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"- v'- '"-- - -. - 1 1 I ; I , 0 I I 1 ' my H Vy : j V 1 1 ' fS j TERMS :--Two Dollars per Annna--Ia Adrancf. . ' "bxjcst: ucr ALLra BY 6. W. BROWN & CO. " . LAWRENCE, KANSAS TERRITORY, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1855, ! . NUMBER 20-VOLUME I. Select' foefrij. From tlf LSttralor. Son? of the Kansas Emigrant. BT ALMIEA Ur MOrK. Awv from the Eock where onr Pilgrim Fires landed, . , " Awry from the IIUl where our Patriots bled, We, Patriot-IUrim, tojrutlter are baHded, - And westward, by Faith, tnd fur Freedom, re Jed. T take one last look of the bloe rolling ocean, WebrejUlwonelaatpnrcr ins 'ew England fine; We look npon all bare loved with erootion---Long, long shall ii be ere we greet the in again. Bat we leare not behind all of New England' glory; We bear in onr breast the true heart the ha trained, . We bear in our minds the hizh trotlus of her story. Pledged, in life and in action, to see them main tained. Up verdure-crowned mountain, o'er rich rolling prairie,' By lake and by river, those truth we will spread; - . And ere from the line of their precept we vary, On that oil, unprofaneJ, shall be made our cold bed- " Eight f Frtenmn fr atl! With the band of free labor . Wo till the free soil that a jnt" God has given; Jfo chain for our cliildrcn, no stripe for our rieTjrhbor .- Who enter our borders, their shackles are nv tn. Ilear, God of onr fathers, the pledge we have taken- ' IIear,men of our country, our purpore and aim; Keep, God of our fathers, our purpose nnnhaken: liLe, men of our country, and utter the same! Now, away to th West to a new Bock made holr; Awsv to the West to a new beacon bight; Our land shall be broad, though our cabin are ' lowlv. And lifij shall be blest in its service of Eight. From the Nat i mat Iatillujtnctr. Letter from Col. Benton. C Street, April 15, 1855. Messrs. Gales & Seaton, Gentlemen: I made a speech (that is to say, spoke by snatches at broken intervals, and then consolidated the whole into one piece for publication) iu the last days and nights (not counting Sundays) of the late ses sion of Congress on the subject of our Indian relations and the war with the Upper Missouri tribes, for the prosecution of which the four netf regular regiments were required. In that speech I averred that we had no tear with these tribes ; that the killing of Lieutenant Grattan and his command at Fort Laramie was the effect of great misconduct on the part of the Lieutenant ; and that the dep redations committed upon our traveling citizens were chiefly individual acts of retaliation, induced by previous wrong, which any western man acquainted with Indians could settle immediately ; and that some one of these men, not au army, should bo sent out to do the business. This is what I said in relation to the Upper Missouri and North Platte tribes. In relation to the New Mexican Indians I admitted there was tear, and had been for five years ; and affirmed and proved that it was brought on by the dreadful misconduct of our own officers. Iu that same speech, and in the absence of-cause for these regiments for Indian service, and for which I proposed mounted ran gers as the true species of force, I ex pressed my opinion that the real destina tion of these new regiments and the new ships of war was Cuba ; and iu that I do not think I was wide of the mark, the proofs accumulated in your paper of yes terday, showing to bo now meditated what I believed then and long before, to be premeditated. ' " But let that pass for the present. My business now is with the new Indian war on the Upper Missouri and the North Platte, aud of which war there is no exis tence, except in the imagination of our administration.. I had staked myself publicly on the non-existence of this war' at the time it was so imposingly commu nicated to Congress, and felt sure of what 1 said ; but wishing to verify. my opin ions, iu my late visit to Missouri I made inquiry among the citizens, and especially among those best qualified to know the truth, most interested in knowing it, and bound under the peril of life andproperty to make no mistake I mean the fur tra ders, of whom there are many in Mis souri, and of the first respectability, and with large capitals embarked in the trade. They answered me with one voice that there was no war on the Upper Missouri or North Platte ; that they had been car rying on their trade as usual during the winter with the Sioux and other tribes in that quarter, except in the articles pro hibited by die United States officers, and were now fitting out for the trade for the feresent vear without the least apprehen sion of Indian hostilities. This is what they all told me, from the largest compa nies, with their hundreds of thousands permanently invested and- hundreds of men employed, aown vj we muiTiuuai traders, with their temporary outfit of a few wagons' and half" a dozen men. 1 will name one of each class, the firm of Chouteau & Co.is as old, father and son, as the foundation of St Louis in 1764, always carrying on the trado on a large scale, and still engaged m it as a perma nent pursuit I asked them what amount they had now invested ? what was the .state of their trade at present? and what 2ect the proposed' Indian - war would hare upon it ? They directed their clerks to make out from their books their answer to my first inquiry, and gave it to me. which I have in writing with me now 370,000.; The state of their trade at present was the same as it has always been, with the exception of the articles prohibited by the United States officers, peaceful and prosperous, and that they had suffered no losses, excent some Si 2.