New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-15

party wAs, why didn't u0V' hcooe' '''
the fraudulent returns-if such there were-oi
" the election Of March 80, 1857" The late Ad'
ministrnton were held bameess in the premises
because one who was then their Democratic
sppointee. but is now Republican, did not null'y
election frauds Of which he appears to have had no
seasonable notice. Well Walker and Stanton d'S'
upon ample evidence, what your party said Reeder
.bouh have done, evidence or no evidence; and
they were repudisted and superseded therefor
Do you think you can obscure these facts
Then came the Lecompton fraud, in al Its hid
eou, PROPORTIONS, One Of Mr.. Buchanan's oiice-
holders bos.ed that job-was he removed for 1t, a.
Walker and Stanton had BEEN True, he has
lately been supplanted but is there the iea's in'i
nation given to the public that the bogus Election
frauds and cande.box returns were acause moving
theretol Did not the President adopt that mon
strous fraud, by trying to force it through Congress
By the most desperate abuse of power and patron
age? Why did the concOcters of the Lecompton
Constitution 30 carefully preclude its submission TO
the People' Why was not the Presidential infu-
ence put forth to secure its submission rather than
its adoption by Congress after it had been emphas-
ically rejected by Kansas Do you think the Peo-
pie do not see that your superors are always potent
when flsarant wrong to Kansas is to be cOnsum-
mated or glazed Over-impOtent only when such
wrong is to be redressed or preventedI
Mr.. Denver is mistaken in asserting that the de-
struction of ballot box st Sugar Mound by Capt.
Montgomery was suppressed by the Free-State
journals. 1t has been repeatedly alluded to In
these columns, though it was no case OF fraud at
all-no case Of wrong or injustice to MIR. DIS
party. The case was substantially this: An elec-
ton had been ordered bya Constitutional Conven-
ton which the Free-State men considered bogus and
usurpng. The Free-State party held Convention
and decided to take no part in that election, not
wishing to recognize its callers IS vested Win
any sort ofauthOrity. minority OF the free-State
Convention seeded, repudiated the decision OF the
majority. and nominated ticket. division OF the
Free.State party necessarily followed One frac-
ton persisted in not voting, the other voted While
the election was going at Sugar Mound, Capt
Montgomery and his party came thither, and, con-
sideripg that the votes cast there (entireiy ny
Free. State men) were cast under amisapPrehen-
sion of the facts, stopped the poll and destroyed
the ballots, without resistance or $50 Tar as We
know objection from any one. We never Justi-
fed this act; but it was quite other than debe'
rate fraud. But the vital question is not" Have
"frauds and outrages been committed by both par
ties or only by one 2" but :" Has the Federal
administration winked at and shielded the
frauds of the Pro-Slayey party, and OF
.that party alone :" Does Gov. ID. plead
TO the Indictment Has the present Federal
Executive ever put active, earnest Free State
man-barely One-intO Office in Kansas Has it
turned out single Pro-Slavery man because of
frauds and Outrages committed under his eye and
with his conniyance' Has it not conferred office
| several Of the most notorious and abomnable
PrO-Slayery rufhans-on Whitfield, the bogus
Delegate-on Clark, who killed Barber, an inof-
fensiye unarmed Free-State man, near Lawrence,
in December, lS55-on Emory, VINO led the
Pro-SayeS banditti who rayaged Leayenworth,
drove out all known Free-State men, and
killed William Phillips in his own house, Oct.
lst, 1s56-and on Sam j. Jones "Sherif Jones
who led the ruffan banditti who sacked Lawrence
during the Summer of that year. Do you hear,
Governor!
Gov. d. thinks We have represented Kansas as
more quiet and orderly under his rule than the
facts will warrant--but perhaps he has not read
THE TRIBUNE so carefully as some other Journals,
which habitually ignore and scof at bleeding
| " Kansas" as a politicians fable. To all that he
saws and insnuates as to outrages having been
committed by Free-State men, We make answer
Mr.. Denver you are Governor OF Kansas, and as
such appointed and paid to preserve order and
punish crime You have the Federal Judges,
Marshals, &C., at your back, with the Army close
at hand to be used in enforcing your dictates.
Your Judges and Msrshals could find Grand Jury
to present the Free-State hotel and printing offices
in Lawrence as nusances and decree their destruc-
| tion-surely they can find one to indict robbers,
| rioters, bruisers and assassns. If, then, crimes
have been committed in Kansas-no matter BY
which party-snce you have become her Governor,
and you have not offered rewards for their per-
petrators had them indicted and brought TO
trial you are guilty by confession of gross neglect
of duty All your charges against Free-State men,
therefore come home with crushing effect to your
self. Why are you not low trying to bring the
| offenders to Justice instead of seeking TO make
party capital out Of them By letters to the journals
No matter who have done wrong let them be ar
rested, convicted and punished. Your ding at
hired reporters Of Eastern newspapers" passes
by U.s. since We have had no hired reporter in Kan
sss for months; but when you say "the perpetra-
"tors Of criminal outrsges] are running at large
without an effort to arrest them, you compel US
to say that you seem to have very imperfect no.