New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-22

The Journal Of Commerce makes sardonc
effort to be funny and sstrcal over the approach
ing Kansas election. II contrasts the silence and
uncorcern Of the Republican press touching
that election with the activity and earnestness, the
zeal and feeling, exhibited on 80 many former occa-
sions, ard hence-judgns, we suppose, the motives
of other people BY its own, with q forced ana
affected chuckle-it pretends TO draw the con-
cusion that al the concern formerly expressed for
Kansas was false and hypocritical-no better than
q scheme for robbing honest men and women OF
their earnings, to support political vagabonds In
Kansas and political knsves elsewhere; mere
plot on the part Ct the Republicans to overthrow
their political opponents and secure the control Of
the spoils Of offce.
Tie Journal Of Commerce is perfectly well ware
that all that the Republicans ever asked for the
people of Kansas was that they should be permit
ted to elect their own Legislators and other
officers TO enact their own laws and to frame their
own State Constitution. What the Republicans pro-
tested against, the sole ground Of their appeals
to the people Of the Northern States to rally for the
support Of Freedom the cause, and the only cause,
of all the apprehension which they ever expressed
that the fair plains of Kansas might become the
possession Of the Slave Power, wa', that system oil
intrusive voting and Border Rufhau intimidation,
patronzed and sustained by the Administration II
Wa.hip pton which eliminated 10 the attempt
to force the infsmous Pro-Slavery Lecompton Con-
stitutso upon Kansas against the known Wishes OF
q vast msjority of the inhabitants.
So long as this project was on foot instigated and
encouraged from Washington, aud sustained by the
whole power and patronage Of the General Govern.
ment-tbs project to force Slavery upon Kansas BY
intrusive voting, Border -Rufisn violence and false
returps-the Republican leaders and the Repubi-
can press did not cease for moment to entreat to
.upplicate and to warn. So long a. the danger
lasted they labored in and out of season. to
rally the people of the Free States to the cause Of
Freedom, and to prevent the contamination, on the
part of the miserable pack Of Northern doughf4ces
of which The Journal Of Commerce is so unscrupu-
lous and willing an organ, of the attempt, in which
this whole Kansas scheme originated, to secure
me,s of pottsge to themselves by betraying Kansas
into the hands of the shareholders. Let q similar
bargain and sale be again attempted LET like plot
for the extension Of Slavery be again set on foot,
under similar auspices, and the Republican leaders
and the Republican press will be found as loud as
before in denouncipg it, and in ralying the people
Of the North to oppose it. With respect to Kansas,
spite Of all the efforts of the shareholders, and all
the wriggliDgs and twistrgs of Mr.. Buchanan, they
have efectvaly defeated the attempt to force
Slavery upon that Territory against the wishes
and in the face Of the opposition Of the great
bulk Of the inhabitants. After three years Of
earnest and doubtful struggle, the Republicans
have succeeded in delivering Kansas from the in
Fiction Of intrusive voters, Border Rufan violence,
Q sham Legislature, and local officers imposed upon
them BY violence and fraud. In spite Of the earnest
efforts of Mr. Buchanan and bis party, they have
succeeded in snatching Kansas from the grip of
the LecomptOn Convention, and have at length
secured to its inhabitants the privilege Of being let
alone and of depositing their votes without inter.
ference from any quarter. The moment the people
of Kansas have been secured in this, confessed
even by The Journal Of Commerce TO be an "inhe-
"rent right" the Republicans have at once oeased
all reference to the subject thereby afording the
most conclusive proof that something more than
mere personal or party objects lay at the bottom Of
the former agitation. The Republicans feel per-
feet confidence that the people Of Kansas, if let
alone perfectly able to take care of Themselves
ahd of the cause Of Freedom too, 80 far as Kansas
is concerned; and as the prospect seems to be that
the August election on the Lecompton Constitution
will be fair snd free oue there has been no occa
sion for them TO interfere in the matter.