The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-28

eoc. Pork WAS heavy, and sales limited Sugars
sold 10 the extent OF about hhds at rates given
another place Coffee moderate request and prices
unchanged Freghs to British ports irregular and
engagements light Tobacco, in hhds taken I, Lon
don at 2ss., and ogwood to Bremen at 35s.
New Crisis In Kansas Anairs-Impendin
Dissolution or the Democratic Party.
The terrible revulsion which has so suddenly
disorganized our financial and commercial at
fairs and paralyzed the industrial interests of
the country, threatens still more serious conse-
quences, upon side issue, than all that we have
realized from its demoralizing social, CONNER
cial and political influences all put together.
A general financial collapse such as this I'M
hinges and unscttles the minds of men upon po-
litica rs well as in business affairs. II breaks
up old party platforms, loosens the ties of old
party associations and party principles, and,
like resistless storm, sends everything adrift
at the mercy of the waves.
At such crisis the alarming ENHANCEMENT
to which the affairs of Kansas have been at
length reduced threatens not only violent
dissolution of the democratic party, but shock
to the strong fabric of this Union, which will
shake it from its turrets to its solid foundations
According to the reliable advices which we
have published from Washington a direct issue
has been raised between the President and Gov
ernor Walker of Kansas, upon the solution of
which will depend the success or failure of Mr..
Buchanan's administration, the unity or disrup-
ton of the national democracy, and the peace
of the Union, or the most ferocious sectional
conflict ever known between the North and
South for the control of the general government
Reduced to few words, the disagreement be-
tween the President and Governor Walker
amounts to this-the President holds the ground
that this Kansas Lecompton Convention was
legitimate convention: that it had the lawful
authority to frame State constitution; that it
should have submitted such constitution bodily
to the vote of the people; but that, in submit
ting the question of slavery or mo slavery
to the popular vote, the only material question
ID issue was satisfactorily provided for, and
that accordingly the immaterial reservations
of the Convention might be overlooked Gov.
Walker, on the other hand, emphatically de-
cares that this Lecompton constitutional pro-
gramme is an outrage upon the people of Kan
sas-a shameless violation of all the principles
of free government; that the constitution in
question is yet secret document in the Terri
tory. still in the hands of the committee to be
altered or amended as they may think proper;
and that an effort on the part of Congress to
force said constitution upon the people of Kan
sas. without their voice being heard for or
against it, will be surely followed by rebellion
and bloody civil war.
Here is a wide, deep and yawning chasm be-
tween the President and the Governor. Is
there an available compromise that will bridge
it over? Are there any practical concessions
within reach that will suffice to fill it up?
Doubtful. Gov. Walker has deliberately and
resolutely taken his ground. 1t is very clear
that he does not intend that his official head
shall be dropped into the same basket with
those meek and lowly Kansas martyrs, Reeder,
Shannon and Geary. No; Walker is an older
canpagner-he has taken his soundings with
longer line; and If the administration is not
with him, he is against the administration, and
will fight out the issue before Congress and be-
fore the country.
Assuming then, that Mr.. Buchanan, on his
prospect? On which side is the heaviest metals
Undeniably the spirit and letter Of the Kansas
Nebraska bill demand that by the vote of the
people of Kansas her organic law as State
shall be determined-not one question of it,
but every question-not part, but the whole,
and every part Of it, And yet it has appeared
to us that an honest election upon the para
mount issue of slavery" or mo slavery would
meet the only really important acquisitions
in the case. Unfortunately, however, nobody
knows what this Lecompton constitution Is
or what it is to he. II is charged by the
free State party that popular vote upon the
detached slavery clause will amount only to a
mockery inasmuch as, regardless Of this test
thiH constitution will make Kansas, to all
practical intents and purposes, slave State.
The Southern fre-eaters' organs seem. strangely
enough, to be possessed of the same idea. The
Charleston Mercury. for example, in late exult-
ing article on the subject, says" If the Con
vention is omnipotent to form a constitution
has il not also the power TO carry IL into effect:
This Is all they have done. IL II true. these
arrangements defeat the Intervention of Walker
and Stanton to give the control of the Territory
to the black republicans, and ciA end IN mailing
Kansas a Stare State and then, clappng his
hands with joy, our Charleston fire-eater ex-
claims that Walker and Stanton "are marked
tail and ears cut-let them GO
Thus it appears that there is some jugglery
in this Lecompton programme. whereby Kansas
is to be slipped into the Union AZ slave State
with the appearance of popular ratification
when perhaps fully four-ffths Of her actual in
habitants are opposed to the recognition of
slavery. From recent events, also, the
present position Of Governor has had
its mysterious foreshadowings for how else
are We TO account for the bold and in