Washington sentinel., 1854-06-23
FALSE RuMoRs.

Rumors are aaoat, in this city of rumors, rela-
tive to the appointment Of governor for the
Territory Of Kansas. 1t is said that the Presi-
dent has rendered, or is about to tender, that
Office to an individual from non-slaveholding
State, whose opinions upon the territorial bill
are either unsound or unknown. To such q
rumor we give no credence. We cannot, we
do not, believe that the President can for mo
ment think Of frustrating, by his patronage, the
design Of bill which he countenanced in all
its stages, and to which he gave his ready sane.
ton as law.
Recent developments have shown that the
Kansas Territory is in the highest degree adapt
ed to slave labor, and that the equal laws Of
labor, if unchecked by wilfal and organized
opposition, must inevitably introduce the insti-
tuition of slavery there. Thus the abstract
principles set forth in the territorial bill are in
vested with practical results of the highest i'm
portance results, however, that may be easily
defeated by an unjust and unfair organization
of the territorial government.
If, however, these rumors be true, what bene-
the law? What loss is abolition to sustain by its
passage2 The result would be a bare abstrac-
ton, impalpable as air: the will Of Congress
nullifed and abrogated by the voice of the
President We would greatly have preferred
his exercise Of the qualified veto prescribed by
the Constitution, than the absolute but indirect
veto resulting from an unequal disposition Of
his patronage.
1t should be remembered that the relative
position of the northern and southern sections
Of the Union, with reference to the provisions
of this bill, are entirely different. The former
have but a negative interest 7 the latter posi-
that resulting from a settlement of the territory
is at stake. With the latter, the stronger and
more sacred interests of property are involved
in the contest. Nothing in the administration
Of the government Of the territory--nothing in
the future organization of State can prevent
the free immigration Of northern men into
that country Much may be done by the ad-
ministration of that government, and the con-
stitution Of that State to prevent the admission
of the property of the southern immigrant. In
the one case fanaticism and abolition may tri-
umph over the declared objects of the bill in
the other, nothing can result but fair and
equal emigration Of oil classes, of oil sections,
and of oil interests There is no endeayor on
the part Of the stakeholder to prevent the in
gress even of abolition adventurers into the
common territory Of the Unions there is a
studied design and concerted action on the
part Of the abolitionists to deny and prevent
the admission of southern property, and hence
of southern men into that territory. Men from
the north, of all classes and all opinions, come
to the southern States with all their property
and are welcomed there. Men from the south
emigrating to southern States, who touch IN
transitu at northern port, are deprived oi
their property, and derided, and spurned for
their appeals to justice. Such would be the
result in a new country, if once, by direct OF
indirect means, abolition should raise its black
piratical flag there.
Let not be supposed that the appointment
OF a southern man, or Of a sound constitutions
supporter of the bill as governor of Nebrask,
would be a fair q,tid pro quo for an unsount
governor Of Kansas. In the former, natur,
herself, and the laws which govern labor, ma,
have placed thcirstern veto upon the existenc'
Of slavery to an advantageous extent In th
latter, nature and those laws welcome SLAYER.
as the cheapest, most profitable, and most de
sirable species Of labor. Thus the governo