New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-08
He has been schoded

to regard the Slave Power az the hijeous enemy ot
Republican right. With prophetic eye the old
innn sees the grsspiog Slave Power changing thc
nGLlest luuao f07Crnmcot % ear b into the bsse.
est Tbst Power, IN is futile Border Rufian
efforts to plSnt Slavery in K,Dsas, carried desoh.
ton to bis b. b.lrtbsione. Irene noer T. haze stood
among the ashes Of hls home, and the homes OF his
teo IONS, burned down by Pate and his mrn. Ald
then his Oi6est soD, ctsiued Ike boast was
driven Cd foot before coHp-ry Of csvsl'y, United
States soldiers, too, who bad 40 legal authority to
touch hlD, apd yet driven ubder broidrg sdn
thus beasly IDsnacl-d for more than thirty In es
Tten, his brave boy, Fred. sleeps in martyrs
grave at Osawatsmic. But oil these things are
settled. The perpetrators ba-h ia Off ;isl smiles,
ard are peDsOned for their work. Toe Old man
sees this. Perhaes he does Dol think il settled. II
il more than probable he has bis own views oa tina.
subject. Bat be is q mopomauiac The blood
ht unds af'cr him. In cruel rage they rcine!n-
her Osav atomic, and atc tblrsriog for his booi.
The teoplc e Kansas symPathize with him. at
the public meeting iD Lawrence, the other week,
when Montgomery addressed tho people aod Was
chet red sshe took his ssa several voices cried out
" Three cheers f,r old CaO'6il BrOwD," and they
were 2 ven with s1lI Bat conservatism said II
was wrong: that the old man, IN the eytradition
of the Deeroes, had been engaged in very a les-
ticDable act; that BE could not be maintained, or
10 The remotcst degree encouraged 10 doiog any
thing of the bind. 1t was immoral. Hhat
then? Why, the Frees State people merely re-
nembeIed Border RuffisDsn. aud they fcnem-
bcIed Black Jack and O.a@atsmie. They
remembered v hen the cid man, with dozen men,
Lclo Reid army Of 300 men, and two caupon at
bay for hours, aid as long as their ammunition
lasted. They remembered that in their hour Of
peril be stood uuhnch'Dgly in the breach They
viii Ttmember it yet, should their border invaders
cntrap The old soldier. The United States MAI
sbals and all their deputies are after him.
The Governors are after him. The Ptesi-
dent bae horde of secret spies, feed with t1e
secret-seryice fund, after him, and now the Border
Ruffans, feeling that all these Thugs are made.
quite have invaded Kansas, and are after him. 1t
is reported that not less than $50 men stole across
the Missouri River at Weston, and are E" after Old
" John Brown"
VIII they Gud him Is the old soldier Of Free
dom doomed to end bis days on a Missouri gibbet,
OF in a Missuri pententiaryl He has but few
with or near him, probably, sud i. was reported,
was quietly leaving when tie whiskey y-tcd white
bloodhounds Of the border cbaiocd in their ars-
tccrstc masters lastes to hunt helpless ruus TaY
slayes, fanced that the old man w0s helpless, too,
and that they might pounce upon hin. Let them
take care.
BY the latest news from the South, we learn
tlrt Russell aud his posse we're fOrtIhing them
selves in Paris. They It'll had Corbin aud other
FTec-State prisoners in irons there A demand
for their relea,e bad been sent 10y the Ffee'State
men, ard it was reported that the place would be
attacked to-day unless the prisoners were set at
liberty. 1t appears that Russell, WHO was United
States Mashal in Arsansas recently, has been COM
missiored as Deputy Marshal by Fain since be
came over the border. Colby hes superseded Faio,
aud gone down, but we have heard of nothiog
that he has done. The fact is, be has but one OF
two alternatives Either fight with the Pro
Slavery men in tbeir pretended legal warfare, or
d,cour tenance these violent and irregular proceed
iuss. To do the latter would probably be as much
as Bis office is worth. As he is a weak man, he
will likely attempt to compound the irregularities,
and will fail.
The Legislature is busy The bank charter Of
the Kansas Valley Bark has been under c0nsidera
ton. Tremendous lobby ohueOce has been at
work to SECURE its extension Still! il is TO be hoped
tbat the Legislators Will think twice before they
are BETRAYED into huy plundering scheme.