The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-06

CALM consummsted, and that the January free
State vote of 10000 majority against the LIE
comptcn constitution came too late. He also
declares Nat the rebellious policy of the Topeka
marty from .he first. still continues their policy,
in defiance of Jaw and order.
Are not there things sos What if there BIO
majority of ten IN ousand, or fifteen thousand, in
Kansas against tn Lecompton constitution
They have no rigAt to complain, ii they
refused to 20 to she polls on the ap'
pointed day We have now at Albany
State Legislature and board OF state Of
ficers elected by a mir.Ss1 ty vote OF looooo'
if we count the electors not n 'ting last Novem'
Der. But as our popular elections are decided
by those who vote and not by tn. we VINO s'ay al
home, these 100000 voters who de, 'hneo Young
20 for nothing, and all parties are content
Admit that three thousand of the FIVE Inousand
majority for the Lecomption constitution WIN
slavery" in the December election, were ,nc".
tious votes there viii still be majority ,o'
some two thousand good and legal votes e.
stand upon
But all these opposition Outcries Of frauds
and ballot stufing, and election swindles Of all
sorts, levelled at the Lecomption constitution
to prove its illegality, are completely neu
tralized by the factious and rebelllous conduct
of the Topeka party, over. and over again.
Thus the assaults of Senator Wilson and other
antislavery leaders in Congress upon the sd-
ministration and the Lecompton party in Kan
sas, as a party of frauds and fraudulent prac
tees, react against the Topeka disorgauizers
and their partizans at Washington. The plain
truth is, that a few scheming ant-slavery dema-
gogues in Kansas, affiliated with large num-
Der Of more culpable demagogues outside Of
Kansas, have involved the free State party Of
the Territory in the meshes of a slave State
constitution; and the Northern abolition leaders
concerned ia this business never have desired
and do not now desire, the quiet and speedy set
Element of this controversy.
1t becomes the duty of Congress, however, at
this crisis, to dispose of this apple of discord by
the shortest process; and that is the acceptance
of the Lecompton constitution. 1t will leave
the people of Kansas perfectly free to do with
it what they may please. 1t will not make
Kansas a slave State; and yet it will be satisfac
tory to the South, in conceding the mere shadow
Of slavery. On the other hand, Northern and
Southern disorganizers and disunionists alone
are anxious to keep open this dangerous Kansas
excitement, and the rejection of the Lecompton
constitution would instantly bring them into
the foreground. A sectional agitation, sec
tional parties, and sectional discords would fol-
low, which, by the year 1860, would probably
reduce the Presidency to the same disorderly
and revolutionary squabbles of sections and
factious leaders as the border rufian feuds and
fights Of the last four years in Kansas
Let Congress pass the Lecompton constitu-
ton, and the fuss and fury of our sectional de-
magogues and agitators in Kansas and at Wash
ington will soon be silenced, and the country
will have peace.