Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-01-12
Little Bobby Walkar

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 boswell tells us of droll aluson by Dr. Johnson to schoolmaster of his acouaintance named homas Brown, who wrote spelling DOCK and dedicated it to the universe. In this 'ree ana glorious country, where every broken down trader sets up for Congress, and every poitical changelIng thinks himself entitled to be whitewashed by seat in the Senate-where every disappointed aspirant for iusticeship oi the peace, and every unsuccessful collector oi taxes, issues manifesto defining his position ana attacking the remaining magnates of the country-Thomas Browns with their universe. ued'cated spelling books are so common, that the original feast have lost half their comicalitv
 l"ere IS something Ill humane nature, when uncontrolled by the whoesom restraint o iriends or just fear of ridicule, which impek every little pretender to political position tc rush before the public with all his hopes. fears tfa'S and failures. He feels moved 10 entrust the people at large with all his private senti. ments, frequently illustrated by scraps of his biography. allusoh to his own or his wife's an. cestry, and extracts from the stump speeches o Ills early youth. If he succeeds in any purpose ne lniiIcts on patient friends long qualification or himself and the divine providence which blessed the world through him--if he fails. he Is second Sisera, and the stars in their course nave been fighting against him.
 One ot the most laughable specimens of this sort of egotlsm that even this age has ever pro- duced, will be found in the proclamation to the Universe ot that excruciating little periwink le bobby Walker, of which we give an abstract in another column. This poItentous document purports to be letter to General Cass reSig gnng the ofhce ot Governor of Kansas; but if that had been Its real intention the first sentence would have been quite sufficient He commences sen- sible enough
 ''l resign the office of Governor of the Ter ritory of Kansas"
 Ii he had here proceeded to say
 Respectfully your obedent servant
 R J. WALKER" he would have rivalled Cesar in terseness and let the public and General Cass know all they had any occasion to learn. But this sensibIe Ie course of conduct probably never occurred to oul swelling little peacock; so he proceeds instead to Sratity not only General Cass, but the Uni. verse at large, with long account of how the President had begged him to accept the appoint. ment, how he at last yielded, doubtless impeled by hunger and advice of friends, and how he has done this and has not done that and has hoped to do the other and has saved the coun. try from civil war and perhaps the world from deStructon and so on through four mortal col umns of small type in every sentence of all ol which Robert J. Walker figures much larger than life, and the remainder of the Universe appears vaguely in the back ground as some thing for which Robert l. Walker has a high regard. The impression which this grandilo- | quence will make here need not be commented | oh but It Is amusing to see how even his aboli- ton friends are "too full of laugh" as the boys says, to hold in
 1 The Evening Post of New York, one of the ablest free soil papers of the north says of it: It will surprise some of the readers of Go- vernon Walkers valedictory, which we publish to-day. that he did not content himself with simply quoting the following extract from the Presidents Instructions, and rest his case there:
 My instructions from the President, thrnuh the Secretary of State, he says, under date 3Os h March last, sustain the regular legislature of the territory in assembling convention to form a constitution, and they express the opinoin of the l President, that, when such constitution shall be submitted to the people of the territory, they must be protected in the exercise of their rig Int of voting for or against that instrument, and the fair expression of the popular will must not be interrupted by fraud or violence. Irepeat Men as my clear conUiction, bhat unless the conuentio, subnan the constitution to the 0ote of aN Me actual resident settlers of Kansas, and the eleetion be fairiy anu justly conducted, the constitution ,oiA De and ought to be rejected by Congress-
 l This covers the Governors case entirely. as we understand it. He has neither done nor at | tempted to do anything not directed in the most | eXphct terms by these instructions, and if he | had done less than he had done in ference 10 the Lecompton convention, he would have been | chargeable with off cial disobedence The rest of the Governors letter Is abe of course but is written more as man would write who was ! laying down his platform for a canvass for the 1 Pres dency than as public af1icer should write who Is giving an account of his stewardship to his official superior. Whatever advantages, in- tellectualy or otherwise, Mir. Walker may pos sess over MT. Buchanan when he took employ ment under him he waived any right he might l have had to discuss the Presidents policy. bv the light of his own political antecedents, in an official correspondence. The President has no official concern with the opinions Mr. Walker held in '33, or with any theory of State rights | he may have promulgated through the press or l from the stump during any other stage of his distinguished political career''
 No doubt of il; and it will surprise them still more when they learn that that portion of the above quotation which we have put into italics, and which the Post supposes to be part of the 1 Presidents instructions, was not anything of the sort, but only port of a speech Of Robert J Walker. Little Bobby has thmble rgsed his quotations So cunningly that he has mised even the acute editor of the Post. A close inspection of the little fellows letter shows that he has left place for himself to slip out of. He will deny that he meant anybody to understand those words to be part of his quotation. The context | l.n. .l, l.. stand him the other way. But little Bobby can truly say that such is not the necessary construc- tion of what he said. and then little Bobby will dorbtless proceed to prove the same in four more long columns, and to chuckle over little Bobby's smartness.
 | The substance of the letter scarcely demands notice. It is merely that the spirit of the Ne braska bill demands that the whole constitution be submitted to the people of Kansas. This point has already been ably argured by Mr. Douglas and is familiar to our readers. The immediate answer is that the "whole consttu- tion'' cannot be submitted to the people, if by the "whole constitution is meant every clause of it. If by the "whole constitution is meant meraly vote upon it as whole, then we answer that such vote no more permits the people to express their preferences on its various provisions than if 1t was not submitted at all.- It is only possible to select the main issue ac- tualiy involved and let them vote on that This the Lecomption convention did, and this was quite enough.
 Since lettle Bobby wrote, the legislature of Kansas have ordered anothor vote, including one on the constitution. and things in that terri. tory appear to get along quite as well without him as with him. He is probably surprised at l f. lo I. world at large should go on as usual even after little Bobby shall have left it forever.-Louis- iana Courier.
 Gen. Wool in Reply to Jefferson Davis