New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-30
POLITICAL MOVEMENTS.
From Our Special Correspondent.

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| At last wc have Summer in Kansas. The Spring
| ha. been unusually backward here, as elsewhere
| but the warm sun shines melimsly down, ana INC
grass grows till the praires look green and beautiful
! specked as they are with the flowers of May. All
| is hustle and activity. The farmers TIL the soil
| The mechanic hammer beats time IA the truest
| lode 10 Enterprise" and, amid the hustle OF I'M
| provemcnt and the arrival Of emigration the peo
pie of Kansas seem, for the time, TO forget the c1
| istence of uusrplng government. The overland
| roads through the plains tllrOnged with many
| emgrant trains for the far California, Oregon, New
| Mexico or Washington Territory. The over
| land emigration was very light last season; this
season il will be abou equal TO the last Less toll
some and more speedy modes OF reaching the west
ern slope of the Rocky Mountains have superseded,
to great extent the great carayan-rayel by which
| such torrent of human lie poured out from the
| States 10 California and Oregon, few years ago.
Only those who have a quantity Of stock to drive
out or who are welded to the trdHSttOTy ellcites
of the movers wagon 20 BY the plains. Yet this *
the month Tor overland emigration, and is very
observable feature. Day after day, drOyeS of cat
tie and strings of canVascOyered wagons have been
seen on the routes. | saw ha-a-doZen trains veg
terday, below Franklin, and, as ! returned in the
evening here and there along the road saw others
OF them camped-large dr0yes OF cattle feeding
round them al the prarieS and the wagans drawn
up to the campfire, where, at some new, patent
The Second District Court of the United States,
al Lecompton has virtually adjourned. This term
has been marked by I" mastery inactivity" and It
most astounding exhibit OF the e show them how not
10 do it," Deputy Marshals and Sheritfs still
threaten to make arrests, and wrts are still issued
and held but there is jail At Lec0mpton, or else
where, and no very reliable means of dcira!ng the
expenses. Still that would not deter them. 1t il
the line of policy that has been adopted, and It
would scarcely be safe to take IFS present aspects
for concession, and one that was 10 be ioowedup.
Honeyfuging is their watchWord. do not know
that YOU understand the word, and | am not sure
that | do. Let me say that there are hercu"an
efforts being made 10 distract and rum the Free
State party Whsle it remains intact-while the
Free State people stand upon their rights, their po-
ston is imprcgnablc. They may suffer now, but
their future will be clear. Peace for the present, is the
policy Of the bogus authorities Peace in any event,
j, the tune of the political wire-workcrs, who sec
ruin in any disturbance. Intelligent rullarisn j.
brlbed into acquiesence by the hope OF gam pohtl-
cay aud the present realization of real estate specu-
htion. The rank aud file are snubbed Occasion
ally bogus Sheriff shoots a man, or somebody may
shoot bogus Sheriff, or some other Ruiiian who
takes his privilege to kick up row, for granted. If
the former the bogus officers shrlg their shoulders;
if the latter a Sheriff or Deputy Marshal gets IL
writ, but on sober second thought thinks better
of il.
hon. James L. UT, OF SOuln NdTOllIh, mas Dttl
in the Territory. He had been in LccOmptOn. Tie
had stay ed one day in Lawrence and LETT the place
Yesterday. 1t is reported that his visit was for po-
tical purposes, and that his influence was to secure
acquieScnce To certain proposals, all OF them al
present tending 10 peace; in the future tending 10
the success OF Slavery in Kansas. | give this a.
mere rumOr, and there many rumOrs. lie had
sense enough 10 keep his counsel, whatever that
was and his cOntreres here have not vet had time
q, h.tra ha dpub mi hg
programme already laid down by the Pro-Shyery
men will not be departed from. Bogus laws are TO
be- maintained nyioate 50 far they are maintained
at all They csnnot be- enforced, but they still must
be "hw." That Walker viii establish d new
rCgiao when he comes Is not 20 be expected, either
from his dcclari,S antcccdcntS Ii he viii main
tain the rights of the people against usuTpa,iOn, be
viii become one Of them. He will be "an Adolf
tiost." This is all the Frcc-State men seek, and
all the Pro-SlaNery men ear. Mr.. Walker cannot
iorSahc hi, party, aud his party the rescttcrs of
stolen goods and the aiders aud abettors Of the de
po;i>m in Kansas. To cngrait right on wrong
would be worse than putting new wine in old
bottles" I'VE Will do ialr tor the future, but
- INSIST on preserving past yilainy aad its fruits
intact, is ~ cquNocal promise.
A Frce-State National Democratic party. COM
posed Of broken fragments OF the Free-Stae parties
Is 10 be formed AZ this the cunning 'workers-in
wire" among our enemies have been diligently labor
ins for some time past. They do not seem to make
nuch progress, but, nevertheless seem 10 entertain
hopes that they viii. The new corners Of this Spring
are most mobile, tsat j., many Of them. No incon-
siderable number Of the routed "Nebraskaites'
who have lost their political ALI 10y playing Sec
ond. fiddle Ia Slavery EXten>ionism. have come 70
Kansas on the priscple that Z" the key that locked
the door is the oncto open it, They want office
Of course. They want 10 be doing something"
why don't you do something " they inquire in
dierantly Some cunning Pro-Slayery fox compre-
bends their motive power and takes them by the
political button.hole. They must organize Demo
cratic party from the Free-State party. The hate
fil antaeonistic element must be shyered in pieces.
Tie, NAV get a State Constitution possibly a State
Government. but there must be some means Of ear
ryinp the elections ~ tie Safe Break mp the
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