New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-13

N-.s,., NJ the ain issCD 81 spsSs rD3sY be I<r
cs.ptSs Con-itutcp ID - mo~sl egai ass p sc1'
.rt and TO show hat deem; respect f,r the in
,,J.. Of he party enunc.s.es at Cincinnati, he
s,,e, Of s,cepsAaoe OF Mr.. Buchanan, TIE ibE.rr-
top, 20 Gov. Walker, the inaugural Of Goy.
Wsh,y which was sabnitted - the Presden, and
be Cabinet before he proceeded 70 the Territory,
psSe 4 .he duty Of re President 20 his parry, and The
nation a. hree 20 see ths, the vii Of The majority =
respected in ksrsss and that il IL no. adnitted "a
State until the Con tint has been suom ted g tho
people and approved by them. The following ,e.oiu-
ton, from the CDcnrso platform, VIII show TIE Pos
tion the party on the question:
nat By the unis T% application Q, The D Pr ~.
Sat-. nth OF .,holt s,yery a. hey may ct re e. ~
p psI i oonstnon ned nSo.. and he psrp
Of the Jnion insured 20 s unso cspsey OF
that may 10 constituted Annex ID With republican pm %
government Tts. recognize ne rsht Of ID. Pof OF a. -
legally and fairly expressed viIl Of the ms o:y Of the 81 re-
dents Ehenever the n2mGr Of me nhaoiA' . =, ~ h.
form Constitution with wibo1: domestic SAy-fy shd De
admitted into the Union poL Of perfect e ATTY win h1
slso beg leave 10 submit the extracts to which
aude from the Presidents Inaugural his Instructions
10 Gov. Walker, and the inaugural and letter Of resg
nation Of Gov. Walker:
. isd Sts,e. 70 secIrc 20 every resident
the free and independent expression Of hs opinion by hs vote
,Ser,trd is. sppoi II Governor Of Kansas the
express condition that should .d ooste TIE .1omou Of ne
to the vote Of the people for I.hcsion Or
These views clearly understood by the President and
repsnce h. Office Of tn, 18th Of March s ana
my sutIrsl address Of the 7b u May as As follows:
Indeed doubt that the Cony n;ion siteF hsyLs
framed STATE Constitution will submit for rshcsion or re
lection By majority Of the then bona Ed' resident 'etr Of
With these well known the President and Cabinet,
and approved By hern .,segad les o. o0'efo'
rpe. then a. my clear CONVICTION, hs; rn,e,' the Con
veDion submit he Constitution 70 the vote Of al the stoa res.
attrs and the election be fairly aud Justly con
6gtta ne Wn, Uesoayal Ifa,,. Ean;G.
sucha Cor
the Territory they must b Protee.d IN We sheT,e % ne
preston popular will be interrupted BY fraud or
1iohnce"- Buihanan, Ia,rucsioa' 10 Wafer.
address Sd: VsI to yo for
ton of the President and he Cabinet No exception was eyer
,ncty admitted by the President in hIs me~ege with Com
endsne frsntness that ny Instructions IN iavSr o. The
and unqualified BY Inaugural and subsequsnt address
s T sop hs SfT .ny S RU W.. o
fully submitted to their vote for ratification or rescton These
cannot recall violate without personal donor and
the abandonment Of fundamental principles and therefore It is
mpD oI me 70 support Sh cs 10 yo e Of s Psop e2
ratification or rejection -" Cor. Walte''s Rt,ignat,oa
no census. In ifsen counties OF ,hryiour there
registry, and solitary tote lod gre o, cond be gir.n
surely then it cannot said that Convention chosen by
scarcely than tenth of the present voters OF
resented the people Of that Territory and could rhay mpo"
CONSTITUTE upon them without their consent These nineteen
counties, in which there was no census constituted mgjiy
Of the counties Of the Territory aud le'e een co nes IN
which there No resy rave much larger vote at me Oc
mOnths Qualification, than the
whole vote given TO the delegates who signed the LeeonPon Con
stitutio the 9TH Of November last IT, then sovereignty
be del. gated and Conventions SUCH sovereign which
deny surely must be only in s1cn cases 40 "heH 'uh Co"r
soH chosen by the people Thh zee hare "e1 ea'Ho the a
snopr other reasons that IN my inaugural aud other addresses
insisted that the Constitution should be submitted to the people
in it's organization wa. therefore other when
know the organization of the socaed Topeka State Gov
enment and consequence inevitable cv war aud CON
fe with The troops must have ensged these results were pre-
nousy statedfor address not to them but h people
Of Kaahat In Judgment the Constitution would be sub
fairly and freely for ratification rejection by then vote
and that il This no. done would unite with he the peo
pie, do il lawful opposition to such sProcedufe-
The President tskes different view of the subject in hi.
I evident that the question Passing from theories into p1o
,ectired the date Of appointment Sub instructions
cG.f u Of the Ksas and Nebs S OF with my
pledges the people Of Kansas Under these circumstances no
alternative Jeff me but to esen tho office OF Governor OF the
mo can deeply than myself this necessity
.ontry should mos. c6eruy have returned to Kan...
any out o,adi in,ucons and thus preserve the peace
1ecmng my pledges to the Walker, Resignation
1t was upon the assumption and belief that this duty
would be faithfully discharged that Mr.. Buchanan was
sentative upon this floor trumphed and the falsi
6cation OF our political record of 1885, upon this vital
question, must result in the disnteg grafton and de-
structon of the Democratic party and the election to
emit Administration. The moral proposition IN favor OF
the fair and full submission Of the Constitution of
Kausas to it's people cannot be gansayed, and the
whole question is reduced TO proposition OF right
on one side and wrong the other. The legal ne
cessty for it's submission follows from the statement
of the moral proposition. | contend that the only
legal submission of the Lecompton CONSTITUTION was
made at the election in Kansas on the 18th OF January
The pretended submission OF the Constitution on the
2ls of December was farcicsl and intended coverty
to prevent the tainmen of the very principle guar
r l.. linz hAa
anted by the Kansas Nebraska DILL competing tneSe
Constitution which they loathed and detested; and
allege that the mott mmaeral question that could
have been submitted to them on the list December
in az much as that issue had been practically passed
upon a, their previous October election, when the
present Representative upon this hoor Marcus ..
Psnott OF the Free:stae party was elected ovsrSov'
RANSOM supported by the Pro-Slavery men and Dem
ocrats by over five thousand majority.
To say, therefore, that Slavery was the only DO
mestc institution that the people OF Kansas iet IN
tertsted In, desired to pass upon at the December
election and that all of their other domestic insttu-
tons currency, judiciary, legislative, executive,
and internal improvement policy-were swallowed up
in the negro issue, to lose sight Of and to ignore the
fact that that question was practically disposed OF
assert that no State Constitution for any new State,
TO be admitted after the passage OF the Kansas. Ne.
brasks BILL should have vitality until the people OF
the locality to be affected by have, BY their sppro-
val, bresthed into its nostriis the breath OF hie
wien il becomes living soul The Territorial Legis-
lsture provided for legal election on the 4th of jan
uary last, at which the electors of Kansas had the
privilege of approving rejecting this Iecompton
Constitution. At this election, legally authorized and
fairly conducted the only in which the great body
Of the people have participated the Lecompton Con-
stitution was rejected by majority of over ten thou
sand. This election was countenanced and approved
by the President in the instructions given to Governor
Denver, who directed TO respect the acts of the
Territorial Legislature and to see that the election
was pescesbly and orderly conducted.
The Territorial Legislature doubtless convened the 10
entitled