The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-12
The Kansns LiberAtnrs I'm the United States
Senate-A sally Imposture Kicked Out.

senate-A sally Imposture Kicked Out.
General Csss, the other day, in the Senate,
presented memorial purporting to be from
the members of the free State Legislature of
Kansas, (the Lane and Robinson concern,) in
reference to the rights aud wrongs of the free
State party, and urging their sovereign right,
under their Topeka arrangements, to an i'm
mediate admission into the Union. The petition
was referred to the Committee on Territories
but upon motion to print, discussion arose
upon which the subject was brought up again
on Thursday morning. The debate which fol.
lowed substantially proved the memorial at
best but secondhand affair, very bungllngly
executed; whereupon, not only was the print
ing refused, but the spurious paper, by an al
most unanimous vote, was recalled from the
committee, with view of restoring it back to
the safe keeping of Colonel Lane.
This Colonel Lane, we believe, is one Of the
U2ited States Senators elect by this free State
Kansas Legislature, and the members Of this
Legislature, by the last advices from the seat
of war, were playing the Interesting part of
fugitives from justice. 1t further appears, &C
'cording to the testimony Of Mr.. Seward, "that
he had seen the gentleman Colonel Lane) VINO
had handed the paper to Mr.. Cass for presen-
tation," and that the Colonel had authorized
our Senator to say, "that before he (the said
| Colonel Lane) left Kansas he saw paper-he
did not say the identical paper in chirography
| 7(not the paper before the Senate;) but he
saw memorial of which this is the substance
| and text, signed by all the members
| Of the Kansas provisional Legislature,
an ID that this is q true copy Rather cool,
! that-"a true copy" of the signatures Of the
fugitive legislators, which Senators, on the pre-
| sentation, naturally enough were led to be-
| lieve were in the handwriting respectively of
| the petitioners, each man signing for himself,
as the law and the universal custom in all mat
! tiers of business require. Senator Pugh said
he had carefully examined the document, and
that the signatures are all in the same hand
writing, and that there are many erasures and
interlineations." Mr.. Pugh did not further
cay that these were alterations by the copyist
upon his own responsibility, but that they
were the inference is inevitable.
What else could the Senate do with such
silly and barefaced imposture than to kick it
out of doors? Pity they could proceed no
further. A few more "free State" experiments
of this description, however, will open the
eyes OF many of our deluded people of the
North to the desperate character of the lead
ers in this "tree State" business Very likely
the next act in this miserable farce of theirs
will be their arrest and trial as disturbers of
the public peace and coDspirators against the
laws of the country. And such are the Kan
sas "pioneers of freedom" in behalf Of whom
Mr.. Seward has been teaching US the doctrines
of the federal constitution! What precious
brotherhood, to be sure, to be setting all the
crazy abolition fanatics and old women of the
North to bowling over the wrongs done to
freedom in Kansas" by the atrocious "border
ruflians.' What set for the sympathies and
rifles OF Brother Beechers church, and Of Pro
lessor Silliman and Yale College, Verify, the
foolkiller has vast amount of unfinished bu-
sjnpaa on his hooEa