New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-30

tons and frauds involved in the passage If tbs
Kansas. Nebrs,ka bill However that may be-, one
thing at least is certain that no man has accepted
Office under that bin who has not speedily fouad
himself the victim Of delusions highly injatious
frcm the fret to the people Of Kausas, AID sooner
or after fatal to himself. This was true even OF
Rcder man Of superior abilities and sagaciry far
sboye the standard to which Piercs's Atninstra-
t,n generally conformed itself in appointments to
cffice, whether ut home OF abroad. Yet, even he
became, frcm the very beginning Of his administra-
ticn, the victim Of delusions by which first the
people Of the Territory, and soon after ne
himself were sufferers. In one respect indeed,
the delueon Of which Rsedcr was the victim was
quite different from that Of his successors. Being
himself an honest man, be naturally fell into the
bIunder Of suppcsng that the Kansas Nebraska ACT
meant what il said and that it WAS really intonded
10 allow the institutions Of the Territory to be de-
cided by the voice aud vote OF the sette's-s de-
ln.on, il must be confessed into which none OF his
successors have fallen. Under the influence Of this
fal,ebood. Reeder suffered himself to be used to
considerable extent, in the earlier part of his ad-
ministration, as catspsw in the hands OF the
Slavery propsgandists-to be used even as an in
strumeDt for fixing upon the back Of himself and
the Territory, in the shape Of Border Ruffian
legislature an insoleut intrusion and usnrpatlon
which he afterward in vain endeavored to shake off,
aid which soon thrOttled him and rode the Terri
tory without mercy.
Governor Reeder being thus first deluded AID
Il IN vctimized, next stepped in Governor Shan
non. The particular deluson into wbcl he fell
and which he did HE best to ditfuse through the
country, was, that the Free-State settlers of Kan
sas, aided by o conspiracy ramitcd throughout the
Northern States in the shape Of Emgraut Aid
Societes were determined, not merely to defend
themselves against new attacks, but to retort the
force and violence Of which they rad been the vic.
time: not merely to decline obedience to the bogus
aws but TO resist the process ofthe Territorial Courts
organzed under the act Of Congress. 1t was under
the Influence Of this deception, which, by his pro-
CARNATIONS and correspondence with the authorities
at Warrington, Sbsnnon did his best to propsgst",
that he set Oh foot the civil war which begaa with
the sack and pluDder Of Lawrence, which soou led
10 srmed collisions all over the Territory, aud
which resulted in SbanDon's removal, eaviog the
Government in the hands of Secretary WOpdson.
No sooner had this person become acting Gov
ernor than be- too forthwith went mad like the rest.
His case, indeed, took ON a far more violent, I'M
gOverDable and alarming character thaa that of
either of his predecessors, The deusiOn under
which he labOred, and under the impulse Of which
be issued proclamation after proclamation aud order
after order was that large Northern aud Eastern
army, embodied under Gen. Lane, was on the
march into the Territory via Iowa, armed to the
throat and vOwng the determination. or at least the
expulsion from the Territory, Of every Pro-Slavery
man in il. Under the influence of this absurd delu-
sion, which he succeeded in communicating to the
officers Of the United States troop, ID Kansas-whO
came, however, to the judicious conclusion that
attempt to resist such countless army Of invaders
he called in from Missouri several thousand Border
Ruians to act as Kansas militia; and, having thus
succeeded in driving the Free State meu to the ne
cessity of self defense again kin6led up the civil
war, which had never entirely subsded since Shsn-
non commenced il, to higher pitch than ever.
But IA it soon turned out that the Free State meu
were amply able to defend Themselves, not only
against the Border Ruffians resident 10 the Terri
tory, but against all the volunteers that could be
brought in from Missouri, Woodson was speedily
superseded, and Geary was sent to Kansas with
orders to keep the peace.
Geary being, lhe his predecessor Reeder, too con-
fding and honest fell at once into the drluson that
as Governor Of Kansas, he was somebody aud had
something to say in the management Of its affairs.
SO long as he paid all the expenses OF his admins.
tration out Of his own pocket and kept ny in this
way a force of Territorial militia tO execute his
orders things went On famousy but when it came to
getting Lecompte removed, and authority to employ
the troops ofthe United States, Grary found himself
sold, and sent in bis resignation.
We come now to Mr.. Walker, the present
incumbent. He, too, az the hit weather comes
on, begins to give unmistakable evidence Of
being affected with that epideni, insanity which
has proved fatal to all bis predecessors. He
does not foam at the mouth-at least that is not
mentioned in the accounts from Kansas, unless,
indeed, swearing fearfully is to be set down as
falling under that category; but still he gives IN
equivOcal symptoms Of the Kan.as disorder and
that in very violent and rabid degree by hastily,
and without notice, marching large body of troops
on Lawrence, and issuing proclamation amounting
in substance to threat to put the town under mar
tia law, and to hang the principal inhabitants for
treason.
We have no doubt that this unfortunate outbreak
on the part Of the Governor will BE- attended BY
ust Al fatal 10 bielf ma ware similar