The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-22
OFFICIAL.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
Calvin G. Jackson, purser in the navy.
Robert II. Clark, purser in the navy
REBELLION IN KANSAS.

We have Just received authentic intelligence from
Kansas that the abolitionists in that Territory in
a state Of rebellion and upon the verge of commit
ting overt acts of treason The proclamation of Gov
ernor Walker, which we give below, addressed to
the people of the city of Lawrence explains the char
acter of this proceeding and warns them of the con-
sequences if they persist in course of rebeious de-
fance TO the laws He declares that the laws of the
Territory will be executed The pledge of the gen
eral government and his oath of office will oblige
him to employ The whole force of that government,
if necessary carry out those pledges, and see that
the laws are carried into effect. We are advised
that the troops at Leavenworth that We're about to
march to Utah have been ordered to move upon
Lawrence and that Gov Walker win accompany them
This shows that he is in earnest and that he means
to do his duty promptly. Brother Beecher thought
that the logic of Sharpes rifles was more convincing
than the Bible when used against border rutiians !;
and we are not without faith in the convincing in
1uences of the same species of argument when adj
dressed to the rebellious aboioniss, through Min
ME muskets. Indeed, it seems to be admitted that
no other argument will do. Governor Walker has
done everything that man could do to give conf
dence to the people of Kansas TO restore peace and
quiet to the Territory protect the rights of ALL to
execute the laws fairly and justly, and to carry out
the just and proper policy of the government He
gave them of this in his inaugural address,
in his speeches, and in his personal interviews and
conversations So anxious was he tosatisy these mad
fanatics of his fair intentions, and OF the justice and
good faith of his government, and 70 take away from
them every cause shadow of excuse for discomfort
and resistance to the laws that i'll the judgment OF
many, he went further than fairly warranted by
his instructions. His anxiety in this respect
great that it subjected him to censure and abuse
A small portion of the South thought that they
in his anxious efforts to conciliate the abo
tionists betrayal of their peculiar interests and
straightway denounced him traitor and violator
of most sacred trust-with what justice the argu-
ments which we have already adduced, and the pres
ent attitude of the ahotoniss in Kansas, very fully
show. In the presence of the great difficulties totbe
overcome, surrounded by men disaffected to him and
to the government that sent him, there, he shaped
his course and initiated policy just and fair in
itself that if carried out faithfully it would take from
them every plausible pretext for further resistance
to the laws. But yet it has not satisfied them They
think that he has conceded too little the alarmsts
of the South think that he has conceded too much
and thus he is assaied by the one and resisted by
the other but the opinion of the people of the
try is, that he meant to do right and they will
tain him. Certain it is, that the laws of the Terrific
ry will be executed, and the policy of the govern
ment carried out to its fullest extent
Our political friends at the South who have cast
censure on Governor Walker must see in this procla-
nation determination his part to maintain the
laws while he is exertng himself for the peaceable
solution of the Kansas difficulties. They have evil
IDENTIFY mistaken the man, if they have at any time
supposed that his sympathies were with the aboli-
tionsts of that Territory. All doubts should now be
removed