New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-05

| The journals in the interest of Buchanan and
Lecompton are eIultingy proclaiming that the anti
Lecomptcn Members Of Congress have conceded
the main ground Of dispute between them and thei
opponents in adopting the Montgomery
substitute, and thereupon agreeing to the bill
The Herald and its confederates ring the changer
on this assertion from day to day.
Well, gentlemen we call you to witness that
the anti-LecOmpton side Of Congress has conceded
all that can reasonably be required of them, your
selves being judges. The last House Of Repre-
sentatives voted, twenty months ago, to admit
Kansas into tie Union under the Topeka Constitu-
tioD; but the Senate emphatically refused. Had
the Senate then concurred with the House, "beed-
ing Kansas" would have ceased to bleed eighteen
months ago, and all would long since have been
peace aud progress in that quarter. Now your
side in turn present bill for her admission
and we accept it with the single condition that
The People of Kansas at an election 10 be held so
soon as may BE- Under the auspices and control Of
the Presidents GorernOr and Secretary on tie one
hand, and the President Of he Territorial Council
and Speaker Of the House the other, shall rdti!fy
The Constitution yOn ndorse; if not, they shall pro-
ceed forth,ciM to make ne,c one, under ,cheh they
shall be admitted rithOu further action Of Congress.
the Senate has just flung back; this is all the re-
naming ground of strife. We take your LecOmp-
ton Constitution, eternal Slavery and all, pro-
rided the People Of Kansas do not see fit
to reject it and form nep one instead
You Say they are tired of agitation: we admit it.
You say the Country weary of this strife: 80 be
it You say you wish to localize this Kansas feud
and take it out of Congress: we are with you there
again. You say the People of Kansas are resigned
to the Lecompton instrument, and prefer to ratify
it rather than plunge into further sea of agitation
We saV. Then they will so vote and end the cOntro-
versy as you wish. We ask only that they be
allowed to decide this matter for themselves. If
you are right as to their disposition you have only
to accept the Crttenden substitute, and all is set
tied as you would have it. Aud if you are not
right on the question of fact-f the People OF
Kansas do intensely hate and abhor that Lecomp'
ton Constitution as the offspring of fraud and iu-
posture the contamination of long series of out.
RACES and yillainies to which they have been
suhected-by Whist right, on what prete1t, will you
force it upon them
The issue is clearly made up between Popular
Sovereignty and Federal jugation-between q
Constitution made for Kansas by her own People
and one thrust upon them by Missouri invasion,
mmeasurable bsllot-stufing, directory copying aud
return-forgipg. The House cannot recede-if il
has already given up nearly all that is in dispute
who can ask it to 90 further! If those who are
opposed to any more Slave States can take the
Crttenden substitute, who can press them to dc
more1 You say, gentlemen from the South that
YOU don't expect to make Kansas a Slave State
YOU are only struggling for the abstract principle
that new Slave State may come into the Union,
provided there shall be one wanting to come in.
Have you not your abstraction in the CritteDden
bill Then why not accept it and let Kansas cease
to be a source of National agitation Why not
settle the question now