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MIR. BuCHANAN,s INSTRUCTIONS TO
6sovEre NOR WALKER.

GOVERNOR WALKER.
T. The Richmond Examiner Of the 10th instant pub.
fishes to the world the Instructions Of President Bu
chanan through the Secretary Of State, Gen. Glass; to
Governor Walker. The instructions read as follows
THE PRESIDENTS INSTRUCTIONS TO Coy. WALKER,
| THROUGH THE SECRETARY OF STATE. = The state OF
things in Kansas has caused the President great socl
tude He is very anxious for the permanent contiii.
uance Of the public peace, and for the restoratlSn
public confidence, so that the people OF tnas i.
tory may enjoy tranquility and the exercise o. an 'he
rights which justly belong to them. ihls eneeleu,
career of prosperity would be opened in consequence
of the natural advantages OF the countfy.pfopaDly
not exceeded by any other region IN our Ter
rorv From causes unnecessary to recaptulate diff
cutes have existed there occasioning great uneasi-
ness everywhere and threatening most disastrous
consequences. 1t is believed that rmness and discre-
ton in the administration of the Territorial Govern
mept will 90 far towards the permanent establish
ment Of the peace which now prevails there and, it
IS hoped, will prevent its future disturbance.
In seeking to procure the services OF citizen quail
flied to undertake these responsible duties with a
prospect of success, the President grati6ed to
learn, when application was made to you, that you
were willing to accept the Office of Governor OF KAN
sas and to devote yourself tothe execution of its i'm
portant duties. In this feeling he is confident the
country will participate and will find in your dstin-
guished public services and in the high positions you
have so ably filled, an assurance that the measures
you adopt will be well calculated to assert the author
ity of the law.
The President was DESTROYS that you should pro-
coed immediately to Kansas and enter upon the dis
charge Of the Executive duties. But as you had
informed him in your letter of acceptance that crcum-
stances beyond your control would render lmpos'
sble for you to leave here before the second MONDAY
of May next he assents to this delay and trusts tha
Immediately thereafter you will proceed your Gov
eminent and enter upon your duties. And the Presl
dent the more readily assents to this arrangement,
because in the meantime F. P. Stanton, Esq, will ac
cept the office Of Secretary of the Territory and, In
your absence, will be vested with all the powers OF
the Executive He will Immediately set out for Kan
sas III accepting the Office he has been animated by
the same motives which have prompted you to make
sacrifice to the public interest, and he will command
the confidence of the country by his well known
services and experience and by his qualifications for
the position.
Commissions for yourself and for him accompany
these instructions.
There are two great objects connected with the
present excitement growing out of the affairs OF Kan.
sas, and the attainment of which will bring it to a
speedy termination. These clearly and succincty
stated in the Presidents recent inaugural address,
and embody the paragraphs in this communication,
asking your special attention to them 1t is declared
in that instrument to be "the imperative and inds.
pensabe duty Of the Government Of the United States
to secure to every resident the free and in
dependent expression of his opinion by his VOTE This
sacred right Of each individual must be preserved,
and " that being accomplished. nothing can be fairer
than to leave the people of Territory free from all
foreign interference to decide their own destiny for
themselves, subject only to the Constitution OF the
United States"
Upon these great rights of individual action and of
public decision rests the foundation of American in.
titutions and if they are faithfully secured to the
people Of Kansas, the political condition of the coun-
try will soon become quiet and satisfactory The in
stitutions Of Kansas should be estabshlshed by the
votes Of the people of Kansas, unawed and unnter-
rupted by force or fraud And foreign voters must
be excluded, come whence they may, and every at
tempt to oyerawe or nterptthe free exercise OF the
right of voting must be promptly repealed and pun
ished Freedom and safety for the legal voters, and
exclusion and punishment for the illegal ones-these
should be great principles Of your administration.
The regular Legislature Of the Territory having
authorized the assembling of Convention to frame
under the provisions of the Federal Constitution the
people of Kansas have the right to be protected in
the peaceful election of delegates for such purpose,
under such authority and the Convention itself has
right to similar protection in the opportunity for tran
quill and undistnrbed elaboration. IThen such Con-
stitutin shall be submitted to the people Of the Ter
toy they must be protected in the exercise of their
right of voting for OR against that instrument and the
fair expression Of the popular will must not be inter
rupted by fraud or violence.
The President concurs in the hope expressed by
you, that the intervention of the military force will
not be necessary; but should this just expectation
be disappointed, he refers you for the measures you
must adopt and for the necessary authority in that
emergency to the instructions heretofore given by
the President of the United States and by this De
partment to your predecessors. Copies OF these in
structons accompany this communication, and two
copies of the instructions heretofore issued by the
War Department, and of those issued by the present
Secretary of War respecting the employment of the
troops of the United States upon your requiston.
You will communicate freely with this Department
from time to time, that the President may be kept
informed as to the true state of things in Kansas
We have not room for extended comment upon
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fully sustained, and that it is folly for the South to
hope anything from the administration it put in
power. Resident Inhabitants is, feeesoers,
who may pour into the Territory for purpose, and
declare themselves residents to be protected
the constitution of Kansas about to be framed is to
be accepted rejected by Congress, under the pro-
visions Of the Federal Constitution" ETC. Congress
has no right to reject any constitution, duly framed
if it is republican in its character-a fact Mr., Blu
chanan seems to have forgotten. And that when
such constitution shall be submitted to the people of
the Territory, they must be protected, etc. etc. all
of which means that if a pro-slavery constitution
shall be formed, the aboltonists shall be allowed
time to swarm the borders and vote it down,
and be protected" in voting it down. That is the
plain English Of it. There is no law requiring any
State constitution to be submitted to vote of the
people for ratification yet Mr.. Buchanan and his pro-
consul Governor Walker, possessing not the smallest
particle legal constitutional Or moral authority,
to say yea or nay in the premises, declare that the
constitution of Kansas must be submitted to popu-
lar vote ratification whether the Convention wills it
or not
We shall have something, perhaps much, to say on
this subject hereafter. In the meantime, let the
badly sold Southern people commune together.
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