New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-25


"n., Why then, 20 mary declarations about Ksas,.
becoming Slave State f2D Why advise Free STAT
men not TO be registered and cot to votSi o. Whv
not to enjoy the fruits Of Free-Stste Constance
without aiming TO prevent Free-Stste men from nsk
| ing such Constitution !"
TO which catechisn, thus responds TuE
| TRIBUNE:
l. Declarations wherel by whomf Wien
Kansas had but handful Of white people within
her borders, and those mainly claim hunters from
| Missouri, whose families still resided in the mo<
intensely Pro-Slavery section Of that State, there
| was great and imminent danger that Kansas wouu
be made first Slave Territory and in due coursc
Slave State But for seasonsbe, earnest organ.
lied. self forgetting effort in the North We believe
this destiny was inevitable. Impartial Observers
assure us that there was probably small Pro-
Slavery majority in Kansas so late as the 6nt eec.
| ton of Delegate 10 Congress under the Nebraska
| Act. in the Autumn of 1854, when Whitfield sue.
ceeded over Wakefield and Flenniken. Bot this
preponderance was reversed soon after, through
systematic Northern effort; and Kansas has. ct
least since JAM l, 1856, been decidedly hostile 10
Slavery. The danger, hewever, Of wholesale
suppression of the popular will through concerted
Eruption and fraudulent voting BY Pro Slavery Ma.
sourians. was proved to be real BY the election Of
March 80. 1855, when three times az many bogus
| as legal votes were thus thrown, the number Of
votes pOlled exceeding that of the entire population
| A bogus, usurping local government was thus
created, which has ever since been kept in oppres.
sye existence through the countenance and support
wickedy accorded il by the Federal Executive and
Senate, with some aid in past years by successive
warlike incursons from Missouri. But now the
population has become so large and the 6ree-Sate
preponderance so decided, that it 10 morally i'm
possible henceforth to make Kansas practically and
permanently Slave State. That danger has been
happily averted by efforts and sacrifices which The
| Express has disparaged and DETAINED from FIRST 10
last. Morethan Twenty Thousand Dollars have been
contributed through the office of this paper with
still more through other channels to provide tho
Free-State men Of Kansas with the means Of
defense, and to preserve those Of them whom the
Border Ruffians plundered and ravsged during tho
forays of last Summer from being driven out by
starvation. We do not know that all the noieyso
contributed has been wisely expended-probably
some of it has not-but We have no doubt that
Kansas has been saved BY its aid from endorsement
1t is possible that the bogus Convention about to
be chosen may proceed to frame Slave ConstitY
ton, or, more probably, one silent With respect
to Slavery, under which it may be plausibly con-
tended that Slavery having been recognized and
established by the bogus Legislature, still legally
and rightfully exists; but that cannot lons.sval
against the overwhelming Free-State prcponder-
ance aforesaid. Kansas will assuredly be Free
States and the political gamblers who have so long
held her in subsection to notorious and oppressive
Pro-Slayery usurpaton, are now plainly msneu-
verng, first, to PROSTATE the FreeStatc party and
make her what they call I" National Democratic"
Free State; and, secondly, to concoct and force
through new compromise, whereby slice shall
be cut from her southern border and pieced on to
new Slave State which they intend TO form from
the Indian Territory. If they had Any show Of
| Pro-Slayery strength in Kansas, the "Nationh
Democratic" leaders would persist in their efforts
to make her Slave Slave; but they have 80 ut
tery gone under in the immigration Of the past nine
months that they now only hope and strive to make
her Pro-Sla,ery Free State, like California.
And this is just what Buchanan, Cass, Walker,
Stanton & Co. are now working for.
2. We did not advise the FreeStste men Of Kan
sas not to be registered, and not to vote" We
cautiously abstained from giving any advice atall
on this point When they had held full delegated
State Conventioa and therein unanimously resolved
TO take no part in the bogus Legislatures Consti.
tutional Election we considered their reasonssco
cluded that they had judged wisely, and supported
their position TO the extent of our ability. We
never advised them on this pont-we have simply
and heartily sustained them in their own decision
The advice so pentifally showered upon them with
regard to this matter has come entirely from the
other side-that which pretends great aversion to-
"outsde interference" in the affairs of Kansas. Lat
The Express henceforth remember this, and not re-
peat imputations which, if made in good faith,
can be made no longer.
g. The Free-State men Of Kansas hare madss
Free-State Constitution already, and the House Of
Representatives has recognized and approved 1t.
They would have long since "enjoyed the fruits
of such action but for Missouri invssons, Presi,
Dental fulminations and the whole power Of tho
Federal Administration and the National De-
mocracy" put forth to deprive them Of such
"fruits''-an unjust and oppressive policy which,
we deeply regret, has been cOuntenanced and upheld
throughout by The Express.
Having made such Constitution and been so
denounced and prosecuted for it, we see not Why
the Free. State men should discredt tho work OF
their hearts and hands by making another. LIZ the
Pro-SIayery men want different instrument
but natural that they should set about making 1t;
and. after theirs is made, shall b. happy to CO.
operste BY advice, entreaty otherwise, in secur-
r.H ota nf tha Of