New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-07

eXtractB Il0m t1o correspondents vi ohnoi J"AA"S'
We ask for these the earnest, calm consideration
Of every lover of Liberty and Law: We ssk that
the recent conty asted action Of the two Houses oil
Congress be judged in the light these sdSice'
The House has voted to end the controversy Win
regard to Slavery in Kansas By admitting nef o.
once as State under her Free Constitution framed
1T Topeka last Autumn. This Constitution Is no
otherwise Objectionable to any party ou' as eA'
GLIDING Slavery. 1t deprives no person vi noer'y,
atlantis no one of treason. Let the SENATE ana
President follow the lead Of the House, and the
LEGAL sword is stricken from the hands OF the Border
RuffaDs: their Governor, JUDGES, Sheriff Jones,
and other public nuisances, become simple
nr;vs,e citizens: their atrocous claws " are con-
stoned to the moes and the bats, and their noble
victims. now swelteripg in miserable dungeons for
the crime of loving Liberty. are released to aid in
periec,iDg the organization Of the yet infant Safe,
while the Federal Treasury is forever relieved Of
the cost of supporting Shannon, Lecompte & Co.
an Territorial functionaries. Let Congress ratify
the Free State Constitution Of Kansas, and the
blockade Of the Missouri and terrorism in Kansas,
become futile and ridiculous
And that Constitution ought to be accepted By
Congress. True, it was irregularly formed; but
that rree ularty the fault Of its enemies, who
by violence and fraud wrested the Territorial or
ganization from the hands of the Free-State men.
The doors of the wrong have no right to plead the
fruits of their vainy in bar Of other mems rights
The FIee-State Constitution was formed and rati-
r
fed in obedience to the will of great majority OF
the actual settlers If the Border Rufians have
since killed, imprisoned aud frightened way Free
State men enough to turn the scale in their favor
which may or may not be the chse-such result OF
violence and oppression can give them no rightial
advantage nor deprive the Free. State men OF one
title of what was previously their due.
The Senate, Oh the other hand proposes TO palter
with this matter and leave the Border Rutians In
power over Kansas Its bill leaves Kansas still
Territory under the rule of Pierce, jeff DAVIS,
Shannon, Lecompte, Atchlson, Stringtellow, Dom
aldson and Sheriff" Jones. A few of the very
worst provisions of the Border Ruian la VS. are null
lifted: but this will amount to little with Lecompte
as Chief Justice, Donaldson Marshal, and String
fellows Legislature ready to reassemble at any
moment and make more as bad if lot worse. The
repeal by Congress Of few clauses of the Missouri
Code imposed on Kansas will be very fairly held as
an implied sanction of all the rest. The new Cen.
sus, new Apportionment, new Registry, new Eec-
ton, and Lew Canvass, will all be in the hands
of those who have crushed the life out
of Free Kansas. The Federal treasure aplroprla-
ted to build capitol, &c, will all be d'sbursed by
them; Donaldson and Jones will still summon
Grand Juries to indict active Free-State men as
traitors and the offices of Free-State journals as
nusances. The Border. Rufian towns on the
Missouri will continue the blockade Of that river,
and the robbery aid repulse of all Free-State emf
grants to Kansas thereby. few will nevertheless
reach it through Iowa; but ten will be turned back
or kept back to every one who gets through, while
Missouri aDd the Slave States are crowdingin, with
out obstruction every Slavery propaganda who
can be persuaded to go to Kansas on any terms.
To order, as the Senate proposes, an election By
those no,o in Kansas or who may be there three
months hence, to determine whether che shall DO
Free or Slaye,is to recOmpense vainy aud sanctify
crime.
LET THE HOUSE STAND FIRM Three months
ago. Douglas reported that he would not consider
the propriety of repeating any of the Territorial
enactments because Congress had no power over
the acts of Territory. Now he reports and votes
for repeal of some of the worst of these enact
ments. Then he reported that Kansas must not be
admitted TIL she shall have SO, $40 inhabitants. Now
be gives that up, and goes in for her admission with
such population as she may have. Then he talked
of subduing all opposition to the Border-Raf
acts. Now he votes to subdue the acts SO as to
disarm the opposition. We have him on the right
track at last, ard must keep him in motion By
the lat of December next he will be ready to re-
port bill admitting Kansas under her Topeka
Constitution. But no bargain! No suspension Of
the destinies of Kansas on what the Border Ruf-
fans facetousy term an election With the ad-
mission of Free Kansas as our rallying cry, we
may fearlessly appeal to the people.