New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-26
Kansas and Walker,
From the Carroon (aIiss.) Democrat, 2lst nsl

Iron the Carrollton (aIss) Democrat 2lst nst.l
The real issue between Gov Walker and his asailsnts
shall shall be submitted the people of Kansas and
ground that the constitution should be submitted to direct
of the people The Union has sustained and will
s10''- washington Union, Aug /,
This is an issue that Gov. Walker has forced upon
the people of kansas, but is not the issue that Msss
Union has made and rendered an issue for Gov.
Walker that these States never made, and one which
his " assailants" never will accept.
We assail Gov. Walker because he has thrown the
weight Of his official position, backed by the Execu
tive against one party in Kansas and in favor of the
other. We assail him because he did make upon his
advent into the Territory, his first official acu an
argumenRfase in theory and in fact upon the subject
OF slayery-an argument that contradicts the whole
history of the institution of slavery in the United
States
Does not every one know that slavery and emigra-
ton has tended west from the Atlantic by parallels
OF latitude? From Virginia and North Carolina
Kentucky and Tennessee were peopled and settled ;
from Kentucky and Tennessee Arkansas and Missouri
were settled and populated And so it would have
continued to the shores Of the Pacific, had not the
natural laws that regulated immigration and domestic
institutions been violently assailed and rudey per-
verted from their natural channels. We assail him
because in his inaugural address, he takes for granted
the fact that has been ercely contested all the time
by the ProSavery paTtyin the Territory that Kansas
was to become free State, directly in face of the
every political conflict in the Territory. We assa
him for the fact that he has assumed the tone of the
dictator when speaking to and of the ProSlavery
party, and of the sycophant when addressing the
free State men. We assail him for the fact that he
has taken sides throughout his official career against
the law and order party and in favor of the rebellion
lists and traitors. We assail him for the fact that he
has all the time been making covert assaults upon
Gen. Pierce and his official connection with this Ter
rtoral question and, like the Pharisee, thanks his
God that he and Mr.. Buchanan were not like their
predecessors, nor responsible for their conduct. We
assail him because he has violated in letter and
spirit the Kansas Nebraska act and the principles of
the Cincinnati platform.
free to form and regulate their domestic institutions
in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of
| the United States.
| we assal him because he has not exhibited the
| spirit and independence of man and statesman,
encompassed as he certainly was with trials and en-.
vironed with difficulties. But contrary to the nobler
principles of the human heart he has eagued with
might against right to this influence we believe he
has crooked the pregnant hinges of the knee that
thrift might follow fawning."
We assail him because he has betrayed the South
(the much abused and outraged South, that first
trusted him and placed him in power and position }
into the hands of her enemy. And now, in the face
OF these facts that can't be denied we are cody and
quietly told by his organ and apologist, the Union
that the question between Walker and his assalants
Is, whether the Constitution about to be framed in
Kansas shall or shall not be submitted to the people
for their adoption and ratification. We pronounce
the statement to be libel upon history, a calumny
upon Walkers assaa nts, and insult to the +" lion
hearted Democracy that carried Mr.. Buchanan in
triumph to the Presidency