New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-12

| thus vtjeot the Lecompton abomiuation (ss every
body knows they Indignantly and overwhelmingly
will, then fresh Convention is to be chosen, a
new Constitution framed, which Constitution, hav-
ing been submitted to and accepted by the People,
shall be officially communicated to the President OF
the United State,. who shall BY proclamation pro-
noupce KArsas State OF the Union, admitted BY
virtue Of this act and her own proceedings under It,
Here, then, are the two propositions in essence,
as they now stand in Congress and before the coun-
| try: The Senate proposing to pull Kansas into the
| Unen urder the fraudulenty concocted Lecompton
| Slave Constitution; the House insisting that said
Constitution shall fret be submitted to her People;
and, if not ratified, that they shall be fully author
ized and empowered to make another and be admit
| ted under it, as the Kansss-Nebraska act and the
| Cincinnati Platform professed to guarantee.
The Senate has rejected the House amendment;
the House has voted TO ADHERE to il, cutting of
| an propositions of compromise from that side. If
the Senate ALEC adheres, if nothing further is
done in the premises, the whole project is stone
dead, and Congress will soon be called to pass upon
real application from Kansas for admission under
Free-State Constitution framed BY delegates
actually representing her People, which Constsu-
ton will have been submitted 10 and ratified by
them, and presented to the House by their Dele
gate in Congress.
This is q dilemma which the hackers of Lee
compton must avoid at all hazards. Naughty abrupt
and defiant as was their rejection OF the House
amendment, they find that, since the House can
neither be bought nor buled, they must cen
back out of their disagreement or do worse. But
it would be too mertifying to accept the House
amendment precisely as it stands after having de-
noUnced and rejected it as absurd outrageous, IN
constitutional. Hence an effort is to be made TO-
morrow in the Senate to concur Nth an amendment,
which amendment shall provide in effect that if the
People of Kansas shsll reject the Lecompton Con-
stitution and shall fame another that new Consti
tuton shsll be submitted toand ratified by Congress
before Kansas shall be regarded as State in the
Union.
1t is manifest objection TO this device that it
will serve, if successful, to prOtract and wredraw
this Kansas feud, when everybody processes to be,
and nine tenths of the American People sincerely
are anxious to close it up and have done with it.
All do know that there is excuse for carrying it
over even into another month. The contest has
been fought out in Kansas and Slavery has lost it.
In law, according to President Buchanan, Regent
Calhoun the bred Scott decision, and the Senate
bill, Kansas is Slave Territory asking to be ad-
mitted as Slave State; but in fac. and right, she
is no more SO than Vermont or Massachusetts,
Her People are at leaet three to one Auti-Slavcry
and very much in earnest; her few shareholders
are either leaving altogether or sending of their
human chattes. Congress, the Executive, the
Supreme Court and the Federal Army may make
shayehOldng in Kansas legal after fashion; but
all of them united cannot make her really and
heartily Slave State. And, since that game is
blocked, the simplest, easiest wsest course for
those who have been engaged in it would De to back
square out, let the Lecompton bill fall dead, and
admit her under the Free Constitution just framed
at Leavenworth, precisely as Minnesota, despite
some irregularities in her organization, has just
been admitted by the Senate and soon will be by
the House.
Human pride however, revOts at whatever
seems frank confession of past wrong. There
must be protocols, caveats, and all manner OF Del
phs utterances to cover the interesting but not
delightful process known as backing down." A
retreat even though precipitste, must be made to
wear the scmbance, if not of an advance, at least
of flank movement if possible. Hence the
rulers Of the Senate, lately so anxious in profession
for an immediate and final settlement of the Kansas
difficulty, are now in asserting to the programme
of the House, to impO'e new condition which
postpones for months the close of Thu Kansas con-
troversy and may even throw it over to another
session.
The leading obiectOr to the House proposition
lie My. Senator Pugh of Ohio, who voted against
Lecompton under express and peremptory instruc-
tons from the Democratic Legislature of his State
but whc has lsbored throughout to overbalance his
constrained vote by the zeal and activity wherewth
he pettifogs the case of the usurpation against
which on direct issue, his vote is recorded.
But, IN the return of the Senate bill amended by
the House, he opposed and denounced the amend
ment, voting as well speaking against it, as un-
constitutional and every way atr0cious. His main
ground of ohiecion-and it is that which it is
now proposed to base further resistance by the
Senate to the House amendment-was its allowing
Kansas to come into the Union, under her prospec
tive new Constitution, without further action on
the part of Congress. Yet barely two days before,
when the admission Of Minnesota was under con-
sideratioD, Mr.. Pugh spoke as follows:
Mr. PUGH The question debated in the Committee
the Judiciary 90 know that we arrived at dehuite CON
clusion Oh know OF onmoh-hat
was my 81 b C.miehat Maneso:a wa. State bat not
IN the I1Ou