The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-06-27
From The Richmond Examiner, June 49,
KANSAS. --WALKER THE ADMINISTRATION AND
THE sECESSIONISTS.

er and northwestern States from which he has only just
returned the affairs OF Kansas have attracted much of the
attention Of the southern press and the proceedings OF
Governor Walker been made the subject of harsh ami
madyenion by southern newspapers upon himself and
upon the administration at Washington.
We have had time yet to see nothing OF what has
been said in this strain and cannot give present re-
marks the form OF response to il either in the character
of assent or dissent Our views, however the whole
subject of Kansas politics very decided and
brace the OCCASION the first command, to lay them
fully and frankly before the public. If we shall have TO
write at greater length than usual the fact must be ex
cnsed TO the Importance of the subject in hand,
THE ASrEcEprST OF
And FIRST we must premise that Kansas goyernorships
and Kansas politics have from the first been very per-
picking subjects to administrations at Washington and
that until the South the extremists of the South
have been very forbearing to Washington administrations
on account of their cohnexon completely with official
slips mishaps and malfeasances in Kansas We know
that Mr. Pierce appointed the notorious Reeder to the
governorshp of Kansas that Recder before going to
Kansas was supposed to be perfectly sound eonstitu-
tiona questions that derectons of principle very soon
developed themselves in his conduct after his arrival
there that he was in open defiant utilization and
spracy with the emigration aid aboltionists long before
his removal from Office and, such was the delicate
complications involving the question of his removal that
il was long delayed and finally made not on the
ground of his gross public inidelity to constitutional
principles but the ground of alleged private specua
lions in government property.
During all this time the South, the extremists of the
South were very enient to the administration at Wash
ington and this Journal though under the ban of
federal dsfavor for having time before raised
earnest voice and continued cry aloud against al
iation between the administration and the New York free
soil democracy of the Buffalo platform held Its peace
the whole matter of Reeder conentng itself with nau
dble groans.
On Reeders eventual removal and in the midst of the
terrific excitement he had aided in getting up between
the aid society and prosavery men, Governor Shannon,
another northern man. was appointed-a man who was
varousy charged to be both antslavery and prosavery
who was probably neither the thing the other,
whose imbecy and utter untnoss for the position to
which he was appointed notorious and whose term
Of service proved period of uninterrupted civil in
Kansas exciting the most fearful political contest in the
Union at large known in our republican history
There remonstrance from the South, none from
the extremists of the South with the administration at
Washington against the appointment of Shannon,
account of the fghul condition of things his presence
in that Territory seemed to aggrayate Though under
the ban of the then administration for having reluctantly
discharged painful duty in the New York imbroglio,
and though free to if censure could have
STRANGE against the appointment OF Shannon because
felt it could effect practical good end. .aar,.a,
Shannon was finally superseded by Geary an immeas
urable ass and abolitionist to boota who went
to Kansas with enough patriotic intentions for the
good government of dozen States; who INDUCED
most extravagantly in the eerea Mill who speed
ily over horse foot and Dragons, to the adso
ciey abolitionists received showers of concentrations
from Greeley John Wentworth, and Ward Beecher; be-
A. .nffr pnb ly fad tha
Territory like Cain out of the land of Eden with the
blood brave young souheer upon his conscience. 1t
was with the appointment of Geary it had been with
the appointment of Shannon and of Reeder with south
ern and seceson Therew remonstrancc
from the Southnope from the ultraists secessionis
re-eaters The Charleston Mercurywe mention partic
narly not more because it and is the acknowledged
leader of the secession party than for its positive ability
and respectabilitythe Charleston Mercury, say
which had espoused the administration project of gov
eminent railroad to the Pacific which had defended the
administration in its utilization with the barnbuner softs
of New York and in its upon the national hards-
reained from opening its batteries upon the admnista
tion on account either of its original appointment
of its tardy removal Of Reeder, Shannon, and Geary.
This temper of forbearnce which exhibited itself in their
great organ characterized the whole body of southern
extremists in this whole matter eeminenty character
lied those who rejoice in the appelaton of secesonsts
it than spirit OF forbeaIance that
actuaed these extremists and sccessonsts towards the
administration in these Kansas derelictions Their con
duct seemed to the aspect Of appreciation They
became the peculiar champions of the denomination for
the presidency of the head of the then administration
Mr. Pierce--a gentleman whom however warmly we may
have opposed him for that distinction always
Der with kindliness Nay, they demanded Mr.. Pierce's
denomination as the democratic candidate for the pres
ency they caused the States of the South which they
controlled to declare long in advance of the Cincinnati
Convention in his favor for that position they procured
the votes Of those States for him at CINCINNATI proclaim
ing that he par ercec, the champion of the great
Kansas Nebraska test principle of he right Of The people Of
a Territory the time Of entering he Union STATE 10 de-
r,e Us domestic insions insisting that he, above all
others had the smoke and blood of the fight upon his
garments and superlatvely entitled to the nomna-
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At# LOGICAL EsroPPEI.
We are endeavorng to visit upon the head of Mr.
Pierce the responsibility Of the wofu caaes which be-
fell Kansas and Union through the ndety of Reed
er and Gcary and through tine imbecity of Shannon,
his appointecs That is not position But hold,
that those of Mr. Perces peculiar admirers and advo-
and mseasances of Reeder shannon and Gcary, forbade
TO visit the denquencies of these three reprobate gov
errors upon him. esopped from condemning the pres
ent administration for any conduct whatever which
Gov Walker may be guilty in Kansas it being impossible
that he can prove more nath to the South than his
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