The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-09
ks.sEs-ActirE Govs rnor STATION and the
F,ee state f'arty-The prospect

ISs"sns-Aetirg Cow rnor STATION and the
Free state f'arsy-The prospect
The ofic al Iresponde oe which we publish
to day between acti"g Governor Stanton, OF K,a-
sa-, and the free Sta leaders Will give the
reader petty di tine, 'dea Ct the sharply de
finCd AVID beligerent locking issues upol which
'he p oslascry and the nc-slavery parties Of the
T. ni'o.y are divided
The fee S ate committee ask that the Terrific
rol ell ction law ana the proceedings under it b.
ret aside; that there shalt he q new census; that
an equal humber to both parties Of the supee
visors of The oensus lst and Of the juages OF tue
election shall be- appointed; and that majority
Of the judges Of each precinc shall bs require
10 give a certificate Of electio, 30 Tia State Co,
vett.oa. If these propositions are aoced d to
The FIR, State party are willing TO participate in
Tie June election; otherwise they viii stand
s.oof. ard fall back upou their reserved rights
PCT Congress and tho Topeka free State consti-
tuition
TIE answer Of the acting Governor ia, sub
stantially, that he cannot 60 behiod the Terri
to'isl Legislature. but must take Its laws
as be an6s them. and carry them out
We are, therefore, at DO loss to pre-
Diet the upsbst of this disagreement
| The June election will be carr. ed unanimously
by rbe p'o slavery puty-the State Convention
| thus ell, cted will have unlimited power in favor
OF slavery and will doubtless exercise il in the
| adoption, unanimously, of a pro-slavery State
constitution. We think 30, inasmuch az the free
State party have committed themselves in all their
proceedings, even 10 armed resistance and open
war, since the Missouri invas on of 1855, against
any recognition In any form, Of what they de-
nounced a. the Illegal, fraudulent, perjured and
outra locus legislative usurpers of the Territory
Wit next. The pro-slavery party haV,ng
adopted in convention slave State constitu
ton. y send il up to Congress for ratification
withort further ceremony. The local law makes
10 fr, ision for the submission Of tue constitu
ton e I've people, and we have no doubt that
such s,sp will be considered hazardous super
luity. at with the presentation of this slave
Sta col ftitution to Congress, there will appear
III Il mon STRANGE, and the testimony and the ar
eument OF the free Stale party against it, and an
appeal in behalf Of the Topeka constitution as
the true embodiment of the will Of the people of
Kansas
Between these two bundles of hay Congress
will have to make an election. in the choice Of
one or the rejection of both. Should they choose
the pro. slavery constitution and admit Kansas
into the Union upon that basis there will be
a general eruption in the North infinitely more
d sastrous TO the shattered democracy than the
fierce reaction Of 1854 against the repeal of the
Missouri compromise. Should the Topeka coosti-
Triton be adopted there will be . fare-up in the
South of more dangerously sectional character
than tho secession movement in 1851 In South
Carolina, Georgia, AlsbsmA and Mississippi upon |
the admission In 1850 OF the whole OF California ~
q free State. Should the application Of both the
free State and the slave State party of Kansas be
rejected the Southern ultrss will most likely ac-
cept it AZ the betrayal Of their section, and q
revolutionary cspitulstion to the Northern abo-
| litionists
These are the consequences forcshadOwed by
his correspondence between Governor Stanton
OF the free State leaders, we shall bs agree
| ably disappointed If nothing worse shall be
evolved out Of this ugly imbroglo before the
meeting Of Congress. AID now comes the quee-
iou-where lies tie responsibility for this gloomy
tate of thngss First, with poor Pierce; aud
secondly with the Niger worsdipping leaders on
the oSe side. and the Niger driving leaders on
the othr side Of the last Congress Upon half
sheet Of fool-cap this lsst Coogrtss might have
provided amply and Satisfactorily for the pacifca-
ticn of Kansas. They failed TO do it, and Mr..
Buchanan Is therefore compelled 10 Go the b,st
be can WITH this Naasas ept abatement, IS be finds
/. paseed cve- into bis hands from his faithiess
END incompetent predecessor and the art
dodgers Of the last Congress
Bot, in the eecond place, these troubles in
Kansas are the rts,ii, OF tho dsty intrigues, the
elcceoncering tricks and plots of Outside Pres-
Dental sectiona, a,itatori, North and South. If
LET. 10 themselves, tue kcal interests Of all pr
ties il Kansas would speedily bring about crys-
talizatiou- Bot unfortunately the Seward or
gsus and the Seward managsrs Of Northern
agitation find IL their policy TO keep Kansas
"blcedlpg;" and the scherning and reckless ultra
politicians Of the South are cove mei by precisely
the Fame ruling idea Thus the stand aoof
policy Of the free State party within Kansas and
the snap Judgment policy adopted by the pro-
slsvcry party, suit alike the purposes of Mr..
Sexard as q Northern canflidste for The succession
ard OF Mr.. Walker or Mr.. Jefferson Davis as
sou.han sspiraat The nalign Influences Of our
OUTSIDE sctiotal schemers TO. the Presidency
and for the poils Of the succession, have thus
Kept alive these border troubles; and these causes
will operate 10 fan tae rekldling fame into
q consuming fire, unless the President at the
meeting of Congr,s should step In between these
reckless agitators aud the ccuntSy and hiring up
the Leading niger worshippcrs Of the HOUSE so.i
The leading niger drivers Of the Senate fairly
and square'y 70 face tire music.
Thst Mr.. buchanan viii 90 30 we are album