New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-10

raordnary leg Alstion- Congress has aso 'esclaoe'
be prohibit On Of Slavery, which, 10 e@o, VIZ G e.
ended 9v all Of that part OF L so ~ Oh Iaade
sir, y real crime Of the Nortbe N STATES .ns INC
ave forty degrees too much OF norm iaulene. ,
<rnss FOR the present the President nrss defeoe
against the accusation OF TIE ne" y, Nss.s'
ent cent had happened which was unknrwn at
the date of the Presidents annual Messsg' he sab
mt,ed 10 Congress his second Defense IN TIE form IF
special Message: In this paper The rtes%;nt depore'
az the cause Of ell the troubles which aaye occurred
in Kansss delavs Of the organisation OF the Territory,
Which have been permitted by tn. Governor, Mr..
Reeder The organic law was passed by Co lgress on
the 3lst Of May, 1854; but on Rat day thsre wac not
ono lawful electOr, citizen inrabltant within the
Territory while tho question whether Slavery uni
vfrFal freedom should be'sstablished there, was de-
volved practically the FIT Legislative bodies TO be
elected by the people VITO were 70 become thereafter
tba ;phabtan.s Of Ranses. The election for the fret
IeesIatye bodies was appointed by the Governor 70
he held on the 3Oth Of March, 1855; and the %
dav of july 1895 desgnated for the organization
of the Legislative Assembly. The only civilized con-
uunity that was IN contact with the new Territory
was Missouri sl.yeholdng State at whose instance
The prohibition Of Slavery within the Territory hal
been sbrogsted so that she might attempt to coo1ize
II with slaves. Immigrants were invited not only
from all parts Of the United States but also from al
other parts Of he world with pledge that the people
of the new Territory should be left perfectly free TO
establish or prohibit Slavery. A special election,
however was held within the Territory on the 29th
dsv Of November 1854, without any preliminary Gen.
sus Of the inhabitants for the purpose of choosing
Delegate. who might sit without right TO vote in
Congress during the second session OF the Tsryhird
Congress which was 10 begin on the hrst Monday OF
December 1854 and TO end on the Sd DAY Of March,
1873 Mr. j. w. Whitfield certified TO be elected.
There were vehement complaints of llegaty in the
election but his title nevertheless not contested
for the pepable reasons that an investigation under
the circumstances Of the Territory, during so short
nT h.. INN ale and
that the question was of nconsderable magni-
tude Yet the President lsments that the Governor
to order the first election for the legislative
bodies of the new territory to be held simultaneously
with that hurried Congressional election. He assigns
bis reasons Amy question appertaning TO the quail
scatons Of persons voting a. the people OF the Ter
"rtory would in that case, Incidentally have neces-
sarly passed under the supervision OF Congress,
" (meaning the House Of Representatives. and would
" have been determined before conflicting passions
had been infaDed by time and before an opportunity
" would have been afforded for systematic inter.
ference by the people of individual States" Could
the President, in any explicit arrange nent of
words, more distinctly have confessed his dsap.
pointment in failing to secure merely formal
election of legislative bodies within the Tern.
tory in fraud of the organic law, Of the people OF
Kansas, and of the cause of natural justice and
humanity The President then proceeds to launch
severe deDunciations against what be calls propa-
gandist attempt to coonize the Territory with oppo-
ne nts of Slavery. The whole American continent has
been undergoing process of colonization in many
FORMS throug period of three hundred and fifty
YEAR,. The only common element OF all those forms
was prOpagnndism. Were not the voyages Of Colum,
bus propagandist expeditions under the auspices OF
the Pope of Romel Was not the wide occups-
ton Spanish America propagandism of the
Catholic Church. The settlement OF Massachu-
setts by the Pilgrims of the New-Net herland. by
the Refomers of Holand the later plantation Of the
Mohawk valley by the Paatnes; the establishment of
Penn ylvabia BY the Friends the mission of the Mo-
Iovians at Bethlehem, in the same State; the founda
ton of Maryland by Lord Baltimore aud his colony
of British Catholics; the settlement of jamestown
by the Cavaliers and Churchmen of England; that
Of South Carolina by the Huguenots: Were not all
these propaganda combinations Was not Texas
settled by Colony of Shareholders, and California by
conn anies of freemenl Yet never before did any
Prince. King. EMPEROR or President, denounce such
coonzatiOns. Does any law OF nature or nations for
bid them Does any public authority quarantine, on
the ground Of public opinion, the ships which are con-
tinuay pouring into the gates OF newborn whole
religious societies from Ireland Wales, Germany and
Norway, with their pastors, and clerks, and chors
But the President charges that the Popegandst en-
tered Kansas with design to anticipate and force
the determination of the Slavery question within the
TerTitery lin favor of Freedom, forgetting, never
tbeless that he has only Just before deplored failure
of bis own TO anticipate and favor the determination
of that question in favor Of Slavery, by coup de
main in advance even of their departure from their
homes in the Atlantic States and IN Europe. lie
charges moreover that the Propagandists designed to
prevent the free and natural action of the inhabi.
tants in the intended organization OF the Territory,
VIXEN, in fact, they were pursuing the only Tree ana
natural course TO organize 1t by nmgratmg ana De-
coming permanent inhabitants, citizens, and electors
of Kansas Not one unlawful or turbulent act has
been hitherto charged against any OF the propa
gandisis Of Freedom. Mark, now, an extraordinary
n,stency of the President. On the 29th of June,
1854 only twenty-nne DAYS after the opening of the
Territory and before of these emigrants had
reached Kansas or even Missouri a prOpagandst as
sociation, but not of emgrants named the Platte
County Self Defensive Association, assembled at Wes-
ton on the Western Border of Missouri, i'll the inter-
est of Slavery; and it published through the organ of
the President of the United States at that place, re-
solution, that when called upon by any citizen OF
Kansas its members would hold themselves in read
" iness TO assist in removing any and all emigrants
" who should 90 there under the aid Of Northern Emi
~ grant Societies" This association afterward
often made good its atrocious threats, by violence
against the property peace, ana hves OF unofendlng
citizens If Kansas. But the President Of the United
States so far from denouncng it, does not note
lite existence. The majority of the Committee on Ter
rtories ngenously elaborate the Presidents charge,
and araign Massachusetts, her Emgrant Aid Society,
and her emigrants. What has Massachusetts, done,
worthy Of censurel Before The kaosas organic law
was pass ed bv Congress, Massachusetts,, applca.
tor granted to some OF her citizens, who were en-
gagged in taking MP pew lands in Western regions,
Of those common charters which are used by all
ass ociations industrial, moral, social scientific, AMI
religious dd0ys, instead OF cOparneTships, for
the more convenient transaction Of ther f.cal aiir
The actual capital is some 100000. Neither the
granting of the charter, Ror any legislative
action Of the association under it, morally wrong
To emigrate from one State or Territory singy, or
in company with Others, with or without in.
corporation by statute, Is right of every citizen
of the United States as it is right of every freeman
in the world The State that denies this right is y
subject TO whom it is denied s slave.
Such free emigration is the chief element Of American
progress and civilization. Without it. there could be
no community no political Territory no State in Kan
sas. Without it, there could have been no United
States of America. To retain and carry into Kansas
cherished political as well moral, social aud rehg
ious convictions, is right of every emgrant. Must
tLat rrritnr thor. thar