New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-02

concession in this matter is Lecessary 70 appeaSe
the South and to keep that section from breaking
cut irto open rebellion against the Democratic
party.
Recent experience in the case of Walker and the
ilEbusters is sufficient to show how very little
grounds there are for any apprehensOns OF THIS
sort. The heart of the shareholders appeared 10
be set, and indeed still appears to be set, upon the
acquisition Of Central America through the medium
Of 'flibustering expeditions That acquisition
would be something more, and good deal more
than mere abstraction, mere momentaTy, tecnni-
cal victory. According to The Hera!d's own ac-
count Of the matter the admission of Kansas under
the LecOmpton Constitution would be merely Plae'
ing the South in the awkward and tantaEzing pre-
dioament OF the unlucky young man who receht!
figured in habeas corpus case in this city EVeh
though Congress and Mr.. Buchanan should play
the part between them of the imported clergyman
who in that case lay perdue for several days
to celebrate underhaDd stolen marriage,
yet the upshot Of il all would be, as
The Hrald itself puts the case, that the Lecomp-
ton ConsttutiOn thus slegalized, would prove just as
unavailing to give to the South the possession oil
Kansas as the stolen marriage above referred TO
did to secure TO the unfortunate sutor the person
and property of the girl against whom he had plot
ted. The case, however, of Central America stands
On very different ground. Could the shareholders
contriye by means Of Parson Wslker, TO get up
political marriage in that quarter, they might rea-
sODaby count upon taking something by it, and upon
holding their bride by force and reducing her TO
submission by blows should she attempt to run
away. When Walker was seized by Commodore
Paulding, there was terrible degree of buster
and brayado in the South, among Southern Members
of Congress, evidently with intent to frighten the
President; yet when it was once known that he did
not intend to be frightened, but meant to stand by
the neutrality laws in spirit as well as in letter. how
soon all this buster and bravado died away And
it would be precisely the same in the case of the
Lecompton Constitution Our good friends of the
South are much too conscious of the luxury of the
substantial piece of meat already in their mouths
in the shape of their practical control of Executive
patronage to think Of dropping it for the sake of
mere abstraction and shadow
Neither the President nor the Democratic party
of the North need hope to be able to excuse them
selves for the outrageous anduDprecedentej attempt
to give to small minority of the people of the State
of Kansas the power to govern and egislate for the
great majority, by pretending that they acted under
terror and compulsion. The real difficulty with the
President is-as is proved by his course on the fill
buster question-nOt go much terror of the fire.
eaters as reluctance at acknowledging himself to
have been in the wrong retracng his steps, ceasing
to conspre against the people of Kansas confessing
their right to govern themselves and perhaps in 80
doing coming in conflict with certain private COM
mitments on his part to Southern politicians
Yet, after all, Mr.. Buchanan has no more to do in
this case than he did in the case of the llibusters.
The Ostend manifesto was quite as strong docu-
ment in their favor as anything he has said or done
on behalf of the Lecompton Constitution. AS to
private cOmmittals if illibuster Walker tells the
truth, the President was rs deep in for it in that
~"y the Nicaragua question as he can be on that
OF the Lecompton Constitution. The only real diff
iculty in the Presidents way would seem TO be his
anxiety to make certain vacancies in office, and his
disposition to employ for that purpose the LecOmp-
ton Constitution, just as he lately employed for it
the non support of Mayor Wood