Grand River Times

GOVERNOR WALKER

The independent course which Walker has pursued in Kansas, does seem to give very great satisfaction, to either the ultra north or south wing of the Union. It is truly a difficult matter for a public officer to please the people, especially if there is any excitement in the mind of the multitude, or if there are any laws to be executed or administered, so blinding is the passion of excitement and so conflicting the private interpretations which are often given to the plainest laws.

Without expressing in full our views of Gov. Walker's course, we may say that one thing appears plainly to indicate that he is in most cases impartial and just—that is the condemnation which he receives at the hands of both the northern and southern papers; though it may be only the ultra party ones who dislike his position. We will not say that any independent and candid paper, either north or south, has ever said one word against Gov. Walker's administration.

Some of the southern journals have denounced Walker for favoring, as they asserted, the free state settlers; applying to him the not very choice epithet of "dog." Other acts of Walker have aroused the ire of some of the ultra abolition sheets, and they are pleased to say that the denunciations of the south have frightened their "dog," insomuch that he has felt himself obliged to pursue a different course. As a brief specimen, we clip the following from the Chicago Journal:

"We give elsewhere, the proclamation of Governor Walker to the people of Lawrence, by which it will be seen that the South have at last 'kicked its dog' into doing something to appease its anger.

"The 'dog days' have had their effect upon Governor Walker. He is evidently mad, but we can but think, more with himself than with the devoted people he feels himself commissioned to 'crush' out."