New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-20

ana cno tnat tnerc was no dsoger ol hansas
being q Slave State-that Slavery could not 90
there. ThePresident himself earnestly took that
ground, and on II labored to bring over the Demo
cratic members Of both branches from New HamP-
shire to.his side. On that grousd the bill was
finally swisdled and bought Through. But now
the idea Of its being Free State is oil but sban-
dened by The party 10 power. Asmall show OF the
possibility of it is kept up, but it is only here and
there that feeble voice is raised avowing so much
as this. Mr. Cas- only ventures to suggest that u
the Free State men would cease operations Kansas
might still be Free State. But this is all. he
expresses neither confidence nor hope that
they will abandon their efforts, for he
knows they cannot without a recreancy as
great as he and his own party have been guilty
Of, and thus he virtually admits that that Territory
is doomed, under the present rule. 30 with every
other man acquainted with the course of things
among that most infamOusly abused people, the
Free State residents of Kansas. Gradually and in
silence it is expected the truth of this humlatiny
fact will break upon the Northern people, while
they are engaged in the excitements of contested
local elections and that thereby much OF it's force
will be lost. On this hope hang the fortunes of
the Kansas Nebraska conspiratOrs. 1t is doing no
kindness to the cause of Freedom to disguise the
truth of the imminent peril Of Kansas. 1t may be
hard to think that its fate hangs upon the result OF
a political contest; it may be hateful to be-
lieve that the people of the Free States will
consent in any event to permit the alienation
of their own Free territory to be blackened with
the curse of Slavery. But the inexorable fact
remains, and will remain, that Border-Rufianism'
sustained by the Federal power, is allsufficIent 70
complete the conquest of Kansas and to subdde the
efforts of the Free-State men In the Territory, and
their hackers and sympathizers beyond its limits.
An impartial examination of the facts OF the case'
as they lie broadcast through the papers, taken In
connection with the high tone assumed here at the
time the Kansas Nebraska bill was passed, and the
low and depressed expectation now entertained
AID expressed as to the exposure OF Kansas 10 tne
dangers of Slavery, leads rresstiby TO the cohciu-
sion that Kansas can be saved only by civil connct
or political revolution. The party in power either
must be turned out, or their malignant purposes,
now being pushed to fatal contamination on tue
soil of that unhappy Territory, must be crushed by
the same spirit and the same power that broke the
rule of the tyrants of 76 If the North is ready to
defend Kansas at any cost, let her manifest the
spirit and take measures to do it. Ii not sne mas
left but one alternative to secure its Freedom.
That is to hurl from power the men who have
dared to project and dare to pursue the scheme OF
spreading Slavery over it in defiance of the restrlc
tons of solemn compact, the rights of the Free
Al l. r
feels sure that the North has not pluck enough to
save Kansas in any way but by voting, and doesn't
believe she has enough for that. s.P.
MR.. AIPTON-DIPLOMATIC DODGES-
VIJIL.
From Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Saturday May II, 1856.
Mr.. Champion is deeper in hot water. Letters
have been reproduced from the recent publication
of the Central American correspondence ia En-
gland, which involve additional issues OF frct and
yeracity between him and Gen. Cass aud Mr..
Marcy. Of course, the Senator from Michigan can
not tamely submit, ard just upon the eve of the
Cincinnati Convention, to be gazetted as having
counteDanced the British colonization of Ruatan.
He will illuminate wrathfal indignation at such q
suspcion-he will read fve-column speech to
prove be never cherished particular affection for
the British he will mOdestly revive the men,
ory of his historic broken swOrd-he will appeal to
the names of the departed Joe Hume, who for years
was his British target-he will recall the Qdintu-
pie Treaty, which his patriotic devotion resisted
be will invoke unread volumes of Senatorial debate,
threatening war to be inevitable-he will march |
in the ghost of dismembered Oregon, to vindicate
bis zeal for forty -four forty-and he will look on
Macduff fashion, until Palmerston cries "hold |
enou,h.p # Mr. Crampton can resist ssch evi- ]
Sence be is not mortal Englishmen, and despses
roast beef and plum pudding.
Mr.. Marcy will probably settle his affair in the
general public account and give Mr. Champion q
receipt in full at the bottom of his passports next
week. These Developments just at the close of |
Mr.. Champions mission will remove some of the
good impressions which, notwithstanding official
differences, he had succt eded in making here.
But these misspprehensons do not seem to be
confined to Mr.. Champion exclusively. Mr.. Bu- |
chanan complains, with much earnestness, that |
Lord Clarendon and Lord Palmerston have per.
si.ted in incorporating his course upon the Arbi.
traton matter, notwithstanding explanations for.
mally made three months ago. He asserts posi-.
lively that in all the casual intervews-for there
were none other-On this subject, extending backa
period Of nearly two years, direct proposition to
arbitrate was ever submitted to him, or suggested
in any such form to convey the impression that