New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-08

Gov. Walker seems determined to do his best to
come up to the Washington beau-ideal of Kansas
Governor. He has lately given remarkable speci-
men Of the gross deception which he attempted to
practice in many speeches, delivered all over the
Territory, in which he promised to protect the peo
pie of Kansas in the full enjoyment of their rights
as citizens-if they would only agree to exercise
those rights under the bogus laws. One Of those
bogus lave, passed last Winter, devolved upon the
Governor and Secretary for the time being the duty
of appOrtiOning Ong the counties the representa-
tives to constitute the Territorial Legislature to be
elected in October next. Here was an excellent
opportunity for the Governor to take step, and
very important one too, toward fair representa-
ton of the people of Kansas in the new Territorial
Legislature. A fair apportiOnment Of the repre-
sentatives would naturally have been regarded as
evidence of the Governors determination, about
which he had talked so much, to secure to Kan
sas the benefits of free election. But, in
stead of availiDg himself of this opportunity to
give to the Free State men and to the country at
large some earnest of his impartiality and Of his
desire to have in the Territorial Legislature fair
representation Of the people Of Kansas he has
plotted and connved with the Border Rufians to
make the new Territorial Legislature about to be
elected mere echo, in fact a reproduction, of the
former ones.
The act above referred to provided that if the
Governor and Secretary failed to make the appor
tionment, that duty should be exercised by the
President of the first Territorial Council and the
! Speaker Of the first Territorial HOuse-twO lead
ing and active Border Rufians who owed their re-
spectve positions entirely to the intrusive votes BY
which they themselves and their colleagues had
been formerly elected. Though Walkers atleu-
ton early ard urgently called to this provision
be omitted to take any action under it, unques-
tioDably with the intention of allowing the Borler
Rufians-as they lately have done-to apportion
the members of the Territorial Legislature to suit
themselves, at the same time that he might DO
able to say that il was they, and not he, who
did it.
The apportionment thus made the general re-
suit Of which was announced by telegraph two or
three days ago, is exactly what might have been
| expected. A letter from our Kansas correspond
ent in another column gives the details. In this
apportiOnment everything has been palpaby sacri
feed to single objective: the so arranging the
representation as to enable intruders from Missouri
to elect majority of the members without the nei
cessity Of travelling any great distance from home.
1t is q natural part Of this arrangement that not
| only are the counties including Lawrence and
Lecomptcn tackled together, Like the live and dead
man in Virgil, but, to secure Border Rufian pre-
dominance at any rate, long strip Of scarcely
inhabited country on the southern border, and a
hundred and fifty miles of, is made part Of the
district, whence may be returned any number Of
bogus votes which may be found necessary to make
out majority. To nineteen populous Free.State
counties three representatives are assigned out of
thirty. nine, the whole number; the remaining
thirty six being assigded to fourteen Counties with
about the same population in the aggregate as the
other nineteen, the elections in which, or the larger
part of them, the Border Rufians expect to carry
by means Of intrusive votes.
The speech Of Mr.. Able, Strinsfsllow's partner,
Of which we published sketch tho ether day,
sheds good deal Of Light upon this apportionment
According to that speech the Pro-Slavery party
still firmly rely upon maintaining themselves in