New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-29

II has been often remarked that the most extra
ordinary events fail To impress those before whose
eyes they occur, with anything like the same force
with which they sink into the minds of those to
whom they are known only as matters of history. OF
this We have striking illustration in the events of
which Kansas lately has been, and for that matter
still is, the scene-eyents wholly without parallel
in American history, however it might be easy to
match them in the history OF nations in which right
and Justice are openly dsregarded, and brute force
is confessedly appealed TO as the sole arbiter. II
has been attempted to discredit many of the ac
counts which have been published of Kansas out
RACES as partizan narratives, got mp by newspaper
correspondents for the mere purpose of political
effect, but the reality of the extraordinary means
resorted to 10 expel free settlers from that Territory
and to nullfy and defeat the Squstter Sovereignty
provisions of the snsas-Nebrasks bill-by which
provisions alone that bill has been rendered pal
atable TO the Northern Democracy-the reality
Of these atrocities is established by evidence of a
character so unquestionabe that it is no longer
possible TO gainsay it.
We published he other day. the narrative Of Mr..
Gladstone, an English traveller of education and in
teligence whose graphic description Of Border
Ruffisnism as he saw it at Leavenworth and on the
Mississippi, carries with it the impress of reality,
while il gives more vivid idea of the sort of agents
employed to crush out Freedom in Kansas than
anything which We have elsewhere seen. We
publish to-day another document of the same
unouestionable character-the statement of the
Rev. Frederick Starr, who was for more than five
years pastor of the Presbyterian Church in the City
of Weston, in Missouri, the residence of b. +.
Stripgfeow only four miles distant from Leaven-
worth, and six miles from Platte City, the home Of
Atchison late Vice President of the United States,
and fellow conspIatOr with Stringtellow for the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise and the extension
of Slavery into Kansas. 1t is impossible to read
this document without being convinced that the
same parties who, with their hackers in NewYork,
accuse the New. England emigrant aid societies o
interfering with the natural course Of emigration
had, long before any such societies were thought
in New England, entered into a settled and DELHI
crate conspiracy for appropriating Kansas to the
purposes Of Slavery, and to employ for that end the
same violent and ferociOus means Of which the un-
been made the unhappy victims.
An attempt has been made-and with the connte-
nance. aid and comfort given to it by the Govern
inent of the United States, far in great meas
ure successful attempt-tO establish Slavery IN
Kansas by open violence, force and murder, made
still more detestabe by the efforts Of the LecOmptes
the Gearys, the Douglsses and the Cushings 20
varnish them over with a thin coating of legality
Tie great question to be decided by the people Of
the United States at the ensuing Presidential cleo
ton is-Will they give their cOuntenance and sup
port to this procedurel VIII they by their votes
uphold the Border Ruffians of Missouri not only in
their intrusion into Kansas, for the purpose Of
electing bogus Legislature, but for the additional
purpose of enforcing the pretended enactments Of
cording to the forms of law but by organized rob.
berry, arson, murder and rape; not one instance of
which has Gov. Geary, who pretends TO have re-
stored peace in Kansas, made the least effort TO
punish, though he holds in custody more than
hundred Free-State men to be tried for murder,
merely because they were found embodied in arms
to defend their lives and properties
the citlZens OF the / rec states snail sanction
by their votes these outrages and atrocities, surely
they will have no right to complain Of any extent
of outrage to which the Slavery extenders may go
not even it. i'll imitation of Bully Brooks, that
almost sainted champion of sayeholdng domination,
they should assassinate in his seat, BY blows from
behind, every Northern member who should pre-
sume to utter word in favor of Freedom.