New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-03

III. Washingten Union 10 labOring very Aard TO
s1plsin away its regeneration on the Kansas ques-
ton, AID TO reconcile with the patronage which it
and the President are low disposed to extend to sae
boeu. submission provided for BY tho Lecompson
schedule its former claims, and those also Of Pfesl-
dent Buchanan aud Of the Democratic Convention
at Chemist, that the State Constitution to Do
formed in Kansas should accord "with the fairly
"eIpreed i'll of the majority Of actual residents.
The fetch by which The Union attempts TO e'c'pe
is iLi,: Ttst after all the great issue In Kansas
was AID il Slavery and that the submission OF that
question amounts in fac. to submission OF tue
entire Constitution. But TO put forward this view
Of tie cs.e is willfully to shut ones eyes to the
whole history Of Kansas. No doubt the great que'-
tor for Ksr,a, originally was Slavery or no Slavery
but that question Was lopg ago oyerlad BY another
of vastly greater scope AID Importance At the
first Territorial election the squatter sovereignty
doctrines of the Kansas.Nebra,ka bill were uncere
monlousy kicked aside-Md the people OF Kansas
.lorg with them-by a Border. Rutisn invasion
from Missouri. From thst moment the great ques
ton for Kansas was no longer merely free labor as
seainst slsvehodirs, but free voting and free egi'-
lation as against Border Rattan violence and n
trusion.
twas Gov. ReedeI's refusal to cooperate with
Legislature thus constituted that caused bis re-
moval. It was the disIclirshOn Of the people OF
Kansas to submit to this usurpation that led to the
formation Of the Topeka Constitution; and it was
the determination to force this u,urpstion down
their tbroats that produced the rack Of Lawrence,
the treason indictments, the arrest Of Gov. Robin.
son ard tbe Kansas civil war. Now the Lecomp-
ton Constitutional Convention is but part and par
Gel Of the original Border Rufian usarpatiOn. Had
that Convention fully and freely submitted the Con-
stitutiou they had formed to the fairly expressed
will Of the majority Of actual residents, that would
have been an acknowledgment Of the principle Of
popular sovereignty, and an act Of respect for the
actual residents which might have opened the way
to comprcm,e ard reconciliation. On the other
hard the attempt, not merely to make the people
Of Kan.as submit to the Constitution, bat. in tie
act Of voting against one cisuie of it, to indorse ali
tie rest il to carry into the State aud ts orgsr-
cation TIE same system Of violerce and usurPatisn
which has given to the whole Territorial admins
tration 60 hateful character
It may seem very odd and ridiculous to The
Inion, but in point Of fact the people Of Kansas
do cOnterd "thst submission OF new Consitu.
ton for popular approval or tisapsroyal is 8 ne
"cesssry element Of the doctrine of Territorial
"self government" The Union attempts indeed
to fLd justification of the refussl to submit the
whole Constitution to the people in the oircum-
~ him; ruas uieS1 in
terms in the act authorizing The Convention; bat
even had that act been Of less questionable origin,
such mere omission would convey no authority to
a Convention thus to thrust itself into the peoples
place. In case Of tbs sort nothing short Of an
absolute ard express authority to oct de6uityely,
without any submission TO tho people, would be
ccp sdtrtd sufficient But the attempt under the
actual crcuns tar Of the case, to force the Le-
compton Comet futon en- tho people Of Ksnsas,
without so much as ssyins shy your Rave" is
such sn obvious rsiteraton Of former usarPatious
that it is impossible to expect the people Of Kansas
to give any countensnce TO is The very feet that
throughout tie whole course Of the Territorial Coy
eminent the actual residents have been trampled
under foot must naturally lead item to iusi't
that the State Government sta be started on quite
another basis. Tie people of Kansas Axe rot to be
satisfied with pa,,rs upon that part Of the frame Of
government under which they are to live which
relates to negroes. They claim slso the right Ct
passing upon tbs: part Of it which relates to white
men. This as it seems to Il, 10 highly reasonable
and eIy Democratic Administration or Democratic
Copgress hst attempts 30 deprive them Of that
right vii find the thug ea,ier sad than done.
Thirgs have altered greatly since tie existing
regime was napgarsted. The actual settlers Of
KsI.as have become 700 rrmerous, AID they are
too well organized, TO be ridden over rcggtshcd, as
heretofore. They have succeeded il obtaining tie
control Of the Territorial Legislature, nor viii
they consent to be dCIai1sered over by tho Lee
compton CNyertcn.