Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-06-15
From the Charleston Courier, June 10.
Governor walkers TreaChery 10 the
South.

SOUTH
Gov. Walkers inaugural address to the people
of Kansas, while Astounding in a vast deal of good
advice and sound doctrine in regard to submission
10 law and order, and even glowing with love of
the Union, and strongly depicting its priceless
value and the wckedness and wo of its destruction
has yet in il little leaven, which leavens and
rupts the whole mass; and which displays the
cloveD foot of treachery to the South. This
leaven is contained 10 the following small passage
selected from several columns of matter:
"Indeed, cannot doubt that the Convention,
after having framed a State Constitution, will sub
nit il for ratification or rejection by majority of
the then actual bona fde resident settlers of Kan
sas
''With these views, well known to the President
aud Cabinet, and approved by them, l accepted
the appointment of Governor of Kansas. My
instructions from the President, through the Sec.
rotary OF State, under date of 3Oth of March last
sustain the regular legislature Of the Territory
in assembling Convention to form Constitution,
aud they express the opinion of the President,
that when such Constitution shall be submitted
to the people Of the Territory they must be protect
ed in the exercise OF their right of voting for
against that Instrument and the fair expression of
the popular will must not be interrupted by fraud
or viOleace.'
81 repeat then, as my clear conviction, that
unless Convention submit the Constitution to the
vote Of oil the actual resident settlers of Kansas
aud the election be fairly and justly conducted,
the Constitution will be, and ought to be, rejected
by Congress-"
II appears, then that Gov. Walker shelters him
seli under the concurrence, nay under the instruc
tons OF President Buchanan, and unless the lat.
ter shall 1isavow the sayings anO doings OF bis APP
pointee, he too will stand chargeable with in6dei-
~ TO the South, that South to which he Owls his
elevation to the highest dignity on earth.
conviction, "tLat he convention, after hauino
framed State Constitution wlH submit Il for rat
ifcation or rejection 10 a majority of tie then &C.
tual bona tide resident settlers Of RdnsaS,' as an
srrogant attempt to interfere with and dictate the
action of that body; and, il President Buchanan
h.shdeed sanctioned such proceeding in advance
or shall subsequently, approve il, his too will be
the guilt OF that Interference and dctatiou.
Gov. Walkers function and business are merely
executive, a. C., to that the laws of the Union
and OF the Territory faithfully executed; and
yet bis Inaugural act is one of assumption aud
usurpauon, and neither more nor less than an I'M
disguised and insoleut attempt, not to advise a
mere legislative body, but to control the action of
the august assembly, charged with the high duty
of framing the fundamental law Of Kausds-t e
Constitution, which is to fix her character aud
destiny, as State. Not content With this gross
invasion of right and propriety, be next under.
takes to prescribe the course OF Congress- 10 the
premises, by expressing "his clear conviction that
unless the Contention submit the Constitution 10
the UOte Of all the actual resident settlers Of hdgSds
and the election be fairly and justly conducted,
TIE CONSTITUTION WILL BE, AND oUsHf TO BE- Rk-
JECTED BY CONGRESS"
Gov. Walker, then, is either self-coustituted, or
Presidentially appointed, Dictator OF Kansas-he
dictates 20 the Convention, aud be dictates 10
Congress-and be says that President Buchanan
sanctions and backs him in these monstrous iu-
trIsions the functions, aud outrages on the
rights OF bodies, invested not only with authority
far beyond his own, but with rigbtiul aud consti-
tutonal authority TO act conclusively in the pre-
misses.
he assigns, too, a reason, historically false, for
his gross usurpation Of power. IL is announced ia
this sentence:
'Uuder our practice, the preliminary act OF
framing State Constitution, Is uhiy0rlalg per-
formed through the iustrumentality Of a conVeu-
ton OF delegates, chosen by the peopls them
selves"
The general usage Of the States and Territories
Of the Union has been, in both the formation and
amendment OF Constitutions, 20 act through con-
ventious, as fnal aud DOT as preliminary bodies,
and the fact that the usage has beeu OF late de-
parted FROM, in several even numerous Instances,
cannot justify his false predicate OF uniformity 10
the practice he fayOrs, whieh Is, clearly aud bis
t9rically, the exception aud not the rule.
We are uuieignedly surprised al the apathy OF
the south IN this mater. IL is crying enormity,
which should rouse the indignation aud call iorth
the thundsrs OF the Southsrn press and the inois-
nation OF the Southern people.
The object Ia view eau be none other than 20
ensure The INJECTION Of pro-slayery constitution,
and put the ascendency Of the Democratic party
beyond the reach OF contingency, by disarmiug
the Black Republicans Of their heavy artillery. ID
i Transparent that, If there sas prospset of an
anti-SaVery Constitution, emanstng from the
coming Convention no such doctrine would have
been promulgated, no such maeh.nery pus ia re-
quikidon.