New-York daily tribune., 1857-09-28

New York be counted after November next3
Gov. Walkers manifesto Of FIVE or six columns,
recently Issued on the subject of the Kansas Octo-
ber election, has two objects-frst, to eIculpate
himself from any responsibility for the fraudulent
appOrticnment and the restrictions on the right of
voting, by means of which il is intended to proOng
the existing Pro-Sayery usurpstOn; and second,
to contribute what he can to give some color Of
legality and popular support to that usurpaton BY
which Kansas for the last three years, has been
trodden under foot and will be for three years 70
come, if Gov Walker can have his way. Mr.
Walker has issued proclamation pretending to Ia
ment the outrages which are about to be perpe-
trsted, in part through his own non-perfOrmance Of
q duty imposed upon him, with the evident intent
of alleging hereafter those crocodile tears Of his
as sufficient reason Why the Free. State majority
of the people of Kansas should again consent to be
robbed and cheated out of their rights, and should
be compelled by Walker himself to submit to
usurpatOn effected by means which beforehand even
he does not pretend to justify.
But iesuitical as the whole document is, that part
of it near the close in which he pOurs out his in
diguation and bis threats against the people of
Lawrence, forms climax well worthy of the
author.
Walker went to Kansas for the express pur
pose of uphOlding usurpation imposed upon the
people of that Territory by invasive voters from
Missouri. The very proc amaton 10 which we
now refer contains repeated admissions that for
three years past Kansas has been the seat of vio-
lence and war, to prevent, as Is pretended the rep
eti,on of which, Walker announces his intention of
trying new experiment in democracy-that OF
surrounding the voting places with bodies of armed
troops to act as be expresses it, as posse comta-
tus to the Judges of the Election; that Is, to pro-
tect them in any outrage they may choose to COM
nit in the way of excluding qualified voters or ad-
nittpg those not qualified. While thus actively
engaged in forcing upon Kansas laws and magls-
trstes imposed upon the majority by foreign In
ysders, and only upheld and sustained, as be him
self ccnfesses, by the presence of large military
force in the Territory, he yet has the face to
charge it upon the people Of Lawrence that in the
Absence of any authority which they recognized,
they dared to organize a local government for
the unanimt us vote of the resident inhabitants.
Not one word of censure has Mr. Walker to spare for
the intrusive rufans who three years ago seized upon
the Government of Kansas, and who by force and
violence have maintained that seizure ever since.
So far from any censure upon such proceedings, Mr.
Walker regards the laws thus forced upon the Ter
ritory as binding, and the Government thus estab-
I'D. IA.
reserved for the rebelliOus presumption of those
wko instead of setting up City Government
based on charter granted by these intrusive aud
u.urpipg legislators, have chosen rather to derive
their authority from unanimous vote of the people
themselves. This, it seems, in Walkers view, is
ibsurrecton, revolution, treason That the present
usurpation in Kansas has support in the resident
population, that it is wholly sustained by military
force. Walker himself in bis denunciation of the
Lawrence people, and his justification for quarter
ing troops upon them, fully admits. If the Law
renee organization had not at once been put stop
TO by the dragons quartered upon that city, 1T is
now clear" 50 he states, that similar insurrec-
{. tiepary governments, based on my bis supposed
% acouiescepce would have been organized through
cont Kansas" The Missouri usurpation was 30 weak
and helpless, and so utterly without support from
the people Of the Territory, that it would have
been quietly Sc. aside by local organization bad not
Wslker with bis troops interfered to prevent IT,
And vet while making this confession, Walker
affects to e1ult over the failure OF this movement
70 be adopted elsew here than at Lawrence as
tbousb that had been voluntary thing on the part oil
Of the people of those localities instead beng
upon them by the military movements and thre's
Of arrest for treason, for which Walker takes TO
himself go much credit. Sefgovernment IN ksn-
,as is to be suppressed at all hazards. Mun'cipa'
Organizations having DO other basis than the con
sent tf the governed must be put down BY military
force. Gov Walkers sworn duty, as chief masis-
trste, reqeires that. If the people OF Lawrence
wish tobave ste pleasure of setting up government
let them, some election day, well armed snd
equipped make 81 invasion into Missouri, take pos
session Of the polls at Weston or st Joseph, con-
Pei the election ofcers to resign, choose others IN
'neT places and then proceed by their own votes
I" elect whom they plesse TO Office. The govern
uent so constituted might rely. we suppose, upon