Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-04-26

President, he defed Mr. Walker to produce
any such letter When this testimony was
shown TO Gov Walker, he was very indig-
nant and much excited. He declared that
although he had heretofore refused to pro-
duce it, now that It's contents were made
public, and that he had been thEs defed
by the President through tie Attorney
General to produce the letter, whose exis-
tence was denied bis own honor demanded
that it should De produced and published.
He thep produced TO the committee the
original letter of the 18th of July, 1857,
which, together with the signature, is all
in the handwriting Of Mr. Buchanan.
A copy was taken by the committee.
The letter fully sustains all that Mr. Walk
er did IN Kansas as Governor, for it says /:
The point on 1rhich your and oar success
depends as the submission Of the COn$fitu-
tion to The pe2pie Of Kansas : :
On the question Of submitting The ConStt-
tuition to tie bona tide resident settlers Of
Kansas am ,ciHtag to stand or .taH IN
sustaining such principle are cannot taA
It is the principle Of the K0nsas Netrosha
bill, the principle Of Popular Sovereignty,
and the toundat'on Of all popular 9overn-
naent. The more it is discussed the strong
er it will become
The President then proceeds to censure
the resolutions of Georgia aud Mississippi
Disappearing of Gov. Walkers course in
Kansas, and as regards those OF MISSISSIPPI
pi, he says: In answering them, | would
advise you to make the great principle Of
tie submission Of the Constitution to Ue
iona tile residents Of Kansas conspicuous-
y prominent. On this you 'eU be irresjs-
tible'
After the reading Of Tie letter, Mr..
Walker proceeded to give historical ac,
count of his appointment as Governor of
Kansas, and Of his action there under the
views and instructions of the President,
demonstrating that he had been fully sus-
tanned by the President until the latter
changed his policy, in November, 1857
He also explained how the programme of
the Lecompton Convention had been pre-
pared here in Washington, and transmitted
to Kansas, and his cooperation asked and
first, because it did not submit
the Constitution to the people; AMI, second
because 1t did not even submit the slavery
question to the people, but only to those
who were willing to vote for the Constitu-
ton, being . very small minority Of the
whole.
Governor Walker then declared at that
date, in the fall of 1857, in Kansas, that
this device was wretched fraud and base
counterfeit, designed to prevent the people
Of Kansas from voting even on the ques-
ton Of slavery. On being then informed
that it was the programme Of the Presi-
dent and Of the Administration he denied
that it could possibly be the programme of
the President, and read Mr. Buchanan's let
ter Of the 18th Of July, 1857, to sustain the
assertion. Mr.. Walker was assured that
the President had changed his opinion and
that all the Cabinet went with him. Mr.
Walker said that, whatever the President
or Cabinet might do or say on this subject,
he would forever denounce this programme
as base and dishonorable and as forfeiting
the pledges which he (AIr. Walker) had
made in his own name and that Of the
Presidcnt-that the Constitution should be
submitted to the vote of the people Of Kan
sas for ratification or rejection, upon the
faith of which pledge the people had ac-
ted, and, in the absence of which, Kansas
would have been involved in immediate
revolution and the whole country in civil
war.
Governor Walker said he had never re-
tracted or modified one word he had ever
uttered, or one line he had ever written on
this subject, and never should do so.
Mr. Walker, in consequence of Blacks
denial that such letter was in existence,
Judge Black, but Jerry declined
to be shot at.