New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-16

2, dsy who have been made rch % zee sfsi 9!
Kapess The Federal army has driTen the rep-e-
s.ntatives Of the people ir0-o tse nan "se'e NY
assembled 10 devise means 70 get il'p l1e Onoh a.
Free S.ate-have driven them thence A. -he 'in.
of the baysnet. Those who dared Inainta.D 'he
peoples cause have been enhei nurders.'
aned. or hunted Ike beasts of prey. Frauds the
most s.upendous and ta'efaced lave made re eet,'
i9e franchise & farce When fourteen men marched
around house until they po.led sx tund'ed votes,
or hen some scoundrel wrote out pol il, from
Cincinnati Directors. the word la1g1ol; the N
tense absurdty Of the thing covered the lac, bat
the most powerful GOvernmen, n tie world stopped
% alliance with such crimes. Ihe rote has beer
plaved out, aDd the General Government and The
OIgarchy rise from the game o.ers, 40, only oi al
A. issue but in reputation, II hey ever Lad any.
Nor has the occasional modification of this cruel
nocv ever indicated the slightest disposition 70 re-
rro,,,s, i. In the Summer Of 1856. when Gaarv
came 70 Kansas, there Was some change. What
uas the reason of il Civil war had RACED all Sum
mer. The Free. State settlers, g0aded beyond en-
durance came at lat - that point TO which an IN
tellpent people reluctantly come, that strong arms
must meet the violence from which they suffered.
That the hour Of revolution even, If revolution Il
must be. had come. and rising with al nndaun.ed
and fresbened faith in that glorious RepubEcanism
which decrees that the people shall rule, and not
tyrants, who do not sympathse with them, and
whom they have not chosen, they prepared 70 re-
new that confession Of faith the patriots of "'16'
had given TO the world, and seal il with the baptism
of blood. Such power is inyIncble. The ruffian
cohorts met defeat at every step The ruffan OF
Missouri cried 10 the ruian at Washn st0n in cow
ard bitterness, Help me- Cassius, or / sink
But the torch then blazed too fercely TO be Jrigh
ened out. The nation rocked on the very verge of
civil war. A Federal war the Free-State men of
Kansas would haveI shattered the column Of Federal
power. Geary came not TO do justice, but TO quiet
the Storm We can fancy his real instructions from
the result. For Heavens sake get these people
"to desist but just give them as little as can pos
" sibly accomplish that object. The people got
nothing but promises, but they agreed to wait.
50 has it been at every stage of the game.
There was no sincere official repentance.
No abandonment of the crime against Kansas.
But Iuin followed every step of that crime. The
President and the National Democracy had the
temerity to try TO force through LecOmptOn, even
after the runOus blow Of the October election; but
a few men who remembered they had a constituency,
or who foresaw that such an act would merely bring
matters to the point where Geary took them up in
lc56, refused TO 90 into such a scrape Failing in
violence, the indeiatieable Administration tried to
accomplish the work of It's Southern allies by trick
cry. Hence the English b !. It's agents and organs
tired to sbiyer the powerful Free State party OF
Kansas to fragments. A scheme to enlist power
full faction from among the Free. State men into a
vague hope that they might get the State offices and
patronage under it, was hoped TO make successful
division, but fast as any man fool enough to
stand before the people and defend anything of the
kind, he was swept to political tomb, or employed
bis expiring moments in getting up solemn recant-
alton. Land grants, threats to sell the squatters
land threats to keep Kansas out OF the Union,
all these corrupt adjuncts it was hoped would
accomplish something. The falacy of such
hope was fortseen. As last card, Calhoun
was induced to play out the certificates to
90 into the Union with the LecomptOn COnstitu-
" tion and change IT," said the tempter. There
might have been a few unscrupulous, aspiring men
in the Free-State party who would have liked to
do this, but it was perfectly hopeless. They might
as well have blown against hurricane. But lew
were tempted to try an experiment, the stupidity OF
which had already been demonstrated. To carry it
altogether by fraud Missourisns with the present
population of the Territory, was clearly impractical
bic. And so the ''great crime" fOundered and
went to the bottom, overwhelmed with the shame
of its own littleness. 1t had not grace in its ex-
pIing agony to retract or repent but died, saying
sullenly, "Savery, or vassalage." But the hopes
of Slavery have pershed in Kansas. " The world
goes round VET"
/ would not insult the Judgment of Southern
statesmen by supposng that they canno. learn
lesson from this They rashly entered this contest.
They threw down their glove insoent'y and defiant
y and turned deaf ear TO the prayers OF those who
wanted to let the matters rest. When the Nebras-
ka bill passed the Senate some Of them may remen-
Der the language of great statesman that then fell
idly on their ears: Come on, then, gentlemen of
1.-The Slave States; since there is no escaping your
challenge, accept ii in behalf of Freedom. We
evil engage in competition for the virgin soil of
Kansas, and God give the victory to the side that
"a strongest in numbers, as il is in right" The
above language Of Wm. II. Seward was more than
lifting the cartel; il was prophecy. Every sylla-
BILE of pointed to the result that stands before the
world to-day. a small Territory has had TO main
tain fearful struggle for four years with the Slave
Power, and al the power of our Government at Its
back. The contest is over, and the Southern
Hotspurs lie inglorousy on their shiyered lances
and broken shields Can they comprehend il
VIII they learn that there Is God of Justice
and Humanity Can they never be taught that by
uniting their fortunes to the decaying curse Of
Slavery they invite sure decadence aud defeat
Let them return to the doctrines Of the fathers of
our Government, that Freedom is national, and
escape the sure punishment that i. inevitably meas
ured to individual or political crime.