The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-06-06
Gov. walksr-Eis inaugural and Policy.
Gov. RoBERr j. WALKEs visited Law

renee on Saturday evening last, and at
tended Rev. Mr.. NUrE's Church on Sun
day. He has taken pains to make the
acquaintance of our people, to IaiBgie
with them in private life. and to learn
the facts in regard To our past difficulties,
with view to the correction of abuses
We are glad to learn that he conternplates
making a tour of the Territory, and VIII
visit every portion of it, taking the peo-
ple by the hand, and learning from their
own lips wherein they have suffered, and
how their wrongs can be redressed.
csnrteous and affable in his bearing, and
omen to those in every walk of life, with
a firm dissemination to do RIGHT, as often
asserted by him, independent of partisan
Influences. we are frank to ayow our con-
yiction that he will make apopular Gov
ernor. and will share high place in the
affections ofthe people.
- Gov. Walker is from the extreme South,
and is Southern man. 1t is well that
it is so, If he viii carry out to the letter
the principles of popular sovereignty,
which he so cordially endorses, and which
he declares shall get prevail in Kansas.-
"The past" he remarked in private con-
vsrsation, ''cannot be changed; but the
future is in our keeping, and every wrong
can be redressed, and every Infringement
of constitutional freedom remedied"
Everywhere throughout his Inaugural,
Gov. Walker asserts the broad position
that the people of Kansas. the WHOLE
PEOPLE, and not a minority, shall have the
privilege of framing their own institutions
and thai without foreign or outside inter
vention. He re-afirms that position most
positively in social conversation, and
shows by earnest action that he means
what he says.
The movement of the bogus Legisla-
ture to disfranchise and enslave the peo-
pie, and to deprive them of all participa-
ton in State government, is evidently
seen by him very forcibly. His message
shadows 1t plainly, and his proclamation
to the counties where the census was not
taken, requesting the people to elect del
egates to the State Convention, notwith-
standing they are disfranchised by the
law, shows that he is not ignorant of the
facts.
He advocates the submission of the
new Constitution, as an entirety, to vote
of ALL the people-not the fssr who were
registered-and that fair and honest
expression of the popular will be had
upon that question; and he shows very
conclnsiyely that unless such PROPOSE
ton is carried out in good faith by the
Convention, the Constitution will never
be sanctioned by Congress. In his In
gural the Governor says:
1.-THE people of Kansas are invited BY
the highest authority known to the Con-
stitution, to participate freely and tairiy in
the election of delegates to frame a State
Government
The Governor must have been ignorant
Of the efforts made to bar out the ac-
tual residents of Kansas from the ballot
box, when he penned that sentence, OF
he could not have given it publicity II
was no doubt written before his arrival in
the Territory, and before the damning
guilt of the bogus Legislature was fully
made known to him by an acquaintance
with their official acts.
We do not propose to review the in-
augural. 1t should be read by every eiti-
zen. He has made many wise sugges-
tons, which we hope to see ultimately
engrafted in the Constitution of Kansas.
The document is lengthy, but is by no
means devoid of interest.
The Governor seems to have an eye to
the organization of anew Territory bound
ing Kansas on the south, and intimates
very clearly that he thinks that it is
adapted to slave labor, while Kansas is
not adapted to such labor. As regards
the new Territory or State, that is ques-
ton with Congress, over which we, as
Kansans, have no control, and it is well
for us to leave that matter where it con-
stituticnally belongs.
As we said several weeks ago in our
Journal, when we learned of MIR. Walk
ers appointment to the Office he now
holds: We shall do nothing to embarrass
his administration. So long as he acts
honestly and justly by the people, and
labors to preserve tranquility and to re-
gain for US the rights of which the
people have been deprived by fraud, so
long shall he have our hearty eo-opera-
ton. and so long the people viii rally
under his standard, irrespective of party.
That he may have fair opportunity to
develop his policy, our people and politi-
clans should be careful to keep down all
unnecessary excitement and agitation,
and leave him free and unembarrassed to
exert himself in his own good way. With
the experience of the past, however, il is
but natural that they should be jealous of
their liberties, and distrustful of every
movement which is not characterized by
frankness. and has view TO the restora-
ton of those inalisnable rights of which
they have been dispossessed by fraud and
violence.
F. A. Husr, Esq, of Wyaadott,
informs US that he is building = large fat
boat capable of carrying fifty tons Of freight
on twelve inches of water, to which he is
attaching two side wheels, and pair of
engines, with powerful locomotive boiler,
for the purpose of navigating and freight