New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-09

1857, is too plain proposition to be argued Inc
CAREFUL deprivation Of the Governor (ss Geary tnon
filled the oice) of all substantive power over toa'
electiou-the denial to the Free-Stste men OF any
voice Whatever in the selection Of judges, cerkS'
&c. for holding the poll and csnvassing the vo'es'
concur with The appointment of noOe but Pro
Slavery men 10 take the census and make OUT Tue
Official list Of voters, in pointing to foresone con,
cusiOn. "Crowns got BY blood must be oy o'ood
msiniained;" and they who did not scruPIe 70
seize the government by fraud will not hesitate 70
preserve it by Ike means. The following e1tracI
from q recent letter to The Chicago Press da'ed
at Lecompton on the 25ih ult., confirms our own
and The Missouri Democrats correspondence state
ments:
Gas the law of the Bogus Legislature for taking tne
census alo ~ shers and tter deputies four couS Pe
dsy for their trouble there is large number OF 1usca
at work They de not take much trouble win TINS
operstop, getting all the inormstiou they weul
from then Pro Slavery friends, and setting down ony
such as they want. They refuse to rsert any OF tIe
Of the Free-Sfs'e emgI anita who have coIie ~
this Spring, even Of tboee who arrived early. Iney
call them transient" The County Csurts instruct
them to take no names unless tie party has been res
dent previous to the 18th instant While tins ID tne
ful6tDey 0Deerve tOWhrQ tpe rTte-o ulo Wcu, ivy
putting tAousands of names the list pk0 haze N<rer
hired KAMA. and rhO nerer rH. The names Oh au
the members Of the Shawnee Association, some tApI
fre hundred are on the lst of voters. IL E the ssns
eoe here. IL Is now seen that all the suspicious anu
fears about the law are confirmed. The law itself even
will be grossly violated whenever 1t suis."
He who pre.ends to believe that this Census, List
of Voters, and Constitutional Convention, will not
work out the end designed by their Pro-Savery con-
tryers, must wilIfully deceive himself That the
result will be Pro- Slavery Constitution is Just as
.ure as that the choice of majority of "Buch and
Breck" Electors secured the Presidency to b.
cbanan.
Now let US suppose that the FreeState men-or
40 many of them a. may be inscribed on the lists
of voters by the Pro-Slavsry oficials-were to de-
eide TO vote at their election, Of course that
would throw overheard the Prostate organic
alton and government. All future challenge of the
Pro. Slavery rule derived from the bogus Leg
islature would be pre;luded by such vot-
ing. Thus the Convention would be elected with
foreordained Pro.Slavery majority, and would rush
through Constitution and order an election under it
for State Officers and Legislature. These would be
chosen az the Convention was carried and the Ter
ritorial authorities would immediately abdicase in
their favor. That accomplished, where would be
the Free-State party and causel lrrecoverably
under foot. Concluded by their vote at the Con-
stitutional Election, denounced from Washington,
by the Federal army and in peril of drum
head execution under the atrocious Rebellion act
parsed by the bogus Legislature at its late session,
they would be "crushed OUT beyond hope. Such
ia To- fate which the councils of descending enemies
md hollow, trim ming friends are preparing for
he Frees ate settlers of Kansas. We confde In
heir pas. as an earnest Of thelrfuture wisdom and
ideity.
And here let us observe that the frequent
that the Territorial Legislature at its late
Session repealed it's obnoxious and bloody claws"
enacted at the former Session, is false. A single
one Of those acts-shat imposing political test
oath on voters-was repealed, with one section only
the twefth) of Gan act to punish ofsnses against
I" SIayeProperty section which Furnishes as
a felon "any free person" who shall "by speaking
" or by writing, assert or maintain that persons
g have not tie right TO hold slaves in this Terri
tory" or who shall circulate any paper or pam
Dnet asserting may sduc. tWcNo OsucI ecOAiouS
of that same strocOus act are unrepesled aud in
force to-day, SO far the enscting body can give
them fofce-smopg others, these:
csc IL. If any per'on print write, Introduce Into.
pubsb OF circulate n be brought into, print
"a written, published, circulated snail knowingly
aid or assist in bringing into, printing publishing or
within This Territory any book, psper,
pspph ct, msg, zns hsndbiu or circular, containing
any statements, arguments, opinions sen imeut, doc
trine advice or nnendo calculated 10 produce dsor
dery dangerou., or rebeous disafftction among the
slaves in bis Territory. TO induce ouch slaves to es
csue from the service OF the masters or 10 resist their
authority he shs be guilty of felony and be punished
by imprisonment at hard labor for term Of not leas
than five year..
70 booipr slaves or who coes not admt rhe right to
hold slaves in this Territory shall sit as juror on the
trial Of any prosecution for any violation OF any OF the
sections OF This act"
Scores of such ensctments remsn, and new ones
of like tyrannlca and partisan character were
added at the late session. And yet, thousands of
ell.mesning citizens have been made to believe
that The ,potic partisan acts Of tina. Legislature
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