Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-01-15


ever yet the force OF the has been spent for the
present. All the elements of the storm can now be
fully estimated and men rest in confidence OF It's
blowing harmessly over, should and unexpected
circumstance arise
In regard to Kansas people i'll the States have lrn-
ed to take the reports of both parties with many grains
of allowance If there he any faith i'll human testimony
the Oxford precinct returns exhibited pon five times
greater than than the whole population of the county
This was prosayery. On the other hand, antisavery
precincts the election for territorial delegate poled
impossible numbers of votes All sorts Of tricks have
been re8ored to-al manner Of stories invented sioi
instance Some time ago the antlslavery party
Of Kansas held Convention at Lawrence to decide
upon the course to be pursued in regard to running can
ddaes for State officers to be voted for the 4th Jan
uary 1858 in pursuance of the ecompton Constitution
The majority were for bringing out candidates and
sancioning the arrangement by participating i'll it. Jim
Lane seeing how things were going slipped away quiet
y out of sight and in day emisSary OF his ap
pearcd at Lawrence bringing news from the seat war
Lane lie said hcmed i'll by the MlssourlanS and the
United States troops-he and the free state men with
him must soon he relieved they would all bemurdered
This put the Convention into ierment-put peacea6.e
thoughts out of their heads and prevented their agreeing
to peaceful participation i'll the election. AS soon as
this end had been accomplished Lane made bis appear
ancc having hardly left town, and certainly never having
been at the seat of war; there being no war The
most of the people of nsas very probably voted at the
election of the 4th in spite of Jim Lanes trick
| The question on the admission OF Kansas as Il State
with the Iecompton Constitution, is very much comp
Gated by the preamble to that instrument If that pre-
ambe be insisted upon essential if it be claimed as
forming an integral part of the Constitution then it may
subject the whole to the risk of rejection by Congress-
without involving that body in any open violation
laton of the letter. it may be conended spirit OF the
Kansas Nebraska legislation. All that Congress has to
do with the Constitution of State, is to sec
that II is republican. All details arc for the peo
pIe themselves All States are COnstltutlOnaly equal
and new States have to insist upon being Shacked
with no restrictions not imposed upon old ones There
is no provision in the body OF the Constitution submit
ted by the Lecompton Convention not already included
in the Constitutions of some other of the existing
States and therefore valid objection can be urged
against it on that score. With these provisions, affect
ing only the people of Kansas, Congress properly
have nothing to do But the preamble is different 1t
is iii the nature of bargain to which the United States
is party.
The legal right Of State to tax any public lands OF
other property of the United States has never been adj
mitte by the General Government yet it has been the
invariablc rule for each new State applying for adj
mission to make formal surrender of any claim to do
So and as an equitable consideration for the protection
afforded to such property by the State, Congress has
granted to each new State small per cenage of the
sales of government lands within its borders together
with certain reservations for school purposes and for the
seat of Government. The preamble to the Constitution
of Kansas valves, behalf of the new State, all
right claim to tax the property Of the United States
upon condition that Congress shall grant certain lands
for railroads and other purposes 1t Is bargain offered
to the United States and to Congress custodian OF the
public property. 1t is bargain to which we certainly
should hc unwilling to acccde 1t asks too much altoget
En- and Congress as the party from whom too much is
asked may fairly refuse to ray this bargain. If this
preamble this bargain, be insisted upon as Indispensable
it may defeat the admission Of the State. If the
Constitution can be taken without it, it will pass through
the present Congress think and the matter he at rest
Otherwise, much difficulty may arise. Appearances now
favour the admission of Kansas with the Lecompton
Constitutions minus the land grab game.
About Nicaaguan affairs we have not seen any reason
to change our opinion Paulling did wrong. People
a1e getting tired Of Walker. In Washington the
srcwdest Southern men are free to admit that the Gen
era is not the man-that in fact he is Il person of no
sort of force. His Jmta tired of him, and, no
doubt glad to get rid of him. Some talk will be made
but no change will be effected i'll the neutrality laws.
Walker thwared the best efforts of President Pierce at
legally Americanisng the Isthmus, and had almost
thwarted Mr. Buchanan. People begin to see this and
the present tempest will blow very soon In few
years diplomacy will have done what flibusterng has
failed to effect.
ShipNyrccL.
We clip the following from the ship news column o
the Boston Advertiser:
' A letter from Capt William II. Adrich, Of Brig F. b.
Beck, of and from Providence for Apaaccola (Which put
into Key West the oath ut) states that the 18th OF
Decdlher lat. u &c. lon 7S o. fell in with the wreck of
tarque dismased and waeogged upright and apparently
lumber laden; foremost about eight feet above deck
manast standing with the yard across, mzen mast gone
the fuock band bowsprt and head gear all gone wei
as chains and anchors. She had full poop, painted white
with the shear of the hull and had patent side lights
American build. Could not make out her but the
port from which she hailed ended in " TON" Her bull
warks and rail gone amidshps both Sides and hat
probably been boarded the rigging gone from of
the nainmast POSSIBLY barque L. & A. Hobart Of an(
from Wilmington, N c.. for Cardenas which has been mis-
sing since the 9th of September last.'l
PENNsYLyANIA-TheG Governors message to thu
Legislature in session at Harrisburg speaks Of til,
finances Of Pennsy being III very satisfactory
condition The public debt has been decreased 81 900,
900 during the past two years. All demands TIN
Treasury for the last year has been paid from
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