New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-04

TO purchase Southern votes and favor by leDdIne
ttsir assistance TO sdd new Slave State to the
Union; not a rew Slave State erected oct OF 5e"iy
acquired territory, bat a Slave State constructed
cut OF territory which had been for more than
third Of q century expressly set aside to be
colonized BY Free Labor. At the offer thus scan
dal(u,ly made by these trading Northern pohti-
clans, tie Stuihen Shareholders without ditinction
Of party, with very few honorable exceptions,
esfeily clutcLed. AL previous party distin;ti
st the Stuth were confourded Ii the general
esgerness of Southern Representatives in Congress
aid Of .be Southern pess 70 accept the treacherous
offer On The part Of these dovghface Northern poll
titiars to surrender up TO Slasery portion Of the
conceded heritage Of Fee Labor.
The fist step toward carrying out this bargain
ard conspiracy consisted in the gross breach Of
| faith Of reIealrg TIE Missouri prohibition, which
bad ftr yesrs been regarded AID treated as Of not
lees binoig force th,n the compromises Of the
Constitution ittef The parties to this outrage
upon Free Labor 10 doubt hoped and ex pected thst
this repeal would slone suffice to sccOnplish their
object. They even 1attered themselves that By
coupling it, as they did, With squatter sovereignty
clause, they should be able while introducing
Slavery into Kansas, to appear to be carrying out
the principles Of TIE most ultra democracy. 10
this expectation, however, they found them
selves most gfisvoasly disappointed The friends
of Free Labor promptly accepted the squatter
sovereignty challenge thus thrown out, and
when tie time ceme for organizing the
Territorial Government of Kansas, among the
actual settlers in the Territory the Free.Lsbor
party had decided preponderancy Of voters.
One yiolstion OF night and principle alnos. inevita-
bly, lead, to anotSer. The substitution of the doc
tire Of Squatter Sovereignty in place Of the
BlissouIi prohibition having failed to answer its
expected purpose, TIE consp:fstors were driven to
new snd still gro0oer outrage upoa the rights Of
Free Labor. A Pro Slavery mob from the neigh
boring counties of Missouri invaded Kansas on the
day of the Territorial election took forcible POE
session Of TIE polls, and returned q Territorial
Legislature Of their oSn kidney, composed in part
Of resident, H. MssOu,i, some OF whsm were at
the sn;ne tine Federal oiicebclders. This uoet
gross and scsadalous Cutrage-a5s fata blow at
the whole sJ stem Of democratic government aud
free eleotous-was fully countenaLoed and sustained
By the Administration a. Washington, and to sup
port AID sustain it wa3 forthwith made by the
leaders of tte Administration party throughout
the Union the test Of political orthodoxy. All
WHO declined TO take this test, as vast nun.
bers did, were denounced as enemies of the
Administration ard of the Democratic party.
Gov Reeder of Kansas, because he failed to
sympathize with and declined Oh al points 10
humOr the sham Legislature thus fixed up9L Kal-
sas, was removed FROM Office. The Free-Lsbor
mtn Of The Ttrritory with the spirit to be uatu
rally expected of freemen, declined to recognize
this intrusive Legislature or to accept as binding
the laws it had enacted, several of which we're ex-
pressly designed to peIpstuate this u.urpa.ion and
to deprive the Free Labor msieIty of any contro.
over the local Government OF tie Territory. They
net in Convention AID formed provisional State
Government urdef which they applied for admi,
sion lIto The CneD. For having done this they
were proclaimed by the loc. Federal authorities
rebels sssinst The Union. Their most distinguished
leaders were indicted and arrested fos high treason
and, uIder tAe character of posse comitatas for
eLfoscipg the process Of ths local Courts established
by the sham Legislature, an armed mob from Mis-
souIi, organized as Kansas milltia, invaded the
TsIrtory, sacked Lawrence, and undertook BY
force ard terror to drive the Free.La6or settlers
cat of the Territory. Thus pushed to extremity,
ard firdiDg no protection from the Federal troops
stationed smopg them these brave men stood 10
their arms and In the civil war which ensued soon
taught their adrenaIies thst this was game at
viii .h two could play. Alarmed at the excitement
which this borIid scene Of civil war was producing
thrsushout TIE country, and dreading its effect
upon the pending Presidential canvass, the i'm
potent Sbsnnon was superseded, and Gov. Gea'y
was armed with full powers for the restoration of
peace. The only thing reeded to establish that
YVES the putting stop to the military invasion Of
Kansas on the pant of Border RufIians from Ms
seu:-Iot for the purpose Of settling in it, bat to
dive out the Free.Labor nen already there. 10
this object Gesry fully succeeded but because he
INSISTED upon d,ohIeing tie duties of his cfi,e in
An IMPARTIAL manner, and declined to become tool
Of the Pro Slavery minority, he, Ike Rsede., was
,Hohted and snubbed AMI driven to resgD, and
Gov. Walker was sent TO take his place.
Meanwhile the stsm Border Rufian Territorial
Legislature had tsken upon itself the business Of
erecting Kansas into State. II had pAssei an set
| for Convention dsfrarchisrg large part of the
settlers, and giving to two or three election dis
tr,t.. conveniently situated for intrusive voting
from Missouri, TIE choice Of msjority Of the dele
| sate, The Free. Labor settlers Of Kansas, whose
nsjo1i'y a, well as whose numbers had been largely
increased by immigration, regarding this Con7sn-
ten as q mere tap and cheat like the Legislature
from which it emanated, declined TO participate 10
the election of the delegates, which the Pro-