New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-11

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plants egainst them.
In attempting, however. to apologize for having
qus,terec an army On the Territory We must say
frat cur Presidential Casby makes bat a poor fist of
It. The act IT treason VT icn demanded this piece
% Executive interference lie first stated to be tina,
81 portion Of the people Of Kansas, unwilling 70
".rust 20 tie ballot box The certain American
"IeDeey for redress Of all grievances undertook to
"cIea esniDdependent government for themselves.
But Ii lot thus charge against the Topeka men OF
wait Of faitt in the ballot box. untrue and mi Is
Was rot tie Topeka Constitution founded on faitt
il The bhllot.bO1 Was not that Constitution sub.
mitted to, and ratified by, vote Of the Inhabitants
of Kansas ard can our serene Presidential Casoy'
with all lis cOmposnre, presume for one moment TO
aacrte to the Border Rufians and their Intrusive
allies from Missouri, and their armed outrages, or
for that matter 10 himself and bis supporters IN the
set Congress any greater faith in the ballot box o.
certain remedy for the redress of political grievances
than Wat exhibited by the trainers and supporters Of
the Topeka Constitution Blu. not TO insist upon
this point, here is another and still more serious
difficulty At the time Of Buchanan's accession to
Office, the Topeka Constitution was inst as much
thing past and over as the Border Rufiian nvasions
and the bogus elections. So far from there being
any movement ON foot at that time to put in into
opera,i,D. It's chief friends we're either in exile,
obliged 70 fly to save their lves, or at least their
liberty, or else in prison under Lecomp'es absurd
ard Oppressive indictmeDts for high treason. Now,
if Mr. Buchanan could not, az he says, lift the
cu,tsip Of tue past for the sake of looking after
bogus elections, how happens it that he is able to
do if to lock after Topeka Constitutions
As if corscious of the insuficiency OF this pre-
tepse for quarteriDg army on Kansas the benevo.
lent proprietor OF our bleeding Heart Yard proceeds
to set up another.
In the opinion Of the Territorial Legislature of
Kansas the fine had arrived for entering the Chlon
arc they rdngly passed law to elect Delegates
fol the purpose Of famifg State Constitution. This
Jaw fair ard Gst n It's provisions 1t conferred
the right Of suffrage upon every bona lie nhabttn
of tie Territory, and for the purpose OF preventing
fIaud the intrusion OF citizens Of near or distant
States most properly confined this right to those who
bad resided therein three months previous to the
election. Here fair OPPORTUNITY was presented for
all the qualified resident ciizots OF the Territory, to
whatever organization they might have previously
bell nged to psrtic pate in the election, and to
pr Sc their opinion at the balooox on the question
Of Slavery; but nulb.rs II iavieSs sW continued
10 ycsist the rcgui7r Territorial G0rernmenf.
THcU refuHd etker 10 be registered or 70 cOte. aud
the men bers of the Convention were elected legally
aud prr per'y wihuu. their iutervt rtion. The Con-
ventiui will assemble 10 perform the solemn duty
Of fianing Constitution for themselves and theif
pcsteriy. and 10 the state OF incipie rebellion which
still exits in Kansas. it is my imperative duty
TO employ the troops OF the United Sta,,s should this
bee me necessary 10 Offending the Convention
against violence while framing the Constitution and
in NJ. ciir fEa hou bu
vote the provisions OF iha instrument 10 the free
exc,cis' Of the tight Of suffrage, when it shall be
submitted 70 them for their appreciation or rejection"
Without stopping to point out the numerous and
grave errors Of fact into which the President has
fallen in this bit Of historical narrative il is SUIT
fcient for present purpose to cad attention to
the suspicious oddly of this second ground, upon
which he undertakes to justify the occupation OF
Kansas by a military force. Numbers of lawless
men, we are told refuse either to be registered
to vote ard so the President SENDS half dozen
regiments to Kansas. For what purpose, We should
like to know A, to the cbarge against che people
of Kansss that they are in g. a state Of incipcnt
rebellion" the President might just as well bring
that charge against the people of Massachusett, or
New. York, and might with just a much reason
quarter troops upon us As upon the people of Kan
sas AS to the intlmatiOn that the people of Kan
sas are likely to prevent, by violence, the submis
sion Of the bogus Constitution about to DO framed
70 the votes of the bona fde inhabitants, something
of the sort may possibly be contemplated by the
Border RI fians but there is ct the slightest prob
ability or pausibihty in any such charge against
the Free-State meu, at whom the President
levels it.
twill be something new in our history, to have
State Constitution formed and ratified by the aid
and support of an army sent into the new State by
the Central Government at Washington. Such
thing. have happened in Mexico but never before
with us. What more conclusive proof could be
given of the Jean and miserable minority in which
the Pro Slavery party Of Kansas finds itself than
this, that the President is obliged, he says to
send sn army of FIVE thousand men TO keep down
the people of Kansas, and prevent them from break
Ing up aud dispensing the miserable, Pro-Slavery,
bogus Constitutional Convention.
We go in, pretty generally, for the largest liberty
of speech and conscience, and never intend to ask