New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-11

resistance Ii was meant TO feed the hungry and
slothe the naked. whom the minions Of Slav'
cry had robbed of all the necesssries OF
life. As large proportion OF these
sufferers were Massachusetts, men, it seemed a. II 1t
were no more than due maternal care on her part
to extend this very moderate relief to her outraged
Children. Still a general outcry went up against
the measure from Atchison and Stringfellow Jour-
mails in this city and elsewhere, including Massa-
chusstts, as If il were q regular levying OF war
against the United States and reasonable attempt
70 head Frank Pierce in his paternal endeavors 70
restore Law and Order to that sedt;ous community.
It 10 understood that the Hunker influences oil all
stripes were arrayed against it. Gov. Gardner
and the National Know-Nothings turned the cold
shoulder 10 it, the ofice-hoding Democrats were
rampant against it, and of course, the ruling
gentlemen Of property and standing Withheld the
Light Of their ceuntenance from it. SO the plan
was defeated, and this treason was crushed ere 1t
was fairly Matched.
Since then We have had to record the passage OF
an act by the Texas Legislature approprsting
Fifty thousand Dollars a. Southern aid to Kansas.
This subsidy has no pretense Of being intended Tor
the relief Of want or the mitigation Of hardship.
Whatever may BE- its wording, its purpose Is I'M
mistakably to carry Slavery into that Territory al
the point of the bowie-knfe and the mouth OF the
revolver. 1t is an Aid TO Murder and Robbery
ind Rape and ArsSn, as means necessary to the
great end of establishing Slavery there in spite OF
the will of the lawful inhabitants. Its object is to
provide pay and sustenance for Southern black
guards who can be spared from watching negroes
and hunting figitiyes at home, to go and help con-
quer peace in Kansas Noble allies OF Frank
Pierce, jeff Davis, Atchison, Stringfelow end the
other murderous miscreants who are parties to that
most infamous conspiracy against Right and Justice
and Freedom. These new leyes are made up OF the
worst part of the "white trash whom even the
negroes despise beneath themselves IN social po-
stion-perhaps the most ptiable of all the victims
of Savery-Of6cered probably, BY few OF the
scions of the chivalry; the "cankers OF calm
"world and long peace" who long for some va
rety to the monotony of their lives as the hangers
on upon their fathers or unces plantations, and
who see in this crusade against Freedom chance
of stealing something, while having nothing, 1t Is
mathematically impossible that they can lose any
thing. 1t was to precipitate such rabb'e rout as
this upon Kansas, to burn the houses, pillage the
goods, steal the cattle and violate the wives and
daughters of the Free emigrants from the North,
that the bankrupt State of Texas proposes to raise,
or to borrow, the further sum of $4,000.
We have watched the course of the Border-Ruf-
IN oil uhera fy at
lively since this news arrived, and We have watched
in vain for the first note of remonstrance against
this State interference with National concern.
We are well aware of the difference between
harmless Massachusetts OK and mad Texas bull
in the eyes of such constitutional lawyers as The
Journal Of Commerce, The Express, The Boston
Post, and learned authorities Of that description.
We know that they take their notions of Civil Law
from the Code of Justinan-" Poluntas Principts
Suprema Lez tho will Of the prince is the high
est law Whatever represents and expresses the
behests of their masters, the shareholders, is to
them divine, and to be obeyed with implicit devO-
ton Still, we thought that some expressions of
mild dsapprobation might have been tolerated
toward this particular demonstration, merely for
the sake of appearances. There is an old and pos
sibly vulgar saying, but with none the less spice of
sense in il, that what is sauce for the goose
is sauce also for the gandcr. II the goose deserved
the basting she got for voting ten thousand dollars
for clothes and food to actual settlers in Kansas,
We should think the gander should have received
gentle efusion of the same drippings for voting fifty
thousand for powder and shot, and vagabOnds to
use them. Consistency is said to be jewell but,
we apprehend, it is not one to be scratched up on
their dunghill by these Border-Rufan cocks Of the
walk. Indeed there is no real inconsistency about
the matter inasmuch their reclamatiOns in the
one case and their consentng silence in tho other
are equally expressive of one and the same mood of
mnd--a sincere desire that Slavery may establish
its supremacy in the Nation by means of its victo
rious occupation of Kansas, springing from the
hope that they may receive their reward in the
plumber of the Northern Satrapies. Still, We think
they would have consulted appearances better if,
as there can be no doabt as to their being "sound
ION the Goose" they had made decent pretense
at least of being sound aso on the Gander.
Truth is progressive, even in the face of resist
ance. The Savior of mankind called himself "the