New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-19

Compromise was 10 make Kansas Slave State
and that if Mr.. Buchanan was elected II would DC
made one. Knowing the villsny of the agencies at
work we have supposed this result could no' DC
prevented, although large majority OF the people
of the Territory were against it, Fraud and iofce
in the official rule of the Territory, backed ny FED
era bayonets, we have considered too great all odds
for mere numbers. An unexpected streak OF good
fortune in the throwing cut of the Oxford frauds
by GOV. Walker, thus giving the Free-State men
the control of the last Territorial Legislature
changed the aspect of affairs at critical moment.
In carrying out their plans the rascsls cheated SO
badly that their own Governor was frightened out
of the expected cooperation and declined his share
of the job. From this point the affairs OF the Free
State men began 10 look up. They got chance to
vote fairly against the devils who have been spohat
ing them, and in q way which even the Adminstra-
tion cannot deny is according to law. This decisive
exhibition of their strength, il has seemed TO us.
must settle the question of the usurpation: since
il can only now be carried on in open defiance OF
tbe popular WILL expressed at the very crisis which
tho Federal authorities have heretofore agreed was
the proper and legitimate one for ITS expression
With the People of Kansas clearly, hatl!' decided
L. and legally against the Lecompton Constitution
We have supposed that the villains were at length
corpered. and that Federal oppression would dare
10 90 no further. :,
But we are told il dsres 90 further. Very well;
we shall see. The Republican party Is not IN
condition TO prevent il by Congressional action. III
Il rh An ndar y
TO impose the Lecompton Constitution upon Kan
sas against the majority OF the people, let 1t pro-
coed in its work. We wish it joy OF It's laoors'
Politically, We ought not to object TO the act Inc
Pro.Slavery party can do nothing that Will serve the
Republicans bali SO much. That party and the
Administration representing it will prove TO be
worse than we have ever described them. we
have supposed that there were some things too Dad
for them to do. While We have all along toreseen
and PREDICTED their determination, we have never
theless thought they would cloak their acts 10 the
end. under some colorado pretext. We have not
supposed they would dare derde and defy the power
and very name of the authority under which they
have claimed to act-Popular Sovereignty. For IN
doing il they manifest as much faulty as vlalny.
Let Congress and the Administration then' pro-
ceed If they have determined that Kansas shall
be Slave State, under Constitution not merely
unauthorized and unsanctoned but legally voted
down. and yehementIy repudated by an overwhelm-
ing majority, let it be so declared. The people oil
the Free States will probably understand the case
when put in this form. And the usurpers in Kan
sss will gain but a temporary advantage from this
National crime. Kansas is sure to be a Free State
If not upon her Admission, then at an early day
after her Admissions if not by the assent of Con-
gress then in defiance of the resistance of Congress;
if not by legal and conservative means, then by the
right arms of her free citizens aided by their CON-
patriots throughout the Free States. But let the
resort to force be postponed until the last hope of
peaceful redress of her wrongs shall have been
eXtDglished.