New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-18
FROM WASHING TON.
PACIFIC ROAD-KANSAS A SLAVE STATE.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. ID, 1857.
As usual, Congress is likely to be oyerrun with
business at the close of the session. Yet good
deal of private business has been DONE and several
| important measures have been put through one or
the other branch within few weeks. Viewed
| from the outside, it seems as though Congress
ought TO be able to discharge its business and have
plenty of time for the deliberate consideration OF
all topics presented TO its consideration But it is
quite otherwise. With three hundred men TO con-
| suit on every measure big and little, acting in
separate bodies, each with a check on the other,
even the most trning claim or subject OF any kind
gets on but slowly. And if about TWO hundred and
seyenty.fye of them did not decline all special ex
animation Of large portion OF the business there
would be hardly nything done from one end OF a
| session to another.
The two wagon roads to the Pacific established
by the House have not yet been acted upon by the
| Senate. 1t is confidently expected, however, that
| this highly important measure will be cOncurred IN
| by that body 1t is One of marked merit and cOnse
| quence One of the most so OF any that have been
| IN long time presented to Congress. They VIII
prove the most effective pioneers for the rails,
which will of course follow them, and be laid down
to lust the extent that the wants OF the country Will
| warrant. Gradually, those from the Pacific and
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in process of time the effort will succeed to span
the intervening deserts and mountain IA ges that
| separate their termin But the worlds improve
nent cannot all be effected in day We must
patiently await the lapse Of time and the progress
Of population.
The opinion is very generally entertained here
that the late proceedings of the Kansas Bogus
LEGISLATURE will accomplish the purposes OF the IN
ysd.rs and conquerers of that Territory, so far as
TO create Constitution establishing Slavery. The
acts of the Legislature seem 10 demonstrate that IN
the Convention to be held under It's direction such
a Constitution will be adopted. That COnstitu-
| ton Will be- framed next September, and pre-
scented 20 Congress next Winter for ratification
and for the admission of Kansas as Slave state
Minnesota. which il now ready and whose admls-
sion tue House has already voted for, VIII d.
Kept back by the Senate until that time, when
the plan will be to admit them both together
This is the next humiliation to which the
Free States are doomed by the OhgTchs.
HOPES are entertained that the scheme may be 10
SOME way frustrated BY the terror of the Northern
douphfaces. fearing 10 consummate the original con-
spiracy against Kansas, but we have every reason
10 believe from experience that those hopes Will
prove 10 be unf0unded. TIE Shareholders rule mis-
Kepubhc with an iron hand, and the Northern
Democrats in Congress, now reduced In numbers
are more than submi, siys to their inexOrable
demands The OILY question has been whether the
Southern men would not think it the safest policy
TO Permit Kansas to be Free State, and act sc-
cordiDgly; but this idea appears TO be gradually
fading out. They seem 70 have determined that It
is best to bring the nose Of the North 10 the grind
stone at Otce. As TO what Northern Democratic
members OF Congress, or Northern Democratic
newspapers may say On this subject, it 10 NOT Vi