New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-14

and some have CHASED az "peope," aud there-
fore entitled TO vote all bousehoders and heads OF
families. Others put in a claim for all mon who
paw direct personal or poll tax for the support of
the Government Others have insisted upon reck'
oppe a, of the people and have claimed the rlghso
voting for all men Of mature age settled inhabitants
of the State and not under legal guardianship
whether they pay tax or not. This last has been
understood TO be the doctrine of the Democratic
party. and such has been the provision on this sub
iect inserted under the inspirations and teachings OF
that party into most of the State Constitutions
formed within the last thirty years.
But the idea involved in all these systems winch
had come to be viewed among US as an axiom Oh
pohtics-the idea of regarding participation IN
the elective franchise as the natural and inherent
right of somebody-is, it seems, great mis- 'ahe'
In relation TO the question of submitting 10 'ne
people the bogus State Constitution ABOUT 10 oe
formed in Kansas, The Union expresses ltsei as
follows:
"Ru, who are the people What shall be the
considerations of voter the Constitution when II
cones TO be submitted We answer that h's "Jor
tie ConrentiOn TO settle"
The question, who are the people Of Kansas 49,
il seems, not at all, as many have supposed, ques-
tion of residence and consequent right; it is pure
lya question Of power, grace and Will on the part
Of the bogus Convention. Should this Conven'
TOMAS, considering its own history aud origin,
seems highly probable--limit the right Of voting
on and under the bogus Constitution they are about
TO form to the residents in the adjacent counties in
Missouri that, according to the views OF The Union,
would conclusivey settle the question, and would
leave nobody in or out of Kansas, North or South,
any occasion or pretense to grumblo or complain.
To the question, who are the people, The Union
answers, This is for the Convention to settle
Whether this view of the powers of Conven-
tons is in precise accordance with the doctrine OF
Sauatter Sovereignty, Gen. Cass will be able to
say with far more authority than we can pretend
TO. We should say not, but as the article in The
Union is understood to be published by authority,
it must be admitted to carry with it the implied,
if not the direct, approval Of the head of MIR. Blu
char ans Cabinet At all events it sufficiently cor
responds with the principles upon which The Union
maintains the right Of the Convention to meet at
all. That right rests upon bogus act, passed BY
bogus Legislature, selected by fraud and intrusive
violence at an election ordered by previous bogus
Legislature intrusivey chosen by violence still
more outrageous and frauds still more fragrant.
In the face and eyes of the Report made and the
evidence taken by a Committee of the last Congress,
The Union does not venture to deny these facts. 1t
only tells us that this Legislature, no matter how
chosen, has been recognized by the Administration
at Washington and the Cincinnati Convention as
a legal body and therefore is so. The Administra-
ton and the Cincinnati Convention having been
thus vested with the authority of furnishing Kan
sas with Legislature it is consistent enough to
delegate to a bogus Convention the authority to
supply her with voters.
Many Administration journals, and some which
pretend to call themselves ndependent-meaning,
perhaps, in the market-are singing paAns over the
peace which now reigns in Kansas, result which
these journals pleased to ascribe to the presence
and policy of Governor Walker. But the peace of
Kansas was just as firmly established months before
Walkers arrival in Kansas it is now, and if the
credit Of it were to be given to any Governor, it
certainly belongs to Geary, ance turned out for his
pains. But the peace of Kansas, and the re-
of order and quiet there rest thank
Heaven, upon a foundation much more firm, GER
tain and reliable than the presence in or absence
from Kansas of this Governor or that, or the
speeches, letters or promises, whether of Walker,
or Stanton, or Perrin. None of these are or
have been anything more than mere corks bobbing
on the surface, indicators of the way the wind
is blowing and the current setting. The peace
in Kansas was and is, beyond all ques
ton, due to those Sharps rifles, the supplying the
people Of Kansas with which, as means of defend
ing their lives and their homes against the violence
and plumber of Border Raffian invaders, gave
such bitter annoyance to The Observer, Journal Of
Commerce, and other resistance journals OF that
stamp. The bold and skillful use Of these arms in
the hands of the insulted oppressed, invaded and
plundeIed Free State of Kansas, speedily taught
the Administration at Washington that the civil
war which had begun with the sack and plumber of
Lawrence, if suffered to 60 on without interference
on their part, would speedily end in the expulsion,
not of the Free State men, but of the PrO-Slavery
patty. The gallant spirit of self defense, well worthy
Of the descendants of the men who fought at Licking
ton and Bunker Hl exhibited by the Free.State
men, and the good supply of Sharp's rifles with
which they had been providentially and seasOnaby
furnished, left the Administration of Mr. Pierce
but one alternative-either to take upon themselves
the business of driving out and exterminating the
Free State settlers in which their friends the Bor
der Ruffians had failed or else to insist that the
contest should stop. On the eve of the election
then pending, it would have been too desperate
move to join the Border Ruffians in driving the
Free-State men b! force of arms out of the Terri