Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-04-16
Mr., Walker on Kansas.

Wr. walker on Kansas.
In view of the appointment of the Hon.
Robert J. Walker as Governor of Kansas,
the following extracts from letter which
he wrote while the Presidential election
was pending, is interesting and important.
The letter was dated September 80, 1856,
and was addressed to the Democratic COM
mittes in Pittsburg, Pa. 1t was an elabo-
rate review Of the principal topics Of the
canvass, and cont aimed the following senten-
ces relative to Kansas: .,
"If this question, as provided by the Kan
sas and Nebraska bill should be left 10 the
people Of the Territory in forming their State
constitution, it will be determined by SOIL
climate, production, and the laws which
govern the movement of population. Here,
the North, aided by its greatly superior
numbers, by European non-slaveholding en-
igrants, by the greater facility OF movement,
unincumbered by the transport Of slaves,
or the apprehension of their ultimate condi-
tion where taken, have great advantages
over the South in the settlement of new
Territories, and should be perfectly satisfied
with the principle which leaves the deter
mination of this question, when they be-
come State, to majority Of the people Of
the Territory. This is the Kansas Nebras.
ka bill. This is on-intervention- absolute
non-interference by the federal government.
This is the doctrine of the constitution
This is that rule Of absolute equality Of
rights of all the States, which lays at the
foundation of the confederacy. This is that
constitutional right, recognized in the ad-
mission Of new States. that they come into
the Union upon an equal footing with the
other States, in all respects Whatsoever
But The equality does not exist, if other
States accede or come into the Union, with
ar without slavery, at their pleasure and
Kansas cannot do so.
There is another reason; not heretofore
adver,cd to, which seems to render it imprac-
tioable long to maintain slavery in Kansas.
In oil the slave States there is large ma
jorily of voters who are non-slavehoders,
but they are devoted to the.institutiOns of the
South-they would defend them with their
lives and on this question the South
are united people. This class, composed
Of many small farmers, or merchants, pro-
fessional men, mechanics, overseers, and
other industrial classes, constitute mainly
the patrol of the South, and cheerfully unite
in carrying out those laws essential 10 pre-
serve the institution. Against powerful
minority and constant agitation, slavery
could not long exist in any State. 1t is a
well known fact that this result would have
followed soon, in several of the slave States,
but for the unanimity speedily produced
there by the abolition ar5itrators and inter-
meddlers Of the North, Now Kansas is
much divided on the question of slavery
there; there is powerful minority there, if
not majority. A party not neutral, but
bitterly hostile to the institution; and for this,
in addition to the reasons before given, l dc
not belive Kansas will become a slave State.
The Boston Journal Republican says:-
If Mr.. Walkers official acts are govern
ed by the views herein presented, and the
principle of popular sovereignty is admins
tered with thorough impartiality the friends
of free Kansas can reasonably expect moth
ing further of of the new Governor in the
advancement Of their own ideas of the true
destiny Of the Territory.