New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-23

In the matter of Kansas, Mr. Buchanan seems
likely to experience full measure OF the inc0n-
venience and difficulty of attempting to play fast
and loose between the rights of the North and the
greedy pretensions of the South.
Had he chosen, when he came into Office, to sls-
tain Gov. Geary in his endeavOrs to do justice and
to secure the inhabitants of the Territory against
any ner encroachments or invasions, he might by
SO doing have shaken off any responsibility for the
original conspiracy to deliver over Kansas bound
hand and foot to the shareholders. Hadheeven chosen
TO sustain the Governor of his own selection and
appointment, in the course which that Governor
was encouraged by Mr.. Buchanan himself to enter
upon, be might have escaped the charge of being a
fellow -conspirator with Pierce, and the disgrace,
too, of being like him bailed consprator against
the rights of the people of Kansas. 3
The project of Mr.. Buchanan in sending Walker
to Kansas, and in giving him the instructions aud
full powers he did, seems to have been this: lie
expected that Walker, since the inhabitants OF the
Territory were determined to have it Free State,
would at least succeed in bringing it into the Union
as Democratic Free State. Ever since the time
of John Randolph the Southern politicians have
been accustomed to put the Northern Democracy
in much the same category with their niggers, so
that to have Kansas Democratic might be some con-
siderable consolation to the shareholders for having
failed TO make it negro. 1t cannot be denied that
Walker exerted himseftO the utmost to bring about
this result Never did man labor harder to create
new party. But in Kansas parties were already
formed long before Walkers arrival; and, as both
the existing parties had instructive disrust of
him. he failed to establish any influence with either.
OF course he did not succeed in making Kansas
Democratic, and having failed to do so, Mr.. Bu-
cbopan seems to have considered himself discharged
from all his promises TO sustain him.
Having failed in the project of making Kansas
Democratic State, Mr.. Buchanan's next dodge was
10 appease and pacify the South by bringing it into
tie Union under the Lecompton Constitution. He,
no doubt, expected, when he sent his Message to
Congress. that the Slavery clause in that COnstitu
tiop would be rejected. Had that been done, he
might have replied to the complaints of his Southern
supporters that he certainly could not be expected
70 90 any further in the matter of imposing Slavery
On the State than had been done by Convention
VIGOROUSLY chosen in the slaveholding interest
But the turn which things have now taken has
closed the door upon that avenue of escape Mr.
| Buchanan is now brought to the point of either
Welding to the wishes and the rights of the majority
Of the people of Kansas, by throwing the Lecomp-
| ton Constitution overheard, or OF setting those
| wishes and those rights at papable and undeniable
defiance; and that too with nothing TO gain BY it,.
1t is an embarrassing situation certainly but one for
which Mr.. Buchanan has nobody to blame but him.
self