Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-07-30
r. J. WALKER.
Governor of Kansas Territory.
Diffic culfics Of the Adminis-
tratiOm.
WASHINGTON, July II.

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The administration have encountered not
few and very unexpected difficulties since
their accession, but they seem to be in a
fair way TO overcome them.
The intelligence of Gov. Geary's resig-
nation took them by surprise, and produced
not little confusion. 1t was not an easy
matter to find suitable man for the post,
nor was it probable that the administration
conld. by any means in their power, secure
the pacifcation of the Territory. They
were of course to meet with the opposition
of the extreme political parties, northern
and southern, to whatever course of mod
crate measures they, or the Territorial au-
lhorities acting under their instructions
and with their approval, might adopt. The
North first opened frs upon Walker and
the administration. but, after his Topeka
speech, it was little slackened, and the
artillery OF the South opened. At one time
1t appeared that the South was very gen.
orally disaffected towards the administra-
ton. But it does not prove to be SO. The
South care very little about the matter, and
appear to have come to the conclusion with
the Richmond Enquirer, that Kansas must
be fres State, and that fey might as
we'll assent to it. The opposition was from
Georgia. Alabama. Mississippi. South Car
olina, and small portion of the democra-
cy of Tennessee and louisiana. Virginia
and North Carolina have manifested, by
their press and their most influential men,
their entire appreciation of the position ta-
ken by the administration on the subject.
On the whole, it would appear that the ad-
ministration has gained in strength from
the very causes which threatened to de-
stroy their harmony and PROSTATE the dem
ocratic party. The party has become
strengthened by the shock. There is no
longer any well-founded apprehension that
the Kansas question is to endanger the
peace of the Union: and Col. Ke:tt is en-
tirely mistaken in his prediction that the
anti-slavery party will. through the Kansas
question, take the government at the neat
Presidential election Gov. Walker him.
self. and other intelligen men in Kansas,
have directly given opinions that Kansas
is to come peaceably out of the trouble
If SO, it will be impossible for the repub-
lican party to make any stand at the next
election. upon that question.
There are signs that the republican par
ty is much weaker now than it was last
November. They then came as near as
they ever willard in fact too near-to
the possession of the government.
1t is the favorite theory of the nuli6ers,
secessionists and co-operationists, that the
abolition party, in 1860. will elect Pres
ident, and then the South is to unite in re-
sistance. The south would not unite, un-
less in the contingency of a fraudulent elec-
ton, or the choice of President who was
pledged to use his power, backed up by
that of his party. for the purpose of over
throwing the constitutional rights of the
south; and. in such case. they certainly
ought to unite. But there is less danger,
at this moment, Of such concurrence of
evils, than there ever was before, at any
time in the history of the county.
The Utah problem also became very
troublesome. just at the moment when the
present administration took the reins.-
Brigham Young had been permitted to re