The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-05-23

Walkers Address.
governor of Kansas has publish
-iress to the people of the Territory ,
,npg his views He declares that the 10
al laws passed by the pro-slavery Legisla-
tafe asx,vniid, and must be executed: that
Aawsfor the election of members of the
convention in June is legal enactment, and
isafair and libernlIoMr. Walker represents
to the staIid-aloof Free State party, that their
silesce in thslelection will be construed into
Consent TO what the majority of the voters
may orda;n and establish--that there il
every iiidueementifor the Free State party to
@gotin and win;u and he hopes and believes,
and pleads earnestly that the Convention
viii submit its constitution for ratification to
aivote Of the people before submitting it to
Congress. He suggests that the Convention |
rnay1dopt acorstitution without any provis-
ens-uPon the subject of slavery, leaving the |
subjeet TO Legislative enactment .a91sT'
He appeals to all parties in behalf of the
Union, the continued blessings of which. he
represents as dependant upon the speedy
md peaceful admission of Kansas, either as a
free or slave State. He suggests to Southern
men the prospect that the great and fertile
! Isdiaa slueeAolding territory south of Kan
sas is soon 10 become State, aided and en-
eoaraged by the State of Kansas, if they
Kill yield the territory of Kansas for free
State 'DI
In the interval to the meeting of Congress,
Mr.. Walker has plain line OF duty to fol-
low. He can do nothing more nor less in
hss a TarritOrial
administer the local laws as he finds them.-
To secure the corporation, however, of the
free State party, he appeals strongly to their
reason and their interests. With the admis-
sion of Kansas as State, the Indian titles to
large tracts of her lands will be extingush-
ed, and liberal grants of land will be made
to the new State for railroads, schools and
colleges, in addition to homesteads and pre-
emptions to actual settlers. Then an impe-
tus will be e ven TO all the Pacific railroads
having Kansas for their center, of the great
,estimportanee to all the land and railroad
spectators in the United States. And il
these, all these splendid offers will not suffice
70 secure the consent of all the free State
land spectators and stockholders inside
and outside of Kansas, to the quiet admis-
sion OF tie State as arranged by the pro-sla-
Very party, Mr.. Walker has still another en-
couragement to give. IL is this: That al
though Kansas may be admitted as slave
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racto-and' very soon de jure, too-slio mus
become free State.
-l.-ltis evident that he expects pro slavery
constitution to be adopted by the Conven
ytion, and if submitted to the people it vii
be rejected by an overwhelming majority Q
the people. If the Convention, however
should refuse to submit it to a vote of th
peoples and offer it to Congress without thei
approval, then the Administration and Con
gress upon the eogent plea that the constltu
ition had not been ratified by the Kansas pee
pie, would have the desired opportunity fc
quashing the proceedings of both parties j
Kansas and for the Introduction Of ne
scheme of compromise, which is probabl
tho surrender of the bulk of the present Tel
sritory of Kansas to the free State party f
"a free State, with the equivalent to the Ere
slavery party, of new slave State in tn;
great Indian territory along the +soather
line of Kansas. This would be virtual RI
storation Of the Missouri Compromise. TT
only difficulty in the way is the rights of Il
Greeks and Cherokees. They cannot be di,
possessed of their Territory without viols
.tion of national faith and to attempt to in
corporate with the whites, as citizens of
State, would involve the same difficult,
that followed the attempt of Georgia to G,
tend her laws over them in their old home
and which led to their removal to the We
of the Mississippi. They are Jealous of the
rights and are opposed to sharing their loo
sovereignty with white men, to whom the
know they would soon become a subject ar
prescribed race. There can be no equal
of social and political condition in such
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