New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-23
CIVIL WAR ON THE BORDER.

We do not underrate the interests of stocks
and of commerce when we ayow the conviction
that there are other things of more value. The
country is. at this moment, cOnyulsed with ex-
ctement, and its commercial affairs disarranged
and sacrificed because portion Of the States,
fired by fancied wrongs, threaten to secede from
the Union. To avert this catastrophe, are
called upon by Northern submissiOnsts to make
o new compromise, Ia sacrifice the fruits Of the
victory which the Republican party has so long
sriyen for, and at last gained, and t. subyert
the Free States, for the protection of a class of
their citizens while at this very moment civil war
RACES upon the frontier the torch is put by Fed
ga. authority and in obedience TO the spirit of
.te slavery Propaganda to the houses of the
settlers, and they and their families driven
from their homes. Let us not forget the inter
ests of merchandise; let us also remember the
rights Of men. If new compact Of Union is
needed because the South c0nceyes herself to be
aggrieycd it will be well, in making that new
bargain, to consider the positive aggressOns
which the North has suffered, and is suffering at
this moment, because she has sent her free labor
and her free men to the plains of Kansas.
We published yesterday telegraphie dispatches
from ashiDgton IN relation to thetr0ubles in Kan
sas This intelligence rests on the authority of the
Government at Washington, and is 30 framed as
to constitute its own justification, and to mislead
the public. Civil war has again broken out
upon the border, it is true, and the Frce-State
men are again in arms; but they have sprung to
their rifles in self-deiense, to resist the inrosds
aided and allotted by the acts aud authority of the
Federal Government.
For year past there have been threats of a
renewal Of the hOstlites through which, for 80
long, Kansas has been compelled to struggle into
existence. Occasionally a settler has been at
tackled by the PrO-Slayery mob, and sometimes
hanged, but this being the normal state Of the
border, would hardly have attracted attention,
were it not that such outbreaks were the I'm.
mlstakabe evidence that the outlaws of Missouri
and Arhansas had not abandoned their deter
minatOn of driving the Free-State men from
Kansas. Tie people of the Territory however,
are quite able, in such contest, to take care
Of themselves as they have done heretofore, and
but for subsequent events, the continuance of the
struggle, these last low mutterings of the storm
that had passed. would have attracted little
attention. The later and more serious difficulty
has another origin, and one of such character
that it gives Importance to the harassine inroads
from the southern border. The Federal Govern.
ment again steps in to complicate the difficulties
al that uDtortuuate people
About three years since survey was made OF
the Indian lands in the southwestern corner of
tie Territory, and the northern boundary of the
Indian Reservation fixed about twelve miles south
of Fort Scott. Immediately north of this was
he New-York Reservation, and notice was given
that these lands were open to settlement, as the
Indian title would soon be extingulshcd. Settlers
accordingly poured in, lands were taken mp on
preempllon, farms made, houses built, and
Bourbon County presently gave an indication OF
tle character OF the emigration by large Re-
publican vote no the elections. This was not the
result contemplated or hoped tor by the Govern
ment, aud one of those hgh-handed measures, of
which there are many in the history OF Kansas,
was resOrted To to drive these people out A
new survey was made, and the Indiou boundary