New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-22
KANSAS.
PRESENT CONDITION OF KANSAS.

From Our Special Correspondent.
LAWRENCE, X. T., Nov. 10. 1a:,6
II has been the fate of Kansas to trust for justice
in her wrongs TO the OF right of the Amerc IN
public who are supposed to rule and this being her
fate, it bas been her misfortune to have her
wrongs fully understood by those to whom she thus
appealed. The public mind is increduous and slow
to believe that which may reflect dscredit on it's
past judgment, or call for effort in the future, and
long before the public could be awakened to lively
faith on one stage of the Kansas crime, the active
and remorseless powers at work had gone on to the
contamination of others. The process of subju-
eating Kansas to Slavery has been by series of
steps each inducing the other, and each in its
place essential to the result. Thus long before the
Eastern and Northern public had become fully
aware that the State of Missouri had by violence
and fraud, wrested the only political power the
people Of the Territory possessed from them, and
had by its usurpstion and unheard of perversion
politically enslaved them-before these facts had
deepened into conviction on the public mind, the
Slave propaganda here had begun the work of
"crushing out" the Free-Soil settlers by the de-
'structiOn Of their lives and property.
Again, as the public mind has begun to receive
with reluctant and holfcredulous assent the truth
that armed inyasions have been pouring into the
Territory to murder, blot out and destroy every
vestge Of the hated antagonistic Freedom another
stage Of the game has been perfected into model
for accomplishing the work of tyranny. Political
trials, which for extent and partisan rregularity
have parallel save in the wild times of the French
Revolution, are now regular part of the struggle
which is thus designed to end in the conquest Of
Kansas 10 Slavery. But few of the Republican
people of America to-day, fully realize the yillainy
that is perpetrated uoder the form of legal perse
cutiOn in Kansas. The American who stands on
the soil of Austrian Lombardy, or Hungary, and
whose heart has ached at the gloomy picture of
political prison, or chained patriots, little dreams
that in Kansas to-day power is at work more
despotic than Austrian despotism, and that chains
and death are here also the price of Liberty
As have already written, the antagonistc Gle
ments in our Government are here at work in &C
tive hostility Had they been left to struggle alone.
Freedom would have had the best Of it ere now.
but the General Government has thrown all its
strength in favor of Slavery, and Freedom has sue
cumbed for the present, and looks sckly, as if it
was about to wither and die. If emgrants from
the Southern States would be content to 90 into
the Territories on equal footing with the settlers
rom the Free States then there would be no diff.
Guilty to adjust, and all could meet and unite as
community of Republicans, and build up each new
State into new Republic. 1t is not so, however.
A few men from the Southern States insist on car.
rying with them the serf basis of an aristocracy,
which will make them aristocrats. With it they
carry ruin to Republieanism, prostratiOn to enter
prise, and fatal moral disease to the community.
To obge these few foes Of all that makes our coun
. ~ great the ruin Of young States k begun and