- 000 at the time of the bloodshed at Fort Laramie. -The effect-of the war upon their trade,-they said, would be to para lyze all the capital invested, to stop their .operations, and bring great losses upon Jhcm, rendering six fortified establish ments and three hundred men, now in the Indian country, a useless and expensive incumbrance on their hands. - This was he answer of Sarpy and Chouteau, the son, active partners of the firm, and beat quaiinea to answer my question. Now I give the answer of a small in dividual trader to the same question, Mr. Auguste Archambault, a mountain man -Creole French of twenty years' stan ding, one ot r remont s men, and to me personally known. He came to see me the day before I left St. Louis, and, in the course of conversation, told me that he was going out on a small trading ex pedition four wagons, five men, one boy and about 4,000 of Indian goods ; and that he was going beyond Fort Laramie and. up to the Sweet 'Water river, wlich flows from the South Pass. I asked him if he was not afraid of being killed and robbed by the Indians. He answered, not at all ; and thai he could go alone to every tribe ; and actually took no more men with him than Were neces sary to drive his wagons. I pointed his attention to the military expedition ; but he said he should not stop for it ; that his wagons were gone, and he should go on immediately. The fact was, he did not believe it possible that the United States could make war upon peaceable Indians, and, considered it certain that the campaign would end with a harmless march. And this is the. way in which this new Indian war is viewed at St. Louis bv those best qualified to know the truth, most interested in knowing it, and to be most damaged by a mistake in relation to it. The object of this' "communication, gentlemen, is to endeavor to prevent a useless Indian war by showing to the public that there is no necessity for it ; aud with this view-1 send yoli an article, cut from the Missouri Democrat giving the latest news from this alarming seat Of war, and confirming all that the fur tra ders had told me. I wish you to publish my speech against this Indian war, as printed in the Congressional Globe ; to be followed up. if you are willing to spare mo a few occasional -columns of your paper, by other communications on the same subject, and possibly on some others. Remaining, gentlemen, your obliged fellow citizen. - THOMAS II. BENTON. Fur the Jlerald ff Freedom. A Trip to Kansas". Laweence, May 17, 1855. Ed. Herald : From the organization of society men are so placed as to- set little or no -value upon a thing easy of attainment, or in "mercantile phraseology that they do not estimate an article oth erwise than according to its cost. Acting upon this well established truth, the man who leaves his home to seek in a far land that prosperity which he cannot attain in his own neighborhood, must at once, in a manner, re-string his nerves and steel his finer sensibilities, in order to manfully encounter the numerous obstacles, which the greatest prudence cannot always foresee, and which he may rest-assured will beset his path on either side. This is made, to appear the more necessary when he counts the cost of any success ful operation. He will also find in most cases, upon a close calculation, that he has paid fully as much as "it is worth. This latter consideration, properly under stood, will act as a powerful stimulcnt in effecting those great and beneficial changes which never fail to follow the stops of-the bold and enterprising. - The irresolute should pause, for their coin cannot certainly be current where cour age and constancy united form the only medium of exchange. There are others who should also bear in mind, that it is a plain absurdity for any one in this money-seeking age to expect to barter a thing of little worth for another of costly make. The connection of the foregoing with what foltows is so apparent as to need little comment. Those moting to ivansas Territory from the eastern States and wishing to economise in. time as well as in money will find the railroad through Chicago the quickest by several days, but to those who can afford to loiter a little by the way, the route through Cincinnati Lou isville, fec, is recommended. The great beauty and never ending variety of the scenery along the banks of the Ohio and Mississippi will well compensate the tour ist or emigrant for-the delay of a few days. The writer's experience was simply as follows. He bought a through ticket from Buffalo to St. Louis for .818 50, meals and state-room included. Left Buffalo in the cars at 1 1 o'clock P. M. on Monday, April 23d, reached Cincinnati at 7 P. M. the following Tues day. As the steamboat connecting with this line leaves only in the morning, he staid at the -Spencer House, a first class hotel and under excellent management. Left Cincinnati at 2 P. M. Wednesday, in the elegant mail steam packet "Jacob btrader, reached Louisville about .3 o'clock the next morning. At this place some delay is caused by a change of boatSf as the mail steamers draw too much water for them to pass over the falls between Louisville and Portland ; so all the passengers, baggage and freight are carried overland to Portland about 3 miles distant, and re-shipped on board of another strainer waiting be low. The removal of baggage, at all times troublesome, and frequently expen sive, is now attended .with certain loss ; for in the absence of credible authority, it would appear as if the employees of a railroad company were either feed or otherwise interested , in destroying as much of the passenger's effects as they could conveniently do in so short aspace of time. A box of clothes and books. beloninsr to the writer, reached Cincin nati; by Railroad from B uffalo, in so dis tressed a condition that by the time it came to Portland it was open, and several articles were missing. About mid-day, the transportation being effected, he went on board the Baltimore, one of the finest boats on the western waters, and continu ed his journey to St. Louis, where he ar rived about 8 o'clock, P. U., the Satur day frtllnwin. Dnrincr some partof the trip a few black-legs came on board,, but suck w as the caution and