The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-30

men Dy O6IuOHiZluS Otu6IS, SH2li nave
given place to the historian who can dis
Germ principles as well as men, truth as
we'll as fiction. G. ROBINSON.
For tie Herald of Freedom.
Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON CRY, Jan. 20, 1853.
Instead of being able to see clear way
for the settlement of the Kansas imbrog-
lio, every days developments renders it
more complicated. We have now before
Congress five plans for an adjustment of
the troublesome question, and in few
days sixth viii be presented, yet all is
doubt and uncertainty and my humble
opinion is that the sacred number must be
reached and a seventh plan be inaugurated
and urged upon Congress before we can
expect Kansas to be received into the
Union as State. And that plan must
eai'sate from the Legislature and PEOPLE
of Kansas, tobo alone haze the right to make
their Constitution; and, as Mr.. Bigler said
the other day, I understand that under the
as-Nebraska Act, the people of Kan
sas have the right to form government
whenever they please, in whatever mode
they please, and to demand admission into
the Union as State. This view is also
taken by other Senators, and it is certain
ly in accordance with the Organic Act. No
Constitution is legal unless made by the
representatives of the WHOLE people, and
afterwards approved by majority after a
fair submission. This is the only way the
question can be peaceably settled.
General Houston's Bill is the most lib
eral of any before Congress. 1t proposes
the submission of the Topeka and Le-
compton Constitutions to vote of the
people. If both are rejected, he then
proposes new convention to be called to
make a Constitution. He is opposed to
the Lecompton swindle, and in favor Of
the largest liberty to everybody in Kan
sas, popular sovereignty in its widest lat
itude and broadest sense. He says he
will defend his bill at length when the
proper occasion presents itself.
The Washington Union, the official or
gan of the President, speaks of the cleo
ton on the 4th of January, as follows:
at is apparent that the vote for Gov
ernor is nearly full one-that nearly the
whole Free State party came forward and
accepted the Constitution by voting for
State officers, although they doubtless
voted against it during the same day. The
latter uote amounts merely to an instruction
by Mose casting it to the members Of the Leg
islature for sohons they uOted to provide for
holding another Convention, IN order that the
Constitution may be changed. CD
Gov. Packer, of Pennsylvania, in his
inaugural, refers to Kansas. He says he
believes he expresses the sentiments of
the people of his state as well as his own,
in declaring that all qualified electors of
Territories should have full and fair op-
portunity to participate in selecting dele
gates to Constitutional convention, and
also be allowed an unqualified right to
vote upon the Constitution after it is franz
ed.
This week there was a new phase of
the Kansas trouble in the Senate. Here
tofore only Democrats have mixed in the
fight. All the agitation" has been the
production of the most approved Demo-
cratic Senators. Hale, however, on Mon
day, fired the first gun from the Repub-
lican side of the House, and during his
remarks he declared that if the attempt
was persisted in to force the Lecompton
Constitution on the people of Kansas, he
hoped they would fight and resist it even
unto blood and death.
The advertisements for mail routes ii
Kansas papers will not be made until the
Post Office department can have time to
consult the Missouri Senator's" and will
then probably be published in the pro-
slavery papers, which you know have the
least circulation in the Territory. 1t is
shame, that so small a business cannot be
transacted without the assistance of Mis-
sour. But so it is, as was exemplifed on
Monday last when application was made
by citizens of Kansas at the department,
and the above answer was given. "De-
mocracy" must be in straight when, to
save its 'tthroas from being cut" it must
condescend to such "small potatoes" I
trust, however, the day is not distant
when the people will show the Office
holders that they intend to rule.
MILTON.