Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-01
alleged Sell Out of Gov. Walker to the
Administrator.
PIECE OF vENAL PoLITIcs.

hear that there fears entertained, ny those
Democrats who oppose the Lecompton Consti-
tuition. that hc has betrayed and abandoned
them The information we have Obtained rests
on no slight authority, but even without that,
the recent perfect silence and reserve of MIR.
Walker on the subject of Kansas, are sufficient
at least to excite suspicion, Gov. Wise cnntin-
ueS firm and bold in his defiance of the Admin
stration policy; Douglas is not less So and STAN
ton, the associate of Walker, is making speech
es in Philadelphia, New York, Albany, and 9TH
er places, in which the wrongs contemplated by
the Administration are exposed in no mlmiclng
terms Only Walker, who had as much to do
with raising the Kansas storm as any man in the
country, has sunk into silence. We think
are able to give the causes of this mysterious
disappearance of distinguished politician from
the public view.
A few weeks ago, just after the Philadelphia
anti-Lecompton Democratic meeting, cores
pondent telegraphed to US from Washington
that Governor Walker had written the Pres
ident, declaring that the announcement of his
intended presence at the meeting, wholly
unauthorized We could not credit the story,
and declined to publish the dispatch; but subSc-
quent Information gives to it a color of proba-
bility. We learn from most reliable authority,
that the leading actors in the Philadelphia anti
Lecompton meeting believed that he was pur-
posely absent from it, and that the letter from
him, which was read Mt the meeting and pub
lished, tcGS, If not actually fabricated, modified
IN ~ tCuy ~ HtC NtS CECHSoSeCt WOEC pau
sible. And yet, that meeting was got up at
Walkers urgent solicitation, and up to within
few days of the time fixed for it, he was anxious
for it. But then he suddenly went to New
York, and although several letters were written
to him, no answer could be obtained, and at
last, at the meeting, the short note dated at Ho-
bollen, at p NJ, on the same day, pro-
duced and read When the New York meeting
was held, he was absent. On the day appoint
ed for the meeting in the New York Academy
of Music, which did not take place, he suddenly
appeared in Philadelphia, and when the meeting
at last took place at the Chinese Hall, he turned
up i'll Washington City. He did not even send
to the meeting r letter to explain his absence.
He has been lodging anti-Lccomptonism in ev-
cry possible way, and is now regarded as quite
out of the reach of his late associates on that
question, who have been relying on him as n
leader, and quoting him as authority. The
Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Sum- who is known to be in the secrets of the
Administration, states in recent letter that
Governor Walker will not for the future write
any more letters or make any speeches on the
subject of Kansas. TIE abandonment Of his
late position seems to be complete. HIS lIte as
S0cidtes regard him as hdDiRg completely 6etE0y-
ed them.
These are the facts. Now for the reasons
1t is given out, in quarters where Governor Wal
ker was lately in high favor, that he has "sold
out" to the Administration, abandoned Kansas,
and will, hereafter, devote himself to legal bust
ness and promoting the Southern Pacific Rail-
road project. From similar authority we learn
that, while Governor Walker was in Kansas he
received long, private letter from President
Buchanan. repeatedly assuring him that he APP
proved of his course in urging the submission
of the Constitution to the people, and that his
Administration would stand or fall on that
ground, Gov. Walker, in his letter Of resigna-
ton, declared that his course had been that di-
rected by the President; but Gen. CaSS in his
Il
been given. Governor Walker did not answer
Gen. Cass's letter, but he is said to have in
formed the President that he intended to an
swer it by publishing his private letter. This
would have been complete and overwhelming
proof of the wrong done by the President. This
private letter of Mr.. Buchanan's to Governor
Walker has been seen by scores of persons; but,
notwithstanding the importance of making it
public, it is now positively stated that il will
never be shown again, and will never be pub
lished; nay that it is in hands that will keep it
so as to prevent its rising up in condemnation
against the President. GorerRor Walker is
nerer again to appear as a acitness on the Kan
SGS subject Tongue and pen, both lately active,
are to remain alike idle, and the Anti-Lecomp-
toniSts are to do without him.
From the same well informed source that has
furnished us the facts above stated we learn the
reason for the remarkable change which has Ia
ken place in Gov. Walkers opinions and course.
case is pending in the Supreme Court of the
United States at Washington, in which the
United States plaintiffs in error, and one Fos-
satt is defendant in error. The amout involved
is two or three millions of dollars-a valuable
quicksilver mine in California being connected
with the case. Gov. Walker, who is i Wash
ington all this time, claims to be Interested in the
case to the amount of about two hund ii thou
sand dollars. 1t is now said that the Torern-
n.cnt soiU abandon It's appeal in the &c, and
thus the decision of the United States District
Court of California favorable to FoSsat aud 9th
ers, will be affirmed Indeed, on last Wednes-
day, when the case was called up for argument,
Attorney General Black did not appear. 1t was
adjourned until Thursday, when we are inform
ed that Attorney General Black came into Court
and saying that he did not intend to argue the
case, expressed his willingness that it should be
argued by Hon. Reverdy Johnson, who only
represented certain private interests. The Court
was astonisheG at such an unprecedented pro-
ceeding; but some of the Judges were disposed
to let it pass, until Judge Wayne openly con-
demned it, and reminded the Attorney General
that he was bound to represent the Government,
and he would not, exception incompetency in
the officer, consent to hear any one else The
case then went over, ami will probably be call
ed up in the course of this week. In this case
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