The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-08


sales Of yellow both the spot and TO arrive, at Toe.
Pork again advanced with active sales including at
ST. IS si So closing al the latter figure and Of prime
at sI4 sI4 10. Sugars Arm, with sales Of
1000 hhds. at prices given in another place Coaee
quiet and sales limited. Freghts inactive, while
rates without change OF Importance Wheat In bags
taken to Liverpool at 4sd tierce beet 23s,
cotton TO Ill up at i'd
The Kansas Entangiement-The Duty OF
Congress and the Dangers OF Delay.
For the last three days the House Kansas bill
has been retained in the Senate, under notice
of Mr. Slidell for reconsideration Of the
Senate vote by which the Crittenden-Montgo-
merry substitute was rejected and the original
Senate bill adhered to. Our telegraphic des-
patches of last night inform us that Mr.. Ste
phens gave notice yesterday that be should
call up the Senate bill in the House at one
O'Clock to-day, and let a direct vote be taken;
also that the democratic members of the Senate
had determined to adhere to the bill, pure and
simple in the shape it had already passed that
body.
in his notice for a reconsideration. What the
result in the House will be remains TO be seen.
Should the House vote to adhere to its position,
the death of both bills will be accomplished. In
this extremity some new bill must be intro.
duced; and We see that it is proposed on the
administration side, as last resort, 10 hitch
Kansas and Minnesota together, under the
hope that the popular sovereignty" of the
Pembino Indians and the Kansas border ruff
fans combined may be able TO settle the ques-
ton.
We presume that by this time every member
of every party of Congress is fully convinced
that il will make not the slightest difference in
regard TO slavery in Kansas whether the simple
Lecompton bill, OF the Crittenden- Montgomery
substitute, or q new bill Of any description
shall be passed; and we dare say, too, that there
Is not now solitary member of either house
who does not, to some extent, appreciate
the dangers of delay. With the rabid
and reckless agitating mslcontents Of the North
and the South whose only capital is Kansas,
and with whom the ruling objects are sectional
discord, alienation, confusion and revolution,
there is. of course, no desire to effect settle
meut. Upon psltry bubbles, pettiogging dis
tinctions and parliamentary devices they hope
TO stavc off settlement for this session, 20 that
this Kansas scarccrow may be used TO some pur-
pose in our approaching elections. North and
South, for the next Congress. From the tone Of
our newspaper exchanges, and particularly from
the misgivings and uneasiness Of our immediate
anti slavery contemporaries, il is manifest that
the only real alarm Of our Northern and South
ern disorganizers il the fear that their Kansas
stock in trade will shortly be conliscated in the
final disposition Of the whole question.
This important fact should stimulate every
friend of the administration and OF law, order,
peace and harmony to come to the rescue, and
pass Us speedily a. possible bill ofsome sort for
the admission Of Kansas into the Union. Let
the Senate recede, or let the House recede,
or LET the two houses compromise their differences
upon some new bill, the one thing wanting 10
put an end to this agitation will he achieved-the
admission of Kansas into the Union. The
shortcs, course IL the Lecompton bill, pure aud
simple: the next best plan is the Crittendcn
substitute. Az for the Minnesota attachment,
il IL Just a. likely to lead 10 further entangle-
ments and complications a. to final adjust
ment We perceive, however, in the results of
the late scattering elections, from New Hamp-
shire To St Louis, that this Kansas bugbear
will ovcrsbadow all other questions OF polti-
cal character until IL is removed from the
calendar. Remove IL and II win quickly be
superseded before the people by those broad
and general measures affecting cur domestic
and forriOn concerns which have been fore
Swallowed by the President as covering the
practical policy Of his administration
With all the csp,ious, factious and pettifog-
gine technicslities with which this Kansas
squaJble has been encountered, it Is still one Of
he simplest OF questions, and admissible Of the
simplest solution. The admission Of Kansas
into the Union II all that il needed 10 put II out
of the way and to this End, for all practical
purposes this bill. that bill or the other will
do. The great and the only danger lies in the
possible failure Of any and every bill al this ses
ZION. From the alarming proportions, North and
South, into which this sectional agitation ofslave-
ry has been inflated upon this Kansas humbug,
We may conjecture the consequences should il
BE- kept IA full blast till next December We
NAV anticipate violent sectional shaping Of
parties and factions, which will cripple the adj
minis,ration, defeat all measures Of general re-
lief for the country, and make the next Con.
grcss the mere battle ground Of Designating
factonists and sectional conspirstors
From 1879 20 TO 1891 q fierce sectional sgi-
,atioB existed in Congress and throughout the