New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-25
have taken the course he did. He arrived here
nrs mined fn Of the idea and began to VomIt It out

have taken the course ne d,o' 10 80. :. 80
crammed fun of the idea, ana ocgan W YUM. az. Vus
The moment he mihed the AR OF Kansas. bue me
o. - " Never" and Stanton, like sensible
ieoP'e - IN consider. And here would stop to
t nr the benefit of all free-spoken SOULS that had
a. peonLe been conservative and avoided tahihg
~ Hmm a position, or had they looked afraid or
so.tnJ down in any of the fifty credtable ways IN
DS snch things can be done Secretary Stan
,cn ,ronH not have thought He talked Of bowie
tnives ill he found that the People had begun to
INK Of them, and then his Excelency, seeing the
People would not grow conservative, grew con-
seryatiye" himself. He has been examining the
laws to see why this reluctance. In his CONVERSE
ton with the gentlemen TO which have alluded,
be said:
"The people were determined-very determined.
II wasn't excitement altogether with them. Ihey
seemed IN know what they were doing. They were
evidently intelligent people-lOoked like men who
might be good citizens, but were resolute against
the laws"
The acting Governor stated that he had been ex-
aiming the flaws" and he expressed an opinion of
them He is All avOwed slayery-extcnsiOnlst, but
did not hesitate to condemn the enactmens that the
National Government is arduOusly trying to Defy.
His "opinOn" was not elaborate, nor could IT,
strictly speaking, be called legal; it was, how
ever forcible and succinct. He said "many Of them
are damnabe.
As have said he has taken his volunteer prOnun-
cismlntos in favor Of these enactments under ad-
ysement. As he truly says he has no authority
either TO change, abolish, or set them at naught;
but he has determined to do just little as be pos
sibly can, to avoid everything that could possibly
lead him into difficulties, and TO "wait till Gov.
Walker comes and LET Walker manage it," Upon
the whole this decision is decidedly creditable to
him. Ii takes very narrow view OF the case, ana
does not offer any solution present or remote, but
is, perhaps, the best he can do. Should he continue
the advantageous course OF investigation to which he
seems inclined he may perhaps learn another still
more important fact, namely that the people object
10 the usurpation still more than they do 10 the laws
They object to Missouri making laws for Kansas
and still more do they object to having all the terri
toral officers appointed by their rufan enemies from
among their most abject tools. The best laws i'll
the world would BE- mere farce in the adminlstra-
ton of such men. To be sure, the claws" are in
full keeping with their other acts but TO point
out their discrepancy is like speaking of u murder
thus: Well, ii was not done decently; it was bad
Job done in haggling barbarOus way.
Presidant Buchanan should issue another prOcla-
nation. He should declare TO the world that the
bogus Territorial laws shall be enforced" There
is prospect that they may sOondie natural DEATH
and nothing short Of the galyanizing influence OF an
executive pronuncamientO can torture their relax
ing nerves into an expiring wiggle. But these laws
must be maintained. They are the creed of the
&" Democratic" party. Squatter Sovereignty has
been unceremonously kicked out, and the only vital
element that acts as an adhesive plaster to the party
is the validity of the bogus epactments.
Gov. Walker is to have the " enforcement OF the
laws" and Gov. Walker is " coming to come :"
He may or may not see the matter in the same
light as Stanton. And here let Inc remark that it
was no spontaneous exercise of conscience on the
part of the Secretary The inference is, that he is
as sincere champion of Southern rights" as when
he came to Kansas. He heard the thunder growl
and he listened to it. He had sense enough and
principle enough not to begin civil war until he
examined what it was for, especially as the chances
of such war resulting in his favor by no means
conclusive. But the bogus laws must be - en-
forced, and the bogus officers sustained. What
say you, Gov. Walker? What say you, James
Buchanan