Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1857-12-24
Gov. Walker.

R.ber. J. Walker, like GeaTy, Shannon, and
Reeder, has a, length been compelled to resign
n. has zen. 10 the Presiden, an able and lengthy
letter, reviewing his Kansas proceedings and
convic.ng Mr.. Buchanan Of deserving the Demo,
cratic PLATFORM.
Our GO umns will not admit it at length or our
freely commenting upon 1t. We Therefore give
as briefly AS possible a few of III. leading ideas.
He states ,ha. he accepted the Office viii the
express condition that he should advocate the
submission of the Constitution to the vote of the
people. He says, his instructions from the Pres
dent on the Both Of March last, We're to sustain
the regular Legislature in assembling Conven-
ton to form consti,u,on-and with the express
opinion OF tho President, that the Constitution
should be submitted TO the vote Of the people.
He says he carried out these ideas, and that no
execution was taken to official dispatch an
nouncing the same forwarded by him to the Pres
id-n,, the 81 Of June last. He says, by this dis.
patch he was pledged to the people of Kansas,
10 oppose any constitution, which was not tinaly
submitted to their vote. tie says:
"On reference 10 the Territorial lave under
which the Convention WIS assembled. ihiIly tour
REGULARLY organized counties were named as s!tc'
ton districts for delegates to the Convention. la
each aud ali Of these counties it WAS required by
law that IA census be taken and the voters regis
tered, and when this was competd the dale.
gales to the Convention should be appointed &C
cordinely. In nineteen of these counties there
was no census, and therefore there 1un'd BIZ no
such appointment there of Delegates upon s,ch
census. Aud in fifteen OF these counties there
Was no registry Of voters. These fifteen couu-
ties including many Of the oldest organized
counties in the Territory. were entirely dtstI"n-
rhised, and did not give, (hy NJ fault OF ,h' 'r
oan,) could no; give a solitary vote tor the desr-
Yates to the Convention THIS result was super
induced by the fact, that the Territorial Leg, IT..
,urs appointed all til. She:iifs and Probate Judges
in all these counties, to whom was assigned the
duty bY law. of making this census and registry.
These officers were political paT>an~ Dissenting
from the views and opinions OF the people Ut
these counties, as was proved by the cl-cl'o" IN
October last. Wnese officers, tro'" want OF funds
% they alleged, neg sc.rd refused I" take amy
Census or make aay registry in these counties and
therefore they were entire y DISTINGUISHED. and
could no, and did not z i've single vote at the
election for delegates TO the Constitutional Com
ypntion."
state it az a fact based on long and intimate
association with lhs people of Kansas, that an
oYerw helming minority OF tho people are opposed
10 tina, instrument, and my letters state that but
one out Of twenty Of the press Of Kansas sustain
it. Some oppose it because 80 many counties
were disfrancnised and unrepresented in the Con-
yention some who opposed 70 paper money.
because it authoIses a hank of esrorssous capital
for Kansas, nearly unlimited in its issues aud in
the denomination Of its notes, from one dollar up
mad Down; some because of what they consider
Know Nothing clause, by requiring that the Gov
prnor shall have been twenty years a cIlzrn Of
the United Slater; some because the elective
franchise Is not free, they cannot vote aeains,
the constitution bu. only on The single issue
whether any more slaves may he imported, and
then only upon that issue by voting for the con-
s,,u,ion to which they are opp"sed-and they re-
yard this as bu, mockery oil the elective fran
elise, and psrilous sporting with the Sacred
rights Of the people: some oppose it because the
constitution distinctly recognises and adopts the
Oxford fraud in apportioning Legislative members
for Johnson County upon the fraudulent and fc,-
,ious returns 80 falsely called fran tina, precinct,
which recognition Of that fraud in the constitution
is abhorrent to the moral sense of the people.
He winds up by expressing an opinion tina, it
IA uss,ees for the Government to attempt to force
.laysry into the territory, and the President may
be conyer,ed-or. a, least, that S conduct may
be over ruled for good.