New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-15
n.n can't make him drink. Toinysde Kansas armed

men can make him drink. 10 invade hhnsad arlnco
With guns and bowie knives; TO visit the voting
places TO drive the actual residents from the polls;
to elect bogus Legslature-all that was quite easy
II was quite easy, too, for this bogus Legislature
to meet; to appoint county officers; and to require
as qualification for voting the acknowledgment OF
their own usurped authority, and to reensct the
whole Missouri code by single paragraph, with
an az pepdix Of such Border Ruttan additions as
seemed suitable TO meet the case Of conquered
Territory. All this, to the members Of the Self
Defensive Association, 30 called, was very plain
sailing; but when it came to compelling the people
of Kansas to accept these laws and to submit to
them. that was quite another matter. Instead Of
that quiet obedience which these supplemented
Border Rufians had reckoned upon with conf
dence, az undoubtng as that Of the young lady who
built such nice castle in the air on the basket OF
eggs she was carrying to market-the eggs laid by
the selfDefensiye Society and the Bogus Legis
Iature hatcbed brood not at all reckoned upon,
nothing less in fact than the Topeka Convention
and the Free-State Constitution.
To pu: down the Free-State government to en-
force Obedience to the laws OF the bogus Legis-
lature, resident population, disposed to act in
that direction must be had and it is the object Of
the new association to supply the Territory with
such a population. After falsely accusing the
Eastern Aid Society of hiring paupers to 90 TO
Kansas. those Missouri slaveholders have now
themselves adopted the same plan. The object Of
their new organization is to furnish poor men Of
ProSavery sestiments with means to enter
ooarter.geclion of land, and with the necessary
provisions for the frtt years residence upon it.
II will be seen that in advocating this new assoca-
ton. General b. NJ. Hughes Of Buchanan even
went so far az TO maintain " that Freesoilers and
"Abolitionists bad legal right to vote in Kansas,
and that the South must beat them at
"the pslls by numbers" This concession, coming
from man who admitted in the same speech that
he had himself gone over to Kansas to vote, is
strong proof Of the efficacy Of Sharp's rifles in
bringing even Border Rufians to realizing sease
of other peoples political rights, and of the supe-
rior efficacy, after ALL OF the ballOt-box over the
cartridge box. General Haykes found this going
over to Kansas to vote had worked so badly that
he was determined never TO cross over to vote
again. Instead of that, he proposed to subscribe
his money to fit out "pOor men of Pro-Slayery sen
timents =" to establish themselves there as actual
residents.
If, however, Gen. Hawkes., happily converted
now from an invasive Border Ruffan into pro-
lnoter ofpeacefu and bona fde emigration, expects
to accomplish the object of beating the Free-State
men at the polls by numbers, we must advise him
to be careful how he puts too much confidence in
the story which he tells about Emigrant Aid men
from Be stOn under contract to vote twice, after
which they leave for home. Those cotton umbrel-
las, carpet sacks and chalked hats will not we
apprehend, be got rid of so easily That story may
do well enough in speech, but as to practical re-
suits, it will be safest to reckon on those cotton
brellas as fixture.