Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-05-15
From the New York Tribune.
ISSUES

| ISSUES
| Napoleon esteemed il cardinal principle of the
art of war; to be always strongest the point of
tual conflict. Let your adversary be three to one il
he will, every where c!se il sniiiccs that you are
three TO one ON the present field Of battle Thus he
won many brilliant vicorics thus he lost Waterlo,
-Bucher arriving there at nightfa and falling up
on the exhausted and decimaed French battallions
while Grouchy remained miles away.
If it he wise thus to be strongest ON the actual field
OF conflict, it would seem obviously desirable TO fght
Tie battle # possible on the ground wherc you are po
s'trey strongest AMI y0nr adversary fiatrely ,rea
kest. Was not Wellington justified in defending the
lines of Torres Nedras until he found himself in force
to justify an advance to Badaoz, Salamanca and
Vittor;a?
There arc many just grounds of opposition to the
policy, measures and ascendency of the Slave Power
IN this country, which have TO greater or less OK
tent attracted the attention and reused the indgna
ton of the country But the one question ON which
al earnest opponents of the slave power are united
and determined is the Kansas Question
Before us to-day stands Kansas, the victim of ri
gantic frauds perpcratco by invaders from issouri
IN her Delegate and Legislative Electons-tramplel
under foot by the Slave Power, through villunies
which demons should blush for, but which the Presi-
dent aud the Senate with about half the House. eli
ther eagerly uphold or shcakingly connive at-and
demands admission into the Union Unless soon ad-
mitted under her Free State constitution, she must
succumb t" her invaders and prosecutors, backed as
ihey are by the army, treasury, and judiciary of tho
Union. AT present, tiitd the slavery party delib-
erateiy provoking collision with the Free State men
III Lawrence, by sending bogus officers into that eli
to serve process under the authority and of the
Missouri invaders territorial legislature which it is
notorious that the Free state h,ld To be traudu-
lent and invalid. 1t lis plain that the slavery purity
III Kansas and in Western Missouri are determined
pro, oking collision in the hope OF thereby brca-
king up and defeating the investigation which the
House of Representatives has ordered and initiated.
90 Shall Kansas be a Free Staie?" Her people
desire it her convention has decrced it good faith
and onr country. good nnine among NAT ions couspirc
10 delhandIt. To suiugae her no~ to slavery would
expose the American Union TO the eXccratuns of the
LIBERAL Just, and humane throughout the world. Yet
to save her. the Federal Administration must he chan
ged, the Senate improved and she admitted into the
Union 2s Il free and sovereign state by no other
means do how abe is to he saved from the pit
which Atchison n Co. have dug for her, and in which
Pierce and Douglass are conspiring to cngult her.
Why not then make her immediate admission as
Free Slate the sole question before the public until
such admission is accomplished! Are not her and
our adversaries plainly gratied whenever they can
entce us into discussions of the Fugitive Slave Act
and all manner of distractions respecting slavery
Shall he weaker for any her conflict after shall
have fought and won the battle of Kansas, adding
her TO the number of Free States! Can we better
flute the slang which makes the associates and
9 worshippers " of negroes than by fighting the bat
tie of Free State which, through no act or purpose
of ours, is destined for the homes of white people on.
ly! Can we make any issue So fit fuv CRADLE rs
that which looks to the fate of Kansas alone!
Other questions must have prominence in due or
der Let us first graphic with and dispose of this one
The simpler and clearer the proposition which We
take issue before the people, the more speedy and
certain must be our triumph And beside, it is al
ways advisable, where practicable, to do one thing
at time.
One by one the sands are flowing;
One by the moments fall
Some coming, some are going
DO not strive to grasp them all.
lone by thy duties wait thee
Let thy whole strength go to each.
Let no future dreams elate thee:
Learn thou first what these teach
Hours golden links-Gods token
Reaching Heaven; but one by
Take them lest the charm be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done"