New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-05

Nt the seOp.e 90 ha1shs IL Lle
free States declared u at III. Y would Dot submit to
tbs law of the people; thst CceS should mako
law ippsrs:iyeiy excluding S..Neiy nom kaasas,
whether tie people Of ksrsas v on.a GO 80 or net
Every Democrat " 10 opposed ihe L~Scnp,oa Oonsti'
tfrri'y The Iecompton Constitution vas ths ex-
rressed viii of the people Of ksnsss and va. o.
posed only by rebels. IApplsuse lie aooept.d tsv
the doctrine of Popular overeie,ty-and be he,t him
to L. lie dii no. believe that tbero vas any frszd
about tie Leeompton Cops'i uton. By al the torss
Of law the Legislature Of kassas called an eeeton -
to whether the PEOPLE wanted Cor stutio,, a,d the
people voted in favor of il. TLen another Iegis>e-
ture provided eor q Constitutions, Convention, ssd
did not provide that the Constitution should be sus
mitied to the Ptops. Tie Cotventso again voted ~
tire Constitution. They cid eysc,.y what tbirtsen
States lad done; for thee thirteen State Coase
trtor' in force which had rever been suSu.ed ,ts
people. Tie rebel population Of Ksrsas-ttst pepuA-
ton when lived hy plrIder ard robbery, aud received
day wages from the I'm grant Aid Socie,es-tbey Who
assembled tor treason At Topeka they demanded 70
have il subntted 10 them. Bst that q monstfeus
folly. These Tops ksites would rot be registered and
If woald not vote he ought to lose his peiticd
being. There were uen here and in New. England
VINO melted the people OF Kansas TO reSeliea. Hs
con pa!sd the secret associations in Kansas 20 defeat
law and the Democracy with the kuowNothn@
lodges and e1hoted the Democracy 10 be true TO tbs
P:inc,p!e of Popular Sove5eisnty, the iecomptea
Cor stituton, ard TO James Buchanan.
JOHN Vh> BJ RIs was the nextspeaker. He con-
me- need by recountiug the results the late elections
stree the Presidential election from which he argued
that the wise administration Of James Buchanan was
CONNIE ndug itself to the people. The call fos tho
meeting which he was addressing rneQus,ed;
Henry 6rirnen. Fillmore Elector. headed It; mes
who supported Fremont signed it, and yet they werv
tod ;hat Mr.. Buchanan running the party. IL wss
not go. Nj. Van Buren told how many btates ho
spoke il during the campaign aud what he said Of the
was a egitin ate Free-Love Association. The Demc-
cratic psry composed Of those who intended "
vote the Democratic ticket and there might be some
question as to who were Democrats. There could b
no doubt "a to who supporters of the Admnis.
tretiop and who not. ~ he would speak OF the
support,r Of the Administration. 1t was objected
that the Ieconpton Constitution had not been sub
mitted 10 the people. Half the Constitutions 10 the
county had not; the Constitution OF the UnteA
State, the great Constitution under which We lad
lived so long ard so well, had never been submitts4
to the people. The kansas-Nebraska bill gave these
r, T,itorts the right 10 into the Union az States
With or without Slavery, as they might determine.
The Cincinnati platform indorsed ths grant and aay
Democrat who refused to support the President was
false the paty and false TO the Nebraska ksnsS bi
Kansas WAS now State, made so by the authority giv
en- by the Ksusas-Nebrasks bill. IL would be the duty
ofCougress toadmt Il even the Goverhmert were NOS
republcsn Rhode Island was IN the MON hity yean
without Constitution. Congress had nothing 10 Do
with the Constitution. IL was the United States and
not Congress which bound 10 secure TO the states
a republican form OF government The objection thAe
the vote against the Constitution on the 4h Of Jsnu
sry Cancelled IT, ridiculous; 13,VoO voters acqui-
esced in the Constitution by voting orit and tho vote
of 10 00 against only Indicative that the Con.
stuton would soon be changed, su indication which
he was glad 10 see; for he wanted to see Free
State lie would admit that there were as many
frauds as any body chose; that the elections were -
fraudulent as they in Baltimore; as many frauds
az were claimed by Mr. Stanton, who was endauget.
ing his own constitution in his efforts against tho
Copstituton Of Kansas. He would admit all that.
