New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-17

telegraph prove true, Gov. Geary has made good
beginning, by releasing on bail Gov. Charles Rob.
insOn and his associates, so long imprisoned while
awaiting trial for high treason in having organized
Free-State Government for that Territory. This
is wise and sensible step, in full accordance with
the assurances from high quarters which secured
the passage Of the Army bill without the Kansas
Proviso. We presume there can be no doubt that
the State prisoners are liberated since the dispatch
adds that jubilee was held at Lawrence on the
10th inst, at which those prisoners made speeches,
and that Mrs. Robinson (wife of Gov. R) passed
through st. Louis on Monday, ON her way to her
friends in Massachusetts.
The telegraph further states that Governor Geary
has issued proclamation, commanding all armed
bands in Kansas to dispense. We are determined
to bel ey this well intended, though similar orders
have repeatedly been given, with no other effect
than to disarm the Free-State men, aud thus pre-
sent them helpless prey to the Rufians, who can
whip across into Missouri, where they are beyond
the jurisdiction Of the authorities of Kansas, and
await the favorable moment to return and renew
their depredations upon the defenseless settlers.
If Governor Geary will 60 just one step further, and
authorize the settlers to combine for mutual defense
and protection against these marauders, and to in
flict chastsement upon them whenever they shall
be caught in the act the dragons can be spared to
fight Indians or for any other service that may be
required The settlers oKansas have ever been fully
able to take care of themselves if the Federal Gov.
eminent would simply let them alone They did
it last Winter, when the Ruffian cohorts recOiled
from before undaunted Lawrence, pretending to
curse Gov Shannon for making compact with
the Free-State men, but really glad to get out of
the feud with whole skins. They would have done
it again last May, had not U. S. Marshal Donaldson
rode at the head Of Buford's cut-throats and won
their way into Lawrence unresisted by virtue Of
his commission as Federal functionary. 1t was
his commission, and not the power or prowess
of the Ruffans, that devoted Lawrence to
plumber and conasgration. And, through
all the past month, the RuHians have
been mastering their legicns along the Dor.
der, and threatening to overwhelm Lawrence some
time next week; but the day, though often fixed,
has never yet arrived. On the contrary, if we may
hope that Gov. Geary's new proclamation will be
respected, and that the war will now be stopped,
we may safely say that the Rufians have mustered
in far less force to uphold and enforce the atrocious
flaws" imposed by them on Kansas than they
mustered on the Both Of March, 1855, to corrupt
the baOtboxes and elect the authors of that in.
famous Code to the Territorial Legislature. They
sent ut least five thousand men into Kansas, when
she was unarmed and unprepared for the Eruption,
to elect Slavery Legislature; while the largest
force ley have at any time mustered on her soil to
uphold nose hideOus enactments, has not exceeded
half that number. And though they commenced
this last campaign with proclaimed determination
to crush Lawrence, capture Lane and crush out
the Free-State party, and to this end interposed
strong detachment between Lawrence and the Iowa
frontier, SO as to prevent the receipt of supplies
and cut of the retreat Of the Free-State forces.
they have closed it with very few men in Kansas.
and these huggng the frontier very closely at points
where crossing it is easy; while Gen. Richardson,
who commanded their Northern detachment, il
said to have been captured by the Free-State men,
The only serious losses which have befallen our
side in this campaign were inflicted in the capture
and burning of Osawattamie, where the Rufians
were ten to one, and had the advantage Of cannon
and at the devastation Of Leavenworth, where the
actual or suspected Frec-Stste men were, in def
ance OF all the rules Of civilized or even barbarian
warfare, driven out at on hours notice, two or
three oi them killed, aud the rest subjected to q