Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-30
IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS.
LAWRENCE, K. T., Jan. goth, 1858.

LAWRENCE, K. T., Jan. goth, 1858.
The s'capital" seems to be almost Deserted
Calhoun and Cato have left, and it is currently
reported that they have gone to Washington
incog. to consult the administration before Civ
ing certificates of election to the free state candi
dates under the Lecompton constitution. An
attachment was served upon Calhoun, before
leaving, to appear in this place as. evidence in
the case of Henderson, who is still in the GUS
tody ofthe sheriff of Douglas county; butln.
stead of coming to Lawrence he has gone to
Missouri or Washington. Gen. Lacey, of Lea
venworth, is in pursuit of his regency and will
bring him here fhe cnn be found by going to
the white house at Washington Henderson is
guilty ofthe charge preferred, to wit; adding
three or four hundred names to the poll list
while conveying itfrom the election precinct to
Lecompton; aud ought to be hung, butI Sus.
poet there will be too much of desire on the
part of the free state men to return good for
eviln to do anything so rash as that would be.
The great trouble withsthe free state party in
the past has been that they have permitted
these vile wretches to go unhung when in their
power to make an example of them. If ever man
deserved hanging in Kansas, John d. Henderson
deserves it. But Calhoun has suppressed the
returns and left; consequently Jack" will go
free. Sheriff Jones has left Lecompton to await
further orders from the seat of government, and
will undoubtedly get some important Office from
the administration. e
Lie Legislature Is repeating ana passing laws
Among the most important passed to-day is one
0bolishing slavery in this territory, copy Of
which 1 herewith transmit Acting Governor
Denver is here, but unable to get his admins
tration measure through. The people have de-
cided not to memorabilia Congress for an ena-
bling act, but to pass enabling act and frame
a constitution, which willbe the Topeka consti
tut on, and let them accept or reject 1t. The
Topeka government is bound to be the govern
ment in the end. am Informed thata petition
will be sent to Congress, signed by the officers
under the state constitution framed at Lecomp-
ton, asking them to reject that constitution
The oath to be taken under the above mention
ed swindle will be very injurious to free state
sentiments, and will be likely to impair the
health of some officers, should they be required
to swallow it. 1t is hoped the administration
will consider and not force them to such acts. =
NO Democrat. -. -sLEk
The Future of Douglas.-wi what Party
will he go2
@ from the New York Postl 49,
Senator Douglas stands free to take either
course. He is as yet in still water, with a per-
feet freedom of election to serve either master.
If he goes with the North his must go great
deal further than he has gone, before he can
find rest. If he goes with the South, he has
many steps to retrace Whichever path he
takes he will have many things to be forgiven
by his new allies, and he will find in either
party many competitors for the prize upon
which his eye is fixed, who will watch his pro
gress with envy and distrust. The material
wealth, the numerical strength, and the intel
ectual activity of the free States preponderate
in the Confederacy. They must sooner or later
have the government, but they are not united
under an organization sufficiently compact to
resist the penetrating assaults of the slavery
phalanX; and if they were, they have other
presidential timber, of an earlier growth and OF
larger size than he could hope to measure in
many years. On the other hand the South
has been promised the next candidate for the
Presidency, and il is had not tecn, there is no
prospect of the Administration party being
able to succeed with any candidate upon the
policy 1t is now striving to impose upon the
country. Ii tho country were to be- polled to-
morrow upon the Presidents Kansas policy,
it would be far more likely not to receive the
support of all the slave states than to receive
the support any single one of the free states.
From such party Mr.. Douglas would hardly
desire nomination, if he could get one nor
could he get ono If there was any possibility Of
elccting n man with what is called, III the ter.
anthology of politics, "a clean record Mr..
Douglas doubtless made up his mind before
separating from the Administration, that there
was no possibility of electing such person,
aud that the choice the Charleston Gonvcn-
tion would be some man, if any could be found,
who could bring with him three or four free
states. That, he knows, no southern man can
do, and if any northern man with southern prin-
ciples can do it, he has good reasons for belev.
ing himself to be that man. 1t remains for the
chapter of accidents to determine whether, by
proving himself the most conservative and liber-
al candidate Of the pro-slayery party, he will
succeed in detaching three or four northern
( States-Inois, Indiana. and Pennsylvania for
| example--frOm the Republicans, aud with them,
defy all competition for the nomination. 1t is
for the chapter ofaccidents to determie whether
he can go far enough for such result without
going too far, and whether it will be practicable
Tor him thus to hold with the South while run
ling with the North. He has willy adversaries
md rivals, who will not allow him 10 occupy
such an indefinite position between the two
great parties the country ifthey can help it,
and he wilrequire all the art of which he is
master to avoid being driven within the lines
ofone or the other great parties, either as a
captive or an ally.
BACON AND GREENS.
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