The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1858, Page 2

2 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1858. pel ‘The troops remaining faithful are believed to be re- iable. ‘Troops for the government have arrived in the city this Morning from Toluca and Puebla, The number of these troops we do not exactly know, Gov. Arteaga, of Quere- taro, had arrived at and passed Arroyozarco, with the | ‘Vanguard of troops from the interior. This force numbers 2,600 men. It is reported that President Comonfort purposes asking the foreigners to form a legion for the protection of foreiga roperty in the event of more desperate. Thu Osollo entered the city with a small force Vis arrival was announced by a general jubilee of the | ells. He atonce arranged hii under the banner of he prommnciados. | Same aay the unciados closed all kinds of business | athe Callé Sam Augustin. Among other noble feats of ee nap Benge bd a temporary, the Heraldo. Tho type were F form broken nap, and books, manuscripts, &., weattered jestroyed. On Friday morning as Mr. Torres, editor of the Monitor, musk — of to-morrow. ‘on the evening of to- . ‘Notwithstanding the pending armistice gents or revolters (pronuciados) marched Of St. Joseph and proceeded along Reheldes street, as | as the corner of the street of San Treseten ’ They ‘Was passing near the Convent of San Augustin, be w: fires rns Se times, informed that he gall done on euber side. ¢ on either side. ‘Agentieman of our acquaintance, who was moved by curiosity to speak with an officer al one of the disaffected oats, aller listening for some time to his dissertation upoo wrongs the country was sutfering, &c., asked him ab- Fuptly :— “Weil, my friend, what are you doing here?” “sir,” says he, “we are fighting for—,” and here the fellow broke down. He had not been informed by Dio teedera whet object exactly was in view. But looking wisely at our friend, he eard— “We are fighting for——we are fighting—for opinion! (the opinion.) Ap attempt was made on Friday to enter the house of aforegner by a detachment of one of the aanniog 5 forces. The foreigner resisted, and successfully carri his point by threatening to fire on them if they did not emit The most melancholy sight to our minds is the depiora- ble apathy that pervades the great bulk of the native Mexican inhabitants of this capital. During the heat of the firing on Friday the saloons, cafi rotected balco- niet and the shady sides of the streets, were crowded with well dreased and gentlemanly looking men, who whiffed their cigarets and dealt in such topics of conversation as ‘were most interesting. But few manifested any great in- terest, except what might be prompted by fear or curiosi ty. The number of gentee! looking people who appeared to take @ real interest in what was trauspiring was really very emall TWENTY FOUR HOURS’ TRUCE PROCLAIMED. (Correspondence of the N. O, Picayune. Crry oF Mexico, Jan. 18, 1858, The uncertainty of an extraordinary leaving here to- morrow morning at 9 o'clock, induces me to drop you & line by @ special opportunity affurded by the diligence at 4 o'clock of this morning. Enclosed you will find strips from the Ezraordinary, giving the news up toan early hour yesterday morning. Since that time the conditions of an armistice have been published. The armistice is to extend until 7 P. M. to day. One of the conditions is that no new works shall be made by either party during the armistice. This, of course, is Do more than A stroke of Mexican dyplomacy, for it is well known to me that at the hour I write (13 o'clock A. M.), both parties are at work buildivg barricades, endeavoring to bribe the soldiers of the opposite party, &c The opposing = hai a conference to-day, through their leaders. The Comonfort (now Puro) party proposed to the junciados that their lives should be spared if they “would lay down their arms and the leaders seree to go into exile. On the other hand, by way of bringing things to a settlement, the ’San- tanictas proposed to the Puros_that they would forego the anticipated pleasure of haoging them, the Puros, if bey would surrender their forces to them and the Puro leaders agree to go in search of knowledge in other coun- tries. You will, therefore, perceive the end has not come yet. ‘There is to be anoiher conference to-day, but I have no idea anything definite will be arrived at, and, therefore, tweoty-tovr hours hene> we may expect to hear the air hissing with passing balls. From what! learn from the interior, the current re ports are by no means reliable as to the forces reported to be marching upon capital. The Santauistas say there is not a mad on the road from any place interior to uros. According ty the repors, Gov. Artea It is iy doubtful in my mind if he come. The condition of affairs in this capital, as you may con ceive. is most deporable. Everything like business is closed up. There is nothing doing except building barri- tades. These are in every street and gnns are planted, in preparation for the ending of the armistice. What do you unso cuted, balf grown democrats in the United States think of the etyle we have adopted here to exprets our opinions’ Really the United States must do something for or with Mexco, The United States bas interests here in com Merce, your government bas manifested its desire to have more W do with Mexico; but how can you expect your commerce to grow , with this most gifted country on Go t's footstool, if you do not protect those who have been Tobbeo , murcered or insultea? Theré can be no question but Mexico is now rapidly Teaching a point when foreign nations will be forced to step in and protect the interests of their subjects. It isa melancholy confession to make, but if foreign influence does not soon show itself here, in some shape, the condi. tion will be awful. Besides the civil war there is little more. Mr. Moran, editor of the Aztraordinary, was, a few days since, dircharged from the prosecution against him, by Gov Zomoras, of Zacatecas. ‘AS You Will Kee, one of the newspapers offices (the He- raido) has been broken up by the propnaciados. {From the New Orleans Beo, Jan. 25.) Mexico is in @ ——— state of anarchy, and disorder prevails throughout country, Almost’all the mail tages to and from Vera Cruz and the capital have been robbed Don Pantaloon Barrera, Governor of Yucatan, resigned in favor of Gen. D. Martin a whereupon the be- siegers and besieged, in and out of Gampeachy, ceased to fre upon one another, and my | mutual friendship. The Legislature of Vera Cruz published a manifesto, at the close of their session, explanatory of the stand they had taken against Comonfort. Every State and almost every town was pronounciug ‘against the Dictator and the plan ef Tacubaya. PLAN OF SALVATION, PROCLAIMED BY THE PEOPLE AND ARMY OF THE RE- PUBLIC FORITS PRAISEWORTHY REGENERATION. Considering, That the actual rulers have been faithless to all their obligations since they commenced their ill starred administration, inculcating contra tict ory ples, and arrogating to themselves power that the: Bever hold under the most arbitrary and despotic system; ‘That in establishing a dictatorship without limits they have attacked every individual! right—imprisoning and condewning to ball wad cain persons wearing orders of Merit aud worthy of esteem im society, presenting them to the pulgic with the ignoble purpose of demeaning and degrading them—but without attaining any other end thay that of making their viotims martyrs, who excite the sympathy of and even of the’ press of every ‘Opinion, to w degree that shamed their executioner, and forced him to confess officially that the responsibility of so cruel ab act was not his, but of the hero of Acapule that bas exiled persons of all classes without trial, an without consideration for thelr standing in society, That they bave made the people bear ali kinds of burdens, exacting onerous contribut embargoes and conser y dragging the citizens to serve in thearmy and nanhood and mivery. That lating consciepce, outraging g most cruelly and indecently pisters of the Tha! they have mace laws and decrees for the rpolia tion of the property of civil and ecclesiastical corpora: tions, delivering them into the hands of rapacious and cor Tupt speculators foat they have, on the other hand, viewed with the most criminal aud depraved indifference the immoral pro. ductions of the prese granting protection to all who have Attacked religion and good morals in the most insidious and perverse way Considering, lastly, that the actual situation