The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-06-27

tai IL is in the last degree vain and idle 10 con-
tend that Kansas has been abolitionized by who
has not been in the Territory month; it will be inn
possible If Kansas should exclude negro slavery from its
constitution transfer the responsibility of the fact from
the shoulders of Reeder Shannon and Geay, to those of
the luckess successor who has had the temerity to
undertake the patching up of their wretched job of
work If Kansas shall unfortunately to be num-
bered among the States which exclude slavery from their
constitutions and if the responsibility of such result
shall be attempted to be laid at the door of any of its
governors other than Reeder, Shannon, and Geary,
shall be ready to join issue with all who make the at
tempt and shall not fear TO stand against
the entire secession and knownohing press Of the South
the proofs and on the arguments of the case.
A VERDICT RENDERED FIFTEEN HUNDRED FROM THE
yIcNAGE.
We are free to say that looking from distant
stand point we do not endorse some of the positions
which Gov Walker has taken in his addresses in Kansas
but know that he is in perfect utilization with the pro-
slavery party in that Territory and shall do him the
Justice to suspend our Judgment until whether
these concessions have not been exorted from him by the
stringent necessities and ugly circumstances left him as
legacy by his predecessors and possibly yielded in order to
State to the principles of constitutional democracy
which his predecessors had hopeess lost to the South
We put up quietly with the patience of job for three
long years with the horrible conduct Of Reeder shannon
and Geary, while the real mischief doing We shall
not fall into passion with Walker before he has been in
the Territory three weeks trying not to do the fine things
which might be expected of him in field on
aqna rasa but do the best he do with the awful
boc in terrific snal and enlargement bequeathed
to him by his predecessors
We say we are not yet prepared to censure Walker
unquaedly for the Objectionable concessions in his adj
dresses because he to be in full cooperation and
utilization with the slavery party in Kansas and,
these have dictated to him. have accepted from him
the concessions in question, it would be somewhat
grautous and arrogant for to turn Soon and by our
uerUeion attempt Greeleylike, to dictate policy
to party in the Territory from the distance Of fifteen
hundred miles In our travels through the West the
universal testimony of the democrats whom have met
having any knowledge Of Kansas affairs has been that the
prosavery party there entirely sustain Walker have
seen no evidence the contrary in any newspaper
have casually way and the gentleman who
has SO ably and acceptaby conducted editorial col
umns in absence Mr. Dewitt, attcsts the same fact
in regard to all the articles and correspondence from Kan
sas which have fallen under his observation in whole
exchange list. "''
ATTITUDE OF PARTIES KANSAS TOWARDS WALKER.
AS evidence of the entire accordance of the proavery
party in Kansas with Governor Walker publish the
comments of the two leading prosavery papers in the
Territory his inaugural address of them, the
Herald puDlSneu AT
ulaon in the Territory the other the Lecompon Union,
published at the scat of government, and owned
understand by some of the leading and most ultra pro-
slavery men in the Territory, among them some of
trusted yirgnans The article of the Union is the
conclusive because it is not an ipdiscrminate
dorsement of the inaugural but, while concurring in
those recommendations in il against which southern
extremists fifteen hundred miles off, have raised hue
and cry and ourselves decline to endorse objects only
to passage in the document broachng the hypothesis
that the bleak climate of Kansas the want of supply of
negroes with which to stock the State and the strenuous
demand for slaves in the cotton States may prevent the
incorporation of negro slavery in its institutions We
publish the articles of these leading proslavery journals
in full to avoid all misrepresentation, and have italcised
the which contain the gst of their endorsement
of Governor Walkers policy. Read the articles.
Nor is this all. Not only the pro-slavery
tanning the governor but the abotonists bit
tcrly assaing him He is stumpng tho Territory the
champion of the and the denouncer of the other
Here is brick from Babel 1t is from frcesoil report
of some late Kansas proceedings, and will show at
the temper of Gov. Walker and of the freesate
+ "On Monday Gov. Walker addressed the citizens at
Iecompton and Big Springs. He made desperate
upon the Topeka legislature denouncing it the most
aociots usurpation witnessed in this country. After
the governor had concluded there general call for
Lane Who however, declined, he understood Secretary
took the stand and spoke for time, without how
ever advancing anything new. When he was through,
the call for Lane was renewed unanimously The colonel
responded to the call completely demolishing the posi-
tions of Gov. Walker and his secretary 1t generally
understood that there would be attempt made to col
ect taxes under the bogus laws
The New York Tribune denounoes Walker as a more
deep and dangerous border rufan than the vertable
''border ruffians'' themselves. 1t says s..-
"The apportionment proclamation of Mr. Acting Gov
einor Stanton with the full doubtless of his
principal Governor Walker, shors both Of them tair of
snakes the grass such might have been expected to
creep out from under the Cincinnati platform and from
the rccesses of cabinet in of the pigeon holes of
which lies deposited the Ostend manifesto 1t was the
spirit of that famous document to by force whatever
might think it convenient to have and to back up the
seizure by fraud and false prctcnccs The border ruans
having seized Kansas by force, it remains to main
tain that seizure by fraud The action Of Mr. Secretary STAN
under he bogus constitution act far ourun he provisions
Of that infamous ITSELF and stops him and his principal
aer Nth all their fine speeches 10 he frce-Stae men about
border rsians than he border-rfan legislature selr''
JEWEL
We could multiply this evidence indefinitely but it
would be useless and it Is rational to conclude that the
line of policy which Walker and the national democrats
and proslavery Of Kansas have determined upon
which Gcary and his predecessors have left the case will
admit of At all events we, for one shall vouchsafe
little of the patience which extended long suffer
ngy to his trio Of predecessors unto Walker who
has undertaken to make the best he can out of the bad