New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-26
REEDOM FOR KANSAS
MASS MEETING N THE TABERNACl.E
ADDRESSES by GEN. SCHUYLER, GEN. POagRo,
AyD JOHN A x~c

In response TO the call OF the American Settlement
Company, very large and warmly enthrsia.tic con.
course Of chizens crowded the Tsbernace a evening
to i,en to addresses from proninent leaders of the
Prostate movement in Kansas.
THEODORE DWIGHT, Presiden. Of the American
Settlement Company, on taking the chair, made few
remarks explanatory OF the occasion and introducing
Gen PsnIP C. ScHUTLER, Secretary Of State elect of
kansas.
Gen. ScHUTLEs spoke Of the great pleasure the
privilege Of addr, ssng the enlightened and petr1ot-
ic citizens of New York afforded him. and said
that there was one characteristic about this meeting
dftrert from those he had generally attended; there
were very few ladies present he had been IN the
batit Of seeing large number of ladies present on
such occasions; they had dons much to make Kansas
Free State. lie alluded TO the conduct Of the women
OF Lawrence when that place was being fortified and
in constant expectation OF attack. They did not
shrink away from danger but stood by the side Of
their husbands. When some ammunition was to be
procured from little distance, where tn get was at
iended with danger the ladies offered their services in
securpgt He described the manner in which few de-
tenined women passed through the camp Of the enemy
ard brought II away concealed about tnelr dresses
TIE women formed military company and held thom.
srlv.s ready 10 fake the field had occasion required
Free-State mep be went on 10 say, have not broken
the laws Of the Territory; they have always scrupa-
Ourly observed them. There are TWO KINDS OF In
Kalsas-the laws Of the United States and the laws
Of the Bogus IL gisature Mr.. Schuyler explained the
circumstances connected with the murder of Dow. i
went out to Kansas said be- expecting to enjoy all
tie rights pertaining TO an American citizen. We
emigrated there expecting to be unmolested. We
went there 10 establish republican institutions But
e have not received the protection to which We were
entitled under the laws of the country. We were
told hy the Pro Slavery men that they were deter
mired to make Kansas Slave State, and they have
almost succeeded. But there some light that dawns
upon u, and that promises more prosperous
future We are now IN high hopes Of the re-
suits of the investigations about 10 be made
by the committee lately appointed by Congress.
He had -een the prares Of Wisconsin and Illinois, but
he had nothing so fine as Kansas. The climate
was healthy that they had learned 70 adapt them
selves 10 H. He belonged TO Council City. II was
about 90 miles from Westpor On the eastern borders
of Kansas about 80 mile wde belonged to the Indians
This perhaps was of the greatest safeguards OF
the Free State The Santa Fe road, over which
more merchandise probably passed than over any
other in the couBtry leads from Westport to Council
City 1t lay between two creeks The population
lad been between FIVE and eight hundred. Most OF
the Inhabitants are from New York and Pennsy
They were fine population and they had courage. In
the days of trouble in Lawrence they sent detach-
ment TO that city. Other portions Of Kansas had been
supplied with saw mills by the New England Ald Com-
many ard here he would say that had It not been for
that company the Liberties of Kansas would have
been crushed out long ago. But this had not been the
case in Council City. They expected to go back 10
cay on this great work. and Il necessary to night Tor
the cause and they asked the East Tor s cooperation
Loud applausel.
Gen. foNERoY was then introduced amid applause.
He was very glad to have an opportunity to speak
word for Kansas. He, however, belonged rather 10
the working than 10 the speaking men. IL was OF
more importance what man did than what he SAID
They went to Kansas because it was thrown open to
setst ment and they had right to go. Ho would not
refer 10 the Nebraska bill. They We're defeated 10
that legislation but they not conquered cheers,
and they were rot yet subdued Applause They
went there to find homes for their Old age. IL
had been said that they went there a. oiiice-
seekers. But they went there to md homes Nnen
tLev went there il was of Saturday afternoon that
they frst saw the soil of Kansas The land lay there
in swcls rolling Ike the waves Of the ocean. IL was
green and beautiful, "a when 1t hrst came rom the
6nnd of God Early in the week they founded Law
renee and he had thanked God over since that they
had Lawrence lAppausel. They went out IN com,
offending He wanted to say distinctly that If they
had organized emigration, they did not orgaitze
al invasion But their organization was not the irst
one. Before the Nebraska Bill passed there weS an
organization formed in Western Missouri TO carry
Slavery INTO Kansas. They had an election tho past
Autumn, and Missomians came over and elected
Whitfield. And in the next March the Missourians
came and elected the Legislature, bring sg many
Of their candidate with them LSensaionl. On the
Fourth OF July-a strange day for such deed-they
expelled the Free.State men. By one stroke OF the
pen they adopted the laws Of Missouri And beside
that, they made laws unheard OF before "a Missouri or
Pande em0niuIn. One was that man wkO printed any
thing tending 70 show that Slavery was aOt applicable
to Kansas should be punished by two yeaIs' i'm
prisonmcnt and if it should fall into the hands
of slaves and Icite an nsurection The crime became
grand larceny, aud was punishable with death. They
made too such a test of voters as TO exclude al Free
State men, while they had no right 10 demand any
such thing under the Nebraska Bill. If the whole his
tory Of this legislation could be known, some VINO had
censurcd the Free State men would have spared their
cepsmes. They went dskansas free men. They had
been baptized into the spirit of Freedom, and they
went where they had a right 10 go. They did not 90
to foreign country and they did not suppose that the
Government would be foreign to them. They went
as fr,e men. for they knew the difference between
Freedom and Slavery. They had seen granite monu-
ments uplifted high on consecrated grounds aud
standing ike eternal sennes pointing upward where
live the spirits Of those who fought ana died tor free
dom Loud appIausel. They could not be slaves Re-
newed applause The stripe Of Slavery could not be
written on their backs branded on their oreheads.
Enough of the spirit of the the noble dead was LEFT
among them to Lurl back the power OF Slavery ana
bid il defiance Cheersl Now they wanted every
fling that the Nebraska-Kansas bill gave them. Ii
won7d be poor thing if Congress should grant them
ns a special favor what was guaranteed them oy the
Nobrarka bill. BY that bill ths largest liberty
was given to the people to frame Con
.titutiob. and in their own way to come
into he Union. They bad, in accordance with the
provisions Of that bin, framed their constitution Inc
people had accepted it, organized under IT. ana Il haa
been given TO Congress- and now they wantea Gil true
m,r IN stand bv them and see that they we're protected
in their rights It too late now, after they Lad
claimed their nights under the provisions Of TINS n,
for Congress to pas law depriving them OF that
tight and directing them when and where to form
their coUstuton. They had organized in good faith
The Territorial Government proved failure, and as
tbev were orderoying and aw-abiding citizens, they
undertook TO frame a constitutional Government OF
their own Now they wanted to DC protected in their
rights, and they wanted their friends to see them
through They did not 20 over to interfere with Mls-
mi They intended 10 establish institutions Of their
own and not 10 interfere with those existing anywhere
n for Ereedom. they had not for