What did it all amount to Kansas was state; "
not, i. could not be admitted. When admitted, tho
people Cf Kansas could do as they chose. Mr.. Van
Buren read from Secretary Stanton's opinion given
before the Lecompon Convention, hat the submissoa
Of the Slavery clause would remove all pretext for
rebellion and pitched into the Secretary fer going
about bresking up the Democratic party. IL hs1
teen charged that lie was opposed 10 popular sore-
regnty As he understood IT, as an able bodied pirate
he claimed TO he Of the popular sovc-
regr, himself. When he ever executed
release Of any of his political rights, he
expected TO he spplised OF 1t. But he knew what
they were. lie knew that he who told him that the
people of country had TO right TO change their form
Of COY in consequence OF some Writing in which
their predecessors might have previously entered was
wfong Though he we're the father Of the principle
Of pOl an sovereignty, he should say have beeo
tod hcretoo that it was wise child who knew bis
own father; but say il is wiser father who knows
his own child" There ought to DO Democratic
party in Kansas. There wasn't any other State wtere
there wasn't a Democratic party That was the party
which made California, and Ohio, aGd Indiana, scd
New.York Free States and Pennsylvania aso-the
first Free State in the Uricn whatever might be
claimed for Massachusetts. % Put Massachusetts,
out ot tue UDiOn.' " Shet up you jack ass. Tho
Republicans who combined 10 delay tue admltsion Of
Kansas would have an account to settle with Their
constituents. Kansss was queer Slave State, with
40 riggers, and lO,CoO men yelpDg in their ears.
Run, hlggers, ye're free" He didn't want to force
Kansas. Kansas like some Others, was more
remarkable fcr her shrieking than ior her virtue @
her should hear from her. AT any rate, n sho was
beng forced now, che was scandalously still. llm.
msn:s spsseab,T ssd Sss
the I1compton Constitution upon herself BY orgsns-
ing under t. and she alone could cay it. He must say
word about Dred Scott. The two points Of that de-
pounced. But Tux TRrsusE never considered the
question dec ded in the Supreme Court until 1t had
been carried up TO THE TRIBUNE ofhce. VI course
no man would set up the opinion OF the supreme
Court against that Of lawyer of the standing Of the
editor of TBE TRIBUNE. Tho Democratic psrty had
already won the Presidency Of 1860. AL the south.
ern states were secure; and when they come 10 ade
the tbrty y-fye votes of NewYork, that smphfed the
election amazingly. The Democratic party never
gave up principle from its platform until was em:
Bodied in the government Of the nation. They would
not abandon the principle Of noninterventon until
was established az a principle and usage IN the
country. Three cheers for John Van BurenJ
When JOINS yAs BURys concluded his speech, oss
room of the Hall was vacant. JoBs CocHRAsg, how
ever came forward and addressed the meeting wnon
gIew beautifully less as he proceeded.
Mr.. CocHRAsz said that the attention Of the people
had been drawn to the condition OF things In W ash
lie was n Popuar Sovereign, and could not see how
Ccperess had power over the inhabitants Of Tenn
tow. He did not see how citizen leaving this State.
by possing boundary, became subject and not
citizen The rights Of ran appertalned to him
selE, though the right to the soil sppertsinsd 70
the Government He understood the Dfed
Scott case to proceed thus far and no more.
moi sulec,r The ordinance of 1857 was nothing but
aoompsct between the people Of the States and the
inheb tants Of the Territories. The whole fabric OF
our government is founded upon representation and
not upon Democratic action. Ours was republic,
and the COrs uion required that in the formation OF