New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-30

their pIatform-not oors-and they sdjadeed and
proclaimed the Lecompton Constitution ifAud
and mockery, utteri, rejected BY Kanss' and OBJ
noxious to her People. And We undorstand tna'
even Dir. Epsi,h hin self professed, since bis sp-
pointueLt On the Conference Committee, that
nothing lees than fresh and fair submission OF the
Lecompton instrument, with fun liberty TO the
People to make and adopt another in case tney
should reject this, would satisfy him.
The Republican ground, it was notorious was
sonewhat higher thsn thi.. Ninety.txo Members
of the House had been elected to oppose the sd-
mission Of Kansas as a Slave State under any CIR
cumstances. They were Of cOurse opposed TO toe
moi strcus frauds by which Kansas had been tecn-
nicaly subjveated to Sl.very; but they would have
been opposed to making her Slave Sta'e' even
with her own consent. Their platform was one Of
avowed and incorporating hostility, not spe-
officially, indeed, to tho admission OF q bona JHds
Slave State, but to all the arts and appliances, the
Indictments and ihfueaces, By which On embryo
State il prepared for the establishment OF slavery.
But cooperation on common basis was essen
thl to success. Had the Republicans seen TT TO
stand stiy on their own peculiar ground, and said
TO all others "You must como to US, or nocoopera-
"tion is possible" the public would have accused
them, whether rgbtfuIly or wrongfully, of s'cfi-
fcing the freedom of Kansas and peri ing civil
war, for in abstraction. Ts have done this would
have been accounted cSurlish and unfair to that
small but gallant band Of SouthrOns who said
This Lecompton business is a fraud-a s"lndle-
"we wash our habds Of it and have steadiastly
acted up to their avo we'd convictions. We believe,
therefore. that it was every way right on the part
Of the Republicans to waive the iinpractlcaole
assertion Of their peculiar principles andsay "Snce
Popular Sovereignty will secure Kansas to Free
" dom, we are content with Popular Sovereignty
" in this Gaze; let the next exigency make its own
CLAW" We say this was noble well as polite;
but it was coming down for the romeo to the p st.
form Of Douglas and the faithful champions Of
Squstter Sovereignty.
OF course, the Republicans conSented to this
only in Dc ereDce to the practical good that could
thus, ard thus only, be secured If they were to
be beaten any how, they would manifestly have
preferred TO BE- beaten on their own proper ground
They took lower position only that they might
therefore concentrate force sufficient to repel the
common adversary. Had English & Co. said to
them at the outset, We give you fair notice that
ave are likely to abandon our present ground at
"any moment, and go over to Stephens, Letcher
land John Cochrane," the Republicans would nat
urally have declined to plant themselves on such
precarious foundation. No one who knows the
hetitancy ond anxious consideration which preceded
the decision Of certain Republican Members to
support the Crittenden-MOntsomery amendment,
can doubt that they would have absolutely refused
to do so had they imagined that Messrs. English &
Co.. after virtually soliciting them TO come down to
that platform, would desert it in favor of lower,
OF 60 square over to the enemy.
We have 70 desire to use harsh language nor ban
dy tpibets. We have applied none to Mr.. English,
though it NAY be that some hard word has been
used by correspondent. We have here simply
submitted The facts in the case, leaving judgment
thor, nm 10 ha public