Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-08-13

the administration presses arc laboring hcav-
lily to prove that the people Of Lawrence have
been guilty of dangerous rebellion. and that
Governor Walker could do no less than order
out the troops. the 81. Louis Evening News,
which is not supposed TO have any especial
sympathy with the Free State Men. thus
clearly exposes the secret OF the whole mat
ter.
'"rhc chief fault Of Governor Walker is
his restless otliciousness. Tic has no idea ~
the negative virtues Of a iudicious abstinence
from acts aud words. lie makes too many
speeches, writes too many letters, and under
takes too many movements lie overdoes
his part and gets himsclfinto trouble by talk
ing, writing. aud acting when there is not the
slightest need for it. IL is this tendency 20
talk too much, and tell too much about what
he is going 20 do, or not going TO do. that has
brought the Disunionists of tho South about
his ears like swarm of hornets; and the
Same unfortunate characteristic VIII. VIC arc
afraid, got him still further into difficulty,
and defeat the good objects which he undoubt-
edly contomplatcs in Kansas
His present campaign against Lawrence
seems TO have been too hastily undertaken.
The Lawrenceites have out-gencrald him
They dccoyed him To- their town by an appa-
rcnty sham attempt TO put in force "a little
town charter, which never could have led to
any difficulty, and no sooner had ho come a.
mongst them with four hundred troops 70
keep them quiet, than they instantly become
quiet themselves, and evnce as little DISPOSE
tion to raise an insuuecton as the most
peaceabe people in the world. The consc-
Quonco is that the ovcr-2calous Governor is
B.
able state of masterly inactivity
We are sorry TO sec that he is attempting
TO improve this irksomc leisure by writing
letters 70 Washington. defending himself from
the attacks of the Southern Disunionists He
has as much as he can do in Kansas, without
increasing the burden of his duties there by
odicious and uneaIled for appeals to the
southern Democracy. Let him govern the
territory Justly. impartially and discrcety,
and the people viii reward him with an enc
dorsemcnt ten times more grateful than the
approval of a small lot of Georgia and Mis-
sissippi Democrats
SENATOR Mason on Kansas. The Rich
mond SoutL, having asserted that Hunter and
Mason, and other Southern Senators. in the
debate ON the Nebraska-kansas bill. express
ed the opinion that Kunsus must be a Free
State. Senator Mason writes to that paper
that he never said so, and never entertained
the opinion. He says that at the time the
law was passed, organizing the territorial
government. there was every reason 60 be-
heve that it would be a slave State. lie re-
fers TO the soil and climate, and the proximity
of Missouri and Arkansas. both slaveholding
States, and interested in making their neigh
ncighbor a slave State, and adds
" ] had no fear of fair competition in such
appropriation of new territory from any guar
ter. Unfair competition ] did not look 70.
What may yet be the result as to the condi-
tion of Kansas. notwithstanding the oxtraor-
dinary and unscrupulous efforts of northern
abolitionists to force q population there,
cannot undertake TO say. Nor will ] alludo
in this place to the new and unexpected as
poct now exhibited Of affairs in that territory,
with SO much propricty reprehondcd in the
columns Of the South. Whatever may Be
the information of others. ! certainly am not
sufficiently informed of the existing state of
things in Kansas 20 form O. clear opinion one
way or the other; yet / will venture to say
this much, that if African slavery be uld-
mately excluded from Kausas, it viii bc cf-
fected by the numerical force Of organized
maioritcs, operating against the usual laws
which govern emigration; and viii present a
new and most instructive lesson to the South
ern States
The Washington correspondent of the
Ncv York Courier and Enquirer gives the
following information in regard TO some re-
cent removals from office
" The following persons have recently been
turned out of Office: Joseph Warren New
comb only surviving grandson of the hero
and martyr of Bunker Hill; Col. Williams,
grandson of Major General Otho Williams
Of the Maryland line, who fought at the