Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1857 — Who are the Supporters of Walker? [ARTICLE]

Who are the Supporters of Walker?

1 A Kansas correspondent of a New York paper writes on the 7th instant: "Gov. Walker has the people of Kansas with him. At Piola the- other day, at the land sales, he addressed a meeting —pro-slavery, free State, and abolition — and was followed by an ultra GarrisonGreeley man, who raked up all the old difficulties, opened up old wounds, and produced a heated excitement. Gov. Walker replied in a calm, impassioned address, in which, under the excitement of the moment, he exhibited more than his usual ability, leaving Mr. Foster, the abolition speaker, literally not a plank to stand upon. The result was of a thousand men present, at least nine hundred and fifty declared openly and in the most enthusiastic manner that they would cordially sustain Gov. Walker. Wherever he goes he is received with the greatest kindness, and the people of all sides avow a purpose to sustain him, and they will sustain him. “ I see it reported that he is the representative of a mere faction. On the 3d instant, at Lecompton, a congressional convention was held. It was composed of about two-thirds pro-slavery and onethird free State democrats. They nominated ex-Gov. Ransom formerly of Michigan, for Congress. They voted down — forty-two to one--a resolution presented by a Mr. Jenkins, pledging the support of the party to the constitution, to be adopted even if it shall not be submitted to the people. They cordially endorsed Gov. Walker, and appointed a committee inviting him to address them, and received him and his remarks with the strongest demonstrations of applause.— You are wrong in placing Dr. Stringfellow and others in opposition to the territorial government. They are cordially with Got. Walker, and everywhere sustain him, and so does Col. Doniphan.” Is it not reasonable to suppose that when a young lady offers to sew handkerchiefs for a rich bachelor, she means to sew in order that she may reap?