New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-07
KANSAS.
PROGRESS OF THE PRO-SLAVERf
CRUSADE.


the most iDsidious steps Of great criWe' human
violence and military despotism are palmer IN
their operations and II We know their power We
can estimate them. A judicial tyranny Is re''i.
fcstion If the Inquis:;ioD. and IL lhe case vi
Kansas The triftng pec'liariiy II torture mas no'
been omitted The operation Of our Courts
not 10 demonstrate whether man BE- lnnocehs or
guilty. but 10 Prore gDa'y al the hereI'c"' rec
State upfor.urstes who may be plcaed up oy Tue
eternal vigilance" of Gov. Geary and his drag
CORE, or trapped By some mgcnius Do'ue''
Rufisn Sheriff or Deputy Marshal anIhs IN
one way, these conspTatOrs, with PHtncy VI
purpose that would have sstOpished Ly'tet'n OF
Story. DO not hesitate to try another. Should
they fail altogether in their attempts al conVc''on'
aid should any number Of the imprisoned uo'of'u'
mates escape death or ruin, by the app AREN'T! n'eF
ninable attempt at trial, am at loss 10 Aho"
bat they VIII do with them, as they exhibit no 'hdi
cstcn Of renquishing them, from their iron grasp.
The Court closed it. lsbors last week by adjourn
ing unhl Monday yesterday, and dlschar9ing the
four prisoners indicted on charge OF minslausn-
ter i, having been found TO be utterly impossible 10
DO anything with them or prove anything s9alnS'
them in the premises. As slight nodlhcauoh 10
this act OF ucicia righteousness, they were lInme
diately rearrested, on some other charge, ana re
tanned. After being taken through the grand;ury
mil again. on its being ascertalnet what tney
rally arr charg,obL nth, suppose they will be
arraigned once more If found guilty on the second
effort, that Of course, will terminate the matter
Should the Slaveocrats again fail in Their eii"rt
there il nothing Inconsistent in the idea OF their
irving it third time.
Such is the particular stage OF progress male
BY this branch of the Federal courts III the task OF
trying about a hundred prisoners. AT the same
rate Of procedure the job may reach the antiquity
of an Irish Ch8ncery suit. But the prlsoners-ah,
ne Perhaps these fruitless efforts will exhaust
the patience Of even despoti.n, or what is likely
to be Of more consequence, the supplies necessary
for even such miserable Imprisonment. do not
see any more probable cause from which to antici-
pate their liberation.
Gov. Geary bias got back from his campaign on SUI
gar Creek. Ipredicted that his crusade would result
in no seizure OF punishment Of the ProSlavery
miscreants in that quarter. had seen enough OF
the modus operandi of this Government TO comprs-
bend it, and as i knew that none but Free-State
men erer uer, arrested, had my forebodings that
some bawkryed Border-RufFan Deputy Marshal or
Sheriff might be in the train, and that more unfor-
tupa,e Free-State men would suffer. So il turns
out. Instead of arresting Martin White, or the in
famous Fox, or any other Of those engaged in burn
ing the POstOfice and store, aud other nice little
"Law-and- Order exercises in the Sugar Creek re-
gion and instead OF breaking up the Reign of Ter
Tor which that reckless band has established there,
the Governor and his train come back with four
free-State prisoners taken on Middle Ottawa
Creek. At whose instance arrested, with what
crime, or crimes charged. or why such military
force should have limited it's operations to a Degh
bcrhood almost entirely occupied by Free-State
men, and from which complaints have previous
" been heard of late, are matters of pure con-
lecture ] regard it as extremely doubtful If they
be held by any valid legal authority. The fright
full irregularities practiced on other Free
State men gives us too good reason to doubt
deed, there is 10 law and no justice, and no proec
ton vet, for Free-State men i'll Kansas. The peO-
Ole are denied the right of seldefense-are threat
ened if party of them be found bearing arms, no
matter how imminent the necessity. All the
avenues 10 the Courts of Jvsce in the hands of
o miserable set of Pro-Savery usurpers, whose au-
thority Gov. Geary declares he is here to maintain
with all his military power. The bogus laws Of
Missouri are dead weight and milestone about the
.ool g Eroa1oun To snask for tha l,tt.4r even il
a crime; nor can a born American assert his
rights under the Constitution, in Kansas, without
becoming a criminal toward the law which the Gov
ernor says shall be enforced When we hear of
Free State man being arrested, there is therefore
Do N.Y. tery in it. He has merely forgotten that be
is no longer freeman; or by some blessed exemp.
ton Of locality or circumstances, has not been
taught 10 remember that when all the privileges OF
All American citizen have been fched away from
him. the United States Government has step
ped in as strong handed rssettsr Of the taett OF
course Free-Sate men are, and " Ill be- arrested.
Their liability 10 this will continue just so long as
they are good Fr,e-StGie men; just SO long as they
are unwilling TO sacrifice those rights Of freemen
which Americans ENJOY in the Free States, aud are
supposed 70 have in the South.
There is something in the cases OF John Brown,
jr. and Mr.. Williams Of Osawatauie, which con-
veys the character of many of these Pro.Slssery
arrests so clearly that it is worth tracing even if
much of j, has been Published before. Ar
rested, or rather taken prisoners, by band
OF lswless Missouri marauders under Capt.
Pate, who were burning houses and pluuderng
property under pre.ense Of being Ter
- ritorI Militia, they We're handed over to United
States officers in command OF United States ORA
goons, by Pate, when the latter person found that
he, in all probability, would not be able to retain
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