Kenosha Telegraph

We have received a copy of Senator Walker's speech, delivered in the Senate, March 6, on Mr. Clay's compromise resolutions. From a hasty glance at it, it seems to us to take the same position and cover about the same ground with reference to the proviso, that his address last fall to his constituents, did. He goes on to show that in all the territory we acquired from Mexico slavery was positively prohibited by her laws. He then claims that the force of these laws was in no-wise abated by our jurisdiction, consequently slavery cannot exist in this country without a positive law permitting it. This is his position. On the other hand, it is contended by the south and we think with the better reason, that the moment we acquired this territory, all laws of hers which in any respect conflicted with ours, were at once set aside, consequently our constitution permitting slavery, without prohibitory law, it may be planted in this newly acquired territory. But although Mr. Walker, in his opinions, is practically with the south, he gives us reason to hope that in his action he will yield to the known will of his constituents, and sustain the proviso. In our paper of March 15, we stated, in effect, that he was acting with the south and against the proviso, an inference we drew from an amendment offered by him to one of Clay's resolutions, which amendment we took it for granted he designed to support. In his speech, he says, he introduced the amendment, "Without wishing to be understood as pledged to vote for the resolution," from which we now infer, without giving our reasons, that Mr. Walker will be found voting for the application of the proviso to our new territories. He may be right in the view he takes of the whole matter, but certainly, we think, he must see the propriety of yielding his individual view of the case, to the instruction of his constituents, so unmistakably expressed.