respectaouuj of the comnanv that these gentry had to soon go ashore, as was supposed, in des pair at the badness of trade. There was but little eneourao-emeat ffiven to their department of scienee, nor was there any person present heard of being victimized; the main body of the passengers being of too stern a class for such operations. On account of the unusual number of emi grants andothers going up the Missouri nver at this season, a great many of the Baltimore's passengers went the evening of arrival immediately on board the Sono- ra, a steamer enaed to start at 4 P. M. on Mondav, and enacd berths to Kan sas city, Mo., each paying 813. This promptness was found necessary, as be fore noon on Sunday every berth was en gaged. ' On Monday morning an old man and his son, from the South, took pas sage on boara ot tne oonora. l ne umer bemar feeble, the son carriedthe money, and it was not long before he was fleeced of every cent 8350 by an entire stran ger, in the following manner: Ihe stranger, having been on board for sever al hours, apparently with the intention of going with the boat, induced the young man to go up town with him; the fellow soon had occasion to make a bet with an other seeming stranger, and borrowed the young man's money for the purpose, giving him to hold as security a worth less piece of paper having some resem blance to a bank check, for 8500, with the assurance that he the loaner should receive half the amount of the bet; the gaming of which, on his part, he made his victim believe a matter of certainty. The sharper having obtained the money, very soon, in common language, made tracks, leaving his dupe so bewildered by fear and astonishment as not only to be utterly incapable of following, but also of giving any accurate description of the fellow; therefore no steps were taken in the matter. The clerk of the boat paid the young man and his father their pas sage money again, and the twain left im mediately for the South, apparently satis fied it was no worse, concluding that the portion of the elephant visible on the oc casion was enouirh. On Sunday the writer was much as tonished at seeing the laborers on the Levceloadingandunloadingthesteamers, although many Were not advertised to leave tuL the Monday following. It was a strange coincidence, that while reflect ing on so gross an evil, he turned into St. George's Church, and there heard a dis course preached by the Rector on the text, "Ihe Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath." It was so forcibly plain as to seem, even on the lowest ground, quite unanswerable. While listening, he could not help con trasting the miserable, degraded appear ance of the laborers he had just seen, with the clean and manly aspect of such as do not willingly violate the ordinances of the Sabbath. At past 4 on Monday afternoon the writer left St. Louis on the Sonora, but so great was the number of passengers that at night the cabin floor was covered with sleepers. As tho weathei was cool after leaving St Louis, no serious incon venience on thataccountwas experienced, but had the mercury risen much higher, much suffering and danger must have ensued. There was very little sickness on board, though on the boat's arrival at Kansas city on the morning of Saturday following, a young man died, it was said, before he could be removed ashore some said of cholera. It is due here ! to say, that although arms and liquor were in abundance, and opinions many and various, a more quiet, respectable, and social company, seldom met together. It is but justice also to the ofheers of this boat to observe that their conduct to wards the passengers formed a praise worthy contrast to that of the officers of the "Sam Cloon," a boat that left St. Louis for Kansas a short time before the Sonora. The statement given to the wri ter by one of the passengers, a gentleman whom he met at Westport, Mo., was in substance as follows: The Sam Cloon left St. Louis for Kansas with about 150 passengers, many of them so poor that the clerk observed to informant that from sone of them he had just taken the last dollar. Upon the arrival of the boat at Kocheport, 8 miles below isoonville, and 237 miles from Kansas city, the officers declared that they could proceed no fur ther at present, but must wait till the riv er rose, whieb probably' would not. take place for 3 or 4 days. The passengers were then put ashore; to prevent any sut fering or inconvenience to them, they were considerately told that as many, as chose to stay on board could be boarded for 51 50 per, day. Ihe condition to which many of these poor dupes were thus reduced was truly pitiable. A tew hours after the dismissal of the passen gers, the boat proceeded up the river on its course, and was then baturday ly ing at Weston. The Sonora was seen passing up about the time of the landing. The .gentlemen's expenses, in this way, from JSt. .Louis to Kansas city, was near 825. The writer paid just 813 for the same distance. There, were other boats at the same time doing the same disgrace ful business, mentioned to the writer, but as the information was not so direct concerning them, they will be watched, and their case attedend to at a future op portunity; as the writer has resolved to expose to his eastern friends, thus pub licly, every fraud and imposition prac ticed on the weak and unwary, that falls nnderhisnotice. WM. D.LYSMUR. Old Maxima no Longer Applicable Dr. Franklin is reported to have said that three moves are as good as a fire. Bat in this age of gas and steam, that Eroportion no longer exists. ' For if the octor could stand at one of our railroad depots, and witness the passengers bag gage thrown on andoff, it would not great ly tax his mathematical powers to -see that the difference of having one's effects smashed by the employees of & railroad company, and burned up at a fire, would reasonably grow beautifully less and less. in proportion to the distance traveled and the number cf