New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-20

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The statements made in Mr.. Stsntons speech az
to the period at which the Administration Of Gov
ernor Walker first began to receive the cold shou-
der from Mr. Buchanan, imply charge against the
President Of the most grave and serious character
That coldness it seems first began from the moment
that Governor Walker declined to allow himself to
be made party to the fraud attempted to be per-
petrsted by the false returns from Oxford and Nc.
Gee. BY rejecting those false and fraudulent re-
turns Governor Walker took the legislative power
of the Territory out of the hands Of the Border
Rufian usurpers by whom it had been 30 long exer.
oiied and placed it in the hands of those who rep
resented and had been chosen by the people Of
Kansas. No sooner had this change been made than
the President at once withdrew his confidence from
Governor Walker, simultaneously with which he
seems to have entered into secret plot and intrigue
with John Calhoun. the President Of the Lecompton
Convention, for depriyiDg the people Of Kansas of
any benefit from this change in the Territorial Legis
lsture. Whatever unexpected scruples Messrs.
Walker aud Stanton had exhibited at being made
active psricipatOrsin election Frauds John Calhoun.
il was thought, might be relied upon to go any ne
cessary lengths in this matter. The result of this
transfer of the confidence of the Administration
from Walker and Stanton to the new fsvorite,
Cslhoun was the IeoomptOn Schedule. 1t
has been asserted, and the fact seems
very probable, that this schedule WA drafted at
Washington and was forwarded to Kansas for
adoption. Certainly the zeal which Mr.. Buchanan
exhibits in it's behalf could not be greater if he had
been the actual father of it. But whether fAthSr
or only godfather, ceriain IL IL s,.~t Hs D-L~nan
at the same time that he threw Walker and Stanton
overheard, threw overheard along with them, the
instructions which be had given to them when sent
them to Kansas, and the repeated promises made
both through them and directly by himself, that the
State Constitution to be framed by the Lecompton
Convention should be submitted to a fair aud free
vote of the people of Kansas. For that submis.
sion the juggle of the LecOmptOn Schedsle was
now substituted, and the lately elected Territorial
Legislature, representing for the first time the
people of Kansas, was at the same time stripped Of
all power to act, and eHectny nuili6ed by the pro-
vision of the Schedule continuing in force al the
Border. Rufian laws until they should be altered
BY the new State Legislature.
But there still remained one difficulty against
which it was necessary to guard. This Lecompton
Constitution could not eaectually accomplish the
object of continuing the Government Of Kansas
in the hands of the Border Ruffsns unless come
efficient provision was made against the reexhfb
tion of any of those unreasonable and inconyeuient
scruples which had led Walker and Stanton to re-
iect the Oxford and McCee frauds. Besides, the
late Territorial election had in the greater part Of
the counties turned out the late Border Rufiian
county officers and il was to be apprehended that
the new county officers might feel called upon to
prevent fraudulent voting, or might hesitate at
making the necessary false returns. In order.
therefore, to get Md Of any scrpes on the part Of
the existing Territorial authorities, aud in order to
have both returning officers and certifying officers
who could be thoroughly relied upon, the Lecomp.
ton Schedule, with full confidence in John Calhoun
as man up to any emergency, provided that he
John Calhoun should appoint oil the judges Of
Election, and that the returns should be made to
him, and that he should issue the certificates.
The arrangements for securing the continuation
OF the Border R,ian rule thus seemed complete In
fact il has been announced on the authority of John
Calhoun himself that the operation had perfectly
succeeded and that Border. .Rufian majority had
been secured in the State Legislature. How great
then must be the disgust and Indignation Of Presi-
dent Buchanan to find this arrangement on which
he had bestowed so much trouble, on which be had
80 set his heart, in DANCE Of falling through after all
The Judges whom Calhoun appointed for the Dels-
ware Crossing precinct, instead of boldly standing
I'D to the fraud which Jack Henderson had under
taken to perpetsste in their name thereby securing
Border Rufian majority in the Legislature, after
feeble attempt to support that fraud, have. it
would sppesr turned States evidence, and given
testimony which proves JACK Heodersons return
to be forgery. Nor is this all uor the worst. John
Calhoun himself so ii would seem. is beginning to be
troubled with come Of those same scruples about
issuing certificates, based palpsble fraud, which
lost Messrs. Walker and Stanton the favor of Pres
dent buchsi an. This person. who carries in his
Dreeches pocket the future Of the State Of Kansas
under the Lecompton Constitution, has even gone
SO tar as TO give out, in published document
sigped oy his name that il the Delaw are Crossing
Judgesoreak down be shall be obliged to break down
too snd shall feel obliged even at the rsk of tskinz
the State Government out Of the hand, Of ths Border
Rufians, to decline to take upoa his shoulders the
exclusive responsibility for this Delaware Crossing
forgery. II John Calhoun should fall him. to
whom would Mr. Buchassn turu rext' psrhap.
however. after sll-sni such we areinclnsd to sus-
pee. Is the fact-tbese preteldsd scruples On The
past of CS.hgua are Cnil t-cA. vDlsr cSvss Of