Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-04-24
MIR. Walker on Kansas.

In view of the appointment of the Hon.
Robert }. Walker as governor Of Kansas, the
following extracts from a letter WHICH he
wrote while the Presidential election Was
pending, is interesting and important The
letter WAS dated September 80, 1856, and WAS
addressed to the democratic committee in
Pitt>bGrg, Pa. IL was an elaborate review of
the principal topics of the canvass, and con-
tanned the following sentences relative 10 Kan
>as:
III this question. provided hy the Kan
sas and Nebraska bill should be left 10 the
people of the Territory in forming their State
constitution, it will toe determined hy soil,
climate, production and the laws which gov
rn the movement of population Here. the
NORTH, aided 10y It's greatly superior numbers,
by European non >LNeholdins emigrants, by
the greater faculty OF Mo. .emeut unincurn-
bered 10y the transport of slaves. or the ap-
prehension vi their ultimate condition where
taken, have great advantages over the south
IN the settlement ofne~ Territories, and should
be perfectly satisfied with the principle which
leave the determination Of this question, when
they become "A State, TO a majority Of the peo-
pie OF the Territory. This is the Kansas Ne
oraska bill. Ihls Is non interyention-abso.
lutte non-lnteriercnce by the federal govern
mcnt This is the doctrine of the constitu-
ton. This Is that rule of absolute equality
ot rights of all the States, which lays at the
foundation of the confederacy. This is that
c4n-t.tui-n nai right, recognized in the adins-
sion oil new States, that they come into tho
Union upon an equal footing with other States,
IN ali respects whatsoever. But the equality
does not exist, If other States acced. or come
inte the Union, with or without slavery. At
their pleasure and Kansas cannot do 20.
There IS another reason; not heretofore ad-
verted to, which seems to render IL impracti-
caoie long to maintain slavery in Kansas
In all the slave States there is a large maio-
rity OF voters who are non-slaveholders. but
they are devoted TO the institutions Of the
south-they would defend them with their
tves-and on this question the south are
united people. This cL.ss, composed of ma
ny small farmers, or merchants, professional
men, mechanics, ovenseers, and other indus.
trial classes, constitute mainly the patrol of
the south, and carefully unite in CARRYING out
those laws essential 10 preserve the institu-
ton. Against a powerful n,.l.u..ty and con-
slant agitation, slavery could not long exist
IN any State. IL Is n well known fact that
this result would have followed soon, in seve-
raj OF the slave States, but for the unanimity
speedy produced there by the abolition ar
bltrators and Intermediates Of the north
Now Kansas is much divided on the question
OF slavery there; there is powerful minority
there, If not majority. A PARTY not neutral
but bitterly hostile to the institution; and for
this, in addition to the reason before given,
do not believe Kansas will tecome slave
State.
The Boston Journal (Repubiican,) says:
If Mr.. Walkers official scts ara goyerned
by the views herein presented, and the prin-
ciple Of popular sovereignty is administered
with thorough impartiality, the friends Of free
Kansas can reasonably expect nothing further
OF the new governor in the advancenent Of
their own ideas Of the true destiny Of the Ter
ritory.