New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-11

The hackers of the LecOmptOn fraud exultingy
proclaim that their success is certan-that the bill
admitting Kansas as State under the Lecompton
Constitution is destined to pass the Senate next
week and the House soon thereafter, by some ten
to fifteen majority. To secure this result, they
reckon on the votes of the 10 who voted against
the Investigation which Orr and Stephens have
succeeded in stifing adding thereto three or four
of the five Democrats who were absent when Col.
Harris's resolution was carried, with Messrs. Owen
Jones and Dewart of ennsylvania, Niblack of
Indiana, and perhaps one or two from Ohio, who
then supported the Investigation, giving LecOmptOn
at least l2O votes, and leaving not more than 49,
at the best in the negative. This calculation
scouts the presumption that II. +. Clark or any
other Democrat from this State, or any Of those
who stood by Stephens in the former struggle, will
now vote against the fraud, or that any OF tn, South
Americans will DO so. We shall see how the facts
accord with these sanguine anticipatons
But whether they shall or shall not, we are i'm
movaby welded to the conviction that the anti
Lecompton Members should demand and secure
their right TO propose amendments, and lave the
Yeas and Nays recorded thereon. If this right be
not promptly, fully accorded, We trust Mr. Ste
pheDs will find his job slow and hard one; but ii
the right to move and vote on amendments be freely
conceded we utterly ayerse to all rlibustering
or other cOntryances to waste time and substitute
a trial of physical endurance for one of numerical
superiority. Backers of LecOmptOn we dare you
to face the Yeas aud Nays
TIE right to move amendments and have the
votes recorded thereon is always precious, but is
y,ally important at this time because the party of
sophstry and fraud have persstently labored to
conceal from the public the real matter in issue.
Why should not Kansas be now admitted :" they
constantly ask, just if they did not know that we
| on cur side are as anxious for such admission as
| they possibly can be. We only insist that it shall
really be Kansas that is admitted, and not small
faction of enemies aud outlaws who have usurped
| her name. We insist that, if there be any who
seriously contend that this Lecompton abominaton
emanates from the People of Kansas, or that its
acceptance by Congress is desired by them,
the matter in dispute be fairy and frankly referred
to that People and decided by their vote BY that
vote We are ready TO stand or fall; on it, we will
| gladly stake all that is in controversy. Who are
they who seek to thrust Kansas into the Union on
Slave Constitution which they dare not allow that
People fair opportunity to accept or reject We
want them on the record. Let US have the Yeas
snd Nays!
As Republican, we have no doubt that it were
better for our party that the LecomptOn fraud
should be indorsed by Congress. They who
secuted our predictions that the election Of Bu
chansn would tend to make Kansas q Slave State,
may well deprecate and struggle against the fulfill
ment Of our prophecy-a fulfllment which Mr.
Buchanan himself declares to be already complete
kansas is as much Slave State as South Caro-
lima or Georgia" says the President-which we
don't believe. But adopt the Lecompton Const
tuition, and Kansas will be Slave State, at least
until that Constitution can be overturned or go
rid o. We have no shadow Of doubt that the
triumph OF LecOmpton would strengthen AMI aiC
the Republican party; but it would do this at 1
cost Which We are unwilling to incur. A year OF
more OF revolutionary strife and general ravag,
IN Kansas with agitation and turmoil Throughout
the land, is a price that We do not need or wish 4
pay for an accession Of strength to the Republic
party. That accession can be secured NOR,
cheaply, If more slowly through the gradual diff
fusion of intelligence and the ripening of nOw i'm
mature convictions.
1t is at once our duty and pleasure to resist an.
struggle against the LecOmptoo fraud 10 the end