New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-12

There rs but one lncl0eIt III hue1lcdH HlolOIy
which bears any considerable resemblance to the
| occupation of Kansas for eighteen months by q
body of regular troOps stationed there for the e1-
| press purpose of keeping down by military terror
the great body Of the people and forcing upon
| them reluctant submission to foreign laws and a
| foreign domination of which they deny the legal
authority That incident is the stationing of Brit.
ish troops in Boston to compel the inhabitants of
that rebelious town, aud of the no less rebelous
prov nce Of Massachusetts, to submit to the acts for
leyying revenue in the colonies by the authority
of Parliament; the validity of which for that pur-
pose, the cOlonists denied. AS among the men in
Kansas who have so manfully stood out against the
attempt to Oyerawe and subdue them by the au
thority of the Federal Administration and the ter
ror of military force are many descendants Of
those who ninety years ago resisted with no less
success similar attempt the part of the British
Government, 50 between the two cases there are
several curious points of analogy, though it must
be confessed that in point of violence and total dis
regard of popular rights our mUurrn Dcfiurrntio
imitatOrs have far outrun their British and mon
archcal models.
i
people of Massachusetts, by the Commissioners of
the Customs and other officials charged with the
collection sc the obnoxious British taxes, consisted
mainly in the combination of the people to nulify
those taxes by refusing to import the goods upon
which they were to be levied. In like manner the
pretense for sending military force to Kansas,
has been combination among the people not to
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Legislature. The House of Representatives of
Massachusetts thought it a great indignity, totally
inconsistent with their freedom, that they should
be compelled to meet and deliberate III the midst
of an armed force The people OF Kansas have
suffered still greater indgnity in having the armed
force quartered upon them, cut up into detach-
ments, and scattered over the Territory on election
DAYS at the several polling places thus placing the
very elections themselves under military survell-
lance. The British officers commanding the troops
in Boston had the decGcy on election days TO
keep them strictly confined to their barracks In
Kansas, under express orders from Washington,
the DAYS of election, and the very polling places
themselves have been selected for the express pur
pose of making special display of military force
The occupation Of Boston by British troops re-
suited, after while, in bloody collision. If the
same result has not yet taken place in Kansas 1t Is
chiefly to be ascribed TO the extreme prudence Of
the Free State men, in imitation of their New
England predecessors, in keeping the law on their
side, and, as in the case of the dispersion of the
Topeka Legislature, submitting for the moment
even to Illegal violence. On the whole, the British
Ministry and their mnions in the Colony took very
little by the military occupation of Boston, and a
very similar result seems likely to attend the mill.
tary occupation of Kansas