New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-16
KANSAS.
THE VICTORY.
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yespft 10 Q most eioriOus one. ffS-1-''0'' rf
saoSisu in Kansas d,d 70. die OF dow c'h'-"9
Ton, With hacking cough q pE5y prsss s'o'c', -
VIE b1ried beneath az sysl7cse. heA'P'o L" a
5kd from the magni6cene Of its l'2VV :" YS'''y
l0l for Rofjsni.m sod s.s5ery, fsSios 81 oPp's-
IA, of anne Is 70 face it. ShaFnee could only
.;v. Al for Iecompton, and The Opp0ston taere
onled ~. Even Oxford where Border Rufii 4ns
we're copjured up, as a gentleman Of my acq1ant-
abee would say spsaiunctous!y, and ~nere
voters and Cincinnati Directories are Indigenous,
has dsinded down 70 an insg1lhcant vo,e. ald ina.
divided. Lecompton could only give q votes Tor
"Lecompt0n," with the ghost Of the sub treasury
10 back T. and the array Cf p)stnasters aud their
clerks. making a vote of ''3 " net, could Oaly re-
cord their rueful acquesence N the - 'prop0stioD,
not because they expected il 70 win, blt because
their matter " 10 gave them the p0st-o es expected
then 70 vote. Already 5000 votes against the
"proposition have been summed up, and the az
rreeate Of proposition accepted If short OF 900.
oDe-hslf Of the Territory (by population is 70; 70
hear from and the vote bids fair 70 be dcuD.od but
the worst Pro.Slavery strongiods have been heard
from, and that the vote for LecOmpton VIII resch
1000 s very doubtful.
"The world goes round yet" So sad old Gall.
ieo when the dungeon door of Pisa swung against
him. Mr.. Buchanan said the LecOmpt0n Constitu-
ton was the Constitution OF the people OF hahsds'
that il was the legitimate Constitution, ana the ony
thing that could peaceably settle the question. lie
and his minions of the National Democracy, and
q hirelng press with them, sad that the stores oi
Rorder Rtffan frauds were false that the errors,
d there were any. we're equally cbargeable to both
parties. that Slavery was tgaty established in Kan
sas; that the laws of the Missouri Ruffians were
legitimate laws of the people; that all the trouble
arose with dsafected haHdfmin the Territory, and
that the efforts to thrust Kansas the fruits of all
the vlainy of the past three years was carrying out
the spirit Of 4" Squatter Sovereignty The answer
has come. Truth is eternal. There is still God
Of Justice, James Buchanan. The world goes
round yet"
There was prophet as well as a certificate Of a
ffeeman's reputation, in every ballot against lie.
compton that dropped into the election boxes in
Kansas on the I'd Of August. A prophet that fore
told the sure decadeDce of fraud and injustice and
olgarchy. Three years of official and oligarchic
villainy have reaped the fruit OF their abOrs. Like
an explained puzzle, every one sees now that the
thing is natural, and must have been so. How pre-
posterOus to have thought it would be otherwise .
and yet men thought it would be otherwise. The
Executive Of what we love to flatter ourselves is
the most powerful and intelligent nation in the
world thought otherwise. The Oligarchs thought
otherwise. The Border Rufians thought otherwise
until recently. Doubtless they see it all plain
enough now. Perhpas they only see the results,
and, incapable of comprehendiDg the invinclble
might of night, they may suppose that they were
merely outwitted at a game which they know was
as far as they were concerned only game of
trickery; and in the vain hope that more clever
handling of the dice will give them the chances,
rob themselves of the lesson that has cost them so
much. The death knel of Slavery has been rung
IN Kansas. Such blows do not and cannot fall idly
With the whole power aud patronage of the Gov
ernment prostuted 10 their purposes they have met
o Waterloo defeat.
N a .,1 tIa ~, a1
democracy " to lay the hatterlDg JUNCTION TO their
souls that the Free-State men of Kansas have
achieved barren victory. True, if the National
Government could give vitality to It's DEGREES 1t
might be SO. That Slavery bought Government
does not yield an inch more than II can help, and
every inch reluctantly. The olgarchs may flatter
Themselves that Kansas is still legally slave terri
tory-that no law of the Legislature can abolish it,
and that the Dred Scott decision will maintain it
and override the will of the people so Enthusiastically
expressed. They may hope much from the TACT
that the courts are the appointees OF the Admins
tration and consequently the willing tools OF Slavery
and that encroachine Federal officers in the Tern
tory render the legislative function vested IN the
people farce. All these despotc DEGREES Will not
effect one iota of their purpose. They viii only
bring the prostituted Federal authority into disre
pute II will be dead dog in the manger; offensive
70 the nOstrils of freemen, but having no power.
Can the Dred Scott decision secure in Kansas what
il pretends--the right Of men to hold slaves there
Ii any one is foolish enough to think So let him try
it, The slaves thus held despite the Will OF the peo-
pie would 90 through the underground railroad
faster than the most devoted or hopeful Southern
enterprise could bring them. The tyranny oil fed,
eTal officials in opposing the wishes OF the people OF
Kansas will only succeed in running the present sys
tenn of Territorial Governments. The result of all
this struggle has been to prove that our form OF
government is poweress when arrayed against the
people. 1t certainly can do, and has done, great
mischief. 1t might have precipitated oar nStltu-
tons 10 ruin, aud came very near doing So but II
could not succeed in its scheme.
One thing they can do, they can keep the people
Of Kansas in coerced territorial vassaage. Ma
tonal Democracy" has solemnly said that if the
people here would not accept slave constitution
they must continue to live under government re-
pugnant to them. 1t will not do TO say the people
of Kansas do not desire State government This
election proves whemingy that the Free State
party comprises ninetenths of the Territory. That
party, by votes and memorials, sustained by im-
mense msjorites have, time and again. demanded
admission as a Free State The delegate elected
last October, Mr.. Parrott, was himself a living
protest against Slavery, aud an embodied memorial
for admission as Free State. The earnest and
repeated prayers of the squatters for Free-State
Government lie trampled under foot in the United
States Senate. The National Democracy" which
has still the impudence to talk of Squatter Sover-
eighty to the people of the North, has taken most
unequivocal ground for Congressional interter-
ence," and have carried it the length of utterly de-
nying whole people the government they wanted
because 1t was Free. State Government. The
Republican power in Kansas, on the other hand
have ever been willing and, to man, have been the
champions of every measure that was to allow the
people the right to "mod their own institutions in
a. their own way" So the case stands before the
country and the world to-day. National Democ-
rscy gives both Congressional and Executive inter-
ference to force blRy and bribe an unwilling people
into Slave Government, and at once shuts the iron
gates Of Federal or central power against the
prayers of almo.t whole people for Free Gov
eminent. If these facts require to be proved this
election Overwhelmingly proves them and does not