The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-11-21
ni.ruplon Of me Bogus penocrser.


Walkers proclamation throwing out the
fraudulent vote in one or two precincts in
Kansas, has fallen ike bombshen in the
ranks of the democracy, and it seems to
threaten the very existence of that organ
ization, which day or two since prided
itself upon the possession of every de-
partment Of the federal government
The following speculations upon this sub
jeet are taken from the New York EUe7s-
ing Post:
The proclamation of the Governor Of
Kansas. which we published yesterday,
is destined, in all probability, to involve
the gravest political consequences. It
threatens nothing less than the diSorgani-
cation of the administration party, and
transfer of the great struggle against
slavery .propagandism directly into the
center of the administration party.
Governor Walker gives the most con-
elusive reasons for rejecting the vote of
Oxford precinct, in johnson county; first,
because of the irreguiarity in form of the
returns; and second, from the evidence
| furnished by a visit to the precinct, of
the physical impossibility of Its casting
| legally over one-tenth of the vote credit
ed to it in the returns. BY rejecting this
vote, the free-state party obtain a clear
majority in the Legislature. The pro-
slavery party are greatly incensed at this
result, and threaten The Governor and his
Secretary with every variety of vengeance,
political and personal. Stanton has been
challenged by one of the malcontents, and
the judicial power of the territory has
been invoked to compel the Governor to
give certificates TO those who, for the want
of better name, we must call the bogus
delegates. The wrath Of the extremists
is proportiored to their disappointment,
and relying upon the countenance which
their past proceedings have received from
Senators Davis and Brown, in Mississip-
pi, from Hunter and Mason, in Virginia,
as we'll as from the Legislatures of Geor-
gia and South Carolina they have taken
the question to Washington. Mr.. Blu
chanan is asked to recall Walker. If he
refuses, he is threatened with majority
in both Houses of Congress against his
administration, and perhaps rejection of
Walkers nomination, upon which the
Senate has yet to pass. So formidable is
the assault esteemed by Governor Walk
er, that Stanton has been sent on to Wash
ington to guard their position.
Mr. Buchanan knows that, if he yields,
he at once places Walker at the head of d
party in the north, against which the adj
ministration would be powerless. In
either case, whether he sustains Walker
or abandons BIN, the consequence must
! be the samoa removal of the sectional
line which divides the north and the
south, politically, several degrees farther
south; in other words, division Of the
administration party upon the subject of
slavery. This viii involve, as we have
already intimated. the gravest consequent
ces. 1t must inevitably lead to the forma-
ton of party so strong and united at the
north as to throw the slavery question
summarily out of our national politics,
till when it IS impossible to have such a
central government in this country as it
requires, and such government as It's
wiSest and best citizens desire. The sla-
very interest is the great refFacting me-
dunn through which every public ques-
ton now has to pass, and by which every
public question is distorted. Let the
north once unite and declare, by decisive
vote, that there shall be no further in
crease of slave representation in Congress,
and elect President to dispense the pat
ronage of the general government upon
that principle, and there is an end of the
slavery agitation. Then the moral ener-
gy of the American people, now divided
and weakened by this sectional question,
would be united and irresistible, and the
legislation of the nation would be worthy
of its suspicious youth and its enterpris-
| inc maturity