New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-17

FREE kAHSAs.-Ihe1e newer noc ooon ny x~A6oN
of slavery. AZ system, being established in Kansas
under the Nebraska law except toat woicn was oecs
stoned by the interference Of Emgrant Ad Societes,
Kspsas Leagues, &C. Twas always raiPabs on me
surface that without artificial, forced and unnat-
ural sgency Slavery would or coud prevail IN
Kansssi for beside that under the Nebraska law tne
land was 10 be divided up in sections altogether TOO
small for slave plantations the whole IN ING
direct line of emigration from the Northern Staes ana
fro Europe. is moreover too cold or slave con-
stitutions or slave productions. Southern planters
would never have though of going there Abolitionse
have cone there journal Of Commerce.
There are those who ridicule the pertinacity Of
The TRIBUNE in keeping the facts wi'h.ressrd to
the origin and character Of the struggle in Kansas
before the pubic. We ask such to reed what We
have copied above from tho leading editorial column
Ga ourr al established for the promotion Of moral.
ty and Christianity, and judge what, when such as
sertcns are made BY the more respectable Nebraska
ourpalr must be the general tone and temper Of the
worst of them.
In reply to the above statements of TAsJsarnaI
ef Commerce We call attention to these uDaeuiablo
| iacts:
]. Kansas lies ia just the same latitude with Mis-
sourj, ard the former is "tOO cold for slave con-
stutions and slave productions" so is the latter
2 1t is "oviJsd up in sections" just as Missouri
end other Slave States are.
g. The north. east angle of Kansas, about the size
of Rhode Island, which was steathiy wrested from
her aud added TO Missouri by Col BentOns manage
nent in Congress twenty years ago, is now the
moot slavehodipg and Pro-Slavery section OF the
latter State.
4. Before the Nebraska bill had passed, or Emi--
L :.x:,s - xha Zoo Qfafaa had, naQn
though Of David K. AtcbisOn, then Democratic
United States Senator and just before acting Vice
Preside mt of ths United States, visited the Missouri
border towns TO stir up their people to seize upon
what is now Kansas at the earliest moment in order
to plant Slavery there. The Rev. Frederick Starr,
then pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Weston,
No., testifes that he heard Gen. Atchison, in
| speech at that place. AK those Missouri slave
holders:
not repealed1 Will you sit down here at home aud
permit the .e, the nigge-the.s' the caal We YER
min of tie North to into Nebraska and take up
oiste the value of your slaves bsrsf know you
well; know what you will dol you know how to
protect your own interests your own rifles rA free
You will go there with your slaves and you will stay
there With them even II the Missouri Compromise Is
not re owed. You viii 60 in there, If necessary win
the basonet and with blood. But we will repeal the
Cou,piomise wopld sooner the rhole Of Nebro.ka
Hundred times in the bottom Of HE'LL tsS" to see
Free State. ,.
"The speech was received with loud cheers and IN 10,
enie excitement. stood from the beginning to the
of his spet CHI about twelve feet directly In front OF
him, and heard every syllable he uttered"
Accordr ely, within two weeks after the passage
Of the Nebraska bill, the Missourians swsrned
over into Kansas, hunting and claiming the best
locations, ard held great meeting at Salt Creek
to form "Squatter Association" by which j: was
"Rtsolred, 8. That re rW afford protection 10 no
AJoiuionists as settlers Of Kansas Territory.
'ResoireJ, 9. That recognize The Institution OF
Ssl ely already eztsng In tts Territory, and rec
ounend TO sl.v. bclders to introduce their property Is
tuIy &c possible
To the sane effect, The Heston Argus. then sad
row Missouri Democratic organ, commenting on
| tie prospect Of emigration to Kansas FROM tho
East, said:
The Aboitonists will probsbly not be interrupted
| ifrbey settle North Of the rORTrLIH PARALLEL OF
soKTH lottp6e but SOUTH Of that lire, and wIrHis
kansas TERRITORY, they need not SET Toof. IL u
UECREED by tie pt ople who live adjacent that THEIR
institutions are to be esiabli.hed there"
The same paper, upon the frat tidiags Of sys'
tematc Efforts at the East to promote emigration
to Kansas, said:
at is time now to sound the alarm. We know we
speak the septims nts of CT the most dHgusked
so.esmen of Missouri when we advise that counter or
gsbizst0ns be Immediately made both In Kansas and
Missouri to thwsrt the reckless course OF the Abo!
ii. ntts They must be met, II need be- with the RIFLE
must met them at the very threshold and scouygs
| them back to their Of darkness. They haze
made fae isne aid it is for TO meet and repei them
| ten At TIE POINT OF The BAYoSET."
| On tie Goth Of July, lS54-still before singl'
Eastern immigrant bad reached Kansas aimee it wal
OpeLsd to settlement By the passage Of the Nebra'k'
bill-"The Platte County SelfDsfensive Associa
ton" WIS formed in Senator AtcAison's own county
B. I. 6lriDgfsilow, Secretsry-exprsssly to for
ward tho object Of fastening Slavery on Karsas
Trey reso!'ed that al AbolidOrist amoag then