The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-26

allowance may be well awarded him: aud the
paitTy ptttifoggng game Of chafering in his case
| over few thousand dollars, more or less, wien
Millions arc thrown away upon the land jobbers,
should L. at once abandoned. It sff6ris us plea
sure to believe tina. Mr. Floyd is of this opialon
| and that the President will sustain him ia il We
! are entirely satisfied.
| Kansas. Governor Walker and the AdminIs-
tration.
1t appears from our Washington edvices Of this
morning that the President does not approve Of
the ultimate plan Of Governor Walker for the
pacidcation Of Kansas as disclosed through the
columns of this journai--the plan of admitting a
Northern Kansas and Southern Kansas-a Kan
sas for the free State party, and new Kansas for
the benef Of the pro-slavery politicians of the
present Territory of Kansas. 1t seems that the
President is quite sanguine that the Kansas trou-
BILE win need no such doctorng-that the land
specializing mania prevailing among all parties,
will preserve the peace, and lead to reconcilia-
ton between ''bo,der ruiIians" and abolition
traitors" whether Kansas shall be admitted into
the Union pro-slsyeJy or no-s'avery.
Our Washington correspondent in this matter
is also confident that whatever notifications Mr.
Walker may make in his orders, on his way to Kan
sas or after his arrival there he will most probably
adhere to the following points, to wit:-Taat the
local legislative laws must he maintained; that the
standaloof policy of the free State party from
the June election will avail them nothing; that
the act of the majority of those who do vote will
be binding upon those who do not vote; that the
next step after the adoption of a State constitu-
ton. by the Convention thus elected should be at
ali hazards the submission of such constitution to
vote of the people for their ratification; and
that the Convention have the undoubted right, if
they shall SO think fit, to leave untouched the
question of slavery in their State constitution,
and entirely subject to the future action of the
Legislature of the State.
We are also inclined to think that Mr.. Walker
will adhere to these original landmarks of his
Kansas programme; and according to our latest
information from the Territory there will be no
civil war from the PRONUNCIATION of these views,
and no burning nor numbering will be required
to enforce them. The quashlng since Mr.. Stau-
toms arrival in the Territory of all those bogus
indictments of treason against the free State
rebels, and the amiable inc!iDations of those
rebels towards the border rufians siuce the
present raging fever of speculation ia lands,
mill sites and town lots has set in, will go very
far 10 justify the impression Of the President,
that this Kansas imbrogiio is at length in a very
fair way of setting itself without any further
serious difficulty, inside or outside the Territory
This view OF the SUBJECT is strengthened by
the latest commentaries Of the New York
Tribune which appears at last to be willing to
submit to the admission of Kansas As a slave
State, satisfied that the State itself when
lett to itself, will very speedily re-
move ',he peculiar institution" We presume,
too, that this ruling mania Of land speculation. in
which many of our black republican fnsnciers
and stockholders are involved, will account for
this sudden spirit of liberality and resignation on
the part of our hitherto intractable contemporary.
The stakes involved in the land and town lot
speculations in Kansas are too important and
comprehensive to the free State meu to be sacr-
feed TO mere temporary constitutional abstrac-
ton of slavery or no slavery. The spectators
thus hold the balance Of power in Kansas, aud
for once they are using it to good purpose-the
paciiication of the border belligerents. Herein
we have doubtless the keynote to the present
mutic Of the Tribune, and some very striking
proof, withsl, OF the sagacity OF the President.
Uyon another point, however, there may be
some misrepresentation existing at Washington
We have not said, nor have we supposed, nor has
ii been said 10 our Washington correspondence,
tina, the plan Of Northern Kansas and South.
Elm Kansas would be ut once proclaimed in
Kansas as tho policy of Governor Walker. No.
His present policy is the preservation Of the
peace, together with the Observance Of the local
laws. But should the pro slavery convention,
which will be elected 10 June, decline to submit
their work to vote Of the people, and carry il
up at once TO Congress, the dose may prove too
strong for the House Of Representatives la that
event. the contingency Will have arrived foe the
formal introduction of this ultimate plan Of Nc.
Walker; and in that contingency this compromise
Of Northern Kansas and a Southern X insas-a
free State and q slave Stste-wil be thevery best
expedient ofpaciGcaiion that can BE- devised.
With these views We await the report OF Gov.
Walkers official introduction to the people of
Kansas
TrE NEW CyS1-1he new cent Is issued Mcssrs.
Kingsey Co.'S express brought LOT TO the city yeslcr
day They will be in abundance The old cent will
now disappear to the great JOY Of the public.