Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-09
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Correspondence OF The Evening Post.
Eaansas--GOV. Walker.
WAsHINGToN, March 2!

WASHINGTON, March 20.
Robert j. Walkers letter of acceptance
of the Kansas Governorship was finished
last evening. In it he assures the Presi-
dent, to whom it is addressed, tt at he had
been Induced to change his determination
to decline the Office by the Executives as
surances of the Importance of the mission,
and of his own peculiar fitness flor it. He
reiterates bis belief in the soundness of the
principles of popular SOY, reignty" announc-
ed in the Kansas-Nebraska act-a princi-
pie, in his opinion, constituting the basis
of all free government. He maintains that
it must yet have a triumphant and bene-
ficient operation in Kansas, and that it
would be folly to swerve from it or adopt
any substitute for it in the government OF
the Territory. For himself, the new Gov
ernor declares he shall insist on the right
of the majority of the people of Kansas to
settle their own institutions, and he shall
resist any attempt of outside influences or
of a resident minority to impose a const.-
tuition or code of laws abhorrent to the
will of the majority.
In the maintenance of this purpose he
calls upon the patriotic and intelligent
citizens of Kansas for their support, express
sing confidence that they will submit to
that peaceful arbitration of the questions
in dispute among them, which is provided
by the Constitution and laws of the land
He assures them that he goes out to his
labors with the expectation that no appeal
10 arms will be needed to sustain the ac-
ton of the civil authorities.
The above sketch of Gov. Walkers let
ter is derived from one of his personal
friends who has seen the letter. To the
principles declared in it, the representa-
ii: :es of the Kansas Pro-Slevery party now
in Washington have given their assent,
promising Walker their individual support
if the programme shall be faithfully carried
out-as they understand it, suppose.
Gov. Walker still maintains the opinion
expressed in his published address to the
people of Pennsylvania, shortly before Presi-
dent Bucnanan's election, chat fair trial
of the principles of the organic act of Kan
sas must make it Free State. In this
sentiment, also, understand, Mr.. Bnchan-
an concurs, and has avowed, with more
than his usual explicitnoss, to some OF the
more ultra Southern politicians, that the
Democratic party of the North cannot safe
" stand the continuance of the violent Pro-
Slavery policy heretofore pursued in Kan
sas The President declares that it will do
no rood to the slaveholding section, and
will utterly ruin the Northern wing of the
Democracy to attempt by violence to coun-
teract the operation of those laws of God
and Nature which mus. ultimately make
Kansas Free State. SO Mr.. Buchanan's
friends report him. But the removal of
Judge Lecompte would be much more
satisfactory manifesto than any private
ayowals ofhis character.
BY his own desire, Governor Walkers
commission will not take effect till the sec
ond Monday in May. AS, nnder the cen
sus and convention act, passed by the late
Kansas Legislature" the list of legal vo-
ters for delegates to the Constitutional
Convention will have been completed by