The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-11

ana nrMcr. sugars were IN good demand with free
ales at quite full prices. Coffee was also firm, with
free sales of Java at l4ac The advance in corn de-
pressed the rates for its shipment to Liverpool,
| while cotton was taken at 3-l6d.
Kansas and the Restoration OF the Missouri
Compromise-A Difficulty.
| 1t is a notable feature of the times that the
| great abolition movement in the North, en-
bracing the organization of the republican
| party by the Stewards and Van Burens the
| fusion in Ohio under Chase, and the original
| negro worshippers in Massachusetts, and New
England, is now made to hinge almost exclu-
| sively on the restoration of the Missouri COM
| promise, and the defeat of the people Of Kan
sas in their asserted rights of self-government.
1t is great point gained when an issue is Sc
cured from an INSCRIPTIONS opponent.
| Whether the agitators have been driven off
from other points, or on to this, it makes little
difference. The former is probably the case,
as the Fugitive law, the Wilmot proviso, and
half dozen other specific aggressions Of the
oligarchy, seem to have lost their force. Mas
| sachusctts, Vermont, Ohio, and Wisconsin, ran
| the opposition to the Fugitive act entirely I'M
der ground. They overloaded the subject with
so much Of folly and madness, it is no wonder
that even the people of Massachusetts, pco-
| pie who elected Hiss Legislature and a
| Wilson to the Senate, and licensed their repre-
sentatives to run muck amongst it's women
and children, and were in ecstacies Of triumph
| when they found that the sacred cloisters Of
| female worship could not shield the frighted
devotees from the paid spies of the old Com
monwealth-it is no wonder that even such q
people should turn in disgust from their folles,
and shirk off the Fugitive law for the more
| distant and less dangerous matter Of the resto-
ration of the Missouri compromise, and fiat
footed opposition to the people of Kansas
upon the question Of selfgovernment
| If ever people had reason to doubt the
propricty Of popular sovereignty, it is the
Wanted frcemen of Massachusetts,. If that
principle in government has been impcached,
or its practical exercise seriously brought in
| question, We may appeal, not to Kansas, Min
nesota or New Mexico, but to New England,
for testimony in that behalf. Taking the
worst view of the disorders of the Territory
presided overly Gov. Reeder, and they become
harmless election disputes compared with the
studied treason of the Legislature of Massa-
chusetts against the Union Of the States, and
the exercise Of popular rights.
The question is now narrowed down to the
'Kansas perfdy"-to the 'desertion" Of the
North by the "doughfaces" the remedy
for all this is restoration and repeal 1t is a
little remarkable that those who deem them
selves aggrieved as members OF the Federal
| Union MI oa1l For IN
rebellion against the constitution and laws of
the United States But no matter. At pre-
cisely this point the issue is made. The Fugi-
tive law, the Temperance farce, and all other
rituals of agitation and folly, are thrust aside
for the trial of the question of the repeal of
the Kansas act, aud the restoration of the
Missouri compromise. That work accom-
plished, and even the Courier and Enquirer will
lapse into its former conservative position
will give up Garrison and Tappan, and again
take to the constitution and the fraternal
harmony Of the States.
| 1t will be seen that there are two questions
involved in this republican programme Of
repeal-the one affecting the compromise, and
the other the right Of the people of Kansas to
carry on their present government. 1t is
we'll to be practical in the application
Of remedies when we propose to apply
them. In this view, is it not obvious
that the restoration Of the act of 1920 would
fail to abrogate government in Kansas? Is it
not equally plain that the repeal of the Terri
torial law would also fail essentially to affect
the present rule there? The success of both
these measures would leave the people of Kan
sas precisely where the Californians found
themselves, without any Territorial act, but
with ample ability and will to provide system
of laws suited to their condition and necessities
Kansas has already organized her government,
and the continuance Of the law of Congress I'M
der which she has so far acted is no more ne
cesary to its vitality and stability than is the
fifth wheel to the movement of coach. We
may as we'll look this question directly in the
face, that we may not spend too much time in
foolshly trying to mould it to our own views.
The Missouri compromise controlled Kansas
very we'll as long as that Territory had no in
habitants; it was not expected to do more. SO
long as there were no people to exercise the
powers of freemen-so long as the Territory had
no other Specification than that of lands-it was
all very well. Indeed, nobody has doubted the
efficacy of that act, as the soul of mere the
ory:-as practical limitation of the people, it
never had any binding force, or even the charm
of temporary control.
To test this, il is only necessary to anticipate
its full restoration and even go farther aud
repeal the Territorial law. do away entirely
with the "pertidy," annihlate all the dough
faces" and what have you accomplished? By
this paper conquest, have You destroyed the
government of Kansas! Have You limited the
rights Of popular sovereignty therc' Have
you brought its people into subsection 10 your
anti-slavery or your slavery ideas9 Nome OF