The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-09-02
MIR. WOODWARD'S LETTER.

n report naO Ueen clTcuHlcu W 'ne tIlcC',
that Mr.. Woodward had endorsed Gov.
Walkers policy and his acts /; this he ex-
plaiCs and expresses the opinion that Gov.
Walker is not so much 10 blame as the Ad-
ministration that placed him in power-in
other words, that he has only been carrying
out his official instructions. Tie has no idea
That Kansas will be slave State bu:
though slavery be not established there, he
tercst in Kansas which is, that it shall be
n conservative free State and not an aboli-
ton State. This Is in view of the unset
tied sections adjoining, which he. believes
are of tcufold greater interest to the South
than is Kansas.
Mr. Woodward gives II uch other inter.
rstng matter in reference 10 Kansas, and
| his observations of the workings of the
Kansas and Nebraska Bill, which coming
| from one of his practical mind, and who
was for some time in Kansas, is entitled to
| consideration by the South TN" extract
below from his letter. will be read with in
| terest:
"lou perceive ihat assume it MS fact,
that Gov. Walkers "plan" and policy had
the approval of the Administration. have
not made this assumption without feeling
myself fully authorized in doing so. But
do not understand me to insinuatr that Wal
ker's modus operandi has been altogether
suited to the wisdom and taste Of our Pres
! dcnt. Walker has, doubtless, committed
some blandcrs He has protcsscd openly,
what he was expected TO perform in>dious-
| ly. He has uncovered, what should have
been kept dark. lie has looked the same
way he rowed, instead Of "looking one way
and rowing the other" lie has employed
Mha; YOU would call "hcctoring," instead
of blancy. II. has not cvincrd a due op-
! probation Of the counsel given by Peggy Of
the Mug to "Icctic Paul" that when hc had
n point 10 carry. TO do it "by insiuvation,
not buster" Herein Walker has probably
sinncd. And such is the dcpIavcd moral
| taste of ihc tin!r-, uat l"n need not /" sur
| pri,cd 20 hear the want ofdupjci,y charged
nron him, rs aifording just grounds for
Democratic ccnsurc.
! But as 10 my views in relation to the
present state of alf uirs in Kansas, have
$, melting more To add. When | arrived
at Lcavenworth, | f,uad the pro slavery
men in deep despair. For several days
did not meet with one who pretended 10
! disguise the fact tlat the cause of the South
WAS hopeless one. Those whom We hal
considered bOdcst, and trucst, ana most
competent TO jGdgc, were decided in this
! opinion. If met with any of IN opposite
belief, they were men of strong passions,
with whom the wish appeared 20 be iather
to the thought. There was general mur.
| muring against Governor Walker, but, over;
| practically, nothing was 1T stake, they were
! indI~p"scd To open rupture or even loud
complaints. or course, | WIS fr,Qucatly
engaged in conversation with my friends
on the subject, and when asked for IN,
views, always replied in substance rs fol.
! lows:
Gentlemen never supposed that there
] Z
never expected anything bat evil to the
Sonlh, from the passage OF the Nebraska
bill. You appear now to bc confirmed in
the same opinion. But, though slavery be
"'rr'hrown, the South still has another in.
! tcrrst in Kansas which is, that it shalt be
conservative free State, and not an abul.
| ton State. The consideration of this inter
est should shape all our coInsels. II, then,
You are 10 look 10 some practicable good
What can YOU expect 10 gam By rupture
with Gov. Walker! II you hope to make
ha' Sas free State, you will be dependent
on ihc conservative frccsOilrrs for that re-
suit aud you must maintain the best re-
lai'onS yon can with them. Can YOU then
z" into rupture with him wthout rup-
t"re ";h them But you say ,hev are de-
| lighted with Walkers course, and consider
him as identified with them. The value OF
the interest you have, that Kansas shall be-
n conservative State, can only be measured
10y n ten-fold greater interest which lies be-
yond, and TO which 1t is subordinate. The
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise has
laiG open to squatter sovereignty and to
sectional contest and strife, the NeoShn Ter
ritory, lying west Of Arkansas on Red
River and South of Kansas. This country
is soon TO De the theatre of such scenes as
yon have lately witnessed in Kansas. 1t
will be so occupied, so far as the Free
States are, in the main, 10 contribute TO It's
population, not by emigrants in the ordna
ry sense, but, like kansas, by vast body
of delegates from abolition societies, IN.
der pledge and commission, TO do all posi-.
bio damage to the South. Slavery failing
there, the alternative Of n conservative free
State, will be worth almost nothing to the
South for free State in that country,
with no more than the usual propurtion of
abollionists, would be far more dangerous
to the Slave States than a thorough aboli.
ton State in the Kansas territory"