Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-07-14
THE "IyrLuENcE" OF TIE GOVERNORS

OF KANSAS.
The action of the National Democracy and pro
'.a'ery mon in Kansas in endorsing the 'administrs
','n ana sustaining Walker has greatly embarrassed
'"e uehouncers Of that yentlensn's course I
iIe sympathy o, the Mississippi and Geohyia a..
trsms's and disunionis.s having b.en d,cined H. tn
'betrsyed pro.slavery party in Kansas" il ia Mw\
gravely charged that the people OF tba, territory wh
the honorable exception of the un,u,tonsd but chi
varous gentleman who stood zone, by himsetone,"
in the late Lecompton Convention, havS been
hoodwinked and u.inidated by Gov Walker. VI Is
hardly necessary 10 gravely coutrovert such phsi
ton. The idea that any foe 10 slavery can hsodwiu
browbea and iniimidate the proslayery party ",
Kansas is utterly irreconcilabe with what all knot
Of the character Of that party. \
The secret Of Walkers popularity aud strength
with the pro.savery party in Kansas, is that lie has
not attempted 10 make false representations, 10 de
ceive amy body With Instructions OF the plaine-,
| character for his guidance liz has irotn the fret
spoken so clearly aud empha.icalIy tina; no body
could misunderstood him.
II there are any men in the world who delight in
setting at defiance rescherous and double faced oi.
cials, they are the proslavery party of Kansas.
President PIERCE sent REypEH to them, clothed
with all the authority and power with whcl. the Al
mnistraton could invest Territorial Go vernon The
experiment OF influencing and hood winkng The "o,'
der rufans" was tried by REEpER; and with what
success We all remember. The pro-savery men
routed him out of the Terrory-they put his edct-
at defiance, and politically outlawed hi!n-lhey
trsmp-d upon his ve;oes, and laughed at his mes
sages. The thin veil OF pretended fairness with which
he sought TO conceal his assaults on the rights
OF the South was rent assunder and every leader ami
orator of the prosavery party, n Kansas delighted
ia exposing his villiany.
Although exercising precisely the powers which
have in WALKERS hands, it is said, crushed the spi
rit Of the pro slavery party in Kansas, whirlwud Of
popular Indignation drove him from the Territory'
which no sought to surrender to the nboli,ioni9ts.
This the fate of the first Governor of Kansas,
who really did attemp: to do what WALKER has seu
lously refrsined from doing.
Next in the order of President PIERCr's guar.
dans OF the proslavery party in Kansas came tho
inbecile SHANNON. Although it WAS not alleged
that he attempted to "G.iray NE !Souih," yet thu
proslavery party in Kansas scornng to obey marc
executive law, forced Gov. SHANNON to seek console
tion first in deep potations and then forced tm bs
to Ohio.
Then experiment number two Of hoodwinkins Wa
tried by another of President PiERCE's officials, the
notorious GEARY. Although it is now universally
conceded that GEiRY a donkey yet he
very illconrived, Sly and designing one. His pro-
clivities altogether with the disciples of III"
LANE, although he somewhat awkwsrdly attempted io
hoodwink and influence the proslayery men. This ex
pertinent resulted recently in the flight Of this po
tentats from Kansas, that his imagination is stiii
troubled with the idea Of grim and np!acabe "bor!e
rulians" and "SrRISGrELLow's hunting him down
and thrirstng for his blood.
We think that those illustrations will remind our
readers that the pro.slavery party Of Kansas have
not heretofore been easily csioed by the executive
Jeremy Dddlers of Kansas. Nor have the ter
rJrs and influence of these territorial governors
been heretofore sufficient to ntrnidate the meekes.
o: the "border ruiiians," If the word meek be
applied TO any individual of band Of the most viGl
ant heroic and lynx eyed guardians of the rights oi
the South the world has ever known.
The result OF Governor WALKERS success and po
POPULARITY with those men is. that they know he is
hohest aud that he has no ailia,ion with their
mics. They that he is firmly bent upon mctin;
out strict handed Justice They that t'lc
scales hang equiposed in his hands, and although
the extremists Of the Southern States may desire the
work OF discord and slave agitation to 20 in Kan
sas, the actual settlers have crown sick of il.