Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-01-07

yielding in regard to it, They will insist upon
the acceptance of the LecomptOn Constitution,
in the form in which it shall come. The South
ern members say they cannot agree to any COM
promise on the subject, because they would,
thereby, be placed to disadvantage before their
constituents. They could not be less regardful
and Jealous of Southern rights and interests than
the President Besides, as the Southern men
were ready and pledged to go for the Lecomp-
ton Constitution, if it came with Slavery, 80
they insist that their Northern Democratic
brethren shall go for it, coming as it does, with
Slavery"
The following is from the Washington cores
pondence of the Philadel phia North American
GO If the vote in Kansas on the 4th of Janu-
airy should turn out as is expected, the North
ern friends of the Administration must recede,
or be involved in position too embarrassing to
be maintained with success. Foreseeing this
contingency, they are already preparing for
plan of retreat, and instead of confronting
Douglas directly on the issue he has presented,
the effort will be to flank him by a repeal of the
Nebraska bill, as have before suggested. In a
few days the party pulse will be felt on this
movement, and if the symptoms be favorable, it
will be pressed. The argument will be, since
this bill has failed to work out the end which it
professed, let it be substituted by some other
law more effective. 1t is easy to imagine how
Southern gentlemen will take such logic, as it
is to predict how how impotent will be the ex-
pertinent. The attempt will not answer even
the immediate object of extricating Senators
from what may be called a tight place. -
The correspondent of the New Yors8llHmes
says. S -
"The intelligence that the Constitution Of
Kansas has been ratified Nth the Pro-Slavery
clause is bomb-shell which the Administration
did not anticipate. Among those Northern men
who had proposed to sustain the President pol
icy, it excited an indescribable panic and by
the time the discussion is resumed in the Senate
we shall find Messrs. Bigler, Jones, Fitch & Co.
shivering with most distressing fit of political
ague. Already some of them begin to hint
that they are not yet committed, and if the
news is confirmed by later and fuller advices,
they will vindicate my declaration that polit-
clans are not prepared to rush directly into the
jaws of certain destruction. The two new Sen
ators from Minnesota, Just elected, are of the
Douglas school of politicians, and will follow
his lead in opposition to the Lecompton fraud
On the other hand the Southern men who
have heretofore been little backward in the
fight, fearing that the Kansas Constitution would
come here with the Slavery clause out, will now
become active and earnest in the support of the
Administration policy-and the real struggle
will hereafter be carried on with purpose
Southern men are much elated with the Kansas
news-but they give the Administration no
thanks, being satisfied that the President sent
agents to Kansas to induce the people, as mat
ter of policy, to vote down the Slavery article.
The correspondent of the New York Courier
d Enquirer thus agreeably mingles fact and
speculation
j." An agreeable, social, and political ban
quet was given by Francis P. Blair at his resi-
dence of Silver Spring, recently, to Hon. N. P.
Banks, Preston King Judge Trumbull, Senator
Dooiittle of Wisconsin, F. B. Blair, Jr., and
many other prominent members of the Republi-
can party in Congress. Important political
measures are often conceived and arranged al
these festive meetings 1t was at Silver Spring
in the winter and spring of 1885, that the nom.
nation Of Col. Fremont was settled Parties
are forming their plans already for 1860, which
is but two years distant The preliminary
movements of the Republicans are of most pub
lie interest, because they are the party which
. will succeed in 1860. Col. Benton saws tina
the chasm in the Democratic party cannot pos
!, sibly be closed or bridged, and that the Repub
licans can only defeat themselves by gross mis-
takes. The Republican candidate for 1860 will
be taken from the circle of these names Mr.
Seward, Col. Fremont, Gov. Banks, Gov. Chase
9 Gov. Bissell.
Senator Douglas or Gov. Walker will prob
, ably be the candidate of the Barnburners o
Free Soil Democracy and President Buchanan
: VIII necessarily be re-nominated by the Admin
istration party. This latter result will b
, brought about by the smothured rivalry O
Messrs. W Use and Hunter, and the struggles 70
ascendancy between Jefferson Davis and Rober
n Toombs. "
The Washington correspondent of the Ne,
q York Evening Post says;
= "There is Il report, by the way current here
u that Buchanan himself supervised the origins
}. draft of the Lecompton Constitution in Wasl
K ington, whence it was sent to Kansas. [ car
not youch for this, but, if true, it explains h
anxiety to force it down our threats nolcns o,
o lens | am really sorry for the old man s fatu
n ty in taking his position, for he and the who
is South, jeff. Davis and all that 60 with hin
will have to back down, and their humiliatic
.. will only be the more CALLING.
80 Davis is determined to drive Douglas off flo
his popular sovereignty position, and make tt
= contest niger question He hopes thus
RS turn events in way to promote his scheme
r secession and Southern Republic Douglas
S, inclinod to fight shy. He will not accommoda
v his enemies, nor accept any issue except the o.
: he has himself rendered. -