New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-24

BY usurpation and gigantic fraud, clothed itsel
with the forms Of legality; and it will stay there al
fixture unless speedily driven out We struggle
to recover Territory which Slavery claims to have
legally wrested from our grasp.
II. In Kansas and its neiehborhOod, this contest
has absorbed or eAaced all former political distnc'
lions. There are but two parties known in Kansas,
the Free-State, which is heartily unanimously
for Fremont; and the Pro.Slavery, which is mainly
for Buchanan, but has a few Fillmore au1iliaries,
The Missouri Republican, the old commercial Wing
organ for all the valley of the Missouri, is now
doing it's utmost for Buchanan & Co. The Wing
Senator and five Wing Members of the House from
Missouri, being ProSlavery, are all either for
Buchanan OF Fillmore. The recent Convention in
the Jefferson City District to nominate successor
to the Hon. John G. Miller, deceased, united on
Claiborne F. Jackson, q prominent Anti Benton
Democrat of the Calhoun school, for the remainder
Of the present Congress- and an "Old.Line Wing "
named Douglas for the next House. We shall be
disappointed if the Benton party is not "crushed
out by this union for Slavery
III. For the present, Free Kansas is blotted
out or awed into silence. Her journals are all sup
pressed, their presses being broken up and their
types scattered by mob violence; her leading men
are imprisoned on charges of treason or flying as
fugitives while several of the noblest have been
killed by the Rufians. All the well known CORE
spondents of Free-State papers, except THE TRI-
BUNE's, have fled; and We daily dread to hear that
ours has fallen victim to Ruffian violence. He
hoo he oh for hour kr of tina Ruf.
fans, and has watched from the woods the efforts
of the blOOd-tbirsty crew to discover and shoot
him. If for the moment there would seem to be
peace in Kansas, il is the calm of unressted and
overwhelming despotism-the peace Of death.
w. Through all the long tragedy of the last Six
months, including the first Siege of Lawrence aud
its subsequent devastation, the Federal Govern.
ment has been the obsequious and unhioching
hacker of the Slave Power. The monstrous frauds
at the several Territorial Elections have been Gov
cred up by the Executive, AMI the usurpations
based thereon treated valid laws; the pretender
Whitfield has ever been regarded at the White
House as friend and ally, while the representa-
tives of the Free. State men are rePeed thence as
spies or enemies; the Presidents nominees, Shan
are the me1est instruments of the Slavery PrOpa-
gaDdists; and all who persist in any earnest or
effective resistance to the enslavement of Kansas
are treated by the Federal power as rebols aud
traitors.
V. The testimony taken by the House 1nvesti-
eating COmmittee-testimODy given BY men of all
parties, by witnesses summoned by Whitdeld aud
his attorneys, as well as by Reeder and other Free
State men-incOnfestably proves that more than
three fourths of the votes cast at the only Legis-
latve election ever held in Kansas THAT of March
80, 1850 were cast by men who had just come
over from Missouri on purpose, and went back az
soon as they had voted-that these conspirators
and invaders had lOig been organizing AID prepar-
ing for this work in secret clubs or lOdges-that
they surrounded every poll aud drove out thejudges
who resisted their voting, appointing creatures OF
their own in their plnces-that in several instances
the Invader, came over with cannon, and at nearly
every tol they were armed-that they gave the
true Judges the alternative OF death or Resignation,
ard that n one case the identical Postmaster Jones
of Westport Missouri, who has lately figured a.
Sheriff Of Douglas County, Kansas, aud in that
capacity pretended that he was mortaily wounded
BY pistol shot, and soon after superlntended the
sack of un1esstipg Lawrence, himself held his
watch I'D before the judges at this Legislative
Election, notifying them that if they had not re-
signed at the expiration Of five minutes they should
be shot,
vi. It ia further proved before the Investigating
Committee that though at least half the Free-State
voters of Kansas-at that time unarmed and eur
prised-were driven or awed into surrender Of
their right of outrage yet d majority Of the legal
rotes east at that Election ,rere Free-Stase About
fifty five hundred votes were taken in all, OF which
more IL an forty six hundred were cast BY men who
come from and still were resident in Missouri. while
of the eight hundred and odd votes cast BY legal
residents of Kansas, more than FIVE hundred were
Free State. With honest voting and fair play, we
should have largely increased this aud beaten the
Pro Slavery men at least two to one.
VII Through all the troubles in Kansas no Pro-
Slavery man has been dealt with by the Federal
authorities for any injury done to Free. State
man. Coleman, the murderer Of Dow. is still
active in the ro.Slavery rsnks-often 10 Lecomp-
ton. the Federal seat of authority-but not ar
rested: Clark, the Indian agent, who shot Barber
Free State man, near his own door, is still re-
tanned in Office: and so with the rest There is no
official indication that to kill Free-State man in
Kansas is regarded as crime by the accomplicss
of Pierce and Douglas, now trying to make Mr..
Buchanan our next President.
VIII. There can be no peace in Kansas whe the
Slave Democracy retains its hold on power, save on
the basis of sbject submission to the Slave code
imposed on that Territory BY the Missouri invaders
J s;,a of tba overwhelming uncont,s tsd evidence