New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-11
Governor of Kansas, and hold that he deserves the
censure of the administration and Of the country.
The Mississippian of the 7th inst, thus commences

Governor of Kansas, and hold that he deserves the
censure Of the administration and Of the country.
The Mississippian of the It'll inst, thus commences
reply to the Richmond Enquirer:
The resolutions Of the Georgia and Mississippi
Democratic Conventions, censuring Robert Walkers
arbitrary Intervention in the affairs Of Kansas to the
detrment of the slaveholdng States, have aroused
the ire and provoked the rudeness and insoence Of
| the Richmond Enquirer, which contests with the
Union the doubtful honors of organshp to the dis
pensers Of Federal patronage.
| To show what sort of argument is used by the
apoogists of Walker to exteuEate his bad conduct
and what kind of reason is appealed to- in answer
to the Just complaints of Georgia and Mississippi and
we may say to the well known public sentiment of
all the Southern States we copy from the Rlehmond
Enquirer the annexed specimen Of reckless fasehood,
| low ribaldry, and exaggerated inyectives
We omittne extracts given by the Mississippian,
and quote again from the same paper:
But the pivot on which the administration was
hanging unfortunately for itself and the dsas-
trousy still for the country, turned Northward and
with it changed the tone OF the organf which had
censured Walker with so much energy. The En-
quirer not only abated its rgor but that sheet once
so bold and independent, when it felt assured by the
anecedents of the President and his cabinet that it
licensed to be So made haste to retrace his steps
And to obtain dispensation for the crime of having
spoken freely it now turns upon those who conceded
with it in opnion-casts imputations upon their mo-
tyes, and bespatters them with Misrepresentation and
cratic press. despisng such ductty to the prompt
ings of -abhorring slavish passveness to
outrage, and possessing such humble and obedent
trust in authority, but experience mingled emo
lions of pity and disgust for their Virginia cotempo.
rary As the slave goes to his shackles, sheep to
the slaughter so has the Enquirer FASTENED to the
nauseatng task of eating its own brave words, aud
stigmatzing its own course with foul epthet and de.
nuncation to please those whom it serves 1t would
have been base enough to suffer in silence what the
whole country knows to be outrage, but to herald
the wrong with shouts of joy within one brief month
after denouncng it, was to descend to an abyss of
humiliation from which the honest mind instinctyey
| shrinks with horror. sN
The case Of the Enquirer is but one of many illus
trations of the power of federal patronage and the
problem Of its disgusting course is solved without
difficulty when is borne in mind that its editor is an
applicant for foreign appointment Whether the
Office he seeks will be bestowed as reward for his
/ ignominous prostitution, remains to be seen; but
1 God defend the rights and honor OF our country
abroad, when they are entrusted to such hands,
And the Mssissppian concludes an extended article
in these words:
The field is inviting, but we shall not be tempted
into discussion of the relative merits and their ea
ty to the South and the Constitutional Union of V
gina and the States arraigned by the Enquirer;
shall permit 1t to reopen the agitation OF ls50-5l
Its game is too well understood The issue now pend
ing, and from which it would willingly divert the
try relates to R. j. Walkers violation of the Kansas
bhis Intervention in the affairs of the territory to
the detriment Of the slaveholding States-and the
sFoNsIBILITY FOR, his enormous transgressions.
We here close our Mississippi extracts for the pre-
sent. Let the people read them. Let our Democratic
friends, especially, ponder over them. And let the
Southern heart respond to them.