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The Kansas Issue IN the s-n.ts--Cur,ous
State Of Things all Round
Az the two houses of Congress will most pro
badly adjourn over today in respect to the
memory Of Col Benton, the Kansas issue, which
goes back again into the hands of the Senate,
will hardly be taken up in that body before to-
morrow or the day following. In the interval,
we hope and believe that the policy indicated 10
yesterdays HERALD will have been resolved
upon by the administration members Of both
houses As the matter stands, it is now self
evident that there is no practical alternative.
The plan We speak of involves, first, the admis-
sion OF Kansas under the Lecompton constitu-
ton, should the people think fit to accept it;
secondly in the event of its rejection by them,
the calling of new Convention, and the for
nation and popular ratification Of new con.
stitution to be submitted to Congress.
Our readers are aware that all this time a
Free State Constitutional Convention has been
in session in Kansas and that they have adopt
ed 8 suffrage system, which, in any event, rem
ders the acceptance Of their constitution Con
gressional impossibility. They have carried
the doctrine Of popular sovereignty" to an
extremity far beyond the stomach OF
Mr.. Douglas and his democratic followers, and
quite beyond the Simon Pure native American
notions Of the Southern Know Nothings. A
constitutional programme which places negroes
and foreigners on the same level with native
born free white citizens can hardly be made &C
ceptable to Mr.. Douglas or Mr.. Crittender-the
first being fully committed to the bred Scott de-
cision, and the latter to that impregnable doc
Rine that Americans shall rule America"
The most singular thing in this connection is,
that while the anti-slavery fanatics of Kansas
have been adopting this extreme platform of
negro equality the whole black republican camp
in Congress have gone over "with q condition
prect to the Lecompton slave State corsti
tuition. This is the most sweeping and extraordi-
nary example of qualification in all the history of
all our shutting political factions, fanatics aud
demagogues. In single act, and in single day.
the whole black republican fabric Of sectional
agitation has been pulled down by these agi-
ta.ors themselves around their own ears Ard
why? Because their mean and malignant hatred
Of Mr.. Buchanan has been stronger than their
love Of niggers principle or consistency. To
gain the shadow Of victory over the admins
trstion they have sacrificed the Substance .
their principles and political hopes. And they
will pay for it. Their repeated votes for that
which they have 20 hercely denounced for the
raex e. Of uria fop
swindles, robberies, murders, frauds and ballot
stuffing tricks Of al kinds-the Lecompton con-
stitution-will follow them home; and, in the
elections for the next Congress, they will stand
like convicted criminals before their disguised
abolition constituents
From the letter Of our special Kansas cor
respondent, published in our yesterday : paper,
1t appears that at an anti-Lecompton mass
meeting held few days ago at Leavenworth,
the most violent course Of resistance TO the
Lecompton constitution, in the event Of Its
unqualified adoption by Congress, was the pre-
dominant sentiment of the few rabid free
State men left in that Territory. General
Jim Lane said-"Let Congress pass Lecompton;
Il falls dead and damned Of It's own weight"
Speaking Of the Free State Constitu-
tionsl Convention, Judge Conway said
"Let it proceed The moment the people
Of Kansas become State of the Aue-
rican Union they are free'-free under
the compact Of the Louisiana acquisition Of
which Kanses was q part, to form their State
government in their own way. Mr.. Foster, q
member elect Of the organic State Legislature,
under the Lecompton programme. said that last
December. If elected, be had pledged himself
never to live under the Lecompton swindle,
and tonight, before God and this people, he
renewed that pledge. He never would qualify
under that swindle, and should consider the
people Of Kansas as disgrsced If they, for one
hour, allowed II to become the organic law of
the State" This sentiment, it appears, wa
loudly applauded by those present and 80 on to
the end Of the chapter.
Now, then, considering the state OF parties
and factions at Washington, and the state
Of things among these professional agta-
tors In Kansas, what is the only course sug-
gested to Congress: Clearly il is the passage
Of an act providing for the admission Of Kansas
under the Lecompton constitution, should the
people agree to accept it, and In Gaze they re-
ject II, providing for q new Convention and
new constitution 10 be submitted to Congress
after IL shall have been ratified by the popular
vote. This policy will carry over the act
Of admission to the next session; but from
the facts which We have detailed, It