New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-21

nromnted well.weigbed decision Of those on the
ground, many of whom had passed through al
the trials and sufferngs Of the last two years who
treu thoroughly the nature Of the rule to which
Kansas is now subjected, and the probabilities OF
,nv fair election under il, and whose property,
lives and future depended on the correctness Of
their decision. IL it likely that they do not as well
understand their own position and its requirements
q. spy editor of The n. \. Tmes or h'odny ar
aus, T. probable that they have deliberately
resolved TO hazard-nay, to sacrlhce-sh ina. Is
precious in their eyes, merely to advance the 'or'
tun.s Of half dozen remote political aspranfs'
whom not one in twenty of them ever saw we
AK a oues,on which sensible men will know how
10 answer.
The Albany Atlas assails the Free-State party N
a long and harsh leader, of which the following
mistaken assertions are samples:
They the Free.Stste Government assumed to
dspossess the Governor Legislature and judiciary oil
the Territory Of all power.
The contributions in aid of bleeding Kansas,
collected during the campaign went To feed ana sus
tam the Topeka organization, its mock GOvernor ana
its train of self-styled officials They VINO we,s II,
paid to keep away from the polls TO abstain from all
participation in the elections and 10 let the actuai
Government uncontrolled assume its worst form aud
develop its most repugnant attributes
Now il is not only true that the Free-State Gov
ernment has never yet ~ assumed to supersede
the Territorial GOvernment-as the Dorr organza-
tion did the Charter Government in Rhode Island
and false that the contributions in aid Of bleeding
&" Kansas ," have been misapplied as charged-but
il is further true that election for Territorial
authorities has been held in KANSAS since the great
fraud and usupGtion Of March 30, 1855. Here are
the Free-State men roundly charged with abstain
ing" and keeping way"-nay with being pad
Ia do so-from elections which have never been
held nor even ordered The Border Ruffians have
twice gone through the farce of electing Whitfield
to Congress, but they have held no election for
legislators since their original swlndle, and none at
all for County officers. The Sherifs, Judges
of Probate, County Commissioners &c,
who now administer what passes for
Justice" in Kansas, are the direct crea
tures and beneficiaries of the original BOrder-R
fan fraud, appointed by its Legislature; and that
same Legislature has just held second session and
called the Constitutional Convention which In,
itlas so denounces the Free-State men for purpos-
inc 70 LET alone The actual Government so Tar
a. il originated in Kansas, is that originated by the
election Of March 80 1885, at which l,3l0 legal
and 4,96S illegal votes were cast in ALL while the
whole number Of legal voters in the Territory was
2.s92 See Investigating Committees Report
No chance has since been afforded the Free-Stste
men by the authorities thus constituted to vote for
Legislature or County officers. They are under
the government of those thus elected at polls where
Judges of election who refused the votes of armed
regiments direct from Missouri were allowed five
minutes in which 10 choose between resignation
and death, and in which the substitute judges thus
installed at the point Of the bowie-knife took the
votes of their Missouri comrades without being
sworn themselves or administering oaths to the
voters.
The atlas, after heaping all manner of false aud
opprobrous accusations on those who have simply
acquesced in the decision Of the Free-State people
of Kansas-accusng them oftrying to make Kansas
a Slave State, &c.-proceeds to assert that
"There will be fair field in Kansas for every man
To vote in the choice OF delegates To form the Consti
tuition. There will be- fair chance to vote on the
approval OF rejection OF that instrument wnen
formed &c.
Now the act calling this Convention passed over
Gov. Gearys veto, does not even promise that all
citizens Of Kansas may vote, but only those who
we're such on the 18th of March Not half the
actual FreeState residents in June next (when the
election is to be heidi will be entitled to vote under
this rule But even of those who would seem en-
titled to vote no more can vote than the present
Pro.Slarery officials, the creatures of the bogus
Legislature shall seet toinscribe on their registry
The voters are not invited to prOer themselves for
registration: the census-takers are to find them
and place their names on the list. The time for
completing that registration has expired, and Is
notorious throughout Kansas that not half the
Free-State men have been registered while thou
sands who still reside in Missouri have been. Yet
The Atlas assures "a fair field in Kansas for every
sman TO vote" and Z" fair chance 10 'yote on
1.-The approval or rejection ofthe Constitution when
formed though the bogus Legislature refused to
protfer any chance OF any vote at all, even after
Gov. Geary had vetoed their bill expressly because
it did not Need We say more ?
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The Peoples College, so long mere project, is
at length within sight of realization. 1t has been
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