The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-21
The Lccompton OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Prfu
oipses and Southern Treachery.

For some dayspast the black republican or.
| gans and Washington correspondents have been
| Boosting over the defeat of the Lecompton con.
stitution in the House OF Representatives ~ q
foregone conclusion, fixed fact an inevitable
certainty. They tell us that they are sure OF il
from circumstances, however, which they are
not at liberty to explain. But We are not 50
sure Of It by long shot We are sure Of one
thing, and that is, that If the Lecompton pro-
grsmme BE- defeated In the House il will be by
the treschery Of Southern men to Southern
principles, Southern institutions, and Southern
consistency.
Oflate years new class OF politicians has come
into the foreground in the Southern States
class Of ranting roaring, fire eating, Bonn
bastes Furioso demagogues. Generally they
arc without landed property, without niggers,
and without any fixed or solid interest In the
community; but upon the slightest pretext
affecting the integrity OF Southern institutions.
they are ready to tear the Union to pieces, aud
10 scatter its fragments to the winds. Accord
ing 10 the census Of 1850. there are some
3i7 900 shareholders in the Southern States.
owning each from one to q thousand ne
groes. AS general rule where the hard
master is found among them IL is in the
owner Of one. two or three. or half a dozen
slaves; while, on the other hand. the owner OF
sthousand-like Gov. Aiken. Of South Carolina.
for example-is very apt to be found exercising
over bis large establishment the paternal gov
eminent Of q patriarch. II il also a remarkable
$50 ~ IL n. =
thunder Southern politicians are unsubstsntial
men, or only possessed Of slave property enough
to swear by that the large slsveholders a. o
clsse, are conservative, law abiding and quiet
Union loving citizens
Formerly the interests and the principles Of
this latter class were faithfully represented aud
reflected by their representatives at Washing
ton; but ia these degenerate days this class Of
men has been superseded by the roaring. cla-
morous, inconstant and unreliable demsgogues
VIC have described. We had some evidence Of
this in the tremendous secession fgrorc and seces-
sion conventions which followed the admission
Of California and in the quiet manner in which
all this disuncn fuss and fury were put
down by the solid sensible masses Of the South
ern people. We had a still more striking illus
tration Of the utter recklcssness and demorsli-
zation of these modern Southern politicians in
the campaign Of 1856; but now, upon this Lee
compton constitution, following the most
terrible threats Of secession and disunion
we are admonished to prepare for q specimen OF
Southern qualification, Generalization and
treachery without parallel in the history of
shutting and Juggling politicians
In this work Of party debasement and de-
moralization the Virginia politicians and edi-
tors occupy the front rank. After all their
promises, professions and protestations in re-
gard to this Lecompton constitutional we
may judge from the Significant backing out of
the Richmond Enqur1-their sympthies are
rather with Wise, Douglas, Walker and Seward
than with the administration and the great
principle Of Southern rights involved in the
Kansss i~ue. But what else than bad faith and
treachery could be expected from act Of un-
serupulous politicians and party editors vhose