New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-16

being occupied is not brilliant
The most pungent commentary on the Wanted
principle or doctrine of Popular Sovereignty" in
the Territories-whch was so recently commanded
as cure for Slavery agitation and all kindred il,-
is the buzz of expectation and anxiety which msrls
the appointment, outset, and investiture, success.
sively Of each Federal Executive Of Kansas. Ba
il Reeder or Shannon, Geary or Woodson, Stantox
or Walker all ears are opened 10 catch the first in
timations, however oracular, of his views and con.
templated policy; his table Oratory, however fogy,
on taking leave of his old friends, is reported and
commented on; his entering the Territory by one
route another is speculated about and his string
of gracious promises Though the ortyninth IN or.
der, the preceding forty.eight having been cooly
repudisted) to secure to the People of Kansas q
fair and free vote the question of Slavery or No
Slavery, is hailed utterance of more than i'm
perial grace and condeseensiOn, and as disspating
all danger of further trouble in Kansas, and
dispellng all anxiety as TO her fate.
All this is the thnnest moonshine. Popular
Sovereignty" in Territory without inhabitants is
a fraud and snare not so in one which has at
least Fifty Thousand citizens, half of them able
bodied, intelligent freemen.
Kansas will be Free State: not because Stan
ton, or Walker, or anybody else, promises her
people fair vote on the Slavery Question, but be-
cause she has now very considerable aud daily
increasing population, at least three-fourths Of
whom are fully resolved that their State shall be
Free. That resolution may be transiently over
borne BY Border -Ruflian fraud backed by Federal
bayonets, but this can exert permanent influence
over the destines of that young Commonwealth.
A Slave Constitution may be nomnally imposed
on her by the bogus Convention soon to be chosen;
but this will make her in no practical sense Slave
State She will soon shake off the load, as SAM
son liberated himself from the green withes Of tho
Philistnes and will only be the more earnestly
and positively Free State because of the impo-
sitiOn.
If the Federal Administration would just with
draw its satraps and its soldiery from Kansas, and
let her people enjoy the blessings OF real Squatter
Sovereignty, there would be no more difficulty
there, or at the worst it could not last week.
The Free-State men will joyfully dispense with it's
protection if they may thereby be shielded from
its expressions. The bogus Legislature with its
paraphernalia of Sherifs, County Commissioners,
Judges of Probate Election officers, tax-collectors
&c, would find it convenient to adjourn over into
Missouri before month, unless they preferred
to subside into private life and let the people Of
Kansas manage their own affairs. If trouble shall
henceforth occur in Kansas, its responsible source
A l.. Al ku
uphoding fraud so atrocious and glaring as tho
bogus Legislature and its minions, is continually
fomentDg strife and heart-burniBg there. BY
simply getting out Of the way, and agreeing to keep
out, the Federal power can make Kansas as per-
sstently quiet az Nebraska from and after the 9th
of June which is the day appointed for the re-
assembling the Free-State Legislature.
We have ceased to attach any Importance to the
rumors successfully trumpeted or whispered as to
what Gov. Walker means to do in Kansas, since Wa
feel sure that there is one thing he cannot do-hat
is to make her really and endurngly Slave State.
We do not believe that either he or is master do
sires to do this; but the whole concern is so com
pcated with aud indebted to the Slave Power, that
it must seem to look that way Having stood by
the missouri usurpdtlOn III hdnsds III ofucT 10
secure the votes of the Slave States last November,
consistency, interest and gratitude conspre to fix
the Executive in that position; but Mr. Buchanan
must know that to make Kansas Slave State, in
view of the notorious and emphatic repugnsnce Of
her People, would be to Oyerwhelm in all the Free
States the party that lifted him to power. We arc
not frightened therefore, by the cry that the failure
Of the FreeState men to vote at the bogus election
will consign Kansas to Slavery; for we know bet
ter. Let the StrDgfellows choose their Convention
and frame Slave Constitution if they will they
dare not submit such Constitution 20 fair vote
of the whole People; and Congress will not ven'
ture TO give effect to il without. There is no need,
then, Of the Free-State men abasing themselves 70
pass under the Border -Ruiian yoke; they need
fear no threat and consent to no compromise. IL
the next Democratic Congress chooses to patcb up
new Compromise, admitting new slave o'a'"
which shall have been fabricated somewhere as an
Offset 10 Free Kansas it can do 80; but the Free
State men have no compromise to offer and no
favor to ask. They have simply TO stand firmly
but ouety by the right, and that right will as
suredly prevail
Gross injustice has been done to the police and
the prosecution in charging both with neglect 10