New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-15

s. THE GEORGIA AND MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRACY Pro
NouNcED HAsrY,' "HARsH " AND " UNGRACIous."
There no longer be any doubt that the President
and his Cabinet, in which there are four Southern
men and three Northern men, have endorsed the
Walker treason against the South. The official or
gan, the ministerial journal, the Washington Union,
has put forth elaborate defense and justification of
Gov. Walkers inaugural address to the people of
Kansas, and rebukes the Democratic State Conven-
tons of Georgia and Mississippi as "hasty "harsh"
and "ungracious" In one place, it says: :" We are
constrained to think that Georgia and Mississippi
Democracy have pronounced their judgment rather
bastily;' and in another in allusion to the action
of those portions of the Democracy of the Union, it
adds with such a battle raging in his [Walker'sl
front, it was harsh and ungracious to open Thu fire
on his rear We feel no Doubt that the voice of the
two portions of the Southern Democracy which have
already spoken has but given expression to the gen.
era sentiment of both the Democrats and the old line
Wings Of the South and that the patriots of the
South, without distinction Of party, will be ungra-
cious enough to withdraw their confidence from
both Mr.. Buchanan and the Southern members
of his Cabinet, unless speedy and ample atoncment
be made for the late betrayal of Southern rights and
| interests.
1t is too papabe to admit of question that secre-
tary Stanton and Gov Walker, either by the instruc
ton with the sanction of President Buchanan and
his Cabinet, have grossly, Extensively and dctatorialy
nterfered to render Kansas non-slavehodng State,
by either procuring the adoption of constitution
| ignoring the question of slavery or by encouraging
popular opposition to prosavery constitution, and
threatening its rejection by Congress unless submitted
to the people, rather to the actual residents of
Kansas, for ratification rejection and all this ac-
| companied with an elaborate argument to show that
nature has forbidden the domestication of slavery in
| that region.
This hold to be in direct violation of the great
and cardinal principle of the Kansas-N ebraska act
which is nointeterence with the question of slavery
or, in other words, " to leave the people of Kansas
perfectly free in adopting State Constitution to de-
eide the question of slavery for themselves. What
freedom is left when the Executive appointees of the
Secretaryshp and Chief Magisracy of the Territory
backed by the Executive authority Of the Union de-
clare to the people of Kansas that the edct of God
and nature has forbidden the introduction of African
slavery among them; that it is their inherent, funda-
| mental, and unalenabe right to give the final vote
on the State Constitution, which their Convention
| may adopt, and that if that Convention (Which it
was well known wouid be pro-slavery body,) should
dare to violate the inherent, fundamental, and
alienabe right Of the people, Congress should inter
pose for its vindcaton, by rejecting the Constitution
What is this but Executive dictation of the most
gross, offensive and Objectionable characer-and its
improperly becomes only the more fragrant, when
it is considered that the dictatOrial interference in
question is eNerted in behalf of, concession to
party. in open contumacy and rebellion against
stituted authority. We have not time, at present. to
review the special pleading of the Executive and
Cabinet organ: it is sufficient to say that no spccia
pleading, however skilltul. can afford even decent
apology for such monstrous interference with pOpu
lar rights and State rights and for such gross be
traya of the confidence of the South, by the admin
istraton of its choice and its creation.
[Chareston Courier, 10th inst.