The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-26

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Ths Kansas Qusstion In New York City
Dead Failure OF the Anti.Lecompton Agt-
tators.
1t Is well known that for two or three months
past the anti-Leeompton sgitstOrs Of this city
have been planning and working very hard to
get up telling anti Lecompton mass meeting
here; but at the eleventh hour, ii appears, they
have given up the Job In despair But they
have hi. upon substitute which, they seem to
think, will answer all the purposes Of an i'm
posing popular assemblage without being half
so expensive. This plan is to get up monster
anti-Lecompton petition to lay before the
House Of Representatives., with the view espe-
cially Of convincing our city members OF their
true line of policy, if they desire a reelection
to Congress In pursuaRce Of this great object.
the form Of an anti-LecomptOn petition for gen
eral circulation has been published with few
prominent signatures, chiefly Of old broken
down political hacks, to start upon. The work
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vigor, 80 that within few days roll Of anti
Lecompton signers may be sent on to Washing
ton which will make Messrs John Cochrane,
Kelly and Company tremble in their boots.
We must say, too, that this idea Of a monster
anti-Lecompton petition is not a bad one. in de
fault of public meeting. There may be many
persons who would not walk two blocks to hear
a niger worshipper spouting the old story Of
John Calhoun's Lecompion frauds and forgeries,
who wonld still sign an anti-Lecompton memo
rial; but the most tempting consideration is,
that any quantity of bogus names can be added
to such memorial without dctcction; aud for
the matter of that, the same names, bogus or
genuine, may be repeated over and over again,
without discovery, upon roll Of foolscap two
or three hundreds yards long
The great fact. however, will still remain
mistaken that after two or three months of
hard labor to get up an anti-Lecompton mass
meeting in this city, the experiment has ended
in most ingiorious iizzie. And why not:
Never was political humhug so essentially
dead and disgusting to the business classes of
all parties Of this city and Of all sections Of The
country, as this Kansas humbug. The masses
Of the American people are satisfied with the
Presidents policy; and they are also satisfied
that whether this policy lie accepted or rejected
by Congress, all this Kansas agitation, fuss and
fury il stuff nonsense, claptrap and moon
shine.
In this connection the doleful lamentations Of
such sensible men as Douglas, Seward, Critten-
den and Bell over the abominable Lecompton
frauds forgeries, perjuries, ballot stuffngs. and
other alleged rascalities of Jack Calhoun, Jack
Henderson and their associates, are very
ridiculous. They remind US at once of
the pompous professions, pageantry and dolcful
music which have marked in this city the fune-
raj rights Of such detestsble gsllows birds as
Bill Poole and Paudecn. Taking the funeral
turnout Of BIZ Poole. for example, as an Illus
tration Of popular sympathy, stranger might
readily suppose that Poole had been distin-
guished a. public benefactor, Had the fune-
raj Of Paudeen occurred on Sunday, it would,
perhaps, have been signalized by popular
gathering scarcely less imposing. Yet these
two men were notorious rufians Of the most
infamous and abandoned character: each was
killed by a ruiIian in g. drunken midnight brawl;
and had the pair Of them been spared by their
vsgabond associates, their career. sooner or later
would doubtless have been wound up by the
State prison or the hangman lie that killed
Poole and he who killed Paudeen did a good
service for the community; and had Baker.
Cunningham, and half a dozen others of the
parties implicated in each case, been served the
same way, our law and order citizens would
have had an increased margin for thankfulness
in proportion to the number Of these horrible
ruffians destroyed.
We dare say, however, thai The border ruff
fans Of Kansas, pro.slsveiy and anti-slsvery,
John Calhoun. Jach Henderson and Company.
on the one cid and General jim Lane and his
set on the 9th. side have not bcen whit bet
ter in their n. aianly game Of popular sovc-
reignty' than cur New York political bruisers
and rum hole rowdies. II is in this view that
the ieremiads Of the amiablc Seward. the gen.
tlemanly Crittenden, the conscientious Bell.
and the chivalric Douglas over the popular
sovereignty of Kansas appear TO us to be not
only absurd, but positively ludicrous.
We cannot deal with the rakings and scrap
ings of both sections Of the Union, as We find
them in Kansas, wrangling and fighting and
cheating each other from the beginning to
the end, az We could deal wah decent and
honest men. We must take thcse Kansas
ragamufins and jail birds as we find them,
and do the best for them that their case will