of the coun try in every branch of ite public administration is most deplorable, for the Treasury is exhausted, notwithstanding the mendicity to which the subordinate classes and public servants are reduced by the pilfering and malversation Of the national wealth, that tne army aod navy are broken Up and demoralized oy the neglect and contempt with Which they are viewed; that the breaking up is even more general in all the public offices, from which an ides of Qdmivisirative order bas disappeared through a want of System and the ignorance and incapacity of improvised employ res, selected amotg the adepts of favoritiem with. * Out merit or antecedents of any Kiad, the consequences of which have destroyed the pational credit, and even com: civil war. In view of all ¢his, and to remody these great ev: e have agreed upon and adopted the present plan, which werweonr to carry out and sustain by force of arms until we triumph. — 1. The present rulers shall cease in the exercise of their functions, because they have merited the distrust of the nation; ax also all the subsitern authorities and public officers whe red disaffected to the pre sept plan 2. fhe bation calle b Aupa to govern and mine it 3. Hix Excellency ral A 1. de Santa Apna shall reorganize the pation ax soon as possible, making such re forms as he shall deem opportune or indispensably necessary in the leases of political organization sanctioned on the 12th of June, 184%, and according to there be shall issue a call for the election of constitu Goal Deputies, Senators and Presiden 4. In the interim, before the arrival of his Excellency Anns to carry out bia mission, the public at thority aball be deposited in the bands 1 tn Onief of the regenerating army that i tal, limiting bis authority to what is strictly necessary for the consummation of this movement, the preservation of public order and tranquility, and the re establishment of the Supreme Gourt as it existed on the 13th August, 1755 1865 *) ‘ 6. All the military and civil officers that do not adhere to this plan are understood to resign their positions volun- tawly 6 The insurgent bande that do not submit to the General in Chief shall be treated as robbers in bands, aod Cheir men executed upon simple preof of their belonging to the party and identification of person. re cous Fxcellency General A. L. de Santa THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN MEXICO, From the Siglo XIX. of Jan. 17 netwith Yesterday , there were ent points of mi wounded, ie true Genesa! Parra has ad’ toteto the Minister of France, giving an explanation of the occupation mr the armory of Mr. Limantour ata time when it was pro. | tected by the fing of France Don Miguel Lopes gave information t) General Parra that several of the revolted officers had expressed the in (ent: -o of burning down hit house, The General rep y that begron)! employ the forees onuer his com Trotect Prats property soneral Zaloaga haa taken the command of the ¢ tat 1 bas appointed Senor Osullo his Major Genera’. and at tbe ame time has given an important mission Ww Senor Mramon 1 we positively #tated that eeveral moctingg and confer Bees Wore bad yegverday Velweem (he Clue! persouages H ° be promueed our foreign felations, exposing the country too | “vet 1 o'clock there wit ay 'T tered Alfajeymar. On the 9th he with 500 posed thousand dollars upon the people. Of this sum they w only able to raise the amount of three thousand dol! At Act: be levied a contribution upon eae hborhood of sixty horses and a sum of $5,000, which they were obliged to supply under the threat of all those being shot dead by the troops who did not comply with the order. In the fear of those fusillades they eo plied the contributions levied on them. On the 18th Meji proceeded in the direction of Sierra. In Tula there has been a movement in favor of the con- stitution, ‘and the Territory of Tula has joined the coalition ‘States. THE VERY LATEST. {From the Mexicaa Extraordinary, Bulletin for the steamer Tennessee—City of Mexico, Jan. 19, 8 A. M.) As this bulletin is published with the view of giving to foreign readers of the Hetraordinary the latest particu- lars of the street to street, and church to church war which has existed in this tal since the 11th tust , it ig not neceseary for us to go over what we have already published in detail; stil! it may be, however, necessary to say, for the information of some who may read this, that ‘ov the 11th inst. two distinct pronunciamientos developed themselves in this capital, and both ag distinct from one another as differences are possible to be. One was for the constitutional order, the other for the gnarantees, the fueros, &c, Comonfort put himself at the head of the constitutional, or Puro, party. The pronunciados hold the citadel, the custom house,the convents of San Augustin and Santo Domingo, and some other points of minor im- portance. The government has the palace, the cathedral, the convent of San Francisco, the ex-acordada, the Pro- fessa, and other points of less importance. Those, there- fore, who are at all familiar with this capital may under. stand that the beligerents are in rifle shot range of each other continually. Barricades are erected in almost every street in the city. Two days of almost continued firing have passed. The killed and wounded were few. On Saturday night a truce commenced, which lasted until last night. This carries us to the matter contained in the follow- ipg:— Turspay MorstnG, Jan. 198 A. M. Our duty as a journalist was never more embarrassing than at this time. What we may assert as fact, from natural deduction, may turn out a8 most foreign to the truth. As, for instance, a forty eight hours’ armistice ‘was terminated at 7 P. M. yesterday. By this armistice the works of the belligerents were to remain in statu quo. Notwithstanding this important condition of a compact the trenches and breastworks grew magically in the lines of the combatants, and the work of seizing and pressing went on swimmingly. The breach of faith here noticed pervades everything, aud it is a difficult task for us to prepare an exuct picture of affairs in this ancient and mrgpificent capital up to this hour. We have the very best avenues to information open to us, and we shall en. deavor to consolidate the most reliable reports. During this armistice of forty eight hours many proposi lous were made by both parties, with the view to an amicable arrangement. Most of these propositions have ‘been as opposite as the antipodes. The government com- missioners have proposed that the pronuneiados should be admitted to pardon if they would surrender. The ouly conditions being that the leaders should go iato exile. Singular enough, on the other hand, the pronunciados offered—we dare say through pure politeness—the same liberal conditions to the government party. Of course the hot blood of Anglo-Ssxons would treat no longer where such a discrepancy was found to exist. But what do we see? A proposition that, for humanity and noble chivalry has rarely characterized Mexican warfare, came from the government party. Itis an honor to the men who could afford to make it, if for no other cause than the humane feelings therein contained. Yesterday afternoon @ proclamation to the followin effect was published by Presi ient Comonfort and direct to the commissioners for the arrangement of the dillicul ties with the pronunciados. PROCLAMATION. Gentlemen—If in the interview which you will have to- day with the representatives of the party opposed to the actual government it shall be impossible t> effect an brrangement for the peace of the republic, I wish, for the purpose of avoiding the horrors of civil war, you enforce the conaition that the belligerent forces shall leave the city and occupy a position of not less than seven leagues from the capital. I hope you will appreciate the tevtimentot humanity which causes me to give this in- struction, and that you will make exertions for its ac- ceptance, so that peaceable citizens, commercia! inter- esis, both foreign and domestic, may not suffer wy. this upfortupate condition of affairs. God and liberty, Mexico, Jan. 18, 1858. INACIO COMONFORT. The City Counc!!, m their meeting the day before yes- terday, paseed a resolution to the following effect : The Council of this capital hereby request the Gene in-Chief of the forces in Mexico that be may declare ral the following points during the present disturbance, viz—The Acc ordada (general prison), the prison of San- tiago, the hospital of San Pablo and the cemetery of St. Paul.’ The object of declaring these points neutral being for the purpose of guarding eifectual'y the State prisons, receiving the wounded of both parties and burying in @ ax. manuer those who may be killed during the siege. e Council further request that the General in Chief cause this neutrality to be agreed to by the representatives of the opposite faction when they meet in council to-day, imposing upon them cnly the obligations that no more troops shall be stationed at apy of these points than are a necessary for the preservation of order, and that no artillery shall be placed within a distance of ‘five hua- dred yards of any of the above places. God and liberty. Maxico, Jan. 18, 1858, AtT P.M. yesterday, at the close of the armistice, fir- ing commenced ip every direction. From this it most conclusively appears that the attempts for an amicable ar- ment have been fruitless. & notice was posted in the Logja, signed by = Charge. Mr. Lettsom, advisigg British sub- r tents of a note addressed to him from the Mexican Foreign Office. The contents of the note were Uhat a truce bad been agreed to by the Delligerents to en » remove from the capital and to evable fo {could not respond for what followed after the hould expire netitational party have estrblished a government at Celaya. Sr. Juarez ia recognized as President. The report i# also current that Gen. Comf&fort bad been named commander-in chief of the furces Sr. Juarez is reported to be still in this capital, making rrangements for bis goveroment veral houses have already been racked by the pro hunciados. Amongst these we have to notice the house of our colleague. Sr Zarco Yesterday Mr. Fearn, Secretary of the United States Legation, was pot under arrest for 4 short time by an offt cer from the citadel. Mr. F. was in the discharge of a duty, in endeavoring to assist in peaceably averting the seizure of some American property. TO THE LATEST MOMENT. sed without much interruption since ing. At half past five this morn: ing there was a goneral fre commenced all over she city. Heavy gune have been discharged in the region of the San Augustin and Citadel If there be avy plan of hostilities for today we are not aware of it. The tiring and barricades make It troable- some to pass in the streets The probability @ there ia ao plan, and that this baimy morning will be followed by a day of disgraceful Gricg iu cuy Oted with women aod children The hour of eight has arrived, and it i probable the three hours’ truce agreed upon by the betigerente wo allow people time to co their marketing, will be more or lene respected by both parties. Without doabt, from and As we close—a little after 8 6 | dashing by our office at quick pace, Those who can will leave the city before 11 o'clock. Tacubays is siready crowded, WM. MORAN, Bator. IMPORTANT FROM SONORA. By a letter from Mazatlan of Deo. 28, we have informa- tion of the complete overthrow of Col. Campurano by the forces under command <. _" Josue Gandara, And the successful operations of the Iatter « by which he obtained poss@sion of the port of Guaymas, where Campuzano expected reinforcements. A desultor: are being carried oa by the quer. rilla bande of both parties at the time of sailing of the British frigate Havana, which brought the news to Mazat lan. Such was the condition of affairs on the 18th fe cember, the day on which the Havana saited, and the feeiings' of the lostile parties were of such a character as to leave no doubt that ere this the State of Sonora. where & union of the whites is so indispensable to repel the at taks of the Indians, has become the scene of a civil war, | involving fearful struggles and much bloodshed. FROM MAZATLAN. | At Mazatlan fears were entertained that a difficulty | would arise, from the fact that the members of the State Legislature, who were determined to meet at that port as the capital of the State were prevented from doing so by the Prefect of the district, who acted under instructions from the Vice Governor of Uhe State. Mgence, Fine ix Market Sur.—About tmlf past 3 o'clock on Monday morning a fre was discovered in the flour store Nos. 82 Market slip aud 160 Cherry street, owned by Ste phen Valentine &Son. The firemen were quickly on the | premises and soon extinguished the fire. 1 appears that the premises were entered by burglars, who made ine fectual efforts t open the iron safe in the office They then took some pennies from the desk, set fire to some kindling wood in a bartel in the store and left the building. after the fire was extinguished the Fire Marshal found a dark lantern which had been left in the office by the burglars. It may prove & clue to the discovery of the burglars ve damage to the stock by fire and water will probably jount to $300, insured for $8,000 in the Market Insara mpany. The building i@ owned by John C. Beekm s camaged about $60, and insured The alarm of fire for the Third district yesterday morning wae caused by aepark from the Chimney setting fire to the roof of the mansion house of Abrabam Van Nest, Fisq., aated on the square bo Bieocksr, Fou: Charles and Perry streets. dire caved Whe Duildang. | be tolerated. | to conecal my resol cw | protect their interesta, aud advising that the } GEN. WALKER’S SPEECH IN MOBILE. ‘on mere assumption, the United States on this charge. The representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, have called upon him to produce the evidences of this charge. Iu the reso- Jution of the House of Representative, he was requested, if it was pot-(ncompatible with the public interests, to before that body the proofs of allegation which has made. Has be produced such proofs? Has he brought before them any evidence whatever of the charges which be has made? Newspapers state that the call of the House bas been answered in relation to the af- fairs which baye recently trapspired at Punta Arenas. They state also that certain documents, despatches, and other certain promiscuous communications —the representations of the Central American Powers—bave been handed to the House of Representatives. But in ali of these documents, 80 far as I have seen, there is not the least sign or first particle of evidence to sustain this cruel and deliberate charge which the Chief Executive has made. He has been calied upon ‘or the proof of his assertions, but it seems that he cannot as yet substantiate the charges. This matter cannot be passed by. In justice to myself, as well as to hundreds and thousatds of others, it becomes necessary that the truth and the whole truth of this matter should come be fore you, the sovereign, the people. It is not permissible, as I take it, nor do Lconcetve that your judgment will per- mit such conduct, that your agent should travel beyond his office, and constitute himself a grand jury of the country, and bring an odious charge against an individual; that he sheuld be attacked by aséertions, and that these charges should not be answered as they deserve to be. Hitherto I bave not thought it proper or advisable to dis- close the whole truth in relation to this matter. There were some considerations pressing u} me which made me keep silence to a certain extent. There are facts wh'ch I would not, unless under the most be ed circum- stances, deem it’ proper to disclose. 