New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-19

etrOpS uTged nor Dy Wpdt cOuslocrauOns eutotcro
il an evasion Of his pledges and plain dsrelistion
from duty.
The fourth batch of Kansas officials having just
disappeared from this transitory scene-Secretary
Stanton uLder the operation Of the guillotine while
Gov. Walker hiss been eoaxed to dodge the Ak just
o. it was ready TO fall-we are enabled 10 see more
clearly what il the grdoam.n Of the ofenss so
psmpously Obscured under the phrase, "opposing
"the troubles in Kanias"
Neither Walker nor Stanton has been shuflled of
On any accusation pretense that bis official course
has rendered him obnoxious to the People of Kan
cas- On the contrary, when they ,cere thus obnO1-
ious on account Of the Lacquer OF Lawrence, which
Walker foolishly brought about, they were cher.
ished at Washington as chief jewels in the Presi-
dents coronet. So long as they were hated dis
trusted, denounced in Kansas, they were in high
favor at tho White Houie. Even the Southern
clamor sgains. Walkers "isothermal" nonsense
did not seem to shake their tenure of power. It
only when the People Of Kansas began to esteem
and coride in tie men sent from Warrington 10 be
ther rulers that the senders dee ned it essential to
kick those rulers out. A Governor OF Kansas, un.
der Buchanan or under Pierce has only to render
himself profoundly and generally detested BY the
people Involuntary subjected to his sway, and he
may consider himself safe in his place and beloved
by his masters; but let him begin to cultivate and
secure the love and confidence Of his subjects, and
his official head is already half way off his shoulders
- -kof cruhe h
Nachisveps "PIince" never had hint of, and no
lieutenant of Alaric or Attila was ever blessed
With.
What is the offense of Secretary Stanton
state Of extraordinary excitement and ala IN per-
vsdes tho Territory. A State Constitution has bean
framed for Kansas by Convention which the great
mass OF the People had no voice in electing.
True, Mr.. Buchanan says they might have had, had
they chosen, but in this he is utterly mistaken.
Nobody could vote that was not registered, and IN
arenteen Of the thirty four organized Counties ere"
the p,etense Of Registry did not en't In the re-
naming Counties, not half the legal voters were
registered and not one third Of the Free State men,
The Mayor of Leaven worth, one of the Oldest and
best known residents of Kansas, was not on the
Lawrence were registered. There was no pro-
vision of law under which the legal voters whose
names were not registered could obtain correction
of the lat The Apportionment was designedly,
monstrously unjust to the Free-State men. No
poll was opened at Lawrence, the second city in
the Territory known to be unanimously Free.
State. In short every device Of villaiDy had been
employed to render certain o-Slavery majority
in the Convention, to which end the virtual dis.
frsschisement of the Free.State men was essen.
tisl The Convention did not fairly represent even
what is called the Democratic party of Kansas,
which party 10 but small minority Of the whole
People.
The new Legislature, on the other hand, was
chosen two months since at an election 10 which al
parties did their best. II was chosen on poll Of
nearly Twenty Thousand votes, whereas the Con.
vention represents less than Two Thousand. The
Convention undertook 10 strike dead the LegisA-
turs two weeks in advance Of its legal time Of
assembling! by virtue Of Constitution which the
People wore compelled to vote "for" in order 10
vote for or against it Slavery article, and each
voter must if challenged, swear to support this
Constitution il adopted when no vote against il
was allowed or would be counted! And when q
majority shall have been compelled to r.tify and
,wear allegiance to Con,titutiOn they abhorred in
order to vote sgsinst Slavery their votes no matter
how cast would not exclude Slavery at last! On
the contrary, Slavery is shielded, protected, per.
petuated, and only the importation Of more slaves
precluded by ever 90 overwhelming . vote For the
" Constitution riAo@ Slavery" And the Con-
,tituton thus fastened on the People BY their own
reluctant constrained votes and osths 10 not 10 be
altered t.n after 1864, and then only by vote Of
two.thirds in both branches Of the Legislature,
backed by msjoriH vote Of the whole People
not of those voting merely, but Of tho passive IS
we'll A most atrocioss APportionmeut, which
gives double weight to johnson and other Pro-
Slavery Counties, is imbedded in this Constitution,
and 90 much of it - perpetuates Slavery in Kansas
is declared unaltersble for ever. Such, with the
concentration Of all power to appoint officers 10
he.d the election and to return the votes, which he
10 10 canvass, in the hands Of it, President. John
Calhoun il the elaborate structure Of vilAiny which
the People Of KAnsas are required b ratify and
aocePt a. their State Constitution.
Of c9nss, they vii Do 20 such thing, nor viii