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


ganie lac Of the Territory, and the FssIf'ps Slsee
Lar and that any persons offering 10 vote shall be
presumed TO be entitled 20 vote until the contrary
shown and II any one when required shsu refuse 70
shall not be permitted TO vote. Although they passed
law that none but an inhsbtant who had paid tax
should vote, yet they made t,re Of resiscs
sary, ard provided for the immediate payment Of
pom tax; 80 virtually declaring that on the eve
of an election the people Of neighboring state
can come in in unlimited numbers, and by taking up
a residence Of a day or an hour, pay poll tar and
thus become legal voter and then, after voting re.
turn to their own State. They thus, in practical eject,
provided for the people of Missouri TO control future
elections at their pleasure, and permitted such only Of
the real inhabitants of the Territory to vote
friendly to the holding Of slaves They permitted no
made by the people thereof but created the Offices,
and filed them appointed officers to I'll them, foe
long periods They provided that the next annual
election should be held in October 1885, and the As.
sembly should meet in January, 1857; 30 that none
of these laws could be changed until the lowee
House might be changed, in 1886; but the Coun-
ell, which is elected for two years, could not be
changed so TO allow change Of the laws OF
oficers until the session Of 1883, however much
the Inhabitants of the Territory might desire It, How
forciby do these laws illustrate that old political
maxim Of the Engsh nation, that Parliament called
by coDqueor s itself cosquered aud ensisved WHO
but foreigners, usupers, and yrants could have made
for the people of Kansas people " perfectly free-
such laws thesel Anatomists will describe the in-
strument, and even the force of the blow, II only
yeu show them the wound. Behold the proofs on
which the allegations of invasion, usurpaton, and
tyranny made by the new State Of Kansas,
rest. They ore, frst: The Presidents own virtual
admission by defenses indirect, irrelevant, ill-tem-
pered sophstical, and evasve. Second; An aoso-
lutte agreement, concurrence, and harmony, between
the statements of the conflicting parties who were
engaged in the transactions involved third; Tho
consequences of those transactions exactly such az
must follow if the accusations be true, aud such %
he ia
ever must be added to bring distinctly into view
the Presidents completely in these transactions, and TO
establish bis resROnsiIb,y therefor The President
SHAREHOLDERS of Missouri, TO effect the abrogation Of
the prohibition of Slavery in Kansas contained in the
Act of Congress Of 1890. He knew their purposes in
record to the elections in Kansas. He never inter-
fered to prevent, to defeat, or to hinder them He
employed bis official patronage to aid them He now
defends and projects the usurpation and tyranny,
established by the invaders in Kansas with all the in
huence of biz exalted station, and even with the mill.
tary power of the Republic and he argues the duty
Of the people there 10 submit to the orcbe establish
ment OF Slavery, in violation of the national pledge,
which be concuned in giving, that they should
be left perfectly free to reject and exclude that
Justly obnoxious system It thus appears that
the President of the United States holds the
people of Kansas PROSTATE and ensaved at his feet
To complete the painful account Of this great crime, it
necessary now to add that there has not been one
day nor night, since the Government of Kansas was
constituted and conded 10 the President of the United
States in which either the properties, or the liberties,
or even the lives, of its citizens have been secure
against the violence and vengeance of the extreme for
egn faction which he upholds and protects AT this
day, Kansas is becoming more distinctly than before,
the scene of conflict of ineconcilabe opinions, to be
determined by brute force. No emigrant goes there
unarmed citizen dwells there in safety unarmed;
armed masses OF men proceeding into the Terri
tory, from the various parts of the United states to
complete the work OF invasion and tyranny which ne
has thus begun under rcumstances of fraud and peril
DIV unworthy Of the character Of ruler of free people.
This gathering conflict in Kansas divides the sympa-
tbies interests psssons and preudices othe people OF
the United States. Whether under such circumstan-
ces il be circumscribed within the limits OF the
Territory of Kansas, must be determined by states
men from their knowledge of the Of civil com.
motions, which have involved questions Of moral
right and conscientious duty as well as balances Of
political power. Whether, on the other hand, the
people of Ransas under these circumstances, will sub.
nit to this tyranny of citizen Of the United states
like themselves whose term of political power nearly
expired, can BIO determined by considering IN the
aspect in which il is viewed by themselves Speeches
here they yet are, give utterance to their united
voices and holding in my hand the arraignment Of
George ILL.,, by the Congress of l776, impeach-in
the words of that immortal text-the President Of the
United States:
He has refused to pass laws for the accommodation OF the
people, unless they would ienqsh the right Of Representative
II the Lesslature night nesimabe to Them aud 'ormds
He has called together Legislative bodies at place unusual
uncomfortable and distant from the depository Of their public
ecod for the sole purpose Of atguns them into eomPsnss
lie has prevented Legislative Houses from being elected
other than hi. conviction that they would oppose
He has refused for long time sftsr' spurious Legislative
house. were imposed By hm.e b s.apson on the people
powers Incapable Of humiliation, have retained 70 the
people large for their exercise the State aiming IN tho
meantime exposed to all the danger Of invasion from without
He has created multitude of sices and hthef
Of officers to brass people and eat out their sao'
He hs, kept among times of peace standing armies,
Affected 10 eGde the military independent Of and superior TO-
He has combined with others subject Jurisdiction
foreign to Constitution and unseknowiedged by eur laws,
or pro;eelps "sd.r. Of Kansas from panmeu, for
urders Which they shall commit on the inhaban Of
FOf sbclisbng the free system Of American Law I'M this
Territory establishing therein arbitrary Government 50
duss Tie same sbsoiate rule ino other territories:
laws and stens fundamentally the powers Of our Govern
m,nt:
usurpDg Legislature constituted by himself invested with
- power legslate for rs in all cases whatsoever"
What is wanting here to fill up the complement of q
high judicial process Is il accuser The youngest
born Of the Republic + before you imploring You TO
rescue her FROM mmolation the altar of public fac.
ton. Is crime Bethink yourselves what it 10
that has been subvered. 1t IS the whole of complete
and roundabout Republican Government Of a Terri
tory indeed, by name. but, in substance civil State
Consider the effect The people Of Kansas per.
fectly free" they now are free only to submit and
obey. Consider whose system that Republican dov-
eminent was, and the power that established it. IL
of the Constitutions Of the United States essb
lsted by act of the Congress Of the United States
Consider what tyranny it Is that has been bail. Ga
that atTocious usurpation. 1t is not discriminating
tyranny u at selects and Furnishes one, few, or
even many but II DISTINGUISHES all and reduces every
citizen - AFFECT Slavery. Examine the code crested
by the Legislature. All the statutes Of the State Of
Missouri are enacted ia gross, without alteration or
amendment, for the Government of Kansas; and
then, at the end, the basy blunder of missioner Is
: ATT.