Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-14

at times, but they have done it no harm; though they must have been sorely tempted if aware of the abuse that has been heaped upon them, and the enormities with which they have | been charged. J. C..
 OakDood, Ark, June 25, 1857. | From the Louisiana Courier. Walker Among the Freesoilers. | When the Inaugural Address of Governor Walker was received, we presented such ex- | tracts as we thought would convey correct | idea of the policy he intended to pursue. For | the purposes for which 1t was designed it was no doubt an able document. but We did not like l it-partly, because 1t was too loDg-partly, be- cause It assumed more than we thought becom-
 ing in merely executive oflicer--but mainly l because It showed wish to force the peculiar | views ot the writer upon the convention about to be elected We thought then, and still | thlnk, that the convention was to be body wholly independent of Walker and the admin
 stration, and that it might or mig Int not submit the constitution about to be formed by it to those who had ight to vote upon 1t, if sub mtted or not, as the convention thought pro- per- There are precedents to justify either course and Walker greatly erred in saying that the submission of the constitution to the peo- pie for ratification Was absolutely necessary He should have known that the convention was to be guided ln that matter by it's own convic- tons, and that there was no authority by which it could be compelled to adopt one course rather than another.
 In the choice of delegates all the bona fle citizens of Kansas might have had a voice and a representation; if they saw fit tc refrain from ala a1o f their neglect. When the constitution about to be formed Is submitted to Congress, when it is shown that the election of delegates was fairly held, and when it is ascertained that the con ventlon has pursued course strictly in accord ance with law, It will be fairly presumed that the convention represented the will of the peo- pie of Kansas, and the rejection of the const. tutlon they thus offer will be a vio lation of every principle of law and every dictate of sound policy.
 On Saturday, June 9th, Walker and Stanton met large Concourse of free-soilers at Topeka, the pretended capital of their preteuded State. tie should never have gone there at all. He must have known the obstinate tenacitv with which that faction hold on to error, and the inn possibility of persuading them to their ale glance to right, law and the constitution. He must have known that 30 effort of his could divert them from the maze into which they have entered His expressed purpose Was to conclIl.te the free sollers, but We believe he will repent to the latest day of his life the sand offices to be filled, consequently a like folly of the course he adopted. It would have been better for hm to have been deprived of the power of utterance than to have made the speech he then delivered.
 | Like his address his speech was lonc-much | ftrp b,t h,1 | \ to give such extracts from it as will give it's drllt and purport.
 Alter little preliminary bombast he con- l tinurs:
 My doctrine is this, that in the future. when the constitution shall be submitted to the vote i of the citizens of Kansas, that 1t shall be sub mitted to the vote of the whole people. do \ not mean those who are now reg stered under the territorial law; l do not mean those who were ding here the 10th of March last: but mean the whole people of kansas--not ! only those who are here now, but those who will be here next fall actual residents: that 1 they, the people over whom these institution, are to operate; that they, by majority of their votes, shall decide for themselves what shall Ue their constitution and VI hat shall be their so- cial insttutious
 On this subject desire, I repeat, to read to you an extract tom my inaugural address to the people of the Territory of Kansas together with the views of the President of the United States: Indeed, l cannot doubt that the con ventlon" l mean the convention which Is about to meet in September nexD "aIter having irameI State constitution, will submit it for ratification or rejection by majority of the thet actual J0no file resident settlers of Kan Sas." With these views, well Known to the l,l pn nI .l
 l accepted the appointment of Governor of Kansas. My instructions from the President. through the Secretary of State, under date of the 3Oth March last, sustain "the regular Le glslature of the terrtory'' in assembling con- vention to form constitution" and they express the opinion of the President that "when such a constitution shai be submitted to the people ot the territory, they must be protected in the exercise of their right of voting for or against that instrument; and the fair expression of the popular wilt must not be interrupted by fraud or violence'
 | come now to my own individual views: 1 repeat then, as my clear conviction, that unless the convention submit the constitution to the vote oi all the actual resident settlers of Kansas, and the election be fairly and justly conducted, the constitution will be- and ought to be rejected by Congress-" [Cries of good" Gentlemen, on this subject l wish that there should be no mIStake no miSapprehension as re5alds my opinions and the policy which shall deem 1t my duty to pursue in the admin Istratlon ot the executive department of the Territory of Kansas. It is involved in few simple words: That the majority of the people oi Kansas must govern; cries of "right;"l that the majority of the people of Kansas must adopt their own constitution or reject ii; that the majority of the people of Kansas, at the polls, must decide whether they will be slave State or d free State. Applause
 Having expressed hls conviction that any one who desires d minority in Kansas to go- vern was nothing less than a monarchist and an aristocrat, he contlnued:
 Now, then, gentlemen, as to the mode in which this is to be accomplished. I presume we all agree--at least hope we do--as to the doctrine that the majority of the people of Kan sas shall establish their own constitution, and introduce such social institutions as the maiori- ty prefer. But how is this to be cone? The Congress of the United States have established for Kansas but one mode of action on this sub- ject, and that action is through the Territorial Legislature.
 Now, none Of you can regret more than do any of these deplorabe and calamitous circum. stances which have taken place m the past- For myself, wish to overlook the past and look forward to better and brighter future. That Territorial Legislature has, in respect to the authority over this question, been recogniz- ed by the acts of Congress of 1856 and 1857. Ina; Legislature has called convention to as. semble in September next That constitution they will or they will not submit to the vote of the majority of the then actual resident settlers of Kansas. If they do not thus submit it, will join you, low-citizens, in lawful opposi- ton to their course. [Cres of "good," and cheers. Aud cannot doubt, gentlemen, that one much higher than 1, the Chief Magistrate of the Union, will join you in opposition.
 Alluding to the Topeka Legislature, he said
 Then, gentlemen, what is the other mode which is presented? You are about to have