Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-06-11
Cow. Walker, inaugural.

The Address is lengthy, and is in Walk
er's wordiest style, ranging from historical
to Fourth OF July hyfalutin. It's length
forbids transfer to our columns, nor do
we propose lengthy notice, of the Union
saving and personally laudatOry document.
He sets out by informing the people that
he accepted the post at the earnest sOlicita-
ton of the President and Cabinet, assured
by them that the fate Of The Union depen-
ded upon his making the sacrifice. Under
such circumstances he couldn't decline!
He tells the people he has been in the
Senate of the United States, and has been
Secretary Of the Treasury, and quotes what
he said, and what he then thought.
The laws Of the Territory are the laws
Of the land, and must be submitted to-
He urges the entire people to vote in the
approaching election for members Of the
Constitutional Convention, and expects the
Constitution, when completed, to be sub
mitted 10 the people for rejection or ratif-
cation. He says, "my instructions from the
President, through the Secretary Of State
under date of Both of March last, sustain
'the regular legislature of the Territory"
in assembling Convention to form Con-
stitution," and they express the opinion Of
the President, that "when such Constitu-
ton shall shall be submitted to the people
of the Territory, they must be protected in
the exercise Of their right Of voting for or
against that instrument; and the fair ex-
preston of the popular will must not be in
ierrupted by fraud or violence"
81 repeat, then, as my clear conviction,
that unless the Convention submit the Con-
stitution to the vote of all the actual resident
settlers of Kansas, and the election be fair
ly and Justly conducted, the Constitution
will be, and ought to be rejected by Con-
gress." ..,-a..
He argues the negro question at great
length, sample of which we annex
"And let me ask you, what possible good
has been accomplished by agitdting in Con-
gress and Presidential conflicts the slavery
question? Has it emancipated d single
slave or improved their condition? Has it
made single State free, where slavery
otherwise would have existed? Has it ac-
celebrated the disappearance of slavery from
the more northern of the slaveholding
States, or accomplished any practical good
whatever? No, my fellow citizens, MOTH
ing but unmhigated evil has already en-
sued, with disasters still more fearful i'm
pending for the future, as consequence Of
this agitation.
There is law more powerful than the
legislation of man, more potent than passion
or prejudice, that must ultimately determine
the location Of slavery in this country, it is
the isothermal line, it is the law Of the Their
mometer, of latitude or altitude, regulating
climate, labor and productions, and as q
consequence, profit and loss. Thus even
upon the mountain heights of the tropics
slavery can no more exist than in Northern
ATTITUDES, because it Is Improbable, being
; unsuited to the constitution of that sable
race transplanted here from the equatorial
heats of Africa. Why is it that in the I'm.
ion, slavery recedes from the north, anc
progresses south? 1t is this same great
climatic law now operating for or against
slavery in Kansas"
The questions asked by the Governor, If
the first paragraph of the foregoing quota
tions might be answered at some length
showing what harm has arisen from til
agitation, and how his party is responsible
for that agitation--and how they, with thei
agitation proclivities, have accelerated tn
, disappearance of slavery from the NOR
northern Of the slave holding States" bu
: it would be time and labor lost: men Of hi
party admit the fact, but stick to the agits
tors, and will say it is that "law more pow
erful than the legislation of man." that
doing the work. That ''isothermal line
will be like the great principal of the M
braska Bill, suiting all attitudes, in electc
times, and whether it operates "for or !
gainst slavery in Kansas" the GovernC
does not pretend to say, but throws out Il
suggestion Cor Northerners and Southern
ers to discuss-a new idea 10 put down ag
tation! ...--.. go.
The following paragraph closes the Digg'
o subject, and strikes alike at northern fana
i icism and southern fire-eaters:-
n sis it not infinitely better that SLAYER
70 should DO abolished or established in Kal
i ses, rather than that we should becon
J. slaves and not permitted to govern gu
II selves? Is the absence or existence of sla'
IS cry in Kansas paramount 10 the great que
% tons Of State sovereignty, Of sef-governme
2 and of the Union? Is the sable African
II lone entitled to your sympathy and consi'
Grafton, even if he were happier as a fire.
man than as slave, either here, or in s
Domingo, or the British West Indies,
l. Spanish America, where the emancipat'
D. slave has receded to barbarism and a.
a, proaches the lowest point,,in the descendr
a scale of moral, physical and in,ellectu
: degradation. Have our white brethren
y the great American and Eropean race l