The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-07-04
ANTI-sLAvERY APPRECIATION OF GOV.
WALKER

We take the following from that sterling journal
the Nsssypon. which gives the true character most
doubtless of this man Walker, the great Union SAFER
and traitor to the south.
Were anything wanted to confirm us in the JUS
tcc and propricty of stricturcssupon Robert J.
Walkers inaugural address to the people of Kansas,
It would be most abundantly supplied in the ecoml-
ums which the abest of the Northern abolition press
are hcapng upon the trcachcrous and crafty Cover
nor of Kansas Among other prominent freesoil
journals, the New York Courier and Enquirer dcvot-
ed capacous column to a long and elaborate re-
view of the inaugural, from which we extract the
following significant paragraph:
we shall be most agreeably disappointed If the
most important position in the Address of Governor
Walker to the people Of Kansas Is adopted by the
Democratic party and faithfully carried ont Upon
il turns the whole question whether Kansas IL to be-
come free state by peaceful means. Governor
Walker declares that the constitutional convention
10 Dr. elected thi- month. must and will submit the
result Of their nbors to the people Of Kansas for rat
Gcaiion rejection lie drvotes a large space in his
manifesto TO the enforcement of this declaration. In
the copy Of This address originally prepared. and
in all probability delivered, h. uses such cmphat
ic language ~ the following: "As firm believer
TN onghout my life Of the great doctrine of State
rights and popular sovereignty, and of the funda-
mental principles Of Democracy, | believe that to
state unless il had been previously ratified by their
vote. i'm rioia'oa n sryy principle Of Justice Of cery
oHgR'on @ dmy, Of emry diedae f honor and Of con
'rissc'. anil Of NE Cb7~itmion md he Union hs, as
epounded iy NE aprem. judicih tbund Of Me Gnion.'
This i al true every word Of IL; and whatever else
Governor Walker may have said to which objection
might b. taken for this mt least he deserves the hear
ticst commentator OF every true patriot"
"For this fathcssness and gratuitous concession
pcrtnp. we should say, behes, for the language Of
Governor Walker is insoently mandatory-thc abo-
ltion press willing to pass as mere unmean-
ing gasconadc every obnoxious sentiment and SEN
tcnce in the address, and demand for Walker the
'hcarticst commentator Of every true patriot'--
that IL. Of every freesocr and enemy of the south.
/ 'But let the reader mark the paragraph above
quoted and note the implied admission Of the editor
Of the Courier. TINT The ha"gnrM wos mt oniy snimhcf
10 h' abo'on crasrstp, hore promngpioa in kansas,
INT Tint he rms honorti wah Htrm transcripts! Hear
him: In the cory Of his address rs originally pre-
pared. and in all probability, delivered, he uses
such emphatic language as the following.n Enough!
II is thus clearly in Cumming testimony that all that
has been said of Walkers freeso affiliations and
intrgncs before his departure for Kansas positive
~ true and that he stands unveiled before the
outraged South a self convicted traitor to her
stutional rights, and in the dctestable attitude of
a man who has degraded himself from Il high emf
hence in national American craftsmanship to the
position of a Sumner or a Hale. Nay-the COMPARE
is unjust to those distinguished rrecsoilers They
are true to their original licgc; they guiltlcss
Of bad faith or regeneration. But r. J. Walker
The man long citizen of the South, whom Mssls-
sppi honored with place and cmolument, trusting
him with her precious destincs even in the federal
hn oil Ly tbo nf thnp tinn
dcncy perceptihe to him only through the dismal
vista Of irecsoil. has prostiued great trust, and
sold the South that the aims of an unprnciplcd am
hiton might be subservcd! Even to rank with the
apofatc Fremont, he is unworthy. Let him stand
alone. in the enormity of his disgrace, byword on
every Southern lip and the contempt and hate of
that national patriotism which he has betrayed.
II Ia for the majority of the people Of Kansas to
buke the arrogant dctation of Robert j. Walker, by
not submitting to the mnions of the emigrant aid
T societies the constitution which they will have the
right to frame and to adopt by the lcgitimately del
cgaed authority and in the name of the PRESENT
population of Kansas. If Walker ventures upon new
constructions of the Federal Constitution and seeks,
at the hazard of the public peace and with view to
stranglc the South in the very inception of a legal
struggle for her rights, the honor of establishing
precedent il is for the pro slavery men of Kansas to
resist the arrogance and usurpaton Of single man,
/, whom ambition has corrupted and aduation has
made egostical. The conservative sentiment of the
whole country, North and South, will sustain them.
Il THE BUNKER HILL CEIEBRATIoN.-On tho 18th
nst the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill,
statue TO the memory of the hero OF thatday, Gen.
Joseph Warren, was inauguraed on the field of his
4 glory Edward Everett made the principal Grafton,
and was followed by Senator Mason, of Virginia,
and cx-secrcary John p. Kennedy, in eloquent adj
dresses. There an immense crowd. Mr.. Ever
et's speech was splendid effort, full of eloquence
and patriotic sentiment We quote the closing par
| agraph:
,, "And oh! my friends, let the lesson of paternaI
affection which Gen Warren taught us in his death
be repeated in the persuasive silence of those stony
lips. In his own heart-stirrng language, let "the
voice our fathers blood cry to Jus from the ground
and upon this sacred day and on this immortal NIL,
let it proclaim a truce to sectional alienation ana
party strife, as the mediayal church proclaimed the
! Truce of Cod Wherever else the elements OF
j, dscod may range, let the pillows sink down, and
the storm be hushed, like yonder placid waves, at
the foot of Bunker HILL Here let the kindly feel
ngs that animated our fathers revive in the bOsOms