New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-04

The clash Of arms in Kansas is the fit lnterlude
TO the struggle about to be renewed in Congress.
Hitherto, "bleeding Kansas" has been the butt
of Democratic ridicule, the signal for barrOOm
shouts and horse-shed outlaws. Now, when reports
Of bloody collisions rapidly chase each other over
the wires and when jousts in Congress wherein
neither Republicans nor Secessionists take part,
but in which the champions on both sides are Ma
tional and even Northern Democrats, the laugh is
evidently on the wrong side Of many capacious
mouth. Though the Republicans in both Houses
maintain a studied silence the struggle proceeds
none the less obsorbingy, and Kansas is still the
gage of battle.
The politicians by trade have all along under
estimated the earnestness OF the People IN the
r,s.-.;.s- Even to this hour. note absurd COM
plants of " intcrmeddling" by Aid Societies, Emf
grafton Societies and other Northern organizations,
in the affairs of Kansas That is to say: Those
living elsewhere than in Kansas, who nevertheless
desired to see her come into the Union Free State,
are blamed for having devoted efforts and means to
insure that result So Southern men are blamed
for having contributed of their substance to bind
Kansas to the Slave Power Yet in so far as these
efforts were legal and peaceful they were not only
natural but inevitable. Thousands who are this
day bona Eide citizens of Kansas would never have
been drawn thther but for their interest i'll the tr
umph of Free or Slave Labor in that embryo State.
Other thousands who were unable to migrate
thither have encouraged others to CO. and have
aided the emigration according to their ability.
Vanly do politicians rail at this manifestation OF
interest in the destiny of Labor i'll Kansas by cti-
zens of other States, for the interest exists and
its manifestation cannot be suppressed While the
issue remains undecided, the interest must continue
to deepen or widen.
In vain do the politicians, sitting in cOnclave
conclude that the interest of this that party will
be promoted by having the Slavery article in a GER
tain proposed Constitution voted up or voted down.
The People instnctiyey say, 1--WE care nOthingfor
"yOur party, or any party; we are for or against
" SYSTEMATICALLY in earnest OH that point, and
d" shall vote as We believe and feel" So the vote
is taken, and the most adrOit screenings OF the
politicians go for naught. The people instinctively
realize that the politicians game is one quite sub
ordinate in real Importance to the topic on which
tntS are uOptltssiy ulNiucu'
Most preposterous Of all is the clamor of the
politicians over the alleged continuance of "agita-
tom;" for these same politicians and not the
settlers of Kansas are responsible for this very
prOtracted agitation whereof they complain. 1t
was not by the inhabitants of Kansas that Reeder,
Geary, Walker and Stanton have been successfully
Invested of power Not by residents of Kansas
have Lawrence, LeavenwOrth and Osawatamie
successfully been ravsged. II was not their fault
that their State was not admitted into the Union
by the last Congress. Had their prayer for such
admission been promptly granted, Kansas would
have ceased months ago to be either theater or a
subject Of agitation. They were kept out by the
Slave Power al d its allies, who have held them in
subsection ever since. With what reason does he
who has his foot on anohers neck call to that other
TO cease "sgitation"l
One thing only is needed to quiet Kansas-her
Admission into the Union under a Constitution
which is her free choice. Stop all quibblng
and pettifogging as to the conclusiyeness of an
election from which the great body of her people
for reasons to them most satisfactOry-stand sloof
and let the known will of the majority prevail.
That will put speedy end to agitatOn-snd nothing
but that. Let the Biglers, Brights and Buchanans
stop goading Kansas BY acts of fragrant injustice
ana usurpaton, and her bleeding will soon be
l ended. Thus, and not otherwise.
III u A.