times of changing cars. This is a great country, and we are so much of a great people as to render alter ations necessary, even in the prudential rxims of our forefathers. If you wish tP pronounce an unpartial judgment,, never accept any lavor. education. "As the twig is bent the tree's inclin ed." This word has a more-extended definition than is usually given to it. It is applicable to the animal and vegetable creation, as well as to' man. But take it in either case, and it is universally con ceded that no time is so propitious for its exercise as their earlier stages of growth. The most docile horses in the world, the far-famed Arabian coursers, enter on their training at a very early age, and 1 venture to say that all animals remarka ble for good training, have been taken in hand at the earliest practicable time. The wild fruits of the forest, by careful cul ture, have developed delicious varieties that minister largely to the comfort of mankind, as well as the commerce of the world. But wfiat I intend at this time to speak of more particularly is, its ap'plicability to the human mind. It is here we see its results- more prominently brought to view. It is the principle brought to bear on the greatest and noblest work of Deity, because '.'made after his own image." In considering the subject of human education, I am led chiefly to view its importance in shaping the destiny of man. When I compare the struggles of. emi nent men against adverse circumstances in early life, and see the result of their labors attributable to their mental educa tion. I never behold a crowd of boys with uncombed hair and eyes sparkling with'native intelligence, but I am led to think there may be among them "some mute, inglorious Milton, or Cromwell, innocent of his country's blood." While I claim for education much the largest share in thus elevating men from the humbler walks of life, I do hot wish to be considered as underrating that native strength of intellect which will sometimes make its way to eminence without its aid. But when I see the ends accomplished by great men, and know the aid they receiv ed from education, I can draw the con clusion that without it they had lived, died, and been buried, "unwept, unhon- ored and unsung." It is in this view of the case that I attach such great impor tance to its influence. Such being the strength of early impressions, it becomes the duty of every parent to "train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." But it is to a mother's influence that I can ofteriest trace the germ of a great and noble character, and it is left with her, in the greatest degree, to shape the infant mind for weal or woe. History is full of instances in support of this fact. -In conclusion, it can only be said that no one who has been favored with even an indifferent education, as regards what has been called the three R's reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic will for a moment hesitate to say that "learning is better than houses and Lands," and according as man has advanced beyond this, so has the mind been made capable of the higher and nobler enjoyment of. understanding the works of God, as displayed in the material universe. I Saw Him Do It Worth Reading. I saw a laborer weary from hiswork. I saw him stoop and take a stone, that lay in the pathway of passing wheels, and cast it out of the road. -This sight did me good. This stone might be struck by a passing wheel to the discomfort per haps of the traveler, and possibly the injury of the vehicle. It was kiud in the man to remove it. "What a trifle for a newspaper para graph!" says a captious one. -Not so nay friend. The act was small, but the mo tive noble that act was small, but the principle on which it is based, is of un speakable value to the human race. I love to trace things, especially such things, to their fountain. That man had emotion in his soul when he stooped to pick up that stone. He felt nght. It was kind in him. I have a right to think that act was but one of the links of a chain ; and never was a chain : made of better material love for the welfare of others. Such a chain is all cold. The man had just done such things before, I could not doubt. : tie would do sucn tnmgs again. It cost him something to do this, for there was a pelting storm of sleet, and he car ried an umbrella and he must pause in his rapid walk to do it. Well done my humble friend, if every other man would stop and pick out of the path of his fellow travelers through life the. things that vex and annoy them, how many sunny faces there would be in place of scowl ing ones ! Such acts as this man's ; give us enough of them and how great a howerof blessings I How much misery would be prevented! I shall not stop here. Ihe man that will do such things, will do greater things. That will show what the fountain is. He has a kind heart. He will remove larger stones than that from the path of human life. . Give me that man for my adversity. He who has honored ihe small draft will honor die greater. His good will not be exhausted by that effort. . It was a trifle, was it7; -rlcase then think, my friend, it can be but a trifle, for you to do such a thing. Do every such sort of thing anything that will remove obstructions out of the path of numan nappiness. - triveyour neignoora jog to ojy so too. remaps ne win pass the jog-along, and we shall joggle some of the selfishness out of the human heart. gST Co1.'Bestos has. addressed a let ter to the National Intelligencer, in which he avers, upon competent testimony, that there is no war with the Indians o& ihs frontier ; that the arming of the- new regiments is merely a pretext for prepa rations against Cuba. On his lata visit to St Louis, he made enquiries among the fur traders, men of the first respecta bility,. who have large capitals embarked in the trade, and they all assured him there was no war and no likelihood of a war on the Upper Missouri or North Platte : that