New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-12
ment, and in opposition to tho compact forces Of


inscriptions Official authority. Numbers, In Kan
sss, unless entirely overwhelming avail nothing.
Kansas, in her infancy, wa easily reduced BY her
conouerorp. The voice Of her citizens were
oyerborne and lost In torrent of foul play. They
are stronger now; but that added strength 10 more
than counterbalanced by the advantages obtained
by the invaders position, through their laws and
the countenance of the Federal authorities and
the presence of the Federal troops in sustaining
them. As ii has been in the past, as it ia now, 80
will it be for some time to come. And thus the
only chance for Freedom is TO keep the Territory
open long enough to secure q sufficient predomi-
nence Of numbers to destroy all hope Of over
coming it by irruptions of the Border Rufians. The
only reliable evidence We can have Of the proper
time to think of making Kansas Free State,
unless il is done under the Topeka Constitution, s
when her people have recovered the control
of the Territorial Legislsture-not an instant
before. And to advocate the passage of law
which is going to precipitate convention
while the population is yet small (for who believes
that $4,000 or yet $4,000 people will be waited
for by the Usurpers before it is called and while
the Territory is In the hands of the Border Ruff
fans is 10 advocate its inevitable transfer to the
Slave Power The Douglas bill does this, aud it Is
therefore the most fatal weapon that can be placed
in the hands of those who are endeavoring to make
Kansas a Slave State. The proposition to pass it
is to be condemned utterly as the most devlish
suggestion that could be made at the present pc
Rod Of the Kansas struggle.
The only tenable ground upon which to stand for
the recovery of Kansas to Freedom is to insist upon
her admission under her present Constitution, and
upon the passage of an act by the House for that
purpose. The other branches Of the Government
should then be required to yield their acquiesceDce
to the popular demand for the recognition Of Kan
sas as a Free State. But if this righteous demand
is resisted, as we have no right to declare in adj
vance that it will be- then the next step is to hold
Kansas wide open to emigration until time shall
multiply the number Of its citizens, to the extent
that all danger is past Of her having to receive
Constitution at the hands Of the Pro-Slavery ruc
fans of Missouri. This is so plainly the duty of
the friends Of Freedom in Kansas, that it is aston
ishing that any man who ever devoted time enough
to the subject to write paragraph upon it should
not have perceived tho fact This course is so
reasonable and proper ALSO and so to end in be-
nefcent results that it should, and we think will re-
ceive the cooperation of Administration men from
the North in Congress- who not yet so thorough
y corrupted and case hardened as to be willing to
deprive the Kansas settlers of their only hope of
making that Territory Free State.
1t will be time enough for the Douglas bill to be
passed when the Free States shall have had q full
opportunity to declare whether they ratify and ap
prove the repeal of the Missouri restriction and the
attempted consignment Of Kansas to Slavery.
If the North shall prove itself so stultfed and
besOtted as to vote in the Presidential election to
surrender Kansas to Slavery "a suppositon not to
be for an instant entertained) will then be passed
over the heads Of the friends of Freedom, and
without asking or thanking them for any assistance
they can render toward consummating the great
act Of iDfamy. ). s.. p
WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 10, 1856.
Az was telegraphed to you last night, the Iowa
Railroad grant went through the Senate at bound
Yesterday. BY a little artifce it was held in hand
and prevented from being sent over to next week.
The bill sweeps Iowa pretty much clean OF her
remaining lands. 1t is putting things through on
the bighpressuro principle to extemporise four
parallel lines Of railroad across that great State,
80 lately wilderness, at one dash The roads
will average three hundred miles each in length,
and the appropriation for the four will take
about two millions of acres. The sweep of terri
tory is 80 wide in the grant that the land Offices Of
the State will have to shut up shop till the railroad
lands are located
The speech Of Mr.. Winter Davis Of Mary land
to-day was strongly marked by his assault upon
Mr.. Jefferson as Higher Law man," 30 no
called him. He deemed Mr.. Jefferson the author
of this as of many other political heresies There
is no doubt that Mr. Jefferson will soon be cast
aside throughout the South as wholly heretical in
bis democracy Simultaneously with this assault
BY Mr.. Davis in Congress, we find The Richmond
ENQUIRER preaching the following doctrine. In an
elaborate editorial article it alludes to the joining
of the Conservative forces of the North and South
under the Democratic organization, to suppress the
fapsticsm of Freedom and Democracy 20 rife az
the present day. And it observes:
"We do hope, and expect, and believe, that Con
seryative men everywhere about TO adopt the
principle that men should be gorerned, not let alone,
and that each one should be governed according to
bis wants and moral and intellectual capacity. This
is the principle, and is the only one that can save
society from general Generalization and dissolution"
This is the doctrine of the aristocracy all over
the world and of course it is the doctrine of our
aristocracy. Hitherto there has been good deal
of hesitation in avowng it, and still more in urging
its acceptance upon Northern Democratic leaders.
But the tone of leading presses in the free States,
especially those Of large circulation in New-York