The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-17

abolition societies of the East; aud, whilst there
are respectable people there, it is filled by a
considerable lumber of mercenaries, who are
paid by abolition societies to perpetuate and
diGnse agitation throughout Kansas, and prevent
II peaccable settlement of this question" Pretty
strong language this, Governor, and very likely
it may have had q considerable influence in de-
termining the policy of the President in favor
of the shortest practical method of getting rid
Of these disorderly Kansas ragamufins.
During the whole month of July Cover
nor Walker and General Harvey, with the
United States army as q posse c~omaasus, ap-
pear to nave had their hands full in the
suppression of the revolutionary municipal
movements of the people of Lawrence; and the
correspondence upon this subject, to a stranger
unacqusinted with our political border excite
ments. would justify the presumption of an
actual civil war, and upon a very formidable
scale, including abolition mercenaries' and
Usage Indians" The Governor himself, in his
letter to Gen. Case, of August 10, after summing
up his troubles, says:-"I repeat the opinion ex-
pressed in aformer communication, that to order
out the local militia at this time would precipi-
tate and render certain a most sanguinary and
disastrous civil war"
The next difficulty with the Governor was the
right of suffrage; but that matter being salts
f~actorily arranged by the President, the
Governor, Sept. 10, issued a long proclamation
10 the people Of Kansas in reference to the
Ocfohpr elecf;on for tho Tarr;tor;aI I or;sl.tura
On the Sd November the Governor sends in his
report Of the johnson and niece county election
frauds, and his reasons for rejecting them; and
from this point he appears to have shifted his
political course so rs to catch the anti-slavery
breezes Of the North. He has ceased to talk of
abolition mercenaries," and grows eloquent
over the enOrmities Of false election returns and
ballot stufing. Passing over the intermediate
events, to December Is, Gov. Walker on that
day addressed his letter of resignation to Gen.
Cas-; submitting, as his reason for the step, the
failure of the President to sustain the Governor
in his pledges to the people that the Lecompton
constitution should be submitted fairly and
fully for their ratification or rejection.
From this review of the Kansas correspond
ence, ii will be seen that Gov. Walker, not
withstanding the abuse of the Southern fire.
eaters, not only supported with remarkable
energy the policy Of the administrator down
TO October last, but that on all occasions, great
and small, he freely employed the United
States troops to coerce the abolition MERGE
n%aries' into submission. But the Kansas Octo-
Der election disclosed the fact, beyond all doubt,
that a very DECIDED majority Of the people
there belonged to the free State party. Upon
this hint the Chicago Times, the home organ of
Senator Douglas, took pretty decided ground
in favor of that policy which would secure
most speedily the admission of Kansas as q free
State. And from that time, we doubt not,
there was q full understanding and a happy
accord between Mr.. Douglas and Mr.. Walker
as to the course they should pursue. The Octo-
her vote of Kansas was the very thing that Mr..
Douglas had been hoping for and the Oxford
precinct and niece county frauds afforded the
pretext to Gov. Walker for the first deliberate
step towards a rupture with the administration
and a bold push for the anti-slavery sympathies
Of the North.
Very well. We spprehend that Governor
Walker is already a dead cock in the pit !"
and that Mr.. Douglas will find himself in a mi
noriiy in Congress before this business is over
is by no means IN impossible event. The Prcsi-
dent adberes TO the policy, which only in the
eleventh hour has been abandoned by Walker
and Douglas and in this view the simple ques-
ton IL the approval or the condemnation by
Congress Of the Presidents fidelity to the law.
Not a word Of reproof was ever said by Senator
Douglas, that - remember, against those Mis-
souri, frauds and bogus laws of Kansas Of 1856
sc, which Senator Cass denounced as "a dis
grace to the civilization OF the age" Where
was the " popular sovereignty" Of Mr.. Douglas
then? During the whole Of the last summer
Governor Walker, with something of the ener-
gy Of an absolute despot, employed the United
States troops to reduce the /" abolition mercena-
ries'' OF Kansas to law and order and the Lee
compton programme; but he now pleads that
the whole thing has been nothing but a chapter
Of frauds, forgeries, and outrages upon "popu-
lar rights" Such qualifications can have but
little weight among sensible men DESTROYS rather
of promoting the harmony of the Union than
any of the schemes Of any of our little pettifog-
gene for the Presidency.
The NEW CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATING Con-
sITTEE.-At length there IL a prospect that the
mystery in relation to the disbursement OF the
eighty-seven thousand dollars to secure the pas
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