New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-16

venture, would have ever thought even OF ven
turing upon such unheard-of atrocities, had they
not been instigated to it, and encouraged and sup
ported in it, by persons Of vastly more SOCIAL anu
political consequence and influence than them
selves. That which has been done and Is BOW
doing in Kansas, is briefly this: A Missouri mop
takes violent possession of the polls elects pre-
tended Legislature, and through the medium OF
that pretended Legislature eHacts bloody ana
atrocious code; and that same mob are now In
Kansas with arms and torches in their hands, MUIR
dering the Free-Stste men, burning down tneir
towns and houses, and driving them, stripped OF
all their property, from the Territory, under pre-
tense Of enforcing order, sustaining the authority
of the United States, and putting in execution inc
laws of the Territory
Now, admitting that the first violation OF the
rights of the people of Kansas, by driving them
from the polls and returning as elected BODY OF
bogus legislators, was solely the idea and act Of the
Border Ruffians themselves, without any encour'
agement or instgation from Washington or else
whcre-which is more we fear, than the truth OF
facts will warrant-yet other persons by upholaing
and sustaining legal body the bogus Legislature
thus UNANIMOUSLY imposed upon Kansas, and tneir
infamous laws as a binding code, have made them
selves the responsible parties for all the subsequent
Outrages. Ard who are the parties who have mus
taken upon themselves this terrible responsibility
responsibility to which the people OF these united
States will most strictly hold them' These re-
spOnsble parties, these indorsers OF the Missouri
invaders and their bogus Legislature, are the Cao-
net of President Pierce, the BOrder-Rutian MAJOR
ity in the Senate of the United States and, to
still greater degree than either Of these, the Clncn
natl Convention and the politicians who support
the nominee and the platform of that Convention.
1t is only the confidence of being sustained BY, and
the hope of giving pleasure and satisfaction TO-
these influential parties, that have e'nboldened the
Border Rufians of Missouri to enter upon the fero-
cious, bloody work in which they are now engaged.
They are but re.actng the part of the servants OF
Henry H., who, in the hope of pleasing their King
and master, waylaid and murdered Thomas
Becket and the politicians, to please and crafty
whom murders and other outragcs are now being
perpetrated in Kansas, may rest assured that be-
fore they ever again can be recognized as Christians
or political leaders, the same humble, barcfoOted
penance which the proud and powerful Henry II.
was obliged to pay at the shrine and grave OF st.
Thomas Beckett to purge his conscience of that
murder, the people of the United States will force
them to pay at the graves of the martyrs of Kansas
The Cabinet at Washington, the Senate Of the
United States, the Cincinnati Convention, and the
politicians that support the Platform and the can
ddate of that Convention, will each and all, and
every individual of them be held responsible for the
horrible deeds lately done and now being done in
Kansas; but there are four individuals, all northern
men and all doughfaces, upon whom the force
of the public indignation may be expected to fall
with weight peculiarly crushing. These four
persons are, Marcy and Gushing of the Cabinet
Douglas of the Senate, and Buchanan, the nominee
Of the Cincinnati COnyenton-nO longer Gas he him
self decares) the man James Buchanan, but walk
ing, writing, speaking automaton, to which the Gin
cinnat Platform serves as intellect and conscience
and which has neither wish, hope, intention,
tment beyond those embodied in that document.
Pierce may be let off on the score of imbeclity,
natural or supernduced; but these four able men
cannot set up the excuse of folly. They have gone
into this Kansas business with their eyes open; and,
let them be assured, they will be held to respon-
sibty at which holder men than they might well
tremble.