The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-07-18
"a I'm. xsr. Grape. Cant. nr.sr.,,

"a hn'e Mere Grape, Capt. Bragg.
This new burst of Southern thunder
started at Lecompton, two months ago-or,
perhaps started with Stephen A. Douglas
and his friends, before Walker came to
Kansas. It is an electioneering trick
They fear, if Walker allows the people of
the Territory to have peace. it will bring
him into favorable public notice, aud
make him the next Democratic candidate
for President. To prevent this, it be-
comes necessary that the disunion presses,
in Kansas and out of il, should attack
Gov. Walker, misrepresent his conduct,
and if possible, goad our people. BY false
hoods, and exciting appeals to their preju-
dices, into another civil strife. If IN
principled politicians seek to make Kan
sas field of strife for their future great
ness, they will be sadly disappointed
There is but little more political thunder
in our atmosphere. The people are for
peace. Their rights are in their own
keeping, and the next election will show
them 10 be safe. We coy the following
from leading pro-slavery journals, to show
how Southern men and presses look upon
Gov. Walker
A BEAsT-ITs CHARACTERISTICS AND
HABITUDEs.-Macaulay says of the Prin-
cess Ann that when she was in a good
humor, she was meekly stupid, and when
she was in bad humor she was sulkily
stupid. Her stupidity, though it might
be qualified by Incidental circumstances as
regarded Its manifestation, was stupidity
| still, invariablc and invincible. So Anti
Slavery at the North may take the amia-
| lie shape of Democracy ut one time, or
the truculent form of Black Republican
ism at another time; but all the time it is
Anti Slavery and nothing but Anti -Slav-
cry, steadfast and implacable.
This proposition requires no special ar
gument, when proof is so patent and exam
plesare becoming soabundant The truths,
so far as concerns the South, for all prac-
teal pnrE oses, there is but one great beast
at the North; and whether it bray like a
donkey, or speak with forward and
backward voice like Caliban, it is the
same beast throughout, with the same in
eradicable instincts.
| There seems to be peculiar elective
affinity between the beast and the Hon.
/ Robert j. Walker, the Administrations
proeonsular pacifcator of affairs in Kan
sas. Indeed, the effect produced upon
the beast by the late flOurishcs of the lat
tiers magic wand, has been wonderful to
fehold. All its forms rush at once to do
him homage; all its voices blend in
une Iuivocal praise. We have seen Black
Republican journals in New York indors-
ing the programme of the new Governor
of Kansas. We have seen the Washing
ton Union deluging him and his Vastly
message with its washy euloay. We
have seen the democratic organ in Chi
cago, the Times, congratulating the De-
mocracy that Kansas, through the influ-
ences of the said Governor, and under the
| auspices ola Democratic Administration.
would be engineered into the Union as a
Democratic free State. Bat it is needless
to multiply any further proof of the re-
markable success with which the beast in
question preserves its identity in the midst
of apparent or nominal diversity, and in all
latitudes and longitudcs.
Fortunate, thrice fortunate is it that the
ablest and honestest portion of the Demo-
cratic press at the South is beginning to
discover that the beast We mention has
got into the Northern camp of the party
if not into the Presidential mansion it
self-NO o. Delta.
Enough It is thus clearly in DAMN
irg testimony that all that has been said
of Walkers Free Soil affiliations and in
trigues before his departure for Kansas. is
positively true, and that he now stands
unveiled before the outraged South, a
self-convicted traitor TO her constitutional
rights, and in the detestable attitude of a
man who has degraded himself from a
high eminence in national American
craftsmanship to the position of a Sumner
or Hale. Nay, the comparison is I'M
lust to those distinguished Free Sellers.
They are true TO their original liege; thew
are gultless Of bad faith or regeneration.
But K. j. Walker-the man long citi-
zen of the South, whom Mississippi hon
ored with place and emolument, trusting
him with her precious destinies even in
the Senate-he, dazzled by the goal of
the nations Presidency, perceptible to
him only through the dismal vista of Free
Soil, has prostituted a great trust, and
sold the South that the aims of an unprin-
cirled ambition might be subserved -
Even to rank with the apostate Fremont
he is unworthy. Let him stand alone. in
the enormity of his disgrace, by-word on
every Southern lip, and the contempt and
hate of that national patriotism which he
has betrayed.-Jacksoa lIississippiaa.
1t is well for the Administration to re-
alize that the Southern heart is stirred to
is depths by the official intermeddling of
Walker. The indignation aroused all over
the South is sincere and earnest, and |
must be needed. Southern hopes in Kan
sas shall not he SO easily dashed; South
eFn efforts in that Territory shall not be |
defeated with impunity-the PRINCIPLES !
of the kansaS-Nebraska bill shall not be /
rendered sham and a cheat by the action |
of Governor. The Administration /
must regard the voice of the South, when
it demands, too, nothing but what is ex- /
pressly guaranteed--it must repudiate |
Governor Walker. Southern Democrats |
are strongly attached 10 the National /
Democratic party, but with them party
obligations are subordinate TO the rights of /
the South. With all their confidence in
the Administration, and as anxious as thew
are TO sustain it, they cannot hesitate to
repudiate both, if Walker is permitted |
to thwart the South in Kansas. They
hope for the best, but are prepared to
throw off party the instant it conflicts with
Southern duty. They await with ANXIETY
yet with much confidence, the action of
the Administration in regard to the course
of Governor Walker.-Aiontgonaery, Ala,
Adustiser.
Such vile, sneaking treachery makes
one think of the dagger of Brutus and the
axe of Cromwell. II negroes are not to
be deceived away from Missouri to Kansas
under his pious reign, it IS to be hoped
ks.ox l.. 81. e.