Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-08
TUT IIIU I Tut ItflIUCfd Kansas and the Administration,

as surprised at the everlasting ding dong, which has been kept up so long upon the Kansas po- l Hey that the administration and Governor Wal ker is now pursuing in that territory. News papers of almost every political shade have been perfectly furious upon the subject-and many of them are so yet. Something awful, stranger would suppose, has been or is about to be perpetrated by the administration, that | threatens perfect smash up of all southern concerns-without so much as giving teNer time, in getting away to put on his boots.- | What does this mean? says one. Where can l see the grievance complained of, that makes l the President deserve such denunciations?- earnestly enquiries another. Well, at the be- ! ginning of the onslaught, "The New Orleans | Crescent' undertook to furnish us with those offensive points.-by giving all the extracts from | Governor Walkers address, which the editor deemed most objectionable to the south, and | informed us, in his commentary remarks, that it is true, no free-soil sentiments were advocat- | ed by Gov. Walker but that he evnced dis position to humor the freesoil faction. In oHOlt, IHO plbu Oi oO'. " dihOi ouOHoO Cou- ssts in his notifying the people of Kansas, that the constitution when framed should be sub mitted to them for their approval; and that he believed, from considerations of latitude and other natural causes, Kansas would free State. | The American statesman who upon any uncomn. on occa-ion, has the temerity to under. take the healing up of old chronic difficulties in the body politic-" has hard road to travel" So many of the sovereigns have such fashion of forgetting the nature of the old twists and crooks with which the subject has been aff1ct- ed, that, when the job ;of straghtening is un- dertaken, they seldom, in estimating the dffi- cultes of the work, take them into considera- tion.
 Before just decision upon the merits of the | policy pursued by the administration in this matter-can be pronounced-the history-the | past and present condition of Kansas must be taken into consideration. The circumstances order out of chaos in Kansas were very pecu- liar and extraordinary. The Kansas N ebraska bill which created the territory and made it an arena for competition between the north and | the south, was enacted when the excitement between the two sections was at the highest 1 pitch-and they went into the contest of supre- macy under all the fiery influences of that ex- citement. We witnessed with shame and sor- | row the fearful struggle in that devoted terri | tory. It was condition of things that has no parallel in the political history of the United States, or of the western hemisphere, except in the Spanish American republics. It was | discredtable to the people of the United States, and which, by being left alone promised no inn provement; there fore it became the imperative duty of the cabinet and of the chief magistrate in particular, to put speedy termination to 1t, even, if to accomplish the object, he would have, like an illustrious predecessor, to take an unusual degree of responsibility. The policy of the administration however required nothing more of the people of that territory than compliance with the democratic principles the enjoyment of which was guarantied to the people of Kansas by the bill that created the territory. It is true, beyond doubt, the de-
 
 pie by the aforesaid law, was of a more ultra democratic character than ever governed in any territory belore-and it is equally true and be- yond doubt-no people in any territory of the United States ever lived under condition of things so fur from being democratic In fact, so far from any government establishment there being the result of the broadest kind of uni versal suffrage, as was contemplatd, every thing of the sort there the work of the most limited franchise; and even most of that had to pass the gauntlet of the rife, the revolver and the knife; and such was the condition of things when Gov. Walker entered upon the duties of his office.
 Every sane southern man must know that by an administration of which such men as Jacob Thompson and Gov. Floyd are members, no policy that seems to initiate against south- ern feeling will be adopted that is not warrant ed by the circumstances of the case to which the policy is to be applied.
 The people of the United States have never | yet, believe been cursed with an admnstra- | ton whose members felt so little the honor and | high responsibility of their trusts, as to adopt course of policy with an eye single 70 the building up of the welfare of any peculiar sec ton, or to the qualification of any particular 1 faction. The people will find, venture the assertion, that whatever efforts, in certain | direction, any of these cabinet officers, before | he entered upon the discharge of his duties, l might have been making, of q sectional char acter-ajter he becomes the officer of the Unit ed States, he always knows that his duty is to the whole country, and, although it may bring sorrow to his own household acts upon it. It Is so in the present case and may it be for ever.
 But the mounful howlings come with very bad grace from the Know Nothings-ttey were always ready to saoear that no advantage could accrue to the south by throwing open the ter ritories to a free competition between the north and the south. The burden of their walings nol0 s-the south is about to loose a slave State by the policy of the administration under this free competition doctrne. Under their anti Nebraska policy there was no possibility for Kansas to be slave State; and if, as they seem to aver, the only obstacle that stands in the way of Kansas coming over to the south-and of demonstrating the falsty of their old pre- dictons is-the referring the constitution to the people-the fact should suggest to them that it is more than probable they are not competent to judge in the promises, and therefore should be modest enough to keep their mouths closed
 If Kansas should, after all, turn out to be free State, it will only be the result which they professed to see so clearly would from the ne- cessity of the case, take place. But since that result has been achieved by such close shaving they should rather applaud the southern demo-