The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-13
KANSAS!-KANHAS!

The Tammany Hall Letter OF Gov WIFE,
Northern and Southern Newspaper Opinions
nate at Washing ton-Are the Men Of the
From the Richmond south-Fne- Eatsrl
GOVERNOR WISE ON THR LEc0hPTON CONvKSTIoN.
In another column Of this paper the reader will
find letter from Gov Wise to the Tammany S0cie-
ty of New York.
sensation but for this performance we venture to
predict an unexampled effect on the public mind Of
the country. From one end of the South to the
other it will be read with establishment and NORTH
cation. From one end of the North to the other it
will be read with establishment and exultation.
The pro-saV0D party in Kansas have Just achiev-
ed an unexpect md decisive triumph. They have
organized Sta3 government, and have incorp0-
rated slavery into their political system by deli
berate vote of the people. President Buchanan
avows himself in favor of the admission of Kansas
with the Lecompton constitution. Every member
of his Cabinet writes letter to the same ef-
feet. Indeed, the position of the administration is
ascertained beyond doubt dispute. They urge
the admission Of Kansas with the Lecompton con-
stituton as the obvious solution OF that pOrentous
difficulty which threatens the peace of the country
and the harmony of the party In support of the
measure they are not only sustained by the united
democracy Of the South, but by host of true and
fearless patriots in the North On the other side all
the elements of black republicanism are arrayed in
fierce resistance to the LecomptOn constitution.
They denounce it as a fraud they prepare to op-
pose it by force of arms. They will not heed the
administration who contend that, inasmuch the
slavery issue submitted to the popular VOTE the
aboltionists have just cause of complaint. They
persist in their policy of violence and revolution at
the hazard of involving the country in unimagnabe
troubles and dangers.
At this stage OF the struggle, when we begin to
anticipate triumph for the administration the de-
mocracy and the Union, Governor Wise comes for
ward, and by stigmatizing the work of the Lecomp.
ton Convention as ga usurpation," as unveiled
trickery and shameless fraud,' arrays all the infu-
OF his personal character, official position and
sectional locality against the only fair just and salts
factory settlement Of the Kansas controversy which
Astonishing development indeed. No wonder the
black republican press betray such excess of Joy
is manifest in the subjoned article from the New
York Daily Iimes-the special organ of VIM. H.
Seward No wonder they exult in the glory OF anti
cipated triumph over the administration, the de-
mocracy and the South.
Fortunately the Legislature is in session. Gov.
Wise nvokes the name of the Virginia democracy
in support of his position. Let the representatives
of the Virginia democracy in the Legislature accept
the issue. Let them, by prompt and emphatic
action, give assurance to the faithful men in the
North who stand by the administration and the
South in the struggle that the democracy of Virginia
will not desert them in the hour of need. Let
them declare to the democracy of the South that
they stand immoyably on the admission of Kansas
with the Lecompton constitution. Let them rally
to the support of the Southern representatives in
Congress. Let them sustain the administration in
the policy upon which it stakes its existence. By
every obligation of regard for the interests Of the
South, the party and the administration, the demo-
cracy of Virginia bound to make manifest their
position on the dominant issue of the day. The Elk
ecutve Of the State has thrown his opinion and his
influence in the adverse scale. With equal propri-
ETY. may the Legislature give utterance to its senti
ment The voice of the General Assembly will expect
potent an authority over the public mind, and the
democracy of the State have right to exyeet that
their Representatives will place them in a correct po
sition before the country
IRON the Richmond whig-Oppostion
REMARKABLE LETTER FROM GOV. WISE.
The New York papers of Saturday contain one of
the most remarkable letters of the age from Gov.
Wise in reply to an invitation to attend the ceebra-
ton of the sth of January, by the Tammany Society
of that city. We say it is the most remarkable let
ter ever penned by a Southern man, and we think
our readers Will agree with US in opinion when they
peruse (which they snail have an opportunity Of
doing Tomorrow We have no space either for the
letter itself, or for comments thereon to-day Suf-
flee il to say, the sentiments Of Gov. Wise on the
Kansas question and especially on the Lecompton
constitution, are lauded by the Ne,o York Times, a
rabd abolition journal, in long leader and in the
most extrayagant terms. The Governor in word.
Iepudiates the Lecompton constitution as palpabe
and monstrous fraud, and says il must be submitted
o direct vote of the people before Kansas can be
arly admitted into the Union We believe, in short,
hat this letter Of Gov. Wise is calculated to
do more harm to the South at the North than any
thing which has yet transpired Va connection with
The kansss imbroglio. Those men in Congress who
have taken their stand for the Lecompton constitu-
Governor Wise, and will henceforth be denounced
by their constituents as more Southern in their
views and feelings than our own Southern fire eaters.
Strange times arc these, when demagogues North
and South assume any side OF any question which
self interest and ambition may dictate. Gov. Wise
although ready TO dissolve the Union in the event of
Fremonts election, is now pandering to the abolition
sentiment Of the North with view to the Presi
dental nomination in 1860 May heaven snatch the
country from the deadly embrace of ambitious
demagogues and reckless place hunters. Only
through great popular revolution, which
shall whelm with confusion and ruin the demo-
cratic party-a party more jesuitical and dangerous
than any that ever existed in any age or nationcan
the country expect redemption from the political de-
moralizaton now prevailing. and which Is increasing
and spreading with every succeeding day. For one,
we say II boldly that we prefer being ruled over by
an open. frank, conscientious black republican to
submitting to the further domination of party
whose principal leaders are the most unsconscion
able hypocrites that human Imagination can con-
cciye.
Iron the New York Trlbune-nigger worshipper1
The Lecompton constitution Is doomed. Mr.
Brown OF Mississippi, yesterday formally abandoned
It's advocacy in the Senate and the country will not
lie troubled with il much longer. Mr.. Buchanan aud
the fre-eaters are broken down. Walker. Douglas
and Wise carry the day, and remain the leaders Of
the national democratic party. Thanks 10 them. the
people OF Kansas eved from the continuance ola
usurpation under whose bloody and outrageous
sway they have suffered from the beginning. We
say thanks 20 them, but in reality the thanks are
due 10 the great and formidable republican party,
and not TO any number Of frightened democrats,
fearful not only of the humiliation of their
party, but Of their personal humiliation WELL
But for the enormous majorities rolled up for Ere
mont in most of the Northern States, and the com.
pact and united front and growing power which the
republican organization continues 10 present who
suppose that the authors Of the Kansas Nebraska
bill and the apologies for all the ouirages Of 1855
and 1856, in Kansas would ever have thus reversed
their previous course and lent themselves 10 the OBJ
ecs If not to the principles of the republicans? II
is magnificent tribute 10 the truth Of the doctrines
and the wisdom Of the policy on which the republi
can party is based, that its most vehement enemies
are thus forced substantially 70 do it, work.
We say that the usurpation of the border rufians
in Kansas Is practically at an end, and we con-
graduate the country. aud above all. the gallant
free State men Of that Territory, upon the fact.
II is true that the federal troops still there TO
sustain the border ruffan rule and that the dis
position Of the federal executive is hostile ever
70 the free State cause. Bnt when the Mississppi