Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-07-29
Governor Walker and Kansas.

We are gratifed to learn that several Of
the leading journals of the South, such as
the Richmond Enquirer, Memphis App cal,
DC, are manfully sustaining Governor WAL
KRIS recommendation Of submission to the
people Of the new Kansas constitution
Our opponents in the free States, all thro'
the late bitter and exciting Presidential con-
test, charged that the friends of the Kansas
Nebraska bill were urging scheme to force
slavery on kansas. contrary to the sentiments
Of = ajority Of ss bopa-fde citisens, and
that hence, the real question was, whether
Democratic press of the North repeled this
charge and desied in unqualified terms that
such vas the Issue. We soEtended that the
question was xhethsr the actual settlers of
Kansas Sd osld be allowed to decide the ques-
tioa for themselves IS TO whether they souli
have their State slave CT free--'' perfectly
free 10 form aud regulate their domestic in
stitstioas IL Astr ors ray-and that this was
| the great principle on which the whole Dem
ocratic party-ao..a, south, east, and west
This was all doae in good faith aud the faith
ful application Of this principal is what We
conteud for still what Gov. WALKER and
President BUCHANAN contend for. 1t is Reith-
er Congress nor the outside interference from
the other States, who are appointed by LAW TO
settle this question Of sovereignty, but the
fair and full expression Of the bona 6de resi-
dents of Kansas; and the only feasible mode
of determining the question is by vote of the
people after Constitution shall have been
formed BY the Convention which viii assem-
bic in the month Of September
Such principle as this faithfully carried
out, cannot fail 10 give peace TO the Nation
and such result will be death-.troke to
Black Republcanism in the northern States.
Then, when Kansas is at the door Of Congress
with constitution rejecting the peoples will
whether it be free State or . slave State,
or entierly silent on the subject Of slavery
the only legitimate question Congress. can ask
is Is Kansas republican (not black repub-
lican } and If so then it should, without hes
itation, be admitted into the Union, aud bs
permitted to commence its career a. sover-
eign State of this great and glorious Republic
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THE VIox PKEsIDEsT.-''Irenaus of the
New York Observer; who is travelling at the
South, was lately guest at wedding IL
Lexington, Ky, where be met tho Hon. j
c. Breckinridge, Vice President of the Uni
ted States He thus describes his person,
manners and domestic state: -
John G. Breckinridge, Vice President OF
the United States, was one of the guests at
) the wedding. The rough portraits of him that
stared everybody in the face last fall give but
a poor likeness of this extraordinary man
who, at a youthful period of life unexampled
has been called to preside over the most au-
gust body of men in this country. I His torn
is tall erect and commanding, his countcnanct
grave and thoughtful, his manner smooth ant
graceful, and his conversation indicates so
Der, intelligent and thinking man. With
lovely and accomplished wife and sweet chill
dren, he resides in modest cottage, but on,
story high, shaded deeply with old trees,
little way out of the town. bcould not bu
admire the simplicity of our republican insti
tutions, when 1 saw that this great peopl
have come to this embcwered cot, to find
+ fman to preside over its Senate, and perhap
to All its chair q state zss0iI IS =