New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-17

Dept 10 the Topeka Constitution, majority OF the
Free State men hsve yielded TO outside ensresfes
and clamer and resolved to vote at the Territorial
election in October. They viii do this, If fair
opportunity be afforded them, in good faith, and
fully resolved to abide the verdict of the whole
people of Kansas. Ifthat rejects the Topeka Con-
sttution they viii give it up fit fastens Slavery
upon then, they must submit. Aud they have bees
repeatedly assured by Gov. Walker that they may
so vote under Federal authority, in obedience to
the requirements Of Congress, and without waving
their protest against the frauds by which the Pre-
Slavery yoke was fasteped upon them BY Missouri
votes.
But the moment they decide to vote at the Ter
rtOrsl Eectios all the fair promises Of their rulers
are cast to the winds They are told that they
must vote not under the organic act but under the
bogus laws, Of which only two or three Of the most
obnoxious clauses have been rescinded. A new
apportionment il made out BY the President and
Speaker of the two branches of the bogus LegislA-
ture, which gives to that part of Kansas which is
overwhelmingly Free.State but tenth part Of the
members, and secures q large majority IN both
branches to the counties stretching along the Mis-
souri, border Under this atrociOus spportionment,
one.thrd of the voters may elect t~o.thirdi Of the
members. Then the Right of Suffrage il restricted
t. ,uch persons as were in Kansas on the 1st Of
April last-tbat 10, to about one-half the present
population. Every officer who receives or can
vases votes is sure to be bitter adversary of the
Free State pary-msny of them the very men who
perpetrated the gigantic frauds Of March 80, 1855.
And as if all this we're not enough, it is now pro-
claimed, on the authority of Federal Judge Cato,
that no man can rote at this section cAo has not paid
a tar or tazes to support The Border RxD1aH rule
inaugurated by Missouri rotes on the 3Oh .: March,
1855. Of course, this DISTINGUISHES the whole Free
State party at blow, since its members have
steadily, Indignantly denied the validity of those
taxes with the right of tho Border Rufian usurPers
to impose them.
Thus The Free; State party, at the moment Of its
con.entpg to vote at a Territorial Election, nnd'
it,elf disfranchised. 1t is not permitted to
vote. Even if its members should go hunt.
ing up Border. Ruffian tax gatherers, and offer
to pay whatever might be exacted, nine-tenths
of them have doubtless never been assessed, and oil
course could not be permitted to pay. They are
therefore utterly precluded from voting at this
election and for aught we see another Pro Slavery
Legislature will be chosen, in emphatic defiance Of
the will Of the People.
Simultaneous with this, We have confidential
Pro-Slsvery advices that the Constitution which
the elect of Two Thou.and Pro-Savery voters is
about TO frame is not to be submitted TO the People
Here is an extract from private letter printed in
The South Richmond, Va.) and dated Atchison,
Kansas, August 2:
"The Convention to form State Constitution viii
meet in September next. They are unanimously Pro.
ton be submitted hope not. I believe not. No
thing save official patronage brought to bear on the
weak. back ed members can make submission pass.
The talent of The Convention and am satisfied the
members, too, are against submission.
II so decided, the question will come up in Con-
gress shall Kansas be admitted with slave Constitu-
ton without reference II is the best we can co.
il all we do Will the South stand up to us, or
will the UuionSaviIg cOmprOmisers send 1t back
for ratification Let the South prepare herself for
that question. If che backs down, Kansas is lost, and
the doom Of the South is written feauy distinct in
letters Of blood upon the wall. Missouri, thus encom-
passed, would hold out but fewycars in continuous
struegle-Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland and Texas
will have the battle on their own borders.
"Adnit u.s. and have no fear but that it will, for
all time to come, remain Slave State. Missouri will
be streng thensd-Utsh and New-MeIco, and perhaps
Oregon will apply for admission, and be Slave States
Northern Texas will be SAFE the equilibrium of the
North and South restored.
"Assuredly, should the Democratic party twho, Ia
this Territory, are almost to a man Pro-Slavery car
~ the October elections, there can be no reasonable
objection to our admission, North or South 10 any
event. let public opinion be prepared for the issue is
at hand"
Thus the Slave Power is silently preparing to
grasp Free Kansas in its folds, and press out her
life while majority Of the Northern journals con-
ceal the vital facts from the knowledge of their
readers. Are they not mourning fearful responsi
bilityi