New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-26
BUCHANAN AND WALKER.

The public was somewhat startled, a few days
ago, by a Geographic announcement that Robert
J. Walker, ex-senator of Mississippi and ex-Gov-
ernor Of Kansas Territory. had sent Attorney Gem
eral Black a challenge to mortal combat land that
the aforesaid Black had positively declined the
same alleging that the indignant Walker only
wanted to 4 butcher him q proceeding to which
he has very natural objection.
This news came right upon the heels Of the Pryor
ana Potter affair, and led Dis to suppose that there
must be, at the present time, an unusual smell of
gunpowder in The atmosphere of Washington City.
IN fact we doubt II It would have surprised us IL
the telegraph had announced that Old Buck him
sef had received cartel from some enterprising
politician inviting him to the classic though some.
what gloomy, precincts of Bladensbnrg.
People wers curious to learn the cause and
origin of the Black and Walker imbroglio, and at
last we have it. 1t seems that the famous Covode
Investigating Committee, against which the Presi-
dent protested 50 earnestly short time ago, had
up . witness who stated that Black denied to him,
In the most positive terms, that Buchanan had ever
written letter to Walker, advising him to have
the Constitution OF Kansas submitted to the popu-
lar vote. Black not only denied that the President
had ever written such letter, but he dared and
deied the production Of II. Herein was an impu-
tation upon Gov. Walkers veracity; for Walker
had frequently asserted that he had precisely such
a letter in his pocket Thereupon he resented the
imputation by the double mode of challenging
Black for his insult and publishing Tie ette,. itself
the existence of which Black had denied. We pub
lished this letter in the Crescent Of yesterday.
Thus it appears that the President was orr
gnally in favor Of the submission Of the Constitu
ton to the people Of Kansas-and he instructed
Walker that that was the point . upon which
his success depended. 1t appears, furthermore,
that Walker endeavored to carry out the Presi-
dents views, but was overruled by the Constitu-
tional Convention, whereupon he threw up his com.
mission as Governor, and retired in disgust from
the Territory. After the Constitution was brought
before Congress and Kansas applied for admission,
| the President and Cabinet sustained the applica.
on though their instructions in regard to the sub
mission Of the Constitution to the people had not
been carried ont. Douglas and Walker opposed
It. and this WAS the beginning of Douglas quarrel
with the Administration which has continued from
that time to this with increasing bitterness
though, so far Walker is concerned ii il said he
has made friends = with Old Buck, and is now on
his old platform Of confidential relations with him.
1t will be further recoliected that Judge Black
sometime last summer, wrote several editorials in
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