New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-08-17
Kansas Affairs,

Accounts are so contradictory as to the position of
the administration relative to the course of Gov.
Walker in Kansas that we cannot tell what that posi-
ton is. The Washington correspondent Of the Rich
mond South says, in substance, that Mr. Buchanan
does not hesitate to express his dsapproval of Walk
ers course; the other hand the correspondent OF
the Charleston Standard says that course meets the
entire appreciation of all the Cabinet, except the Sec
retary Of the Interior (Thompson) and the Post
master-Geneml (Brown) They, of course, can say
but little and do less" Under these circumstances
think it prudent for the public to suspend their
judgments upon the administration until further de-
velopments If the administration endorses Walker
of course it must parake of all the blame attachable
to his treachery toward the South. We are 10th to
believe that Mr.. Buchanan has violated, or will thus
violate, the profession of principles which brought to
his support the State Rights Democracy the South
and thereby secured his election. If, however, he
shall have deceived and betrayed the South that State
Rights Democracy have but one alternative-to with
draw from his support They possess, at present. to
some extent, the balance of power in this Govern
ment and if they cannot stem the torrent of federal
encroachments upon Southern rights, they can, in
some measure, embarrass the action of the Federal
Government and stay for awhile, their own destruc
tion, until the period comes-and come, we fear, it
will-when those
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow,
If the National Democracy expect anything at the
hands of the Southern States Rights Democracy they
must show themselves national in proper sense
not national to wiring in many votes possible, to
increase the strength party at the expense of its
prnciplesational, not merely to enable the party to
triumph over its opponents and divide the official
oaves and fishes; but national, in the sense OF strict
observance of the constitutional rights privileges and
immunities Of every part of the naton-in the memo
rable words of Franklin Pierce, knowing no North
no South, East, no West under the Constitution,
but giving every section, in full measure, all it
constitutonaly claim, and making no discrimination
in favor of one section against another.
We invite attention to an article from the Charles
ton Mercury, entitled :" the National Democracy"
which more fully expresses our views than we have
space to do editorially. We are not, however, yet
prepared to join the Mercury in saying:
"The National Democratic aduinistr alton have thought
proper through Gov Walker purchase temporary
with the Black Republican party by taking step their
| power to make Kansas Il Northern anti Slave Stae.'
If, however, unequivoca evidence of the fact shall
| be given, reluctant we are to assume anita gonism
to the administration, duty to the South, the Con-
stitution the Unon will force us into such position.
| We have observed with modification the course of
| the Richmond Enquirer, Examiner, and other South
ern Democratic presses towards the States Rights
Democrats of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi But we those presses, thatwe got
accustomed to the terms ultras," extremists "
secessonists," applied to u.s. when they were placed
in the same category with us by Northern Abolition
lists and their vocabulary derived from that portion
of Abolitiondom, which wishes to keep the South in
| the Union for the pleasure of kicking and plunder
ing her has no terrors for the trne of the South
who " know their rights, and knowing, dare main
tan.''-[ Huntsville (Aa.) Democrat, 29th July.