New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-12-07

,Icy Of FIRE. Labor !. fairly chargeaoe 10 tnc
Border Ruffisns and their coufederites aid back
err. the National Democracy, whos- official head
and organ il James Buchanan. OF course, he
berstes them "a George H. did our Revolutionary
fathers. Blu, they will outiive all that.
1t is absolutely essential 10 tie working of
our form Of government, says the President
a." that d uajoriry OF iho.e who vote must decide
Z" the result Of An election "-1hit is but part Of
,h. Truth II il esser tai al'o that the election
,hall b, appointed by risbtfli authority, that Il
hsll be frry held sni t,at th- votes by which It's
1eult u decided .tall not be overwhelmingly fraud
u!ebt. The authority Of the Lecompton CoaTen-
ton vas denied on nany gr uIds-ioremost among
them that Of ia call preceding from legislature
conceived snd brought forth in fraud; while there
was every inherent probability thst the child would
/ q lu.t he tie mother.
.. The President say the / compton Convention
provided for the submission Of the Ndr:ry question
"pa vote Of the People That Is not the TACT.
II pro, ded ir the submission of e'Ttatn efdase,
called the Slavery Article, 70 q popular vote ouf'
first. 10 man could vote against that Article WITH
out thereby voting for all the rest of the Consttu
ton: and secondly, Slavery was lesallzed, upheld
perpt tua'ed in Ksn.as b. Whist remained of the
Constitution Lad that article been voted down. In
Ilain words, the pretensc Of submitting the qaes-
SION Of Slavery was juggle and cheat. lle
Free State men refused 10 walk into this trap-noI,
SIS the President lioelou.y asserts, becsuse they
"pr, ferred that Slavery hould continue, bu. be-
cause they would have been committed to that
Constitution by voting either way on the Slavery
Article, aid could not thereby have got lid OF
| Slavery.
10. Tie President asserts that tie qu1s. State
! Election Of January last "was warmly contested
! by "the two political parties in Kansas This Is
not 20. y very lsrge-we think the larger-por-
ton OF the Prostate party utterly refused to
/ vote in that Election. The contest was between
! the anti Topeka Frce-State men and the Pro-
slavery party largely reinforced, "a usual, BY
| their Missouri allies The result of this contest
not one -half Of the Pro. Slavery vote ha7ing been
cast By residents Of Kansa--was long held in
doubt by Mr.. John Calhoun, Precedent Of the LIE
con pton Convention, who refused to declare the
result until driven to d. so by party exegency,
| in order to get Leconpton through Congress
Had the Free.State men polled four-fiitns Of the
yctes, they had no that their candidates
would have been declared elected.
II. Mr.. Bu.hanan asserts that. had Congress
admitted Kansas as Save State under the LecOmp
ion Constitution, the Legislature Chen 10 John
| CaIhouns breeches pocket would have been Free
Slat-, and might have initiated measures calcu-
lated TO transform her into Free State. But, in
tie fret place, nobody wac or could BIZ assured
that Cslhoun would return a Prostate majority
in the Legislature; secondly, there great doubt
| Of TIE power Of that Legislature or of the People
under il. 70 bring about change IN the Constitd-
tion prior 10 lets; and thirdly ii is always dubious
pocy 10 undertake to beat kniyes with dice which
We know they have loaded. The straightforward,
| honest way is To refuse to have anything to do
with them. That was the course pursued by the
People Of Ksneas, and it has come out right. The
o.ber might have had such an Issue, but We do not
believe IT. and they did wisely in not trying it.
- Mr. Buchanan says he "sabmiaed" the Le-
compton Constitution "to Congress" lie is too
modest here by half He did not really " submit
it 10 Congress; he undertook to force it through
Congress BY denuucatlons, BY prescriptions, BY
most unworthy use of his patronage and power.
Nobody objected to his submitting Lecompton to
Congress, but bis attempt to bully it through Con-
qress was atIocious. He thereby wasted the SEES
sion exasperated the Country, and distracted and
demoralzed bis party. II he is satisfied with the
reirosI ect, We shall not complain of il.
Is. Mr.. Buchanan pleads that he was not a. liberty
to treat the action of the Lecompton Convention a.
anuty. Here is where great many Of Us had the
advantage. Elected as be was by the upholders Of
the Border Ruffan usurpation, there was, no
doubt, stslnt ofthls original sin in his position. But
three-fourth. of the American People, who hsbitu-
ally read, with nearly every citizen of Kansas,
knew that this LecOmpton business was fraud
from the egg, aud that it had no more validity than
a counterfeit bank note. Thus they treated it;
and thus they still regard it.
II. PRACTICABLE Mr. Buchanan Gays, the only
question was whether Territory should first come
into the Union and then change her Constitution,
or stay ont until her Constitution had been made
acceptable. O no, Mr.. President The vital
question wa--Shsll Congress force State into the
Union sganst her will Shall it impose on her
= Constitution which her peope-no mstter for
what cause-repudiate and abhorl Shall her own
solemn and overwhelming rejection Of taat Consti-
sitution at an election ordered by her Legislature
mot the Topeka Legislature, Mr.. President, but
that which even you recognize as authorative), be
treated BY Congress Of no consequence or effect
Here was proposition, which struck az the root