New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-12

pectsd IN the course Of this weeh. The testimony
10 abundant and clear that they could not protec'
Rseder and that an extensive conspiracy existed
to asssssnste him. But, upon the whole, the plan
Of sending him away must be condemned. Fading
the Marshal mob and the whole Pros l,vey crew,
from AtcbisOn down to Shannon, tbirsting for bis
blood, it was the duty of the Commission at once
to assert his privilege as claimant TO seat in
Congress, and proclaim their resolution TO defend
him from attack. / think this would have insured
his safety; and think, also, that il would have
shamed the House into formal declaration OF the
rights of their Committee.
Shannon and Lecompte are laying up for them
selves heavy reckoning. Unless all sense OF JUS
tice and all reverence for law aud the Constitution
are dead in the people of this Union, they GER
tanly will be brought to punishment for the high
handed Outrages they daily perpetrating on the
opposite party in Kansas under the frivolous pre-
tense of high treason. Upon this trumped-uP and
wholly fictitious charge shannon lately sent a re-
QUESTION upon the Governor Of Missouri for Mr..
Robinson and had him sent back prisoner to
Kansas by that means.
Gov. Reeder is now in Pennsylvania, and 1t is
generally anticipated that requistiOn will be
made for him; and further, il is understood that
shOuld the Governor come to Washington ne will
be arrested here and returned to the jurisdiction
Of Lecompte and to the tender mercies OF his
posse. Should al attempt be made either here or
in Pennsylvania to carry out this new branch OF
the Kansas plot, We may expect aciion OF some
sort on the other side.
The border war commenced by the Miss0urians
two years ago, and which has been up TO this time
an entirely one sided affair at length 10 have
driven the FreeState party TO despair OF all peace
| full remedies, and they have taken hand In the
| game. 1t is now for Missouri and the South to
a = l. ~ H. IA
| shall stop The wild beasts of the border must
| fnd other prey than the Free-State people of
| Kansas. PEMAoolp'
Correspondence Of The n. Y. Tribute:
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, June 10, 1856.
The secretary and attaches of the British
Legation have not left Washington, as previously
stated, but remain, without holding any official
| communication with the Government. Mr.. Cramp-
| ton. on being informed Of Lis own intended dis
mifsal, demanded passports for all the pHnclpal
persons Of the Embassy, and obtained them. but
| be laid no orders upon them as 70 their future
proceedings and they simply await the commands
| of their Government. Those directions VIII
probatlv arrive on or about the 25h Of this month.
II is the general expectation among foreign dlPle-
mst;sts that in the event of the dismissal OF Dir.
| Dallas. the chief secretaries OF either Legation
will continue 10 reside in the respective capitals
| and keep I'D an informal intercourse until the
| foolish quarrel shall have been forgotten
The President has sent in the Land bills for the
benefit of railroads North and South, signed
| The corruption which these schemes occasion
| in Cor gress il pslpabe and frightfui. 1t ls not
extravagant to say that FIVE hundred persons IN
| terested in the passage of the Elk or eight DIS
| which have become laws during this session OF
| Congress have cOngregated here at vast expense
| to Themselves and their employers, and have com,
| bined their influence upon the small amount OF
impracticatle virtue which their projects encoan-
! tered in the House and Senate. Before the ten
derness of their seductions and the power OF their
arguments the most 0bdurate could not but weld.
So efectual had this discipline become that there
| WAS no doubt at all that every one Of the bills
| approved by Pierce after ten days solemn delib-
| Grafton could have been passed over his veto.
Gov. Crttenden raises his voice, but must say,
| Enthusiastically as Southern man. lie pro-
poses in brief to commit the settlement OF affairs
| 10 the military power, though under the direction
of a inst and humane man: and TO form an ADJUST
ment BY giving up the precise thing in dispute to
| the South. That appears to be the effect and
| must be presumed to be the object, of Mr. Crit
tenden's resolution to secure quiet in Kansas by
sending Gen. Scott thther to command the troops
| sent to enforce "the laws" In speaking of the
infractiCn Of laws as he does in the preamble Mr..
C. leaves il to be inferred that he means - desig-
| nate as laws the pretended acts OF Sham Legis-
lature elected BY an invading mob. Those ''tdrs"
have established Slavery. and have denounced the
seyerest penalties for the violation of the rights
they seek to create. The Free-State population OF
the TERRITORY vast majority of the whole people,
wholly deny the authority OF these DEGREES because
| First: The persons who made them had no legs-
| lative authority whatever.
Second: They are clearly unconstitutional in
Prescribing and destroying the right of free speech
and of the press and the equal rights of suffrage.
Third They are oppressive, degrading, insult
| ing and altogether infamous, In that they were
| framed with the openly expressed purpose of eX-
| pelng the Free-State settlers, excluding them
| from jures from all offices, and from the polls
| 1t is simply false to assert, as IL done by the
| demapogues of the Douglas stripe, that If the peo
| ple do not like these laws they can change them.
The people cannot get to the ballot boxes to change
| them because they are disfranchsed. They can
| not get TO the Legislature because they are dis
qualified. nor into the Courts because with dew
iiish ferocity the alleged laws prohibit their en-
| trance into the Courts. except as criminals.
| And vet Mr.. Crittenden begins bis proposed
measure of relief by plain enough recognition of
these acts, against which the people are in open
resistance. That resistance he proposes to quell
| by mild use of the musket and bayOnet under
| beloved and consderste chief. Well we may re.
| spect the motives that suggest this compromise,
| but we cannot accept it. II the alternative is a
| conflict of arms we must fight. If the demand is
| simply that the people of Kansas shall sutNnit 70