Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-21
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for 'bleeding Kansas" North, or for black Kan
sas. South. But still for all, we cannot forbear
a small train of reflection over the dismissal of
Robert j. Walker from the Governorship, by
President BuchanaA. Let every one stop a mo
ment and just think Of the short aud troublous
career of the Govcrnorship Of that unhappy
territory.
About two years ago an organic actwas pertec-
ted creating a territorial government for Kansas.
Mr.. Pierce looked about him for a Governor
By and with the consenta and advice of the Senate
he elected Mr.. Reedcr, of Pa, thought to be a
sound democrat, and anything else but a free
soiler. Well, Gov. Recder went out. He inau-
gurated his policy as near, so lac said, as he could
to his Instructions; but he soon became Obnoxi-
Gus to the "BOrder Rufians, :" who accused him
of hob.nobbing with the free State men. So Mr..
Reeder was ordered out by Mr.. Pierce. Mr..
Pierce then cast about the second time, and
again, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, he sent out Mr.. Wilson Shannon,
Ex-Governor Of Ohio, a man who had done the
niger question "np brown" enough to suit the
tastes of John Tyler, who was allowed TO be
rigorous to a fault ON that question. And as if
John Tyler's endorsement of Thin was not enough,
Mr.. Shannon, from the balcony of his hotel in
St. Louis, en- route for the territory, made a big
speech drunk, we arc sorry to sayO to a scren-
aiding crowd, telling them that he went in for
niggers in Kansas just as well as in Missouri
This pleased aud tickled the Missourians and
sure enough they thought they had a jewel of a
Governor this time. The Ex-Governor took up
the political thread where it had snapped in the
hand of his predecessor and he worked on it
untiringIy day and night, trying to please both
parties and making and breaking impossible
promises to both. Our owR two eyes can bear
personal record to the unhappy situation of the
Governor in a very short space of time. His
instructions from Mr. Pierce were entirely too
latitudinarian for n man Of such stammering
aud unstable purpose as was that poor creature
Shannon. Naturally and politically timid, bad
whisky confused and Paralysed the small amount
of manhood vouchsafcd him. He soon had the
Lawrence-itcs building Block Houses to ward off
the bullets from Atcheson's camp. There was
the weak .minded Governor negotiating a truce
between Robinson's Lawrencc.ites and the pro-
miscuOus herd under the command Of the be-
Entted-yss,t the drunken and blotched guidance
of Davy AtchesOn.
Well of course Shannon didn't answer-he
become n steach in the nostrils Of both parties,
and so for PHYS sake he was taken away. A
third time, then, Mr.Piercc and the Senate tried
their hands-and it may be naturally supposed,
they triedi it skiIlfully: tried with the benefit of
their sad experience before them. So after all
that happened, and with all the whole country
to choose from, Gov. Geary, a walking cin6odi-
mcnt Of Pennsylvania coat-ininc conservatism,
was selected and sent out to settle the hash, if
possible. But it was no go-just like Reedcr,
nc fell into the embraces OF the Free State men,
and undoubtCd as was his party chastity at
home, the Missourians, Dnvy Atcheson's and
Ben Stringfellow's men, had him arraigned or
long petitions and remonstrances to the Pres
dent as caught in the act Of playing the harlOt
with those vile Free State men. What could =
man Ike "pOor Pierce" do when there was n
man 6IfOot . inches like Davy Atchesou-who
had been so near the Presidency after the death
of King, that n 'bare bodkin', in one of his
[Piercc'sl yentrieies would have done the work?
Atchcson had the influence and he and u short
thick neeked person called Ben StringfGiIow,
through the medium of the President, did the
job, and overheard went Mr.. Gov.sGeary, just
about the time the American people had per-
formed the same compliment for Mr. Pierce, in
the shape Of inaugurating Mr.. Buchanan.
Just here we ought to insert a few stars Indie
alive, as the theatre programmes often say, of n
time supposed to have elapsed. Then comes a
new President, a new Cabinet; part of a new
Senate, and a new shuttle, cut and deal of the
whole political regime of the country. Three
times the schemes to govern Kansas had failed,
1.-THE proverb about the charm to the contrary
Notwithstanding and now whatIwasto be done?
1t was a plain case that northern stock was not
the stuff to manufacture a Governor out of for
Kansas. So Mr.. Buchanan and his Cabinet in
solem e~Onelave assembled thought, it seems-for
who should be selected nextbut Mississippi RO-
bert !. Walker. And who was Robert j. Walker,
as Writ asked about Blenterhassets Why. Rob't.
j. Walker was one of the s%trictcst of the sect of
what are known, in such states as South CarOli-
ma and Mississippi, as ProgresstaS-that is,
men who believe that the dogma of NManifcst
Destiny is by ali odds more admirable aud
worthy Of acceptatiOn than the Decalogue; and
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