New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10
KANSAS.
SHERIFF JONES.
From our Spccisl Correspondent

From Speci. Correspondent
LAWRENCE, Jau. % 1853
II isso long since have had occasion to mention
our worthy Border. Rutiian friend, the ex'Shern.
that have some hesitation 10 dragging him from
that obscurty into which even Border HUMANS and
OK. Sberas will fall Nothing but an acute sense Of
the duty owe the Democratic" public could In
duce m, to do SO. Even while yet yOuchsafed to
us in the lcsh he has, it were, gone into the po
litica pantheon among all the great names that have
been picked away for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
and Frank Pierce, Gar Nicholas, Caleb Gushing
the Bourbon We had among us, Fernando Wood
Santa Anna and Sheriff Jones. l do not allude to
the above lustrous constellation merely account
of its peculiarly " Democratic" elements although
it contains most unquestiOnaby, large amounted
that blessed essence enjoyed by us mOdens could
be included in the number OF names. II Jones
has not been quite great Napoleon Alexander
would impress it on the mind of the reader that
it has been no fault of his. lie has, merely sug.
gest it, been even more Democratic than they.
l. When the glorious struggle to make Kansas
Slave State Was inaugurated by the Kansss-Ne.
braska bill, Jones might be- said to have thrown
himself away upon it, Obvious to all the pecu.
MARY advantages incident TO commercial transactions
in peltries with the redskins and black-fet OF the
adjoining wilderness, of calicOes with the SenO.
rias of Santa Re, our friend was prominent in tbal
devoted band which made it It's special business "
see "Squatter Sovereignty enuncated under the
Kansas BILL" Az Postmaster of Westport. No.,
something Of the kind might, indeed, have been ex.
pected of him; but apart from any duty be might
thus have owed the Administration, have reason 10
believe that he exhibited at oil times large amount
OF individual enthusiasm. | AIN sorry that have
not time to eDumerate all the historic details Of
Jones's career. Most of them are fresh in the
mind OF the reader Suffice il to say that, from the
arrest Of Brsnson and the burning Of Smiths claim
to the sack of Lawrence he'dM his duty. In thus
efficiently dscharging the functions 81 Sheriff to
The rcbellious County of Douglas, while resident
OF the adjoining State of Missouri, he showed del.
icate appreciation of the doctrines of popular soy.
ereignty, not behind that of the bogus Missouri
Legislature from which he derived his appointment
and which ought in the present crisis, especially to
recommend him ~ oil the patrons Of that glorious
doctrine
II has been truly remarked that Il Republics are
ungratefn' Let no one hope that =" Democratic
republics are not. Jones is already blessed in seeing
by the eye of faith and hope--Kansas a Slave
State under the Lecompton Constitution. Yet, in
spite of all his heroic labors, he has acquired none
ot the prominent positions under IT, Another
" Democratic" generation has arisen, "who knew
not Joseph The very utility of his efforts are
shrewdly suggested a. dsqualificatons BIZ the dis
place be might thus fill, and thus, in the prime Of
his Border ufianbood, the parsley is permitted 70
decay prematurey on his brows, and he il allowed
10 go ~ his " cabbsges" like another Cincinnstus
with the slight drawback Of all Abolition BALI
near his spine.
1t is to lift my voice against such disrespect for
the great men OF the past that write Jones con.
templates going TO Arizona. His eagle eye"
undlmmed by the experience of the selfish past,
looks forward to other worlds to conquer Ii is
unfortunately true that in going TO Arizonis he will
be compelled to live there from the first, thus ma.
terally interfering with the memorable precedents
OF Squattcr Sovereignty. This however in the
mature of things cannot be helped. Rest assured
that no true friend Of Southern rights will ever
build biz shanty on the slopes of disappointment
Creek or lay out psperto towns along the valley Of the
ella. have heard it modestly suggested that the
IS friends" Of Jones-every great man has friends
expect that be will receive the appointment OF
United States Marshal when the Territory of Ari.
zonia shall be organized this Winter by another bill,
out of whose belly shall speak the prophetic voice
of "Squatter Sovereignty" IL is for fear that his
claims should be oyerslaughed in this quarter, also,
that write. know that the Court of "the moot
high and mighty Prince 'Jeemes'," is besiged bys
horde Of pretended PATRIOTS who claim the honor
OF having made him President, and that in the tur
mol for the loayes and fishes true merit may bs
overlooked. Let the President, in all the puisssncs
of his appointiye might, remember Jones-Jonss
who fought bled and (if the obituaries of the
Missouri papers of date April, 1856 are to be be-
heved) died" for his country.
This is the first appointment have ever asked
from Mr. Buchanan, aud probably will be the last.
As the chrOncler Of Kansas affairs, could not zee
our modern Epominandas 20 by the board without
q struggle for him. Besides let Mr.. Buchanan fAAS
q look at the eternal fitness Of things. With J01es