they had been carrying cn their trade as usual without the least ap prehension of hostilities.; They depre cated the preparations for war as being ruinous- to their business, and no just to the Indians who are peaceable and harmless. ',' For the Herald 1 Frttdam. Tne Kansas Emigrant to his Wife," BT XKS. IT. r. HARLOW. Come, conic my love! oh, come to me, - Companion of my heart; . Jor 1 havefonnJ a home for tlicc, No more, no more we'll part. Gme, oh! come to theiranny West, Where flowers ever bloom -For hore I've found my dove a nest. Oh! never more we'll roara : The sir is balmy here, sad bland,. Perfumed with odors nwsct, And breeze fresh from far upland . Our cottage home, will greet; - J -The hectic nueh on thy wan fiwe Will surely change it hue, The rose-tint, love, will take its place, Thine eye a deeper blue. ' Then haste thee, love, where cheerful songs From feathered warblers awect, Without a fear, the wholeyear lonr, Thy longing ear shall greet-; Onr buildings, true, are not bo grand, Our tables are not spread With ever- dainty of the land, As where we both were bred. " Jvot that I prize New England less, For aye, 1 love her now As when my feet her soil first pre&'d, Aa when we pledged onr vow; But bettor far 1 love the West, Her climate is so mild It teems to me 'twas Hi behest T-look down hero and smile. Together here well toil, and pray That Kansas may be free, . That every nook and plain so gay, Accursed may not bo That southern bonds anl bigots' wiles Touch not this hallowed ground. But where God now so sweetly smiles lie never need to frown. v The Kansas Outrages. The accounts that we have of the re cent election in Kansas, are calculated to cause the most painful - sensations in all reflecting minds. They show that law lessness is completely triumphant in that Territory, aud that orderlyi law-abiding people are there compelled, at the peril of" their lives, to submit to a despotism compared with which, that which, pre vails in TLussia or Turkey is mild and merciful. What has been done in Kan sas is precisely as if the inen of Boston were to g& overto Charlestown, and there vote for the municipal officer and repre sentatives of that city, threatening - all the while to hang the legal voters if they should dare to open their mouths to ob ject to a proceedi ug so villainous. What would the people of Massachusetts say if, at some vitally important election, there should be returned from Hull or New. Ashford five thousand votes, as having been given for the gubernatorial candidate of a particular party, and it should turn out that those votes had been cast by ruffians from New York, who had compelled the town authorities to receive them, or be hanged let this is just what has been done in Kansas, where thousands of assassins from Mis souri voted into office the men who are to make the. territorial laws, and otherwise to carry on the government, of a commu nity which must soon be applying for ad mission into the Union. -Such, is the first effect of what has been called the "right of self-government.'' We are not disposed to hold the border communities of the republic to a very strict accountability.: ' A. good deal of violence is to be expected in the life of such places, and we have no right to ex pect 111 their elections that nice regard for forms, or that reverence for the require ments of law, which are so common in old and well established societies. But the wrongs that have been perpetuated iu Kansas are not such as we expect oc casionally to hear of in border regions. They are not such things as proceed from heat of blood. Ihey are -the results of a cool, deliberate system of terror, a sys tem of fraud, concocted by the scoun drels who brought forward the-Nebraska bill against the wishes of every respect? able man in the nation. These fellows' whether under the patronage of the general government is not yet known have organized . lawlessness. Their crimes have all the cold-bloodedness that marks the action of -selfish, sordid, cal culating villains. There is not a single palliating circumstance about their con duct. They have conspired against the law, and have succeeded in subverting it. The .rowdies whom they have em ployed are far less to blame than the chiefs in the conspiracy, the Catalines and the Cethegues, who are destined to fall before the fiery indignation of the great majority of the people of the -Un ion. -Ihe threats to hang uorernor Beeder have been littered by vagabonds, but they originated in the minds of those scoundrels to whom belongs the paternity of the Nebraska bill. It was right that assassination should be plan ned by perjured repudiators. What has happened is just what might have been expected. When the govern ment of a great nation sets the example of violating the most solemn obligations bligations that are of the nature of constitutional compacts what right have we to expect that a semi-brutalized pop ulace, the sweepings F southwestern brothels and groggeries, just the sort of criminals to be taken into the pay of the Atchisons and Douglases, ana the rest of that Catilinarian crew, who have dis turbed again the peace of the country. what right, we ask, have we to expect an observance of the law s requirements on the part of such social scum, when inen who occupy the position of states men have become infamously notorious for their utter lawlessness? They have made of Lynch law the rule to, aot the exception to, Western border life. The Kansas election will open up anew the whole slavery discussion,' and the country is destined to be convulsed once more on the most exciting subject that can excite the public mind. All the hopes of peace that were for a time cher ished, have been abandoned, and we must pass years in. contention, with what tesult who can tell ! We now are begin ning to understand what a vast .amount of mischief was contained in that Nebras ka bill, which was brought forward b one set of knaves, and forced througt : - Congress by another setthe former be ing the purchaser, and'the latter the pur chased and between the two the coun try was sold. That evil act has been fast followed by another, and Congress, to prevent the triumph of plains, must interpose in the territorial aSairs of Kan sas, and convince the rabble and their leaders that they are not yet the govern ing power of the territory." Then will come on slavery debates, and there will be nothing but angry feelings prevalent, where, if we had had an honest govern ment, peace would have been the ruling spirit. Such is ever the effect of doing wrong in public affairs. Boston Bee. Kansas. The aggregation of facts respecting the recent elections in Kansas leave no doubt but the letter and spirit of the or ganic law of the Territory have been grossly violated by the incursions of citizens of Missouri, expressly for the purpose. Statements made subsequent to the election of the territorial delegate are confirmed by recent events. Simi lar JJcenes have been reenacted ; similar wrongs have been inflicted upon the people of tho Territory ; elections have been controlled by masses thrown upon the soil temporarily from Missouri, who retired after the violent achievements of their purpose, and triumphed over the outrages of their hands. Now, for our part, we do not care whether Kansas is to be a free or slave State. It is, in fact, no business of ours. We have as little rightto interfere in the matter as the peo ple of Kansas have with slavery in the State of Maryland. But lawlessness, open violation of popular rights, news paper menaces, utterances less vague than audacious against tho constituted authorities in short, the . triumph of migni over ngnt is, in principle, as near to us in Kansas as iu Maryland.. Hence we do not hesitate to speak upon this suDjecc. Governor Reeder has- abandoned the Territory, in all probability hopeless of establishing social order and civil author ity under the organic law of the laud He is on his way to Washington, with a view; it is said, of spreading the facts personally, before the administration. Of his further purposes we are unofficial? ly advised, but not disposed to antici pate. The question whether the pepplo of Kansas are to be protected in the ex ercise of their rights, is in all probabili ty to be met and answered in Washing ton. We tike for granted that the an swer will be an affirmative one. There is no North, no South, no East, no West, about this question. It is a plain, straightforward issue, in which all par ties, and each individual citizen is con cerned, and which nobody can fail to un derstand. That the proceedings of these lawless Missourians are retaliatory we cannot de ny. They are retaliatory against a con structive provocation. A .considerable number ot persons in the eastern States anti-slavery men, abolitionists, or free- so lie re designate them as we may, con ceived the idea of forcing emigration to- Kansas and Nebraska and accordingly organized for that purpose... Their ob ject, undoubtedly, wasto.mako Kansas a free State. An "jnigrant Aidbociety" succeeded in throwing large numbers of freesoilers into the Territory, but it is understood, and we presume will hardly be denied, that these people went out with the intention of becoming perma nent residents of Jthe Territory. They, with others who entered Kansas with the same intention from other sections of the Union, constituted the legal voters.of the Territory. But these legal voters have been overridden, by mcursionists from Missouri, according to reliable statements before the public ' . ' The occupation of the Territory of Kansas was an open project, available to any and all sections of the Union. That anti-slavery has laid hold of it, and that successfully, can never justify the law lessness by which it has been encounter ed. To maintain the converse of this proposition is to put slavery outside of the law. Uut we may not put it there we may not connive to anything which would tend to put it there but at immi nent peril. ior is mere any necessity for it. Slavery is a tractable thing enough within the law; and the good sense of the peoplo . will always sustain the right, with respect to tho free or the 6lajre states, fanatics may rave for the time, and wrong may seem to prevail ; but eventually the substantial force of popular intelligence re-establishes the right., It is by. this substantial, popular intelligence in the South, as in the JNorth, that the wrongs of Kansas must be made right The nation must sustain its own legislative poliey, orlhe equilibrium of public faith and popular confidence will be seriously disturbed. Our readers have not overlooked the fact, that the most, virulent sentiments have emanated from some of the outlaws of Platte county, which is immediately contiguous to Fort Leavenworth. ' Meth odist preachers- are denounced without qualification, and threatened, with the most brutal- treatmemt if they enter the county. This is sadly in keeping with tne wild, prospective spirit wnicn seems to have temporarily preverted the theory of government elsewhere, But its hide ous intolerance is most offensively thrust upon our notice, by such declarations as these from the madmen of Platte county.' Next to the preachers whom ? The Methodist people. A whole denomina tion may be proscribed and cast out of a county or a State because the'Iaw of might is rampant, and men of ungovern able passions wield die gnarled scepter of anarchy and desolation, - -These things must not be, cannot be, under a government of law and order. Excesses, though remcter&re felt pttlsa ting to tiie m very center of our national organization. And if wrong and out rage have been perpetrated on the.soi! of Kansas, and are still held in terrorem over the people of that Territory, or over good citizens of Missouri, by the bad, the iirpbsitfon of the general govern ment must not ba invoked ia Tia. Bcl tiztore San. ' " The Conflict In. Kansas. It appears that the Missouri bullies are followiug up Uieir outrages in the Kan- sas eiecwon, oy claiming .10 aepose uie uovcrnor appointed by the .rresadent, and choosing one themselves for tho peo ple of that Territory. The simple state ment discloses a condition of things than which none more remarkable or revolu tionary has been exhibited in our politi cal history since the foundation of the Government. 