New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-08

Kansas, may be regarded as decisive. A reconsid-
GRAFTON being thus carried. the direct question on
admitting Whitfield to seat il to be taken to-mor-
row, when there can be little doubt that he VII
be admitted by at least the majority Of Friday.
The Members who voted to ejec, him last August,
but were absent on Friday, are:
Messrs. E. Clark of Conn Comins Of Mass, Covode
of Pa, Dunn Of Ind, and Mace Of Ind in all.
Add Messrs. Chids and Dickson Of this State,
and we have seren absentees onFriday; at least fire
Of them 90 i'll to be incapable Of reaching Wash
ineton. Mr.. Mace, we presume, had paired of
bis " custom always in the afternoon that IL, al
bis dinner-time. Ofthe cause Of absence Of Mr.. L.
Clark we sre not informed
On the Let day of August last, this same House
elected Whitfield after the fullest investigation and
debate, by vote Of One Hundred and Ten to MIS-
ty-tvo. The simple and sufficient ground of this
rejection was the nvalidty Of the law appointing
the election at which Whitfield claimed to have
been chosen. Nobody doubted that be received
majority not only Of all the votes but also Of the
gal votes cast at that election; and if the election
it.ef was good one he was undoubtedly the true
Delegate. But the Investigating Committee sent
to Kansas by the House had reported, after the
fullest scrutiny and the examination of hundreds OF
witnesses Of all parties, that the Kansas
Legislative Election of March 80, 1855, was
essentially fraudulent-that four times as many
invaders from Missouri as actual residents of
the Territory voted theteat-that Legisla-
ture was chosen which was not the choice OF
the People of KsLsas but most repugnant to their
feelings and antagonist to their wishes-that it rep
resented the Shareholders of the Missouri border
not the residents Of Kansas, and enacted laws &C,
cordingly-that the settlers Of Kansas nearly unani.
mousy repudiated its authority, refused to obey or
respect its enactments united in resolve to abstain
from voting at any election appointed BY it and from
any recognition whatever of its authority, and to
appeal to Congress for relief from its imposture and
detpotc usurpaticn. To this end, they held an
election i'll defiance of its authority, and, by the
votes of large majority Of the actual settlers, chose
Gov. Reeder-who, on false pretext, had been re-
moved from Office because he sympathized with
them and repudiated the bogus Legslature-to be
their Delegate. This state of facts being reported
and clearly demonstrated to the House, It elected
Whitfield by vote of ITO to 90 as aforesaid.
Whitfield returned to Kansas and was reelected
under the tame authority and by the same means
as before He had more resident votes than before,
for the population had increased, Rufian as
well as other, and very large influx Of Southrens
under Bufcrd Titus and other chiefs, had mean
time been qusrtered on the Territory. Bot the
great body of the settlers utterly refused as before,
to vote at this election; since to vote would be to
recognize the legality and authority Of the bogus
legislature and subject them beyond appeal to the
tender merces of the Border Rufians. II they had
voted at this election, held under the laws and au-
thorty of the bogus Legislature, they would have
been overwhelmed with Border. Ruhisn votes, as
they had been on former occasions. They were
asked to play game in which the cards were
stocked against them, with their rights as freemen
as the stake, and they simply and civllly declined,
being prompted and melted BY the vote of the
House aforesaid to do So They had right to trust
that those who voted to eject Whitfield in August
would not vote to admit him-the circumstances
being in no essential cbanged-in December. Yet
these Members who voted to eject him in August
have now voted in effect to admit him:
Jacob Broom. Penn. j. Scott Harrison, Ohio.
Henry NJ Fuller. Penn. oscar r. MOORE ONO.
tJohn Hickman Penn. WIN. w. Walk, NJ I.
tAss Packer, PeLr. Thomas K. Whitney, Ny.
Job II. Tyson, Penn. tJohn Williams, NY
tDaniel Wells. Wis.
Americans. Democrat
BY the apOstasy of these eleven men-nOt one
of them, we gratefully observe, now or for year
past pretending to be a Repubcan-the Free
State men of Kansas are placed legally under the
feot Of the Border Ruffiaps Whitfield is, at least
Temporarily, the recognized Delegate from Kansas,
though two.thrds of her actual settlers disown
and detest him. He is put over people whom
he no more truly represents than Preston s. Brooks
would represent Mr.. Giddngss District, or Albert
Rust would represent Vermont.
It is an ikAtructive circumstance that successors
have been chosen to every one of these eleven, and
but one of them John Hickman of Pa. is reelected
and he through division II his adversares and on
the strength of his fidelity to Free Kansas last ses
sion. Had he voted then as he does now, he would
not be in Congress to vote another session. His
election is triumph of false pretenses, and We now
predict that he will never be chosen again.
Mr.. Tyson is the only one of the eleven who
finally voted for Speaker with the Republicans,
having been chosen 90 an American and Wing. He
would rather be right than not, if it did not cost
ANYTHING, nor offend anybody; but he has been
steadily against Fremont and we believe he voted
for Buchanan. Mr.. Williams represents Monroe
County in this State, was elected, BY Know Nothing
help. as an Anti. Nebraska Democrat, and is per-
feetly aw are that in voting to sustain Whitfield he
defe. the earnest and anXOus wishes Of an in