New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-03

Missouri, 10 prevent the holding OF + ree'osste
meeting at Atchisop at which General Lane was
to speak, affords very alarming evidence that the
day Of Missouri irvasions is not over The appor.
tionment of the new Territorial Legislature soon to
be elected has been made, readers are aware,
with special view to invite such invasions on
election day. The whole arrangement of the dis
trcts has been made not with regard in the slight
est degree to the convenience or rights of the resi-
Dent voters, but entirely with view to the con-
venience Of the bogus Border RuIian intrusive
voters exported from Missouri. Voltaire de-
scribtd the Prussia of his day as pair Of garters
stretching across the map Of Europe. The Border
Rufian officers of tie late bogus Territorial Leg
islature. TO whom Walker handed over the
duty which that bogus Legislature had assigned to
him Of distrcting the Territory, have outdone
Voltare's description of Prussia. BY most extra
ordinary system of gerrymanderUg they have d.
vided the Territory into series of districts each
of which may be described a. a single garter
stretching across the map of Kansas. The Legls-
lature is composed of fifty two members, thirteen
in the Council aud thirty.nine in the House, of
whom fOrty-seye are to be chosen by these garter
shaped districts, having one end of the garter
bucked On to Missouri, evidently, as We have al
ready stated, for the facility and convenience Of
Border Ruffisn voting. Douglas County, in which
Lawrence is situated is attached to johnson
County, which touches the Missouri line, and
after skipping over two counties, distance of
some forty miles, which contain too many
Free State men, this Lawrence District goes
stretching off westward to the summit of the
Rocky Mountains. Beside the direct invitation
thus held out to intrusive voters whose convenience
has alone been consulted in the appOrtiOnment,
all sorts Of impediments- notwithstanding Walkers
famous promises about securing the right to vote
TO the whole people of Kansas-have been placed,
and daily being placed in the way of the Free
Soil men. In spite of Walkers declaration that
all TT sidents should be allowed to vOte-not merely
those in Kansas when the promise was made, but
those who might come in before the electon-it is
now proposed to restrict the right of suffrage to
those v no have been residents for six months thus
excluding all the numerous Free State immigrants
of the present season. Not only that but it is set
up that none can vote who have not paid the bogus
tax. 1t is true, that this latter Interpretation Of
the law promulgated by Judge Cato, and indorsed
by the Lecompton Grand Jury, is received BY
Walker with some afectatiOn of opposition. That
is natural enough, since it is directly contrary to
his own Interpretation of the bogus Convention act
at time when he was struggling to induce
the Free. State men to take part in the
election of that bogus body. But as Walker has
been frightened by the freeaters Of the South into
eating bis Topeka speech and falling il with the
requirement of q six months residence, no doubt
he will be induced by similar process to do the
same thing with his Interpretation of the election
law. Whether he does or Lot is matter Of
little consequence. The only power which Walker
had over the election was in the very important
duty assigned him of making an apportionment.
Had he seen fit to exercise that power, he might
have contributed in no small degree toward fair
representation Of the people Of Kansas. Having
passed over that apportionment into Border. Ruian
hands, be has ceased to have any longer any inhu-
ence over the election How the election law
shall be Interpreted, and who shall be allowed to
vote, depends not in the least spon him, but ex-
clusvely upon the bogus election officers, with
whose appointment he has nothing to do.
In TIE mean time the Free State men on the ques.
tion Of taking part in this Territorial election are
placed in a very awkward dilemma At one time
it seems to have been pretty generally resolved TO
taB part in it; but this while the general ex.
probation Of toerably fair apportonment, and the
belief to certain extent in Walkers promises to
secure to every resident the right of voting seemed
to Put the election in their power. Now, when 80
many obstacles are placed in tie way of voting by
Free.Stare men, and with the arrangement of the
districts Offering such conyenences fer intrusive
voting, fear lest they may be cheated and over.
powered has shaken the inclination Of many to take
part in the election.
1t is diff ,ut for Us at this distance to give advice,
aid We have seldom attempted it; but it certainly
seems TO US that in this matter the Free-State
men ought to stick together Nothing is go essential
TO them as union. 1t has been the policy Of Walker
ever since his arrival in the Territory to divide
them in order TO destroy them. They ought not
Themselves by internal d'sentiOns to assist the
Governor in carrying out tbs artful scheme. If
tie nsjority Of the Free-State men entertain the
opinion in behalf Of which It must be admitted
that very plausible argument may be made, that
the best thing they oan do under the circumstances
the best ansne r they can make to the clamor raised
against tktm as unreasonable and impractcable, is
to vote at the Territorial election, in that case we
thiLk tie minority ought not to hold back-how.
ever strong the argument may seem to them
again,t lot vOting-but that they ought, in this,
to submit to the decision Of the majority. Ifthey
carry the election. well and good if they are de-
fested by fraudulent exclusions AID intrusive yoes
We do not see that they vii be airy worse Of