The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01
walker va Douslas.

6a1 the lives anu uDeTtieS OF our Cisz1clS u
endangered thereby, it would Be most
amusing spectacle to witness the shifts and
stratagems resorted to by the persons whose
names appear above, to secure for themselves
the Presidential nomination In 1860.
Gov. Robt J. Walker comes first, as ne is
the most intimately connected with the pres
ent crisis In Kanzas. Who is Robt- j. Wal
ker, that he should aspire to sit in the place
of Washington and Jefferson? What has he
done to deserve that honor from the Ameri-
can people? Mr.. Walker is simply that
plague spot on our political life-a Northern
man with Southern principles. Born and
educated in Pennsylvania, his public life
has been one of devotion to the ultra slave
propaganda. He early made his home in
fre-eating Mississippi. and distinguished
himself by his willy disposition, Unsuitable
ambition and his shrewd, and (if report
speaks true) notover honest tricks as a fnan-
cier. He gained for himself reputation as a
diplomatist, andwas generally considered the
Talleyrand of his party. He belongs to the
same school of statesmen as Mr. Buchanan,
that of expediency and compromise, and it
was on account of his reputation in that de-
partment that he was sent to Kanzas. 1t
was confidently expected that his oily tongue,
fair promises and unlimited command of the
ready" would achieve for him the success
which he sought and by the quieting of the
troubled waters of Kanzas agitation, secure
the reyersion of the White House, as to-
ken of gratitude from the people.
Alas how bitterly is he doomed to be
disappointed. He reckoned without his
host" and as consequence found himself
brought up with Ground turn" by his
masters, the slave oligarehy. A competitor
appears, and one too, who has the boldness
to bid high, and the courage to stand forth
as defender of pro-slavery usurpation-
Stephen A. Douglas, the prince of dough-fa-
ces and the chief of political charlatans.-
He, the author of the Nebraska Bill, and the
man upon whose shoulders rests much of
the responsibility of the Kanzas outrages.
He at least has brazen- faced villainy and eff
frontery, sufficient to declare himself bid
der for Pro-slavery votes in the next cam
paign. When Walker came to Kanzas, and
for time seemed. by his specious promises
and smooth speeches, to be lulling the Free
State men into slumber, and thereby being
enabled to trumpet to the world that he,
Robt. j. Walker, had cut the Gordian knot
and solved the Kanzas enigma, Douglas and
his allies, alarmed at his apparent success,
proceeded to arouse the fre-eating feeling
of the South. Conventions were held, res
olutions passed denouncing Walker as a
traitor to the South, and threatening the ad-
ministration at the same time with the for
nation of Southern party, hostile to Its
policy and working against its measures.
While Walker was proceeding as he sup
posed triumphantly in his work of cajoling
the Free State men, and paving the way for
Kanzas to come into the Union at least as a
Democratic, if not Slave State, his COM
petitor, Douglas, had "stolen a march" on
him, and presently Walkers ears were as
founded by the baying of the whole pack OF
Southern blood-hounds on his track His
indiscretion had already sprung the mine by
which he hoped to accomplish the ruin OF
the Free State party, and his masters had
opened "hue and cry" on him from di-
rection which he least expected.
/ What to do was the next question by the
SO Artful Dodger'' of the Democratic party,
and the Lawrence municipal organization af-
fords him pretext to move against the Free
State men which he eagerly embraces. The
South viii now cry back and Douglas be
thrown off the track. But the firm attitude
of Lawrence viii soon make apparent even
to the South, the ridiculous position of Wal
ker, and to extricate himself from that di-
lemma, he viii have to go step further
collect the bogus taxes, interfere with the
State election, or some other more equally
wild and equally productive of disaster
His present purpose has been gained, the ad-
ministrasion saved from the threatened oppo-
sition, and the wind taken out of Douglas
sails.
This is very pretty game to look at, and
would be most amusing were it not for the
magnitude of the stake for which these ras-
tcals are struggling. 1t is most pitiable
sight to see the sacred arena of Liberty dis
graced by speetacles such as to-day presents.
How much longer viii the American peo-
pie allow the White House to be defled and
the liberties of Kanzas to be the football by
which these men seek to accomplish their
purpose?
The Emporia Naos has reached its 4th number.