The Nevada journal., 1858-09-10
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 10th, 1856
Kansas QueStiOn-IIOw it will Result.

whelming vote. The question next to
be speculated upon is, what is to result
from this popular rejection : Obvious
ly, it may be expected before hand, that
the people of Kansas will not consider
that they have forfeited their rights by
such an exercise Of their sovereign will
and power; but that every right inher-
ent as American citizens still attaches to
them. They have been taught by the
party in power that the right to form
and regulate their own institutions in
their own way way is one of their pre-
negatives which at any time may be e1-
ercised, without the interference of the
federal government or any other power
foreign to the people themselves. The
rejection of one Constitution does not
debar them from forming another; nor,
according to the doctrine of popular SOW
ereisnty as expressed by its advocates,
does such rejection act as an estoppel
against asking for admission into the
Union under another and more popular
instrument.
The people of Kansas desire to be ad-
p mitted into the Union, and they have a
clear right to such admission. The
right has been admitted in some form by
every statesman in the country. The
right to be admitted with a present pop
ulation has been acknowledged gener-
ally. 1t may be confidently predicted
that Kansas will again be knocking at
the doors of Congress next session.
And here lies the turning point in poll
tics.
The President and his supporters are
committed in the English Bill to oppose
the admission of Kansas should she
spurn the offer contained in that instru-
ment, till population has settled within
her borders of 93,420. Her right to be
admitted last session is an acknowledg.
ment of her right at any time thereafter
She will claim it, and demand what is her
due. What course is the President to
pursue7 Forget his pledges in the
English Bill as he did those in the can
vas of sc, and recommend the admis-
sion of Kansas! Such a step would
doubtless do much to allay the oppo-
sition against the Administration in the
North, and disarm the Republicans and
Douglas men of powerful weapon; but
will it comport with the irmness and
dignity and consistency which are sup
posed to be prime virtues in the Chief
Magistrate of a great nation?
We do not suppose Mr.. Buchanan eft
to the choice of course in this euer-
gency. His own consistency or the
tempering of the political elements is not
at his option. Those indomitable and
exacting spirits who have held him in
leading strings from the stait will guide
and direct him as ever wherever they
list. The fre-eaters of the South OBJ.
tanned lease of Mr.. Buchanan in the
canvass of 1856, which is in full force
and vitality to this day. Their darling
scheme Is the preservation of the bal
ance of political power to the last, or a
dissolution of the Union as an alterna-
tive. X lsas, if she apply at all, will
come with free constitution. To this
the guardians and keepers of Mr.. Bu-
chauan are infexibly opposed. The
directing power they have hitherto ap-
piled to the President. again they will
attempt to exercise and with probable
success. The chances them are, deci-
dedly, that Kansas will be rejected, or,
to use the language of Gwin, she will be
allowed to bleed till her population is
more than doubled. The distracting
question will then be continued open till
after the Presidential contest of 1860,
apeople shorn of her rights. the so-called
principles of popular sovereignty set at
naught, and country continued in tur-
moi and dissentions for years to come.
These are part of the ostensible fruits
in store for the country during the ad-
ministration of James Buchanan; and
the course we have indie ated for him to
follow is marked out by his policy and
associations in the past. From the
known infrmities of the man we hazard
the prediction that it will prove too
true.
PLACERvILLM AND SALT LAKE TELE-
GEAPH.-The ceremony of raising the
first pole of the Placerville and Salt