New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-23

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accept Office 10 long as those two infamous
Judges, Lecompte and Cato remained on
the bench and formed majority oil Tue
Supreme Court Of the Territory. What conn
dence, we should like to ASK can any emgrsn'
from Northern State be expected to put III
Governor whose chief function il ia, under the Ne
braska bill and the bogus laws to see to the ser'ice
of warrants issued and the execution OF sentences
passed by such Judges men who arrest and IN
prison their political opponents upon sosuru
trumped-up charges Of treason. and dismiss Oh
straw bail such of their political friends as choose
10 indulge in the Border Ruifian hxures
Of robbery and murder The best and able't
Governor in the world, with the administration OF
justce-we ought rather to SAY of injusfice-in
such hands, and with az the inferior Courts nlied
with bogus magistrates Of the same school, would
be utterly pOwerless to secure TO the F'ree-Sta'e
men of Kansas the slightest protection either IN
their persons or property and still less in their
political rights. Nay more: recognizing as Mr.
Walker does the bogus laws as binding authority
such Governor would be liable at any time, ana
without room for the exercise of any discretion
on his part, to be made the instrument, under
the Rebellion act and other similar bogus
enactments, of infctng the most atroclous
injustice and cruelties. Who believes,
with such Supreme Judges to give the
tone to the inferior tribunals and the cue TO the
bogus 'ficinls generally, that any outrage even
murder itself, perpetrated upon any Frce-State
man, will be punished in the future any more than
in the past, or its perpetratcr even brought to
trial Could Mr.. Walker even if be were dis
posed, do anything more in this matter than Gov.
Geary did We're he to attempt anything of the
sort would not Lecompte snap his fingers in bis
face with os much contempt as he did in Geary's!
1t seems impossible that any man with honest
intentons-unless we set him down fool which
can hardly be done in Mr.. Walkers case-wOuld
consent TO accept Office with such Judges on the
bench. Any man accepting the place of Governor
of Kansas with the expectation or desire OF giving
any satisfaction to the Free-State men, would in
sist as q preliminary-even without passing any
Judgment ON the merits of the complaints alleged
against Lecsnptc and Cato-that persons 50 mixed
up with the former civil commOtions, and 50 ut
terly hateful TO large part of the inhabitants,
should give place to new men, who, ~ Judges,
might be expected to command fair share OF pub
lie respect. What Kansas wants at this moment,
AZ any one may see with half an eye, is not so
much new GOvernOr-whO, unless like Geary he
pays his own bills is little more than nobody-as
new Judges; since it is on them, and net on the
Governor, that the civil administration mainly de-
pcnds.
But not only does Mr.. Walker accept Office with
these partisan Judges on the Bench thus presenting
himself before the public not in the character of
leader but of second fiddle, bound to take part in
any tune which they may choose to strike up; he
takes Office also in company with quite number
of noted Border Ruffians such as Tom Johnson of
the Shawnee Mission, Emory reputed to he the
murderer of William Phillips, and certainly
leader in the LeavenwOrth Outrages, Woodson, the
prOclaimer Of martial law and stirrerup Of Border
Ruffian nvasions, and a number Of others equally
notorious, selected by the present Administration
az in its judgment the fttest persons to put into
the land offices and other good Federal berths
in Kansas Can it be supposed that Mr.. Walker will
neglect the hint thus given and the example thus set
II is true that as Governor of Kansas he is not in
trusted either by the Kansas Nebraska bill the
bogus statutes with the smallest particle of patron
age or anything but the slightest shadow of power.
Yet he can ut least do this should any chinks sp-
pear in the Border Rutfan edifce through which
the light of liberty threatens TO shine in be can
stick himself in the hole by way of Obstructing ts
entrance, while he helps 10 keep exterior appear
ances by from time to time pouring himself out in Il
liberal food of whitewash.
1t is absurd to suppose that Mr. Walker has any
better intentions toward Kansas than the Admins
tration itself has; and what the intentions of the
Administration are We are enabled to judge not
merely by the officers it has retained there but by
the offcers-leaving out of account for this Occa-
sion the new Governor and Secretary-whom II
has appointed. Mr.. Walker goes to Kansas with
the title of Governor, but in fsct as Lecomptes
lieutensnt and it, as the story goes, he is to take
with him three thousand Federal troops, they are
taken thither for no other purpose except to keep
the Free-State men under, and to be used in the
service Of Lecomptes and Catos warrants.
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