The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-17

rom Inc secession toe eaters of the South Ou
Ranfas sMairs, 90 wit: "A brief but poi1.td and
pupgent editorial from the Charleston Msrary
| expressive Of Its "hopes of Kansssr and oil it,
great faith in the fighting capacities Of Southern
men )" another letter from Gen. Atchison de.
nouncing Gov. Walker as worse than "Chase,
Hale or any other abolitionist;" and flaming
and consuming "White Sulphur" letter from Col
Keitt against Walker, the democratic party and
Mr.. Buchanan and bis Cabinet. This chapter of
rich materials we submit as the text for few
passiRg observations upon the present aspects of
the Kansas imbroglio, aud the crisis to our polit
cal parties, sections and institutions.
The Charleston Mercury informs us that the pro-
slavery party In Kansas ere confident of success
that they will Cat their September Convention)
"sdopt constitution with slavery acknowledged
In it," and that if this constitution is referred 70
the people for ratification, II is Intended to refer
will. doubtless. ratify it." But the next two
sentences in this connection wear very suspi-
cious and bloody complexion. TO wit ave
have more hopes Of Kansas thae we ever had.
We have great faith in tte fighting capacities of
Southern men" We esy that there is something
OF a sinister and sanguinary meaning in this Ian
guaee, and particularly in juxtapostion with the
remark Of Gen. Atchison, that if the Kansas con-
stituton "s TO be referred, as Cor Walker says 10
all the PEOPLE who shall be an the Territory on the dan
Of eOtmg,'then must and acN haze majority at the
polls on that DAY."
Now taking this majority of Gen. Atchison,
and the Southern Fighting capacities" Of the
Mercury together, we interpret them as sgnfying
that on the day of voting referred to, another
armed invasion of Missourians may he ex-
pected in Kensas, which must and will have
majority'at the polls on that day" We regret
that our Charleston contemporary should be
driven to an extremity so desperate as to chuckle
of slavery in Kansas, through tue lawless and de-
morallzing agencies Of a plot 50 wicked aud
treasonable as this. We, too, have great faith
in the fighting capacities Of Southern men," but
though there be furious flre-eaters and foolish
fanatics in the South, as in the North we serious
ly incline to the opinion that this threatened
Missouri invasion of Kansas will be a fzzle
Since the fall of 1856 not less than thirty thou
sand free white settlers have been added to the
population of Kansas, including some ten or
twelve thousand voters-a force Of itself which,
duly notified, will be fully competent to protect
the polls of Kansas against any force which can
Re brought over from Missouri by General Atchi-
son. Under this impression, we apprehend there
will be no armed invasion from Missouri son the
day Of voting" and for the allsuffcient aud self
evident reason that lit cannot be maze to pay
But supposing that the people Of Kansas shall
offer no resistance to an armed pro-slavery inva-
sion from Missouri; that Governor Walker shall
wink at it, and slyly encourage it; aud that thus
the majority which General Atchison 'tmust and
will have" is secured in favor of pro slavery
State constitution, what will it amount to {?
Nothing-worse than nothing; for it is utterly
preposterous to suppose for an instant that
such a State constitution for Kansas, 20
ratified, can secure the approval of
Congress. Nor must we be considered so very
verdant az to entertain the idea that our Southern
secession lighting men count upon this bringing
Kansas into the Union as slave State. This is
not their game. Their game is the destruction of
the administrations sectional reconstruction
of PARTIES fierce sectional CONTEXT for the sue
oession-the division of the Union and the spells
and plund.r of Southern confederacy.
Here the letter Of Col Keitt comes into play.
He is a young and enthusiastic man, clever
withal, and naturally ambitious of Southern pro-
motion and distinction. What may be expected
Of him and the whole secession school in this next
Congress, he has, with his usual frankness, broad
ly foreshadowed in this consuming letter. He
does not beat about the bush, like the Richmond
South, nor fix his eyes upon Mr.. Buchanan whilo
latbering poor Walker; but he boldly lashes the
master az well az the man, and fatty confesses
that be has as little faith in the existing demo-
cratic party as in the present democratic sd-
minssration. lie says that Kansas IL lost
to the South through the nefarious
ard fraudulent Intervention of the fede-
raj government" which, with a good deal
more Of such language we construe into formal
ultra Southern declaration Of war against the
administration and the Northern democracy
What, then, is the policy of Mr.. Buchanan ?
If he enforces the admission Of Kansas into the
Union according to the letter and the spirit Of
the Kansss-Nebraska bill, Kansas will unqucs-
tionably como in as free State-a solution which
win split the present democratic party Of the
South into fragments, and raise upon their ruins
a Southern sectional and secession party. On the
other hsnd, should Mr.. Buchanan consent to aid
thcse secessionis,s IN smuggling Kansas into the
Union as a slave State, the Northern democracy
will 10 annihilaied and Tho a5npislrai;oo will
become even more impotent and contemplate
than that Of poor Pierce "Lct justice be done
though the heavens should fall Let the adj
minisration pursue the straightforward course
which il bss adopted, and the American people
will sustain it, Let it fall back and ii Is lost.
Let The fate Of Pierce stand AZ a warning, and
the example Of jackson as the guide for the pre-