New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-07

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vas carried through Congress by a combination OF
parties who h,d very different objects in view.
The scheme originated With the slavehold'ng hemp
growers of Platte County, Missouri, on the oppo'
site bank Of the Missouri River, for whom Atcai'on
acted as Spokesman and manager, and WHO hoped
in this way TO eneross the fertile lands of Kansas TO
themselves, with little or no competition from Free
Labor settlers. 1t was taken up BY Douglas, Pierce
sad oh Northern politicians, in the hope OF rec
omu ending themselves to Southern favor. Ii was
preedily snatched at By the Southern politicians
who called themselves Democrats, in hopes OF
strengthening their hold upon the spoila By break
ing up that combination of Northern ard Southern
men which had hitherto constituted the Wing
party L. was grumbliDgy accepted by the slave
biet ders and Slavery fanatics of the South as
partial concession to their demands and On opening
of the door for the extension Of saveholding into
every new State to be added to the Union.
Bad rhe Pl,tte County snd-srabber,, instead Of
doing anything to attrac. special attention to Kan.
cas-, suffered it to be quietly organized as Terri
tory there can scarcely be doubt that, without
resortiDg to either fraud violence they would as
constituting a msjority of the settlers, have OBJ.
tanned the control Of the Territorial legislation.
Thus fairly in possession, they might then have
preceded to organize State Government by which
Slavery might have been legazed. This result,
indeed, was fully calculated upon BY those who in
r dueed the squater sovereignty principle into the
Ksn,as. Nebraska bill. Blu. the agitation which re-
suited from the introduction and passage Of that
bill totally changed the position Of afi.rs. 1t
carried thousands Of settlers to Kansas who,
| if tie matter had been managed quietly would
never have gone thither thus disappointing in a
| moot unexpected manner the calculations uocn
| which the Kan sas Nebrasks bill had been passed
JDstesd Of establishing Slavery By means of the
,quatter sovereignty principle, as had been ex-
pecte6 it became necessary to resort to frau1 and
violence If the most crupu' BUS kind. the en-
cours cement extended 10 this fraud and violence by
those in authority at Washington, but still HOre
tie promise of return to the principles Of popular
sovereignty put forth ofcially by Geary, Buchanan
and Walker, have hitherto served to a certain ex
tent to keep in ,ubection the strong Anti-Slavery
sentiment of the population But this operation
bas become from day to day more difficult and deli
cate TIE people of Kansas are at this moment
claiming their rights under the Kansas Nebraska
bill ard the ful6llment of the official promises made
to them, with unanimity and determination
which cannot fail to bring the question to very
speedy sId decisive issue. The god fathers of the
Kama, Nebraska bill and the Democratic psrty are
reduced to this alternatives either TO abandon alto
seher the doctrine of popular sovereignty or else
to aid by means of it, in bringing K,nsa, into the
Union as Free State.
This result is equally Notifying and distressing
70 all the parties who engaged in the operation of
introducing Slavery into Kansas BY mesrs OF the
Kansas Nebraska bill. The original Platte County
spectators have most eiiectualy cut of their own
6pgers. Instead of securing the Kansas lands to
{ smselses at the Government price, they have
drawn thther host Of competitors, who, issteid
Of population favorable to Slavery or careless
about II. and whom a few slavehOding traders
might easily have managed, they have assembled
in Kansas body Of men more hostile to- Slavery
AID more opposed to slayeholdiDg dictation than
can be found elsewhere in the Union. The North
EN- politicians who joined in this project are
DOW reduced to the necessity Of eating their
own words and forfeitiog all pretensions TO
principle or independence aud all prospect
Of i1fceIce or leadership .. home, or else,
upon the question ef the Lecjmpton Constitution,
ruI nil directly counter to that Southern feeling
nbch they were so anxious b c)nch.te. As to The
Southern Democratic politicians, they have indeed
ect rid Of the Whgs who scarcely served sny other
purpose except to keep the Democrats majority
united, but they already find tie Wing opposition
rfPlsced by split among themselves Of very
alarming character. Icstead Of proving o)nd
% uLion between The N,ittern and Southern sections
Of he party, Kansas has become bone OF contan-
iicn between them. The utaern section clsm'r-
cu.ly con.erd that Kansas belongs to theu-that it
was transferred to them by the Kansas Nebraska
bill snd that any hesitation Cd the part OF their
NoItern associates to carry on. this bargain will
BE- sross breach of faith As 10 tie Squstter Sow
tiei,nty principle, that was but mere means T.
an srd. II was introduced into toe BIZ exclusively
II tie interest Of Slavery. Tnat such wa tue un-
derstardDg proved, they say, by the whole course
Of tie Government hitherto in sustaining the Ter
IitoIisl Legislature What is the advantage Of all
itst, if Kansas ia now to be quietly surrendered
il to tie hands Of the Free State neni
Under thee circumstances, whs. more natural
thsn that the whole body Of the Northern Democ-
rscy ihCuld hesin 10 be REGARDED by large section