New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-12-07


Lecomp'on struggle Of Last Winter.
]. Copgres. dit rot. "by an almost unanimous
vote q both House-,' last Woter dec de that
" Ter,i.or, his ,igL' 70 come into the Union
"ei;ber as a Free or SLAVE state. Ine adini'-
sicp Of A new state IA matter wittio she d'scfe-
tiou Of Congress, shd cannot b" claimed a. r'sNt-
There are at lea.t One Hundred (HcPnblcin)
Members Of the Ireselt Congress wh0 have ne'eF
voted q, the President a-scrts. TIE! voted 10 lrt
Kansas come into the Uuion unier a constitution
Of her Own free cboice. rch kaoTirg iha' she
,roud elo,s, 70 cone in Free. How they would
have voted bad ttere been probability Of her de-
cinine to come in o. Slave STATE, does not appear
Tina. question will BE- decided when il arises.
. 9. The pressure Of external Influence "hica
csused confusion violence alo anarchy 10 Kansas
vas the work If Mr Bucbasans stsut chest sup
por.ers hid admire's. who rushed oyer the MI'-
souri border before Kansas had been orgl'ize
and atterIpt,d BY force and intimidation t. eIpe'
and repel ali Free State settlers, ani thus fasten
SLAYER, rpon the rev Territory, B.jorc an Edstcrn
settler had ente,sd KGns1s. they had CON united
fa.rspt outrag.s on the few Fees ate Incn who
were pr4yjou,ly there, -endifg some Of them down
tie Missouri ia a beat without osr', and giving
out that no Anti Slavery nan should be allowed 10
live there. At tie first Territorial election (Noy
i.5D they poured over N hundreds. from Missouri,
and elected John ". Wti,feld To Congress. On
the 3Cth Of March, l. 50, when the second
Territorial election was held (hefore any r ist'
ern immigrants had arrived, save those wno
had already Hnefed in kansa') ta'y
came over in armed bands, took possession OF nearly
every pol. compelled Free State judges to resign,
By pisipc them ave minutes 20 do this or be shot,
and then voted rs often as they saw ft That cleo
ton was very thoroughly -ifred BY Committee Of
the last Hcu,e sent 20 Kansas for that purpose
who scrutiniz-d every vote aud fount that BIO
legal votes in all were cast. while 4,9OS iArga'
votes were poDed by the Missouri invaders, WHO
thus carried nearly every Member of tie new Leg
isiatnre, carrying BY four to one even Laurence,
where tttre never was one PrO.Sl,very 70 ten
Free.Sate voters. 1t was this gigantic, vel
planned, Wholesale yilainy which gave Slavery 4
legal though fraudu,nt sscendency over Free
State peopie, which has made all the subsequent
trouble 10 Kansas; ard IFS authors and leading ex-
ecutors now hold lucrative cfices under Mr. Bu-
chsnans appointment, while no man who protested
against and resisted that crime has ever received
any favor at his hands.
3. TIE Legislature thus chosen by Wholesale
swindlirg hayirg preceded to pass all manner OF
atroclous and nhumOn laws, establishing Slavery
10 Kansas dlsiranchi-Dg the Free-S'ate men 50
far ss possible and making it felony punishable in
some cas.s by DEATH To resist Slavery IN Kansas,
or even publicly to question the r'shiulness Of it,
existence there. In short, the Pro-Sisyery rulc
Terror as was pofsibe.
4. The Topeka Movement was simply f)-msl
prott st Of tbree.fourhs Of the actual resident: Of
Kansas against Ibis atrocous fraud usurp itiOn md
tyrapny. 1t was tbeiI sppesl from yoke which
they had fastened upon them by organized
baIcs of armed invaders, voting ten or twelve
times each where they had no right to vote at all,
to the justice of Congress and the humanity Of the
American People. IT was the assertion Of ab,o.
lutte and eternal Right against stolen aud misused
Power. And this movement not the usurpatOo
and tyranny but ths pesceabe, patient, appeal
thereirom to Congress aud the COmtry-is stigma
tzed by Mr.. buchanan resistance to rigttm
authority (the authority, namely, of that bogus,
Border. Ruffan Legi.lature) and attempts to
" establish revolutionary government He
has not one word Of rtbuke for the villains whose
crimes rendered this appeal absolutely Necessary.
They receive his smiles ard MS offices; for the
victims of their iniqutiea, he has only hostility and
detIaction.
5. Mr. Buchanan says " resistance to lawful
authority" 1t is shown by the example of Kar.
sas cannot fail in toe end to prove disastrous h.
its authors" One might infer from this that TIE
Free.State men Of ansss, especially the uphollcrs
of the Topeka movement, were broken dDSn aud
scattered to the ends of the earth. Instead Of
this, the DETAINED Free-Srate men, though resisted
and tramped on by the Federal Executive, with
every Federal office flied throughout By their
Of the nation exer,ed for their overthrow, are to-
day in tranquil possession OF Kansas, while their
sdyersaries hsve nearly disappeared from the
Territory hese latter sre in Arizona, 10 Utah, in
New. Mexico-in Virginia, Georgia AID Missouri
hardly dozen who achieved any prominence
remain in Kansas. Is II not strange il tue Free
State men were disturbers and reyolutioaists,
whose course has proved disastrous" that they
are in quiet possession of the fercely disputed
region, while their leading sdyersaries can only be
found by an industrious scrutiny of the Blue Book
8. Mr. Buchanan accuses the Free.State men Of
grave error in not voting for Delegates to the
Lecompton Constitutional Convention. TOeir DC.
fer SC is very obvious: Thy kaec tia, said Con.