The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-12

and intend to push their measure through both
houses without unnecessary delay.
This will undoubtedly he the course OF the
administration, and for the very satisfactory
reasons-First, that the Lecompton constitution
il the legitimate offspring of the Kansas Nebras-
ka bill; and secondly, that the sooner Kansas
is admitted ~ State the sooner will she be
clothed with the needful sovereign power Of
the people to redress all wrongs and to es-
,ablish the will of the majority in every thing af-
fcctng her local affairs And the reason why
the Lecompton party will consider the re-
searches of the Harris Committee matter of
indifference, is this: that every man in Con-
gress, as we'll as every intelligent man out Of Con
gress, knows already, perhaps, quite as much of
these alleged election frauds and tricks, and
bogus conventions. and laws of Kansas as the
Committee can tell him; but that, be they more
or less, they cannot shake the validity Of the
Lecomp,on constitution. And why? Because
it was framed by legal Convention; because it
was submitted in legal way and legally rati-
fed, with slavery in popular election, max
ing all possible allowances for fraudulent votes
and returns; and because that election was the
legsl consummation of the work
The flimsy, illogical and hair splitting argu-
ments, therefore, of Messrs. Douglas, Walker,
Stanton and Wise fall to the ground before
the simple principles of common sense. The
fact, of itself, that the admission Of Kansas as
State is the only process by which her people
can be invested with full power to regulate
their domestic institutions in their own way" is
sufficient to weigh down all technical bubbles
and special pleadings against the Lecompton
constitution. In this view, we believe that the
great danger is over ; and that upon this Kan
sas issue, before long, the party organs at Wash
ington, subsisting upon the bounties of Congress
and the smiles of executive favor, will be re-
lieved of all their present tremblings and fut-
terngs and fearful anxietes lest they may do
something, or say something, that may cost
them slice of bread and butter.
With the solution of this ugly controversy,
the administration will stand before the coun-
try strong solid and reliable, to an extent
unknown since the glorious epoch of General
Jackson. The administration of poor Pierce
fuctuated at first between the counsels of his
Cabinet and the demands Of Douglas. Surren-
dering at length to Douglas upon Kansas, it
was kept continually in hot water between the
ire-eating propensities and plots Of Jefferson
Davis and the stern and inhexible opposition of
Marcy. But for Marcy, poor Pierce would,
perhaps, have left to his successor the
responsibilities of war with all the
Western Powers of Europe. Mr.. Fillmore's
administration was model of imbecility and
mastery inactivity" Mr.. Folks administra-
ton, but for the Mexican war, would have been
monotonous if not stupid but the war, and the
able and active minds of his Cabinet, made him
something more than an automaton. John
Tyler, with only party OF officehoders in the
country, and with but corporn's guard in
Congress, headed by Henry A. Wise, could not
undertake to do much after his vetoes of Mr..
Clay S Bank bills and did as much as could be
expected in leaving behind him pretty clean
balancing of his books. Martin Van Buren,, as
we all know, in the very outset was over
whelmed by stockholders, and panics, and
broken banks, and closed up with a list of
government defaulters that excited the just
indignation Of the whole country. In word,
from poor Pierce back to Van Buren-in-
cluoiug both Van Buren, and Perceive look
in vain for President possessed Of those high
qualities of self-reliance, sagacity, ability and
decision Of purpose requisite to positive and
positively successful administration.
In Mr.. Buchanan, however, We discover the
no ;o 10 nj full v
BILE, after the fashion Of Old Hickory, to be the
master Of his situation. We have seen enough
to satisfy us all that his Cabinet does not con.
troll him. but that be is, in reality, the con-
trolling spirit Of the Cabinet and that he Is
not to be turned aside from his course
by conflicting sectional or factlous movements
In or out of Congress. The Southern fre-eat-
ers made this discovery some months ago, and
Mr.. Douglas. Mr.. Walker, Mr.. Wise and their
democratic followers will find il out with the
passage of the Lecompton constitution. The
administration is not crippled. 1t is firm and
strong, and will be successful. 1t will be the
basis for the reorganization Of the conservative
democracy upon a solid and national platform,
and all the damage that will be eventually done
10y the Douglas movement will fall upon the
republican antislavery party, in the loss Of its
Fremont democratic supporters.
The Tammany Hall democracy have opened
their eyes to their true line of policy. to wit
the policy Of the administration. The demo
Gratis at all other commanding points of the
North. DESTROYS Of re-uniting the broken frag-
ments of the democracy upon solid platform,
should follow this example and promptly come
up TO the cause of the administration There is
no occasion for any serious alarm. The pre-
sent obstacles in the track of the President will
be removed like so much brushwood; but in the
meantime il devolves upon the friends of the
administration in Congress and throughout the
country to stick to their work till the track Is
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