New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-01

oun. We have deferred to their judgment and fol-
lowed their lead And we find nothing in tho
chronic scurrility Of The atlas and its hsbitusl a.
sumption that whoever sees otherwise than through
its spectacles is inevitably 8 scoundrel to snake
our conviction.
The atlas quotes few Of the best-loOking sec
tons Of the bogus Convention act, and proceeds;
Now, the only question in dispute between Tbs
TRIBUNE and Us is simple: Il il wise tor the rfee
State men, under such law a. the above, to ASSUME
that they will be cheated and refuse TO go to the poS
or to take any part in the Constitutional Convention
or should they manfuly and in legal way conena of
their nights under this law, insist its honest eAecu
tion-ccntest the ground inch by inch, gathering up
evidence ofevery fraud committed, and preparing them
selves If OVERCOME, to prove in the proper place no"
and why they were defeated!
To this question we beg leave TO answer:
J. The assemblage which passed this Conven'
tiOn act was not a true Kansas Legislature, but W"
the offspring Of invasion, conspiracy and gigantic
fraud-a fraud TO which The atlas and IFS party
have made themselves accessories by concealing or
denying the facts and insisting that the fruits OF
this stupendous crime should be secured to and
enjoyed by the villains who concocted and con-
summated it.
2. The Free-State men Of Kansas knoo that
"they will be cheated if they 60 into this cleo
ton, because the very men who cheated them be-
fore have ordered this election, and have the cen
sus, registration, revision holding the polls count
ing the votes. &c, entirely in their own hands, as
they had not al the former election.
3. The Free-State men knor that this law will
not be "honesty executed" because it is already
fagrantly violated by its authors It, first section
required a census to be taken of all the "whlte
"pcrsons' residing in their several districts; but
no such census is taken, only list of those as
sumed TO be legal voters. But this list is grossly
partial and imperfect in the only county where it
has been made public, the new Free-State Mayor
of Leayenworth and one hundred other Free-State
residents of that city being omitted. The act re-
quires "a full and complete list of the legal voters
in each County to be publicly filed on or before
April 10th; but our correspondent at Lawrence
who was on the watch for these lists had not been
able to SET eyes on one of them up the 18th, which
was the date Of our last adyices. In fact, the
Border Rufians violate their own law whenever
they see fit evidently regarding its falrer PROPOSE
tions only as so much dust thrown in the eyes Of
the public.
a. We can see no good to be achieved by the
Free-State men contrasting the ground inch by
"inch" and gathering up evidence of every fraud
"committed" under this bogus law. No exposure
Of fraud can be more complete and overwhelming
than that made by the Investigating Committee
sent TO Kansas last Summer by the House, which
proyed the election of March 30. 1855, to have
been controlled BY the wckedest and most pervad-
ing fraud ever heard Of yet The Atlas withheld
from its readers the evidence thus officially elected
sustained the pretensions of Whitfield to seat IN
the House, and of the bogus Legislature createdb by
that fraud to govern Kansas as pleased it and de-
nounce the penalties of felony and treason on all
who chafed under the usurpaton and tyranny thus
established Why should We expect that the Demo-
cratic Congress soon to assemble will be any less
complainant to the frauds about to be perpetrated
in Kansas than the Democrats in the last Congress
were to those so ostcntatously perpetrated in
1855?
TIL, atlas asserts that we have attacked it
in common with The National Era and The Ner-
York Times. Such is not the fact. Each Of these
papers-the two latter undeniably -assailed the
position of THE TRIBUNE, before We commented
on theirs Our attitude with regard to them
is purely defensive.
Mt 30 =, bout 70