New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-08

this great thing ?" exclaimed the as0nlshed llazael
of old when the prophet Elisha unolded 10 him the
barhariics and tortures which, in the future evil
days, that same IIazae should inhlc on the proph-
cts own people II seemed to the Syrian utterly
incredible that he should ever be- the author or IN
s:igstor of such wanton and horrible atrocities.
If prophet of God had in l-54 stepped into the
White IIousc-where, by the way, that sort OF
prophets are very unlikely either to present them
selves or obtain hearing-and unroled 10 Frank
lin Pierce a chart exhibiting the consequences about
to follow in the train of the passage of the Ncbras-
ka bill, We feel sure the President would have re-
coilcd as ncreduous and shocked was even the
minister of Ben-hadad., For the man Pierce,
though false and weak and selfish, and shuifng,
is not naturally rufiian, and would rather attain
| lis ends and satisfy his ambition through lnstru-
mentaltcs of craft than Of cruelty. Having tasted
| the sweets OF supreme executive sway, and having
| nothing but a blank, insignificant, and besotted
downhill of life to look forward TO- from the hour
that he yacates the White House he was
naturally anxious 10 compass second term II pos
| sibc aud be knew that he could only achieve Il re-
| nomination through the emphatic indorsement and
| support of the Slave Power. Hence his accession
to the conspiracy to overthrow the Missouri Re-
striction; hence bis unscrupulous employment OF
the influence and patronage of his station to ac-
| compliSh that end hence the long train of frauds
| iniqutics and crimes which are now eliminating in
the utter devastation of rec Kansas and the whole
sale murder of her citizens under the dctaton aud
/ oversight OF Franklin Pierce Once embarked on
that of guilt the fatal sweep of the current
has borne him mercilessy onward to novel and to
him unexpected but nevertheless logically conse-
quent iniquties-for nothing seems so revolving TO
such a weak creature as the frank confession of
crror-until at last he says
- a slept into blood 50 far
Returning were as dangerous as oo'er,'
and the painted mask called Popular Sovereignty
drops from the face of the bloody idol, Slavery TX
tension and the country is appalled, by the spectacle
ofits President l,agung with miscrcants and assss-
sins to butcher whole community guilty of no
other oitnse than that of seeking to protect their
families from systematic robbery and murder while
nobly peacefully striving to make their chosen
Kansas Free State.
The ialschoods cranmcd into the recent decara-
tive against the FreeState men of Kansas, eyincc
an impotence which fendish deprayity has rarely
parallccd. The falsity of the pretense of Gen.
T. +. Smith that the Frec-Statc men about to
attack and destroy LecOmpton NAV not have been
positively known to him on the 22d ult., nor even
to the cowardy fugitive Shannon who seems to
have sienalized his ignominious flight from the
Territory by every imaginable exhibition of base
ness: but Pierce and Marcy cannot fail to know at
thi. time that no such intention ever existed, save
in the diseased imaginaons of the yest of their
satellites. The Free-State party who broke
I'D Captain Titus'S den OF thieves within
a mile Of Lecompton, might then have
taken and destroyed that city, lberang
Gov. Robinson and the other Free-State prisoners,
had they chosen 10 do so but they were fully re-
solved to do nothing that could be even tortured
into an act of resistance TO Federal authority They
carefully avoided Lecompton when it was complete
ly in their power; and now they are accused of
mcditating lis destruction aud of having actually
broken out into rebellion against the United States:
and. on .hc strength of thi. infamous caurnny the
whole power Of the Federal Government is put forth
10 destroy them.
Thc intimate connection Of crime with cowardice
was never more strikngly Illustrated than in this
Washincton manifesto. "Major-Gcneral Richard.
son of the Kansas Militia" appointed by the bogus
Iepisature-reports tha. armed bodies of men
"trom he Northern NdttS are daily committing
robberics and fagrant violations of law all over
Kansas: wherefore he orders out the entire
=. strength Of NV division. Right well does he.
richt well do his masters know that there are manv
more of Buiori's armed banditti quartered in Kan
sos than al the recent immigration from the
Nortbern States" aud that Richardson's militia
will be- made up of at least siX Missouraus for every
one !, no can even pretend To be resident of Kan
.,s Yet with this Buford and Atchison militia"
Ell. Ies.t five thousand strong. now surrounding.
dr;vino in and starving the half-armci and half.
c,oi.led Frce-Statc men. who can hardly muster
ono tbousoud rifle. and muskets, all told with less
,,umulition thaniht would need for one day f.ht
;r, II seems 10 Pierce and Marcy hot enough to
launch tle Federal AMY in addition IA; our devoted
,,,.,l. INT Jeff. Davis j, authorized to instruct
G.n Smith to call IN the Governors of kentucku
and U;uois Carefully avoiding Iowa. because she
l.s , rrce.State Goyrmor) for two regiments each
| e. uIitio to complete the work of murder Bur
these " IN find the Frcc-Sta;e men all Killed or taken
| and their houses burned or appropriated by Pro-
Slavery rufiians before they possibly reach Kan
sns leaving only women and children. and they
| scattered II glt cyo' Il, p-a...r'. a''eg Al1ns