1 et it does not strike U3 with surprise, for it is in keeping with their previous proceedings, and illustrates only what we have often said and repeat ed in regard to the designs of the slave holders', and the method by which they propose to subjugate Kansas, and, through it, all the free territory of" the United States. Slavery is to be extended indefinitely over this continent. This is the deter mination of the. p'ropaganda. If it can bo allowed to spread peaceably, very well. If not, the purpose is clear to force it at the point of the bayonet. The act of usurpation to which we allude is entirely in consonance with the deliber ately formed designs of the slave power. It buckles on its armor and declares itself ready to fight for supremacy, and for the humiliation And subjection .of the free states. It invaded Kansas with ,000 armed men for this purpose. Its hordes DivouacKea on ner piams, ana ner citi zens "overwhelmed by numbers, were forced to submit to their domination in tho late proceedings denominated an election. Flushed by their success, and finding the Governor sent out by the President revolting at such' barefaced and infamous conduct, they now avow their intention to depose him, and if he anpears in Kansas airain. to take his life. Meanwhile, without even the form of law, or the pretense of jegularity, they undertake to appoint one in his stead. This revolutionary proceeding will force the Government at Washington to recognize tho acts of the propaganda headed by Atchison. Gov. Reeder must now be sent back, sustained by a suffi cient military force to protect his person and enforce his authority, and the pro ceedings of the late election so-called, must be set aside, or the Administration must tamely submit to the slaveholder's usupation. We know well enough that the head of the War Department is a man who is not only on the side of the slave power in this crisis, but is one of the champions of slavery extension, and of disunion also, unless the" Government can bo used to further his designs. How much he cau be. relied on to do, by way of detailing a sufficient military force to put down the lawless proceedings of the Missouri mob, can be judged from this circumstance. We expect -nothing of him but to afford aid and comfort to the usurpers. As to- the President and a majority of the Cabinet, we are not pre pared to judge. The Nebraska measure is a child of the Administration ; its aim was to surrender free ten itory to slavery ; and in the war to complete this hateful purpose, however irregularly and infa mously waged, what cau we expect but to see the Administration assist in the consummation of the enterprise ? Nev ertheless, we await future developments before charging .complicity upon -the members of the Government with this violent and infamous attempt to make Kansas a slave State." - We are not prepared either to sav to what these proceedings are likely to lead. They seem, however, pregnant with, the A. .... - seeds of great good or evil. They sound in our cars like the distant roar of the coming tempest. " Events of startling character and magnitude may stand in fearfnl proximity behind that dim and shadowy veil which divides the present r .t r . mi Tr - TT- tromtne iuxure. mere is jvansas. ner territory is free soil. It was never stain ed by the tread of a -slave. Her plains never echoed to, the lash of the slave driver's whip, nor the groans of the en chained bondmen. The millions of the free States have thundered out the declar ation that they never shalL On one side, the slave power has risen initsmightand declared its purpose to subjugate that Territory, and plant slavery there, in de fiance of the Northi in defiance of, the pleadings of humanity, in defiance of the spirit of freedom. It has armed its myr midons, marshaled and sent them forth to execute its purposes. Tho symbols of their, errand were dehantly promenaded through the Territory in the late scanda lous inroad, in the shape of negro fiddlers and negro attendants. As the conquer ors of old carried their captives in their train, so did our modern brigands open their career by similar demonstration. The appeal is now made to arms. By the sword they declare shall Kansas be gained to slavery. The vaunt is openly flung' forth, and the challenge to all the world is, let him dispute us who dare. The first step taken has been to put be neath their heel the real residents and oc cupants of the. soil. The next is to depose the Governor; and pronounce another in bis place. A third is to de clare war againstali who dare oppose their plans.- The army of slavery- is thus en- camped on vne sou -01 jxansas, oemrer- entand fierce. It pretends to hold the country by the conqueror title. ' Such is the position of one side in the struggle for the possession of Kansas. On the other, stands a litue oana 01 me sons of freedom, just now borne down by numbers, but resolute in purpose and ready to do their part toward repelling the barbarian lavaaers.