6 things have transpired which were to & great extent confidential, and therefore, unless the most unjustifiable and malignant’ course had been pursued, even though myself and my friends were ths sufferers, I still would retain these facts, But at length there has come a time when these facts must out. There is a point beyond which it is not to be permitted that men should go and remain unpunished. If any ordinary course had been pursued in relation to the Nicaraguan enterprise, I say these facts would never have been revealed by me. But when the chief officers of the nation so far forget their duties; when they come forward and make statements which facts show to be untrue; when they make use of their official positions to malign men seeking to serve your interests, so applying their foul epithets to you; it is, then, justice to you, no less than to me and to others, that you should know the whole conduct of your funetionaries. Not only have the motives of myself and others been im- peached in this matter, but they have attempted to brand our pames with infamy; and, no lopger ago than last Saturday, they bave pursued’ us as the most commoa criminals, They know that IT am about to repair to New Orieans,to demand « legal investigation of the charges against me. They find a convenient affidavit maker, and endeavor to piace me in custody (1 au officer for the pur- pose of carrying me ignominiously to New Orleans. Thus treated and pursued, branded as infamous, regarded as @ common criminal, is there one among you who can say tbat wrong when I come’ out aud tell the whole truth? (Cries of “No! no! no!) Thea Jet itcome You all know how we returned to the United States from Nicaragua in May last. You kaow t! ne hither not by our own will and consent—that we came in obedience to the strong arm of force used by the United States officers. As s00u @8 we touched this soil, a8 soon aa we became once more free, we declared our intention to return to Nicaragua. Soou afterI landed in New Orleans I met two gentiemen who had retarned from Washington. They told me of the interviews which they bad had both with the Presideat and with his coustitution al advisers, the members cf the Cabinet. They told me of President Bucbanan’s admitting the full legality of the acts of myself and the parties who bad maugurated the new order of things in Nicaragua. They told me that Presi- dent Buchanan assared them that [ was as mach President of Nicaragua as he was President of the United States. ‘They, more than this, told me that it was not the inten- von of the government to assist the Americans in Nicara- gua by mere words or by mere declarations; it was by something more solid and substautial—by positive acts— that the Cabinet had determined to show its good will towards the Americaus who were laboring to secure & permanent government in Central Ame- rica, They told me that it had been stated to the Cabinet, that at sundry times the ish government, b: their oticers at San Juan del Norte, our proceedings in Nicaragua, and they were told by the Cabinet that there shouid be no further interference on the part of English officers. They were told that, so far as the Americans in Nicaragua were concerned, the United States government were resolved to assert the doctrine of Monroe, and no English government interference should ‘Abd that this might be provided for Ameri- can ehips-of war should be stationed there, in order not to permit such interference. But, further than this, notonly was Great Britain to be kept off, but the United States ere to render active assistance. Inthe spring of 1866, Just after the Costa Rican declara‘ion of war agaiast Nica. Tagua, certain letters had been intercepted, trom which it wag found that the Britikh government had furnished arins apd a large quantity of ammunition, on favorable terms—a log credit—to the government Of Costa Rica, which, as a neutral nation, they bad a right todo. In the exereise of # similar right the United States government would furnich certain arms and munitions to the govern- ment of Nicaragua. I was pot satisfied with these promises and these declarations, which were made e ato time when it was supposed that were in Nicaragua. I determined to go myself to Washington, to see whether this disposition was persevered {o. On my way thither I made uo effort ue early a8 possible, to retura to Nicaragua. | declared that I never would rest uotil I bad recovered my losses; and with these declarations on our Lips we sought the President. Now if we were engaged in & lawless undertaking, bow would the President receive a mao with these declarations! If Tam the lawless person how sould he, the I’resident ne, Wiliam Walker, a or mi b his mestage describes of the United States receive | pal nider against the laws of this country? Would it be proper that he «should receive me at all? Was it proper that, with bie congent, if I were such as he has | » tmnbely disco ery of the | tereete siated— was it right and was it proper that] sbould cross she thresbu.o of bis door, sua that be should receive me ae au equal’ But this he a He received me by ap- pointment; I saw bim, and conversed with him, in reiation to the matters which bed tranepged in Contral America; aod after baving made these staucments, I was requested that they should be reduced to writing, as it was proper that (bey ebould be ublic, in order that the peop'e of the United d be made acquainted with the whole matter. It was with lus own consent that the letter to him which [ publisbed in June last was written and published. It wus, of course, not to be expected that 1 should, in detail, or even in any manner, state to the President of the United States what my future lace oF intentions ; and, therefore, it was not done in thai interview. Bot within a day or two aflerwards, waea J was atthe house of ome of the confidential wen, without sccking myself, tut by the act of that Cabina ofi- cer, 1 was invited to an intervicw, and there he sought my comfidemce. 1 sought not his, nor that of the Cabinet. He dared ge knew explvwly whe 1 intended to pursue the enterprise, and when 1 answered affirmatively, he went on to vite hes views im relation to the matter. He, a Cabinet at- titer of the President, iid me where to go aml where ml to gj where 1 omit go with safety, and where T could only go with dam, He remarked in ‘the comrse of the inlewniew, © You wil! probably sail in an American vessel and under an American flag. After wu hare passed the American limits in an American erssei, and unler an American flag, no ome can touch yrns lnut by the consent of this gemermment. will proceed im tats American vessel to San Suan del Norte, or to any other port in Nwaragua.”” But, in auticl- pation of dufcull it Was Cistinetly stated what I might expect from hue o at my owe in- stance. I did uot «0 far forget inyee ack what the conduct of his government would be, but he induatrioussy stated there would be American verseis at Sen Juan del Norte, and there should be no more Pritish interfereuce. ‘That if we went there with American flags flying over veh interierenee would Laturally be atthe risk with the United States. Tack you whether, and se circumstances, | bart not a right to assume that the wernment of the U + not only sanctioned but roved of the , Was anxious for it, Such, at which | arrived ifficer would hold much with the knowledge and advice gine Presvlent; and iu was with this ¢ won that, after ring received what Foomsvdered mas K pretiee aasurence, I not infer that the ( emeersatvm with me unless 1 came wnuthward, and undertook to prepare the means for returning to Nicaragua. There ever time an attompt made to rcouduct. There. w j everythin a nt) cause, with the oo gal in oar acts, Wou the laws of th if we bad violated our own laws, would we have eal ty you aa citizens of Mo bile, to ask your sympathy and y apport in violation of these awe which you yourselves had made? But we felt that we were acting in accordance with the law, and th , We have ventured to take the e which we have taken. Until the month of September I understood and believed that the will of the government, in relatior raguan polioy, was unchanged; but d omh there were papers issued from th ment which showed that ff a change bat poi a! ® wrought, there was ome change going on Which was not complete. There wae some change in the policy of the President and bis advisers, In that mouth ac ed, in which pogagert in The cular was couched in ve and iadetinite terms. It an stated that informat bad reached the department that “ these persons” were engaged in organiming an ox ition agaivet Nicaragua, Costa Kica or Ceutral America. ‘pon this vagae aod indefinite Knowloage the first step op posed to us was male by (he arim.aistration ; and it was ouly after baving seen the despatch of Yrissrri and Molina to the President that I was enabled to draw the inference that this circular was aimed Arect!y at the mgn who were aparing to assert their right iu Central America, Those Brttral Americans—Yriarri and Moins-—are mon of & race whose infirmity it i# to be falve both im their acts and in their words, These men have, neither in tholr private intercourse nor in their official conduct, the least con sideration for the truth. These men, to the in of Americans, assert that | and others are im aa expedition contrary w the laws engaged of 1818. These io oe “ee ay despatch is not davit; there is no solemnity pertaining to it BO » their facts; and it was ov this information that > lar is issued that lawless men are engaged in an e: - tion contrary to the law of 1818. It is no citizen of the United States, it is no District ‘comes before she proper official—but these are of our customs and ignorant of your lat the State partment receives their des, ) and ita them to go into