New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-19
KANSAS.
~qosE OF THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

IL lie Legislative Assembly Of Maine begins is
hben by siDging ian hymn" that of kan'as
svsht to have closed its final labors By ean.,a
hslis--psrtIy in honor of what they had done,
partly in honor Of what the Lower House tried 70
%, and partly on account Of the fact that bon
bodies had ceased doisg. Another page oil hahsss
history has been written-not such starting one
a. many that have preceded it, yet it If an IN
.kruetive lesson 10 those who make study OF rep
va.ent.tire government For the past four years
the people of Kansas, with but few exceptions,
have been animated by one purpose reeaom Ior
its soil. Out Of that grew other asplratlons-a
1esire 10 overthrow border-Rufilan usurpaton
aaa an that eagued with or maintained It. Then
- h.torv burned into the bosoms Of its people an
;,tsnse hatred Of Slavery. This no bOt-bed
Ever Il was as inevitable az Gods justice. They
have been taught as none other within the bounds
of our common country have been taught. They
have s.en the unmstable tendencies and results of
the political crime of Slavery. They have all
hey had worshiped as good in our government
trsmpled under its british feet. They have been
taught to feel that not only the poor Black but the
Poor White, must be its victim. The vail which
has partially screened oligarchical tyranny else
where was here ruthlessly drawn aside. With
such training, the men OF Kansas would nave 1eeh
british if they had learned less. They would be
traitors to their political birthrigbt were they TO
shut their eyes Their resolves would be puerlle,
AID their Judgment silly if the mlder regime OF
whipped Pro.slavery Democracy" could make
them forget.
Have they forgotten Let US see. TIVE Free
State Legislatures have convened and ADJOURNED.
Ard Slayery-what of Slavery There IS no act
on the statute book of Kansas declaring that Slave
~ does not exist in Kansas No act OF her people
assuming TO abolish the cursed and hated thing. 1
would not stop TO bubble about it. / would not
urge that such legislation were useless. That the
Supreme Court Of the country had already decided
that Slavery does exist in the Territories. That
Territorial statute would be puerle and at once
oyerruled by every petty court and Supreme Court
that Slavery could whip to its work and had sue
seeded in fastening on the limbs OF Federal Terrific
~. assume that it was the duty OF the legislators
Kansas TO express the legal will OF the people they
lad represented, and TO declare Slavery expurgaed
from ts SOIL and leave it to the base minions OF the
ehve Power to overthrow their righteous act of
Popular Sovereignty. But it was not done. Are
the Free State men Of Kansas hypecritesi liz 1t
possible that they, and all their sympathlzng
friends, have been struggling for the past four
years to make Kansas Free, and yet that Slavery
can't be abolished in their own Leglsaturel
Do not scoff at them. There was but one judas
among the twelve, and yet that one could betray
their master. The people of Kansas are not false
10 the sentiments they have protested. A deeper
grOan will escape them when they awake to con-
sciOusness of what has been DONE rather of what
has not been done, than can come from the most
sincere of their sympathizers. And yet grant
that they are to a certain extent culpabe. They
are culpable in not taking care that living voice
should have been given to the faith that was in
them. 1t may have been misfortune, aud yet it
will be accounted to them as a crime. Yet look at
NE facts ere we judge:
The bill abOlshng Slavery in Kansas is in Gov.
Aedary's pocket. Sam Medary has not vetoed a
Va ~ - liz la,
his gubernatOrial pocket which, like Jack young
or brother, " died a borning." The bill aboshng
Slavery was murdered by Democratic" Cover
nor. Not openly, by a veto. Oh, no! 1t would
have passed over his Veto if he had vetOedit But
he straneled the bantling with Executive cunning,
when there could be no helping hand.
But was it not the fault that this WAS not pre-
vented Yes, it was crime. Who did it Let
rs see. The Council held over two years. 1t was
tho NinneOla Council. 1t was the Council that
was elected when Territorial Legislature was a
bogus Legislature, and when such institutions
were stencil in the nOstris of the sincere Free
State men. Was this their blunder' Perhaps it
was. Remember, however, that all who urged
participation at bogus election, and who sue
ceeded in dragging a reluctant people into il, en-
phatcally reiterated that the design was that the
Territorial Legislature should never give wgele
bat that its demise should pave the way for the
Topeka Constitution. 1t was a short sighted
But the moving spirits who precipitated that meas
ure had no design of doing what they protested.
II Was merely Tuse on their part Well, among
other fruits of this was the election of Legs
lature, many Of whom were new Corners, ignorant
of the past history of Kansas, and most of the
remainder bargain. and sale men-whO event in"
ike "Jem," because it paid. The first Legisla-
ture did little but disgrace itself BY such schemes
a. " Minueola" Ii did not repeal the bogus
statutes" 1t did not repeal Slavery. Last Fall
there was another election. The members Of the
Lower House were elected. l do not mean
to insinuste that this latter batch were
all saints, for under the wicked Border
Rufian apportionment which the first corrupt
Legislature did not change, it was impos
able to represent the Free-State sentiment
fairly Enough is it to know that large majority
of that body was right. In the early part of the
session several bills abolishing Slavery were dis
cnssed; and, ere the session was half through,
bill passed by large majority, which not only
abolished Slavery, but had penalties attached to
certain Oifenses named therein, which would have
enabled the people to tickle up Slavery little,
Federal Courts to the contrary Notwithstanding. i
have already narrated what befell it in the COun-
elbow it was referred to Special Committee
and how DIR. Root, as Chairman of that Commit
tee, hept it in his pocket until the Sergeant-at-
Arms Of the Council had to drag him and il before
the Council-how it defeated, aud how
milk and water bill merely sbolshing Slavery, and
intended more as screen to certain men, than for
any other purpose, passed the Council and went to
the House-how the House refused to recede,
Believing that the Council would not dare assume
such responsibility, and because they had treated
them discourteously in keeping the House bill so
long that there was no time for debate-h0w the
House bill was again brought before the Council,
and after procrastinating series OF motions and