New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-18

The CCmmtrcial Adrtrtiser piles blunder on olun'
der in astonishing opaquene.s Of vision. 1tresponds
to our statement that the report OF PROVISIONAL
Government being created for Kansas BY the bogus
Constitutional Convention did not rest on the letter
Of our Lecomptor correspondent, but on those OF
Tie St. Louis Republican (Pre Slavery, as follows;
"Wbere is The TRrBrSE's usual shrewdnessl And
where il its honesty Its own correspondent ano
vrote after the adjonrnment Of the Conrent'on, and
cid not Say expressly that Provisional Govern,
ment, with Gen. Calhoun az Governor, was formed
to 90 into operation immediately And does TIE
TRIBUNE believe that ts correspondent was lees In
formed than The So. Louis Republicans! Or that
If such action bad been taken its would
have failed to communicate it 7"
The obtuseness Of this paragraph is deplorable.
Our Lecompton correspondents letters heretofore
published by US come down to the fifth inst. (Which,
we presume, il a. late as any letters from Le-
compton that had reached this City prior to our last
is.ue), and at hot date the ConrtntiOn had NOT ad.
jou,med. II adjourned two days thereafter on the
7th which 10 the date Of The St. Louis Republican,
letter, whereof the substance was telegraphed to
and printed by the Associated Press of this City,
and formed the basis of our former statement OF
5h could not tell exactly the shape which the new
Pro Slavery dictatorship would take, but here is
what he does aay:
"From the adjournment Of this Convention, Gov.
Walker is virtually deposed A Regency is created.
more. He has imperial power. AT this humbug cleo
tor at which the Slavery article is to be voted for
ard OF the State election for State officers wheher 1t
is at the same time or mott he s to appoint the judges
II .1x uhEra Lnafl h.. hold
He is to receive returns. He, with two members OF
this Convention is TO count the votes and decide Tha
the returns sh0w He is to issue certificates 70 the
State Governor snd other officers elected. thus he
&c il to be the dictator in the nerfegnum The Ter
ritoral laws the law, and he is really the ruler
from the 2lst of December until the State Legislature
That Legislature he is to convene by proc
lamatOn. The Territorial Government is dead after
the 2lst of December, and the Territorial Legislature
lie DE- clared 10 be null and void after the members OF
this Convention sign the Constitution"
This we believe to be the substantial truth. Cal
houn may or may not be Governor in name, but
he will be dictator in fact. We shall see what
our correspondent does say in view Of the final pro-
ceedings of that Convention when bis letters now
on the way (uness intercepted and suppressed)
shall have reached us. Until then, The CONNER
Gals liberal inferences from his mistakenly asserted
silence are ,imply iudicrous See his letter Of the
9th, herewith given
The Commercial proceeds to say that
"We have heard the cry of wolf from Kansas 80
Often and the wolf has often proved to bea gentle
inoEtnsire lamb that we have long since determined
to wait until the animal comes near enough for our
own observation before we echo the cry
Leaving The Commercial TO the enjoyment of its
own extraordinary taste in the matter of young
mutton we only recall its attention to the fact that
"the cry of wolf" is raised not on oar c)rre-
spondents or any Republican authority, but on that
of the great st. Louis organ of National DemOc-
racy." Indeed, The Commercial bases its lamb
theory in this instance on the mistakenly alleged
silence of our correspondent.
That paper proceeds to ask
/" Roto could a Convention, assembled for the sole
purpose of preparing Constitution for the People it
represented form Provisional Government"
-Answer-Just as it could put its Constitution
in force without submitting it to the People, aud
provide that no majority should suffice TO change
or modify it during the next seven years just as il
could have the audacity to think of imposing
Constitution on the People Of Kansas at all, know
ing itself repudiated and loatbed BY threefourths
of them. What can or cannot be done by the Pro.
Slavery faction in Kansas, is q simple question of
artillery and dragons. So long as these are in
structed from Washington to support its atrocities
that faction can AID will do anything. There is no
prsctcal question as to what they will do, but
What will they be upheld in doiogi And we BE-.
eve not only have they established what is to all
intepts and purposes Provisional Government for
KaBsa., but that Buchanan and CoJb miH order
the L. S. troops to uphold that Government and PIT
doun all resistance to IL.
The COmmertiai's idea that, if The 81. Louis
Republicans correspondence is authority az against
the Slavery faction it is authority also in aror
of that faction, We utterly reject 1. is contrary
to all the laws Of evidence. There is undoubtedly
a pretense set up by the National Democracy" Of
submittiI the question of Slave or Free Labor TO
be People of Kansas, but we believe tia. pretense
Q f.sud, and that the submission is really put in
UGH shape that, They ale pretty sure the
Free State men will refuse to vote on il at all;
nd = Even if they do vote, ard vote down ,he
Slavery article Karsss will nevertheless be Slave
State, by virtue Of the Louisiana Treaty, the Ne.
braska Act, the Dred Scott Decision, Buchau ans
Sliman assumption, and the (bogus) Territorial
laws" Let the sequel show whether we are or
are not right in this conviction.
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