The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-07-01

the Americans-of all party predictions, and
complete amalgamatlon of all parties in the
south, for the purpose Of what? Why, merely
to support tie present administration, and ad
in carrying out its policy How very dlslnter
|ested and patriotic those politicians show them
4 glance at the true state ofthe case. Last Marcel
1--we were assured by these self-same democratic
leaders that in the Buchanan administration the
south had a true and incorruptible friend
respect would be enforced TO all guarantees O
the federal constitution, and that the principles
Of the Kansas bil-which they swear to be tht
sheet anchor Of The Union-would be most re
ligi5usly observed. Under such circumstances
theg empatically affirmed, that opposition a
The south to the administration was policy
both ungrateful and suicidal. These appeal:
were listened to with serious attention by the
rejecting men Of all parties, and some persons
carried away by the plausible words and easy
manners Of the Buchananites, even began tt
doubt whether, in Justice to the south and the
country at large, it would not be better TO over
Hook the numerous hercsies of president Buch
anan on other points, and strive to ..holdup bis
arms in the struggle which, in carrying ou
the policy ayowed to be his by his southern
| friends and the Office holders, he must necessa
rIly wage with the freesoil fanatics ofthe north
| But what different spectacle do we find star
/ ing US full in the face to-day! Look over al
the leading democratic journals at the south
for the past month, and where do you find tht
peculiar friends and warm supporters of the ad
ministration themselves, in regard to Mr. Buch
enan's policy now being daily developed. We
are still exhorted by all the 'ofaicial'' journals
to stand by the administration! '-the office
holders organs still proclaim fidelity to it as
/ the only test of real democracy-yet one uni
versal howl is sent up by the southern-rights
wing Of the party, and borne upon the winds
Of the administration treachery to the south
| Glance over the comments that now daily ap
pear in the leading southern democratic paper:
upon governor Robert J. Walkers procama
ton to the people of Kansas, and then say if the
picture is exaggerated. The Augusta Consti
nationalist (the leading democratic paper ii
Georgia. reviews at length the address of gov
ernor Walker, and violently denounces it as x
free State document throughout which "shoulG
BE- resisted at oil hazards, and to the last ertreui
IT," 1t boldly characteristics the policy set forth
by president Buchanan's new governor, as "f
policy Of Intervention in behalf Of tile free Stat
men in the territory-a policy antogonistjcaJ tc
that of the pro-slavery men of the telritory-s
policy, which, if it is adopted, must make Kan
sus a free State" It should be borne in mine
that this same mathematical ''policy" was, We
were informed by the Washington Union, the
presidents official organ, fully and distinctly sci
firth to Mr.. Buchanan and bis cabinet before
governor Walker departed for Kansas, and was
fully approved and endorsed by the admnistra-
/ ton This no sane man can question. Gov
ernor Walker was despatched to Kansas to car
ny out the policy of the Buchanan administra-
ton. If then the Constituencies, leading
democratic journal, gives such testimony agains
lbs own party and friends, how can any candid
man even presume to propose to the people O
the south to ''stand by or support" an ad
ADMINISTRATION that, according to democratic tes
! timony, has thus deceived the southerners?-
| What true hearted democrat in the south car
now rise up, look deceived people in the face
and further insult them by a proposal to kiss
the hand by which they are smtten? The
place hunter and the time serving Pharisee
| may do SO, but no true southerner will or can
| The Constituencies is not alone in its opinion
Of the manner in which the south has been sold
into the hands Of her freesol enemies by the
present administration. The hon. Mr.. Keitt,
a democratic member of congress from South
Carolina, recently delivered speech in Che
raw, of which the Charleston Mercury publish
ed a synopsis Itsays, che expressed his want
| of confidence in Walker and Stanton both o.
whom he denounced as unprncipled trading
politicians, arho were ready to sell tie szayehozd
Frs interest in Kansas. for price! He spoke o.
the national democratic party-of its want Of
principle, and its readiness at all times to sell tit
south at a1ay price mhich acouzd secure TO its lead
ers the glorious spoils Of uictory-public office
He said he went with the democratic party,
by was not Of it," The honorable gentleman
might have added that governor Walker was
merely carrying out the squatter sovereignty
doctrine put forth by Mr.. Buchanan is his let
ter accepting the nomination of the Cincinnati
convention, and as proclaimed by Mr.. Breckin-
ridge in his Tippecanoe speech. The South,
the new paper Of the ex-editor of the Richmond
/ Enquirer, and which represents the southern
rights democrats Of the Old Dominion, on the
9Th ult., expresses itsefa as follows in regard to
the policy pursued by the president and his ter
Hrisorial governor, in respect to Kansas:
I'VE do reproach and denounce the honor
able Roberto. Walker, for that, being the chief
executive magistrate in the territory and bound
by every consideration of honor and duty to OBJ
serve a strict neutrality between the contending
Interests he openly allies himself seith the anti
ssauesy faction. and employs all the influence of
his position TO deZiver Kansas into the poacer of the