New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-01


At least, oDs would naturally arrive to this conclu-
sion from reading the pubnhed list Of names at
tsched to call for public meeting to sustain the
Lecompton Constitution. Perhaps We ought IN
charity, to set down a portion Of this grstuitous
homage to vnsiny to stolidity AID Ignorance.
There is an instinct of cOnseryatsm in the weto-do
circles which has no perception Of duty beyond
sustaining the public authorities whatever they
may do or advise. AL noodlsdom has an idea that
opposition to them is disorganizing and dangerous
and leads to disruption of the social fabric. This
conviction leads bliDdfod many fool 1t is charl-
table to believe this to be prominently true of this
city and we are wiling to accept the idea in Lieu of
a conviction that would 60 far to undermine our
faith in all mankind.
We have before US st Of those who have signed
the cal! referred to- and who have thus assumed the
unenviable position Of defending the most unbush-
ing public fraud of our day. These gentlemen
have stepped from private circles before the pub
lie 10 indorss the concentrated essence of Kansas
scoundresm, and we hold them to their proper re-
sponsbility. Here are respectable gentlemen of
wealth and standing, holding no public station and
wanting none, who come boldly out and declare
that John Cslhoun's Constitution ought to be put
immediately in force over the people of Kansas
whether they like it or not They fully adopt and
approve the results of years of fraud, violence,
outrage and crime. They sustain the fruits of
political conspiracy conducted and perfected BY
loaferish. drunken, armed yagabonds, whose pres
ence in their counting rooms or their Offices, their
halls, or their anti.chsmbers, they would not for an
instant tolerate. They put themselves before the
world the cOnfederates and accomplices after the
fact ofthe mostiutoersble vllsnies the most shame
less oursges the most scandaleus frauds perpe
trated in our political history. Placed in no posi-
ton or relation to public affairs that demands an
expression or an intmation of their Judgment they
nevertheless volunteer their support and rush to
the aid of these signal iniquties. Let US see who
some of these gentlemen are. Not to be invdious,
we will go pretty extensively into the list. We find
there the names Of Messrs. Henry Grinnel, E.
Csylus Barclay & Livingston, Charles O'COnor,
Robert j. Dillon, John A. Dix, Moses Taylor,
Gardiner j. Rowland, August Belmont, Watts
Sherman, Samuel L. Post, jr., John Van Buren,,
l.. Delmonco, Stewart Brown, Matthew Morgan,
Charles Augustus Davis, Robert Grace, Gerard
Stuyvesant, Isaac Townsend, Richard Bus
teed, James Lee, A. EickhOf, James, NJ.
Brown, C. A. SecOr, C. Meletts, j. A. Mschsdo,
Royal Phelps Gerard Hallock, Henry G. Steb-
birs, "and thirty three hundred others" OF
obtained political preferment, who yet expect
to obtain by such service this we have nothing
now to say. They sell for pay. But we wish to
ask gentlemen of probity, of character Like Mr.
Henry Grinnel, aud Mr.. Moses Taylor, and Mr..
Gardiner Rowland, and Mr. 4. Csylus, who are
opposed to forgery in private, why they desire to
sustain it in public affairs Is cheating and swind-
ling any better in Kansas than it is on South street
that they should countenance and approve it there
while they would denOunce it here Is the disgust
ing villsiny of ballot stufhng, of wholesale lying
among the members of public convention assem-
bled to create a State Constitution, of copying
a volume of city directory, and returning the
names as the voters at precinct where not hand
full of men were present, of shamelessy count
ing in and counting out members of Convention and
Legislature, without reference to their election,
any more praiseworthy in Kansas than in New
York; Do you say that you do not know that the
LeoOmpton Constitution is the result of fraud like
these and worse than these Gentlemen, you do
kno,c it! We dc not claim that you are especially
intelligent in political matters. But no man is so
ignorant that he does not know it. There is not
political bruiser Of the Sixth Ward who does not
know it, But do you say you are opposed to the
Black Republicans, and that you think the best
way of settling the Kansas question is to admit
n hla1
Very well, gentlemen, who opposes the admission
of. Kansas ss State Are not all parties anxious
for that Does anybody, anywhere on our side,
ask that anything more or less shall be done than
to submit the two Constitutions framed in
Kansas to fair vote of the people, and
that that Territory shall be admitted a
State at once under which ever Constitution the
people shall choose to adopt! Does body any
where, among the opponents of the Lecompton
be submitted to the peoplc for ratification before
going into operation Is this to hinder or Obstruct
the settlement of the Kansas question Nothing is
now asked by the opponents of the Kansas yilanies
but that the people of that Territory shall be al
lowed to have peace and quiet, and manage their
affairs in their own way. 1t is the opposition TO
their doing this that alone binders the quiet and i'm
mediate settlement of the whole Kansas question.
1t is the outrageous attempts to cOnsummate the
gigantic frauds of which that Territory has been for
years the thester, by imposing hated Constitution
upon an unwilling people, which you, gentlemen,
and your confederates are now sustaining, that
makes all the difficulty and continues all the agta
ton now existing in the country on this subject.