Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-11-12
Kansas and the Administration.

Oct. x, announcing Vie icJoouoh VI an
other batch of illegal votes, Three pre-
cincts in MCGEE county gave fourteen
hundred pro-slavery votes, although the
county is constituted from the lands of
the Cherokee Indians, which are not yet
open to pre- -emption or settlement, and is
tanning less than hundred qualified
voters, and giving last June but fourteen
votes for delegates to the Constitutional
Convention. WALKER rejects them, how
ever, as he did those from Oxford pre-
cinct, solely on the ground of the illegal
ity of the return, it not having been
in proper form. Had the details of these
returns been attended to, and they been
made in anything like valid form, there
is but little doubt that Governor WALKER
was prepared to sanction them as his
predecessors had similar ones. 1t is well
known that his instructions from Wash
ington inhibited him from interfering
with the election returns, and insisted
upon his referring all difficulties arising
therefrom to the legislature itself for ad-
justment. Had, then, the Infamous char
acter of these returns been in any man
ner CLOSED over with semblance of le-
gality, there is but little doubt that WAL
KER would have obeyed the behests of the
administration, and by allowing the leg
islature to settle the difficulties, have Civ
en- Kansas again to the shareholders
Had this been done, another bogus legis-
lature would have been the result, and
who doubts that WALKER, the Admins
tration, and that Legislature, would have
received the support of every man of the
Democratic party who now prates SO
loudly of Democratic justice to Kansas
Gov. WALKER has done simply his duty
has done an act which, left undone,
would have been most incredible out
rage, and yet we find that in its perform
ance he has gone contrary to the instruc-
tions of the administration, and has even
subjected bimselfto the danger of remov-
al thereby. The New York Herald,
which has now become an ardent supper
ter of Mr.. BUCHANAN, says: " The Gov.
transcribed his instructions and the tech
nical limitations of his official authority
in the premises" and adds that the Pres
ident will hear the Governor and the Sec
retaIy in their defence. And although
it supports WALKERS policy, and believes
that the President will do so likewise, yet
there is in this language an admission OF
the fact, that in doing this act of justice
to the people of Kansas, WALKER has
gone counter to the wishes of JAMES BU-
CHANAN's slave-holding cabinet, and his
and their instructions. And yet the Du-
buque Eapress d. Herold, and other bo-
gus Democratic journals, unblushingly
claim the victory in Kansas as the tri-
umph of the policy of the Administra-
ton, and announce that Kansas is free
in spite Of the Republicans"
Gov. WALKER, in his Oxford procla-
nation, makes the following forcible an
nunciation of the effects of fraud and out
rage upon the elective franchise, and it
would be well, if the Democracy would
ponder over it little. He says:
"The elective franchise would be ut
terly valueless, and free government itself
would receive deadly blow, if so great
an outrage as this should be shielded un-
der mere forms and technicalities.
How effectually does this sentence answer
the Presidents Silliman letter, and fasten
upon the Democratic party the odium of
giving deadly blow to free government.
Has not even baser frauds been shielded
by the Democratic party under the cloak
of forms ane technicalities =? Were not
forms and technicalities the sole reasons
given by President Buchanan in that let
ter for upholding with all the power of the
general government the bogus Legislature
of Kansas and its enactments Did he
not know that just such fraud as called
forth this denunciation from his Govern
such fraud as would make the
elective franchise utterly valueless and
strike deadly blow at free government
itself, was the instrument by which the
bogus Legislature obtained their power /;
and that by upholding, as he declared he
would, with all the power which the peo-
Die had given him, their enactments, he
was perpetuating and shielding, because
If forms and technicalities, fraud most
ylaring and most infamous? Gov. WAL
1ER himself, at the very moment Of wri-
ng this forcible denunciation, is engaged
n upholding the very counterpart OF the
raud which prompted it. He is now en-
orcing upon the people of Kansas. with
200 United States troops. q Code of
AVIS enacted By men who held their po I