New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-03

! ,..;,..tv Congress and substituted revc-
i,;r,r, Government in s stead. This wes usurpa-
ton Of The character ae 1t would be Tor portion
,i nropie Of Come effect TO undertake to estabsh
ansyate Government within its chartered limits for
nu,ncee cf redressng any grievance. real or inak.
nav Of uhich they might have cofnpia ned against
Tho Icci,iu ste Government. Such pr!ncipls
4 carried into execution would destroy al lawf
&, boriiy al produce universal anarchy ought to
epc,ifv ore part caa'ly condition Of eilaiIs ERE
the telegraph bundered, and we are obliged to otmit
a few lines
The Coz greas Of the United States had most wisely
declared il 10 be the true intent aud meaning OF this
actthe act organizing the Terrtory-not TO egislat4
Slavery into any Territory nor to exclude It thererom'
70 form end regulate their domestic institutions
Constitution Of the United statet. A;
q natural consequence Congress has also prescribed
by the game act that when the territory Of X ansss
shall be admitted ate, it shall be received toto
the Union with or without slavery as their Constr
tuition may prescribe at the time Of their admission
Slavery existed ct hat period and still exists ia n anss'
under the Constitution Of the United States. This
point has at ast been decided by the highes tribunal
known to our laws How it ever could have been
doubted is mystery. II confederation OF
sovereign States acquire new telrt9ry az tne
surely one set Of the parties can have no night
to exclude the other from its engagement BY prohibit
Ing them taking into II Whatsoever Is recog-
pizied to be property by common Constitution
But when the peopethe bona iide residents of such
Territory-prCceec to form State Constitution then
it Is thu r right to decide the important question for
themselves, whether they will continue, modify
or abolish Slavery. To them, aud TO them alone,
does this question belong, free from all foreign
Interference. In the opinion of the Territorial
Legia allure Of Kansas the time bad arrived for
entering tie Union, and they accordingly psssea
law to elect delegates for the purpose of framing
State Constitution. This law was far and Just 10 lts
provisions 1t conferred the right Of suffrage upon
every bona fde iDhebitant OF the Territory aod TO,
the purpose of preventing fraud and the intrusion OF
citztns Of distant States most properly con-
fded lis right TO tbose who had resided therein,
three months previous to the election. Here fine op
portupity presented for all qualified resident c-
hey might have previously agreed to par
cipate in the election to express their
Option at the ballot.box on the quss-
ton Of Slavery; but numbers Of lawless men
still continued to resist the Territorial Govern
meDt They refused either to be recognized
or vote apd members Of the Convention
elected legally and properly without their inter
venton. The Convention will soon assemble 10 per
form the eole mn duty of framing Constitution for
themselves and their posery, and in the state Of n
cipent rebellion which still exists in Kansas it is my
imperative duty to employ the troyps OF the United
Stetes Should this become necessary n defending tho
Conye ntion- The conclusion Of this dispatch was
not received at the hour Of going to press.l
The Naval Courts Of Inquiry will resume their ses
sons pe1t Monday. The first consists Of Commodore
Lavallette, and Captains Mercer and Adams; the
second, Of Capts. Mexican, Cope and Van Brunt; aud
the third, of Commodores StOrer and Stringham end
Cept. Godsborough.
The Secretary of the Treasury has an appeal affirm
ing the assessment of duty of fifteen per cenun on
chorate of potash and sal aceosea nineteen per cen
tum on reLed borax twenty -four per centum on fber
and four per oentum on suinac.
The net amount in the Treasury, subject TO draft
= 49,, oh, Ahnta in NnKv tnrg
nearly nine millions and one third at Philadelphia two
millions and two thirds, and at New-OheGns over a
million and half
Assistant Postmaster Genera! Dundas will shortly
proceed TO New.Yoik to make arrangements for IA
ciatDg the transportation Of the overland mail to
California.
Th, Attorney General has decided adversely to the
extraorc mary claims Of Haywood the late Marshal
of Utah; more than $50 900 Of which for con-
veying the Judges of the Territory to and from the
places of holding the Courts. The expenses for nu
| nerous guards horses, wagons and provisions we're
not those of tho ministerial officers. The Attorney
General states that the expenses ola Judge Oh
TO the cOaTt are his own.