The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1857-07-17
The Administration In Trouble.

ton, has got into "peck of trouble"
again, in reference to Kansas. Gov.
walker Sin an evil hour" pledged
himself that he would have the Con.
stitution when framed, submitted to
u vote of the people, then actual res
idcnts, as determined by a new and
correctregistration ofthc legal voters;
and further that if tho Constitution
was not thus submitted, he woulI
join the free State men, in opposing
its prescn ton to Congress. This
proposition has raised a perfect storm
OF indignation at the South. Two
Democratic State Conventions, that
Of Georgia and tina. Of Mississippi,
have denounced Walker in the sever
est terms, and nearly every Demo.
cratic paper in theSouth either open
ly repudiales him Or disapproves of
his policy. The Administration at
first made some show of sustaining
him, but the fire became too hot and
the Washington Union, Buchanan's
mouth-piece, abandons tho ground
and tries to cover its retreat, by ia.
king the following position, which is
simply yielding the point at issue:
"But who are the peoplel What
shall DO the qualifications O: q voter
on the constitution when it comes to-
be submittedl We ansacer that this
rs tor the convention TO settle. Those
who think that the convention might
declare the constitution in full force
by virtue Of their own will, can hard
ly deny that they might append to it
a condition requiring 1t to be first
approved by the people. Ifthey can
do this, they can also say what elias.
ses Of persons shall be counted as
being part OF the people,"
Ihis thing OF allowing q Convcn.
tion, whose delegates have been elec-
ted by but about 1900 voters, out of
fifteen or twenty thousand legal vo.
tiers, to determine "who are the peo.
ple," is too absurd to be called even
an artful dodge. The bogus author.
tiles contrived to have a partial cen.
sus taken by which there are regis
tered but about one fourth of the le-
gal voters. On this registration, as
a basis, an apportionnen OF dele
gates is made, for this Convention,
and by q small fraction of the regis
tered voters, these delegates are elec-
ted, depending for their place upon
a constituency, the most rabid and
ultra, in the territory, on the subject
of slavery; and these are the men the
Washington Union declares, compe.
tent to decide who are entitled to
vote on the adoption Of the Consti.
tuition.
Instead Of sustaining Walker, as
this makes show OF doing, it is Civ.
ing up the whole contest.
The Union in it's efforts to reooy-
er the ground lost in the South,
makes the following averments OF
the loyalty Of tho Administration to
Southern interests:
Governor Walker is a Southern
man; he has been sent out by an ad.
ministration pledged to the defense
OF southern rights; he is surrounded
by a corps Of officers, most OF them
from the South and every ono of
them sound national men; he was in.
structed to regard the Territorial au.
thorities as legal, and sustain them
against the rebellion of tho Topeka
sbolitionists; he ia acting in concert
with the friends Of tho South, and
calamity fighting their enemies
We cannot help but think that such
man, 10 sent, 30 instructed, 90 sur
rounded, and so acting, is entitled to
'IsymPathy, comfort and aid from the
} South whenever thoy can be given
Win q conscientious regard to truth.
With such q battle raging in his
front, Il was harsh and ungracious to
open this fire on his rear.N
l 1t WOuld seem, from the aboua tho.