New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-11
yet to bring forth fruits whence the waste fields Of
the South may be seeded anew.

Tie ~ T. Times sadly misunderstands and
grossly misrepresents the Address Of the Free.
State men of Kansas, in undertaking to set up that
document as an Endorsement of the tempOrlzing
policy advocated BY itself and The National Era.
The policy so commended by those two journals is,
or was, that the Prostate men should forego their
own organization and their own Free-State Constl-
tuition formed at Topeka, and should submit TO and
recognize the Border .Ruian usurpation established
over them, so far at least to treat as valid the
enactment Of the bogus Legislature for the call of
bogus Constitutional Convention, and BY quietly
submitting to be cheated under it, it admitted
they would be, TO help impose the cheat Of bogus
Constitution upon the public at large.
So far is that Address from containing anything
that has the slightest look toward cooperating with
the endeavors Of the Administration and of Gov
ernOr Walker :" to arrange the Slavery question in
Kansas" through the medium Of the bogus COnstl-
tuition about to be formed-that the sole and SIN
gle object Of that Address is to call upon the Free
State men TO stand firm by the Topeka COnstitu'
ton, snd 10 appeal to the citizens of the Free
States to secure for it the opportunity to be sub
mtted to the ratification and approval of the
present inhabitants of Kansas. Almost the whole
of that Address is taken up in glowing recital of
the wrongs # the Free-State men. Then comes
the following in relation to the future:
Having thus delineated the course of events that
have transpired in Kansas-having shown how the
Free State party, though embracing more than two
thirds Of the actual settlers have been deprived,
through fIsud and violence, of any representation in
legislative assemblies, and of voice in the enact
ing If laws the selection Of Territorial officials aud
being thru atened with the enforcement and adoption
Of Slave Constitution, by Congress, for Kansas-we
appeal with the deepest sincerity and earnestness to
tie Northern people, without distinction OF party or
creed, to aid in avertng such national calamity
We ash hit that Congress may dd0t the Topeka Con-
sffufion iick has already pissed the HOUSE, or -
boh Il and the one that rW be adapted by the -
SLorerz Conrcht,on an SEPTEMBER be returned to the
people of the Territory with an enabling act provd-
ing for fair and honest vote OF the 6oRd tdc resi-
dents. We ask no more than thls-we can ask no
less
From our new.made homes in the distant West,
far from the comforts and cOnyeniences OF settled So
ciety vet struggling amid the hardships and difficulties
coIcident with border life, and suffering from the
trials and sonows TO which we have been particularly
subjected, NJ again appeal 10 Northern treemen to
stand by rs in the dRrk emergency mt fbJtatcns orr
future progress and prosperity. Let Northern Repre-
ertatives be instructed TO support righteous prayers
ard claims and let the People in their sovereign capa-
civ. rising in dignity and might, cheer us with their
active sympathy and earnest cooperation.
Such is the pith and point, the aim and object
of this Address-the establishment Of the Topeka
Constitution already formed the Constitution of
Kansas. Not one word about taking part in the
election of " hat is set down beforehand PRO
Slavery Convention" Notone word nor the slight
est ibtimation of a word, about doing anything to
give 10 the action of that Convention the cOunte-
nance and sanction of the Free.State men. That
the Washington correspondent of The Times, who
has since, it would SEEM added to that duty the
knowledged position of private secretary and polish
er-general to Governor Walker, might have been in
nocenty led into a misunderstanding of the inten-
tions Of the State men, we can easily imagine;
but how The Times, with the Address of the Free
State men before it, should repeat that msstate-
ment, we cannot imagine And that there
might be DO misunderstanding as to the pO-
sition of the Free-State men, this Address
has since been followed up by another, of which
Gov Robinson is the first simer circular to the
members (under the Topeka Consttution) of the
General Assembly Of the State of Kansas, putting
them in mind Of their meeting to come off on the
9th of June, and stirring them up to a prompt and
full attendance
1t may be all very true, and we hope it is-Since
that journal positively denies t-that The Times has
rot been sold to the Administration nor to Gov.
Walker: but at the same time, if that is the case,
il is none the less true that it has been most grey
ously sold by Gov. Walkers private secretary.