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Letter to Editor September 17, 1857

Bradford Reporter

Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania

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A letter to the editor quotes a Southern journal criticizing Governor Walker's pro-slavery maneuvers in Kansas and argues that the Buchanan administration will not oppose Kansas's admission as a Slave State, yielding to Southern demands.

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WHAT THE NORTH MAY EXPECT.

Mr. Editor:--The following extract from the Jackson Mississippian, I find copied into many Southern Journals with warm and hearty approval. It shows what the North may expect of the Buchanan administration in the event of Kansas applying for admission into the Union as a Slave State. It also shows how Walker was bullied so suddenly into the fire-eating measures of the South, and obedience to the "instructions of the administration."

"Let the people of the country be not deceived. While Walker is making sham demonstrations of disapproval of the past and even present conduct of the free State outlaws in Kansas, and while he is compelled to vindicate the existing Territorial authorities in force there, he is so managing as to commend himself to the sympathy of the outlaws, and is industriously striving to place the Democracy or Pro-Slavery party under their dominion. But we have information of the most reliable character, from Kansas, that this game is well understood by the party he is endeavoring to dupe. So far from placing confidence in him, or approving his policy, they know him to be faithless and unprincipled, and they intend to trample beneath their feet, with utter loathing and scorn, his insolent edicts. The September constitution, if submitted to the people, will be referred, as it ought to be, to the legal voters of the Territory; and when Kansas applies, with a constitution so framed and republican in its character, the administration, though it has timidly acquiesced in Gov. Walker's violation of its instructions, dare not resist her application. Even its hireling placemen will be mute when that occasion arises, and the Black Republicans will be left once more to fight their own battles."

Who will say that the administration dare exert its influence in the least against the admission of Kansas as a Slave State? Or who will say that like Gov. Walker it may be bullied into anything the South may desire?

Yours, K.

What sub-type of article is it?

Political Persuasive Provocative

What themes does it cover?

Politics Slavery Abolition

What keywords are associated?

Kansas Admission Slave State Buchanan Administration Governor Walker Southern Pressures Pro Slavery Party

What entities or persons were involved?

K. Mr. Editor

Letter to Editor Details

Author

K.

Recipient

Mr. Editor

Main Argument

the buchanan administration will not resist kansas's admission as a slave state and can be coerced by southern interests, as evidenced by the quoted extract criticizing governor walker's duplicitous pro-slavery policies.

Notable Details

Extract From Jackson Mississippian September Constitution Black Republicans Fire Eating Measures

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