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VIRGINIA AND THE KANSAS QUESTION.

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VIRGINIA AND THE KANSAS QUESTION
II Is truly gratifying to with what zeal and ability
the leading organs of Virginia. well the promi-
nent politicians of the State coming up to the de-
fence Of the administration in its honest efforts TO settle
the Kansas question and restore peace and quiet to the
country. The Richmond Enquirer and Examiner the
two leading Journals Of the State daily filed with
articles of marked ability sustaining the administration
from the violent assaults being made upon by the
utraists Of the North and South They reflect doubt
the sentiments of nnetentls of the democracy of the
State This is the gratifying from the fact that
this glorious old State has always taken the lead in fore
Swallowing the true policy of the government upon all
great questions Of public concern The high and COM
handing influence she has always exered in controlling
the politics Of the country has been owing to the emf
neny-conservatve opinions she has always maintained
upon questions Of public policy No State in the Union
has done more for southern interests, and been
loyal the great principles Of the democratic party yet
she has given countenancc to the dangerous and
impracticable ultraisms Of the extreme southern
northern States II Is notorious that these ultras
from both sections opposed to Mr.. Bnchanans
nomination at Cincinnati, upon the grounds that he
was too conservative and national in his views to
answer their peculiar purposes that he would ii elect
cd, defeat the darling object they had at heart
a separation of this glorious Union. These men are
administration that did not favor their peculiar views. 1t
is a matter OF establishment with how any national d
oerat can find fault with Mr. Buchans administration,
40 far as the policy of that administration has been devel
oped He selected by the democracy, not because of
his pr slavery antislavcry opinions but because of
his wclIknown conservatism, tried craftsmanship, and
strict regard for the constitutional rts of the States
and those who voted for him under any other impression
will be most wofnlly disappointed If they expect him
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tional question: they have mistaken their The in
structions given by the administration to Governor
Walker imbody the very essence of State rights,
"a interpreted by the most ultra southern states
men He was instructed to say that the admins
tration desired that the people Of Kansas should ,Oihom for
eqa interference Of any kind be aood decide upon their organic
lac ia ray He goes far as to clothe the
governor with power if necessary, to call out the mill
tary TO keep off oil foreign influences either from the
North or Sh and to insure full and fair expression Of
the will Of the people Of the Territory upon the adoption
or rejection OF their own constitution All that the adj
mnistration desires is that the people Of Kansas may
have the same right which other States and Territories
have always enoyedthc right to adopt their own do
nestle institutions To deny this right is to repudatc
the whole doctrine of State rights let the conven-
ton that their constitution who are to be
voters upon it, they have the unqucstoned right
to do and that puts the whole question at rest far
all outside Influences concerned The democratic
party of Kansas, which is the prosavery party have
determined in convention with only dissenting voice,
to submit the constitution when drawn up to the people
of the Territory 1t to be presumed that they understand
their true interests WE'LL at least, ultra friends
Of Mississippi Georgia. Too much excitement and
bad feeling between the two sections Of the Union have
already grown out of this question the country tired
and sick of it, and it becomes every lover of peace,
quiet and good government to frown upon oil efforts
at further agitation, from what quarter they may
This question settled the Union Of the States will
be strengthened and perpetuated and will then real
ze the highest state of prosperity and glory Of any
people upon the habitblc globe That the policy
Mr. Buchanan administration will lead to these hap
by results if he is sustained by the South in carrying it
out, there cannot be shadow Of doubt. When see
such men the distinguished governor of Virginia "a
who fills large space in the public mind and
who of the ultra Calhoun Saterghts school of poll
tics such journals the Richmond Enquirer and Ex-
amner, the Washington Union, whose editor Is south
by birth and education and who feels deep inter
est in everything that her welfare and glory
when we see such influences these sustaining and
dorsing the policy Of the administration tho southern
people need have fears that their interests will be
rccd Surrounded the President is by such true and
distinguished southern men John b. Floyd Howell
Cobb AZ ". Brown, and Jacob Thompson, his coun-
sellers and advisers of the South have perfect guar
for the protection of rights. We would
think mother would forsale her offspring as to
suppose that either of these gentlemen
would forsake his native South and her institutions
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