New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-04

We are perfectly ready to give Governor Walker
the fullest credit for bis refusal to be made party
to the sross fraud BY which it has been ate nPtod
to psck the Kansas Legislature, the means used for
that purpose being 9 bogus return Of imaginary
vots copied void for VOID, al h,betcal order
and all, from Cincinnati Directory. We arc will
ling to admit, if The Journal Of Commerce AID The
n. Y. Times will have it 20, taatin Walkers situs-
tiop and With Bis abtecedents, and considering all
the circumstances under which be accepted Office
and especially with the fate Of Reeder and Geary
before his eyes-this rejection Of those bogus
votes entities the Governor TO &c enrolled on the
LET of moral heroes.
But, while thus giving ali due credit to the Gov
ernors decision, we trust We shall be INDUCED IN
little criticism as to the grounds upon which no
plscss It, or, we might more properly say ~ TO the
apology which he thinks it necessary 70 make for it
That there has been an attempt By gross aad pal
pabe fraud to impose upon the people Of Kansas
a supposi6tious Leg'slsture-a eime compared
with which that for which Mrs Cunningham 10
about to be tried il q nero basatelle-and that bis
own aid aud perston have been insuitiUgy relied
upon to carry this fraud into effeot-these not
deemed BY the Governor q sufficient reason for re-
tusir to treat return plain and pabe forgery.
Nor are these reasons deemed sufficient, when
backed up by the additional consideration that to
| give spy countenance to such fraud would be to
n pder the elective franchise utterly vaueisss aud TO
| STRIFE q deadly blow at free government itself.
There Was also the dagger that to have lent hul-
self to such an outrage would ia all probability
have led ~ civil war, which, instead Of being Con.
fined 10 Kansas, would have spread to the adjoining
States, and probably would have involved the en-
Tie Union. AL these, to be sure are thpgs
worth thinking Of: fraud ADD forgery; tho Insult
TO the Governor, and tie source whence hs derives
bis authority, in attempting to make him the 10.
stument for palning of that forgery; the deadly
blow thus aimed at the elective franchise aud free
government, and the danger CT civil war. The Gov
.rner mentions all these; bat still he seems 10 feel
that something more yet is wanting to justify him
N rejecting the returns He evinces Q nervous
Consciousness that among the objects of sending
him to Kansas, the suppression Of fraud and for
sery, the protection Of tie elective FRANCHISE and
The prevention Of civil war, held at the best bu.
seccrdsry place; that be wss lot made Governor
Of Kansas with q view, eIolaslyely or mainly, to
protect the rights ard promote the welfare Of the
inhabitants Of that Territory ror even With vie =
to maintain republican institutions aad to preserve
! the peace of the Union. Conscious that his sp-
poiptmept had in view, above and besoud all these
considerations, the interests and convenience Of
"our party" 10 use bis eve PhIaseOlosy, he thiuhs
it ementiL to his Justification to show that "our
party" though it loses the Territorial L'gissture
81 tie rejection Of these bogus resarus yet in the
ead would lose moro tran il could gain BY means Of