New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-14
PROM WASHINGTON.
SENATOR DOUGLAS ON KAEsA'

0ree mosshs 90 20 Mr.. DoUGLAs's posiaon WIN
prssrd 30 the Presidency. His unoroken Ao'''ncc
or the first Two months Of the Session was nct
lr..sa susSeieptly accounted for by the state OF
n. h..,.s.-usnv believed that il was diplomatic
.bser O. designed to leave him free TO take or de-
sae M, position on the political and personal
.,.s.;ops of the hour after the atmosphere should
A.. cleared a little. OF late, the opinion has
lsen current here that Mr.. u. hSd decided not to
n, a candidate for next Presidsnt--that he pre-
erred 10 stand back and let Mr.. Buchanan, or
acme other Of the seniors, take the track. HIS
Report ON the Kansas Question today shakes my
hitb in this view Of the question. now believe
he hopes 70 be acaneidate, if ne. at the opening
Of the Cincinnati Convention, certainly before the
close Of il. No man eosd have made bs hepor'
who did not mean to earn TIE grastHde OF the
Slave Power. ard 10 SAX that soch gratitude shah
takea substantial shape and De manifested tangi
k,v and speedily. shall consider Mr. Douglas
heuetforth an aspirant for tie Cinclanau nomiaa-
non. though he may chcosc to take back seat ior
the present.
Mr.. Douglass Report to the Senate to-day is
sLe proper sad natural elimination Of the giant
haud commenced in the passage Of the Nebraska
Din. The original prctense of popular Sovereignty
now gives place to q show Of unbOunded reverence
for law. for order, for legitimacy. The Border ku
Gsns having imposed Legislature On Kansas, no
matter by what means, and procured it's recogni'
t,on as authentic by the Federal Executive and
his minions, there can be tolerated no demur, no
resistance, no inquiry even. The Government
md in ifg al
fhority and whoever ressts either is guilty OF
treason. Such is the general line OF argument
among the apostles of "Popular Sovereignty" and
seuator Douglas keeps step to their music. If he
intends to be candidate before the Demoacrtlc
National Convention at Cincinnati, this was inevl-
table. But it was not necessary that, in his
account of the course Of events in Kansas, he
should accept every lie of the Border Rulfans as
truth and stigrnatize every truth affirmed by the
Free-s.ate men as a lic yet this he has substau-
italy done in his long Report read to-day Not
ktchison, not Stringfellow himself, could have
presented view Of the case more glaringly at
war with the facts.
What can this mean Mr.. Douglas was born
and schOoled in Vermont; he grew up to manhood
in New-York; he has lived since bis majority in
Illinos-a State which would this day have been
cursed with Slavery, and thus poorer and less pop
plous than Missouri, but for that very policy OF
pcremptory inhibition by Congress of which he is so
bitter an adversary lie ought to give to the aver
msnts of those in Kansas who, having grown up
amid Free Labor institutions like himself, remain
faithful to the traditions and principles OF their
Ethers, at least as much credit as he accords TO
the antagonist assertions of their slovehold-
ing prosecutors Of the Missouri border.
This, however, he will not do. All that the Pro-
Slavery party reports he accepts for gospel; all
that our side offer in contradiction oil 1t he brands
false and undeseryiDg of regard.
What can this mean? 1 answer-the resistance
OF the Free State men to the scheme of cnsaving
Kansas is a yexatiOus impcdment to the intended
working of the Kansas-Nebraska bill whereof Mr..
Douglas was the author. Slavery has not yet se-
cured that advantage from the passage of that act
which was anticipated, and its author is not the
accepted candidate of the Slave Power for next
President. To prove that have not missppre-
hended the real object OF that bill, / quote from
the recent speech of Mr.. CApwNADER Of Penn
sylyania--an original and Jealous champion Of the
neasure-as follows:
"Tbe refusal in ls4e and 1850 to extend the division
une of 3S deg 30 m. westward Of the Rocky MOun-
tains carried with il an Incidental obligation to abro-
gate the restriction Of the Missouri Compromise IN
kansas and Nebraska. To take from the slavehoding
States all the territories westward OF the Rocky
Mountains and still retain for the nons.aveho'ding
States almost the whole of the territory eastward OF
these mountains have been unjust. An arrangement
mutually beneficial, westward of the Rocky Noun
tafns, was impossible. But, Kansas and Nebraska
north Of 81 deg, stall unsettled and unorganlzed
Their superficial was, as have said coextensve
with that of the Territory from which Slavery had been
excluded in 1850. True the greater portion Of Ne
braska, comprising not less than fourfNhs OF this
organized territory, to the norhwad OF 40 deg,
and therefore probably not open to settlement by
Shareholders. But in Kansas, occupying tue space
between 40 deg. and 81 deg, there at least the
probability Of partial equivalent for the loss by the
slaveholdng States Of participation in the beneficial
adjustment OF the territory On the Pacific.
Il The whole Of what Is now comprised under the
names Of Kansas and Nebraska had until 1884, been
regarded a single Territory, and had borne the
name Of Nebraska. The present Chairman of the
Comrtee on Territories complains that in that ycsr
Kansas carved out of this Teltory and separate
iy organized. His complaint is two-iod frst, that
the whole Of this vas. country ws. not organised un-
der single Territorial Governments next that il two
such governments were organized the Inc between
them not the Platte River instead of tie parallel
of latitude of 40 deg To this wosoli complaint there
ready The portion of the Territory lying
southward of 20 deg. the only portion in which
saveholding emigfants could find suitable sites for
settlement. Between 40 deg. and the latitude OF the
southern boundary, Slavery already eIiscd in Mis-
SCUM, Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware
North Of 40 deg. slaveholdcr could have been ex.
pected to establish himself We have already seen
that If the whole had form' single Territory, the
area of the portion to the nothwad Of 40 deg would
have been about four times that Of the portion to the
southwark. Such an organization would have been
fand upon the slsveho,ding States Emgrants from
their country would inevitably have been outEumbered
by majority from the non-slayehOldng country"
H.. oh &C Al.