New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-10
The Rumored Disturbance In Kansas
GOV, walkers Conduct.

The telegraph reports that civil disturbances in
Kansas have broken cut with renewed violence Such
~ nct disposed to yield them implicit confidence
until they are properly authenticated. Especially
are " cautious in receiving the present unfavorable
intelligence, since shrewdy suspect it is greatly
agned to suit the purposes Of the Governor, whose
excusable conduct has subjected him to the severes
condemnation Of the South. Be the state of affairs,
however never SO outrageous granting 1t to be true
that the Abolitionists are now. IN open rebellion
against the Federal authorities and determined, as
t6ey declare, to insist upon the approval by Con.
refuse TO pay the taxes levied by the legitimate Ter
ritot Legislature and resist every effort to enforce
he aws such condition Of things, we maintain, is
The natural consequence Of the course pursued by
The Topeka Legislature was then in session, and had
sready enacted many laws in defiance of the nghtfnl
authorities in the Territory Everywhere the Adolf,
ti0nists organized for resistance and prepared
to carry their ends by force, Did the Governor at
tempt to put them down? Did he command the re-
bellfous Legislature to dsperse, and issue his pro-
clsiaon against the Iingieaders of the niquitous
movement? Then decision and energy were as much
required ~ now. Instead OF executing the laws and
thfStening the traitors with the penalties Of disobe
dience, Walker mounted the rostrum and made them
srXefy conciatory speech * in which he eXhorted
then not to proceed to extreme lengths, and gave
thsm every assurance that Kansas would be free
State Without such proceedings on their part. The
climate and soil Of Kansas forbade the introduction
Of slavery, and would therefore, surrender the ques
ton. II not, he pledged his authority to have the
constitution which will be adopted by the lawful con-
vention, submitted for ratification 70 all the actual
resident settlers who may be in the Territory at the
timethus making sure OF the object they designed
to accomplish. But it appears the Abolitionsts will
not listen to the Governors cajoling Establishments
have set at naught all his wise counsels and are de-
termined to deprive him OF the coveted glory Of
having excluded slavery from Kansas. They persist
in their career Of rebellion. and he is thus reduced to
the alternative of either taking sides with them, or
Gueling the nsurrecton at the point Of the bayonet
OF course he adopts the latter course issues pro-
caiation brmul of terrible threats, and denounces
the rebellion as the most ubiquitous that ever dis
graced /" any age or country "a rebellion which
every intelligent man and impartial observer knows
has existed ever since he entered the Territory, and
which il only aggravated by his trucking and ire
solute conduct
As might be expected his apologists have hailed
these recent developments with every demonstration
OF delight as furnishing the most conclusive proof
that the complaints of the Southern Democracy are
unfounded and unjust. He is now, they say, com
petely exonerated from all imputati0ns of treachery
to the South aud collision with the Free State party
imperative necessity forces him now into collision
with the rebels who have rejected his liberal pro-
misses and oyertures of reconciliation, and refused to
accept his plan for abolitonizng Kansas Hence he is
excupated of the charges we have preferred against
him, and his reyilers are called upon to make the
nnaende honorable We are ready and willing to give
Governor Walker due credit for all he deserves. It
is his duty in the present emergency to suppress the
violent outbreaks in the Territory and if in doing So
he displays energy and promptness we will not hesi
tate to award him proper praise. STILL however, the
specific objections to his policy remain in full force.
What boots it TO the people Of the South, whether
Kansas is wrested from them by armed mob, or by
base betrayal of the principles Of the organic act
and the Inauguration Of the infamous doctrine OF
sqratter sovereignty? Walker may put down this
terrible rebellion" and enforce obedience to the
constituted authorities but long the obnoxious
doctrines he proclaimed in his inaugural address and
applied in the organization of q State Government
we shall continue thewar with unabated vlgor. For
these alone we have all along denounced him for
these he is appauded by the Black Republican press
with few exceptions and for these, act of duty,
however signal or efficient, can afford no suitable
atonement. 1.-THE Richmond South.