New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-30

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Ajolriorin' 81 settlers Of Ksnsss Territory. p
4" Re,Olrcd @ That ~e recognize the institution oil
Slavery rs ALREADY e-isfnP 10 this Territory ana rec
oumend to s'avehc lcers TO introduce their properly
eary as possible
In November following, when but few hundred
Free-S'ate emigraJts had reached Kansas ana
these were divided in preference between judge
Wskefeld and Nr. F1enniken, 80 as to make ffo-
Slavery triumph certain without fraudulent voting
yet hundred. of Ml-sourians swarDed over 10 'he
Deleea'e election and voted for Withheld. lne'
were evidently determined that their clam 10 con.
troll the desiinies Of Kansas should not be ioreeo
by non-user. All that season, when there were
few or no Free-State immigrants in Kansas, ana no
Free State press or organization there the Missouri
border orators and press were indulging IN 'he
most unmeasured Pronunciation Of all attempts 10
make Kansas q Free State, proposing nos TO vote
them down, but to crush them out. Here Is
specimen from the organ Of AtchisOn and string
fellow:
"If any Of the %. 900 Aboitionists, spoken OF by
Holly should be unlucky to set foot 10 tnAi lefi
tory previous to the adoption of its Constnuton uo
ballotbOx at any precinct within It's borcers "ou oe
allowed to be polluted by the introduction OF nss'f
vote" ~
This is the rpirit which carried the Legislative
election Of March 30, lS5:, By which Legislative
Council for Kansas was elected by fve thousand
armed MssouriaDs, overawing or dris1Dg gu! Inc
judges of Elections and eecfirg their ticket by
great msjority even in Lawrence, where there we're
not thirty Pu.SlaSeIy to more than three hundted
Free. State voters. That legislature thus fraudu-
leny elected, proceeded to assume the legal exist
ence of Slavery in Kansas and to forhfy 1t oy all
manner Of bsIbdrous penalties for every act OF opPo
sition thereto. And that election, 40 carried oy
INVASION violence and gigantic fraud, ia this day the
basis Of what is called Law and Order In ksn'
sas, which Pierce and Geary are UNFOLDING py
Federal bsyOnets, in defiance Of the remOpstrances,
en'reaties and fearful surrings Of the Free settlers
Of Kansas. tn, Journal Of Commerct upboIds tha'
despotic and cruel policy, and misses no epPonu'
nifty to traduce and disparage the Free-State men.
9. Slavery was excluded from the Northwest
Territory now comprising Ohio, Indiana, ILLINOIS,
Michigan and Wisconsin, by the immortal Ordl-
nance of 1877, which peremptoriy provided that
There shall be neither Slavery nor invo untary
servitude in the sad Territory, otherwise h,n in pun
ishment Of crimee, whereof the parties shall be duly
convicted"
That proyiso kept Slavery out of the North.
West-for, if any man were held in Slavery therein
sitter 1884, no was so held by sheer usurpatlon and
fraud in plain defiance of law. 1t was not
"Squatter Sovereignty" that excluded it, for the
People and Territorial authorities again and again
petitioned Congress for permission to hold Slaves,
and were as often Iefused-Jobn Randolph making
the frat effort against resembling the Restriction.
Down to 1907 the Sqnatter Soyereigns kept peti-
tioniDg Congress for liberty to hold slaves, which
was steadily refused 1t was this frmness of
Congress, and this only, which saved the North.
West from the curse of Slavery. Accordingly,
when the more soutbery Territories were ceded
to the Federal Government by the States which
respectively claimed them, those States stipulated
that Congress should not have power to exclude
Slavery, wherefore every one Of them became
Slave Territories, and ultimately Slave States,
which they still remain.
g. II is true that there as yet few slaves in
New Mexico and Utah. because Of their remoteness
and isolation from older slave holding communities,
and the general poverty of their people; but Slavery
is already creeping into those Territories. 1t is
not the number of slaves but the character Of the
lous which should first be regarded. Let Slavery
be established in New-Mexico, and that region will
become a great breedng-ground of slaves for The
more fertile but lees hcalthu cotton and cane region
Of Southern Texas. And the slave-breedng States
are most tenacious of the perpctuation of Slavery.
4. There are not yet many slaves in Kansas, for
it has but just been decided that they can be safely
carried thither. Two years ago, the Northern
Democratic leaders held, in opposition to their
Southern brethren, that positive law was required
TO authorize slavchodiug. 1t is now claimed that
such legal basis for slave holding is afforded BY the
acts of the Border. Ruffian usurpers who styled
them selves a Territorial Legislature Of Kansas.
This assumption has just been enforced against the
Free State men of Kansas by the authority of
Pierce and Geary and the sabers of Federal drag
oons. Kansas lies conquered at the feet OF the
Slave Power" Order reigrs in Warsaw"
Slavery is enthroned in Kansas, and the Federal
Governor boasts of his success in crushing all re-
s;stance. The Border Rufians were not able to
make Kansas practically Slave Territory. but tho
Federal Administration leds able, and has done it.
III, Journal of Commerce exults over this consum-
nation Of dark conspiracy of years growth, and
e,ultipgly asks-"Wben viii Black Republicans
"Iesrn to trust the People," We answer-When
that portion OF the people who cannot read cease
70 be numerous or cease tobe duped ma se by the
crafty politica villains who enjoy the society and
support of The Journal Of Commerce.
We hsye. from the beginning of this canvass, ell
TO keep alive in the minds Of our readers
" reeliziug sense of the fact that Mr. Buchanan