Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-08-25
WORD MORE ABOUT KAssAs-GEs. ArcHlsoNs

A WORD MORE ABOUT KANSAS-GEE ATCHlsOfs
LETTERs-Gov WALKERS DESPATCH TO THE
STATE DEFARTMEET--Fls POSITION DEFINED
After this full dscussi IN which has been hsi On
Kansas affairs AMI the triumphant mannsr ia which
The policy OF the President in regard to that Territory
has been sustained by the Dam >cra'c party OF the
country it might have been suppos ID that the DIS
un;onists of the South would have moderated their
complaints and their charges that Walker had dOo!t-
k,oai:sd Kansas. Aud expected this the more
naturally because some of the hes. men aud ab!est
presses Of the South, that did not approve OF Gov
Walkers course, had upon full examination OF the
question. abundant reason TO justify the rresl'
d-nt ON the main point OF policy overwhelmingly.
IN. submission Of the Constitution to be adopted ny
,hs Convention To the citizens Of kansa. tor their
sJoption or rejection. Yet, notwithstanding tha! thH
administration had been sustained and justin d.
,hs ,rhols country satisfied, and the Democratic
"e .,, ;ncraas,ny consolidating and achieving vie
tt,riss where our vigAnt opponents had PrehIct'
"a defeats the extremists at the o"uih s,'n c"h'
,iuue 10 harp upon the reuted and exp'on"c 'ti"n
,hat Governor Walker has aboiitlnniseh hansas.-
rha ,h;no was impossible. HIS could not have done
:. oJ cn- tbe simp est of all possible reasons-br.
c.,ss KANSAS had been brought into s present con-
ditinn p.rhars a year mere before he went there
Even General Atchison. one OF me most thi"i huI
upiriy friends of the South surrendered all hope
maxim, k ,nsss a slave State before Governor Walk
49, had ken INV part in the affair. Of the Territory
IL ,d the South in effect that il was their apathy
and b.cause the North raised AMI ex2enHeh len uo'
lar. TO Effect their unhOy purposes where III. South
had spent one that Kansas had been brought tos men
Existing condition. He said that the frenda who had
N, strained every nerve, aud spent Their money
and their time had begun to despair, and had turned
their attention to speculation and money making
He suggested that no more money be- raised III Soulh
Carolina because il WIS usele1s TO attempt IN mat
way TO change the condition at things The editor
of The Columbia Times snid upon introducing Gsn
Atchsons letter to the public. that ihe condition OF
affairs in Kansas. ID described in thar l-fe ~ u re-
lated TO Southern interests there, 0hh0ngh not nnfI
pcctsd. was unw-leoine inteig-nce.' In fact, AL
hope uf making Kansas slave State had been gwen
no by all the proslavery men in the Territory, as
well as by the people Of Missouri, who lived SO near
TO these passing SCENES and who were 30 deeply IN
trresed in their final result. And even weli-ln"rn'
ed men of the South, like the editor OF the Times,
reluctantly admitted what every one SAW and knew,
aud which it useless to deny, that no hope re-
manned of making Kansas u slave State. Yet the
moment thar Governor Walker delivered his inaugu.
raj to the people Of Kansas il was the signal aud the
for the impatient and the extreme men Ut the
South 10 attack him without mercy for having d60f'-
tion,-M Kansas, when their own champions aud
presses had assured them that that very thitg had
been accomplished before he arrived IN the Terri.
tory.
Again, on the 18th July, Gen. AtchisOu writes 10
COL Baker and reiera,es. III still bod-r and more
energetic language the charge that it WIS Ivy the
'apaIhy OF the South that Kansas uas l"st 10 ;h-'n
He literally tauns the South for their want OF energy
and !berslity in sustaining tho cause which they
claimed to have much at heart He says
IL see that not even thunder aud lightning Will
arouse the South. doubt whether all earthquakes
moral and political earthquake shaking the nsliu'
ton of slavery 10 the EARTH and bringing RUN unon
the whole South-wuuld arouse her to action Ina
word my only hopes now tor Kansas, ara III the boz.
dsr counties of Mrs )uri; aud, bytheby any one OF
r dad nD-
ney than any one State of the whole South III thi-
cause. Tne executive committee tor Kansas Terrific
~ will have mseling OF the lo,h Of this month, tor
consultation when You shall hear from u.s.
"lf the South would do but half her duty, Kansas
would be a slave State; aud hop: we will tie able 10
eff sci that object notwithstanding the apathy OF the
slave States aud the energy Of .hs free States, and all
the open or secret efforts OF the Officers at the federal
government.
