New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-31

The Hon. William ID. Bsh0p, LecomptOn
NJ. c. from Connecticut, has made speech in the
House on the question of the day, which we trust
has received general circulation among the voters
of that State, in view of her Election next Monday
Though correspondents have spoken of this effort,
we must give our readers q further touch of its
quality.
Dir. Bishop processes to review the Kansas
trouble, and set forth the right and wrong of the
matter. In regard TO all such statements, one all
but nfallible touchstone may be applied-Does he
Jegin at tie beginning? Any man with tongue in
bis head may make bis own side look plausible by
beginning in the middle of the case, or wherever
NAV be most convenient Hear Mr. Bishop:
dcussng the question Of tie admission Of Kansas under
the Lecomp.on Constitution deem unnecessary to go any
rhI tac1 Han february o wnen p o wa. 10 oro
Constitution"
That is to say-klowIg and admitting that
the Free State men refused to vote at that election
primarily because the Legislature which ordered it
was the offspring of invasion, violence and whole.
sale ballot box stufing-in other words 10 Legiss-
ture of Kansas, but an imposture and usurpation-
he coClly puts that all aside as of no moment, be-
cause Mr. Buchanan was chosen President over
Col. Fremont, the favorite of the Frce-State men
of Kansas, in lo56 Nor does he deign to take
notice Of the fact that Il partial and inyidious
Registry never required before nor since, was pre-
sciibed by the Missouri-made Legislature for that
Convention Election Only, and that thereby the
Free State men were absolutely precuded from
voting. But how could We expect Mr. Bishop to
pay any regard to the essential facts If he we're
to do this, it were fur better for his sic that lie
should not have tired to speak at all.
Having once fully resolved to set facts at def
ance, Mr.. Il. naturally warns to his work as he
proceeds. Hear him:
Have the reopb of Kana. he'd fol snd fsir oPoa,
Val by the President Of tn told
by Gov Walker and Secretary staIG9 that the law o. The L,
them Were they told tbs, the Constitution framed BY
@sre .y no T h .a s as b Coz,
Walker for these Deesaie "sIe they not promised
case hey declined to vote 5c h nor 'arn;s not 70 de.d,
em.cT yin he idca ha he GSa. a. 1oad DC '4'"''d
OF course, Mr.. Bishop has forgotten, or never
carefully read, the history which he here distorts
so flippantly. He has forgotten that Mr.. Buchan
ans Inaugural, his instructions to Walker, and Of
course Walkers fifteen or twenty speeches based
thereon, are oil full of pledges that tho Constitu
tioI then to be formed at Lecompton should be
fully and fairly submitted to the People Of Kansas,
er else the Executive would do his utmost to have
il rejected. The facts are as notorious as Mr.. Bu-
chanan's election, yet Mr.. Bishop has misread or
forgotten them But, in such a state of heed
lessness or ignorance, had he any right to make q
speech on the subject
We can give space to but one more pOint-one
on which ignorsnce cannot save Mr. Bishop from
the condemnation Of treating great public ques-
tion dishonesty. He processes to give the geneal-
osy and history of the LecOmpton Constitution,
ct omits all sllusiOn to the fact that the last Ter
ritorial Legislature Of Kansas, elected under the
uthority which he insists as legitimate and e1-
elusive submitted the Lecompton Constitution
fully and fairly TO the whole People of Kansas at
an election held on the 4th of January last, and
that il was then and there rejected BY Free State
msiority of more than Ten Thousand. This was
the very first and only chance ever accorded to the
People of Kansas to vote against that Constitution
under any authority whatever. The Convention
only allowed vote for or against particular form
of estat lshing Slavery but required every vote to
be cast for the Constitution ITSELF In this way they
forced vote of Six Thousand in all for their Con-
stituton, fully half of which has since been legally
proved fraudulent. Against this stands vote of
more than Ten thousand against tie Constitution
a vote Lot merry returned, but actually cast By
legal Kansas voters. In the Light Of this truth,
what becomes Of Mr. Bishops charge that the
Free State men refused to tote and thus allowed
the Constitution to be adopted By default Must
he not know better
So with bis charge that the Republicans, IN and