Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-04-21

Early this morning Gov. Walker was re.
summoned before the committee, and shown
the testimony of several witnesses who had tcs-
titled to the contents of the letter as shown to
them in 1858 by Gov. Walker under no conf
dental restrictions but to vindicate himself
from the charge of violating the Presidents
| instructions in regard to his official action in
Kansas. One of these witnesses swore posi-
lively that few days since, he had mentioned
to Judge Black, Attorney General OF the United
States, the existence of this letter, and stated
that Gov. Walker had read Il to him. Judee
Black the witness testified, went into yio-
lent rage, and declared that no such hitter ex-
listed that if it had, Gov. Walker would have
published it long ago; that if he attempted to
produce any such pretended letter, he would be
covered with the shirt of Nessns; and that, in
the name of the President, he de6ed Mr.. Walk
er to produce any such letter. When thisItes-
timony was shown to Gov. Walkerhe was Merry
indignant and much excited lie declated
that although he had heretofore refused NO
produceit, now that its contents were made pub
lie, that he had thus been defed by the Presi-
dent through the Attorney General reproduce
the letter, whose existence was denied, his own
honor demanded that it should be produced and
published He then produced to the commit
tee the original letter of the 18th of July us57,
which, together wthIthe signature, is all il the
uhnuWrltlHB OF MT, bucnHnan.
A copy was taken Ivy the committee. The
letter fully sustains all that Mr.. Walker did in
Kansas as Governor for it says: aThe point
on which your and our success depends is the
submission of the Constitution to the people VI
Kansas. y On the question of SUBJ
hitting the Constitution to the bona fide resi-.
dent settlers of Kansas l am willing to stand OF
fall In sustaining such principle we cannot
fall 1t is the principle of the Kansas-Nebraska
BILL the principle of Popular Sovereignty, and
the principle at the foundation of all popular
government The more it is discussed the
stronger it will become"
The President then proceeds to. censure the
resolutions of Georgia and Mississippi dsap-
proving of Gov. Walkers course in Kansas and
as regards those of Mississippi, he says: In
answering them, would advise you to make
the great principle of the submission of the
Constitution to this bona fde residents of Kan
sas conspicuously prominent. On this you will
be irresistible"
After the reading of the letter, Mr.. Walker
proceeded to give historical account of his
appointment as Governor of Kansas, and of
his action there under the views and instruc-
tons of the President, demonstrating that he
had been fully sustained by the President I'M
til the latter changed his policy, in November,
1857
He also explained how the programme of the
Lecompton Convention had been prepared here
in Washington, and transmitted to Kansas, and
his cooperation asked and refused: first, be-
cause it did not even submit the slavery ques-
ton to the people, but only to those who were
willing to vote for the Constitution, being
very small minority of the whole.
Gov. Walker then declared at that date, in
the fall of 1851, in Kansas, that this device was
wretched fraud and a base counterfeit, de-
signed to prevent the people of Kansas from
voting even on the question of slavery. On
being then informed that ii was the programme
of the President and of the Administration, he
denied that it could possibly be the programme
of the President, and showed Mr.. Buchanan's
letter of the 18th of July, 1851, 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 Pres-
dent or Cabinet might do or say on this sub
ject, he would forever denounce this programme
as base and dishonorable and as FORGETTING the
pledges which he (Mr. Walker) had made in
his own name and that of the President-that
the Constitution should be submitted to the
vote of the people of Kansas for ratification or
rejection, upon the faith of which pledge the
people had acted and in the absence of which,
Kansas would have been involved in immedi-
ate revolution and the whole country in civil
war.
Gov. Walker said he had never retracted or
modified one word he had ever uttered, or one
line that he ever written on this subject, and
never would do So