Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-25
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

hANsAs.-ln pursuance of our promise made
yesterday, we recur this afternoon to the state
OF politics In Kansas and their bearing on the
future OF the country. Our desire would be not
TO bore the Stars readers with this internina-
BILE theme but its consequences are so vast and
important that il would be unwise to IGNORE
them-tO essay at this late day to pooh-pooh
them into the background. 1t is not to be
denied that the political (rather than guberna-
torlal) iabors OF Governor Walker have gener-
ated intense excitement throughout the South.
OF tendency exceedingly unfavorable to him
WHILE they have failed, as far as we can per-
ceive, to make a single Abolitionist or Free
SOiler in Kansas or elsewhere. i'm auy degree
more reasonable concerning the future of the
Territory.
In view OF these facts, il strikes US as high
time that he should abandon his efforts 10 recon-
Gle has opponents in the Territory-the Topeka
constitution party-tO the true principles of the
Government as laid down in the Kansas Ne
brsska act, and hasten to save himself with his
own friends Though by no means approving
" PORTION Of his course as seen through his
sPeecnes and newspaper comments on, and
sketches OF them, We feel well assured that
those who attribute to him improper motives
do INN rank injustice while those who attribute
to the Administration responsibility for the
tenor OF many Of his arguments, do the Gov
eminent no less injustice He was sent to
Kansas to carry out to the letter the non-inter
ference principle of the Kansas Nebraska act.
and, we presume. indirectly to assure Demo
cratic ascendancy in the new State, if that could
be incidentally accomplished in the administra-
tranon OF his trust strictly On the principle
above referred to. The manner in which he
has sought to discharge those obligations, we
know we'll, is his own, and only his for we are
perfectly familiar with his style in politics and
in transaeting all other business, and recognize
1t in all he has done and said since reaching the
Territory.
We beg the reader not to translate us as
condemhlng his course ia toto. On the contrary.
with few exceptions, as unusual as that course
has been, 1t has been q wise and effective one
course likely to strengthen the cause of the
popular sovereignty to which we subscribe-of
the right Of the bona Ede inhabitants Of the
Territory entitled by law to a voice in forming
the constitution Of the new State, to DISCHARGE
that duty without let, hinderanca, or interfey.
ehee from any quarter, or any parties whatey.
er- Our objection has been TO the extreme
length to which be has gone in his efforts to
bring back the Free-Soilers of the Territory 90
reason, which in our judgment threatened not
hong since to strengthen the cause Of Free-soil-
Ism there, TO the extent Of emboldening it to
demand that the Convention shall submit the
constitution, not alone to the decision of those
who may under the law be entitled to vote upon
It's adoption or rejection, (which We know him
wen enough to know, is the purpose he is so
strenuousiy enforcing in his speeches. but TO
that OF any and body who may be dump
ed into the Territory by the Emigrant Aid So
eieties for the special and only purpose of voting
ON the particular question Though recognize
ing the entire right under the law, of the Con-
yentiOn, to send the constitution il NAV make
directly to Congress, We are an advocate for
tha. course only in the single contingency of an
lmpossibility of obtaining a vote upon it from
those only who are legally entitled to that priv
1lege-of preventing persons not bona Ede in
habltants OF the Territory according to the in
tent oil the law, from interfering in the decision
OIL The question Our hostility is, therefore, by
no means to the principle Of popular sovereign
w but to measure that might by a possible
ehahce be; not the exercise Of American consti-
iuuonal popular sovereignty, but its abuse TO
strengthen the hands Of Abolitionism.
In common with the whole South, we ask
oniy mat the true principle Of the Kansas
Nebraska act, as 50 clearly and ably expounded
Dy PRESIDENT buchanan in his inaugural nd.
aress' shall be carried out We seek for the
oou'n no undue advantages in the decision of
The quesuon-for she scorns them all. We are
Tor settlement Of the question-and we know
The Administration stands there-prccisely as
the majority Of the iona .fde lawful voters of
the Territory wish it decided. 1t would he as
utterly impossible to compass the acceptance
by Congress Of a Kansas State-constitution
legalizins slavery, if il be not framed unmis-
takably in accordance with the will Of the ma
!Ority there as over the opposition Of the united