New-York daily tribune., 1856-04-25

posed that if decided p,lorty of the
settlers of Kansas wish to make il a
Free State. it will be done. This is the pre-
sumption of all upsophisticated and fsir.minded
men. 1t is the presumption that forms the basis
Of the temporary subsistence Of that indignant and
fiery sgtatiOn that marked the repeal Of the Ms
souri, Compromise.
People everywhere in the North are quoted By
the tale, 90, Kansas is all safe enough. Every.
"bOdy admits that four out of FIVE of the popula.
" ton are in favor Of making her Free State, and
"this settles the question. Whether she comes in
"this year or next, is Of small consequence; when
"she does come, it will be as Free State"
This suppOsitiOn is grieyous error, as we will
show. In the event of the dominant party being
able to maintain their power in the Presidential
election, the cohrse Of things will be this: Doug.
lass bill will form the basis, with or without mOdif-
cation for an immediate effort Of the Pro.Slsvery
men to admit Kansas as State. A census will be
ordered by the Border-R Ruffan Legislature This
census will be measurably like Louis N4poleOns
popular election. As many people will be returned
citizens Of the Territory necessary to fulfill
the terms Of the bill authorizing the making of a
State Constitution. Does anybody doubt that if
that bill requires 10000 population, the Border
Rufian census takers could find means to count
them out of $4,000 to $4,000 or 10000 real dwell
ers in the Territoyi OF course not. 1t will be
for the interest Of the Pro- Slavery men to push on
the proceedings as fast as possible The sooner
the Job is DONE the smaller the number Of MisSOg
rians necessary to do it, The requisite population
will thus be found at the earliest moment after the
Presidential election. The question arises Can
that election be carried by the Pro-Savery party
We will suppose that when the Convention to
form State Government is ordered, there are
12 0G0 bona fde voters in the Territory. There is
no reason to believe there will be more. OF this
body of 1900 we will suppose 1000, or two
thirds, to be in favor Of making Kansas Free
State, giving to the Free State party d majority
of four thousand, or two to one in
fair canvass. Let us see how this majority
of 4OO0 can be whitfield down and turned into
minority. The PrOSavery men are in power.
They have the holding Of the ballOt-bOxes and the
counting of the votes Assuming that they will be
as reckless as before, the Free-State men wo1ld
probably be defraudcd Of every member of the
Convention. But assuming that show of fairness
will be maintained, upon what grounds we should
assume it Heaven only knOws), we know that hid
den frauds will be practiced on every ballot-box IN
every precinct and election district in the State.
An unfortunate predominance Of Free State votes
at some particular point, will be the understood sig
nal for precOnceited row, in which the ballot
box will come up missing, or with some unac-
cOuntable infusion of Pro-Slavery votes. AT some
unknown wild cat locality, very extraordinary
number of Slave-State votes will be found to have
been cast regularly done and certified, and stamped
with all the forms of law rendering their rejection
impossible to the virtuOus men who Will be called
TO Judge of their validity. Votes here and there
and everywhere will be smuggled IN by handfuls by
the connyance of the ballot box holders rigid tests
of voting, intimidation and violence will be applied
By the ubiquitous Pro-Savery officials OF the Terrl-
tory TO all Free State men, excluding them from
voting, with and without pretcnce, while Pro
Slavery voters will be manufactured to order aud
allowed to slip through without an obstacle to i'm
pede their progress.
Itmay be that, to save appearances, the squadrons
of Missouriahs may not makesucha pretentious show
of their strength as before, but be slowed round
the Territory in smaller bodies ready for equally
and indeed more effective service hut 1t Will be
merely TO save appearances. All the men from Mis-
souri, wanted TO swamp the Free State majority will
be there ready for service in the Territory on day
ofelectiOn. And the numbers under Oursupposition,
will not need to be one whit greater than 1t took
to conquer the Territory in the first instance Can
any man doubt, after what has occurred NTH Ter
ritory, that all this will be done, and more, If ne
cessary But after all the business Of voting is
performed. then comes the counting of the ballots
by the Border Rufians.
Is il 10 be supposed that any state of things could
exist in which the Border -Ruflan party could find,
BY any possibility majority of Free-State men
returned TO make constitution fer themi IL Is
an idle supposition. Such vote could never be
read or declared.
Let sny man of candor reflect upon this subject
in the light of the past transactions OF the Border
Ruffan Legislature, ard of his own experience OF
desperately contested elections and he will be con-
strained TO acknowledge that any proceedings TO
make Kansas State, under the supervision OF the
present usurped Territorial Government there
(which is the scheme of Douglas and the Admlns-
tration), will be sure to end in making 1t Slave
State
We conclude, as an undeniable proposition, that
the only chance of making Kansas Free State Is
70 admit her under the Topeka Constitution at this
Session, which is not probable, or to defeat the
party in pswer in the Presidential Election II