Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-24
Free Kansas.

The "Missouri Democrat" rabid Freesoil
paper, which advocated the election of Buchan-
an, thus chuckles over the policy of the Admin
istration in reference to Kansas:
eff Buchanan had failed to recognize the bo-
gus laws he would have had the whole South a.
bout his ears If he sustained them and thus
made Kansas slave State he would have an
initiated his whole party at the North. 1t was
necessary, therefore, whilst appearing to side
with the South by sustaining the fraudulent
code, to take measures by which Kansas might
be made free State without giving otfense to
the South. Hence the appointment OF Walker
as governor, and the proclaimed policy that 1t Is
to be made free State, but Democratic tree
State, with Walker and Stanton for the first T..
S. Senators"
The "Chicago Times" announced lately that
it was the "National Democracy" that were
making Kansas free State, and now another
Northern Democratic journal expresses the same
opinion. The Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, "Val-
ley Spirit" at the conclusion of an article lauda-
tory of Robert J, Walker says:
sWe think the honest Free State men of Kan
sas now see pretty clearly that Greedy, Sumner,
Wilmot q Co., are merely using them as foot
balls in the game of disunion. According to re-
cent accounts many of them haze fallen IN Dlth
the National Democracy in favor of making Kan
sas q Free State"
The Albany "Evening Journal" the most VIC
lent anti-slavery paper in the country, exults
over the prospect and effects of Kansas being
free State as follows:
,lo@ 10 Sc, oot tho Slova
Power2 1t would send it staggering through
the next fifty years. No more Slave States can
be got from our present territory, while at least
o dozen Free States will in few years be add
ed to the Union. Then, the South will have
thirty Senator's and the North fifty. In the
House ofRepresentatives the members will stand
as two to one in favor of the North. The South
will then be as one of the colonies of the Federal
Government, dependent and suppliant. This is
what is in prospect for the Slave Oligarchy, and
they see it,"
The Richmond "South," leading Democratic
organ, after abiding to the assurances given du-
ring the Presidential canvass that Buchanan was
not in favor of making Kansas free State, says:
1.-THE new Administration has been in oficejus
three months, and already Kansas is free State
1t is a startling announcement but rs true as
Gospel" 'sThe South" then gives sketch of
Mr.. Walker:
"The Hon. Robert j. Walker was appointed
Governor of Kansas With reputation for
larger measure of talents than usually falls to the
lot even of a statesman, he has never yet been
SUSPECTED of the least particle of personal hon
esty. A bankrupt with splendid income,
millionaire at the expense of widows and Or
phans, specuator in fictitious stocks and lobber
upon other peoples money-he was the last man
in the Union to whom the President should have
entrusted q mission implying so much ofprivate.
honor and public virtue as the Governorshlp OF
Kansas. That he would obey the impulse OF his
own venal ambition, was as certain as that
vulture is governed by an. instinct for carbon
Originally emigrating to theSouth from North
ern State, with the view of promoting his per-
sonal fortunes, he shook its dust from his feet
the moment the generous people of Mississippi
gave him national reputation. Since the close
of the Polk administration he has resided in the
North and has pursued the occupation OF politl-
cal and pecuniary adventurer. Consumed with
passion for place, he has resolved every scheme
of self agrandzement, from seat in the Cabinet
TO the Presidency Of a railroad To the misforc
tune of the South, he got the appointment OF
Governor of Kansas; and this is the explanation
of the sudden and complete ascendancy of Adolf
tionism in the territOryN