New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-27
BUCHANAN.WALkER TREACHERY In KANSAS,
OPINIONS OF LEADING SOUTHERN
DEMOCRATIC JOURNALS. ,
Let the Masses of the People Hear, Thinl
and Act.

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We have given, heretofore, numerous denunciations
Of the Buchanan Walker Treachery in Kansas, by
means of which the South has been sold and betrayed
and cheated out of all chance of ever participating
in the advantages which would enure from the ad'
mission of Territories into the Union as States-as
slave States Most of these dennnciatons have been
from Democratic sources. AS Americans and as
Southern men-Southern from the crowns of ou1
heads to the soles of our fset--we have sought to
place the question fairly and candidly before oul
constituents, without distinction Of party and to dc
this have quoted mostly from political opponents in
stead of political friends.
To show more fully to the public of Louisiana and o!
the Southwest what the leading Democratic journals
statesmen and State Conventions OF the South think
of Governor Walkers infamous conduct in kansas
and the endorsement of that conduct by the admins
tration Of President Buchanan-we append extracts
fIom influential Democratic papers. All we ask is
that our readers read think and act for themselves
as the proofs of the sale of the South the Froesoers
by Walker and Buchanan, we are about to present,
shall suggest We seek nothing more than an i'm
partial and ingenious consideration.
The Richmond (va.) South is one of the truest,
abes and most influential Democratic journals in the
9lUFiUuS Uu VI fHSiult. III Tvs lSouC
ofthe 10th instant, it says:
A PRECEDENT IN PoINT.-The telegraph reports
that Democratic Convention in Kansas has signfed
its appreciation of Walkers policy. No doubt this
circumstance will be employed by the apologsts Of
Walker to extenuate his treachery to the South but
all sensible persons will see that it only shows the
success instead of relieving the odium, Of his anti
slavery operations With such effect has the Cover
nor Of Kansas welded the combined influences of
Establishment and intimidation, that within two short
months after his first presence in the Territory, the
pro-slayery party are incapable of even a semblance
Of resistance to his Freeso enterprise this thing
to, Southern men to eruit orers Rather let them
hang Meirheads in shame or else prepare to avenge
the atrocious sacrifice of their rights.
But we shall be told that. if the people of Kansas
approve of Gov. Walkers policy it is no business OF
ours to find fault with his conduct. Is it so? Is
Kansas under the absolute dominion of squatter
ereignty; and may its political condition be determined
for all time by handful Of impatient expectants of
place? Has the South no property in the Territory
and no interest in its destiny? Is it nothing to us If
Kansas be thrown into the scale of antsavery, and
be made the means of Abolition ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Are we concerned only with the manner in which the
Territory is wrested from the South, and altogether
Indifferent to the essential fact of the sacrifice of our
rights aud our interests? When Robert j. Walker
was appointed Governor of Kansas, everybody ac-
knowedged that the prosavery party had control of
the territory. At this moment it is confessed with
equal unanimity that the Abolitonists are in the as
cendant, and that Kansas is ir4et,1suaby lost to the
South. These are the great facts which weigh upon
the mind Of the Southern people, and they are not to
be ned into stupid insensibty by any nice distinc-
tons between tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee.
In this Kansas business I'VE only have repetition
of the California farce. In the latter instance it was
mitigation of the atrocty of the outrage that the
people of California ratified the usurpation of the
Governor, and delivered the Territory into the power
of the Abotoniss. For all that, the Legislature OF
Virginia, representing the universal sentiment of the
Cnnf n1nt,,, Nnat .l,~ns-,
would justify violent resistance And So in the case
of Kansas it matters not at all whether Gov Walkers
usurpation is approved or repudiated by the people
no subsequent ceremony of ratification be it never SC
imposing, can excuse his undenable violation of Drn
cpe or indemnify the South for the loss of Kansas
From another article in the same number of the
South, we quote:
II the Democracy assume the responsibility of
Walkers conduct by signifying their appreciation of
his policy, it would be flagitious abandonment OF
principle for which there could be no apology. In
the administration of the Government the party pro.
iesses to be controlled by certain fixed principles and
its integrity can be maintained only by rigid adhe
renee to those fundamental tenets of political faith
The men whom it selects as the instruments of its
purpose are, in honor bound to observe the obliga
tions imposed by its trust If they betray its conf
dence, the party must repudate them or else be held
justly accountable for their delinquencies. In our up
prehension it is impossible to separate party from
its principles. The former is only the means of car
rying the latter into practical operation. When il
fails to accomplish its purposes or is converted into
mere machine for eevating this or that asprant tt
this or that office, then deserves the reprehensior
Of all honest men and true patriots We intend tc
remain true to the Democratic party as long as the
party is true to its principles. Upon their faithful
Observance, in our opinion depend the constitutions
rights OF the South, and with them the preservation
of the Federal Union. To this extent only do we re
cognize the obligations of partyjust far as it full
fills the objects of its organization. When the true
State-Rights Democracy of the South fater in theil
allegiance to the doctrines of the early fathers ther
we will leave them without the ceremony of forma
expulsion for insubordinate behavior.
But We have no apprehensions of such an event
ever happening. Far from it, The Southern Democ
racy today are il possible more staunch and deter
mined than ever before and upon this Kansas contro
versy, whatever be the final determination of the
administration, they will present an unbroken pha
lanx Of hostility to the ubiquitous policy announced
by Robert J. Walker Sustained by them we have
no fear OF the consequences. But if it were not so
if we stood alone in our present attitude, we should
continue to declare our individual opinions with the
same fearless ZEAL and to denounce Robert j. Walker
and his abettors with all our powers of indignant in
vectye.
Then the South has gained nothing by the election
OF Mr.. Buchanan, upon the faith of his pledges tc
enforce the principle of non-intervention F.! So in
deed it seems. If the Kansas bill has failed in its
Objects it is because of the treachery of those who
have been entrusted with the management of TIT
Territory.
In another article the South says:
THE ABoLITIoNIsTs APPLAUDING THE ADMINS
TRArIoN.-Does any man say we attach too mucl
Importance to the approval of Walkers conduct il
Kansas by the Federal administration? Does any
man deny that in this act slavery receives a blow
which, il not repaired will send it staggering to in
eyitable and speedy downfall? Does any man coun
sci the South to submit in silence to this last ant
greatest outrage on its rights? If there be such
man who processes loyalty to the institutions q
last issue of the New York Evening Post, (the lead
ing paragraphs of that article have already been pub
lished in the Crescent,) and be admonished of Thu
delusion which enthras him. We offer no comment
for none is necessary to illustrate the significance
this remarkable manifesto.
The Richmond (Va) Enquirer, of the Goth O
June, published the following in relation to Kansa
affairs:
The convention to assemble in September for tn
formation OF constitution, preparatory to the app
cation OF Kansas for admission as a State wilt W.
suppose, determine and declare who may and VIII
may not vote for the rejection or ratification of tn
constitution. IT, in accordance with the miscbieyou
suggestions of Governor Walker, it should be sub
mtted to all the inhabitants who are in the teutor
at the time the vote is to be taken there will HI
neither fairness, nor justice, legality in the prc
ceeding; and achefher approving, ignoring or co,
demning Slavery, If accepted under such ciycun
stances, Congress should unhestatingy close III
doors Of the Union to the people Of Kansas, unit,
they come a,ih constitution fairly ratified bv III
free and full sense of those and none but those, ,cko
according TO the legitimate territorial ia,cs are en-
titled to exercise the elective franchise. That Cor
ltdtker as fransgressing the authority entrusted t
MN oy The Administrations toe need no other eodeac
tadn the antecedents of the President and Me Cab
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