The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-09-24

you shoold have presented q well known oro-
Jc'd iovasion of the political rights of Ksosas;
you should pave expelled the invaders fton the
Ttn1'sU you should bave recommended to Con-
gTese nsAo~sry snd expediert measures for toe
ieiiei o. toe people Of Ksnsss. What tumble
OF ignorance ard falacy! Who says that any
invas on of tee political righs OF Kaosas has
taken p'are since Mr. Buchanan entered toto
Office? Were ard Wbeu and under what cir
cum stances did the invasion take place--for even
the abo'iuonist papars have esid nothing about
It! inraso"s of such Q character are said to
Rave taken place under the administration Of
poor Pierce; but ueder What sy-tem of Law or
moi ala could Mr.. Buchanan be held responsible.
for the errors Of his predecessor! And then the
job of expeilog Invaders from the Territory!
VIII the tao dozen pious men of Connecticut
give us their plan of accomplishing that job?
We're the troops Of the general government to BE-
Kept marching through the Territory and ex-
pell'Dg therfrom such citizens of the Uaited
States as Lane ard bis sbolitionists might desig
nate as 'invsdersW Truly, a notable Oc ,upa.
ton for federal ooos, and one which could oaly
Rave had inception in the brains of such men as
thee pious b'ne nOsee And are these men 81
cupid o. not to be 1are toat the last Congress
term'natso a. the hour of Mr.. Bucha1an's in
au4uration, aud that since that time there has
been 70 Congress to whom he could have sre-
CONNER ded necessary and exped,ent measures
tor the relief Of the people of Kansas" if inoeed
| be thought it his duty to make such reconmen-
| dation?
These are some Of the arguments which we fnd
in this ridiculous response to Mr.. Buchan ans lei
ter. They are all of the same weak aod ABSURD
character. In fact the whole paper carries on its
face its own refu'at,on, and shows, batter than
any answer to it can, the folly and weakness of
the men who wrete and signed it
Mr.. Buchanan will continue 10 merit
| and receive the confidence of the people
He and Governor Walker have steered y just,
fair and impartial course in regard to Kansas
They found the Territory organized under law
which declared that It. was not its object to legs-
late slavery into or exclude it from the Territory,
but to let the people thereof shape their own in
si'utions in their own way. They have endea
vored faithfully to give full effect to that repub
lican principle. Tney found in existence u set
of enactments passed by the Territorial Legisla.
ture, al d they treated theu-as it was their duty
to treat then-as operative laws. Congress had
not repealed or declared them imperative as it
| President of the United States or Governor Of
the Territory bad no discretion in the premises
And If the Constitutional Convention, which was
regularly and legally organized under those laws,
had gone On aud framed slave State coustitu-
ton, and if that constitution should afterwards
lie referred directly to Congress, and Kansas
be admitted as o slave State under it, both
Mr. Buchanan and Governor Walker would be
entirely free from reproach in the matter. They
had but exercised their authority fairly and i'm
partially, and we're not responsible for conse-
quences. The matter appertained TO Congress
not to the Executive.
But OF this there need be no apprehension
The people Of Kansas are adverse to the idea Of
having a slave State made Of it, and will never
| give their consent thereto Aud If the constitu.
ton when framed, I've not submitted TO them but
referred direct to Congress, does any one believe
that under such circumstances Congress would
dare to admit the new State into the Union
The idea is preposterous. Kansas cannot come
Ia as a slave State; az all the fuss and bother
mace about ii by New England abotionists aud
Southern irebrsnds are only the claptrap re-
sources OF politicians.
There l. no good reason for all this anxiety
about Kansaa For our part ~ regard he doc.
tripe of political balance OF power between the
North ana the South az a mere deiusicn. When
wa there ever question In Congress or in the
nation in which the South was exclusively on one
side and the North exclusively on the other
The Kansas Nebraska bill-a measure framed
bave passed w,houtthe strong supporto Of Northern
members Of Congress; and yet macy Southern
members voted against 1t. Was not that a proof
that exclusive sectional lines Cannot be drawn in
this republic, and that reliance may always be
plscud IN the good sense, patriotism AID couser.
vatism Of the men Of all sections! But IL the
balance of power eelusion be s;ill Rugged by tic
South then the best thing To be done is to try to
coerce people to establish slavery against their
own wishes, but TO cut up Texas into two or
more slave States whenever its population wilt
admit OF that being done, and to be ready from
time to time to have o slave State admitted into
| the Union a. often as free State shall be ad-
mitted. The good, patriotic, conservative men Of
the North will not object to that; but they will
Object to all illegal and fraudulent attempts to
impose slavery on a people who are averse TO It,
The KaIsas question, then, msy-in spite Of
Northern and s. uthera fanatics-be safely left to
the administration to Congress, and to the people
Of the Territory.