The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-26
WASHINGTON CITY.
KANSAS ADAMS ANp THE New YoRK TRIRuNI

never denied TO such journals the New York Tribune the
possession Of certain amount and kind of influence
have at the same time insisted that ii the influence Of
bad principles bad example, and bad counses OF the
blood she'd the outages pepeated the crimes committed
and the miseres and susrngs endured in Kansas in
considerable share must be laid the door of the Tribune
It's mad appeals and fsndsh exhortatons have without
doubt neryed the Of murderers and assassns and
made many bowieknife and rAe-bullet the messengers
Of death While patriots and statesmen were employed in
the preliminary work incidental the organization of thu
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska and upon that great
principle of popular sovereignty and dear
the heart of every genuine republican, the Tribuue
and its priesty associates fercely engaged 10
working upon the prudices the supersttions the big
otry and prosecuting intolerance of the ignorant orazed
and anatica Long before the passage of the Kansas
Nebraska act the cry went forth for armed defan
colonization from the free Sates-a colonization which
should ehectually Kansas one section of the
Union and which should efecually prevent anothe,
section from enjoying equal rights in territory which
was the common and joint property of all the Sates This
attempt TO oresta natural mmigration-to anticipate
the workings of the popuasoveregnty principle by
constitutional right, but by ruian mght-was followed
might have been expected, by strong preventive
and retaiatory 1t is present purpose
strike balance between the reeStae and pro-slavery
men of Kansas to the injuries inflicted and mseries
endured by each side for the ST. Louis Republican
a late issue well remarks
beyond doubt wrong has been done both Sides and
men guilty of robbery and murder have been associated with
proslavery and anti-slavery encampmen and prowled
around the settlements where opportunities offered plum
DER But the entire North has been in blaze of excitement
m A.
though their hands free from blood and they
ried only honest gold. There have been among them
ready to play the hghwayman and the murderer
history of Kansas and its early settlement be hon
esty written without portrayng the bloody dongs of free
State If go back to causes COOL dspassionate
man doubt that the final organization of Kansas into two
hostile camps is to be ascrbed to the original defiant
trance of the of the North into Kansas 1t a
like entrancean armed colonization with manestos cacu
lated, not designed, to awaken spirit of counter def
ance. Everything done with excitement and commo
ton and along river at the landings of Missouri
towns by the insolence of men, knowing when
be silent, full of vauntngs of the achievements for freedom
be wrought out in Kansas spirit of retaliation, in the
natural way the world walked up and collision
the soil of Kansas a natural result. Citizens from
Missouri and other slave States there and responded
very quickly the presumptuous and premature boasts
emigrantsboasts tauntng and exasperating,
mpoltc unwarranted, and accompanied by pugnacty
and open assault They could otherwise than hos
ity and lead to angry alterations quarres and blood
shed"
Happily, permitted to turn from the bloody
past to the peaceful present Through the humane impair
al wise and unhinchngly firm administration of affairs
in the Territory by Gov. Geary the murderous eud be
the fee-State and prosavary has ceased the
laws observed their ministers respected and lite
property there the District of Columbia
One would suppose that this altered condition of affairs
would at least silence if it did satisfy the Tribune
Not 1t had hoped place Mr. Fremont in the presi-
Dental chair by insane shreks for Kansas freedom and al
though bitterly disappointed it still hopes obtain
tendency for its party by sectional issue between the
North and the South, and by further boodsbed further
crimes and further ourages in Kansas To this end its
special correspondents" in that Territory have recon-
menced their work of malignant exaggeraons and alsi-
fcaons for the eastern market Governor Geary is de-
scribed as mere tool in the hands Of the avedrvne
democracy" Judge Lecompte figures as second Jereys
The free-Sate men represented sers and bonds
in the hands Of the prosavery party. Nor is this all
Inaamed by disappointment and determined to carry
its aitorous designs ii matters how many whose
lives sacrificed the Tribune puts forth the following
vain suppose that the free-State settlers will be
errated the clutch OF their conquerors by any inter
venton of Mr. Buchanan As far the federal govern
ment is concerned, they have nothing hope for Still
their is far from desperate Everything depends on
their being supported and their being steadily
aud powerfully increased from the free States"
1t is known that much suffering exists in Kansas
from the want Of clothing and provisions II is also
known that suless aid from the States and prompt
aid hundreds If thousands of the poor ignorant po
ca dupes in that Territory perish during the ensu
ing winter from cold and hunger And yet in the face Of
want and misery and approaching famine the Tribune
clamors for more dupes and victims What II they do
perish by scores like furnished dogs in the open praires
will not their deaths be fairly chargeabe border ruff
fanism2 viii the shrekS of the shrickers become
shriIler from the sacrifice 2
We have already made appeal 10 the public in behalf
of the suffering poor Of Kansas whose NUMBER 1t feared
will be largely increased the advances 1t mat
tiers not how III judged may have been their acts or how
unparodc their political associations they are now in
state Of utter destuton and with high claims upon the
active sympathy Of the who American people; and we
therefore, cannot close this article better than by transfer
ring to our columns from the Portland Argus the follow
ing appeal In their behalf
That there is present suffering in Kansas is undoubted
Mon who should have been looking their farms their
trades and their merchandise been devonE their time
tRveng the country under the lead Of such maraudr
Lane while their families have been resping the bitter
North they received it, Hundreds Of Thousands
dollars have been raised for bleeding Kansas which were
expended in eleotioneernR at homo. greater fraud was
perpetrsted Hardly dollar Of the amount has
reached the honest and laborou settler We hope the con
tributons being made for the relief Of the sufferers will