The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-01-13
From the Washington Union.
Affairs in KansasI

We published yesterday the account of a
public meeting in Lawrence which nomina-
ted full ticket for State officers under the
Lecompton Constitution. 1t will be seen
that the extract from the Leavenworth Times,
which we publish to-day, that a similar
meeting has been held in Leavenworth,
and that the action of the Lawrence meeting
has been thoroughly endorsed. The Conser-
vative men of Kansas, without distinction of
party, are evidently in favor of the voting
policy, and prefer 10 appeal to the ballot
box rather than TO arms. Lane and his reck-
less followers are on the other side, but even
they will hesitate 10 pursue their conduct to
its logical consequences. Whether they do,
however, or not, it is quite clear that the
great majority of the Kansas people are rea-
dy 10 take the management of their own af.
fairs into their own hands. They ought all
to have voted for delegates TO the Lecomp-
ton Convention. They ought all TO have
voted on the 2ist December on the question
of slavery. They were misled on both OF
these occasions, and they just begin 10 see
their error. We look TO see the returns of a
large vote on the 4th instant.
But, whatever may have been the conduct
of the Topeka men on the 4th, there are
two things quite evident, from the informa-
ton from Kansas which we already possess
LIST. II is expected in Kansas, by majority
of the population there, that the State will
be admitted under the Lecompton cousttu-
ton. I'd. The people of Kansas understand
perfectly well that in that event, they will
have control of their own affairs, and can
change their con stitution at their own plea.
sure. We might repeat third proposition,
viz: that, but for outside encouragement
there would now be no agitation in Kansas,
and that all parties there would be acquies.
cent in the policy of its admission as a
State under the Lecompton constitution. Al
present, however, we pass over this point
Hereafter, they who oppose the pacification
of Kansas, or who haze opposed it will be
held to strict account by the American
people.
We are contented 10 await the judgment
Of that tribunal, feeling certain that these
malcontents, however, high or able, will be
! aa,atually rehnkad by the oApiaus canse.
quences of their own acts. Mere technical.
tiles never yet oulweighed, before the peo.
pie Of the United States, the substantial
merits of great question. The Kansas
controversy was acontroversy about slavery
! The slavery question was submitted 10 the
people Of Kansas. Everybody understood
TINT; and they who declared, in one breath
tiut 10 aii hhpoooipitlty Ill hdllods
and in the next breath seek to keep alive
or reanimate the old excitement in the North
about Kansas will find they have made a
hopeless mis,aks. They tread on Serbon.
ian bog, and they will sink at las, beyond
extrication. Nothing now remains for the
settlement of the Kansas question but thai
Congress should admit the Territory as q
State. Shall Lane and his ultra adherents
defeat this object? Shall they do so, even
with the aid of presidential aspirants in the
Statesa There is no other question in the
case than these. Admit the State, and the
controversy is at once and effectually closed
1t will no longer agita'e the Union. No Sen.
ator will find 1t in his State. No represen.
tative will find it in his district. 1t will
cease to interfere with the progress of Con.
gressional affairs. But if we falter with it
if we delay it, if we hesitate upon trHing
technicalities to admit the State, who does
not see that the agitation must still continue
and that it must be met in every Stale and
district in the Union? Let no Democrat be
deceived by the loud cries which come from
J the expiring shriekers in Kansas!