New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-01


most conspicuous convert Coz supported 1t
because it did in effect submit that Constitution;
while 10 public sponior and putative author
English refused to say whether in bis view Is did
or did rot And il was precisely because it could
be read either way that it passed This is the level
to witch craftsmanship has sunk il the year OF
grace 1853.
The same votes that bave repeatedly beater not
only the original Lecoppton bill but this slippery
offshcot, yesterday passed it. Its most ardent &C.
yocate yesterday was one who had this week writ
ten home that his English dodge was meaner and
worse than Lecompton nsked. The Democrats
from Ohio, who at frat were unanimous agaisst
LeccDpton, were yesterday almost or quite unsn-
imous for this substitute. Pennsylvania AID In.
diana unsuccessfully We'd with them in swelling the
numbers Of tie renegades. Apostacy was never
more scardalous nor more shameless.
Not an argument was openly sdduced BY the rem
egsdes which did not, 90 far Is it had any force,
condemn their original petition. SURPRISING asi-
tatoI -:aviDg tire Union-harmoDizi0g the party,
&c.-f, for the sake of any or all of these, it
right TO support Engl.hs bill, it was equally right
to have voted for Green's and wrong to disturb
O. tire harmony Of the party" in order to make an
opportunity to est,re il.
But it is papsble truth that The arguments
which have passed this bill were far more solid than
tic of Cox. They are not to be found in The Con.
ersssOnai GioLs, unless the Deficiency bill has
already been printed therein. From the day that
bill passed the House, it has been felt that the Ad-
ministration would win some sort of triumph
with regard to Kansas. The delay that has &C.
CURED has been an affair OF distribution merely.
Members willing to be convinced by arguments
addressed to their own pockets were not so ready
to yield to golden seductions when the yielding was
to be theirs the gold auothers. The struggle had
degeDerated into an affair of sequins not Sc
queLces: the controlling inquiry was not "FOr
"wbat reason7" but For how muchl" Who.
ever aDces that the converts of the last two weeks
have .tutlfed and disgraced themselves for any
SUCH considerations as are embodied in their
wretchtd speeches does their ntellects gross inus
tee There is not ole among them so simple as
not to be able TO inquire bis way from the Capitol
to the Treasury Department.
We'll: LecCmpton Junior has passed; Whist
then?
nothing, buta very brief dismissal of the Kan
sas question from the floor Of the two Houses.
This bill settles nothing, establishes nothing, but
leaves all at as loose ends as ever.
The original LecOmpton bill had at least this
merritt ASSUMED TO be faaty. Kansas might
upset or transform the Constitution thereby i'm
posed on her, but Congress was preciuded from
again NEEDING with the subject. True; the ques-
ticn would have come back again, in the shape Of
contested elections to the House Senate, both;
but the bill contemplated nothing of the Fort. IL
protested to remit all that remained of the contro-
yersy t. the People Of Kansas. AID what Mr..
Green's bill fully protested to do, the Crittendei-
Montgomery bill actually did, That bill said to the
People of Kansas Ratify the Lecompton Con-
stituton fyou like it, and you are in the Unioni
:" if you don't like it, frame another and fairly rat
"fy it, and you will then be in the Union,
without further action by Congress" Here
was an end of contention a balm for agitation,
practical end of controversy. The People
of Kansas might quarrel further, should they see fit;
but Congress resolved aud pledged itself to do
nothing but secure them fair play But this Eo-
glish bill does not even aspire to be fnal 1t says
Accept the Land. Grant as we have fixed it, and
"we shall consider you in the Union under the
"LecOmpton instrument; reject it, and you may not
" form another Constitution until census shall
''h have shown that you possess population equal
50 to the Federal ratio for Member of the House."
In the one case, Kansas comes in at once az
Slave State receiving large bonus from the Lsnd
Sales about to take place; in the other she waits
for much larger population, an official census,
formal proclamation of the fact Convention and
new Constitution, and an acceptance of the latter
by Congress. The strong probability is that this
will keep her out at least two years longer For
what?
Five thousand sopbsts, each gifted with mir
aculous and we'll oiled tosguts, could not eface the
fact that here are heavy brides offered and