New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-17
KANSAS.
TIE LECOMPCON ELECuOS.
From Oar speei4l Correspondent

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LEComPToN, K. T., Ju1e 4, 1855.
The Bcard Of COmmi;- iolers appointed oy Con-
gress 70 inaugurate second birth for the LecomO
ton BY inds get along slowly with the multf4riOGs
duties ssssued 10 them. Two months have IL
eapse before the election, and good deal may DO
dOae IN that iine. 10 some extent tie Sans pre-
cncts used MS formerly will be established By them.
Gov. Denver has DOt been with the Beard a. It's
present session, and if he resigns will probably not
figure much more extensively IN passing events.
He II, learn, still i'll Leavenw0f,h, or was az last
accounts. His Fort Scott military expedition Das
ended in smoke. lie ard me Coz, rDOr Of Missouri
are not likely to cock their cNias at each other
across the famous border, or be drawn up IN hostile
array in quarrel SO purely sectional The reports
we had OF his being on the mirch, beng IN company
with large military force, close IN tne Immediate
vicinity OF the scene of action prove to be incorrect
aid pc baby resulted from the active movements of
military BODIES here lately, and the fact that he had
promised Sheriff Walker not to say Others that he
would be down immediately at the scene OF action.
1t il a hard thing for Federal Governor in
Kansas to array himself aganst the forces that the
Slave Power send here to do their work. At every
step they take some monstrOus piece OF ylalny
stares them in the face, and their participation, to
some extent is required. When force from
Missouri deliberately march over the border seize
peaceable citizens and indiscrimnateiy massacre
them, and then retreat back across the border,
evidently hoping that they have thereby deferred
FreeState emigration, we have pretty strong
case. If D Governor, sent 10 guard the rights OF
the people permits such Outrages to be perpetraced
on tnem il ls evident that be Is not very senSiire
on the subject. have been disappointed with Gov.
Denver II this business. True knew nc had no
heart but then expected that his pride would have
II ade him resent it, When he talked IN naughty,
threatening way about what the Governor of Mis-
souri, must do, what he would do, when the report
OF the appalling massacre was poured III an earnest
complaint into his ear | really thought be had self
respect enough to mean something's but truly,
" the OK knoweth his owner and the ass his mae
ters crib" To have expected him to take prompt
and decisive steps to have the wrong rlghted,
would have been to expect him to snare the fate
of all his predecessors. His pride has had to
succumb, just as his principles or bis heart would
have had to do, if he had any. He did, indeed,
send down an officer to arrest Montgomery who
had been sent for to guard the wounded survi-
vors of the massacre, at the request of them and
their friends, but his army on the borders, Ike
Punch's daughter, is looming to come"
For the first time, anxiety is beginning to be felt
in several quarters that there is deep-aid scheme
Of swindllng fraud on foot to carry the LecompsOn
Constitution through, via Oxford aud Kjckspoo;
but the masses .hli eeem TO feel secure. The
chance that Lecompton will be able TO get any vote
at all seems SO utterly hopeless, that the public
mind takes it as foregone conclusion that 1t will
be voted down, and begins to calculate on what Will
come next. No Convention of the Frce-State
party has vet been called. The many calls upon
the people render it imperative that they be called
on again just as seldom possible. But there has
been no publicly determined line Of policy. 1t liz
simply taken for granted that everybody will vote
against it.
So far we have had very different season in
Kansas from former seasons. 1t has rained almost
every day for week or SO. The creeks are nov
up, and occasionally We hear of another of the few
bridges we have going off. Kaw River is rising
fast. Recently steamer went up as far as Man
haitian.