The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-09
THE pREsIpENT AND GOV. WALKER

In the Richmond Examiner Of Tuesday last we
find very long very able, and most searching
review Of the extraordinary letter recently put forth
by Hon Mr.. Keitt of South Carolina. The crowded
state of our columns to-day will only permit us to
make the following extract, which commend to
the careful perusal Of the select few who stealth
lily striving to produce the wretched impression that
in the appointment of Mr.. Walker to the governor
ship of Kansas the President manifested an unfriend
ly feeling towards the South:
.sCharging Governor Walker with the foregone pur-
pose of making Kansas free State and with having
cepted his mission from the administration with that
very object in view, Mr.. Keitt adds i will not believe
Mr. Buchanan accomplish in this policy without suf
cent proof If there be any completely, however, my
denunciations will be none the less earnest
alt evidently costs Mr.. Keitt an effort to resist the
belief of Mr. Buchanan completely with Walker impu
ted intention and it occurs to that it might help Mr..
Kcitt in his cndeavor to resist this belief to furnish him
with proofs that will render him entirely successful We
would therefore, remind Mr.. Kcitt of of the Incl
dents of last winters cabinet making the vigorous
efforts that made by southern to head of Gen
Cass from the appointment of Secretary Of Steo their
great opposition to Mr. Cobb for the post and Of
their effort to put Gov Walker into the State Depart
ment. The movement for Walker southern
ment AN antCass movement--an mti-Cobb move
ment-a movement made i'll recollection of Walkers
great services to the South in the struggle for the
alton of Texas and of his greater services Secretary
the Treasury in Frustrating the Appolyon of protec
ton that had long beset and laid waste the highways
Of southern commerce. and in installing the honest ge-
MUS of in its place Mr. Keit seeks the motive
which induced Mr. Buchanan to appoint Walker to Kan
sas. That the motive Precipitation to the south
Precipitation to the South by the appointment Of to
Kansas who had been the leading instrument in
ing slave soil to the Union, and Of opening wider
field for slavery extension to the South than all the
tremiss clpmorous against him that to be found
between the Potomac and the Rio Grandc
$50 much for the motives which induced the appoint
ment Of Walker and of Mr. Buchanans effort TO crafty
the South in his selection. If Mr. Kett and the
sionss whom he leads refuse to he satisfied, and
turn upon the very who selected in the thought
that he would be peculiarly acceptable to them, Mr. Blu
chanan skirts clear, and the upon his admins
tration which the seccssonsts making this appoint
ment the ground of is not commenced by Mr. Buchanan,
is provoked by him, and sought to be averted
and pacied by the very means avaed of the ground
of assault II this assault upon Walker proceeded from
objection to the he has pursued in Kansas
and were confined to himself alone might not say
word the subject but to 1t plain that the
intention of the seccsonsts is war; and nothing but war;
upon the administration and the national democratic
party and believing So we for one disposed to take
the ball at the first hop and to meet them at the begin
ming Of tho mischief"