Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-06-27

Kansas policy we find in late number of the New
York Courier and Enquirer, a !" Republican" paper,
which, while sustaining the abstinence of its party
friends from any participation in the election of the
Convention to form State Constitution, presents
to our view plan of action by which the jarring
elements of that Territory may yet be reduced to
harmony Whether this plan shall be carried out
or whether its results shall be such the writer
augurs can only be decided by the Developments of
the future
YORK COURIER OF JUNE %.
We expressed appreciation of Gov Walkers inaugural
Still better do like his speech at Big Springs. 1t is
still clearer in language and excellent in spirit
1t favoraby received and justly We do not he
state say that if Gov Walker continues this language
to the end and dtdes By 1t practical action the peaceful
settlement of the Kansas question is certain The Free
State do not recede inch from their position,
neither viii they and yet it is certain that if Governor
Walker remains faithful to his declared policy and pro
misses there will be collision serious trouble.
The Free-State have before them, by
either of which they maintain their consistency
their rights and at the time cooperate hearth
y with Gov Walker in the preservation of the peace
They resubmit the Topeka constitution to the people,
and abstain entirely from voting the question of
cepng the constitution framed by the spurious
tion and thus make it apparent which of the two
stutions is the choice Of majority of the people
with protest against the validity of the convention
framing this latter constitution, they can, with such
guarantees of fair and full voting Governor Walker
promises rally to the polls and vote it down. leaving the
Topeka constitution to stand alone.
The Free-State Legislature under the Topeka con-
stitution which has just adjourned while it has done
every thing necessary to the organization of the
State under that instrument, has yet done nothing
cause any practical Interference with the Territorial adj
ministratfon of Gov Walker. It's action has all been
formal and preparatory 1t has passed laws to go
into immediate effect but simply taken steps complete
the State organization and keep its machinery in read
for the necessities of the people shall
require. Its most important act pro-
vding for the immediate taking of the of
the Territory The result of this will at once show to
world the injustice done by the census and
apportionment of the Lecompte Legislative Assembly"
Ii is now contemplated by the Free State men,
as the shall be taken, to re-submt the Topeka
to the vote of the people, and thus ascertain
Its real strength among the present population Gen.
Lane announced this design in speech directly follow
ing Gov. Walkers at Big Springs. 1t is a matter of
minor consideration hoU the preference Of the people
between this Topeka constitution and the pro slavery
constitution which will be framed by the spurious con-
yenton ascertained provided it be done fairly and
way not to involve the FreeState in any recogn-
of the validity of the legislative bodies forced upon
them by the border rufans of Missouri The FreeSate
immovable upon this last point They are un-
aiterably fixed in the determination to commit them
selves to nothing which shall imply an acauiescence in
| that usurpation They have made it manifest to the
world that no recognition of the legality of these dongs
be wrested from them by force shued from them
by chicane The whole tone and temper of Governor
Walkers speech at Big Springs shows he perfectly
understands this And it is this and spirit his
part IN conjunction with the moderation and kindly
feeling of the Free State men, that gives confidence
that the whole difficulty viii assume satisfactory shape
before meeting of Congress, to leave that body
no other duty but to give effect to the asceraned wishes
OF the majority of the people of Kansas and admit her
an equal member inio the glorious family of States