New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
oe Of The n. Y. Tribune.

WASHINGTON, July Q, 1857.
The present aspect of the Kansas question
teaches harsh lesson to time-servers aud compro-
nlisers. Up to this period everything mas been
welded to the ferociy of Southern fanaticism. 1t
screamed for the repeal of ths Missouri COmpro-
mise, and got it. Not satisfied with this couces-
sion, it cried for blood, and its cry was satisfied.
The murders and the miniature civil war of Kansas
were offerings to appease the South. But the
South is not satisfied. 1t has been modified by
mock Legislatures and spurious laws, but the South
still RACES. Keitt the confederate OF buuy BROOKS,
speaks the voice of the rampant South IN writing 10
one of the organs of Richmond seditOn that 1t would
he dsbauchcru to submit the Constitution about to
ne framed by the sham Convention to any other
than the voters qualified by Committees of the Mis-
souri, mObs called by their partisans Territorial
Legislatures.
The depth and scope of Keitts impudence, and
the yillainy which he insists upon, can Only be
appreciated by rejecting upon the past history
of Kansas There is no legal authority what
ever for this Convention. The people of Kansas
have never consented in any shape to its assembling;
have never by any act word, directly or indirectly
consented to be bound by its proceedings. The
people of Kansas, composed of the voters qualified
by ''residence," have adopted Constitution, and
that Constitution has been adopted by the House OF
Representatives of the United States, which passed
bill for the admission of the free State OF Kansas
in conformity with said Constitution. Ii the ap-
preaching Convention had been called by the
people il would have a right to prescribe
the qualifications of the voters to whom
its work should be submitted, but it ia obvious and
undenable that the people have repudiated the
whole affair as base fraud. 1t s not even ap-
proved of and supported it would seem, by the
Pr0-Slavery population of Kansas; for the entire
votes for members of the Convention amounted to
II. Al
1855 chose their Mob Committee, which Keitt
and the South call a Legislature, by an alleged
vote of $500, and at the next election riot Whitfield
claimed to have received 300 votes, and last
October there were cast for the Legislative
Mob Committee over 1000 pretended votes.
Here then, after the struggle has been going on for
two years and half the Services can muster but
LOO votes, or only quarter of their alleged vote
in 1855. 1t is known to all that at least three
fOurths of the actual resident population Of Kansas
have gone tbther since the riots of March 80 1850
If there was then Pro-Slavery vote of $780, there
ought to be one now Of q, 900. Now, too the same
policy is supported by regular party, which claims
affinity with the National Administration and is or
panized as branch of the Black Democracy Of the
United States Can it be honestly asserted that this
miserable aud wretched faction, which has dwindled
down from 300 votes at the very first election after
the organization of the Territory to 100 when its
population was more than quintuped represents the
people Of Kansas -.
But what We have to do with, is the present atti.
tude 0f the South. She demands that the mob OF
March 80, 1865, shall make the Constitution and
that its atrocious DEGREES shall be fastened upon
Kannas, like the brand of Cain, through all time.
The howl for disuniOn is not yet come; but in due
course it cannot long be delayed. Kansas enslaved,
a dissolution will soon be the cry, and there will
come another compromise. Perhaps it will be the
sdIIlSsloa Of Minnesota or Oregon ~ balance.
DosD'less great injury has been done to the Free
6tate cause by the calf-like beat OF some of our
Republican sueklings, that Kansas would come i'll
free State easy, owing TO the heavy vote for Ere
mont last November. This is the purest drive i'm.
sginabe. The Services, Of either South or North,
are not the sort Of to be frightened by heavy
votes The fate Of Kansas at this hour is in the ex.
fremest doubt. The Services have every advantage.
The Federal Administration, with its patronage It's
gold, its troops and above all its infamous Terrific
rial Judiciary, hiss recognized the Mob Committees
of 1855 and 1856 as Legislatures, and their
resolutions as laws. If that position be finally |
confirmed. then Slavery is already firmly estab. |
lisbed By law. And this Inv is mmutable, |
because 1t disiranehises all opposed to it. The |