New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-23
FACTS FROM KANSAS AND AIssoUR,



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From information duly received by the New.Y..
Kansas League, and from private sources, there esa
be 10 doubt that thsrv !. seross danger of further az
feulties injuries, and bloodshed IN Kansas, sad ~
that the Free-S'ate men, are 20 prudent, jadicoss
ard firm, that the country may rely upon their dolax
al that men do, in such trying circumstance, %
avoid a collision. A gentleman who has just arived
from Kansas, and travelled through Missouri BY lad
saw military companies forming and drilling in ns
Western towns Of that State, on foot and sors
mounted the objects Of which too obvious TO be
doubted; the weather, although too unfayorable fr
any ordinary exercise not preventing them from AZ
pesnrg frequently. In some of the principal towns
along The main routes, preparations making, By
the collection Of money, &c. for the reception arm
ing sustepance and forwarding Of bodies Of bro.
Slavery troops, expected by and by from the Southern
States fer the express purpose OF driving out and de
troying the Free -Statemen. But the testimony OF thu
e,Itlemar a well a. that derived from many otker
sources is that the great body Of the respectable pe
ne of Missouri SHAREHOLDERS included, are strongly OBJ
posed, in Judgment and feeling, to the whole syeri
Of VOL nee and fraud which has already produced %
many bitter iBits. The feeling in 1t. LOUIS gene.
rsly on the side ofthe Prostate men, Ths Democrat
patshes very fair statements OF the positions and pro-
ceodnCS Of the two parties IN Kansas. Ihe belief &
now very extensive in Missouri, that hansas will IL.
cytaby be free; and not ooly so, but that Misso1s
will ere long, make a move IN the same dlrectioa.
The mercantile interest, generally has the foresight 10
anticipate these results, and TO perceive the advas
tages which ust eDsue.
S 10 the Free soilers in Kansas, all Witnesses unit,
in represen ming them as faly resolved never TO suba
10 the MissouIian invaders. Late scenes OF volencea
Justice, aud oowsrly bloOd-thIrstinesr have reused
spirit OF Incorporating resistance in all - that eyel
those persons before most unwilling 10 think Il
Doing oven harsh thing, have made up their minh
that thsy will defend the mselyes, their families aa
friends, TO the last extremity Aud they are sroag
not merely in their rights, their character aud intesE
gence their union and experience, their friends aai
their able officers, but also IN their position and srn
Many instances of fprbcarance on the part Of Free
State men have occurred. One l1ntloned by The
same informant was this: Missounan insulted oned
them in an outrageous manner and finally proceeded
TO such n shameful extreme that the latte pointed bis
rife at him, and on the point of shooting him
when ore of his friends threw himself between them
st the imminent rsk Of biz own lfe Efforts are oltea
made 10 trIg a quarrel ioi the purpose OF having
a pretext fr fighting; for the ignorant, rude, pa
sioi ate and often drunken Mssounans, who form the
bands bred by the Atebson party, are really made to
believe that those they cal Aboiiuonists are vags
bonds ard thieves who have gone among them Tor the
most nefaIious purposes. They class them with Nor.
uors and regard them little better than wild
beasts. Many of them appear to be honest IN tAs
belief; ard this proved by the change OF conduct
and opinion among such of them as become settlers u
Kansas and become acquainted with Eastern and
Northern people by having them Tor nelghbors. II Is
the universal testimony of those recently arrived IRON
the new Territory, aud other persons OF experience
there, that Pro-Slav,ry men, under these circum-
tances ore almost always changed to free-Sollers.
Tie Iroce dings Of the mObs of Atchson have power
fully aided the converting process just spoken Of Tor
tie Black code of the bogus Legislature makes no
distinction between frieI ds and foes. Every voter
required to pay e. and is gagged for life on subjects
CoIcduiDe which be may change his opinion.
II was very evioent in December last, that the num-
her Of Anti-Free Sellers in Kansas was very small
indeed; for Governor shannon, in his pitiful apology
published in The Ner- York Herald, never even pre-
tended that more than two hundred aud fifty men IN
the Territory responded to b. call for the militia and,
indeed bis language that subject intnates that he
was not very certain that numbers OF them had not
crossed the border. So thorough is the change wrought
in the better class Of PrOSavery settlers in Kansas
that thv are proverbialy spirited in their opposition
TO the Vaccinations anu violent assaults OF the nvad
ing party when once converted to the opposite opn-
ion 20 that Il il sometimes difficult TO Restrain their
impetuostv within the bounds of prudence. III
MuoL might be said of the practical lessons which
such II en- learn in Kansas They there meet caS
sf ,beiT couBhymeD, of whom they had no correct
colception-who have been pmposely misrepresentet
to hm 10y their designing leaders, for their own selfish
ends. Instead of lawless, fanatica, unprincipaed,
ard dangerous men, they find them what Eastern and
NOutein men generally are; and by them they, f@
tie first tune in their lives, perhaps, are treated a.
fellow beings with degree of courtesy, respect and
kindness. The children provided with Sunday.
schools, and speedily with day schools, books, and the
like and they 6nd themselves surrounded by meas
Of instruction which they have before been denied.
They soon begin to torsee the results necessary TO
further their pecuniary interest," consequent upon the
establsLmeTt of Freedom on the one hand and Of
Slavery On the other and by perfectly natural aud
quite evtable process of reasoning, thorough coz
version takes place.
such olo,ts were confidently foreseen by the New.
Yoh Kau.as League from its hrst commencement Of
operations, as is proved by their Address 10 the
Public" dated in September 1854, in which they eI-
pres the hope that the force Of good example will via
many Of the friends Of Slavery to the side Of Free
dom. And this has been testified to by some OF the
members OF the Georgia Legislature, who opposed tho
plan of raising funds to send men TO Kansas partly
because ninety eight out Of hundred of the msa
who have gone thher from slave States have TUNED
to Free SOllers.