The south Carolinan, in publishing this letter of
General Atchison snys: Owe agr-. with Gen A;chi.
soo tat The South has MT done her dnty; u
she had kausaS m0uLd hare BEEN made STARE Std1t.
That it would continue 80 We do not believe, but,
bayn. made the issue, We ought 10 have taken II
when we could have done IT,:
Thus then. it would Seem to he clear that 1t was
BY other causes and by other agencies thaii the ihau
pural aud speeches Of Governor Walker, and the IN
s,rurtons Of the President, that Kansas wGs 63oit'
tiOais'd
few DAYS later, on the 2Oih July, General Atchi.
.on again writes to Mr. Baker, aud expresses sort
of desperate hope that kansns might DC mad- slave
STATE But tho shadow at a chance OF SUCCEEDS. Ms
n. +xpressed it. WAS predicted upon n tutal ,nisap.
prehrnsion of what Governor Walker meant by "a'l
the 6ona.fdr inhabitants of the Territory VIVA;
he di. mean by that phrase is explained by the toll
lowing extract from despatch at Governor Walker
To the Department OF State aud Is precisely ~"t We
have uniformly insisted whs the just Interpretation OF
his words He thus explains his meaning:
Under dat. of July 2O,h, Gov. Walker writes:
..Ou one point have been grossly msrepreeen'ed.
II il t, who, in my JUDGMENT, should vote upon
The ratification of the constitution. have been re-
presented as desiring that every man should vote
who happened to be in the Territory Oh The day OF
that ELECTION This, indeed, wcn!d be desirable u
there were Conclusive evidence that al such p-r1ons
were actual bona fGe settlers but the only sufficient
and usual proof ct such fact would be some Prev.
ou. residence On this point, which is one vi de;alI
have never proposed ~ make suggestions to CON
yeD,;on although, when asked my opinion by members
of that body have indicated previous residence o
three or six months, and tia; the same qualifications
should be adopted in the constitution III regard, not
only to that. but to all future e!ec'lons; AMI III my
Judgment or other OF these terms Ut residence
will be adopted by the convention, from whom an.
ticpa;e cordial cooperation.
1T is eom.whut extraordinary that wEst his &C.
cusa;on of letting every man vote who may happen
to be in the Territory the day OF the election las
bepl preferred in the South as indicating desire on
my part TO let in abolition Migrants and eropefs 10
cnntrol the result, the republicans of Hans have
drawn An entirely different conclus;on-viz: that
,.scucd in this manner 10 bring many thousand Ms
sourians into the Territory To decide the contest"
We have advert-d TO this subject again, because n
few presses in tho South still p.rsist IN abusing the
President, and charging upon him aud Gov Ws!krr
"a. Elm Of nbo.itionzing Kansas Their first issue
was denial OF the Justice or the policy OF submitting
the Consultation To the people OF the Territory for
their adoption or re- -ctiun. Utterly routed aud dri'
ven from ns position by tie simple logic o facts snd
precedent they have made sort of desperate stand
on what Gov. Walker meant by "5ona Fdf nhabl.
tur." Tn. Gboiiti0ns:s Of the North SAW in il
purpose to make Kansas snvs Stat; the extremists
of the South charged rs reasonable trick to make
it free State II WAS neither. 1t WAS the expires.
sion of "a lawful aud honest purpose 10 cOnsuinma.
great public rnea,ure. We ~ interpreted it. We 70
explained il. And now Gov. Walker himself de
cures what he meant by III" expressions used by him,
10 desIyuate pho should vote upon the Constitution,
and shows that W. vera right in our Interpretation
OF his language.
What our fire eating friends will now do remains 20
be seen If they still continue their attacks upon the
Administration and their abuse ot Governor Walker,
with all the facts and the arguments which have been
aiducsd before them, the country will conclude that
and thu, the policy their opposon not regula-
ted by the great moral standard OF truth aud justice.
Il Enton
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INDIAN BATTLE.
DUBUQUE, Aug 20 -Hus!it-s have again broken
Out between the Sioux and Chippewa In iinns. The
latter sackrd party Of the Sioux near Ssc'roxer,
and took thirty scalps and retreGed down Red river.
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FATAL AFFRAY.
NEW YORK, Aus 22.-Lsst night wsll.kmown
lawyer OF this city, named WagstaE was shot dead
in a ar.oon on Broadway. by an actor named lIims.
attached to Buttons theatre.