The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-07


suthon ReJees~a.
W. have received as yet only fex retuyna Of
tie Kansas Constitutional election; but they
are OF complexion 40 decided a. to leave
scarcely saadcw Of doubt of the rejection
Of TIE Leccmpton constitution by very heavy
Popular asjority.
Tske, for example, the returns from Lesyen-
worth and Kickapoo, as Compared with the
election Of January f. for Governor, under the
Leccmpton schedule
Ls"mpte" Anti LsOnptcn
August. do ........h3s Is,4
Here we have . marked less on the small
Leco1p.on vote of January, aud direct gain
o5 over four Hundred on the anti-Lecompto
EIDE La KicAsYoo the majority for Marshall,
Leccupton candidate for Governor, in January,
vac 864; nov the Lecompton majority in that
precinct is Less than forty. These returns,
therefore, without going any further, we regard
as Sufficiently indicating the result Of the cleo
rior.
b. the &C. o. Congress under which this cleo
ton wss held, ii was provided that instead of
tie twenty one millions Of acres of the public
domain which would have accrued to Kansas
ucde- tee Lecomptor ordinance, pure and
ample, she should have some $500, 900 acres
To test the sense of tie people Of Kansas upon
shis reduction, it was further provided that, IL
through a majority Of her legal voters she
should accept this proposition, then Kansas,
without further ceremony would be considered
sovereign State, admitted into the Union uu-
DER the Lecompton constitution. On the con-
trary, If TIE people Of Kansas should reject the
aforesaid Land proposition, that rejection would
be accepted as involving the rejection Of the
LecomptOn constitution. Furthermore, il was
crdai1ed in the said act of Congress that with
This rejection Of the Lecompton constitution,
Kansas would not be regarded as available for
admission under new constitution, until che
could number the full ratio of $4,000 popula-
tior, required for one member of the federal
House Of Representatives.
Ii pursuance of this act of Congress the COM
niEsioners designated appointed the Kansas
election for the first Monday in Augustine day
Of the Missouri election; and we repeat that,
from the returns received, there can scarcely be
shadow Of doubt as to the general result. The
Lecompton constitution is rejected, and with it
the Governor, State officers and State Legisla-
ture elected in January under the Lecompton
schedule, and In reference to which Gen. Jack
Calhoun had such world of trouble and en-
barrassments, all fall to the ground and 90 for
nothing. The late incipient State relapses into
her Territorial condition, and must again begin
her work Of State organization at the begin
ming.
Under the careful and impartial arrange
ments Of the administration, including the judi
cious appointment Of the Kansas election on
the eame day with that of Missouri, it
appears that the best anticipations in reference
to law and order have been fulfilled. The law
Of Congress, under the most unexceptionable
plan of operations, has been carried out-Le-
compton is rejected BY fair, and, apparently,
by remarkably full vote of the Kansas peo-
pie. The question then recurs, what next? Will
the people Of Kansas-now numbering perhaps
fifty thousand-be content to wait until they
can muster the full federal ratio of nearly
twice fifty thousand before they undertake the
WIN VI new COustltutlOn!
This is very nice and q very important
question. The taxpaying masses of the Kansas
people would perhaps be content to remain
few years longer as Territory, because, while
in that condition, their government expenses
are paid out of the federal treasury; but the
politicians rule the roast. We know, too, what
they are after-the two seats In the United
States Senate and the seat in the House. the Of
Zee of Governor and other State offices, and
The handling of the land spoils, banks, rail-
roads, public buildings, and all the
other spoils and plumber incident to
the organization Of q new State. These
are what the interruptions and hungry
Kansas politicians are after. And their neces
stiles are such rs not to justify any delay, not
the restriction of the late act of
Congress.
We may, therefore, expect, in the teeth OF this
that new constitution from Kansas
will be laid before the two houses at the next
session, coupled with demand for admission
under II. What then. Why, then, as the Le-
compton constitution is definitely rejected, and
rs Kansas can never be slave State, though
she should be kept waiting at the door for ten
years to come, the best policy with her is the
shortest. Admit her and be done with her; be-
cause refusal TO admit her on the plea of the
of the last session viii only furnish
a new fund of political ipital for our Northern
Kansas shriekers and agitators.
The pro-slavery party, after a protracted and
most desperate contest, have lost the prize, for
The simple reason that the balance Of squattcr
sovereignty was too powerful against them to
be resisted. Now let them gracefully give IL up.
and admit Kansas as a State as soon as pos
-ible. The sooner the better. There l. no bind
ing force in the restriction Of the act of the late
session. X may be repealed as readily as the
Missouri or any other restriction depending
NON tho moro diecrption of Concro,, e-ox.. -.