The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-27
The Approaching Conclusion OF the Kansas
Comedy.

We have had our apprehensions that the
Kansas drama might possibly terminate in a
fearful tragedy, involving pro-slavery and no
slavery border rufhans, inside aud outside Of
Kansas, in general row. But all such fears
We now fling to the winds.
AS the Washington Union declared some
three months ago, we may now confidently as
sert that "the dead point Of danger is passed.
The infantry. artillery and dragons which
have been required for three long years in Kan
sas to enforce the doctrine Of popular sove-
reigniy,' may now be started off in pursuit of
Brigham Young and the popular sovereignty"
saints of Utah, as soon rs there is grass on the
plains for the borses and cattle. In spite of all
the border ruffans, all the Presidential disor-
ganizers, all the sectional thinkers Of the niger
question, from Lecompton TO Chicago, aud
from New York 10 New Orleans, this Kansas
imbroglio has substantially worked out its own
solution. The result has exceeded our happiest
anticipatons, for il comes before us in the shape
of compromise the most beautiful inthe world.
Look at it.
The Southern ire-eaters have threatened TO
break down the administration, to break up
the democratic party, and to blow up
the Union II Kansas should not be adj
mitied as o slave State. The Northern
free dirt agitators have threatened the same
terrible evils unless Kansas shall be admitted
as a free State. And such was the drift of the
KansasNebraska bill that both sections had a
right TO Kansas. So, then, the case has worked
itself out to charm; for, under the Lecompton
constitution Kansas will be admitted as slave
State and as free State, with slavery and
without slavery" The Lecompton constitu-
ton makes il a slave State. and the Lecompion
schedule makes IL free State for the Legisla.
tnre. State officers and Congressman elected
under the schedule are all Of the free State
party Human wisdom could never have in
vented a better compromise than this. the Pro-
vidential result Of budget Of blunders and
cross purposes Of border rufians and dema-
gogues.
We regard Il as an idle rumor that Mr. John
Calhoun will have made up new book Of cleo
;iou returns on bis way 20 Washington; for
1rea; as are the resources Of Kickapoo Oxford
and the Delaware Crossing, we suppose they
were fairly exhausted before he left Lecompton
We presume, therefore. that Congress will ac-
cept the vote of the 2lst December as the lie.
climate ratification of the constitution with
slavery" and the free State Legislature as the
regular organization of the State without
slavery" Could anything be fairer than this TO
the North or the SOUTH We think not. All
that the South have contended for is the i'm
portant abstraction" of slavery. Southern
distractions are all that the South have ever
demanded. And here they have their abstrac-
ton in its full South Carolina proportions in
the Kansas constitution with slavery" On
the other hand, the North has never cared for
distractions, so that Il has secured the sub
stance. And here the substance is secured to
the North in the complete organization Of Kan
sas, under the auspices of John Calhoun him
self, as free State. Let General Jim Lane
hang up his fiddle and let Greeley wipe his
eyes, blow his nose, and smile upon the world
once more.
Why should the republican leaders hesitate TO
clinch the bargain. Will not the mere abstrac-
ton Of slavery in the Lecompton constitution
give them little capital 10 work upon TO prove
The iniquity Of Douglas, and the perfdy of the
democracy in the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise? To lac sure il will. On the contrary.
will not the rejection OF the Lecompton consti-
tuition lead TO The adoption Of free State con
stitution under the auspices of the admnstra-
ton? Undoubtedly. Where, men, will be the
anti-slavery clamor against The administration?
Gone. In this view we are rather inclined to
think that the republicans will LEI the Lecomp.