New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-07-02
Pres,aent Buehannn =. Gov. walker.

The regular Southern Democrats are in a woeul
fix respecting the Freesoil action of Gov. Walker in
Kansas and the course of the President in retaining
him in Office. They exhaust the language in heaping
terms Of bitterness upon Walker, and they draw
heavily upon the common tongue to find fitting words
of eulogy to bestow upon Mr.. Buchanan--the man
who invested Walker with all his powers for mischief
and who can render him poweress by writing brief
\ 8telegraphic dispatch.
1t seems to there is ridiculous inconsistency in
oil this. To hold the agent responsible for wicked
acts and acquit the principal Of all blame is the very
quintessence of absurdty There is no reconcng the
two propositions without we elevate the creature
above the creator. Gov. Walker is but President
Buchanan's official creature. The latter made him in
trice and can unmake him in less time. Is he not,
then, responsible for Gov. Walkers acts, or is the
Governor supreme These are the questions to BE
answered, plainly and directly and we wholly mis-
understand the character of the Southern people
they can be misled by denuncaton Of the agent and
sulogy Of the principal, into sanetionng gross be.
trayal of their constitutional rights.
The Richmond South was foremost in detecting
and exposing the treasonous designs of Walker. For
this Southern men, return it all due and proper
thanks. Yet the South in its issue of the 25th ult.
asserts an undimnshed confidence in Mr.. Buchanan,
because of some esutieal outgoings in article Of
the Washington Uunion-the organ of the Admins
traton We quote the opening of the South's article
z The readers of this paper will bear witness that we
have persstenty refused to hold the Administration re-
sponsble for Walkers misconduct in Kansas. On the
contrary, we have contended from the beginning
that his overtures to the Abotonsts would be
or later repudiated by the President.
We now quote the material point of the Washing
ton Unions article, which so elated the South
Whatever the Constitution (of Kansas) may be-
whether recognising or excluding slavery, silent in
regard to the institutonit will be pieaCed The eI-
preston Of the triH Of the people of Kansas as those
,cto frame it ,eiA act under tie Federal Constitution,
| and in a manner recognized By the organic lar.
And upon this the Richmond South comments as
| follows:
is impossible to mistake the meaning of this Ian
guage. The Administration declares that the action
OF the Convention will be inal and regards as the
people Of Kansas only those who are notc uniting to
frame form OF government in accordance with the
provisions Of law.'' :" Whatever the Consultation
may be, it will be viewed as the expression of the will
of the people of Kansas without that submission
to the vote Of all the bona de residents, which the
Hon. Robert j. Walker insists upon as an ndispensa
| Bile condition to the admission of the Territory into
the Union. Our position is sustained by the Admin
stration while those individuals who blindly follow
Walker, lind themselves suddenly embarrassed by
rebuke from the President.
Verify, our Richmond cotemporary is easily salts.
fed We do not share the confidence expressed. We
cannot take the vague sentences of newspaper, writ
ten evidently for effect and nothing but effect as an
offset to acts of treachery against our section COM
mitted by an appointee of the President and sane.
TONED by the President as long he continues that
appointec in position to practice treason and mis-.
| chief.
When Mr.. buchanan removes Walker we shall be
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