Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-07-16

and so acting, is entitled to sympathy,
comfort and aid from the South whenever
they can be given with conscientious re-
gard to truth. With such battle raging
in his front, it was harsh and ungracious
to open this FIRE on his rear"
In this connection it is proper to set
down what Walker really has has promised
to the Kansas people, and how far he has
implicated the President in those promises.
In his speech at Topeka he said:
@I will say, then, to you. gentlemen,
that if they do not appoint fair and i'm
partial mode by which the majority of the
actual bona-fide resident settlers of Kansas
shall vote, through the instrumentality Of
impartial judges, l will join you all in law
full opposition to their doiDgs, and the Pre-
sident and Congress pM reject their con
stitmion. As regards the past, l have got
no power to recall. The past is irrevoca-
BILE even by Almighty power, and l profess
to have very Little power, much less such
power as that. Over the past I hate no
control, but over the future I have; and /
say to you, that unless full and fair op-
portunity is given to the whole people Of
Kansas to decide for themselves what shall
be their form of government, including the
great sectional question which has SO long
divided you-unless, repeat, they grant
you such an opportunity, I have one pow
er of which no man or set of men can de-
prive me, and to which l shall unhesitating-
ly resort, and that is, to join you an la,cfd
opposition to their acts.
"On this subject desire to read to you an
extract from my Inaugural Address to the
people of the Territory of Kansas, togeth-
er with the vieps of the President of the
United States.
"Indeed, l cannot doubt that the Conven-
toni mean the Convention which is
about to meet in September next-after
having framed State Constitution will
submit it for ratification or rejection, by a
majority of the then actual bona fide resi-
dent settlers of Kansas.
"With these views, weu kaoaon to the
President and Cabinet, and approved By
them, accepted the appointment of Gov
ernor of Kansas. My ;nstruetions from
the President, through the Secretary Of
State, under date of the 3Oth of March
last, sustains the regular Legislature of the
Territory" in assembling a Convention to
form Constitution and they express the
opinion of the President, that when such
a Constitution shall be submitted to the
people of the Territory, they must be pro-
tected in the exercise of their right of vot
ing for or against that instrument; and the
fair expression of the popular will must not
be interrupted by fraud or violence"
At the risk of making this article seem
too long, we append a few extracts from
southern papers to show the temper of the
heaped upon Walker in con-
of his Topeka speech. They all
grow out of his bledge to have the Consti-
tuition submitted to the whole people of
Kansas. The Miss;ssippian, of June l9,
says:
"Ihe duplieity ofthe new Governor of
Kansas; his base betrayal of the South;
his cunning plot to surrender to the Free
State fanatics of the Territory the advan-
ages ofhe victortes they have gained, and
o engineer Kansas as an ant;-slaye State
asto the Union, have called do,cn upon
sim the just and bitter erecrations of the
Southern Press.
1t is gratifying fact that in the South
10 Journal of any party has given faint
,ign of approval of his course. There is
but one voice, and it is loud and emphatic
N condeming it. If it be true, therefore
hat in petraying his trust and pandering
10 the vicious spirit of ffreesoilism which has
;reated all the disturbances in Kansas and
;haken the Union itself to the centre, Gov
Walkers eyes were turned hopefully to fu-
ure and larger honors at the hands of the
Democracy, his vaulting ambition has over
capt itself. Nothing will be left him as
he reward of his perfdy, but fruits that
AVE turned to ashes on his lips, and the
tinging consciousness of guilt"
The Richmond Enquirer is more mod
rate but not less emphatic:
as it then not self-evident that the pro-
'osition of Governor Walker, to.allow to all
he inhabitants of Kansas Territory the
ight 10 pronounce upon the constitution,
J contradictory to the spirit of our institu-
ions, and subversive of rational liberty p
Is we said, day or two since, we mean
OF to assert that he is actuated by impro-
er motives. He may think that the cir
umstances surrounding him justify his
curse. But he is exerting his influence
ldging from his public declaration-to
rush out the great principle Of popular SOW
reignty. And unless he retraces his false
'eps as speedily as possible he cannot er-
ect to escape altogether similar cansure
, that sohich ,oas visited upon has prede-
essors."
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
ays: --. -f..l --
"With all their confidence in the admin
'tration, and as anxious as they are to sus-
ain it. they (he South J cannot hesitate to
epudiate both, # Walker is permitted to
saoart the South IN Kansas. They hope
,r the best, but are prepared to throw off
arty the instant it conflicts in Southern
uty. They await with anxiety, yet with
,uch confidence, the action of the Admins
alton in regard to the course Of Governor
Walker"
The Charleston Mercury says: