New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-04

here as they are lis great triumph OF principle
What "priLcipe" thus trumphs Id their suaerings
al degradation il not so clear 10 your corresPlnd-
en-. il is certainly none connected with The Free
State cause.
Up TO this time the prisoners have been led To
eIpec. direc. parion from the Governor. The
day tina. vas surely 70 finish the term OF their cap
tlvity was fixed but that has passed, and now the
Governor either shrlnks from the responsibility, or
has deceived them. The latest promise that las
t.kltd the ears of these hopeful ones runs IN this
wise: A Mild PrO-Savery man. who i Cieary
nan, is TO lobby in the Bogus Legislature, and try
to get tie members of that august body to sign q
memorial requesting the prisoners De sent 81 "a
nuisance. If this could be done the Governor
would pardon them. l scarcely know whether 70
pity the Governor or the prisoners most AL my
sympathy i. certainly with the prisoners. Does the
Governor for an instant imagine that the Territorial
Legislature of Kansas. eXcI,abie and rdicuIousIy
rash though they are. will ever take such sep,
even IN contemptuous rory
The Governor trembes before the Bogus Legs
laiure. fear all his resolves or promises agaAs.
their course vii mel; away. | cannot SAFE It
positively. but | believe, and not without reason,
that Instructions have been received from Washing
ton limiting 10 the Governor that he had gone lar
enough. DO know that some OF the Fro Slavery
men have been making efforts 20 procure MS re-
ROval; but they will not come ~ direct issue
with him, as they sui think he viii answer their
purposes at a pinch.
he Legi-lsture has been given mp almost ex-
clusiyely 10 charters, &c, yesterday and today.
We have heretofore had bogus laws bogus coua-
ties aud bogus officers; now We are 10 have bogus
banks, bogus railroads. bogus towns and bogus as
socia,icns generally. think tina, our sapent Ly-
curguses labor under the deuslon that railroad
consists of charter and that bank capital flows a.
a Necessary sequence of - he lt enacted Win
them number one" i the first liw OF nature and
in granting themselves special privileges they, no
doubt. feel that charity begins At home
shall note these arces Of special legislation more
fully as they mature.
The bills now pending, and the steps that are
beirg taken 10 secure the payment OF the Ierrlto-
rial tax are Of character 10 Justify alarm. FOrt-
fed in their present post on, as the Bogus Legsli-
ture are with strong Executive behind them VINO
is bound to see item safely through, II Is lmPoss-
bic not TO regard the future dark \ Terrific
rial tax is always particularly obnoxious, and in
this Territory. in It's best phases, would be ex.
uemely so. 1t would be bad enough u be- taxed
without representation, if the money thus obtained
were Ia be- applied for the Legitimate public wants
Of the people but TO build cyurt-h0usrs for bogus
counties in bogus county seats chat are private
sptculaOns OF the people tyrants), To make roads
10 tie same aud leave themse>e - without roads, 10
feed and sustain horde of usurping officers thtu,t
on them these ill make it hard Still more bitter
will It be to provide means To build jails and to
bus ANONYMOUS chains and balls for their oppressed
friends.
For a people thus to yield their substance 10
strengthen their oppressors and ryet their own
chains will be hard. TwO-thirds OF the citizens OF
Kansas would say to day that it cannot, and It shaH
not be done. Alas, bogus authority IL stronger man
il was last Summer, or even mouth ago. rec
dom may groaD, but will she not have 10 yield 1t
NOT. bow are We 10 read the future How are these
to he eyaded Hoo all these usurPations broken
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