New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-14

While all tie outside enemies of the Free
State men Of Kansas have been very free IN
giving dictatOral and censorious advice as TO
he proper course to be taken by that party
(such advice being all these csnsors ever dd
give to the Free State cause). we have preferred
TO let the true men of Kansas decide on their
own course, and for our own part be content to
support them therein to the extent of our ability
We did this not in blind servility, but in the COZ!
vction that they, who had all the material facts in
full view, ard whose stake in the controversy was
more Immediate and papable, must be better quail
fed 10 Judge in the premises than any others could
be. These considerations have impelled us once
or twice to demur to the positions of our Special
Kansas Correspondent, whose fidelity to Freedom
none can doubt, but whose strong conviction that
the Free State men ought never to countenance
nor defer TO the claws" and authorities imposed
on Kansas by her Missouri invaders, has led him at
times to speak ulcharitably Of those who took the
opposite and Gin our conceptiOn) more polite view.
We rejoice therefore, that the great body Of the
Free.State men have decided, at the Grasshopper
Falls Convention, to vote at the Territorial Elec-
ton rext month, ard We exhOrt those who have
hitherto opposed tie policy Of voting to defer heart
lily and fully to the msjority's decision. However
preferable the course they favored may have been,
they must realize that there is no longer room for
debate on this point. The great mass Of the Free
State men have resolved to VOTE and ,riH vote, at
the Territorial Election; DO action Of the minority
can now pre- vent this. There remains, then, but
this question to be considered" the Free
State men will at all events try to carry that
election, is it preferable that they should succeed
cor fail in the attempt!' Can it be seriously
doubted that such Legislature as has hitherto as,
senbltd at Topeka would be more conducive to
the security liberty and property of Kansas, than
UGH ore as made I,ecompton hideous during the
AIT Winter
We lnow il will be urged BY many Of our friends
that tie Free State men have fair chance that the
infamous Apportionment the bogus officers Of cleo
tioDs, The designed proximity Of nearly every dis'
tict to the Missouri frontier, and the pretense,
fr'ifed by Judge Gates opinion, that none eau
vote but these Who have paid tax to the bogus
suthtrities, will secure to the Pro-Slavery aud af'
filiated NatitLal Democratic minority triumph in
this contest. We do not deny the probability Of
this view, especially with regard to the Lesslaturei
but We do rot see that this can change the
position Of the FreeStste men for tie worse.
They do Lot the less affirm and protest against the
frauds ard usurpstioDs OF the Pro-siA'ery faction
in that they are willing to vote under usurptd
authority in the hope Of peacefully terminating
that authority. Gen. Lanes comparison, at Grass
hopper, q the Free State pa,ty's voting to the
r,sd .:neo Of pIisorer TO crawl out through 8
filthy sluiceway rather than remain in u4jus. aLi
ojicus eoEf3ement, Sas correct ose. We ma
carry lie Legislative, II spite Ct every unfair al
7sutsee; std ]: Is 81 bat ;npOss:b., tnat Parret
aloud %: be cttasa 20 Congress vs. ,es,:d Z.