New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-09
THE NEW KANSAS PLOT.

lision aud contention with respect to Kansas. They
have already had enough of this to surfeit the
most Unsuitable, ard the bare suggestion Of another
Kansas strife is enough to set their teeth on edge.
'Tske any form but that" is their ready ad-
duration to the genius of faction and discord now
rampant in Educational couucils.
So with the people OF Kansas. For three years
from the date of the passage Of the Ne
braska-Kansas bill, their Territory was the
arena Of desperate struggle. Hundreds of
them were driven from their houses in the
dead of night, to shelter their children as they
best might on the cold, damp prairie, while
their habitatious were sacked and burned by in
yadipg guerrillas. Many have been called to mourn
dear friends barbarously butchered and little ones
who died from exposure and privatiOn. Her chief
inland city, Lawrence, was repeatedly beleaguered
and once sucked when it's printing offices were de-
stroyed, its great hotel battered down, and the
residence of the chosen Governor of Kansas
laid in ashes. LeavenwOrth was once, by
Missouri raid, swept clean Of known Free
State men-most Of them sent down the river
at an hours nOtice-one Of them, William
Phillips, who refused to go, being shot dead
while defending bis own house. Osawatomle
was twice rsvaged; and nearly every Free-State
settlement within a days march of the Missouri
border was in its turn hafried and plundered.
When the war was finally ended by the cessation of
Missouri raids, whether to rayage settlements or
stuff ballot boxes it is moderate estimate that the
average loss to the settlers from those raids was not
less than years labor each, with at least one hun
dred lives.
All this is now happily ended The Pro-
Slavery faction have been beaten in every way
in settling, in fighting, and in voting The
close proximity of the most intensely Pro-
Slavery section of Missouri, whence thousands were
from time to time pushed across the border to raw
age vote, or fight, as the exigences Of the case
might suggest, was great advantage, but it has
been overcome. The patronage and support OF the
Federal Administration was another heavy make.
weights but it did not suffice. The infamous Lee
compton Constitution has been buried out of sight
and scent, amid the acclamations of an all but
unanimous people. There is now Democratic
party in Kansas but that party, in its first distnc-
tive Convention, resolved that the Slavery question
was settled-that Kansas must be Free State. A
Constitutional Convention, duly called by the Ter
ritoral Legislature with the approval of the Fed
eral Governor, has been chosen aud held, and
Constitution thereby framed, which the People have
ratified by decided vote. They have thereupon
proceeded to choose q Governor and other State
Officers, State Judiciary and Legislature, which
only await the sanction of Congress to proceed
severaly to the discharge of the duties which the
People have assigned them. A single week should
suffice to initiate Kansas into this great family of
States, thenceforth to pursue her course of peace
full growth and development.
But there are omens of further trouble which we
cannot disregard. Let us briefly reproduce them:
The President, who deluged Congress with mis-
statements and sophistry>in urgent advocacy of the
Lecompton infsmy, says not one word in favor of
her admission under the Constitution Of her choice
His Annual Message studiously ignores the subject
The personal urgency of her representative that
he should submit her Constitution to Congress
has been met by verbal evasion and practical ne
gaton.
The air of Washington is thick with ruinors of a
Pro Slavery plot to stsye off her Admission by pro-
posing change Of boundaries. And howl
OLe scheme in agitation proposes to extend Kan
sss othwardy so as to embrace all that portion of
Nebraska Territory which lies south Of the river
Platte 1t is sufficient objection to hsprojec that
it was before the recent Constitutional Convention
of Kansas, and YVES deliberately rejected thereby,
Aud we know that the Democrats used the fact that
certain Republicans favored, or were supposed to
favor, this Annexation, an electoneering weapon
in the canvass for delegates to that Constitutional
Convention. Manifesty, if the Convention had in
GUIDED that portion Of Nebraska within their pro-
posed boundaries of the State Of Kanfas, such in
cIusion would have been made the ground Of Demo.
cratic resistance in Congress to her Admission.
Another project fer stayilg off the Admission is
holder and more Hagrant. 1t proposes, in brief, an
extension of the new State five or six hundred miles
further westward, SO as TO take in the Denver Gold
Rog'on Let us lock at this:
Should this alteration be dictated and enforced
by Congress, the State of Kansas will DO nearly
one thousand miles long by about two hundred
wide. 1t will consist of two widely separated and
utterly diverse cOmmuntes-one Of them Agri-
cultural the other Mining; with three or four hun
dred miles Of treeless and almost wateress desert
interposed between them. If these two communi-
ties should DO welded into Ole State, its capital
would naturally be located somewhere about the
forks Of the Republican, two hundred miles from
ANY house or cultivated field, aid where there is
not within hundred miles wood CROUCH to build
village. The stations on the original (but
speedily abandoaed) route Of tho Pixies Peak