Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-02-05


from the exercise of the right Of suffrage
authorize those who do vote to act for
them in that contingency; and the alb
sentees are as much bound under the
law and constitution, whore there is no
fraud or violence, by the act of the ma
jority of those who do vote, as if all par
ticipated in the election"
"Under the principle here laid down
the people of Kansas, by the authority
Of Congress and their legislature, organ
lied State government The constitu-
ton they adopted the President has now
submitted to Congress. We do not re-
gard 1T as necessary to say word more
in order to justify the admission of the
State into the Union. The past contro-
versy has been long, tedious, captious,
and dangerous. 1t has been a medium
for producing frightful contentious be-
tween the North and the South, of es-
trangemenC between friends, of bitter
ness and conflict in politics, and of
dissatisfaction everywhere. The most
weighty reasons, then, demand its adj
mission. We cannot contend about the
local affairs of State. If the people
feel themselves aggricvcd, they have the
correction in their own hands. If they
desire to change their organic law, they
can do it. Let them do it. Why re-
main dependent where they are so peril
nacious and wilful about their right of
action and the character of their institu-
tons?
All these questions are presented in
the message in clear, forcible, and I'M
ans~erable argument. The spiritof the
paper is above all praise It is marked
by fidelity to facts and principles, by a
candor of statement, and by tone of
fairness which cannot fail to command
universal admiration"
TIE ADVICE OF A MEMBER OF TIE CAB
MET TO GEN. WALKER.-I has already
been stated that Gen. Walker, in his Mo
bile speech, had alleged that in October
last a member of Mr.. Buchanan's
icabinct had recommended the Walker
iteste enter into treaty with General
| Cumonfort, and become allies with Next
co, ana,then bring about war between
Spain md Mexico and seize Cuba. The
Philadelphia Ledger, commenting on this,
remarks:
That member of the cabinet did sug-
gest that he should join Comonfort may
be true, for Mexico at that time seemed
likely to be invaded hostilcly by Spain.
If the member of the cabinet told him to
seize upon Cuba as the first act of hostili-
! ty after declared war, he gave HIM good
advice, for that was the way most to in
iure Spain; but when Mr. w. says the
member told him "to bring about n
war between Spain and Mexico" he GER
tainly allows his sclf-conceit to ignore the
main facts in the case upon which all this
superstructurc rested.
These things were to be done in the
event of war, and not war to be brought
about to favor their accomplishment
The war was not of Mexico's seeking,
but Spain's. The policy of the former
country was peace, and the invasion of
Cuba was urged only as a defensive mea-
sure, to prevent Mexico from being sub
dued by foreign enemy. 1t was only
the fear of losing Cuba, which the press
of the United States had pointed out to
Spain, which induced that government
to relinquish its absurd hostilities against
Mexico. Mr.. Walker, as an adhereht of
Comonfort, could have had the sanction
Of international law after war was de-
clared, to do what mischief he pleased
against Spain. But if he had attempted
to seize Cuba before hostilities broke out,
he would have been as much filibuster
as in Nicaragua, and would have had
every civilized government against him,
and particularly the government of the
United States, if, in the prosecution of
his design, he had endeavored to raise
the means to do so within the territories
of the United States.
PLANS OF TIE MoRMoNs. The New