The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-07

We publish this morning, in erteeso the new slave
State Kansas bill lately passed by the Senate, and
the new free State Kansas bill of the House, as
recently passed by that body. We also append
to these two bills letter from an intelligent oc-
casional correspondent at Washington, in expla-
nation of the secret machinery by which each Of
these extraordinary measures has been carried
through one branch of Congress.
First, with regard to the House bill. Our
readers will remember that when first brought to
the question Of its passage, it was lost by one
vote-yeas 100 nays l01-very much to the con-
sternation of the free State party. The report of
the Kansas Investigating Committee, however,
at this point fell among the Northern democracy
of the House like a bombshell; and, according to
our correspondent, Mr.. Barclay, of Pennsylvania
"a ''strong Buchanan mann-felt the necessity of
Immediately taking the back track. He had
voted against this bill admitting Kansas as free
State, and by his vote the bill had been lost; but
with nights reflection upon the proceedings
going on in the Senate, and upon the astounding
facts brought home by the Kansas Committee,
Mr.. Barclay moved reconsideration of the final
vote upon the House bill There was an instan-
taneous rebellion against this motion by the
Southern democrats; but it carried the recon-
sideration, and thus the original judgment O.
the House was reversed, and the bill
passed by vote of 101 to SO. 1t was
Mr. Barclays reconsideration that did this bust
ness although upon the last trial the democrats
lost another vote--Mr. Herbert Of California,
that chivalric gentlemen in the meantime having
been arrested and locked up in Jail to await his
trial upon the charge Of the murder of the poor
Irish waiter, Heating.
Our Washington correspondent says that Lieu
tenant Governor Roberts, buchanan man), of
the revolutionary party in Kansas, is Of the
opinion that "there are fifty thousand democrats
in Pennsylvania that viii support the free State
Constitution, and that the report Of the Inves-
tigating Committee will sustain them" Hence
the change in the course of nights consulta-
tons and reflections, of Mr.. Barclays vote. He
had discovered by the next morning that his posi-
ton against the free State bill was an endorse
ment of the border ruffians,' and that the broad
back Of Mr.. Buchanan was neither broad enough
nor strong enough TO carry them. Hence, too,
the bill of the Senate, at the bottom of which we
are informed was the finger and thumb of this
same Mr. Roberts, of Kansas, whose conciliatory
counsels may have had great deal to do with
the material amendments, in behalf Of the free
State squatters, that added to the bill the
last hight of It's consideration in the Senate.
This healing measure Of the Senate, "a re-
ported from the Committee on Territories, was,
open and above board, border rufian" bll--a
bill for a snap judgment upon the absentee free
State squatters They had been expelled ~ IRE
and sword, by robbery and confisca6on. frsa hle
Territory, under the encouraging auspices Of the
administration. the United States dragons, and
the Cincinnati Democratic Conventions; and we
can hardly dismiss the suspicion that the late
mission Of General Whitfield and Or. StringfelIow
direct from Kansas TO Washington was fully de-
velopcd in the prya Of Mr.. Toombs, as adopt
cd by Mr.. Douglas
Putting all these facts. circumstances and de-
ductions together. are not surprised that there
should be disposition TO revolt against Mr. Blu
chanan among the ultra Southern democracy
considering. especially, the closing amendments
~ TUE ANtoh-il'it-
ton OF Mr. Barclay upon the free State bill Of the
House. The only reliable hope Of Mr.. Buchanan
now il in the devotion Of Mr.. Pierce to the Gin
cinnati nominations. The Senate bill, az finally
passed, II fmoo,h and fair upon its face. Ii i'm
partially executed, Kansas may become free
State; but there viii be not the slightest difficulty
in 20 executing this law should the bill become
law as TO secure the election of a pro-slavcry
convention and the adoption Of q pro-slavery
constitution. Mr.. President Pierce will have the
matter entirely at bis discretion and we zee
no reason why the South should hest
turning to the Northern side Of the questioa-he
has nothing to lose by remaining with the South.
In fact, there could not be framed more inge-
nious expcdent in behalf Of Mr.. Buchanan. in
both sections. than this new Senate bill. In the
North the bill viii speak for itself-it Il smooth
and fair; in the South the democracy may rely
upon Mr.. Pierce to give 1t the right construction
in the appointment Of the commissioners, cleo
ton judges, &c. Missouri can furnish any num-
her that may he desired.
There il one little difficulty in the Senate bill
stillr emaining touching the foreign vote. Hereto
FORE in the Territories alien free white male squat
tiers over twenty-one years Of age have been given
the privilege Of the elective franchise upon the
faith Of declaration Of an intention TO become
citizens Of The United States. This II the law Of
the original Kansas-Nebraska bill and Is still In
force. This new bill Of the Senate proposes 70
limit the right Of voting in Kansas to actual citi-
zens Of the United States; but as this amendment
Is indispensable TO secure the Know Nothing vote
Of the House, the democracy must adhere to II or
forfeit the bill. On the other hand, there is
danger that this compromise between the Fill
more Know Nothings and democrats, If consum-
mated. may ALLEVIATE from Mr.. Buchanan all the
free State democratic Germanic vote of the
Northwest and affect somewhat the primitive
Dutch districts Of Pennsylvania, to say nothing