Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-07-10
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 10, 1867.


FRIDAY MORNING. JULY71o, 1857.
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KAxsas-AG -Kansas-not bleeding
but bloody Kansas, is becoming quite topic
in this vicinity, we should infer, inasnueh as
the Tfmes and Ar0us were both out ON the
question yesterday, taking, of course, a differ
emit tack in their treatment Of the subject. We
are happy to see that the Argus has written a
model article in the way of cool nOn-committal-
ism, saying just about this:-that il Gov.
Walker is doing so and so, on purpose, that is,
If he has turned free sOiIer, why then he de-
serves the denunciations which are being show
cred so plentifully upon him by the ultra mig
eeritish press of Richmond and elsewhere. But
on the other hand, il the Governor is playing
postum, and is all the while playing into the
hands OF the propogandists, why he's all right
-hc will pass mustcr-and is in fact very
clever man, and the right kind,Ofa Governor.
In the course Of some remarks upon the sub
lect, our cautious neighbor observes:
"Gov. Walker, in going farther and threaten
ing TO OPPOSE the admission of Kansas into the
Union, unless the Constitution shall have been
submitted to the vote of the inhabitants at
future day, appears to have exceeded ms IN
structiOnE.''
Now. the AggW cannot have forgotten that
Gov. Walker was permitted to make out his
own Misunderstanding one of our leading
statesmen, and known to be a remarkably saga
cious man, Mr. Buchanan had such unlimited
confidence in him that he Just said t" the Gov
ernor, 'ax matters to suit yourself" II, of
course, is reasonable to suppose that he submit
ted his programme of operations to the Presi-
dent, and we have no doubt but what the Pres
ident endorsed them fully.
The simple, plain truth OF the whole matter
about these Kansas Governors is easily dis
cerned. If any one will Just let slip their preju-
dices long enough to look at the record. Short
" alter the erection of Kansas into territory,
President Pierce sent Gov. Reeder out to take
charge of the government Gov. Reeder was
allowed to be a regular old orthodox Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, Democrat. He went out
there-stayed awhilo-and it began to be whis-
pered that he was playing the free soiler, so out
he was put, and sure enough he next turned up as
a stumper for Fremont Why he did so, he
himself (not us) explained, viz that there was no
fair and impartial government in Kansas, and
that something ought to be done to secure such
government.
The next appointment was that poor, unfortun-
ate Shannon, over the river here, who before he
had left st Louis went down on his knees to
the Missourians, telling them in speech there
that they need have no fears Of him for he was
perfectly sound on the Goose question" But
so 1t happened in little while that Shannon
was suspected of being tainted and to placate
tho indignation of the StringfcIIows and Ache
sons. President Pierce set him aside also
Next comes Geary-another orthodox Pennsyl-
ynnian. He went out and tried his best to be
the famous mediator in the dificulties-but af-
ter, as he himself said, doing everything he
could to secure purity in the elective fran
chise and free speech, he was obliged to declare
the project hopeless. So Governor Geary comes
home an out-and-out free soiler-completely
Disguised with the border ruifianism of String
fellow and company. Like the Kings son in
the parable, Robt j. Walker Southern man
"a Sissippian-although by birth North
erner. was sent out as last resort, and North
and South, East and West, it was supposed that
the cause of the South would not suffer in his
hands. But, contrary to all expectation, no
sooner does Governor Walker have time
10 look about him and take his bearings,
than he falls into the beaten track and marks
out policy, the prosecution of which is
bringing down upon him the wrath and APP
probium of the whole niggeritish press
To say the least of it, all these things look
queer, and ought be enough to make any man,
LAYING claim to hard sense, investigate the SUBJ
ject and not be led about by prejudice. Our
impression is just this, that these Governors
having good opportunities to judge of the whole
merits of tho issue between the free State and
pro-slavery men, saw that the system of cleo
tions-the system of laws as made by the String
fellows and Achesons, were subyersive otevery-
thing that looked Ike justice. Gen. Cass, in his
place in the Senate last session, declared that
the laws enacted by the legislature of Kansas
were "a disgrace to the civilization of the age"
and every one by single reading of them will
soon conclude that the General rightly deSigna-
ted Them yet for all that the ultras tell us that
thew who make them are Nationals. Governor
Walker has determined that the people shall
have fair impartial say in the adoption of the
constitution; both sides will be equally pro-
tected, and any one who knows anything of
the antecedents of the Governor, knows that he
is not likely to see any southern man imposed
upon. Why is it then that he is pursued and
denounced by fire eaters-the cotton school OF
ultraists! Common sense asks why.
NEw YonE Rrors.-ou Sunday night the ter
rible riots on the Five Points, New York city,
were renewed, and twelve persons were shot and
over twenty wounded with stones and other