the De ent and them what their duties are. They tell the Secretary of State that they have fer- reted out certain Feengiged te vi discovered that are of acts. Eoeretary. State, instead of requiring the in- formation to be on oath, He issues a circular, in which he takes for granted less persons are engaged in an expedition contrary to the law of 1818. I ask you, is such conduct worthy of government? Are these gentlemen worthy they per mit a foreigner to go to the it what Se cee are.; Ay the the mont Septem! We again fix the Len that bad come over the President and his Cabinet; it then that we first discover their = these alleged criminals; it is then formed that certain men are offenders statute in such cases made and provided. can be the motive for this change? There is a change, there must have been a change, from June to September, wrought in the mind of the President and bis advisers, from the time he received me as his equal, and conferred conficentially with me, What, then, is the cause and mo- tive of the change? In the month of September cortain partes who bad been connected with another transit route came from the city of Mexico. Messrs, Benjamin and LaSere had been sent down there to investigate the , new coxtract, Mr. Soule had conversed confidentially with the President in relation to Nicaragua matters. Mr. Soule goes down and tries to defeat certain contracts of Mr. Benjamin and LaSere. The President is 80 deeply in- terested in this matter; he has so much at heart the suc. cess of this mission of Benjamin and LaSere, that he com- municates bis desires, a8 stateo publicly fn a dispatch under his own hand to Mr. Forsyth, in Mexico, which was never subjected tv the revision of the State Department. ‘These parties returned, Bengamin and La Sere defeated by the action of Soule. At that very moment it is that the whole Nicaraguan policy of the government aypears to be changed, ask you whether it is not_natural and logical to connect these two facts When the Tehuantepec preject i a feated, then it ts that the Nicaraguan policy is changed. The very concurrence of these circumstances is proof that there 1s some connection between them; and, if that connection, I shall endeavor clearly to show you what that connection is. (Owing to the imperfection of our notes we are unable to report with accuracy this portion of General Walke! speech, in which he pointed oat the gigantic project, origi nating in New York, and controlled by certain New York capitalists and corrupt politisians, for obtaining control of aj] the transits—the Tehuantepec, Nicaragua and Panama routes—\hus creating a monstrous corporation, more dan- erous than the United States Bank, which was to be our President maker and the controller of the government, and would strangle us, unless, like the United States Bank, it was strangled itself.) In the month of October, then, it is apparent that there has been @ change in the Nicaraguan policy of the go- verpment. But in that month—and here is a fact, which for their sake as well as yours, I wish I could pass over in rilence; I wish for your sakes, abeve all, it could be passed in silence and never brought to yeur notice—in the month of October, a person known to be a confidential friend of mine, passed through the city of Washington. Ie had an interview with a member of the Cabinet, and that Cabinet ld EES oficer informed him that the President was to the Nicaraguan enterprise. But he suggested we tun our efforts elsewhere, And, said he, if you da, the gmeans shall not be lacking to carry out this enterprise. He suggested that we should turn our energies into another quarter—that we should enter into a treat wsth the President of Mexico—that we should become her a Ines; and that having entered into such alliance we might manage (0 bring about a war between Spain and Mexico. 1 ask you if such propositions as these, coming as they do direct from Washington, are not sufficient to startle you’ Here, at the very time that they are saluting us with ail the epithets of our langusge—when we are denounced as men lawless and without sbame, violating the acts of pgress of the United States—at this very moment they propose an act Iscomm even to think of. They propose that we shall do things to bring about a war between friendly nations. And all this war between Mexico and Spain is to be brought on for what purpose? Here comes the point which touches you. There is not one re who does not look towards the acquisition of Cuba with deep interest. But when Ouba is to be acquired by the United States you want Cuba as it is—you want Cuba with its 8o- ‘cial phases unimpaired; you want that community of in terest which sbal! bind her to the Southern States of this c pfederacy. But bere is a plan by which Cuba is to be seized under the auspices of Mexico. Mexico is to take possession of the island, and it is to be in every respect conformed to the oganic laws of that republic. Cuba that moment becomes @ free State. Not only does the Mexican constitution and Mexican government dis- avow in the most explicit terms—repudiate, I should ra- ther say—the whole interest of slavery, but ita last con- stitution, under which Comonfort was elected President, is still mere inimical to the interests of the South than any other. An article ip this constitution expressly provides that no power of the government shall have amy author‘. ty to make treatics for the extraditions of fugitive slaves from the United States, We sailed from this port | Juan del Norte on the 14th of November last. in Nicaragua and were successful beyond our anticipa- tions, more than those not fully acquaited with the situa- tion of the country had any right wo expect. And then, at the very moment when we were about to regain all wo bad lost, through an officer of United States, the strong arm of government again interferes and takes us from the soil which we Were entitied to call our own. But not satisfied with this act of violence against all con. stitutional and nauonal law, it accompanies the acts of violence with a serics of insults towards the men it waa eogeged in removing. Tbe naval officers of the United Swtes take occasion to trample us in the dust and imsult us with their epithets—nay, pot satistied with this, they carry their words into acts. “They wot ouly style us nd rates, but actually treat us as such, and wake . sion of the property we hold as if it were the pro perty of nobody. With the surrenaer which was made to Commodore Paulding, there was not the least regulation fermally made for the disposition of the proper- ty belonging to us. This, more than anything else, dis- tinguisbes the criminality of the proceeding againat us; and this act of Commodore Paulding, without right and without justice, Wag not oaly wrong ur itself, but even if it were a legal act, was most illegally aud most wrongfully executed, attended by circumstances which are suffoent to call the blush into the face of every one who can ‘ide ‘an. Thié act, this committed, res.deut of the Unied States? Does be come forward to vindicate ofended law and jus tice? Does be suddenly summon his subaltern from’ his vessel (0 call bim betore a court of justice, and have him properly tried for his offence against the constitution and Jaws of the United States? Does he bave him brought be fore a tribuual, to answer for an infringement of the y ghts of common humanity aud justice—bot to say com. ton deceney? When the Prosident is called upon for the Cocuents Concerbing this ma he states thas the Com. odore bas comiitted «gr ror;’ but atthe same outnt, his whole message is a vindication of the oder. Thus itis, that the Presideat of the Uaited States, by his cowduct, by his fauure to net, by word, assumes, in fact, the responsibility of efficial, It willnot do to punish such griev- vour offences by mere words. The words of public men f publi: servants are but naught; what is required hem ia action. And if the President, by his acts, as the responsibility of bis officer, thon the Presideut If becomes # party to the act; and Lask any one to 4 that special meseage of the ident, and say whether af not he does nimeelf become a party to the act of Comtmod.re Paulding. He does not indicate, in a posi tive manner, that there is to be honor and «distinction con. ferred upon this officer for bis acts, but he styles him « this gallant officer. "’ hae committed “a grave error,” be laude bim for his gal lantry—his ga la@try! for captaring the men at Puata pes! And how ‘i# this act justifed, then? He states the Commodore