The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-08

pursued by Gov. Walker. No man In his posi-
ton, charged with the execution Of the laws, the
preservation Of the peace, the maintenance of
Justice and The yindication of the constitutional
rights of the people, could have adopted
"a wiser and fairer line Of policy THAI
this of Governor Walker. He has adhered to
the laws, be has used the most convincing argu-
mfnts to all parties 10 behalf of peaoe bat he has
committed an unpa, donable piece of treachery in
the eyes of the Southern ultrss, in that public de-
clsration shat the State constitution which the
forthcoming er pate convention may adopt should
be, end must be, submitted bona fde for the rati-
fcatioD of the people, Or that he will do all he
can to have it rejected by Congress Against
this official declaration Of Governor Walker
Southern ultras and ultra newspaper organs, from
Richmond to New Orleans, have raised the cry of
"treachery to the South" and are demauding the
official head Of Walker as the only adequate
punishment for his criminal audacity.
A democratic State Convention in Georgia
aid another in Mississippi have condemned this
proceeding of Governor Walker, and demanded
bis recall Bat what do they wants will be the
inquiry of toe impartial reader They want the
State constitution OF this approaching Kansas
pro slavery convention to he carried up and
adopted by Congress without submitting
it to the popular vote Of Kansas; be-
csuse, they say, if this said constitution
be submitted to the popular vote il will
be rejected, Kansas will be aboiionized, and the
South will be cheated of her just expectations
from the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
But few weeks will suffice to show the shallow
Dess, the fallacy and the mischief of this pro-
granme of our Southern secession democracy.
Taking it for granted that the objections of the
free State party to the late pro-slavery Kansas
Legislature cannot be legally sustained-that the
laws passed by the said Legislature were good
ard valid-thst the pro-slavery convention
elected the other day was the fruit of legiti-
mate electioH-that the convention will have the
full discretion to recognize the institution of
slavery in their State constitution, and the dis
cretion to submit their work to the ratification of
the popular vote, or to dispense with that forma-
lily ard that they will dispense with it, and car
~ their constitution without further ceremony,
up to Congress, what tbens Why, then comes in
this impeachment of Mr.. Walker, the representa-
tive of Mr.. Buchanan in. Kansas, that he will do
all he can to have the constitution rejected
But let us suppose this impedment removed,
and that Mr.. Walker and Mr.. Buchanan shall use
their best exertiors to secure the admission of
Kansas into the Union rs a slave State,
upon the basis Of this pro- slavery constitution,
and that Kansas is thus admitted what will the
South eains Nothing What will the admins
trstion gain Nothing but q rapid demoralizs-
ton in the party camp. What will the country
gain. The very thing which, of all things, these
Southern ultras and our Northern abolition dem
agogues most detire, but which all the substan-
tisl business classes Of the whole country are
most anxious to avoid-a sectional revival of the
slavery agitation upon the Kansas issue, tenfold
more bitter and ruinous to the interests of all
sections and all classes than anything preceding
it in the history of this ugly question of slavery
What will avail the admission of Kansas as
slave State upon the faith of constitution with
held from the Kansas people, expressly because
they would be certain to reject it? The instant
they become State this constitution will be re-
pudlated, slavery will be excluded, and Kansas
will thus become the moot intensely anti slavery
State in the Union. This revolution in Kansas
will next operate to strengthen intellectually, the
sntislavery legions Of the North, to leave the ad
mristration wholly dependent upon the South,
and to make the campaign of 1860 hand-to-
hand fight between an overwhelming and conf
dent Northern majority and Southern minority
desperate and reckless in proportion to the sense
of its weakness, in purely sectional contest.
But while the federal administration stands
to its Kansas policy as represented by Governor
Walker, II holds the commanding middle ground
between these fearful sectional extremes Ii was
the abandonment CT this middle ground by poor
Pierce that brought him down TO swift dcstruc-
ton. II was the retention of this middle ground
BY General Jackson that made his name as illustr-
Gus in the civil as in the military history of the
republic. Kansas il like city set upon hill;
ard the proceedings directed to her admission
into the Union cannot I've screened from the
public eye. IL she can he brought in as a slave
State by the fair and liberal application OF the
principles of Der organic law the North will
scquitsce, for she has an interest in the Union
wv k'e" "u c'"PrenensNe W quarIei upon
bubbles aud trifes But if the administration
stoops fiom its high position to make peace with
our Southern uliras by smuggling Kansas into
the Union, as We are told King George the Third
was smugeled into Paradise, then the fall of this
administration will be infinitely more disastrous
to itself, to its party, and TO the peace Of the
country than the last.
The result of this late Cabinet council, how
ever, confirms our faith In the justice, honesty
and sagacity Of Mr.. Buchanan. His Kansas
policy is not the mere experimental trick of
shnfllirg politician with Cincinnati Convention
to look after, but the result of deliberate aud
well digested conviction Of public duty. This
policy has been faithfully represented by Gov.
Walker and the assurance that tbe adm;n;stra