Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-12-08
KANSAS Frs.


must content ourseIf with giving synop-
sis Of the leading facts, with brief com
ments. r.ft...a q. r.'. ....
1. Gov. Walker has left Kansas, and
gone to Washington. Before leaving the
territory, he was urged by the Free State
men TO call an extra session of the Legis-
luture. He acknowledge the necessity,
but hesitated about his power to do so I,
and finally sneaked ef without giving the
committee a direct answer. After he was
gone they applied to. Stanton, who also
agreed with them about the propriety OF
the measure, but declined taking the re-
spousibihty. He has resign"d his office, to
take effect on the day of the election under
the Constitution. Walker and Stanton,
while they see and acknowledge the right,
publicly and privately, have proved them
selves poor, miserable, pusillanimous cow-
ards, unfit for such responsible stations.
They lack the courage to DO RIGHT. They
..knew their duty, but they did it not. -
BY calling AN extra session of the Legs
lature, the Free State men would have been
placed in possession of the government,
before the Rufians could possibly have
perfected their vllainy, and peaceable steps
might then have been taken to settle the
difficulty.
g. Walker has had several interviews
with the President and Cabinet, and an
open rupture is the result. Buchanan and
his Cabinet have determined to sustain the
bogus Constitution makers in all their acts,
damnable as they are. On the other hand,
Walker refuses TO resign, and the Presi-
dent will be obliged to remove him. This
may look like easy work ; but there is a
prospect that it will not be as easy as it
seems; for STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS has en-
tered the field for Walker and against the
President The ''little giant" is no. and
eager for the fray, and it is said he has al
ready thirty northern Democratic Con-
gressmen on his side. In addition to this,
he has scores Of influential Democratic pa
pers, North and South, on his side, among
which we may mention the Ohio States
man, ForneY's Philadelphia Press, Doug
las organ in Chicago, &c. Then it is not
at all improbable that the entire Republi-
can vote in Congress will be given to sus-
tain Douglas. AS the thing now looks,
a great split in the Democratic party is in-
evitable.
3. Congress met yesterday. We are
anxious to hear the news; because the
turning point in the controversy will take
place in the election of Speaker of the
House. Joshua r. Giddings has just
written his views on that subject, which
coincide with our own precisely. He says:
No candidate for Speaker will be voted
for by Southern men, but such AS will ap
point a committee on Territories favorable
Tor the admission of Kansas as a Slave
State; and when the committee once report
a bill for it's admission, the Executive pa
tronage will secure its passage. Foreign
missions, consulships, heads of bureaus,
and marshalships, will be held forth to the
doubtful. Some will absent themselves
and not vote, others will vote with the
South, and the bill will be carried. We
therefore say to the people, to the Demo-
Gratis of the North, the vote on Speaker
will determine the fate of Kansas; and
Northern Democrats who vote for him, on
their return to the pc eople will attribute the
downfall of their party to the action OF
their committee, to the action of their
Speaker, 10 the action of the President
They will never admit that the election of
Speaker scaled the fate of Kansas; that
they knew such would be the result when
they voted for him.
TO the editors of the Ohio Statesman,
the Chicago Times, and other Democratic
papers, we say, il you intend to save Kan
s:ls, point your readers TO the action OF
their several Representatives on the cleo
ton of Speaker. Let the Representatives
understand that the people are watching
that vote, and will hold them responsible
for it; that as they vote for Speaker, they
declare their real wishes in regard to lib
cry in Kansas and the Union. If they
have tie manly independence to nominate
candidate pledged to free Kansas, and
stand by him, the South must yield or as
sumo the responsibility OF disbanding the
party. They need not come to the Re
publIcans. or vote for Republican candi-
date; all that is necessary will be to vote
for candidate Of their own, and manifest
sufficient independence to stan by him
Let them go into caucus with none bu
Democrats in favor of free Kansas. Lei
them nominate and vote for no other. and
Kansas will be free, and the Uni a saUsd
A. The Presidents Message will b.
: I,oked for with unusual interest. To ac
commodate our readers, we have made ar
rangements by which wa expect to furnisl
all our subscribers, before they can posi-
bly, receive it from any other quarter
Buchanan will undoubtedly take stroni
,,,J IN favor Of sustaiuino, the ho0u