New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-24
TIE HON. j. b. HASKIN on LECONPTON.
HoU-F or REpRIsENTATIlIs,


WAsnrNGroH Feb. IL, 1853.
Sir: Your Invitation TO attend and address the
meeting of those opposed 10 tho Lecompton Consttu
ton and the admission Of Kansa- State under il,
received by me YESTERDAY. | regret TO BE- compelled
to inform you that my official engagements here will
prevent my enjoying the pleasure and privilege of ad
dressing en- independent aud intelligent a~sembage Of
Democrats to be presided over, as am informed by
that eloquent and in my judgment ablest Of American
historians the Hon. George Bancroft. The struggle in
the House Of Representatives upon the preliminary
questions involved in the Kansas imbroglo commenced
on Friday last when the conduct of the members of
that body from the Slave States proved that they
intended sectioH0li.iRc. Upon this question every
Southern Democrat and every Southern " Know
Nothing" save one he Hon. ii. Winter Davis Of Ma
rylaJd upon that occasion voted together 10 shut out
hight with the view Of forcing kausas into the tnion
with the obnoxious Constitution, not indorsed b. one
third of her people. Six National Democrats from
pcrptvlvsnia ix from Ohio, hee from Illinois, three
from In0iana, from California, one from New
Jersey and cnly from the great Empire state, all
night steadily opposed the beheSts of patronage ana
pow,r ana advocated Light, truth and Justice in
the hnal settlement OF the admission oi hansas II
sister ana sovereign STATE.
Those with whom | had the honor 10 act on
fiat occasioD aH favor the fair and ut app
cation of the doctrine Of "pop-ular sovereignty
ara the legitimate application of the pr!nci-
ylss Of tie Cincinnati platform 10 the admission Of
Ktusas They the true and sincere friend ot Mr.
Buci anau, representing the democracy OF States
witb,ut hoee support he would not have been elect
cd But they are nevertheless the greater friends o
the existence, success ard psrpetuity o the National
Dtuoc, attic party; they are not coa-praor nor fac
toni,f. N ~ desire 70 maintain tEei integrity fulfill
hay pledces to tie people preserve tleir honor and
Ia save the honest and sef-acr,fcng Democracy Of
the North and Northwest from disgrace and defeat
firmly relying upon the bold advocacy and nainte
nance of truth and uSice to attain these ends and
aver great a calamity the dismembcrmen Ofthe
D,mocraic party OF the Cnion-the sectionazlnc of
political parties in this country, with, peIhaps
its attendant consequence, a dissolution OF the
Ccrfederacy itself. They the national Dem
ccrats who have always opposed that po-
lticsl heresy, the "Wilmot PIoviso" and wno
Lave ever stood up mapiuly, and Iesoutely for
al the constitutional rights oi the South They are
hose friends who were for Mr.. Buchanans noninG-
ton when the South, with scarcely an exception,
were against it and in insisting upon the Democratic
tuctrne If popular sovereignty, and resisting the
a6m sion Of kGnsas a. Ntatei unoer legal repu-
istion of the LeComptOn Constitution, by hearty the
ursr imous vote Of her people, they seek simply 10
have the Adm nistrson live up to tue pledges to the
people upon which il was elected IN lSJh. For N.Y.
self can with truth assert, that the present House
of Representstives would have been decidedly Re-
nridap in It's msory had il rot been for the public
professions made before the election by Northern aud
Norh-NestCrn Democratic candidates conventions,
and newspapers, anu inc DeHei ,ieIeIVn tanned
by lie peope that there would be fair and honest
aapcaon of the doctrine OF popular sovereignty by
the Administration elected upon that issue in 1856.
Instead of twelve Democratic representatives from
your state, yol would not have had more than four.
sh roue from Connecticut, Ohio Illinois, Indiana,
jersey, or California; and the President would
have been Republican.
The position wbich / occupy as the solitary and
alone Democratic Representative from Aew-York,
sesipst forcing the IL compton Constitution upon the
people. against their expressed opposition to it
against the protest Territorial Legislature
s one that will probably subject me to the of
every in the parry and for it expect 10
be denounced by the "Wilmot Proviso" Democrats Of
nv District But this Administration should b. one
ofprpcipe, not Of patronage and cannot consent TO
for me On question in the decision Of which
stuents elected me to think for myself and in do
ing possible 10 reflect their wishes. ASayshaviag
sister: political record, as National Democrat, a.
could be desired, can afford 10 be independent, aud