New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-27
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" meled expression Of opinion"
Now it must be clear as daylight to the most
obtuse understanding that the second OF these
propositions is in total and fragrant contradiction
Of the first; and that if the first is carried out, not
only does il render the second impossible, but VIII
be in itself an annihilation Of IT, The Territorial
laws as they exist-the entire bogus code from
beginning to ends but piece Of /" foreign inter.
ference" of the most outrageous character. The
Esprit" of that code from beginning to end Is
intrusive and Border .Rufian. To carry out those
laws according TO their spirit, will be to sustain
and aid the Shareholders of Platte County and the
adjacent parts Of Missouri in apprOpristing the
Territory Of Kansas to their own exclusive
use by driving Free-State settlers from 1t.
As to the letter. of their bogus code,
it contains quite number Of enactments as
to which it was confessed, during the late ses-
sion If Congress, by quite number of Admins
traton Senator's that they were entirely indetensi-
bic, hsr.b, unjust and oppressive if not, indeed,
unconstitutional. How absurd, therefore, for
programme which sets out with determination to
sustain and execute such code in the spirit and IN
the letter, TO wind up with talk of protection
against foreign interference, and the free expression
Of opinion As well might the highwayman, who
has just knocked YOU down and rified you of your
money undertake TO assure you of his protection
against being assaulted and robbed by somebody
else Bogus legislation has robbed the people of
Kansas Of their rights Under color of that legis
lation, bogus officials have been intrusted with
every public trust and the bogus laws are designed,
both in spirit and letter, to enable these ntruders
and usurpers TO maintain themselves in authority.
What nsolent mockery, then, to promise protec'
ton against foreign interference, in the same
breath in which the determination is declared to
uphold and sustain this atrOclOus usurpati0n Inc
receiver, according to every maxim OF morals Is not
one whit less guilty than the thief He who not only
barbcrs the thief but protects him in the enjoyment
ef his punder, and drives away with force and yo-
l,nce the owner who comes to reclaim his stolen
goods, is himself not only thief but robber; and
when he adds to this an harangue about his resou-
ton to maintain every in the possession OF MS
property, be will subject himself to the additional
ch.rge of being cheat and hypOcrite.
If the 1,-.t article of the programme of the new
government Of Kansas is correctly stated by The
Kansas HraH-and thas it is would seem to be
confirmed by the telegrophic report u 'ne speech
Of Mr. Stanton, delivered just after his ARRIVAL
that programme may as well stop there ToprOm'
se the people of Kansas protection against for
eign interference" at the same time that you tell
them that they must submit to the bogus laws 10
like slaye.trader on the African coast undertah-
ing TO reassure the unhappy cargo slowed away
in his hold, by protestations that he will protect
them against kidnappers at all hazards. These
bogus laws are the very foreign interference of
which the people of Kansas have so loudly com.
planned, and it is the attempt to enforce these laws
in "the spirit and letter" which lately involved
the Territory in all the horrors and caamities of
civil war. We could very much desire that Gov.
Walker may as The Kansas Herald promises,
manage 1.-The affairs Of the Territory not with
preference to the interests of one peculiar party,
"but for the mutual benefit of all the citizens of
Kansas" but to do that he must necessarily
abandon the enforcement Of the bogus code, which,
as eyerybody knows was enacted, or pretended 70
be enacted, not for the mutual benefit of all the
citizens of Kansas, but with reference to the inter-
ests Of one peculiar party and that a decided mi
uOrity of the inhabitants.