Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-11
WASHING TON NEWS AND GOSSIP

"6cHfNuION NEW AND GOSSIP.
kAysAs.iWe take pen in hand at this time
Saturday nght-to write our impressions upon
the tendency Of affairs in Kansas as seen
through latest authentic accounts from the Ter
ritOry. Our belief is that the imbrogio is over.
The great majority of tho non-slavehold;ng-
state party voted, we have every reason to be-
heve, on the 4th instant; thereby acknowledge
ing the validity OF the Lecompton Constitution,
and endorsing the propriety of the admission of
Kansas into the Union upon it, Lane and his
followers, it is true, are still the opponents of
that policy. But they amount to a very small
fraction Of the population, indeed. To so small
a proportion as that their opposition cannot
possibly be of any avail. We know we'll, from
information in which we confde that at least
nine-tenths of the voters Of the Territory must
nave participated in the election of the 4th.
1t'laer tire provisions arranged By tire Lecomp-
ton Contention. This fact sweeps from under
the feet OF the opposition outside of Kansas all
honest pretence, too, for further demurring to
the admission Of the Territory into the Union
under the Lecompton Constitution. 1t destroys
al cnanee OF the success Of the plans of the Re-
publican party to keep alive the Kansas issue
Tor 1861, as we'll as those of the nominal Demo-
Gratis who have Of late deserted their party on
this great and really only issue between the
parties of the country. The free-or, as we
should term them, non-slaveholding-State-.
party OF Kansas thus endorse the propriety of
tne prompt transfer of all the Kansas issues to
the people of the Territory alone; which is the
pohcy OF the present Administration, as well as
Of the Southern Democracy Who of the North
can longer reasonably hold out against the wis
dom OF the Kansas views of President Buchanan,
Six months ago the Washington Star was in
dustriously engaged in efforts to make its South
ern friends comprehend that the line of policy
OF the President, in this connection, simply
meant, not hostility to the South as was per-
sistently alleged, but rigid adherence to the
principle of the Kansas n ebraska act. as in
terpreted In the platform adopted by the Gin
elnnatI Democratic National Convention That
was all the sober-minded of the South de-
manded. The crazy people of the South, and
those there who seek to make agitation on the
slavery question q trade for their personal ad-
Vancement, asked more and though few of
them have dared to attack the President and
his administration, they have kept up a run
ming FIRE upon all who were conspicuous in their
support of the cause of the Democracy from
that time to the present moment All others
of the South Of all parties, from that time to
this, have been gradually coming to appreciate
the TACT, that IN the success of the present Ma
tional Administration is locked up the perna-
nency Of the American Union, because its poll
cy Is founded on a rigid adherence to the prin-
cipie OF non-lnterference of the General Coy
eminent upon the slavery question. to the
extent Of defending the weaker section against
aggresslons Of the stronger wherever that NAV
be necessary to the vindication of the true
principle Of the Constitution of the United
States as enforced in the Virginia and Ken
lucky resolves of I79S-'99
That struggle has been of short duration.
Notwithstanding the labors of those there who
desired to make an opposition party inside of
the Democratic organization, for the sake of
the local profits of opposition alone
subsequently Democratic opposition has
grown up in the Democratic party of the North
for similar end precisely. 1t meant nothing
more nor less than to oppose the policy of the
President and the Democracy for what might
be made by that course locally The detcrmi-
nauon oil the free State party of Kansas or
tfe vast majority OF 1T, to vote on the 4th inst
Las kicked over their bucket of milk, leaving
those who have esssyed to make personal capi
tai at the expense Of Democratic principles in
a very deplOrsbIe position, indeed They are
TO be pitied-ifeyer politicians were so situated.
The uPshot of the whole Kansas imbroglio is
that those in all sections Of the country who
essayed to make personal capital out of it.
North and South, have been most woefully dis
apPointed-have burnt their fingers While
Inc PRESIDENT and his Administration by their
foresight, hrmness and energy in the premises
nave SATISFIED the whole country that they are
goided ana governed by an abiding patriotism
ana sagaeity IN the conduct Of Anne rican public
anairs thst are not only to result in the harmo-
NOUS settlement OF the momentous Kansas is-
cues but To advance the glory and intersuss oe
our common country immeasursbly in the fin.
ture conduct OF American public affairs IA in
VOWED In our relations especially with Central
America
SOBER SECOND THoUGHr WORKING
other engine to affect the popular mind Of the
civilized world has done as much to generate
the insanity upon the subject of African slavery
with which the so-called philanth ropists of VA
rious enlightened nations have been afflicted of
late years, as the London Tin.ss That jour
nal has been almost up to the present moment
the leading patron and director of the anti
Afncan-slayery crusade in both hemispheres
III IL, In truth, responsible for much of the
great sacrifices Of property and civilization
which England has encountered i'm the last
twenty five years in the West Indies, as well
as for much of the decrease of fraternal feeling
between the two great sections Of this Copfed
eracy, which in all that time has been growing
less and less until our North and South have.
under the Influence and effect of prejudices
against Afrihn slavery, generated and stimu.
lated more by the Times than aught else
have eople to regard each other with quite a.