New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-21
FOREIGN TRADE OF BOSTON.
FROM FLASHING TON.

WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 10, 1851.
The declaration so emphaticaly made By Senator
Douglas in his reply to Senator Green, that the
scheme Of forcing the Lecompton Constitution on
the people of Kansas is a scheme Of disunion aud
civil war, is significant enough even in the sen.e in
which it is commonly understood, namely, tbs. the
scheme if carried out will lead to boodshed and to
civil war as natural and hardly to be aVerted con-
sequence. But the Senator had deeper mesnlng
in the remark. The conviction prevails among thc
Northern members who are most competent to
form Judgment of the true state Of the case, that
the Lecompton Constitution is not pressed a.
mere parliamentary or partisan measure ~ ths
Southern gentlemen who devised it, and who are
now controlling and directing it openly or secretly.
The President undoubtedly 80 REGARDS IT, Ie locAs
mon il simply as Congressional question which
nav be put through Congress with moro or less dill
fcaty out to which, when passed, Kansas and the
North win submit, or 10 which they will offer no
other resistance titan speeches and votes.
Tbs President is deceived and ID unwIttlngly
lending himself to the purposes OF men VINO are
plsyine a deep and dangerous game. The Southern
suthors of this Iecompton scheme care nothing Tor
Kansas, which they know is lost to them They are
shining at a dissolution Of the Union and The forma-
ton of a pure SlavehOlding Republic. They expect
through civil war TO drive the Free States GU. OF
the Confederacy, with the exception oil Pennsyva-
mia. and perhsps New jersey, Indiana aud Illinois,
which viii be eraciou.y permitted to remain, if they
with TO, and will make respectful application for
permission to stay giving satisfactory assurances ct
coed behavior in the future. Any Free State, N
iact which will humble itself to make Application
for admission into the new Union will be welcomed,
with the clear understanding that the Federal C)n'
sttuon is TO be so interpreted az 70 e1tehu o'ey
theoretically, if not practically, over the whole con-
| federacy. Gil. ::
The South does not object to few Free States in
| The niop If che could have q constant majority
| in the Federal councils, she would not care how
strong the FreeSta minority might be. Ihere are
reasons Of State and of party which make IL pouc
and convenient to have certain amount OF conflict
| inc elements in confsderscy just as in legisa-
tive body ii is desirable not to have too great na'
iority. Sectional and party discipline can be better
| maintained Ill the face OF an opposition, than When
| there is no counteractDg force Whatever. Inc
leaders of the slavehOdiDg -arstocrscy are DEER
| mined to keep possession OF this Government, WIN
its multtudmOus Offices and proiuse revenues Ii TIE
| ITniop remains rs il is, they zee clearly that IN
1860 the scepter will depart from them into the hands
| of the Republican party. That catastrophe they
ere resolved 10 avert even by force OF arms II need
| h. To this end, and with this view, they are
pressing the Lecompton scheme upon the PRESIDENT
They expect al hope that its enforcement ID han
sss will be resisted and that civil war VIII De inc
\
and conouer the Free States and to drive the mos!
obnoxious Of them out of the Union With the rest,
or AT the worst with the South alone, they calculate
upon forming cOnfederacy in which the savehoid-
| ing class shall have the unquestoned supreme
with othpg to check the expansion OF IT'S dominion
| over Mexico Central America, and the West indies.
| Mr. DOUGLAS from his long and intimate a'socla-
| ton with these men, perfectly understands their
| plens and motives and this explains the emphsuc
hint he threw out in his recent speech, that he Le
eonpt,n scheme was scheme oil dlsunion MT
1 buchanan has been so long abroad that be comPre-
hends neither the designs Of the Shareholders nor
| the state of public opinion IN the Free states he
undertakes the difficulty and danger of the Kansas
question. and thinks il will end as al other eontro
Tersies ended in the partisan conflicts OF the Pish
| WITH which he was familiar before he Went 70
| Furope. He is DESTROYS of reee ,ti0n, snd chngs
IN the obsolete idea that the only road to tne res
| d,ncy lies through the Slave States The southern
advisers who surround him. and VINO alone nave 's
ssr know better. They are perfectly aware tina.
tho;r exclusive power over the Union, as at present
eont;tyt,d is gone forever, and that nothing can re-
| stora il but some new arrangement which saaA eN
| olude tbe Ant-SsVery States. 1hey hOh 70 tne
| ecompton scheme as the basis on whca 10 uegia
| tha movements that are to result they NOPE III
new conformation of the country by wnch t1ey eau
regain and secure that supremacy the loss VI
they anticipate in 1850, unless they can avert II oy
| 3 coup Il tta,.
| corIespondesas Of r.. n. Y. Tribune - 49,
WASHINGTON, De-. -, -.
Much sensation has been occssiOned in naval CIR
cles by disclosure which is likely to produce un'
expected results, if the facts be clearly .uos'an-
tiated SIS it is alleged that they can be- II ap-
pears that reliable information reached Lieut.. bar'-
lett, an applicant before one Of the Courts OF To-
ou,ry. 70 the eflec. that vote had been taken IN
hi, case, which was two to one in his fsyor-tse
| Court consulting Of three officers. Pending the
admission of the official report to the Secretary oil
n. Navy, it is stated that TIE Judge Ad'Oc't'