New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-03

W ''Nn w sH' NVhsNh"hB n'Tsn - ui sA~'s 'N.N'~
numbers. Whtn this Congress met, Whitfield
took bis seat in the Hou,e Al the riehlfui Delegate
from Kansas, and the two parties in lesgue with
tie Border Ruffans decisimed vehemently tor
weeks against any investigation into the g'gantlc
election frauds BY which the Shawnee Mission
Legislature was constituted and Whlthe re-
turned. 1t vas sioutly, nosily contended that the
House had no right to inquire into the CONSTITUTION
Of that Legislature the validity OF ts acts-thas
all such investigation WAS estopped by Gov.
Reedfr's action on the returns OF the Legislative
election and his recognition Of the Border-Ruffiau
asstmblage thence deryed-that it was not posi-
bic to 20 behind the record in this case aud invsli
date Wbi'feds duly autheLticated certificate of
election. To exclude Whitfield, We were told,
would endsreer the Union, just as We had been
told that to elect Banks would dissolve it. Yet
the Kansas investigation was nevertheless
ordered and bad, a'd the results ere before
the world. Even if that Investigate could
now be pronounced illegal and invalid, the
facts it elected would remain and the.r Influence
continue TO be felt. A food of light on the con-
d,iCn, history and wrongs Of unhappy Kansas has
been difu.ed over the country. What was before
disputed or derided assertion is now offcially-es-
tabsbcd fact Whitfield is in consequence ex.
PEELED from the House; and, though Reeder hiss
Lot been admitted, the plausibiliiy OF bis clam to
the seat il admitted by the House ordering BY
large majority the compensate N and mileage OF
Member to be paid him. The acceptance of the
b.. .b.uob bx cio.a and
after one defeat, il an important step in the right
direction. If Judge Lecompte proceeds to try
and cshvici Robinson, Dierzler & Co. as guilty OF
constructive treason, lie should, to be consistent
proceed to indct convict end hang msjoriiy OF
the House snd minority Of the Senate as accom-
pces in the treason.
Looking back to the time when Douglas report
81 that the Shawnee Mission sssemblage was savalid
Kansas Legislature, aud that Congress had 70
power or Lo business. to annul any of its acts,
strongly in,imaiDg that the Free-State men 10 and
out Of Kansas were to be subdued or cOerced into
respecting and obeying them, we realize that the
spirit of Freedom has received great expansion
and development from the action Of this Congress
ard tie concurrent march Of events. We are sep
aIatd, not by months but essentially BY years of
growth and intellectual progress from the Dacem-
Der of last year. Ectn in June last Mr.. Douglas,
in public address in this city berated The opposi
tion 10 The Shawnee Mission enactments, saying
that there were but two or three Of them which
were seriously objected TO, and there was never
code of laws devoid of some Objectionable pro-
visions. Now it is the of his partisan to blame
the Republicans for the repeal Of those laws,
asserting that their sde desired but we prevented
it! IN truth, they only offered to repeal few OBJ
Doxious provisions of those laws, if our side would
consent in connection herewith, virtually to sur
render the destnes of KaDsas to five Commits
soneIs 10 be nominated by Franklin Pierce and
confirmed by the Senate. Under the auspices of
these Commissioners, a new election in Kansas
was to be hcld-and its result was to settle conclu
syely the question of Freedom or Savery for that
vast domain. AD election in Kansas it now is,
with the Missouri closed to Frees ate immg alton
hut profFering hospitabe welcome TO all that sp-
preached from the South-an election with Atcti-
sOn and Buford and Fun for cOnservatOrs of peace
end fair pay-we prefer to have 10 more Of,
until at least after election by the whole Ameri
can People
The Republicans we've ultimately beaten on all
but of their Kansas provisos to the Appropris-
tion bills; but does not folog that their efforts in
behalf of those provisos were in vain. On the con-
rary, it would not else have been clear to all that
eur side insist on, while the other strenuously
r. sist 4, ibs liberation of Goy. Robinson and the
other Free-State prisoners in Kansas-that our side
urgently sought the repeal annulment of all the
Border -Rufsn legislation in Kansas, which the
other would I OF agree to-that our side desired to
fo, bid the employment of Federal troops aud treas
urc to "sabdue' the FIce-State men into submission
to those laws, while the other Was ready even to
lose the Appropriation bills rather than consent to
any such action by Congress. We rejoice that up
TO this point the Republicans adhered to the Kan
sss Proyisos; We do not regret that they were
finally oyerbone, and the Appropriations carried.
To have defeated tie Army bill would have freed
the Executive from all responsibility as to the pro-
tecion of the Free State SETTLERS of Kansas against
the Border Ruffisns while it would have dvcsted
him of DO real power. He could, if he chose, have
kept the Army in full efficiency for six months
without dollar further of Appropriation, while
the wan. of such would have been currently held
to excuse him from sll obligation to preserve pea:e
aid order any where. On the WHOLE we are salts
fed alike with the results and with the close of
the Session. The Issues are fairly made up. Their
decision rests with the People.
All the world knows, or may know, that