The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-21

middlng uplands Breadstuifs we're dull Provisions
were unchanged. Sugars heavy, with $50
hhds. Coffee was quiet but firm. Freight engagements
moderate, and at rates given in another place.
Mr.. Keits In Whippy Svvnmp-The Folly
and Insolence OF our Modern Southern Poll
ticians.
on national politics to his constituents in
Whippy Swamp, South Carolina, from which
We are enabled to comprehend the strict
Southern construction of the English Kansas
bill, and the terrible consequences which will
follow q disregard of the ridiculous prohibitions
involved in that adjustment.
Mr.. Keitt, with the adroitness Of regular
hairsplitting abstractionist, maintains the posi-
ton that the South lost nothing but actually
gained nice constitutional abstraction OF two
in the defeat Of the Lecompton bill and the sub
stitUtion Of the English compromise. So be it,
then. He is like the poor philosopher, who, with
only robin for dinner put on pair of specta-
cles which magnifed the bird to the proportions
of capon; but if by the process the cravings of
the mans stomach were satisfied who shall com
plain Of his follys We come into direct col
lision with Mr.. Keitt, however, upon the merits
of the English restriction. 1t provides that. in
the event Of the rejection by Kansas of the land
overtures of Congress in connection with
the Lecompton constitution, ''it shall be
deemed and held that the people of Kansas
do not desire admission into the Union
with said constitution &c. and that
in that event the people of said Territory are
hereby authorized and empowered to form for
themselves constitution and State government
by the name Of the State Of Kansas, according
to the federal constitution, and may elect dele
gates for that purpose whenever, and not before,
it is ascertained by census, duly and legally
taken that the population Of said Territory
equals or exceeds the ratio Of representation re-
quircd for member OF the House of Represen-
tatives of the Congress Of the United States"
That is the law as II stands. Had Kansas
accepted the terms connected with the Lee
compton constitution. she would have been
within the Union AZ . sovereign State. with her
thirty or forty thousand people but, in reject.
ing the overtures TO this end. she il intcrdicted
from admission until her population equals or
exceeds the full Congressional ratio Of 93.400
This restriction was put in to appease the South
ern fre-eaters. IL was a tub to the Southern
matchmaking more. II secured the passage
If the bill, and gave the Southern politicians
something TO swear by, which was very gene
rous act on the part Of Mr.. English and the
other Northern supporters Of the concession
But, admitting that they really consented to this
restriction in good faith, II has no binding force
upon Congress. The Congress which passed II
at the last session may repeal II at the next for
there is no constitutional sanctity in any such
preposterous legislative compact between North
ern and Southern politicians.
Mr. Keitt. however, IL Mortified TO discover that
"al the Northern democratic nominees for Con-
grese gre pledged to disregard this provision Of
the conference bill;" but he declares that "thc
fulflment of the bond the South must and will
exact" and that "any violation Of IL must be fol-
lowed by retribution." But we can tell Mr..
Kcitt that all such idle ranting and threatening
Is sheer nonsense The Missouri compromise was
a compact: but when the opportunity was offer
I'd our Southern politicians found no impedi-
men,s Of good faith In the way Of its repeal, and
that precedent settles the business for this Eng
lish restriction. That precedent has not only re-
suited in the expulsion Of slavery from Kansas,
but has rendered its establishment exceedingly
doubtful in any other Territory Of the Union,
present or prospective. II were well for our
modern Southern politicians IL the disasters con-
sequent upon the repeal Of the Missouri compro-
misc stopped here But they do not They in
volve the overthrow Of the Northern democracy
by an overshadowing anti-slavery organization,
and the decentralization Of the Southern democra-
cy 10 an equally intolcrant sectional faction.
Thus, from the foolish experiments and inso-
lent demands Of these Southern fre-eating dis.
orgGuizers Of the school of Mr.. Keitt, the South
Is mcnsced with the dangers which be describes.
The only hope Of the South is In the conservative
sentiment of the North; yet these So thern NAL.
contents, who have brought upon themselves
these evils Of which they so bitterly complain,
appear to be resolved upon the last extremity Of
reshness and arrogance, In demanding, N the
hazard Of dlsunion, the ful6lment Of this absurd
English restriction. Upon this point Mr.. Senator