New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-08-14

"If lie assass.ratiCa could srammel up the con-
"seqrence, russd tie guilty -souled but terror
hsun.st Maett.t ss be tOsered or the b..nk
tie great cglGe Which vss 70 consgn HIN to i'm
rcIts. infsuy; AID every co@srdly cuprit ponder
tas same esstnsi5, problem of the facility, the &C.
ierity Wit which wrong may be committed, con-
t-as.ed 18th tee tenacty the unmeasured but awful
ragtiiude Of its cettain retIibution. Only the
ssdeosd IN EVIL courses, the skeptc as to all i n
p0rderst,e, unteen resiies, the deaf to the voice
Of ccrscis.ce tie lest to faith in external yerities
AID il TIER Author. can say, with the Thames
s.rors minded tempter, GA little water clears
Gus of tsie deed" Aud, though she say it ever so
confidently, It is Hesen-darng lie.
Sogs ri-e months haze elapsed since the Presi
dent Of tstse United States was driven by the
clsuo-. st6 delupc sticps Of small but boisterous
faction Ia the South, whicb must have found an
echo IN ii. Cab;aet 10 undertake the fearful task
e forcing upon Tie People Of Kansas Consti.u-
ten wl;ch they not cn'y lad lever adopted, nor
authorized any fersoUs to frame, bat which they
uotc.ousy stho7red as the offspring Of usurpstion
the culmI S.on # oug series oflntolerable frauds
and Injuries. That this purpose was not formed
earlier BY the President we know BY his letters to
WakSr his assurances to Gov. Wise, aud BY his
eva te,ssrsptc Dispatch to Dan Sickes, contra
cict1s most er phati,slly the Let Of last Novem
be-, .he report that he meditated Gov. Walkers
renewal Ye: ore month later, on the assembling
Of Congress We kncw that the plot was fully ma
turtd AID tie President among the foremost con-
sp:ratcrs II was 10 vain that Kansas demonstrated
and protected tat the country demurred, and that
i addition to the unanimous dissent of the RePub-
licsIs, powerful opposton developed itself 10 the
ranks both OF the Democrats aad the South Auerl
cas-. Amer the Auei;caus Of toe Free States,
We do aot know thst siDge individual regarded
sl;s Leccu pton bee nta otherwise than with earn
eat and oGts,oken condemnation. lnose Demo
erats vho had supported the Nebraska bull aud the
POLICY 1t inaus GraIed as in peled by aud coniormed
to the prinsiple Of " Popular Sovereignty, STOOD
sgtAst at tts betrayal Of their praciPIe, this mani
festation Of The truth Of what the Republicans hsd
oil aorg insisted-:hat Popular Sovereignty y
would be respected just to the extent that it
favored the extension and asgrandnement OF
SlsyeYy, snt rot one inch further. Soon came
the vote Of the People of Kansas, at an election
specially called by their unquestioned Territorial
Leeislature--s vote showing majority Of about
Ter thousand "Agsinst the Leoompton Coustitu-
=" ton" in q total of lees than Eleven Thousand,
while tie vote jest before tsken under the auspices
Of the LecomPten Convention not to rstity OF
reject it, Constitution, for that it would not allow,
but 10 ssy whether it should 80 into effect with
or without certain Article relative to Slavery,
had shown total poll Of lei" than Seven Thou
sasl, of which moro than half had been frsudu'
Isatly voted by r.sidents Of Missouri many Of chem