New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-13

opinion Of the whole voting population Of the Teri
tory he taken, and the blank made in the Consnta
ton filed up the expression Of this opinion snsu DC
termine.
If this is what the Pro Slavery party are 70 do
under the inspiration Of Secretary Stanton we can
not see what necessity urgency there can be for
any Free-State participation in the June Consatu-
tional Election. II will be time enough for the
Free-Stste men to begin voting under bogus r'iie
when they find those "just precautions for
1.-the suppression Of fraud" existing somewhere
el,e than in anonymous reports Of Mr. Stantons
good intentions But let " the whole voting popu-
laton" of Kansas-that is, all the free male resi-
dents over twenty-One years Of age-have guar
snteed chance to vote on the Slavery question, at
some election not too remotely future, and all Will
20 right whether the Free-State men vote in June
or vote not. Hitherto, We greve to say, the prom
ses and foreshadowings Of fair elections in Kansas
by the Federal Executive and its tools, seem to
turn to nought when brought to the ordeal. They
are all vouble in professions and good resolutions;
but when they are pressed to justify their fair
words by acts, they turn short corner and plead
want of power to do anything but uphold the Bor-
der-Ruffan usurpation. They urge that the Free
State men should vote; but, when asked for guar
antics that the vote shall be fair one they plead
want Of power. If they have really no power in
the premises, what are their promises or prophecies
good for
The reader will please collate the extract we
have just quoted with the following from the same
article:
We hope measure so strictly consonant with fair
and upright dealing Stantons propOsitiOn will be
heartily embraced by those OF the Free-State party
who look beyond the columns of The TRIBUNE for a
yndicatiOn Of their actions. IL is their last chance
Beyond this we have nothing TO offer them. Every
thing that could be done to convince them that the
Administration was fixed in its resolution to that
the rights of each inhabitan fully preserved has
been done, and in the proposition of Mr.. Stanton is
offered for the last time the white flag to this recreant
and rebel clan If adopted they must live or fall by it.
If can be any satisfaction to them quietly to SIT by
and their opponents bear of all they treasure most
well and good we are agreeable. Yet, if Kansas is TO
be made Free State, ii can only be by harmonious
action Of he whole Free-State party at the coming
election Their absence, in our opinion, will be ITS
absolute dedication to Slavery by those very who
have pledged over again, their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor" to secure it TO Freedom"
If the writer meant anything. by tbi, paragraph,
what could he have meant by the former!
After commencing in terms Of hyperbOle Mr..
Stanton's suggestions in his letter to Gov. Robin
son. The NeirS continues:
" In the name of common sense, and with due
conception OF human ability, will The IRIBUNE and
its philosophers ask anything more than this III
there is any ether way which strikes that journal a.
affording better opportunities of making Kansas a
Free State let have the benefit OF the suggestion
Yes, gentlemen! with pleasure-THE Topeka
CONSTITUTION. The simple assent of the Senate
and President to the act of the House, recognizing
that Constitution, and admitting Kansas under it,
would have settled the whole controversy ten
months ago, quoted agitation, given lasting peace
and security to Kansas, and placed her on the high
road to prosperity And why not admit her ,
You do not doubt that majority of her people are
Free-State, and that the Free-State men framed
this Constitution and asked its acceptance by Con-
gress It's acceptance would have doubled the
population of the Territory and the value of every
settlers property. How could the party that ad
mitted Michigan under just such Constitution, so
framed, and which even upheld the Dorr Govern
ment in Rhode Island object to the Topeka Con-
stiutiOn
One more extract from our promising young
neighbOr must suffice:
"As the Slaveryl question has in many other States
been submitted to the people to decide Mr.. Stanton
has ample precedent to justify the wisdom of his course
II is not new thing for our Free-State brethren to
talk about fraud OF course, it is all fraud where De-
mocracy is victorious"
We don't happen to remember case of submits
sior of "the question of Slavery or No Slavery to
direct vote of the People of State just entering
the Union; but let that pass. But was "Democ-
racy victorious" in the fraudulent Pro-Slayery tri
umph Of March 80, 1855, when 1910 legal and
4 969 illegal Missouri votes were pOlled Was
it Democracy that passed the infamous Test
Act, and that making it felony to speak or write
against Slavery In Kansas That was Demo-
cratic victory, was it which consigned Kansas to
the tender mercies of Atcbison, Whitfield, String
fellow, Emory, and Sheriff Jones Very good
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