The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-22
The Crisis I'm Congress-The Administration
and the Northern and Southern DisoI-


without Change OF importance.
The Crisis In Ccngress-The AdIainist ration
and the Northern and Southern Disor-
ganixers.
According to our latest advices from Wash
ington the Kansas difficulty has been reduced to
a very short and simple plan Of solution, The
Lecompton constitution will he communicated by
the President of the Convention (John Calhoun
directly to Congress. Consequently there will
be no message from the White House on the
subject, and the question will come up on the
direct vote either to accept or reject this Lee
compton State charter. We are also informed
that the popular vote on the said constitution,
of the 4th instant, will not be recognized by the
friends Of the administration as having any
legal authority in the matter They hold the
ground that all the legal forms and proceedings
required to perfect the Lecompton constitution
were closed up with the election of the 2lst
December. and chat the popular ratification Of
tnat day. slavery and all, was the last authori-
tative step that could be taken in Kansas upon
the subject, short of the acceptance or rejection
of said constitution by Congress
The question will thus be presented to Goa
gress as clearly and sharply defined upon its
legal merits as it could possibly be. And here
We come to the main question. to wit:-Will this
Lecompton constitution. thus presented, be
adopted or rejected? We have seen several es-
Inmates of the probable vote of the House and
the Senate, pro and con- from which it would
appear that the struggle in both houses will be
desperate and doubtful. We feel confident,
however, that it is only necessary that the
South should be united upon the question of
law, and the point Of honor involved, to secure
the speedy admission of Kansas as a slave State,
notwithstanding the present revolutionary
movements of Lane and Robinson. and in spite
of the rebellion set on foot among the Northern
democracy by Walker and Dougia-.
But regarding the consistency, sincerity and
good faith of the Southern fire-eaters we have
our doubts. Look at the newspaper extracts
which we publish in another part of this paper.
So far from indicating any desire or purpose on
the part of the Southern fre-eaters to sustain
the Kansas policy Of the administration, these
extracts betray some very ugly symptoms of o
hostile conspiracy between the Southern niger
drivers and Northern niger worshippers. The
Charleston Mercury Gays that the President last
summer wrote a letter to Gov. Walker, telling
him that you must use all your influence to
have the constitution referred back TO the
people for their ratification or rejection" and
that upon this you and / must stand or fall"
The Washington Republic says that 'for while
the President stood firm, and wrote letter TO
Governor Walker mot yet published, but shown
10y Governor Walker to many pcrsons). as
surfing him of the support of the administra-
ton" Aud these are the words put in the
Presidents mouth-"Let Georgia. aud Missis.
sipp. and Alabama howl! 1 will stand by
YOU" Now. the coincidence in this matter be-
tween the leading fire-eatcrs' organ Of the
South and the central organ Of the Northern
niger worshippers at Washington is very re-
markable. II betrays, if not common under
standing. at least a common purpose on the
part Of niger drivers and niger worshippers
20 falsify. cmbarrass and scandalize the Pre-
sident
Another Southern fire. eating organ, 1.-THE Mo-
bile Mevcvy,) speaks of Mr.. Buchanan's "arro-
gan, dictation to the Kansas Convention of
his being a king Stork, by which the South
has been betrayed" and as "a federalist,' "un-
grateful and treacherous to the South and
landies these idle accusations as fppantly as
tLcy were banded about last summer, from
day TO day and week TO week, by the entire
chorus of those Southern salamanders.
This is precisely the game which the niger
worshippers' organs have pursued, and are still
pursuing in reference to tbe.lQth. Thus, for
The last ten months the ry1ss been kept up
that the administration is but "the slave Of the
slave power that IL has betrayed the North
sold the cause of freedom in Kansas" and has
frauduleDtly perverted IT, whole power to make
Kansas a slave State. In addition 10 ell this, il
was only yesterday morning that one of our
Seward contemporaries substantially charged the
President with the crime of Congressional
bribery and corruption" on behalf of the Le
compton constitution. And again. another Of
our Seward organs, in the article we republish
this morning, orraigns the Collector Of this
Port as q man unworthy his Office, and calls
upon the Senate to look into the case. This
also. il but q trick 10 embarrass and distract the
friends Of the administration in Congress; but IL
serves TO show that our Northern abolition dis
organizers can throw their dirty water upon the
administration and its official agents with tho
fercest Of the fireeaters.
These condolences between Northern anti
slavery factionists and the secessionists Of the
South in their scurrilous assault upon the adj
ministration, kept up to this day, arc signid-
cant Of any thing but harmonious settlement