Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-08-27
South Carolina Denounoes Walker and
Buchanan.

Hondt democracy denouncea as rfee oo"'
Hon. Mr.. Keitt, the pet Representative
Of South Carolina, in Congress, writes
long letter 10 his people, literally skinning
alive Gov. Walker and Pres't Buchanan.
Hear some of his talk:
Has the present Administration fairly
carried out the provisions OF the Kansas
Nebraska bil2 have they secured fair play
between the North and the Souths The
first act was the appointment as Governor
Of Kansas, Of man Of broken fortunes and
sulied name; a needy adventurer, who
traded upon the sincerity Of the South, and
stole into her confidence through deceitful
professions. What was his first acip To
debauch Kansas from allegiance to the
South, and deliver her into the hands of
Free-soil fanatics. To say that the cause
Of the South was lost in Kansas prior to
the appointment of Walker, lis TO palate
fraud by falsehood. A plain statement Of
facts will show the truth in this particular.
Upon the passage OF the Kansas. Nebraska
bill, an effort was Immediately made by
both sections, the South to establish, the
North to prohibit, Slavery. This issue
absorbed all others, and constituted the
gravamen of every contest in that territory
Companies were organized at the North,
and money freely contributed by Legisla-
lures and individuals to colouize Kansas
with Free Soil incendiares, and expel
Slavery from its limits. The South was
reused by the fierce and plunging propa-
gandism Of the North, and her sons went 10
champion her cause in the new Territory;
and her money was given to maintain them
in the struggle. At the very beginning OF
its Territorial existence, Kansas became
the battle ground, where the forms oil soci-
ETY. and labor, North and South, strove for
the mastery, This was the only question
agitated in the Territory. Contest sue
ceeded contest, the South won each; tri-
umph followed triumph, and each was en-
blazoned upon her banner. Three times
was General Whitfield elected the Delegate
from the Territory, and each time he was
elected as the pro-Slavery representative.
A large majority Of the members of the
Territorial Legislature have always been
pro-Slayery men, and the Constitution,
which is expected 10 close the Territorial
career of Kansas, and inaugurate her a
State, is absolutely in the hands of the
same party. Public law this makes this
Convention the absolute architect Of the
Constitution Of Kansas, and usage in many
similar cases, dispenses with the submissio
OF the Constitution to popular ratification.
Why were companies organized and
money levied at the North but to make
Kansas free StateP Why were efforts
made at the South to col nize Kansas, and
money given to accomplish this, but to make
her a slave State? Every effort, every
struggle, every movement on either side,
was made to make Kansas a free or slave
State, The Federal Government, as the
the agent of both parties, was pledged TO
absolute impartiality between the contend
ing parties. The South won on every
phrase of the issue, and every step Of the
fight; and now when the sceptre of control
is in her very grasp, it is suddenly and
that this change has SO suddenly happened?
How comes it that the cause OF the South
has SO suddenly gone down? Perjured
Governors have broken faith to blast her
cause, and yet she bravely struggles and
wins the victory against all odds. Pros
tituted patronage insinuates its debauchery,
and yet the nerves of the South are I'M
Stacked and her energy unquelled. Year
after year the territory is shaken with re-
volt, is stained with blood and wrapped in
flames, and yet the cause of the South pros
pers, and her banner is triumphant. The
last and closing struggle is made, and the
victory is hers! when 10! its fruits turn 10
ashes i'll her hands, and despair settles upon
her cause, Why this so sudden change?
Is it not the nelarious and fraudulent inter
vention of the Federal Government?-
There were periured Governqrs in Kansas
before Walker stained lis soil with fraud
and tyranny; but their crimes were fruit
less, because the Administration was known
not to sympathize with or connve at the fraud
and wrong. How happens it that Walk
er's dishonest intrigues too have not been
bootless also? Ii is not because the Adj
ininistration is believed to sympathize with
and sbet the fraud and wrong? Is it not
because he is believed to be clothed with
the sanctions OF the Federal Government
that he has succeeded in his foul and set
tied Vaccination? II the cause of the
South be lost in Kansas, it is lost through
the base betrayal of perured minion of
federal appointment. If the cause of the
South be lost in Kansas, il is lost because
a federal official, with the furnished tinsel
Of Office around him, has Travelled through
the Territory as vagrant orator, strolling
player, and political mountebank, corrupt
ing and debauchng, tricking and bullying
wherever Free Soil objects could be accom-
plished by these base appliances.
The loss of Kansas to the South is a great
loss. And does it become the minons of
the party in the losing section TO stignatise
those who have shed their blood and given
their money to avert this calamity, by say
ing that the struggle was a foolish one in
the beginning, for that the cause of the
South was long ago hOpeless? No-the
sacrifices were patriotic, and the efforts
made TO save Kansas to the South were no.
BILE. Nor were they bootless, until the
Federal Government fraudulently inter-
fered. Is it honest, is it manly, is it de.
cent, for the Administration TO gather the
spoils Of the fraud committed by its minion,
and then shuttle off the responsibility? To