The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-11-14
Hone from Gov Walker

The reader is presumed to have read
the two preceding articles on this page,
the first headed 1.-THE CRISIS the second
"THE REMEDY" and is now anxious to
know whether we have reason to HOPE
for assistance from Gov. WALKER.-
Aside from our private and personal
knowledge in the premises, we turned
back to our issue of April the 18th, and
found on the Sd page the letter of Gov.
w. to President Buchanan, of date March
26, 1857, accepting the office of Govern
or of Kansas, which the President and
his Cabinet had rendered him. The sec
ond paragraph of that letter of accept
ance reads:
II understand that YOU and all your
Cabinet cordially concur with me in the
opinion expressed by me. that the actual
Jona .Jfde residents of the Territory of
Kansas, by fair and regular vote, unaf-
fected bv fraud or violence. must be per-
mitted, in adopting their State Constitu-
ton, to decide for themselves what shall
be their social institutions. This is the
great, fundamental principle of the act
of Congress organizing that Territory,
affirmed by the Supreme Court of the
United States, and is in accordance with
the views uniformly expressed by me
throughout my public career. | contem-
nlate peaceful settlement If this ques-
ton by an appeal to the intelligence and
patriotism of the whole people of Klaus as,
who should all participate. freely and
fully, in this decision, and by majority
of whose votes the determination must
be made. as the only proper and oonsti-
tutional mode of adjustment"
Tt will be recollected the Governors
appearance in the Territory was delayed
until the 9th of May following, when he
issued his Inaugural Address to the Peo-
pie of the Territory, which had previous
" been submitted to the President and
Cabinet, and to Senator DoUGLAs, and
reoef0etl the appreciation of ALL Of tReD.-
Speaking of the Constitutional Conyen-
ton, which has just closed its labors, the
Governor said:
Il cannot doubt that the Convention,
after having framed State Constitution,
will submit it for ratification or rejection
to a majority of the then actual bona .Ii,ie
resident settlers of Kansas.
GtiT1kH &ha.o ,,,lt Al i.
President and Cabinet. and approved by
them, l accepted the appointment of Gov
ernor of Kansas NY instructions from
the President, through the Secretary OF
State, under date of the Both of March
last, sustain the regular Legislature of the
Territory in assembling Contention to
form CoRstitation,' and they express the
opinion of the President, that ',ohea such
Constitution shall be Submitted TO the peo-
pfc Of the Territory. they must be proteted
ia the exercise Of their right Of uoting for or
against tsqt INSTRUMENT; and tie far en-
presslon Of the popular foiN must not Be Tn
teyvapted By fraud or violence
"Irepeat then, as my clear conviction,
that unless the Convention submit the
Constitution TO vote of all the actual
resident settlers of Kansas, and the cleo
ton be fairly and Justly conducted, TIE
Constitution sUia be, and ought to be, rejected
By Congress"
But the Governors expression of opin-
ion did not close here. In speech de-
! livered to very large number of the
People of Kansas, assembled in Mass
Convention at Topeka on the 9th OF June
last, and which speech was reported by
the Governors Private Secretary, and
published in the Herald Of Freedom OF
June 10Th, he said:
Il will say then to You, gentlemen,
that if they do not appoint fair and i'm
partial mode by which the majority oil
the actual, bona file, resident settlers OIL
Kansas shall vote. through the instru-
mentality of impartial judges, ,cIH JON
yo9 IN all lasefal opposition to their doiags;
and the President and Congress viii re-
| ject their Constitution. Over
the pastI have no control; but over the
future have, and say to you that un-
less a full and fair opportunity is given te
the s1hole people of Kansas to decide foI
themselves what shall be their form Of
government. including the great sectional
/ question which has 50 long divided you
unless, | repeat, they grant you such ar
opportunity, / lave one power of which
no man or set Of. men can deprive me