New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-30

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found extremely difficult 80 to arrange meters a.
~ restore confidence and cooperation between the
two wings Of the party. The South hss doubtless
decided r. sustain the Lecompton Convention, ous
il 10 alarmed st the demonstrations in the NORTH
| ard ,nce Waker's arrival there are symptoms OF
| taking the back track. TAe States. daily paper
here which set, up as rival Of The UH''a IS an
organ Of the Administration has An elaborate ara
Gle this evening attacking The Union fsr its gross
incopsiste ncies on the Kansas question, and espe
cially for advocating in July the absolute necessity
Of submitting the entire Constitution to the people
and in November tn, absolute improperly OF 30
submitting il, because il submitted it would We
voted down by factieus majority; in other words
would run the risk Of being thought guilty BY eleven
obstinate jurymen.
Thu States also iniinuatss that Mr. Buchanau will
adhere 10 the doctrines Of bis letter to Prof Sill
man, in which be raid something about securing u
the phsb'ant, Of Kansas the free right Of suffrage
on the Constitution, when it shall be submitted to
them for their appreciation or rejection"
But if the back track is taken-if the Adminissra-
ton reconsiders its decision and sides with Walker
and Douglas, the South will justly feel huubled aud
| trfed with. There are men in the Cabinet, too,
who will hardly consent 10 such course II is
we'll known that port on of the Cabinet have in.
! cessapty labored to check and TO thwart Mr..
Douglas, and they are not likely, except from sheer
necessity, TO allow him such an advantage - the
credit Of guiding tie policy Of the Democratic party
in the just and liberal direction and Of compelling
reluctant Administration 10 follow him.
The fact u.s. the Administration has got Itself into
what the English call precious mess, partly from
stupidity, and partly from Mr.. Buchansns hsbituA
| vacillation and want Of decision. They have
made two capital blurders about Ksn'as, beside
their terrible mismanagement of the Utah business.
Fr.t: Waller and Stanton should have been
promptly and unquali6edy supported in rejecting
the fraudulent returns from johnson aud McGee
| Counties. With half an eye the Administration
might have seen that Walkers position was the
only one it could stand upon before the country.
| Second: The Lecomp.on Convention should
have been promptly rsbuked and disarmed for not
submitting the whole Constitution to the people Of
Kansas; or rather, the Lecompton Convention
ought never TO have been allowed to take such
position. As party leaders, the Administration
have shown culpsbe negligence or incapscty in
| not after ding to what was going on in Kansas.
| They have allowed the Atchson, Davis and Toombs
| faction Of the Southern Democracy to direct the
current of affairs at Lecompton, when, if m,derase
men, without sinister aims, had had control there
the re.ult might have strengthened the Democratic
party instead of repding it TO pieces
| 1t is now thought that the New Hall of the Re-
representatives. will be ready when Congress opens
| The carpet is ready, and the seats and desks The
chairs cost $40 each and the desks 500. Rather
pretty prices for tines lilies these.
wAsnINGToN Thursday, Nov. &c. 1857.
Fsom Oar Own Correspondent.
| Washioet IN. 1t will have TO be fought out here,
because the real significance of the Le,ompt N Con
ventiOn Was in its relation to the contest between
| the Northern and Southern wings of the Democ.
| racy. The Northern Democrats naturally desired
speedy settle ment Of the Kansas difficulty. They
wished Kansas to be Free State, for the obvious
reason that if it became Slave State the kepubll-
csns would inevitably carry the next election in
every Northern State. The Southern Democrats,
| on the other hand desired to commit the party,
| Moth and South aid the Administration to extreme
| ro-Slavery measures. The Territorial election
had shown hey ord doubt that the Free-State men
were in large majority in Kansas. The attempt
| to male Kansas a Slave State was, therefore, too
desperate to be seriously persisted in merely for its
| own sake. But the Lecompton Cow ention offered
an essy and eiectual fundamentally of putting the
| Administration ard the Northern Democracy in a
tight yl,ce and compelling them to define their posi-
| ton beyond cavil
If the LeccmptOn Convention had con.ented
| Themselves with drawing up Pro-Slavery Ccnsti-
L t,t,. aid nh lnlp
| of Ka- kas it would have been voted down, aud
n ere would have been an end OF the matter. The
| maio it, in Kansas would have then formed Con-
,titutien to suit themselves, and under il the new
| State would have been admitted upon the principle
| of popular sovereignty. That would have put an
| end 10 az tatiOn so far as Kansas was concerned,
aud would have left the Administration AID the
Northern Democracy still free to profess neutrality
| on the question of Slavery Extension. But the
| South is not contented with neutrality. 1t is not
con,ented even with material aid and comfort under
thin euise of ptutrality 1t demands conformity
and subservience without disguise or pretense. To
this end the leaders of the extreme South have de-
| yised the LeeomptOn swindle. II is certainly a
most dexterous dodge. If the Pro-Slavery Consti-
tution had been submitted entire to the people. 1t
| would have been voted down. If it had been sent
to Copgrts SO without submission OF all 70 the people
il would have been sent back for ratification.
BY sending it back, on the principle OF
popular sovereignty, the Northern democrats
could have eyad,d the trap and the issue without
etmmittIg themselves in any way. The Southern
leaders would have had no plausib ground o! com.
plant Az the matter staI DE- they have crowded
the Northern Democrats and the Adm nistraion into
this post on: The Administration cannot safely
refuse 10 support the LecOmpton Constitution on the
ground that has not been submitted n the people
| because it will be maintained at the South that i:
has been substantially submitted. The entire Dem-
ocratic party Of the South is now commstef on this
uoin' and insists on the acceptance Of the Coostu