Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-04-21
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.


DEAR CoL:-My tine hos boea 80 much occupied
since last wrote you, that could not even steal
moment to indite you short letter.
The grsat Kansas fight has como off in tho House,
and the opposition has seemingly triumphed over the
Administration.
Tho friends Of The Constitution and Uson, however,
do not yet despair Of securing the admission OF Kan
SOS undar tho Locompton Constitution. In the House
they have q solid and immovable phalanx OF liz
members as basis to operate upon, and will make it
tell against Black Repubicansm and all other sms.
Tho league OF 1so composing the opposition, cannot
hang together long 1t is composed Of too many di-
verse elements, and has only to be abandoned by q
few mon to become powercEs there arc many Of thom
sick and tired of tho alliance, and will !reak Oh the
first opportunity.
The Black Republican, will rosist the proposition
of the Senate for joint committee of conference upon
the disagreeing amendments of the two Houses. A
motion to refsea this committee will be made by some
of the Blaeks and upon that issue the league of l2O
will be broken.
The Committee Of Conference will be ordered, and
it is moro than koy that when this is done, the BLACK
Republicans will endeayor to have the Committee
ooctod by the House, and not is uaual, appointed
by the Speaker. But in this they will fail Also
Speaker Orr will appoint discreet set of mon, whose
action will probably be ultimately sustained by the
House. One thing is certain, and that i7 this that
the friends of LOeompton till do every thing which
can be done to secure the triumph Of tho right.
truer band Of Patriots never lived than those Who
are now Battling for tho Constitution on this great
issue.
The people of the South may rely upon them i'm
plieiy But in tho evont Kansas is lost to the South
on account of the slavery clauae Incorporated in tho
Lecompton Constitution, what will tho South do!
Texas and Alabama have spoken, they in oarnast
and if co. will the other Southern States follow side by
side with thom. South Carolina determined in 1850,
she would not "oo Il alone" but would "so i pith
co-operatun." II romans to be seen whohor she
will like the company Of Alabama and Texas well
enough to cooperate with thom in resisting what is
and will be for tho future the settled policy OF the
Black Republicans "that no moro slave States shall
bo admitted into tho Union" VIII the kno~iHg one'
(Co-operatiOniss) Of 80 unsrer the question:
Yhore has been quito Gght in the House over the
deficiency bill It was defeated, bat upon reconSid-
Grafton it was passed. The struggle will be renewed in
tho House. The administration feel great anxiety for
ts succos as il embraces largo item for prosecuting
the expedition againstss4e Mormons. This item
encountered but littlo opposition in tho Houfo; and
the money will bo appropriated, ovOn should this
bill be defeated. The Bill whole is a sort Of an
Omnibus" concern, containing many features OF
doubtful c1pcdioncy. But as above stated tho sup
plios for tho Mormon war will DO promptly voted by
Congress, Brigham Young and his fanatiea followers
n,d no favor hero. Thoy will be subducd and msds
to bohave Themselves.
Kansas out Of tho wsy and this Utah matter in
proper trim, the President would immediately direct
attention to our foreign afnirs. Tho great measure
above all Others which he has at heart 10 the acqus
ton Of Cuba lie docs not favor this acquisition by
conquest or nllibusterism, but by diplomacy. If
money can buy tho Island, he will have !; it for the
success and accomplishment Of which, he has my for
vent prayer. PALMETTO.