The Nevada journal., 1857-12-04
KANsAs.-The administration al

man of the national reputation of Rob-
ert j. Walker would hazard it in coun-
tenancing the transaction the most re-
motley, the President is beset to dis
grace him because he would mt disgrace
himself The fre-eaters insist on re-
moval and the substitution of "sound"
man in the place of Walker, who is not
as plant tool as was expected. 1t is
claimed that the Governor of Kansas
has no power, under the organic law of
the Territory, to decide upon the legal
lty of election returns, and that in the
rejection of the returns of one precinct
he has exceeded his powers, even tho
he and every body else knew them to
be false. On the other hand it is con-
tended that as the Kansas Act provides
that those receiving the highest number
of legal votes shall be declared by the
Governor duly elected, that authority
must be lodged with the Governor to
decide what are legal votes and what
not. Walker has acted upon the latter
opinion and thrown out returns glaring-
ly bogus. He has seen fit to take a
responsibility in behalf of justice to say
the least, but it seems responsibilities
are not to be assumed only on extraor-
binary occasions and by extraordinary
men. Walker has doubtless put his
foot in it. He has been reaching for
the Presidency and has lost caste by
leaning for once to the side of right
His course heretofore has not been such
as to obtain for him much respect
among the ultras of the north and he
therefore may be considered between
two fires destined to consume his chan
ces. There is some hope however that
the President may be compelled ulti-
mately to side with Walker. He can
not repudiate entirely his Kansas Gov
ernor because he has at worst commit
ted but legal error for the purpose of
Fighting a wrong, without endangering
the attachment of northern Democrats
of Free Soil proclivities to his admins
tration. He can hardly wholly and
openly sanction the course of Walker
without imminent danger Of alternating
the hot blood ultras Of the south. In
this dilemma we learn the President has
decided on adopting a milk-andwateI
policy and administering a reprimand to
Walker but allowing him to retain his
position. This course will scarcely suit
the testy factionists of either section.-
Murmurs of discomfort reach us from
the land of disafection, South Carolina,
and also from the organ of Governor
Wise, which bode no harmony. Were
not southern chivalIy kept down by the
stronger passion for office, we might ex-
pect a champion Of exclusive southern
views to arise who would effectually de-
tach large segment Of the party from
the Democratic wheel which has been
and is rolling so successfully over the
entire Union. At any rate the centri-
fugal force of so large and ponderous a
body as the Democratic party, moving
with accelerated speed promises to
break it asunder at no distant day
The most triumphant success is the best
antidote for the monster. Having no
party to combat, having gorged the I'M
stable elements of the opposition, the
Democracy have only to war among
themselves. The larger the party be-
comes the more fruitful in discordant
components, it will be, and the sooner
its disintegration. Kansas with all ex.
traneous influences has failed thus fal
to produce the desired effect but it is
not improbable the conduct of the ad
ministration toward that unhappy Ter
ritory may be the entering wedge to do
it yet.
New NJ AGAZINE.-The last mail
brought us the first No. of new Maya
zine published by Phillips, Sampson &
Co, Boston, and called the Atlantic
Monthly. At the first glance we cannot
but be pleased with its neat Topographic