Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-11-18

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1857.
The Georgia sham democracy Gnd Gov
walker.

The Georgia sham democracy Gnd Gov.
walker.
A meeting of sham democrats was held
at Milledgevile, Ga, on the 10th inst.
number of the leading politicians of the
party being present and participating
Amongst them were Ex-Gov. johnson and
Hon. A. H. Stephens. The speakers on
the occasion were violent in their denunci-
atoms of Gov Walker, of Kansas-Mr.
Stephens going farther than all others
The following resolutions were adopted,
with others:-
Sd Resolved The; the position of Gov. Walker,
in his Irausural Address in throwing the weight
/ of his official opinion founded cpon climate &c
against the Southern side OF the question in the
Territory, in proclaming that the Constitution Of
Kansas should be submitted for ratification, the
onlv mode of adoption when 1.-The / eay and
fairly expressed will Of the majority Of the actual
residents" of the Territory might determine upon
another, and in declaring the class of voters to
whom only il shout be submitted wh.n the le-
g'lly and fairly expressed will NJ IN, jority Of the
people might dttermine otherwise, in plain pal
pablo and dangerous viol tion Of the principles Of
the Kansas Act, as set forth ard embodied in the
fOrccoing resolutions.
an Resolved, That 10 our judgment, from the
Ii hts hriOr" US, this conduct on the part OF Gov.
Walker, well his late ilIegsl interference With
the returns OF election in Kansas, require his re-
movaL
Now, we presume no candid observer of
Kansas affairs believes that the policy of
Gov Walker is not sustained by the admin
istration; and we hold that it is unjust to
I denounce the servant and permit the mas
ter to pass without censure. The Walker
Kansas policy, we are satisfied, was ar
ranged at Washington, with the advise and
consent of the President, with view to
| counterfeit the movements of the black re-
! puhlicans in the territory, and to make
| Kansas a sham democratic free State.
| 1t was no doubt argued, and correctly,
| that the result would be the salvation Of
| the sham democracy, North, and the dis
comfture. if not humiliation, of the black
! republicans. The intrigues of the plotters
| against Southern Rights in the territory
! have been thus far partially successful.
Kansas has been rescued from the grasp
of the Border Rufians," and though not
in the possession of the sham democracy,
has been given over to their twin brothers
the Free State men. For this consumma-
ton. the administration is responsible, and
the denunciations of cheated Southern par
tizans should be hurled against the author
tiles at Washington, instead of the plant
satraps in Kansas. No man, or set of
men, are entitled to the confidence of the
South who condemn the instrument but
uphold the hands that ply it. The South
has been most viIIainously cheated and de-
frauded, in every phase of the Kansas
swindie. Her rights have been used as foot
ball for the amusement of sham democratic
leaders in their intrigues to get possession
of the government, and to distribute the
spoils. We have no faith in Mr. Stephens
or any other politician, who PIRATES now
about the rights of the South in Kansas,
and tries to hold the principles of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill up as a bond Of I'M
ion for the people Of the South. To the
South that bill, as construed and executed
by those in power, has proved but shell
whose contents are rotten and offensive.
Let it go. Let those who supported it in
good faith. upon an honest Interpretation,
wash their hands of it-renOunce it-un-
til it ceases to be rendered an instrument of
oppression and fraud upon our section of
the Union.