Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-11-05
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1857.
G The Administration and Gov. walker

The Administration and Gov. Walker.
Telegraphic dispatches from Washington
state that the rejection of the fraudulent
returns of the Oxford precinct, johnson
county, Kansas, by Gov. Walker is con-
demned by the President, who will admins
ter the Governor such a rebuke as will
cause him to resign We put no faith in
these statements. 1t may be, and doubt
less is, true that the particular action of
Gov Walker mentioned is condemned:
but that the President will do any thing to
cause him to lose the services of his satrap.
who has been carrying out the purposes of
the administration, is not to be credited.
He can't do without Walker so well as
Walker can do without the Governorship.
Kansas is not stage upon which IaureIs
are to be won, and hence no one is Struck
with 1T. 1t has been death to all ambiti-
Gus individuals who preceded Walker, and
and is place to be avoided rather than
coveted.
The following paragraphs from the Wash
lngton correspondence of the New York
Herald, written on the 29th ult., show how
the President is affected towards Governor
Walker:
am happy to give you information, upon
which you may entirely rely. in reference to
the exact position of the administration upon
the Kansas question. The general course pur-
sued by Gov. Walker is fully endorsed by Mr.
Buchanan, and will be sustained BY him against
all ODDOajtiOn from xUh ofa
come. This policy comprehends Gov. Wal
ker's plan of submitting the State constitution
for Kansas to the popular vote, as an indispen-
sable prerequisite to the acceptance of the
said constitution at Washington; for | have
most excellent reason for believing should the
Constitutional Kansas Convention adopt a
pro-slaVery constitution and send it up to Con-
gress as the basis upon which to admit Kan
sas into the Union as a State, without refer
ring 1t to the popular vote, that the admins
tration will have it sent back again to be put
to the judgment of the Kansas people.
The game of the fire eaters is now to secure
from the eaid Convention the plan of sending
their pro-slaVery constitution, without further
ceremony, TO Washington, in the hope of reduc-
ing the administration to submission in the
Senate; but after the Developments of the late
Kansas election, the policy of Mr.. Buchanan
and Governor Walker will be omnipOtent in
both houses of Congress; and the fire eaters
will be speedily reduced to the precise test of
an unconditional surrender or an open rebel
lion. In this view the Virginia democracy
are beginning, in mass meetings to move for
the administration, and to put Senator
Hunter to the choice of lis position, ethics in
side or outside of the lines Be not surpris-
ed if, before two months of this coming Con-
gress shall have expired, you should find the
ire-eaters, including Hunter, in little intri-
guing sectional squad outside the limits Of the
democratic party
You may depend upon it that have herein
faithfully represented the position of the ad-
minlstratiOn. 1t has never had the remotest
idea of falling back upon the platform of the
Southern ultras, as represented in the Georgia
and Mississippi anti-Walker resolutions. Mr..
Buchanan understands the fire eaters game
and accepts the wager of battle.