New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
KANSAS PROJECTS IN CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, thursday, June 20, 1850
The altered state Of things here with respect b
Ksnsas-cOntrasting what End here in June with
what left in April-reminds me Of the two hard
boys who were at work together in field when q
tremendous thunderbolt came crashing down
through tree over their heads and tore up the
earth under their feet at once binding and stun
ming them. "Bill," said one Of them when he
had partially recovered his senses, can you prsyl"
"NO," responded the other, "cau your" "No"
"Well, BY thunder, something must be done"
The iDsoent threats Of subdung us into submission
to the Border Ruffian laws and rule in Kansas are
completely silenced by shouts which rise from every
hilltop at the nomination of Fremont and DAY.
TON, and those who most haughtily babe u obey
the laws If we wished peace restored in Kansas,
and that she should be allowed to come in a. State
when sn official census shall have shown that
90, $40 inhabitants and all prescribed formalities
are duly complied with, now avow the utmost
anxiety for compromise, Cancellation, settlement.
Douglas holds sweet counsel with Dunn, and
Haven responds to Stephens in mutual anxiety that
the troubles in Kansas shall somehow be psci6ed.
Buchanan Democracy and Fillmore Americanisn
lay their heads together to patch up some Herod
and PLATE compromise, which shall seem to deal
fairly with the long. suffering people Of Kansas:
but there is no heartiness, no fairness in their
proffers. Mr.. Haven, who processes to be an
Anti Nebraska man. does not whisper the propriety
Of undoipg the great wrong embodied 10 Douglass
bill he let's out that even, though all is proved
that we Free-State men have charged with respect
to election frauds and Ruffisu outrsges in Kansas
he will not vote TO admit her with her present
Free Constitution. And Mr.. Whitney of our city,
in the same interest, has prepared bill which
provides substantially for
l. A new Federal Census Of the People of Kansas
TO be completed by August Is.
2. If the population be 40 900 or over, Constitu.
tor al Convention to be called and held-every thou.
sand inhabitants to choose one Delegate.
3. Every free white male adult citizen who shall
have resided four months in the Territory and thirty
days in the election district to be voter.
4. Said Convention to meet on the Third Tuesday In
next November.
5. Secretary Marcy is empowered to make all need
full rules and regulations to carry the foregoing pro-
visions into effect, and to employ any requisite force
to preserve order and quiet and prevent illegal voting
s. All acts and provisions of acts, Federal Terri
oria inconsistent with the foregoing are hereby re-
Iealed.
Such is the substance of Mr.. Whitney's bill,
which is hardly better or worse than dozen Others
foreehadowed on the same side-each Of them
sthe play of Hamlet with the part Of Hamlet omit.
'ted"-all failing.
!. To snnul, repeal or declare imperative
the atrocious laws imposed on Kansas By
the Border. Ruffians-laws by which Slavery 10
already established and fortified therein, in defiance
of every Republican principle;
2. To restore to the People of Kansas the rights
of Free Speech and Free Press, which the acts
of the Bogus Legislature, the rulings Of the Terri.
toria Judges and the bsyonets of Federal drsgoons
have utterly subverted and crushed out. If tho
People of Kansas are 10 be called now to decide be-
tween Slave and Free Labor, We insist that they
ahall be allowed freely TO discuss that momentous
issue. This the bogus laws forbid, and Mr.. Whit
ney, by silence, gives consent.
3. To give the People of Kansas any voice in
directing how and by whom the Districts shall be
shaped, members apportioned, elections held sod
votes counted. All il left by clear implication In
the hands of the Border.R ufisn appointees at
Shawnee Mission Last Summer. "Sherif Jones "
and the rest of them would manage everything
without having to put pistols to the heads Of the
election judges to force them to resign-ther tools
and cronies would everywhere be census.takers,
commissioners of appertionment, election judges
and canvassers, and would run no more risk Of
being beaten in the declared result than does Napo-
leon in French election.
4. For the last three or four months tho Free.
State have been hunted, shot, hauled up by tho
neck indicted for treason, andin every possible way
driven or frightened out of the Territory. And
now, with our presses destroyed, our speech muz.
zled, our leaders in prison or fed, and the Free.
State party completely subdued and shattered,
Messrs. Toombs, Stephens, Haven, Dunn, Whitney
& Co. are ready to have an election held under
Border Rufian rule and bloody Slave Code. to do
termine whether Kansas shsll be Free or Slave
State! No, gentlemen! Kansas decided that quss-
tiOn for herself in framing her Free.S1te Consitu.
ton last year. If you will admit her under that,
very good! That will close the controversy in an
hour and restore peace to Kansas and tho Union;
but if you have the power and the will to refuse it,
then We must wait till we have Free.Stste Ad.
ministration here, Free. State Governor, Secre-
tary and Judges there, and Freedom triumphant in
the NatioD Then, if you are Of II unwilling to ad.
NIT Kansas as she is, shall be ready to try con-
illusions with you, as circumstances shall require.
II. C.
THURSDAY IN THE HOUSE.
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