appeara to have dane the act from good metives and with pure intentiong. And is this do trie becoming the President of the United States’ a maxim with you, the sovereign of the nation—you, the people of the United States—are willing should be incor. erated into your constitutional law! Are you willing to heve it made & part of your comt.on inw that the end jas tes the means’ (Here Gen. Wakerread an extract trom the President's message, touching upon the iajurioas ef. fect opon our treaty relations with other nations, caused by the prosecution of such enterprises as the present.) Tlere, then, is the justificati. be, for the acts of Commodore Paulding government to carry out a policy which it has for iteelt, And what ts this policy? What ts this treaty to which the President has referred? Wifo are the: par- ties interested and aitected by ity and under what circum. stances was it negotiated? Il is understood to be what is Jied the Yrivarri treaty, and the fact that such a treaty ai been tegotinted was just made public ta the latter part of November of last year. The Fashion, you re hums memper, sailed on the 14th of November. On the 16th or 16th, just alter the telegraphic news of her departure haa ‘Washington, then it is that Yriearri is reesived gus, and not only is he reogived ster, but,on the very same day,as the papers ax min' ttate, on the very same day that be ts received aa minis: he perfects his negowation between the United states aud Nicar and signed it. In what a position does this place the goverument of the United States’ Does any ove vernment of the United States or any ly & day’s notice? Would it not appear that the agent of the goveroment of had been in treaty with this man before Rut 80 far as we cao ascertain from the of the President, as well as from what are the promisos and condi aty? It is stipulated, #0 it bas be tated throughout the length and breadth of th > that the treaty proposes to establish a control over the Nicaraguan Transit route, to be the mexns by which, in the larguag> of certain parties, Nicaragua ia to be Ameri- canized Who are the parties interested in this specula Ling mart? Go among the moneyed hucksters that throug the «trecte of your capital, and find, if you can, men more corrupt. Go to the market and find viler garbage thao Joreph 1. White, and hie intimate acqnaintances; and the ¢ the parties who are te UR benefitted by it; and fariher than thie, it is stated in the same manner in which we get our knowledge of thia Transit negotiation, that this sore treaty contains a clause by which Nicaragua is per: mitted to make a similar one with any other Power. This cause it seems to me to be ga insult to the United States, and not only that, but a violent infringment of all your traditional policy ; for the Caited States is eufflcteatly” just to observe and to carry out the protectorate of Nicarag nd if this treaty ts good, why ehonta any other Power as me to exercise & joint protectorate? If you are suffi tly trong and pufficently jnat to carry it out, why © stould France of England take part in ity ‘Nay, how can you of yourselves, ant in justice to your interests, permit yourselves to becomp a sa crifice to such ® treaty? And if this t# th» character of the men and the interests to be benefitted by your treaty—if thie Nicaraguam Transit is be rarried on under such auspices, and if the Tehuanteper and Darien Transite are to be managed by the same par ties—if these three Trensits are to be controlled by such men—bow long can your government remain free from their influence? From the very nature of the relations which are to @xist between your goverument aud these At the very time he states that he | LJ tereste. This is @ great crime, and e they commit against us is a wrong ‘wrongs of the ind?vidual might be lence. bat end Prat as I am,I should not Sabet rusting my indivi wrongs and eacrifices on your at- tention, unless I felt and believed that the wrongs done to me and to were still more grievous to you and jours. And from the beginning of this last ¢1 ition, as bas been called, this last emigration to Leming gna to the end of it—auch has been its history be difficult to com; time so many and such grievous . The vindica- tion of your laws of the const in of the United States, your interests, not only as Southern men, but as » itizens of the Union, are involved in this matter. Your onstitution has been trampled in the dust, your rights, as Southern men and American citizens, have not only ignored, but have been insulted. I venture to speak to you,and now eat 1 1, Permit not these =r KANSAS! KANSAS! SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lawrence, K. T., Jan. 23, 1898. J.D. Henderson, Fsq., who has been here so long a prisoner on hia parole, left last night. Five companies of ‘Unit®d States dragoons are said to have advanced near to Lewrence, with process of law for taking him. A deputy United States Marshal, who accompanied them from Lea- venworth, was around town nearly all day yesterday, and late in the evening went out with Henderson to take a drink, since which time neither of them have been seen. Mr. Henderson's trial was to commence this morning, at 9 o'clock, before Justice Miller. fhe departare of yg derson has created great excitement and rage among we free State men. MANIFESTO OF THE LATE ACTING GOVER NORSTANTON. HE DEFINES HIS POSITION AND GIVES US HIS HISTORY OF KANSAS AFFAIRS SINCE APRIL LAST. To me Prorry or THE Unrren States :— ’ Having been recently removed from the office of Secre- tary of Kansas Territory, under circumstances which imply severe censure on the part of the President, and having bad po official information of my removal, nor any opportunity for explanation or defence, I have deemed it necessary to present to the people of the United States a brief statement of facts in vindication of my motives and in explanation of the results of the act for which I have been condemned. ‘The office in question wae not given at my solicitation. My acceptance of it, under ali the circumstances, was & proof of strong friendship for the President, and of un. bounded confidence in the firmnees and faithfulness with which he would adhere to the line of policy deliberately agreed upon between him, his whole Cabinet, and Gov. falker. ‘On my arrival in the Territory in April last, in advance of Governor Walker, I confess that I had an imperfect know- fedge of the real comitition of affairs. I suyposed the ques- tion of slavery to be the only cause of dissension and difi- culty ameng the people; and in my brief inaugural address Of the Vith April J treated this as the chief subject of differ- ence upon which a submission to leedae no would be likely to be demanded. 1 soon found, however, that this view was al- together too limited, and did not reach the true ground of comtroversy. ‘The great mass of the inhabitants of the Terri- tory were dissatisfied with the local government, and ear- nestly denied the valiaity of the existing laws. ‘Asserting that the previocs Legislature had been forced upon them by the fraud and violence of @ neighboring people, they proclaimed their determination never to submit to the enactments of legislative bodies thus believed te be ille- gitimate and not entitled to obedience, This was the condition of things when Governor Walker came to the Territory in the latter part of May. It was evident that the just policy of permiting the people to regulate their own affairs could not be successfully car- ried out, unless they could be inspired with confidence in the agents of goverbment through whom this result was to be effected. If a mere minority of the people had been thus dissatisfied and contumasious they might possibly have been propoupced factious. and treated as disturbers of the peace; but when the dissatisfaction was general, comprisitg almost the whole more reapecttul consideration was indispensable to a peaceable adjust ment. It was evident tmt the policy of repression—a rigid attempt to enforce submission without an effort at conciliation— would inevitably result in a repewal of the civil war. With commendable anxiety to avoid this con- tingency, Govertor Walker resolved to go among the peo- ple—to listen to their complaints—to give them assurance and just administration of the Territorial govern- 4 to induce them, if possible, to abandon their and to enter upon the peaceful but decisive struggle of the ballot box. I was often with the Governor when he addressed the people, and gave my best efforts paid of the great purpose of