Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-06-27
THE KANSAS COMPLICATIONS.

As the plot of the drama which has so long been
enacting in Kansas seems to be approaching its
tastrophe before the eyes Of excited partisans in
both sections of the country unduy disturbed by
its shifting scenes, it should perhaps not create
much surprise that those whose eager expectations
of sectional predominance seem little likely to be
fully realized in that Territory should grow some
what queruous at the threatened solution Of ques
tion which has enlisted SO large share of their
attention And as it sometimes brings relief to
those who have suffered their minds to be over
wrought by the tension of any anxiety to find some
body whom they may blame for the back handed
strokes of untoward fortune, it is not unworthy
made the object of very indignant if somewhat con-
Trajectory reproaches for his official conduct in the
existing difficulties of Kansas The moderate and
judcious, however, of both sections of the country
will be likely, we think, to find in this community
of censure, coupled with the conflicting grounds on
which tits based, pregnant prosfthat Gov WALKER
is endeayofing to hold the balances evenly between
the two contendng parties in that distracted Ter
ritory-too evenly to suit the exaggerated demands
and assumptions of either.
One is almost tempted to believe that the heated
disputans of both sections reluctant to contem-
plate the prospect of peace in that unhappy Ter
rtory unless they shall be left to dictate Its terms
and conditions with more of regard to their own
private wishes than to the facts and circumstances
of the case which call for wise and practical states
manship. 1t is as though both parties, conscious
of wrong were seeking at least to vindicate their
pretensions to fairness and justice by obstnately
persisting in the upon which they primarily
entered, under the influence of passions on the
hand and resentments on the other which seem to
have blinded both alike to the plain path of patri-
otic duty; for who can doubt that in the chronic
feud which has divided the people of Kansas there
have been faults on both sides z
We had hoped that in the amnesty for all past
offences, whether real or constructive, with which
Gov. WALKER inaugurated his career, we should have
witnessed more cheerful support of his authority
than certain among the leaders of what is called the
Free State Party" have been ready to accord him
we the more convinced of the wisdom of their
determination because they have been sustained in
1t by the advice of partisans remote from the
of the Kansas difficulties In their uncompromising
refusal to exercise the right of suffrage under the
laws and regulations of the late "usurping Legis-
lature, as they term it, even though by such an
exercise, if their preponderance in that Territory
be so great they claim, they might bring that
"usurpation" to peaceful and deterninate end; !;
in this REFUSAL say, to exercise the elective fran
chise, the FreeState Party have given proof of
stubborn consistency which approaches rather to
the character of factious contumacy than of con-
ciliatory patriotism. Upon this point We find the
following observations in the Boston Courier which,
though originally uttered by way of remonstrance
and counsel have since, by the conduct of the par
ties indicated been converted into historical ami
madversion on the position they have assumed in
: that Territory:
FROM THE BOSTON COURIER APRIL IA.
We have long feared that the ss Free-State men, of
might put themselves in the wrong and thereby
leopard the interests of freedom and free labor in that
unfortunate Territory, to become State. They
have acted almost from the first under bad influences
and bad advice We speak, of course, of their political
conduct in reference TO the affairs of the Territory and
say that it has been deploraby wrong in almost every
important STEP They have been the prey and tools of
the demagogues and leaders of party in the country
large who have used their seriDgs and their wrongs
the of electioneerng and who have done moth
ing that could tend to the result of creating free State
The conduct of the Republican party in the last Congress-
the affairs of Kansas, TO moderate express
sion entirely reprehensble Instead of exertng them
selves the exercise by Congress of its super
intending power of regulation conferred upon it by the
Constitution in reference the Territories and thereby
securing for the settlers orderly and constitutional
form of admission into the Union o State they insisted
that the irregular and revolutionary proceeding at To-
peka should be taken evidence Of the formation of
State constitution by majority of the inhabitants and
that the document there drawn should be received
the constitution of the State of Kansas.
The utterly impossible and mpractcable character of
ouch proceeding this for the recognition and ad
mission of State will appear at once by few sugges
tions The Transformation of Territory into State,
and the admission of that State into the Union upon
volutionary principles natural rights incompatible
ideas Territory is creature of positive law, formed
by legislation under the Constitution of the United Sates
and have relation to the Union except upon the
principles of constitutional law Its Inhabitants like all
other people, possess the natural right revolution or
the right to throw off by force the government that is
over them, and to govern themselves But this right
can be exercised only to put themselves out of the
Union, and not to put themselves into it. Admission
into the Union does not belong to them a natural
right but it grant from the people of the United
States under national Constitution and this grant
can only be made By Congress- the application for
must be male to Congress
But when party in Territory acting in defiance of
the government which Congress has placed it, ap
pears and says we the people of Kansas have made
State constitution, acting revolutionary principles
and natural rights against the ntoerabe oppression of
that government, and demand admission a State
into the Union how is Congress to know that the will
Of the people of Kansas of majority of them, is
presented in that proceeding? There returning
officers known to the law there is mode by which the
fha of