The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-20

way that provision shall be stricken out and then every
negro in the State hereafter !" go there shs' DC
except the few who are now there IN tho iegai
Of servtude.
The special details provisions for taking the sense
Of the people so far can judge OF them az TINS a
lance, seem 10 admirably contrived for the purpose
II il shall not result in true expression oil the popular
wishes, will be the fault Of the people themselves bnt
have right doubt that the election will be iary
conducted that the defeated party, whichever II may
be, will cheerfuy submit to the will Of the majority.
II barely possible that ultra abotionist hero ana
there may take exception TO the provision winch pro'ec
the slave property now in the Territory But the justice
and propriey Of this is as clear noon day Let be
remembered that slavery was established IN Kansas py
the constitution and the question is the abolition OF It,
shall be swept out OF existence at blow without re-
gard 70 he sacred rights OF property or sa ps era
in favor of the former course and has resolved TO deal
with it all the other States in the Union dealt with
it-that Is, abolish 1t prospectivey. What crime has
been committed by the slaveholdng emgrans in Kansas,
who went there In good faith with their families and ser
wants under the protection of the law and the consu
ton which gave them undoubtcd right to do sos Why
is that they should be driven out OF the State or
permitted to stay only at the expense Of having their pro
We heartily congratulate the administration this
picious event. The President keeping his eye steadily
fixed the constitution and the laws and turning neither
to the right hand nor the left kept directly onward in the
path he had marked out for his footsteps This dgned
and conscientious polcy-a policy which had no motive
but the peace and prosperity of the country-wl be
rewarded with the triumphant success il deserves. He
the end from the beginning He doubted that
the truth would prevail In the midst of all the pickering
and contention North and South he baed ot of heart
or hope but preserved his unrufed serenity and his
cheerful faith in the right.
The members Of the Convention entitled to be held
n everlasting remembrance for adhering TO the great
truths OF the democratic creed in the midst of temptations
which the virtue of most would have been too weak
to resist They exposed to the attacks Of uras on
both sides The persuasons Of and the taunts Of the
other alike calculated and alike intended to nuepce
them in favor OF wrong decision 1t is not often that
representative body found pursuing the right when its
friends and enemies both inviting into the wrong
There names in that Convention which we shall
delight to honor.
This nsws, full Of hope to every American pa
triot, will bring sorrow to only one class Of our
people. The black republican politicians had all their
capital staked the chances of disorder and confu
sion in Kansas The enterprise has failed, and they
ruined The peace Of the country the prosperity Of
the people and the safety of the Union destruction to
their hopes We rejoice the less on that &C
They had their day when their tools and hrengs
in Kansas were filing the Territory with alarms and agi-
tatng the whole country; when they employed the press,
the pulpit the to echo the shreks with which
they hoped brighten the public mind from its proprety
Those the days of ''bleeding Kansas, and then
abotiopism waxed mighty; peaceful and quiet Kansas
coming into the Union the broad platform of equal
constitutional rights will consign it again to its original
nothingness.
We are glad to say, addition that nearly all the
bers Of the Convention who opposed to the submis
sen have finally yielded to the justice and proprey of it.