New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-09
KANSAS AND THE SENATE.

KANSAS AND THE SENATE
The whole connection of the Sham Democratic
marty with the affairs of Kansas, and more par
tculnrly Of The Senate of the United States, for
the last four years the SPECIAL embodiment and
representative Of that party, has been from begin
ming TO end series of falsehoOds, frauds and false
pretsnses Jracticed, attempted to be Practiced,
not only upon the inhabitants Of Kansas and the
people Of the Northern States, but, as the present
condition Of the Sham Democratic party shows, by
the saycholding AID non slayeholding leaders and
sections of that party upOn each other.
This wholesale system Of fraud and ialsehood
began with the famous SquatterSO 'ereignty clause
of the KaDsas.Ncbraska bill. Under cover of
leaving the inhabitants of the Territory at perfect
liberty to choose their own Institutions was con-
cealed an artful design to give Slavery legal
establishment from the start. 1t was expected
that the majority of the settlers, when the first
Legislature was chosen, would be Pro-Slayery i'm
migrants from Missouri, and that the lcgalization
of Slavery by the first Legislature would encour-
age an influx of settlers from savehoding States,
while il discouraged and prevented a tree-lobor
immigration. When this calculation was found
not to work, bolder frauds were res0rted to, with
the addition of force An irruptiye PrO-Slayery
mob from Missouri invaded the voting stations,
drove eff the legal voters and the legally appointed
officers, and returned a Legislature to suit them
selves. Thus was set up false and fraudulent
Legislature, pretending to be the Legislature Of
Kansas, and this body thus chosen, and perpetu-
attd by similar means, was recognized and upheld
by the United States Senate as representing tine
people of Kansas.
Under the auspices of this sham Legislature, a
sham Convention was got up by which was framed
the infamous Lecompton Constitution. The au-
thors of that Constitution, by shameful violation
of the pledges which they had gwen previous to
their election, refused to submit il to tho peo-
pie; but the people, having obtained an op-
portupity 10 vote upon it, by the action of the
Territorial Legislature-now, through Gov. Walk
er's refusal to be party to attempted frauds,
fairly elected for the first time-reected it
by an overwhelming majority. This document,
thus stigmatized and secuted by the people of
the Territory, the Senate of the United States
voted to impose upon them, under the false pre-
tense that it had been framed by a convention
duly elected, and that it must be considered in
legal and political point of view, as the act of the
people Of Kansas-a falsehood SO gross and out
ragcous as to produce split even in their own
ranks.
The effort to browbeat, coerce, and cheat the
people of Kansas into the adoption of Pro-
Slavery Constitution having been abandoned as
-
bar of the Senate with Constitution approved by
themselves, and under which the House of Repre-
sentatiyes has already voted to admit them into
the Union. Here again, they are met by the same
system of folgehood and false pretenses by which
they have been pursued from the beginning. IL is
pretended fy Mr.. Green, the Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Terrtories-and he seems
likely to carry majority Of the Senate with him
that, by deciniig to accept a part of IFS terri
tory wide waterless desert, the State Of Kansas
will be made poor, weak, and inefficient; and that
due regard to its protection requires that admis.
sion should be refused to the new State, except
with this worthless piece of desert tackled to it.
Against whom protection is needed, Mr.. Green
does not distinctly state. We suppose against the
Indians; but how the addition to the State of
Kansas Of the desert above referred to is to serve
as barrier against Indian hostties, il is difficult
to imagine. The danger to which Kansas has hth-
crto been exposed has chiefly been from Border
RufiaDs of different description, entering her
territories from another quarter, countensnced BY
the United States authorities and backed by the
United States Senate. AS Kansas has succeeded
in repelling these invaders and protecting herself
against these inroads, the present anxiety Of Mr..
Senator Green 10 provide protection for her seems
not only quite snperfuous, but mere pretense for
delaying her admission into the Union. So, also,
Of another objection urged by Mr.. Senator Green,
to Wit, her deficiency of population. If she had
people enough two years ago to be- admitted under
the lecompton Constitution, one would suppose
she must be sufficiently populous to come in under
Constitution of her own adoption. Everybody
knows that the objection of the Democratic Sena-
tors to the admission of Kansas grows out of the
disgust they feel that in spite of all their efforts to
hand her over TO the shareholders, she should have
turned out not only Free Labor but Republican
State. Though they have failed in cheating the
Free Labor Republican States out of this ultimate