conciliation. Tt was too Jate to induce the people to go into the June election for delegates to the Convention. The registra- tion required by isw bad been imperfect im all the coun- ties, and bad been wholly omitted in one half of them; nor could the peopl se disfranchised counties vote im any adjacent county, as has been falsely suggested. In such of them as subsequently took a census or registry of their own, the delegates chosen were not admitted to seats tm the Convention. Nevertheless, it is not to be denied that the great central fact, which covtrolled the whole case, was the utter want of confidence by the people in the whole machinery of the Territorial government. They alleged that the local officers, in all instances, were un- scrupulous partisans, who had previously defrauded them in the elections, and who were ready to repeat the same outrages again; that, even if intruders from abroad shoald not be permitted to overpower them, they would be cheated by false remrns, which it would not be possible for the Gover porgund Secretary to defeat. Although at that time there apprehensions seemed to me to be preposte- rous and unfounded, it was impossible to deny the ear hes these and sincerity with which they were urged, or to doubt that they were the result of deep convictions, hay ing their origin in some previous experience of that na- ture. ‘The worst portion of the small minority in Kansas who had porsersion of the territorial organization, loudly and bitterly complained of Governor Waiker’s policy 0: con ciltation, and demanded the opposite policy of repression. And when, under the solemn assurances given that the elections should be fairly conducted, and no frauds which we could reach be countenanced of tolerated, it had be- come apparent that the mass of the people were prepared And determines to participate in the October elections, the minority endeavores to defeat the result by reviving the tax qualification for electors, which bad been repealed by the -previous Legislatare, Opinions were obtained from bygh legal! sources, the effect of which, had they prevailed, ‘would have been to exclude the mass of the people from voting. to retain the control in the bands of the minority, and. as Consequence. to keep up agitation and to render civil war inevitable. But the intrepid resofition of Gov. Walker, in spite of ferce opposition and denmciation, far and pear, carried bim through this dangerous crisis, and be had the proud eatixfaction of having achieved a peace- ful triumph by inducing the people to submit to the arbi- trament of the dallot box. But the minority were determined not to submit to de- feat. he populous county of Deugias had been attached to the border county Johnson, with a large aod con. | trolling represeutation in the Legislature. The celebrated Oxford fraud was perpetrated with a view to obtain ma- jorkies ip Houece of the Assembly. When these re. turns were received at my office, in Gov. Walker's ab- ‘wrongs to go un- formed the same resolution, as he stated several others, and we were both gratified that we found the papers so imperfect as to make it our duty to reject them. Great excitement followed in the Terri- ¥ y. The ay A thus ny ae in the ef- fort to i power, became fierce in opposition and venaleca teevery means of intimidation; hutT am led to believe that they found their most effectual means of ope na by undermining us with the administration at compton to resume its labors. that body were bitterly bostile to the Governor and Secre tary on account of their rejection of the Oxford and McGee frauds, in which some of the members and officers of the Convention had a direct participation. Tn fact, this body, with rome honorable exceptions, well represented the minority party in the Territory, and were faliy imbued with the came apirit and designs. It was obviously not their desire to eecure Yo the real people of Kansas the control of their = affairs. In the constitution toon after: wards adopted, they endeavored togaupersede the Legis Tature which bed boon elected oghine People, yy rr viding, in the second section of the schedule, tint “all awe pow of force in the Territory shall continue to be of force until altered, amended of repealed by a Legisiature onder the provisions of thts constitution.” They provided | stil more effectually, a¢ they suppored, for the per. petvation of | their — minority government — by adopting the @xiord fraud as the basis of their apportionment, giving @ great preponderance of represen taticn to the eounties on the Missouri borcere, affording, at the same time, every possible facility for the introduction of epuriong votes. ‘The President of the Convention was elethed unlimited power in conducting the elections recei@hg the returns. while the officers are not re 1 to take the usual oath to secure fair and honest alings. The elections were burried on in midwinter— the Zist of Pecember and the 4th of January—when emi grants could come only from the immediate borders the qualification whieh invited to the ballot box white male inbabitant “in the Territory on that da, The same men who did this had pPeviously denounced Governor Walker for the suggestion in his inangural ad- dress, and in bis Topeka speech, that the conetitation should be submitted to all the bona fide inhabitants, although he variably stated, when aatggd for expanse , that corte reasonable length of residence ought to be required as evidence of fide character of in- babitancy "i It was apparent that all the machinery had been art fully jgepared for a repetition. of grogs frauds, similar \o thone Thich bed beam view of all these frots, yrowa, toes toe te of the Territory, by an almost thanimong demand, called upon me, as the acting Gover nor, to convene an extra session of the Legisiature, in , ly to protect themeel rae jer to enable them peaceably to Pom by the ad igst the Wrongs evidently contemplated by plop. anc within so shorta upon you, as you desire to see trans- | bloodshed. The Legislature diverted the attention of the people schemes of violence upon which they were brooding, stituted the excitement of debate and inve: that of flerce sad ware besred, end enabled sentatives Wo devise means counteracting the which they justly apprehende 4. Recent events have shown that thoir Jeiratod atthe precincts of Oxford” shawnee” at ford, Sha poo; and it may well be believed that this resu tually ¢ by the leaders. who devised & ‘and framework of the Lecompton constitution. we lately been at Shawnee, and [ have seen versed with persons who were at Oxford election. The frauds committed are notorious; yh dishonest persons may deny the channels of public information sentations to the contrary, they can beyond all controversy. it was to enable the people to shield themselves frem theee frauds, and to give legal ‘to their hatred and rejecti sub- tor j i i 3 i =E BED eee expression ion of the instrument which wed them, and was to be carried by them, that I the Legiala! ture together. To my judgment the had « fair claim to be heard on this subject throug! ir Legislature. The act confided to me the discretion of convening that body in extra seasion. The President of the United States had no rightful authority to exercise that discretion for me. He had the power of removal, and such control as that power gives him But I would cheerfully bave submitted to removal and consequent loas of favor with the Preai- dent, rather than occupy the position of Governor and re- fuse to the people an opportunity to assert their mest essential rights, and to protect themselves against the Daseat frauds and wrongs ever attempted upon an out- raged community. a paving been iefvemed: of te grounds of my re- moval, | know them on! ugh the newspa| to the effect that, ip calllog the Legislature, Tntoboyed the instructions of the President. I had no instr bearing on the subject, and there was no time to obtaim them, even if Thad felt bound to substitute the Presi- dent's will for that discretion which the organict act oom- fided to me. The convening of the Legislature undoubt- edly prevented difficulty and secured peace. Were i important, I am confident I could establish this position by the most indubitable fucts; but it is sufficient now to that the peace of the Territory was not in fact di and whatever approaches were made towards such a re- sult were wholly attributable to the policy of the ad- ani in censuring my acts and removing me from office. ‘The measure for which | have been unjustly condemned has enabled the people of Kansas to make