Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-03
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
GOVERNOR WALKERS PoLIcY.-The Augusta

misconstrues brief article in the Star pub
lished some time sinee) wherein We endeayored
to explain the history Of the late political move
ments of the Pro-slavery and Democratic party
Of Kansas. 1t strikes us that if the COnSfsfn-
tionalist was not bent on finding fault with
Gov. Walker at all points, it would hardly have
drawn from our article in question the idea
that we were representing him rs taking vehe-
ment ground against the adoption of slavery
there, in saying that he endeavored earnestly
and labored vehemently to sustain the line of
policy which the Pro-slavery and Democratic
party of the Territory had marked out for its
own guidance ere he reached his post With
due Difference to the Constitutionai,st's better
means of knowing the condition of Democratic
and Pro-slavery-party sentiment, of Kansas,
and the purposes actuating Governor Walker
ere leaving this city for the Territory, than our
own-for that journal claims to possess such
knowledge, as funny as the idea is-we must
beg that it will not essay to give the Star as
authority for its inference Tor rather suspicion)
that Gov. W. not only went out an aboltionist,
but labored in behalf of Abolitionism on reach
ing the Territory The mind of one who can
charge him with abolition proclivities, at any
time or under any circumstances, after know
ing him and his views half as we'll as the Con-
srtutionaiist assumes to knew the latter, can
be under but one of two influences in this con-
nection-frst, that of utter hostility to the Dem
ocratic party per Sc, which is not the case with
our Georgia contemporary; second, that of sud-
den and intense suspicion of and repugnance to
Gov. Walker, personally, which is evidently at
the bottom of the violence it does to our words
and their plain meaning-so plain that all "a
tional people comprehended them, if the Con-
stituttOnaltSt did not-that Governor Walker,
though earnestly sympathizing with the Pro-
slavery party there, on arriving there and find
ing that nine-tenths of its members had ceased
to dream longer Of making Kansas slavehold-
ing State, had thrown his influence for the mex
best thing. To make it q Democratic State,
sound, perfectly sound, on the slavery question,
if not slaveholding. The idea that Gov Walker
essayed to use his official functions improperly,
even to that good end under the circumstances,
is that Of the Constitut,onaiist-not ours. His
Oratory was unofficial altogether. We objected
to the tone of some portion of his speeches, nor
have we since come to think more favorably of
them, though subsequent information has in
duced US to view even them much more chart
tably than at first But they were not official
acts; in none of which, far as we can per ceive
has he so conducted himself as to justify the in
ferences which the COnstituttonoisSt assumes
or pretends to draw from our brief article on
which it commented so earnestly on the 28th
ultimo.
The LATE COMMODORE NEwroN.-Having
frequently heard surprise expressed that this
gentleman should have died of apoplexy-his
figure and general health being such as to ere.
ate the impression that he could never suffer
from such cause-we may explain the mys-
terry, by stating that apoplexy is hereditary on
one side of his family. His mother died of it,
as did also his brother, the Hon. Thomas New
ton, of Arkansas, who was dressing to dine or
spend the evening out, when attacked much as
the Commodore was. A few hours only before
the Commodore was attacked, being compli-
mented on his appearance of fine health, he re-
piled that he was never in better health than
then. A few minutes before he fell, seeing a
lady friend on the sidewalk opposite the house
in which the Naval Courts are held, he Joined
her, escorted her home-not a hundred yards
off, we hear-and. after sitting few moments
in cheerful conversation, rose to take his leave;
when he was attacked with apoplexy as sud
denly as though struck by lightning, and, stag
gering, sank back into his seat, complain
ing of pain in the left side and head While
he remained conscious which was up to a few
minutes of his death, we hear, he repeatedly
apologized for the trouble he thought he was
giving to those surrounding him, and was evil
IDENTIFY unconscious that the hand of the fell
destroyer had been laid upon him. There was
no more courteous gentleman in the Union and
that sentiment maintained its wonted ascen-
dancy in his mind to the last moment it was
capable Of thought, notwithstanding the pain
and oppression under which he was suffering
His death occurred in an hour after he stag
gered and sank back, as explained above.
NECESSITY OF AFRICAN SLAvERY.-Within
few centuries past, sugar, cotton, coffee mo-
iasses, rice, tobacco, and other slave products,
have come into use throughout christendom,
and have become necessities of life; and African
slavery, which can alone supply them, has also
become necessary of life, not merely to the
nominal stakeholder, but to all who use these
articles; who are, in fact, though not in name,
also Shareholders, for slavery supplies them
with large part Of their necessary food and
clothing.
But African slavery is necessary in even a
higher sense than this. 1t has stimulated the
increase Of population in western Europe, by
the increased supplies Of food and clothing,
which 1t afforded; until that population has be.
come too numerous to be sustained if cut of
from its ordinary supplies of slave products
Great Britain, for instance, imports annually
thousand millions bushels of grain 1t is
barely possible she might rear this additional
quantity on her soil, but quite impossible that
she should in addition rear substitutes for the
cotton, coffee, rice, molasses, and tobacco,
VIII oh she now prOcures by means Of slaves.
She and France are bitterly repenting the error
of negro emancipation. They see that negro
slavery has become a necessity, and are re-
solved to re-establish it under new names.
Romans and Frenchmen hate Kings, but adore
Representation immigrants will resemble
slaves, as much as Emperors resemble Kings.