The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-08-18

Walker, as Viewed by the Lawrence Hen.
The followi,g is from n correspondence o,
the st. Louis Democrat, by citizen of Law.
renee. Speaking of Walker, tho writer says
There could evidently be no trouble unless
ne made it, and If he was disposed to make
any, we were generally willing to carry it to
the bitter end. Under this state ~ feeling,
on Friday afternoon, the Governor and his
subduing host arrived, passed through the
suburbs of the town and ehcamped about one
mile west or upon the limits of West Lawrence
near the Kansas river. Up to this time we
have neither given nor received any commu.
nication. We are simply preserving mas
terly absence and this treatment may worry
him out sooner than any other: We hear
through private means from him occasionally
that he is in deep tribulation. All his Le-
compton cohorts were with him Yesterday to
aid in extricating him from his unhappy dilem.
ma. He was badly intoxicated all day, and
uses horrid oaths when converting upon this
subject. He sees the mistake that has DOOM
ed lin for life, and his friends ser and nc.
knowledge it also. Why, there is not
school boy in Lawrence but has too much sa.
gacity to bring an army Of four hundred upon
Wonder how many such acts It would take
to retrieve his character with the South!-
Such man aspire for the Presidency! Where
vii! be our justices of the peace then! New
er was n man in state of deeper penitcncc
or regret. What IN do next is the problem.
His private and public character; his state.
manship; the doom of the democratic party,
all hang upon tho brittle thread of his pres
cnt action. HIS friends are rendering him all
the aid Of their brains, while we feel that af.
ter the suit he hal given us, We shall not
swerve from the fixed policy ofa business
community, to save him from perdition,-
When such immense consequences are invov-
ed, we can expect nothing from such man
rs Walker. Could he retrieve this sad mid.
step only by bombarding our town, or sacrifi-
cling one half of our people, he would not hes
itate IN hour, but democracy and his own
honor would pay the debt in his own eyes
We can expect anything from him, therefore,
however desperate.
Were it not for his lying proclamation, ho
might now turn his force to another object,
for instance, to enforce the collection Of bogus
taxes, but the record is now against him.
He says he is here to crush out the usurpa-
tion. A temperance society, or an ordinance
70! sprinkling our streets, arc an Infringement
upon his official duties, and we must ask per-
mission Of the Lecompton vicegerant, or all
the army under his control will be brought |
against US. 1t is false that we Intentionally |
evaded a provision in the bogus charter gran
ted last winter against our wishes, and as
proof, will only say that our charter is the |
same one we offered in tho State legislature
last year, consequently it is older than the
one he says we have sighted. Again he
says we have circulated our charter all over
the Territory, for-the purpose of encouraging
lh, citizens of other towns to follow our exam
pie, while no instance Of the kind ever existed
until after he mad, the charge. 1t does not
even exist now, but this is true; the people
Of other towns have recently sent for hun
dreds Of co pies of our charter, and declare
they shall organize under it as soon as posi-
BILE; but if the Governor had not first falsely
charged them with so doing, they would new
rr have thought Of it.