them TO
IL antain the mselves against these marauding ruff
fans, The Commercial rolls up its eyes in affected
horror and repeats the cry of treason and civil |
war Lawrence may be burned ten times Oyer |
and the whole Free-State population may be kept
in terror of their lives; persons and prop |
rty in the Territ)ry may be at the mercy |
of baDds Of armed and rowing desperadoes;
the principal Free.S,ate men may be arrested
and imprisoned without bail on the most ab-
surd charges and while they are thus held their
houses and furniture may be burned; Gov. Shan-
nep, instead of employing the United States
dragons at his disposal to preserve peace and
protect property, may order them away for the
very purpose Of depriving Lawrence Of their pro-
tectipg presence-and in all that The Commercial
sees nothing but the execution Of the laws. But the
moment the Free.St1te men propose 70 project
themselves agsinst being thus robbed and mur-
dtred, then it becomes treason and civil war.
What an insoltnt and cruel mockery in |
The Comm, reiai! What blow on its part
at the common heart and common sense
Of the American people; what proof of " defect
ss;-a or Da,var+a1 r;,;on oy hoth comhipsd.