Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-02

torious preferences for rebellion against the
authority of the General Government, to a par
ticipatiou in the Territorial elections the only
means of righting political wrongs known 10
our system.
According to Mr.. Stanton's appeal, the
friends Of the Lecompton constitution in Kan.
sas, are but as a handful, when compared with
its opponents. Those who have read even the
New York ITi6nne's accounts of the valorous
deeds of the latter for year past, are perfect
ly aware that they are men ready to use the
knife and revolver to maintain what they call
their rights. With the memsry of their deeds
of persistent outrage and violence in the pop
,lar mind, it will require far more subtle rea-
Nuing than that of Mr.. Stanton, to induce the
public to regard them as shorn lambs, unmer.
cifully used by the other side, whom they
outnumber ten to one, according to his (Mr.
Stanton's) intimation. Now, it is well known
that no organized band Of Missourians voted
in the Territory in the election for members of
the Lecompton convention, nor ia the subse.
quent elections of the 21st Of December or the
4th ultimO, the two first of which Mr.. Stanton's
precious lambs suffered to 60 by default In
both those elections, though Mr.. Stanton's DO.
litical friends refused to vote, they perpetrated
all the violence at and about the polls that then
and there occurred. This fact is recorded in
multitude Of Kansas letters published in the
Tribune and other journals sympathizing with
Mr.. Stanton.
The memory of these patent facts being fresh
in the minds Of all, we have no fear whatever
that because Mr.. Stanton represents the Topeka
interest to have been unjustly and illegally
martyred in the occurrences in connection with
the LecOmpton constitution, that his state
ments to that end will carry any more weight
with the popular mind than did Governor
Walkers accounts of the character of that con-
stitution after the publication of that instrument
far and wide. Indeed, we do not perceive how,
in these common sense days, they can effect
whit more, (f as much,) for the Republican
party cause, than the virtual proclamations
which Jim Lane issues now and then How
much that is, may be judged by the heavy vote
of his own followers on the 4th ult, for State
officers, under the provisions of this Lecompton
constitution
The truth is, the Kansas game is about
played out, and this throwing of the last card
of the opposition will not win for them single
point. They lost it (he game) in refusing to ex-
ercise their privileges under the law, and cannot
now snatch the victory from those who exercised
theirs by any amount of repetition of Jim Lane
Co. 8 stereotyped and so oft refuted charges
OF fraud, violence, &c, against the victors
The EXPECTED MESSAGE, transmitting the
Lecompton Constitution of Kansas to Congress,
had not reached either hall at p. m. to-day
Great anxiety to hear it read was manifested in
and around both chambers. 1t appears to be
understood that as a state paper it is destined
to prove one Of the most effective documents of
late years seeing the light in this country.
According to the general impression among
the public men in Washington, it will show
that the Lecompton Convention was clothed
with full power to act in the premises as they
did act, and that those of the Territory who
complain against its action are estopped from
such complaints by the fact that their refusal
to take part in the election of its members gave
to their opponents the legal majority-the only
majority known to the laws. Or in other words,
that they-the TOpeka-ites-were the wrong
doors against themselves.
1t is further anticipated that in this message
the President will fortify his position, that the
Lecompton Convention was legal, and acted
within its legitimate powers only, by irsefrag-
IDLE quotat Ons from Governor Walker himself,
before he changed his political status tits
probable that ere the Star is issued to-day the
message will be received and read though not
in time to enable US to comment upon its con-
tents from actual knowledge of them.
KANsAs.-The public will perceive that Gen.
Clarkson, the bearer of the Lecompton eonsti-
tuition, who arrived in this city, was duly anti
cipated and subsequently announced in the
Star, bears out to the letter our statements con-
corning the result Of the late Kansas elections,
and the facts connected with them This is ev-
idcnt in the accounts of his declarations upon
the subject already published in Washington
of great many journals We
are glad to find that his prompt and empha tic
contradiction of the free soil roOrbacks, about
those results rehashed and telegraphed from the
office OF the ST Louis (abolitiOn) Democrat, and
asseverated to by persons lobbying at this point
against the acceptance of the Lecompton con-
stitution, has had the effect Of at once exploding
those 80 characteristic stories
Posi- OFFICE APPOIyTNENr.-JOse Weeks,
of Cincinnati, Ohio: has been appointed by the
Post Office Department as express route Agen',
from New York city to Cincinnati, Ohio, in
place of Thomas Snyder, resigned The salary
is 81 900 per annum.
The WEArHER.-The following report of the
weather for this morning is made from the Morse
Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution.
The time Of observation is about o'clock q. IN:
FEBRUARY 2, 1853
Philadelphia, cloudy, cool.
Baltimore, Md CLOUDY, cool.
Washington, ID. C........ cloudy, cool.
Richmond, Va cloudy, cool.
Petersburg, va. cloudy, cool.
Norfolk, Va :.............clearm mild.
Raleigh, N. c clear, cool.
Wilmington, N. C......... clear, cool
Charleston, =. C.......... clear, cool
Augusta, Ga. ............. clear, cool.
Savannah, ia. ..clear, cool.
Macon, Ga. clear, cool.
Columbus, Ga. clear, cool
MONTGOMERY. Ala clear. cool