The Washington union., 1857-08-21

signed.
A WORD MORE ABOUT KANsAsAGEN. AToHI
SONS LETTERS. GOV. WALKERS DESPATCH TO
THE STATE DEPARTMENT--His POSITION De
FINED
After the full discussion which has been had on
Kansas affairs, and the triumphant manner in which
the policy of the President in regard to that Terri
tory has been sustained by the democratic party of
the country, it might have been supposed that the
disunonists Of the South would have moderated
their complaints and their charges that Walker had
aboldionized Kansas, And we expected this the
naturally because Of the best men and abest
presses of the South, that did not approve Gov. Wal
kers course, had, upon full examination of the
question, abundant to Justify the Presi-
dent on the main point of policy inpoved-namely,
the submission of the constitution to be adopted by
the convention to the citizens of Kansas for their
adoption or rejection. Yet, notwithstanding that the
administration has been sustained and justified,
the whole country satisfied and the democratic
party increasing consolidating, and achieving vic
tories where vigilant opponents had predict
ed defeats, the extremists of the South still con-
tinue to harp upon the refuted and exploded
fiction that Gov. Walker has abolitionized Kan
The thing impossible He could not
have done it; and for the simplest of all pos
sble reasons--because Kansas had been brought
into its present condition perhaps year be-
fore he went there Even General Atchison, one of
the faithful and untirng friends of the South,
surrendered all hope of making Kansas slave State
before Governor Walker had taken any part in the
affairs of the Territory. He told the South in effect
that it by their apathy, and because the North
raised and expended ten dollars to effect their un-
holy purposes where the South had spent one, that
Kansas had been brought to its then existing condi
tion He said that the friends who had heretofore
strained every nerve and spent their money and
their time, had begun to despair, and had turned
their attention to speculation and money-making.
He suggested that no money be raised in South
Carolina, because it was useless to attempt in that
way to change the condition things The editor ofthe
Columbia Times said upon introducing Gen. Atchisons
letter to the public, that the condition of affairs in
Kansas, described in that letter. as it related to
southern interests there, although not unexpected,
was unwelcome intelligence" In fact, all hope of
making Kansas slave State had been given up by
all the pro-savery in the Territory, as well as
by the people of Missouri who lived so near to these
passing scenes, and who were so deeply Interested
in their final result. And even we-nforned men
of the South, like the editor of the Times reluct-
antly admitted what every one saw and knew, and
which it was useless to deny that no hope remained
OF making Kansas a slave State. Yet, the moment
that Governor Walker delivered his inaugural to the
people of Kansas, it the signal and the excuse
for the impatient and the extreme men of the South
to attack him without mercy for having aboloaised
Kansas, when their own champions and presses had
assured them that that very thing had been accom-
plished before he arrived in the Territory.
Again, on the 18th July, Gen. Atchison writes to
Col. Baker, and reiteraes in still bolder and more
energetic language the charge that it was by the
apathy of the South that Kansas was lost to them
He literally taunts the South for their want of energy
and iberality in sustaining the cause which they
claimed to have much at heart. He says:
al see that not thunder and lightning will arouse
the South. doubt whether earthquakes moral
and political earthquake, shaking the institution of sla
very to the earth, and bringing ruin upon the whole
Southwould arouse her to action. In a word my only
hopes now for Kansas are in the border counties of Mis-
souri, and, by heby any one of ten counties could
mention has expended money than any one State |
OF the whole South in this cause The executive CON-
mitee for Kansas Territory will have meeting on the
18th of this month, for consultation when you shall
hear from us
"If the South would do but half her duty Kansas
would be slave State and hope we will be able to ef
feet that object notwithstanding the apathy of the slave
States and the energy of the free States all the open
on secret efforts Of the officers of the federal govern
ment
The South Carolinan, in publishing this letter of |
General Atchison, says: "We agree with General
Aehison that the South has not done he, dHy; If she
hal Kansas coad hare been made SiaUe State That it
would continue so we do not believe but having
made the ISSUE we ought to have taken it when we
could have done it,"
Thus, then, it would seem to be clear that it was
by other and by other agencies than the in
augural and speeches of Governor Walker and the
Of the President that Kansas was aJo-
tionized
A few days later, the Goth July, General Atchi-
son again writes to Mr. Baker, and expresses sort
of desperate hope that Kansas might be made
slave State. But the 'shadow of chance of sue
cess" as he expressed it, predcated upon
total misrepresentation Of what Governor Walker
meant by a the bona ds inhabitants of the Terrific
ry F" What he did mean by that phrase is explained
by the following extract IRON despatch of Governor
Walker to the Department of State and is precisely
what we have uniformly insisted was the lust inter
probation of his words. lie thus explains his mean
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