The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-06-20
The Policy Of Gov. Walker la Kansas.


ment we saw the announcement of Walk
er's appointment to Kansas, and the
flourish made about his intention to Sc
cure the right of every man in that ter
ritory to vote, that the Administration
had taken the alarm, and given up the
idea of driving the white men out Of the
territory at the point of the bayonet, to
make room for negro slaves. That po-
Icy had been pursued by the last Admit
nistration until it was no longer safe, and
it had become evident that if the people
of the country had known onc-haii Of the
rascality practiced by Pierce, it would
have insured Buchanan's defeat. This
conviction had get to be so strong, that
it was necessary in Pennsylvania and
other States to proclaim Mr.. Buchanan
the friend of free Kansas, in order to
secure his election, and made it neces-
sary to give up the scheme of fixing sla-
very in that territory by the military
power of the Government. This was,
and is, very tieklish point for tho Ad-
ministration, for there is little doubt that
the Southern politicians consider Mr.
Buchanan as pledged to that scheme, and
it is equally clear that if he sticks to
these pledges, every vestige Of a Demo-
cratic party will disappear from the
North. Hence arose the necessity of
adhering to the bogus Kansas laws, which
are so contrived as so give the pro-sla-
very party, with scarcely 1.-THE of the
voting population on their side, the COM
plete control of the territory, and of send
ing out Robert j. Walker as Governor
fer the purpose of prevailing on the pre-
slavery men to give up their plan of max
ing it slave State. If Buchanan had
failed to recognize the bogus laws, he
would have had the whole South about
his ears. II he sustained them, and
thus made Kansas slave State, lie would
have annihilated his whole party at the
North 1t was necessary, therefore,
whilst appearing to side with the South,
by sustaining the fraudulent code, to
take measures by which Kansas might
be made free State without giving Of
fence to the South. Hence the appoint
ment of Walker as Governor, and the
proclaimed policy that it is to be made
free State, but Democratic Free State,
with Walker and Stanton for the first
United States Senators.
Since it has become evident that Kan |
sas is to be free, we do not intend to
trouble ourselves about the distress which |
Walker and Buchanan, and others, will
suffer in reconciling the South to the
forfeiture of their pledges to make it
slave State, Their u,hern task-masters
will lay the lash on them when they dis
cover the double game that is playing,
and we expect to sec the blood flow and
the welts rise on their backs; but we
shall not enjoy the triumph of seeing
Kansas made free State any the less be-
because the Administration have been
scared out of thsir design of forcing sa-
very there with the military arm of the
Government, which is the only way it
ever has, or ever can be, carried or sus-
tanned there
There is one difficulty, however, in
the way of Mr.. Walkers plan. In sus-
tanning the bogus laws, they have placed
the whole power of the territory in the
hands of small squad of pro-slavery ia
natics, the most OF whom have been guilty |
of gross outrages against the free State |
men of the territory. If they should al
low themselves to be persuaded to make
it free State, they run the risk of be-
ing prosecuted for the crimes they have
committed, and they will not have Cato
and Lecompte to admit them to bail and
allow them to escape. Will the murder
ers of Barber, or those who murdered !
Phillips, or Jones, who cut such fantas-
tic tricks as Sheriff Of Douglas County,
like to be tried by free State Judge and
jury, in order to send Walker and Stan
ton to the Senate, or relieve Mr.. Blu
chanan of his embarrassment We feel
very little interest in the answer to this
question, for the simple reason, that no
matter what the Convention called under
the bogus laws may do, the destiny of
Kansas cannot be changed; it is certain
to be a free State; and when a State,
the United States troops cannot inter
ferc, nor can the infam.us judges put
there by Pierce to prevent those who
have committed SO many crimes from be-
ing punished as they deserve. Nor will
the federal offices conferred By Mr.. Blu
chanan upon the perpetrators of crime
shield them from the arm of justice when
Kansas becomes . State. Louis De-
nocrdt