New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-02

State party Of Kansas and their compstrots out Of
Kan a., with having treated Gov. Walker in &
msnnet neither generous nor just Believing this
charge ur justified by facts, The TRIBUNE re-
sponded, asking The Times certain questions bear.
ing on the matter in dispute, which that paper de-
cnes TO answer or even to lay before ts readers,
though they cover but small space. Wesre COM
PEELED therefore to continue the discussion without
the advantage of having our grounds Of objection
| to Gov. Walkers course uDderstOod BY the readers
| of The Times. Let us restate them
Mr.. Walker was sent TO Kansas to replace Gov.
Geary, who had been virtually driven out Of the
Territory because be had indicated desire to
govern impartisly and $50 far as circumstances
would permit) treat the Free-S:ate men Justly.
Mr. Walker sienalized his advent BY Message or
manifesto which showed him, if not the cham pion
Of Slavery in Kansas at least the bitter adversary
Of these who had struggled so nsbIy and earnestly
to exclude it. In this Message, and the speeches
where~ith he saw fit TO favor the inhabi-
tsDts of rearly every populous settlement, he
denounced the Free-State movement as revOlu-
tionary, demanded implicit obedience to the bogus
laws imposed on Kansas by Border Rutfian in
vasion and fraud, and insisted that if Kansas nOud
be Free State she must be 90 on "isothermal"
grounds solely and in such manner as to indicate
conviction that Slavery is moral evil or to imply
sympathy with I" Black RepublicAnism In other
words, Gov. Walker insisted that Kansas if re-
solved to be Free State, must pass under the
yoke of her persistent oppressors and spoilers, pro-
claim herself ungIatefu and hostile to those who
had befrended ard nourished her in her dark hours
of peril and suffering, and consent to be dragged in
triumph behind the car of Sham Democracy. On
these terms and these only, Gov. Walker intimated
that she might be permitted to come into the Union
Free State, all the time UNFOLDING the authority
and mini,tsring to Ne designs Of those who had
by violence and fraud made her Slave Territory.
Can it be wonder that the Free-State men IN ear
nest-those who had struggled and suffered to secure
Kansas to Free Labor-regarded him o. an insidiOus
and dangerous enemy
The neglect of Gov. Walker to spportion the
Territory for the then pending Legislative Election
"a neglect which threw that important power into
the hands Of the most inscriptions Border Ruff
fans, and enabled them to secure majority 10 the
Territorial Legislature whenever they should have
third Of the popular vote-the foolish and I'M
justifable dragon raid on Lawrence, because her
people had unanimously resolved 10 constitute vol.
uptary Municipal GOvernment-the threats that the
bogus taxes should be collected at all hazsrds-the
open and active interference against the FreeStste
men in the late contest-the enormous and grossly
fraudulent vote polled at KickapOo under Walkers
own eye and by his own tngineering-al looked
one way. Gov. Walker knep that vote to be fraud
ulert-knew that Kckspoo could not honestly poll
half 80 many votes as Leavenworth City, and that
the votes poIed right under his nose were two.
thirds cast by actual residents not of Kansas, but
of Missouri. In all bis course since be entered
Kansas, down to and including bis conduct in tho
Election, the Free State men had found in Gov.
Walker consistent, able, subtle, indefatisable ad
versary. So finding him, they have 20 regarded,
treated and spoken of him. They have necessarily
inferred bis motives for the acts they could not
fathom from his behavior under circumstances
where the motive was unmistakable.
But at length he is called to ssnction and give
effect to q fraud 30 gross-we ailude Of course to
that peypetrated in connection with the pou at the
Oxford precinct in johnson County-that be could
not rdorse it without consgning his name to eter-
nal nfamy Illegal voting-vOtiTg by hundreds and
Thousands Of men who came in crowds from Mis-
souri, on puIpOse-the casting OF hundreds Of votes
BY dozens of illegal yoters-tkese are among the
" peculiar institutions of defrauded and enslaved
Kan as: but the election Of three Senators and
eight Representatives forming controlling ma
otity of both Houses, without even fraudulent
votes. BY the mere process Of writing sixteen hun
dred names down on supplementary pon.ist after
he polls had been closed, and not even regarding
appearances so far as TO make these imaginary
electors vote for Delegate to Congress or anything
else but Members of the Legslsture-the judges
Who return these bogus votes taking good care not
10 be sworn, and the names and votes being all en-
| tered in the same handwriting forms case
| too strong for the by no means delicate stomach
Of Robert ]. Walker, and be rejects it. We cannot
praise this act very hshy-for to have done other
wise would have been to subject himself to the
guilt Of perjury and the immortal companiOnship
Of Lecompte, Cato Sheriff Jones & CO.-but
we do most heartily approve it, as do al Free-State
men; and we could gladly have begun approving
Walkers acts months ago, if be had only given US
an opportunity.
That Gov. Walker, in rejecting the bogus votes
| at Oxford, was governed sOte!y By fear Of civil
war, 10 more than any Free State man has said
within our knowledge; that this wn one OF the
considerations weighing on bis mind, we have his
own authority for stating. And The Times is alike
mistaken in ,upposing that Gov. Walkers course
at Kclapoo during the lsse election is Paralesd