Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-21

TUESDAY. JULY q. 1857.
GOV. walker and the administrator
The Union and American Speaks.


In its issue of the 7th of July the Union
and american, put forth an sriicle sustaining |
the Administrations ansas policy, and repu-
dating without qualification, the course Gov. |
Walker has thought proper tC pursue Itthen |
closed its mouth, and preserved a silence of
twelve days; and the 10, h again speaks. |
In the meantime the official organ of the Ad-
min istration comes out in several articles sus-
tanning the course Of policy Gov Walker has
seen proper to pursue. The endorsement is
taken up and re-echoed by the Richmond En-
guirer and Examiner, the Memphis appeal,
and many other papers, of that party at the
South-the Appeal, avowing in the most en-
phatic terms that "G0U. Walker has shopn that
she mas acted UNDER INSTRUCTORS FROM THE
President, and are hold 1t as unmanLy TO
" make 1cGr upon the serrant a0hen he Is pur-
"suing the instructions Of his master" All
those Southern Democratic journals which had
opposed the course pursued by Gov. Walker,
understood the Administration AS endorsing,
as broadly and uDquaiihedly that course, and
have in accordance with the suggestion of the
Appeal levelled their batteries at the Presi-
dent directly, instead of Gov. Walker. The
n. O. Delta, paper which did as much or
more towards the election Of Mr. Buchanan, as
any other paper at the South, hassaid: There
g is at last no room for doubt or possibility
"of misconcepton in regard to the position
occupied by Mr.. Buchanan towards Gov.
Walker and bis Kansas policy. He upHozds
"Me one and endorses the other. The language
"to this effect is now so plain that no man
"can have any excuse for misunderstanding;
Gin office or out of Office, with or without ex-
''pectancy of Federal patronage he need not
"err therein; he may read and fully compre-
"hend, sohether he runs, or a0QIks or hobbies, or
strides on q hobby horse, dOnkey-Or
whether he does none of these things, but
"sits in his armchair on the piazza, smoking
:" Havana and musing on the uncertainty
"and mutibility of sublunary affairs in gener-
"al, and Kansas affairs in particular. OF course
3" Mr.. Buchanan could not have recalled Mr..
" Walker, without recalling the instructions
" of Mr.. Buchanan; could not have rebuked
Walker wit hout rebuking Mr.. Buchanan;
" and could not have done otherwise than he
g has done, without putting himself in ridic-
ulous and humiliating attitude of selfstulti-
"fication before the whole country. Walkers
"pLan of qualification aoas his plan; Walkers
% 0ieOs as a patent cOnstitutjOn-nOnger, qOere-
:" hi. Uiea08 IN the commencement, and he stands
"6y Walker in the end. Far from being sur
'prised at this, rOe only aO0nder at the real or
"qf5cted simplicity Of those Democratic edi-
:" tors and politicians in the South, who, while
"denouncing the Kansas policy Of Walker, ex-
nracuaI tho noDUi6fipD that If yUnulH ha
"pudiated by Mr.. Buchanan"
The Black Republican journals had not been
remiss in their constructions of the position of
the Administration. The n. Y. EUening Post,
the Cincinnati Gazette, the Pttsburg Journal,
and others, had hailed the sustaining of Walk
er as a happy omen; as being course which,
if persisted in, would give him one of the f.
nest historical positions occupied by any other
President" and holding it up as "the first tri-
butte Of respect to the anti-sLaoery sentiments Of
the Northern States aohich has come from the
Federal E.2ecutiUe for the last t10enty gears"
and as "the Uery first act IF any federal Id
ministrati0n, e0earing an aspect Of resistance
to the pro-sJaUery policy Of the Southern oil
gGrchy" In addition to this the so-called ma
tional Democracy of Kansas, had met in con-
venton, and passed resolutions sustaining the
course of Gov. Walker, and the President in
reference to the affairs of that Territory. Thus
have friend and foe agreed upon the position
of both Walker and Buchanan, placing them
together in all that has been done, and all that
that is likely to be done in this whole business.
Even the official organ of the President, on
the very day on which the Union and Ameri
can proclaimed its population Of Gov. Walk
ers policy, was officially PrOpOunding the en-
dorsement of that policy by the Administra-
ton, and pronouncing opposition to that policy
''hasty and ungracious."
But in the face of all these facts, the Union
and american of the 10Th reiterates its previ-
Gus utterances, condemnatory of Walker and
upholding the Administration. II continues
the war upon Gov. Walker, and sustans Mr..
Buchanan-what the Appeal holds as unman-
ly, the Union and american does with the ut
most zest. What the Delta says is beyond
doubt or the possibility of misconcePtiOu, is
seriously urged by the Union and american to
relieve the President of position to which
every body concurs in assigning him. But
upon what ground does the Union and Ameri.
can justifes its Interpretation of Mr.. Buchan-
ans true pos,tion2 1t simply refers to his let
ter constructions to Gov. Walker And what
were those Instructions Merely reference to
an extract from the Presidents own Inaugural.
lst. That it is "the inperGti0e and indispeHsa-
"6Le duty Of the Government Of the United
" States to secure to eUery resident iRhG6itdut
the free and Independent expression Of his
"OpiniOR oY VOTE" and shat being accom-
"Plished, nothing can be farer than TO leave
"the people of territory free from all foreign
interference, to decie their own destiny for
"themselves, subject only to the constitution
"of the United States" This is the ground
occupied by Mr.. Buchanan, and on which the
Union and american defends him from a com
plicity in the course pursued by Gov. Walk or.
This is nothing more nor less than precise IL
the ground occupied by Walker, and makes
the two, as has been we'll said, brace of po-
litical Siamese twins, inseParable-the politi-
cal blood which courses the veins of one, irri.
gates the life channels ofthe other-if one is
wounded, the other shares the pain; if one is
condemned the other is condemned; and il
one is stricken down the other must inevi-
tably fall with him. Wherein has Walker