The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-06-08
The New Preside initial Game In kansas-New
Dangers to the Administration.


Karsas is 10 be free State. The overghelm'
ing ascendancy of this SEASONS NOrtbern emigra-
ton into the Territory. aud the pressure of the
land spoculatious mania have virtually settled
the question. The fighting border rufiians have
evacuated or laid down their arms The village
Of Addison has been bought up by free soil
spt cuIatoIs 10 town lo,s-the late pro-slsvery
.SQaoHeT Sovereign has hcen sold out to tue free
State party, ard Atchison and Striug!e!ow have
retired from the stage, AID are head Of 20 more
The work of reconciliation between the late bel
ligerent parties goes swlmmingly on Governor
Walker and Governor Robinson, Senator Wilson
and Others. in travelling together, in dining and
wining together, and in discussing Familiarity at
tie same public meetings the affairs of the Ter
ritoiy have proved to us that the wars are over
in Kansas ard that both sides are at length coz.
daily in favor of trying the more sensible reci-
procitef of peace.
With the first glance at these pleasing evil
dences OF wholesome AID boooless revolution
in Kansas affairs, the natural conclusion is that
the rough work of this border ENHANCEMENT is all
finished, AID that Nj. Buchanan has ro8 nothiog
more to 90 than to fold his arms, throw himself
back in his California buckhorn chair, and await
quiet Y the final issue-rro-slavery or no slavery
But with very little reflection we are compelled
to abandon this comfortable construction OF the
case for we discover in these Kansas movements
Of Governor Walker and Senator Wilson the
elements of new political game for the success
sion at Washington, which. unless narrowly
watched, may result in very serious ernbarrass-
ments to the administration.
The pro-slavery party in Kansas have aban-
donsd the ground of Atchson & Co.--they have
given up the battle for Kansas as slave State.
and the leaders in that movement have retired
from the field They overdid the thing and the
reaction has politically crushed ont all the Prcsi-
DENTAL intriguers in the plot, from Pierce and
Douglas down to Stsin2felow and Lecompte.
But all this does not settle the controver:y-it
haa only resulted in giving il a new shape. The
suggestion OF MIR. Secretary Stanton, (the araat
eoUir Of Governor Walker) that as a Southern
man, if he could not make Kansas slave State
be would be satisfied to make il q democratic free
State furnishes us the key 10 the new programme
of the local proslavery party. II is TO make
Kansas democratic free State. The inaugural
Of Governor Walker is earnestly, If not undis.
guiscoly addressed to this contamination, aud the
opposite side are taking their MEASURES acc ord
isgly.
Gen. Wilson has returnod from Kansas to Mas
sachusetts to report progress, and to raise funds
for the immediate organization Of republican
free State party in Kansas, in opposition to the
new democratic free State party. The movement.
on both sides is Presidential movement. As a
republican leader Gen. Wilson is not the man to
allow Governor Walker TO steal march on him;
and as a democratic aspirant. Walker, fully ap
prcciating the pro slavery excuses which broke
down poor Pierce and Douglas, appreciates, also
the saving policy of middle ground lie aims
to conciliate the North without offending the
South; ard in this his sagacity cannot be ques-
toned. But in reference TO this forthcoming
proslavcry State Convention and its proceedings,
this new organization OF parties in Kansas is sug-
gtstive of new party complications in the Con-
vention and in Congress. The result may pos
sibly he, on the part Of the Southern democracy
who control the United States Senate, positive
refusal to acquiesce in the surrender Of Gov.
Walker ard the democracy of Kansas to the
pressure Of the free State cause among the p.o-
pie Of the Territory.
But Governor Walker, in anticipation OF some
such difficulty, holds in reserve an equivalent for
the loss Of Kopsas in "a the fertile Indian coun-
try" lying on her Southern border--a country
where cotton and tobacco flourish, and where
negro slavery il already established by the Chero
bees And this proposed equivalent for the loss
OF Kansas may result in keeping open The whole
controversy till the next Presidential election;
for, with the best that can be done, II VIII t,ke
several years to put this "fortle Indian country"
into a condition competent for the functions OF
sovereign State.
The game then, of Senator Wilson and the re.
publican party is 10 make Kansas q free State Of
the republican stripe, and the centre Of the con.
tCst for the succession, admitted or not admitted
as State. The plan Of Governor Walker il to
Kansas democratic free State OF the California
pattern, and by quoting the South with new
slave State from that aforesaid fertile Indian
country 1t will devolve, then, upon the ai-
ministraton, first, to be careful concerning the
premature admission Of Kansas; for nothing
could be moro Satisfactory TO Mr.. Seward. Gen.
Wilson and their Northern Presidential party,
than the admission OF Kansas as slave State
upon snap judgment. Secondly, IL will be i'm
portant TO watch the movements Of Southern
politicians, in and out Of Congress, in reference
to the admission Of Kansas as free State; for
upon that issue there may bc Southern re-
bcllion.
Thus il is apparent that, as the democratic
Kansas leader in broad national view, Walker
has The insidc track, though already rcpudia1d
By the Southern ultras IL lie equally manifest
that the policy Of The republicans for the future
will be "no more slave Statcf;" and between