New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-05

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Whoever has read she highly Important letter
IN our list from our we'll lntOrmed CofIespoh0ent 10
Kansas, dated Lawrence, Aug %, Will no. tall to
observe that the one question on which ths free
settlers of Kansas are about to BIZ xhelm,d by
their Pro Slavery invaders is tnas OF the validity
hid force Of the claws imposed Oa Kansas By the
spurious, fraudulent Legislature which sat at
Shawnee Mission. Acting Governor Woodson tells
the depuraton FROM Lawrence thas they must obey
The iaus-tbat is these Internal eDsctments Of that
convocatlon of scoundreIs, woo every man knows
were elected by Missouri expressly to ensave
Kansas-apd that If they will promise to do tais,
be can and will set the iLvad Dg army to the right
about face 10 five hours; but, If they viii not
promise this suhje cti n, he will do boh0g to poo
tect ,bem. IT, ,heD blood shalt dow III tOrreats in-
ant cites and rsiDg villages be burnt, aud children
be- left housrIess acd IaNberless on the desOae
prairie, the out stOn of the validity aud eufofce'
melt of tho.e stfociOus "laxs' wild have caused
all this horrible Carriage and devastation. Toe
issue made up in Kansas is precisely that 80 sharply
d, fined at Washington. The Repuo leans have
spent The session in earnest Efforts 10 procure re-
pudia,ion Of those yillanous "lass." For this
trey strut gled Ill every way aud at every Opportd-
nlty; it Was for tDis that The Exra S~ssion was
rendered necessary; il was this that failed at last
wren l0l Fillmore and Buchanan m@D, Overbear-
ipg 96 FfeDol ttrs aid Gorge G. Dlno, passed
the Arm bill without the ProvlsO against enforcing
the pretended claws" Of Kansas There has been
no other question of the S-s.ion which was not
subwdlnote end IN identa to thls
Now we see that the Northern journals aud
speakers affiliated aith the Border Rufian- pretend
that thar side an Congress offered and ~tshed to
rtptal those 'ia,rs'-but thus is black falseho0d.
They offered at sst to pick out few horrible pro-
visions Of those laws" and repeal or declare them
nyobd, as at war with the Federal COnsu utiOn; It
they Lever never voted that the acts Of the Shaan-e
Mission rsurpe,s were Invalid per Sc Ior that said
usurpeIs, elected by Missouri Bowic-kuve and
ballots, were lot a true Legislature Of Kansas.
They Offered to .epeal few provisions OF those
6iobonc laws but only in such manner as to
affirm the right Of their authors to make laws for
Kansas and the obligation Of the settlers ~ obey
them. Aud lot they ouly, but our frieuds ALSO
would have been compelled to admit. or
very strongly imply the general validity
OF those laws, if tney bad supported aud passed
any of the projects Of the Pro- Slavery leaders de-
s,gnr6 to lei der them ,tle less odious than they
Justly are. All the conct ssion offered US was at
best no better than the Of toe British Parlia
mtpt il repeating the Stamp Act, bat assert ne in
the same breath their ight to bud the Co ONES
"In all cases whatsoever" H.d ~o united ia
what they Low call "releal Of the mos, odou,
laws. we should have adnit ed that the Shawnee
Mission assel blage Vas Legal and rigbtful Legs
lature of Kansas, that Whitfield ~as the leg Lly
chosen srd riebtiul Delegate, that Jones is lawful
Sheriff of Douglas Couo'y, aid tnat Slavery noS
legally .xist. thIoue ehouttbe Territory. Ought the
Republican Members Of Congress to have assented
TO this
o. ihs 3O.h Of March, 1855, the Border Rlth,ns