The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-27

England, unless the modern spiritualists can in
woke the spirits of Cotton Mather and his ssso-
ciates to illuminate the good old Cavinistio dog
mas from the pulpit of the Old South Church.
Yet even then, the Cons of the Puritans are in
bad way, and the sooner the really Christian peo-
pie leave New England for the West the better
| il will be for all hands.
Late Kansas News-Dly Moore Turned zap
Agsin-Ultra southern Opinions OF stanton
| and walker.
Our telegaphic despatch dated LecomptOn,
May 81, shows that the issue between the free
State and pro-slavery parties Of Kansas has
within the last few weeks assumed new and
very significant shape The local proslavery
party has subsidized; Its sharply defined policy of
making Kansas slave State has been aban-
doped, for the pro slavery leaders have adopted
the badge of the national democracy and the
policy of making Kansas, not slave State, but o
democratic free State.
| This new phase in the Kansas drama is we
| cay, very interesting and suggestive. 1t shows
that the violent border rufian policy Of Atohison,
Stringfe)low add poor Pierce, has utterly failed,
| and that with the new adjudication at Wash
| ington new and wiser counsels have taken root
ut Lecempton. We hear no more of Atchison
in the local politics of Kansas and Stringfellows
| Spaaa4r Sovereign has been bought out and trans
mogri6ed into free State organ. We see, too,
that Ely Moore, a Northern man, formerly
democratic member Of Congress from this city Is
| urged to become q democratic candidate for
| doll 40 En- CnDr hot ~ 90 20 10,
made by the Northern democrats to send free
State men Of their party to the Constitutional
| Convention.
| Ely Moore! Who of the democratic graduates
| Of the Pewter Mug and the Tammany Coal Hole,
in the days. of the Fanny Wright and Robert
Owen infdel agitation, and Of that fearful epoch
of the -four riots Of this city-some twenty long
Of those days, still surviving among US, does not
| remember their champion, Ely Moore! Davy
Broderick, who has since gone out to California
and returned United States Senator, was of the
same school; but Davy was then boy, srun-
ming with the machine" Ely became q member
Of Congress; but running himself out in New
York, before his political aspirations were OK
uhustSu. uC WChs ONCA W Wy A15 uuAA0 III MS
native New Jersey. That State, however-which
Commodore Stockton carries in his breeches
pocket-was no place for Ely. He sank into OBJ
scurity under the shadow of Stockton like a
pearl Of great price in a Jersey muscle; and We
had given him up az among the political fossils
stuck In the mud, when lo and behold! he
turns up in Kansas as fresh and vigorous as
Bloderick in California, or Micawber in Austria
liza. His voice may yet be heard among the first
in The new houses of Parliament at Washington.
And who objectss II there be any such let them
now speak out, or forever hereafter hold their
peace What says Mr.. Brodericks What says
Capt Rynders:
The election for delegates to the Kansas Con-
stithtional Convention does not come Off gill the
third Monday in June, and in the interval the
ocal parties and local issues OF the Territory
may be affected in various ways by these new
experiments of the free State democratic leaders.
Acting Governor Stanton a decided pro-slavery
Tennessee democrat, has said, substantially, that
If they can't make Kansas slave State be de-
sires that it shall be made democratic free
State-an achievement which, in party sense,
may be rendered as efficient as an absolute pro-
slavery triumph But whether this democratic
free State movement is destined to succeed or to
fail we accept it as an assurance that the late
terrible border rufan scenes Of killing, plumber
ing, burning and destroying will not be repeated
in Kansas, but that between the local Spectators
and the politicians the government hencetor ward
will find no further difficulty in preserving the
peace Of the Territory.
Our Lccompton despatch also informs US that
the census returns Of nineteen counties out of
twentysix show an aggregate OF nine thou
sand two hundred and fifty registered voters.
Assuming this report 10 be correct, and that
from the stand-aloof policy Of the free State
party ,here ore at least three thousand voters
not registered, we may safely say that there Is
population to day exceeding fifty thousand in the
Territory. We doubt not that fully one-half this
number have been thrown into Kansas this sea-
son; and that Of these reinfercements the North
ern settlers as against the Southern are at least
| as five or six to one. II Is this heavy Northern
| immigration. in connection with the land spccu-
lating mania which it has created, that has
changed the whole face Of the Kansas niger con-
trovcrsy within the last few weeks. Hence these
new free state movements Of the more sagacious
democratic politicians in opposition To the repub-
lican party-hcnce the collapse of stringtellow's
proslavcry paper, and the disappearance Of
Atchison from the scene.
Thus II Is abundanty manifest that, Whatever
this forthcoming Constitutional Convention may
| do, or fail TO do, Kansas must become free
State. The pro-tlavery leaders give II up, and
| they viii now lie satisfied 70 make it democratic
free State. How ridiculous, then, the impotent
outcry ef the Richmond South and the Charleston
Mercury (scc extracts in another column) against
acting Governor Stanton and Governor Walker
| for DARING IN rpcornyn nd and orvocaie tho un;-