New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-21

WIN tllH Hgnlncaht lnterrogatOry the Brandon
u Miss Democratic Platform, Of the 18th instant,
heads long md able article respecting the Walker
Buchanan Kansas Heachery, the greater portion of
which We Huhjon AS the article speaks for itself in
unanistakabie terms no comments are necessary:
HAVE WE BEEN DUpED ?-The various and conflict
ing sentiments, that pour forth warm, reeking
rich from the press at the South on that trte vet
iEdefned topic the Kansas Question exhibit in
myriad phases the impressbe, idiosyneratic and pecu
liar nature of the human mind as 1t is operated upon
by vanity, party fealty, patronage or patriotism.
The cardinal points in which this awfully mooted
question presents itself are these: Buchanan was
chosen President by the National Democracy, by the
almost unanimous support Of the South and pledged
to the doctrine Of strict neutrality
in the organization Of new States, that of Kansas
being in contemplation. This doctrine, asserted in
the Constitution in plain and palpable language in
that Section and Article wherein the power to dis
pose Of the territories, ETC., is granted 10 the Con
gress of the United States with the further provision
that nothing in The Constitution shall be construed
as to preiadce any claims of the United States or
any particular State, afterward abated by compro-
misses of that Constitution was finally reasserted fully
in the Kansas Nebraska BILL Reasserted and put in
action by the Kansas bill this genuine States Rights
doctrine, was that to which Buchanan was pledged.
In pursuance of the provisions OF that bill he ap-
pointed Robert ]. Walker Governor Of Kansas, who
ia his official acts has wholly ignored the principle
Of neutrality, lending his opinions and his influence
to the Free State party even resorting to threats to
c0erce pr6slavery convention into the prostitution
Of their power to the attainment Of ssthe end he
aimed q, \ namely: the aboitionizing Of Kansas
Robert ]. Walker, Southern man by early adoption
his political aspirations and influence nurtured at her
bosom and cherished by the people Of the South till
he reached the growth in greatness q which made
him eligible to the position he now holds, from which,
serpenthke, he turns against her his deadly fangs
piercing the very heart Of Southern progresslet no
such man be trusted ~
That the conduct and declared intentions of this
traitor Walker should find apologists much less en-
lovc nj bo0 n,%h Il,
Democracy (for Know. Nothngs both North and
South denounced and opposed the principle which he
was chosen to carry out in kansas) has appeared to
US one of the most anomalous and unaccounable cir
cumsances attending the whole disgraceful history
Of Southern submission, with scarcely parallel in
the annals of political Inconsistency or monsrosity.
But that James Buchanan, whose whole political
career, whose endorsement of the Cincinnati Plat
FORM whose inaugural and official instructions to this
traitorous functonary this Grant appointee, should
be repudiated and unqualfediy condemned by those
who elevated him to the Presidency, and who were
justly inspired with full and entire confidence in his
patriotism integrity and stern devotion to principle
without satisfactory evidence OF his tmeservng, his
treason, was certainly not compatible with fairness
justice or the relations of the Southern Democracy to
Buchanan fl
And when we contemplate the temporizinp con-
duct, the " mastery inactivity" of Buchanan his
manifest disposition to pass over the obnoxious acts
of Walker we feel ready to denounce him as timid
tmeserver or hoary traitor it he were as oyal to
the constitution, as honest defender of the rights of
the South as Franklin Pierce, he would long ere this
have let fall the mace of office on the head Of the
reprobate Walker.
~ When we see Southern men, stirred up by the
mntterings of Freesoii thunder in Kansas fearful of
the signs of the times, run hither and tbither and
in their CONSERVATION look up in each others faces
with troubled mein and ask Will not Walker be
removed? Have we been duped? Shall we lose
Kansas? Must we bow our necks to Squatter Soy.
ereignty?
We believe that it is the duty of the Southern
Democracy imposed upon, betrayed and outraged, as
they are by the appointment and retention OF R. j.
Walker as Governor of Kansas, to speak out boldly
their sentiments of indignation and demand justice
An outraged public sentiment demanded and OBJ
tanned theTemoyal of Reeder and Sbaunon--will not
Buchanan remove Walker, will he brave the ice OF
the Southern Democracy? Let us act and act
promptly