New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-07

II is exceedingly desirable. that the crest Gie.-
tons of the day should be so presented that each
party petition may be fairly understood by every
Other party. In this c,nvcto1, we ask The En-
press to reconsider aud restae its assertions with
respect TO the Kansas difference that
" The Frpress ia unchanged. II stands upon the
vsIy rriI cipe now it took at the ssI-the princpl,
taken on the New.Yolk Municipal Rights issue, aud
ever taken in Ksnsas-the right OF sej-S0r5rHmeM-
the right OF the people OF Kansas to MAKE ther IVA
Constitution ana their own laws. The Nebraska
Kansas bill Objectionable enough because II violated
the Missouri Con pr omise without doing any good to
the South to propiate which il was violated, never
theess stipulated aud pledged itself for this principle
of slEgoyei and contendsd that the people, IN
their way, should make their oHn Consftutioos.
OF only ss TO Slavery, but ii all other things The
Republican party set .tset GgG,n1 mas p'hctPe-oa.
The stan irsis.s upon the Administration carrying out
II leading cardinal principle, lot only OF the .lsss
bil but of form OF RoyerImen-tna 10 al ihlogs,
not in cor ct with the Federal Constitution, the peo-
ple Of Kansas should have their own way IL Is with
great pleasure that ses the Republican journals
ccmirg mp to our standard now, and Abandoning the
wror z idea that CoDeIeis should make Constitutions
fer Territories OF Inc United States.
Allowing The Express to be the best possible
auth ority With regard to its own views AMI posi-
tons, We dsmsnd of it that i: apply this principle
to the position Of the Republicans. We de maud
that it allow its readers TO zee that
/. The Federal Constitution 10 the chart by
which Congress must be guided in its action That
document mperstively requires that Congress shall
secure 10 every nsw State Republican form of
government. A Republican form Of government
il one which secures the sovereignty of the People.
Strictly Repubiosnsm and Slavery are incompsti.
be. If Rothschld should buy up all the State Of
Delaware or Florida and convert it into great
plantation, peopltd BY himself and family, taeir
dependents and slaves electiDg himself and son 10
the Senate and his overseer 10 the House of Repre-.
sentatiyes, tina. State would surely not have Re-
publican form Of government. We hold, therefore,
II at literal obedience to this paramount. requ.i-
ton would preclude tie sinission Of Lea Save
State.
III. The People Of Kansas are the hu paa be
inss residing in Kar,as-Or, politically, the sdul
male residents Of that State. II the question is /
be entertained Of leeallzng or forbidding the en-
sayement Of part Of those People, We hold tina.
this part-beipg deeply nterestsd-sre entitled to
yoice in the premises. To allow part of the
People to decide whether the residue shall be slaves
OF freemen, is not true obedience TO the principle
which The F1prsss prOclaims as its own.
Ill. The Republican party planted itself on the
principle that until the People Of Territory are in
condition TO frame Constitutes for themselves the
Federal Government should guarantee to them, and
TO eveiy one Of them, "their inalieaab.e rights 10
life, liberty, and the pursui! OF hlppiness.' This
yrlciple We, futembodiei in an Ordnance for the
Cover mert Of the Federal Territories in l7si BY
THOMAS JEFFERSON, and then approved by tbs
representatives Of all the Free and several Slave
S.stes. II was unanimously adopted and applied
To tire Teritores north west OF the Ohio by the last
Continental Congress in l7s7. 1t was rsafi med
srd sIctorei by the first Federal Congress in
l7c9, with the approval Of GEORGE WASHINGTON.
That princip'e ha, been Il ainsaned in every emer