The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-12-03
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


l. IS conceded by all that Governor Walker
totally opposed to the doings of the bogus
.rsas Convention. A few Democrats still
re tina. he may be induced to change his
IS or position-and but few. Everything
9n the Kansas imbroglio will interest our
,ders.
lon" of the Baltimore Sun, few days
zee. called the action of the Calhoun Kansas
invention discreet" A day or two after,
Omitted that the action was calculated to
Jasut disorder end civil war in Kansas. Noso
ssys, under date of Nov. 81:
Gov Walker had an interview yesterday of
re- Or four hours' duration with the President,
I'd It seems to be continued to-day. The Gov
|raGrs position as to the action of the Constitu-
ra! Convention has been subject of doubt
ID ccniTai;ttcry report, but no doubt can
meg ex st en- the subject. Gov. Walker never
oaeeais his. opinions, and is very apt to main
in them with firmness and decision when
ace formed. Gov. Walker is utterly opposed
the action of the Constitutional Convention,
8 insists upon the right of the people of Kan
.3io form their domestic institutions in their
vi way, independent of the dictation of
g Convention, OF the Administration, and of
rgress. He opposes the action of the Con.
non in Withholding from the people their
,hc to accept or rel ct the Constitution as
loIe. *
:" also learn that great numbers of Demo
az, including the Pro Slavery men, have taken
g same position with that of the Governor,
I'd demand for Kansas the rights which the
/ .n-as Nebraska act was intended to secure
am Nine-,enths Of the people of Kansas
"a opposed, aud will resist by force, if neces-
.rv. Inc imposition upon them of any form of
By rnment of which they disapprove. The
les ION there has passed beyond the original
5rtess between pro and con Slavery men. The
aesl0n upon which parties in Kansas are now
|rr5yed is whether the people shall have the
sh' Of seicgovernment. Whether Governor
Walker will be sbie to impress his own views
1ou the Administration in regard to the SUBJ
cr IS TO be seen.
" l. IS eutirely certain, however, that any at
emot by the Federal Government to force the
I j1sltuion Of the Convention upon Kansas
i'll be utterly shortive. No State Government
rned under that Constitution will ever be al.
We to perform their functions. II is to be
|oped therefore. that Congress will, as soon as
le kGnaas Constitution shall be presented to
en-, refer It back to the people, together with
Law, frG1aed upon the mdel of the Minnesota
ct, for the formation of State Constitution,
-era-a'or7 10 the admission of the State into
be Union. No party need objec, 10 this course,
Az II If not to be taken for granted that the
Administration viii be opposed to it,"
Hsfe we have sudden revolution in the
Piuionz Of q popular lstter-writer. Will there
&c, be q. similar change in many others who at
st sustained The hypocriticsl Convention?
The Washington correspondent of the N. Y.
Tines says:
The President insists that, as the Constitu.
|a2lai Convention was authorized by Congress,
r. Is bound to sustain its action, whatever it
|nay be, while Walker holds that the applica
hon Of lis doctrine to sustain the refusal to
submit the entire Constitution to the popular
vote amounts to q simple assertion of the right
o Congress to force any Constitution on the
err'iory, instead Of leaving the people to de-
Gee for themselves for ii Is notorious that the
people Of Kansas would reject this instrument
they tad The opportunity. He states that the
Constitution was signed by only forty three out
o. the sixty members of the Congratulations
refusing being Conservatives. The great ma
ori:y even of the Pro-Slavery men denounced
'he action Of the Convention as an outrage and
a1endurab'e usurpstion. Those in the Terri
'ory who support the Convention are believed
70 comprise ridiculously small number, and
vast numbers who never acted with the Free
S-ate men viii refuse to participate in the De-
eember election
Governor Walker has never yet seen the
Constitution, and nobody outside knows what
Is. All efforts Of the Governor to obtain q
COPY failed. The committee having it in charge
nay make 1t whatever they choose, without any
Popular check. There is reason to fear that It's
slgners will be driven out of the Territory, that
Sill be considered spurious, and that the State
0overnmeut never can be set in operation under
|It unless by the Federal arms zzss
"Governor Walker declares that he cannot
|scquiesce in the action of the Convention with
out violating every pledge be ever gave, and
sacrificing his honest convictions to make him.
self Infamous"
Should the President persist in endorsing the
work of handful of Kansas people, it is no,
improbable ts.t he will be defeated in the House
and Senate To save himself from the humilia.
ton, be may prefer to throw upon Congress the
responsibility Of settling the dispute.
Capt. McAuleylately disappeared from Os
wego. On Friday last, his body was found or
the lake shore. 1t was supposed that he was
accidentally drowned, as $l7s were found in
one Of his pockets There we're no marks of VIC
snce upon the boGy.