Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-07
Gov. Walker and his Kansas
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less this unattractve feature has prevented many from reading it. On account of the engage ments which constantly beset us we were of that number, and not until seeing very lately the strictures of several prominent and infiuen- tial journals of the south, were we convinced, upon thorough and careful reading of the in- augural, of the melancholy fact, that in the language of cotemporary, it gives out a hck- lo,0 sound upon the slavery issue"
 When Robert J. Walker accepted the ap- pointment as Governor of Kansas he said that "his efforts in accordance with the views of the administration would be to receive a tasr er- pression of the opinion of the people of Kan. sas, while he would cheerfully abstain from any act aohic could Je construed into partialtty to one side or the other.'' Perhaps he has abstaned from any overt act, but he has in unequivocal terms shown his partiality, his traitorous duplicity.- After quoting his instructions from the Presi- dent, which declare that should the constitu- ton formed by the convention !" be submitted to the people of the Territory, they must be protected in the exercise of their right of vot- ing for or against that instrument" he says:
 "I repeat, then, as my clear conviction, that unless the convention submit the constitution to the vote of all the actual resident settlers of Kansas, and the election be fairly and justly conducted, the constitution will be, and ought to be, rejected by Congress"
 Mark his extraordinary language; was ever dictation more absolute? Grant that the con- vention may submit the constitution to the peo- pie for their ratification, does history prove that constitutional conventions generally adopt that rule? The instances have been rare. What then must be the purpose and influence of a declaration, that unless they do submit their constitution it will and ought to be rejected?- It is dictation, as presumptuous and absolute as that of the monarch on his throne, and gross violation of plighted neutrality. Admit that at the election lately held in Kansas for dele gates to the constitutional convention large majority of the pro-Slavery candidates were elected-and the returns thus far are favorable to that result Admit that they will form a State constitution, with distinct clause in it in regard to the slavery subject, and elect to submit it to the people for their ratification; and aside from the fact that there is no guaranty | that an immediate vote would be had upon it, we have reason to believe and cause to fear that thousands of the predatory gang of northern 1 abOlitoniSts, who either would not. or were not qualified to vote under the territorial act in the election for delegates, would flock in and over 1 Xyb bal 1a S1 nd ola sas free State in spite of all the efforts of the administration, and wishes of the south to have fair expression of opinion.'' Thus we see that Gov. Walker manfests disposition to sell the south to the abolition faction, with yokes upon their necks already too galling and oppres- sive to be borne in silence. Surely it cannot be that he is so imprudent as to give that faction any posjtiue ground for a triumph over the south. For he would fall too short of the knowledge of human nature and of the south ern people, not to perceive that such adding of insult to injury could not fail to excite their n dignation and scorn.
 But, this apparent anti-southern course of Gov. Walker is not only matter of disap-
  ed his appointment, but it works grea. injustice to the administration and the south We are not surprised that Robinson, Lane ct d., appear the undisguised instruments of the abolition party in Kansas, but when we see our southern sympathising @ Governor, to whose adminis- traton we have looked for justice in behalf of the south taking such a course, we fear the consequences. And when we behold him. while in the very act of damning the south with false psaise,' lending to the abolition faction his influence of name and elevation of station to accomplish by stratagem and in very short time their mad designs against the dear est interests of his own "Suuny south," We can but eXelam in the despairing tone of one who discovered his best friend among his enemies, "Et tu BrHe,"
 We allude thus to Gov. Walkers anti. south ern course not to be thought uncourteous or admonitory towards the fower who appointed him, but because we believe it to be the duty of the southern press to speak out when they are about to be betrayed by Judas Gov. Walkers language and conduct since lis ap- pointment has not been such. as the interests of the south demand of him. Its melancholy truth that he has repeatedly pandered to that abolition spirit which has created all the distur- bances in Kansas In fact scrutiny of his course and conduct will satisfy every discerning man that he has become a victim to that
 Vaultng ambition which oerleaps itself
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 How could any person dream that the south would tamely submit to the treacherous policy of the new Governor, which would not only deprive her of her just rights and her political influence, but send upon her absolute degrada ton and final desolation. If Kansas, through the extraordinary policy sought to be carried out by Gov. Walker, is admitted into the Union as free State, Arkansas will become a frontier slave State and be at once subjected to the en- croachments of the vicious spirit of aboitionism But we are glad to see that many of our south- ern contemporaries have discovered the trick of Walker, which reminds us of the Grecian stra- tagem for the sacking of Troy, and are making opposition to his traitorous conduct with lauda- ble zeal. There may be few, blinded by his dazzling fame, who unconsciously are led to connive at the policy that is to bind the south in irrefragabe chains and deliver her, shorn of her strength into the hands of the enemy. But let the southern press call down upon him their bitterest execrations; and if indeed the south is successfully betrayed by him, she will at least be seen to writhe under the agitatons of a wounded spirit which no high minded peo- pie can or ought to bear, and may perchance in her death struggle, Sampson-like, shake down the pillars of the Union, rather than submit to degradation, desolaton and devastation at the