-- xue uu.wu whether they are to be seconded by. tha people of tho North. rIs there a genuine spirit of freedom In the country, ready to UO bOuicbuLug sgauxtLUQ auwtviu cmiwv-v of the slaro power to continental domin ion? Are there those who are willingto migrate to Kansas to aid in maintaining the freedom of Kansasat the cost of such perils as may ariso ? . Are the northern oeonla srsneraUy up to the demand of the civilization and the humanity of the times ? Do: therrne&u Kansas shall be force that shall drive out the. lordes f land pirates who have made their desant upon Kansas, will cot be long in.Tona ing. Swayed nd, inspired by the senti ments of freedom, they will scatter its enemies like chaff. - But we are not quite sure that the people of the free States are in earnest in the - resolve to maintain the freedom of Kansas. "We do not know whether the emigrants thither from the free States will prove themselves ready to accept tho responsibilities of their posi tion, and meet the , issue raised by tha slaveholders, if they do. the tune is here for the North to show that her peo ple are worthy'of their sires. If it bo otherwise, their degradation is un.rpeak- aoie, ana tney are ht only to live as the . slaves 01 slaves.. J Tribune. . A Kan-saa Correspondent. A correspondent from Leavenworth, to tho Missouri Democrat, writing un der date of the 17th of April, has a very interesting description of a recent tour through the Territory. . We pub lished a communication from the same writer last winter, which the reader will call to mind from the allusion to tho wolves. Wo extract as. follows:- I have just returned from another visit to say political friends of the plains. I was so fortunate as not to get lost, or" be pursued by wolves, this time. Squat ters' habitations form distinct land-marks nearly the whole distance. He said to me, "Well, our election is over and tho returns are in. It was but the second scene in tho first act of the political dra ma of Kansas. The same parado and noise and meeting were kept ud as in scene the first, and received the same ap plause from those in the gallery (vix: ..: t. t.ri utcruwiuvt,; ximay uesiroy, in soma measure", the interest of a play, to re veal its denouement in the early portion of the performance ; but knowing it will go no farther, I will just whisper to you that this is a play of three acts, with- two scenes in each act. Throughout the sec ond act and the first scene of the last. that same Ajack of a fellow will contin ue to brawl across the stage and have everything his own way- defying ill law, and repudiating right; but in the last scene a new character, who all this whilo has been reposing in confident security, will' step forward with tho glittering sword of .justice in his hand, and sweep ing away, una , Draggart ana his noisy strappers, will plant tho banner of free dom upon impregnable battlements where it will stand forever. And as right and might combined, shall triumph over trickery and bombast, and the play ia ended, the whole housj save tho gal leiy'will resound with the heart-string cry "encore. . "It has gone abroad, and many believe that the two past elections are indicia of the future. This is ono of the mistakes which appearances will sometimes occa sion when we do not examine the facts. Let us look at them for a moment ' "The population of. Kansas is somo sixteen or twenty thousand persons, of whom, at least twelve Ihousandare voters. At the late election, only six; thousand two hundred and twenty-nine votes wcro polled. Of these 5559 were pro-slavery, and only 670 free-soil. In the fifth, seventh, eighth aiul ninth Council Dis tricts there were no free-soil tickets. In the first second, and third Districts thero was such suspicion of fraud that the elections are contested ; and in the sixth District although Donaldson, pro-slave ry, received 396, and Conway, free-soil, only 149, the fraud upon the part of tho pro-slavery men was so palpable, that the Governor gave the certificate of elec tion to Conway. So that any. one with half an eye can see that this election was no test of the relative' strength of tho parties. " In four-tenths of the Districts the free-souers had no tickets ; in three- tenths, although the returns show im mense pro-slavery majorities, there are contests on the ground of fraud ; and in one District where the "pro-slavery candidate received a majority of xnoro man two to one, tne certmcate ot ejec tion was given to hU competiior.-r-Thus it is evident thaCwbile the free soil party made no effort, the pro-slavery men were using very extraordinary and unfair means to carry everything their own way. . -Thus it will, continue- to ba until the time arrives for forming a State constitution, w hen -the friends of freedom will arise in their strength and carry the day without an effort. They already have a decided majority and th&ir cum bers are augmenting daily. . It is useless to make au effort cow, when it would produce only unpleasant collisions with hot-brained men and. perhaps occasion a CowiBg of blood when there is no utility in it Nothing would be gained by our carrying every election, in our territorial condition, but when we come to form our organic law, it will bebooYe' ttar to do our duty, and tee k31 doit " . Thus spoke my . friend, and yoa f can have it for what it is worth. I mast con fess that it afforded me abundant contem plation on my solitary road homeward, " Got. Reeder, cf Kansas. In relation to the" remarks of the Ban ner of yesterday morning on the conduct of "the Governor of Kansas,- we remark that the Proclamation of Gov. Reeder for an election ia that Territory waa issued on the 26th of February, and the election was held on the 30th March. There was, therefore, more than "tixleen days no tice of it; there was thirty-two days no tice. ; We were informed by Geo, Whit field, the Delegate from Kansas, when he was in this city a week or two ago, that the President directed tho Governor of Kansas' to bold the election in March, at the request of hiasel--Ga. W. Tho citizens cf Kansas wished the election to be. held before the spring, emigration of the Abolition Emigration Societies arriv ed. - We have before us a copy of Got. Reeder prochusatioo orderisg the elec tion. - n -relation to the , qualification of voters, he only recites the Taw. Wehave been disposed to r?ard Oov. Keeder a conduct with suspicion, Butthe evidence in our possession entirely disproves the charges repeated - against him by tEa Bumer.SatifiUr, .Text Union. r