The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-03

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fair extent and at easier rates for grain, while other
articles were unchanged.
Settlement u tho Kansas Question-Nct Re.
cults or tho Struggle.
The Senate has passed bill admitting Kan
sas into the Union as a State, the House has
passed bill admitting Kansas as State into
the Union, and the action of both houses was
preceded by the recommendation of the Presi-
dent for the admission of Kansas Thus, upon
the main point, by the concurrent action of the
President and both houses of Congress, it has
been substantially decreed that Kansas is a
State. Before, however, this concurrent action
can be reduced into a law, there must be an
exact agreement upon piece Of parchment be
tween the houses upon all the minor details,
undersigned by the President Of the United
States. But there is a disagreement between
the two houses upon these minor details and
the question now is, what chances are there for
a compromise
The Senate bill provides for the admission at
once under the Lecompton constitution; the
House bill, "as condition precedent" to the
admission, provides that the said constitution,
yea and nay, shall be submitted to q vote of
the people; that if thus ratified, the Presi-
dent shall proclaim Kansas State; but
that if said constitution shall thus
be rejected there shall be a new State Conven-
ton, and that with the PRONUNCIATION of the con-
stitution thus framed, the President shall, by
proclamation, declare Kansas a sovereign State.
In other words, the Senate bill admits Kansas
forthwith, and provides that the people may ac-
cept or reject the Lecompton constitution after
their admission as a State, while the House
bill declares that before they can be admitted,
they must first accept the Lecompton or frame
q new constitution. Upon this nice distinction
it is not likely that the two houses will very
readily come to any common half way ground
of agreement; and for our part, we trust that
the Senate will stick to the pure and simple Lee
compton bill, and let the whole thing fall
through.
Why not? Within the present month, we
dare say, new constitution, framed by a con-
vention elected under the authority of the late
Kansas Territorial Legislature, will be laid
before Congress- and as it will doubtless give
the same government to Kansas that would fol-
low the adoption of the Lecompton charter, or
law for still another convention, why prolong
the controversy upon this paltry humbug d
territorial popular sovereignty, in vain efforts
to patch up q compromise between the two
houses upon an issue which admits of no half
way captulation on either sides
The opposition journals in this quarter do not
appear to comprehend where the victory be-
longs in reference to the adoption by the House
of the Crittenden bill. One of the most fero-
cious of our anti-slayery contemporaries says
that the triumph does not belong to the repub.
licans, nor to the Douglas democratic rene
gades, nor yet to the rump of the South Ameri-
can faction. And such Is the fact for the sub.
this matter, however IL may be finally settled,
will be in the success of the administration in
compelling the people of Kansas and the two
houses of Congress to bring this senseless but
demoralizing Kansas squabble to an end.
Nor is this all that will accrue to the admin
istration from the settlement or this vexed ques-
ton. Upon the sharply defined test OF the Lee
compton constitution, a solid and reliable nu-
cleus has been established fer the consolidation
of the democracy, North and South, around the
administration. On the other hand where are
the black republicans? Stulti6ed and disgraced
before their constituents in voting, under cover
of the Crittenden dodge, for d slave State con-
stitution for Kansas And where arc the
Douglas deserters? Disgraced and drummed
out of the party camp for their fraternal aiilia-
tons with Giddings, Colfax and company, and
the rump of the dark lantern brotherhood. AS
for these huckstering Southern Know Nothing
dough-heads, it is very likely that from aud
after the expiration Of this Congress we shall
hear Of them no more, or If we do, it will be
somewhere north Of Mason and Dixon's line.
We may say, therefore, that with all the
blowing and Growing Of the opposition factions
over the defeat Of the Lecompton constitution,
they have really achieved nothing. To the adj
ministration belongs the credit of pushing this
Kansas imbroglio to a settlement, whatever
that settlement may be; and, with the admission
Of Kansas as a State, to the administration will
belong the advantages and the means, upon
, other and more practical issues, for thorough
going reorganization and consolidation of the
democracy throughout the Union. Admitted as
State, Kansas and this Kansas extravaganza
will cease 10 trouble the country. This niger
agitation will be exhausted and defunct and
dead, too, perhaps, for some years TO come. We
are, indeed, inclined TO believe that upon new
issues and new measures the administration
will in aeacon far our navt Con rrncs;onal aIac-
tons, be able to bury out of sight the remain
ing fragments in the North of the Walker and
Douglas Kansas rebellion.
In the meantime it matters very little what
may be the upshot Of the present disagreement
between the two houses. With this bill, that
bill, or the other, the result will be the same.
The people Of Kansas have decided upon the