Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-11
WASIIINGT TON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


WASIIINGT TON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
kASsAs.-Wet take pen in hand at this time
Saturday night-to write our impressions upon
the tendency Of affairs i'm Kansas, as seen
through latest authentic accounts from the Ter
ritory. Our belief is that the imbroglio is over
The great majority of the non-slavcholding-
State party voted, we have every reason to be-
heve, on the 4th instant; thereby acknowledge
ing the validity Of the Lecompton Constitution,
and endorsing the propriety of the admission of
Kansas into the Union upon it. Lane and his
followers, it is true, are still the opponents of
that policy. But they amount to a very small
traction Of the population, indeed To 50 small
proportion as that their opposition cannot
possibly be of any avail. We know we'll from
information in which we confde, that at least
nine-tenths of the voters Of the Territory must
nave participated in the election of the 4th,
at''aer tire provisions arranged By TIE Lecomp-
ton Contention. This fact sweeps from under
the feet OF the opposition outside of Kansas all
honest pretence, too, for further demurring to
the admission of the Territory into the Union
under the Lecompton Constitution. 1t DESTROYS
all chance Of the success of the plans of the Re-
publican party to keep alive the Kansas issue
for ISoO, as well as those of the nominal Demo-
Gratis who have of late deserted their party on
this great and really only issue between the
parties OF the country. Tho free-or, as we
should term them, non-slaveholding-State-
party OF Kansas thus endorse the propriety of
the prompt transfer of all the Kansas issues TO
the people OF the Territory alone; which is the
Poucy OF the present Administration, as well as
vi tne southern Democracy Who of the North
can longer reasonably hold out against the wis
dom OF the Kansas views of President Buchanan
SIX months ago the Washington Star was in
dustriOusly engaged in efforts to make its South.
ern friends comprehend that the line of policy
OF the President, in this connection, simply
meant, not hostility to the South as was per-
eistentiy alleged, but rigid adherence to the
principle of the Kansas N ebraska act, as in
terpreted IN the platform adopted by the Gin
clnnati Democratic National Convention. That
was all the sober-minded of the South de-
manded- The crazy people of the South and
those there who seek to make agitation on the
slavery question a trade for their personal ad-
VaIcement, asked more and though few of
them have dared to attack the President and
his administration, they have kept up a run
ming IRE upon all who were conspicuous in their
support OF the cause of the Democracy from
that time to the present moment. All others
OF the South Of all parties from that time to
this, have been gradually coming to appreciate
the fact, that in the success of the present Ma
tonal Administration is locked up the perma-
nency OF the American Union, because its poll
cy Is founded on rigid adherence to the prin-
clpie OF non-interference Of the General Coy
eminent upon the slavery question. to the
extent OF defending the weaker section against
aggressions Of the stronger wherever that NAV
De necessary to the vindication of the true
principle Of the Constitution of the United
States as enforced in the Virginia and Ken
lucky resolves of I79S-'99.
mat struggle has been Of short duration.
notwithstanding the labors of those there who
desired to make an opposition party inside of
the Democratic organization, for the sake of
the LEGAL profits of opposition alone
subsequently a Democratic opposition has
grown up in the Democratic party of the North
for similar end precisely 1t meant nothing
more nor less than to oppose the policy of the
PRESIDENT and the Democracy for what might
De made by that course locally. The determi.
nation Of the free State party of Kansas. or
TIE vast majority Of it, to vote on the 18th inst.
has kicked over their bucket of milk, LEAVING
those who have essaycd to make personal capi
tai at the expense Of Democratic principles in
very deplorsble position, indeed. They are
TO be pitied-ifeyer politicians were so situated.
The upshot Of the whole Kansas imbrogIio ia
that those IN all sections Of the country who
essayed To make personal capital out of it,
North and South, have been most woefuIly dis
apPointed-have burnt their fingers While
Inc PRESIDENT and his Administration by their
foresight hrmness and energy in the premises
have satisfied the whole country that they are
guided and governed by an abiding patriotism
and sagaeity in the conduct of American N, hl;c
anaifs that are not only to result in the harmo-
NOUS settlement OF the momentous Kansas is
susS OUT " advance the glory and intersBs Of
our common country lmmeasurabIy in the fu-
ture conduct Of American public affairs. as in
Volved in our relations especially with Contra,
America.
SOBER SECOND THoUGHT WoRKryG.-No
other engine to affect the popular mind Of the
civilized world has done as much to generate
the insanity upon the subject of African slavery
with which the so-called philanthropist of VA.
rious enlightened nations have been afflicted of
late years, as the London Timss. That Jour.
nal has been almost up to the present moment
the leading patron and director of the anti
African-slayery crusade in both hemispheres
IL L. In truth, responsible for much of the
great sacrifices Of property and civilization
which England has encountered in the last
twenty hive years in the West Indies. al we'll
for uch of he Haor