The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-23

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Important News from Kansas-Ths People In
Favor or Peace.
The anti-slavery politicians in Kansas and the
black republican organs and orators outside Of
Kansas, from the adjournment of the Lecompton
Convention down to this day, have necessarily
kept up their cry of alarm that the admission
Of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution
will be the signal for bloody civil war. This
idea was prominent feature of the opening
speech of Mr.. Senator Douglas against the an
nual message of the President; and other oppo-
sition Senators have improved upon the hint, by
denouncing the bill for the increase of the
army as nothing more than call upon Con-
gress for the necessary force to reduce the peo-
pie of Kansas to submission to the Lecompton
programme at the point of the bayonet.
But if there should be any trembling North
ern democrat in Congress otherwise disposed
to support the Lecompton constitution, but who
shrinks in view Of the contingencies of border
war and general revolutionary reaction
throughout the North, we commend to his special
attention the calm and dispassionate intelli-
published in yesterdays HERALD. Our cores
pendent says that peace sin no way depends
upon the mere fact of the adoption of the Lee
compton constitutions; for if the free State men
have the power under that constitution, they
will be quiet if not satisfied But he also says
that :. if there is tie in the Legislature, there
will be looping off of heads assassination"
because ''the free State men must have the rule
some way or somehow, or their shrieks and
roars will descend even to the depths of Tar
tarus."
The difficulty, then, is the new State Legisla-
ture; and that difficulty we suppose has already
ceased to exist; for if we rightly understand
the late manifesto of Gen. John Calhoun, it is
equivalent to the concession of said Legislature
to the free State party, by large majority in
both houses But it is in the following extract
from our correspondents letter Of Feb IL that
We have the key to all these disorderly and war
like squabbles of the two fighting factions of
Kansas. Read
The reason SO little has been written about the pro-
slavery party lately that there nothing to write about
them their leaders away, there ia excite OF
mislead them the rank and file of that party quietly
at home attending to thor business they would always
do lett alone. Keep these leaders out Of the Territory
forever you will confer incacuable blessing upon
IT, In Ike manner IL Providence any other bene6cent
power would take in free State party that
could out OF the Territory keep them out there
would be more need Of the United States troops here
Remove said six from the Territory and all the
respondents of partisan journals and the agents OF all
emrant aid societies. and keep out the prosavery lead
now OUT and we shall almost instantly have peace
Of the truth of this statement there can be
no doubt 1t thus appears that all the troubles
suffered by the people in Kansas, and all this
embittered Kansas agitation throughout the
country, and all the disreputable transac-
tions Of both parties Of border rufians in the
Territory are due to some half dozen
inscriptions vagAbond leaders on each side,
and their conflicting schemes for the fat Offices,
and the spoils and plumber, lands town lots,
capital sites, banks, railroads, &C., incident to
the organization of new State.
The proceedings of the late Territorial Legis-
lature of the free State party will furnish the
most conclusive testimony upon this point.
Their joint stock speculation for a new State
capital at floating site called Minneola-
their three or four Bank bills, and various
other spoils and plumber measures, prove very
satisfactorily that the Kansas slavery agitation,
in and out of Kansas, has been nothing more
than the ragged old cloak under which these
reckless spoils jobbers Of Kansas have been
carrying on their various schemes of plumber
and spoliation.
Our officiating contemporary, the New York
Tribune. simultaneously with the impartial in
telligence communicated from Kansas to the
comprehending the same general facts, but
under such black and gloomy coloring as
scarcely to be recognized. Thus it seems that,
instead Of pervading desire among the masses
of the free State party for peace, they are actu-
ally impatient for sanguinary revolt. To this
end, the several belligerent resolutions of the
late Territorial Legislature protesting against
the Lecompton constitution and threatening
the horrors Of q civil war should Kansas be adj
mitted under it) are paraded in the columns of
the Tribune as embodying the ruling sentiment
of the free State party.
II is to such black republican misrepresents-
lions ar these Of the actual state Of things In
Kansas that we may attribute The prevailing
excitement throughout the North against this
Lecompton constitution Had the leading news
paper organs Of the democratic party possessed
the requisite iberality or sagacity to maintain,
here and there, an intelligent correspondent in
Kansas, these snti-slsvery exaggerations and
false coloriSes Of Kansas affairs would never
have secured the impression which they have
made among the weak minded Of the Northern
democracy. Compare, for example, the series Of
letters upon the same topics from the Kansas
correspondent Of the HERALD aud the Kansas
correspondent Of the 7ri5urv. The former bear
upon their face the imprint Of an impartial in
quirer after the truth; while the latter are but
the infiammatnry nntnnurinra Of n rahid md