known their real will in regard tothe Lecompton constitution. This affords the democratic party an opportunity to defend the true principles of constitutional liberty, and to save itself from disastrous division and overthrow, If Congress will heed the voice of the people, and not force upon them a government which they have rejected by a vote of four to one, the whole country will be satis- fied, and Kansas will quiet! settle her own aifairs with- out the least difficulty and without any danger to the confederacy. The Southern States, which are supposed to have a deep interest in the matter, will be saved from the supreme folly of standing up in defence of so wicked anc dishouest a contrivance as the Lecompton constitution, the moral power of their position will not be weakened by a vain and useless defence of wrong, when it is per- feetly certain that they will gain gothing even by success in the present attempt. The extra session of the Kansas Legislature has done good, also, by giving means to expose and punish tho monstrous frauds which have been perpetrated, and doubtless, also, by preventing others which would have been attem It has driven the guilty miscreants ea- geged in them to become fugitives from justice, and has rendered it impossible for the peace of the Territery hereafter to be eudangered by similar occurrences. In view of these facts and results, I willingly accept the rebuke conveyed in my peremptory dismissal from office, but I appeal t the deliberate judgment of the people to determine whether I bave not chosen the only honorable course which the circumstances allowed me to pursue. FRED. P, STANTON. Wasuixoron, Jan, 29, 1858, WILL KANSAS BE ADMITTED WITH THE LE- JOMPTON CONSTITUTION ? {From the Ricbmond Enquirer, Jap. 30.) Little time will be lost, we presume, in presenting the Lecompton constitution to Congress for acceptance. Whe- ther it will be received or rejected is a question which seems to be still involved in great doubt. It is w be hoped, however, that ail efforts to defeat it will be uua- vailing. The administration is committed in favor of its adopuion. The Southern democracy, with very few ex- ceptions, gent in recommendation of its reception. ‘And by a very large on of the Northern demo- cracy, to, the admission of Kansas without farther quar- relor is, we believe, warmly advocated. But there are true and ic democrais in both sections who still contend that until the whole constitution is sub- mitted to a free and full vote of the people, in justice, im fairness and in conformity to the principles of sovereignty, Congress cugbt not to accept it, is inception until now question, seemingly and really #0 easy of solution and of setilemont uy its own inherent merits, has tod itself, such @ = = a8. The Nebraska-Kangas act itself ,at the time of its enactment, was thought to embody principles and pro- positions plain enough to place them beyond the miseoa- struction of the most captious caviller or igenious critic. ‘It was regarded as the exposition of on understanding be tween the North and South the terms of which had only to be rigidly observed to putan end to the disputations relative to the mode of eetablishing or repudiating slavery iu the Territories, when they were about (o become States. Its pervading pripciple—the right decide for ives—directly derived the very genius of our government, could not but be acceptable to every man who professes to support the coustituvion and matutein the hover of his country. But upon the applica tion of this act, seemingly so full of fairness, of justice, of practicability and of promise to the Union, ‘difficulty after cificulty arises. Kansas is rapidly ripening maturity. e will soon be prepared to for admission as a sovereign State. The litionists make haste to pour into the Territury A population caught up and bought up for the purpose of colomzing the Territory with enemies of ery, aad thus bringing a new free State into the Upion. The Seuth- ern people, on the other hand, were also active in their efforts to induce the emigration of friencs of slavery. At inst a legitimate convention is called for the formation of the organic law of the new State. It would be irrele: vant now to refer to the official conduct of those Govern. ors of the Territory who bave played their respective or rather bes been presented, in alone to parts and pagsed off the stage. And, therefore, the sim- ps question arises: Shall the constitution framed by @ jonvention which isjcknowledged to have been legitimate , be accepted or rejected by Cony ¥ Those who way it should not be accepted tel) ua that the Nobraska-Kansaa act expressly provides that the peopie of the Territories shall bave the exclusive right to determine upon the do mestic institutions of the Dew States: that there is no evi- dence of the approval of this constitution by the People; that there is indeed reason to doubt seriously that it dose command their approbation, and, therefore, that Con grew owes it to its own integrity of purpose, to the honor of the country, to fairness and equality, to refuse to receive it. Atone Hime, it will be remembered, there was an ani mated discussion as to who were the people, plated by the Kansas act, and recognized by and law. That point, however, is also apd is almost forgotien among the curious conten! first few chapters of the Kansas controversy whole matter, as we bave said, is Gow submitted in the Let us see how to presume that the popular will ts mis: ited. Lecompton constitution is acknowledged to be the work of a lawful convention. And Congress must have positive that it ts fraadulently forced upon the people against their wishes, before it can venture upon ite rejectios. And even , the effect might be worse than that which would result ng Menta | it, when the people or reignty—and the principle cedes supremacy to the le. Very would if ihe right of the people to rule has ever been denied {n this country by any party yon any occasion, ext by the black republicans on slavery question ia the tories? It was with reference to this identical de- nia! alone that the doctrine of popular sov earnestly urged, and the Nebraska bill wae Fotls whether they” wos) i polls w! they would ine slavery or ‘we maintain that then the Kanes wok oa carried pA the principle of popular sovereignty re affirmed upon the only point upon which it has ever been disputed. ‘e have never thought that Kansas would bea slave State. The same opinion was expressed by several dia | tinguished and discerning Southern Senators long before | stitution will flourish there, even if the laws reoogn! the severe contest between the free State and slave State men for ite occupancy. and now, alt the vote is io favor of slavery, no man entertains the that thi it are allowed to stand. Ita, therefore, the Ereat Prins ple of equality for which we ‘are contending, And whem the people are left free to say whether they will have slavery or not, what more can the South demand? tut opponents of the Lecompton constitution contend, that in not referring the whole of it for popular approval or concemmation, the Convention ‘orces it upon the people nolens wolens. | Itiatrue, it may be in opposition to the \n many of its orovisions. But Congress can ogy be m4 without return! it to he votedon “and we bold that it should not be retarm people oF etete he has been previously proved to Congress to tnicrepresent the popular will, On this ground its ac ce] co is unavordable. P Yad the Convention referred the whole constitution to the people there would have been no fai diffenly Pot Hee an error was Committed in the eal to do so, We cannot agree that Congress ought to imervene upon A presumption of probability of the opposition of the peo Je to it. On the Fame principle, pushed a little farther, Rtn it be contermed that no man showid be conside elected to office nti! it fs nscert#tined not omly that he ceived a majority of the votes cast bny alan that be majority of all the legal votes, polled and unpe: ta other words, po election would be het eatid if @ majorny retueed to vote, or if there ie reagon to believe that among those who stay Away from the polls there are enough con curring with the minority at the polle to overthrow the majority ‘The Kaneas question has given trouble enough to the county y, and we beartily hope that the Lecompton con stitution #1il be received by Congress, and the contra rey brought town end. If the peovie cf Kansaa are realiy diseathefed with it, let them call and remodel their organic laws, The Lecompton const.