Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-07-17

Il, they can not hesitate to rcpudiate
both, ifWalker Il permitted 10 thwart
the South in Kansas. They hope
for the best, buta prepared to throw
off party the instant IL conflicts with
Southern duty. They await with
anxiety, yet with much confidence,
the action Of the administration in /
regard 10 the course Of Governor
Walker"
The Richmond Enquirer, OF june |
Goth, has long article singularly
moderate, considering It's source. IL
argues In favor Of restricting the right
Of suffrage In Kansas, 10 those who
are registered as voters previous TO
the late election Of delegates 20 form
Constitution, knowing we'll that
II that could be donev Kansas must be
q slave State, and then says
Ii IL then not self evident that the
proposition Of Governor Walker, to
allow 10 all the inhabitents of Kansas
Territory the right to pronounce up
on the constitution, is contradictory
TO the spirit Of our institutions, and
subversIve Of rational liberty. As we
said, aday on two since, we mean not
10 assert that he Is actuated by inn
proper motives. He may think that
the circumstances surrounding him
justify his course. But he is exerting
his influcnce-judging from his pub
licdeclaration--to crush out the great
principle of popular sovereignty -
And unless he retrdces his false steps as
speedily as possible, he cannot eipect 10
escape altogether similar censurc 10 that
rhioh acws pisited upon his predecessors.
+ = u y
That Gov. Walker is transgressing
the authority entrusted TO hin by the
Administration we need no other ey-
idepce that the antecedents of the
President and the Cabinet, their pat.
riotism, their political principles and
their nationality.
The Charleston Mercury of June
2Sth says Of Gov. Walker:
He claims 10 be supported by Mr..
Buchanan, by his Cabinet, and by
Congress-; and then, by way of crown
ing the terrors Of his intimidation, he
openly and repeatedly declares that, il
the convention will not submit the
constitution they shall TO the vote OF
the people for ratification, he will
join the Abolitionists himself This
threat, we suppose, cannot be ofmuch
potency in Kansas for il is perfectly
plain that, If Abolitionism consists in
the act Of abolishing slavery, he is
the greatest Abolitionist in Kansas.
His mission, in his intention at least,
is to mako Kansas free State, and
thereby save the democratic party Of
the Union from contest in which he
be ieves it will be overthrnwn.
We are loath TO suppose that Gov.
Walker has any good authority to
identify Mr.. Buchanan and his Cab
met with his policy. Are Messrs
Bobb, Floyd and Brown his support
ers in this conspiracy against the
South Gov. Walker also afiirms
that Congress will also support his
policy, and will reject Kansas from
admission into the Union, unless il
conforms to his acquisitions. This, in
our opinion, is baseless vaporing, and
his assersions as regards the Presi.
dent and the Cabinet may be just as
baseless. A man who has been so
honored by n Southern state as to have
been his representative in the Senate
Of tho United States, who goes into a
Territory TO bully or cheat slavery
out oft, is totally unworthy of belief
And this seems 10 be exactly the es-
timation in which he Is held by the
Abolitionists In spite of his speech
es, cajoleery and threats, they went
quietly on with their Legislature,
assuming all authority in Kassas.
The New York Herald Of July Sd,
says:
But upon the great, vital and para
mount issue Of the day-the Kansas
question -how~gingerly this Little
Giant treadsl He slurs it over, he
smothers il up, he slipt by il, and
lodges IL. He adheres TO the doctrine
Of popular sovereignty-he leaverthe
issue TO the people of Kansas; but he
fails TO tell us what all ofus, just now,
Of all things most desire 10 know
what is popular sovereignty, and who,
as things now stand---who are the
people OF Kansas. The Southern ul-
tras accept the remarks Of Mr.. Doug
las as signifying that the people OF
Kansas are those designated in the
contracted schedule Of the late pro-
slavery Legislature, and as also sig
J nifying that the State constitution OF
the approaching pro-slavery Kansas
convention should be finalan conclu-
sive, without returning the usual
} hazards Of submitting il, bona fde. to
vote Of all the people.
This is the accepted Interpretation OF
the Southern secession press, and,
satisfied that they know the drift OF
Mr.. Douglas, we also accept il. Van
Bprenish and befogged, too, as are
these Kansas remarks Of the Little
Dodger, they arc not admissioned OF
. any other than this extreme Southern
construction. And here we pin him,
asventuringtothe extent Of his tether
in bid for the succession. Here the
remarks of the Richmond Enquirer
the Richmond South and the Charts
ton Mercury, in reference TO the Kan.
sas policy of Gov. Walker, come into
play. Here, we may ask, what means
this savage ferocity Of the South and
the Mercury against Gov. Walker,
and this shilly trumpery and backing
and filing of the Enquirer and Wash
ington Union? Hero we enter into
the real merits of the case.
, From the extracts given in this
connections from the Southern niger
driving and Southern conservative
press, It will be seen that while the
Irltrae are hold. savape and defiant