New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-04

marked tbem. and then in mos. instances, Withdrew
to tie States from which they hsd come 20 -e'i 'nen
new ACQUISITIONS or TO return and resume taem ss cur
.houh render ore course or the other eA
tedient They left armed men IN me Iernto,y -
keep watch and yuard, and TO Summon eIe'nH nn'
either IN vote or 70 6gh should De found neceesy
They fortified by the favor OF me Aa'h1 1Sau,
tor and assumed to act with ts authority lntoteranI
Of debate and defiant, they hurried on the eecIons
which were TO be so perverted that an usurPa'on
should be estabhzAed. They rang out their summon.
when the appointed time came, and armed oan,' =.
Of partissns. from States near and remote, IN
vaded and entered the Territory with pan,
ners, ammunition, provsiols and forage; anu
encsmped around the poll They seized the
ballot boxes replaced the Judges OF hiecuons VIZ
partisans of their own drove away their opponents,
filed the boxes with az many votes az the eAisencies
demanded and leaving the results to be returned oy
reliable hands they marched back again 10 ther as
tant homes TO celebrate the conquest ana ehu ~ nc
prospect of the establishment OF Slavery upon tne
soil 80 long consecrsted 10 Freedom. mus IN sn-
gle day they became parents Of state Wlthovt anec
tion for II. and chidless again without bereavement.
In this first hour Of trial the new system OF roPuri
Soyerepnty .ignslly faled-failed because II Is I'M
possible 10 organize by one single act, IN one day,
community perfectly free, perfectly sovereign ana per
fectly constituted out Of elements unas imlsted Ih
arranged and pncomPessd Free So visoTv ~
itself by fraud and violence Instead oil tree Repuo-
hcan Government in the Territory, such as fopuiar
Sovereignty had prom sed there was then and thence
forth hateful usurpation THIS nsurpation
without delay and without compuncton to disran.
chise the people. II transferred the Slave Code OF
Missouri TO Kansas, without stopping IN all csses 20
substitute the of the new Territory for ths OF
the old State. 1t practically suspended popular elec
tions for three yearsthe usurpng Legislature assign
ing that term for its own members, wiillc
committed all subordinate trusts to agents ap
pointed by itself. IL barred the Courts ana the
Juries to its adversaries by test oahs, and made
crime to think what one pleased, and to write ana
print what thought. IL borrowed all the ergihtL!
Of tyranny but the torture, from the Practce OF Tue
Stuars The party Free Labor appealed to the Gov
ernor lReeder to correct the false election returns
He inervered but Intellectually and yet even for ha'
Intervention was denounced by the Administration or
gans, and, after long and unacceptable explanations,
he was removed from office by the president. lne
new Governor (Shannon) sustained for a while the
usurpaton but failed to effect the subjugaton OF the
people although he organized is militia an armed
partisan band of adveDturers who had iptruded them
selves into the Territory to force Slavery upon the
people. With the active cooperation ot this Dand the
party Of Slave Labor disarmed the Free state elni-
grants who had now learned the necessity of beng
prepared for sedefense, the borders OF the Tern.
tory and on the distant roads and rivers which led
into it. They destroyed bridge that Free-Labor
men used in their way to the seat OF Government,
sacked a hotel where they lodged, and broke up and
cast irto the river a press which was the organ OF
their cause.
The people of Kansas, thus deprived not merely Of
sefgovernrneni but even of peace, tranquility, ard
security. fell back on the inaienahle revolutionary
right of voluntary reorganization. Ihey deterineo'
however with admirable temper, judgment, and 10y
atty to conduct their proceedings for ths purpose IN
reference and subordinaton to the authority OF the
Federal Union, and according to the line OF safe
prece dents. 80
After due elections open TO all the inhabitants of the
Territory they organized Professionally a State Gov
ernment at Topeka and by the hands OF PROVISIONAL
Senator and provisional representatives. they suo-
mtted their Constitution to Congress, and prayed to
be admitted Free State into the Federal Union.
The Federal authorities lent no aid to this movement,
but on the contrary, the President and Senate con-
tempuOusy rejected il, and denounced it as treason,
and all its actors and abettors dsoya to the Union
An army dispatched into the Territory, intended
ind ed TO preserve peace but at the same me 10 OBEY
and sustan the usurpation. The provisional Leglsla-
ture which had met TO confer, and to adopt further
means urge the prayers of the people upon Congress-
were dispersed by the Army, and the State officers
Professionally elected, who had committed no crminsl
act were arrested, indicted and held in the Federal
camp az State prisoners Nevertheless, the people OF
Kansas did not acQuesee. The usurpation renamed
barren authority defed, derded and despised.
A national election WAS now approaching. Excite
ment within, and sympatheS without the Territory,
must be allaye ed. Gov. Shannon was removed, and
Nx Ceary was appointed his successor. He exacted
submission to the statutes of the usurpatlon, but
promised equality in their administration. de IN
duced repeal of some OF those statutes whlch
were most obviously unconstitutional, and de-
clared an amnesty for political ohenses. lie per-
suaded the Legislature of the usurpatlon TO ordan
call for Convention at Lecempton, to form Constr
ution if the measure should be approved by popu-
ar vote at election to be held for that purpose 10
vote al such election to recognize and tolerate
the usurp stion, well to submit 70 disranchslng
laws anc TO hazard renewal of the frauds and vlo
lence by which the usurpation had been established.
On no account would the Legislature agree thht the
projected Constitution should be submitted to the
people after it should have been perfected by the
Convention. The refusal of this just measure, so
necessary TO the public security IN case OF surprise
and fraud was a confession OF the purpose on the
pf tha urpat In
effect by surprise and fraud The Governor insisted
on this provision, and demanded OF the President OF
the United States the removal of partial and tyrsn-
nical Judge He failed TO gain either measure, and
incurred the displeasure of the usurpaton by seeking
them He fed from the Territory The Free-State
party stood aoof from the polls and canvass showed
that 1900 less than third OF the people of the
Territory, had sanctioned the call Of a Convention,
while the presence of the army alone held the Terri
tory under forced truce.
At this juncture, the new Federal Administration
came in under President who had obtained success
by the Intervention at the polls of third party-sn
ephenera organization, built upon foreign and frvO-
lous issue, which had just strength enough and life
enough to give to Slavery party the aid required
to produce that untoward result. The President,
under a show of moderation, masked more efectual
intervention than that of his predecessor in favor OF
Save-Labor and Slave State Before coming into
office, he approached or approached by the Su-
prene Court of the United States. On their docket
was through some chance design an action which
an obscure negro man in Missouri had brought for his
freedom sgainst his reputed master The Court
had arrived at the conclusion, ON solemn argument,
that insOmuch as this unfortunate negro had,
through some ignorance or chcsne in special plead.
ing, admitted what could not have been proved,
that he had descended from some African who had
once been held in bondage; that therefore he wac
not, in view Of the Constitution, q citizen of
the United States and therefore could not impead the
reputed master in the Federal courts; and this
ground the Supreme Court prepared TO dismiss
the action for want of Jurisdiction the suitors
person. This decision, certainly repugnsnt TO the
Declaration Of Independence and to the spr, OF the
Constitution to the instincts of humanity neverthe
less would be one which would exhaust ali the power