Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-08-01
GOV. WALKER AND KANzAs.

, to give our readers that brief but suecinCt eX.
PLANTATION of it which our limited space reduces
US to, but which is necessary and important
if it is desirable to keep up with the political
history Of the country.
The all,engrossing political topic at the pre-
sent time, affecting in opposite ways the true
Southern man and the Northern freesoiler, is
the course Gov. WALKER is pursuing and wiU
pursue in kanzas. In his inaugural address
and in his Topeka speech he uttered sentiments
which were cheering to, what may be now con-
sidered, his Black Republican friends, but con-
demDed as deserved, by a large majority Of
that Democracy Of the South who subscribed
to the Kanzas resolution as contained in the
Democratic platform Of 1856.
1t appears that Congress at its last session
passed a law providing for the election of del
tembes next, to form q constitution for the
State of kanzas. 1t was enacted that none
should vote at this election except those who
were residents of the Territory in March, and
all voters should register their names before
the day of election.
About this time Gov. WALKER makes his
appearance in KaDzas, and in his inaugural di-
rectly states it to be his "clear conviction that
unless the convention submit the constitution
to the votes of all the actual settlers of Kan
zas," for their approval or ~disapproval, sit will
be and ought to be rejected by Congress-"
The law of Congress on the subject says
nothing about submitting the constitution to
the people for their ratification, after said con-
%stitution has been adopted by the convention
but is presumedto be opposed to such a course,
from the simple fact Of stating that none
should vote for the election Of delegates in
September except those who were residents in
March. What use in making such a provisions
if the constitution after it is made, as Governor
WALKER says, must be voted upon by the PEG.
pie then in Kanzas-and one can imagine the
hordes Of freesoilers which the Aid Societies
Of the North would be encouraged in sending
into Kanzas before September, after such a
favorable declaration by IFS Governor.
Further along in his augural Gov. WALKER
takes it upon himself to say that "Kanzas, by
reason of its geographical position and climate,
is unsuited to slave labor" thus throwing
whatever weight his judgment might have in
opposition to the slave interest.
Subsequently Gov. WALKER attends a Free
soil gathering at Topeka, gotten up to devise
some means for carrying into effect their con-
%stitution, made about eighteen months since,
and called the "Topeka Constitution" Here
Gov. WALKER made another speech, which
was duly appIauded by his Freesoil friends, in
which he reiterates in more forcible style his
idea of submitting the. constitution to the peov
pie for their ratification, hundreds, and maybe
of whom, 0ere not privileged By
lGao to cote for the delegates soho framed it!
The consequence of this unexpected atti-
Jude of Gov. WALKER has drawn forth the
excavations of probably nine-tenths of the
Southern papers, for they have seen enough t
# R. J. WALKER in Kanzas to know that, q
and body, he is linked with the fortunes ,
# the Black Republicans, and that the South /
an hope for nothing through him. {
But the worst of it is, the Administration
pproves his course ; consequently the Presio
ent, also, receives the bitter denunciations Of P
many of the very journals which supported t
i'm last year. He has thrown a fre.brand t
mong his friends of the South, and seems /
ruly to be deeply inbued with that FreesoiI d
which the K. N. orators charged him with
st summer This false step on the part of Il
lr. BUCHANAN (for false step it certainly is, in Z
anctioning the course advised by a Territorial "
which, if adopted, would tend to de-, {
at the very object which was designed to be n
scured by the enactment of an important law -,
much to be regretted, as there seemed to be =,
general disposition to approve the local acts te
the President, that he might enter with q oil
ne national spirit into the management of ST
If national affairs, which he could SO much q.
tier have done with the knowledge that the DC
'ople of the Union were comparatively satis~ CO
ID, and even disposed to lend him every aid 10
wards a successful administration. But Mr.. u
has reused against him the lion
nose voice daunted his foes ard raised him Ie
the highest pinnacle of earth. What will II
suit from it, God only knows. a"
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