Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1857 — A Deliberate Plan. [ARTICLE]

A Deliberate Plan.

There is no sort of doubt that the late Lawrence rebellion was a deliberate plan to interrupt the peace in Kansas inaugurated by the pacific, fair and just policy of Governor Walker—the purpose of such interruption being to revive the sinking fortunes of black republicanism elsewhere. How desperate must be the hopes of a party driven to such an extremity to save itself from actual dissolution. What particle of excuse is there for the rebellion ?—what particle of reason existed for hatching it ? Had not Governor Walker made sufficient concession to the Kansas black republicans? Had he not sufficiently assured them, both by words and acts, that all their rights should be respected? that no privileges should be exercised by any inhabitant that were not secured to them ? —that if his influence conld procure it, the constitution about to be formed should be submitted to all the actual settlers, and that none but actual settlers should be permitted to vote upon it ? Had he not gone so far to conciliate them as to provoke towards himself the denunciation of many southern newspapers, and to subject himself to the charge of having formed an alUhnce with them? Had he not done all these things as matters of {air administration, and had had he not done many other things as matters of reconciliation and kindness not required of him as duties of his office ? Had he not, in short, done everything in his power, both as the chief executive officer of the Territory, clothed with extraordinary powers, and as an individual and a citizen, to remove every cause of dissatisfaction and dissension among the ultra free State men ? He certainly, had. He certainly bad done all that man could do to make the path straight to a complete pacification of the Territory, in which every inhabitant could honorably walk. I n view of all this action of Governor Walker, and in view of the complete establishment of his policy, how ungracious, how unpardonable, how outrageous the Lawrence rebellion. What a spirit of mischief does it disclose—what a willingness, not only on the part of the immediate actors, but on the part of the black republican leaders elsewhere who had counseled the movement, does it reveal to create partisan capital at any expense of the peace of the country and the blood of citizens . We cannot conceive of a more devilish spirit than that which is at the bottom of this rebellion. -It is manifested in a hundred ways besides open revolt against the laws. It attacks personal reputation with the same malignity that it violates public order. We have an example of this in a letter from Lawrence to the St. Louis Democrat, one of the vilest newspaper -sheets of which we have knowledge. We take a paragraph from this letter ; “ Gov. Walker passed through. Lawrence on his way to Leavenworth/where he issued his proclamation, and returned immediately to Lawrence with an army of United States troops. The people at Lawrence are very much enraged at his conduct. They all unite in treating him with, perfect contempt. Upon his arrival, preceded and followed by the troops, the citizens called a meeting, and resolved, that should he try to meet them in concourse, to read his proclamation, or have anything whatever to say to them, they should immediately turn their backs upon him and none should listen; that, if possible, not a dog should be allowed to remain on the street within hearing. A satirical parodv on his proclamation was published and circulated. He finds he cannot frighten the men of Lawrence with these demonstrations, and so sends after more troops and artillery. He himself is spending the time of waiting in drinking very hard. It is reported that he intends issuing another proclamation, and it is generally believed that he, intends to enforce collection of the taxes. The people all attend to their business the same pa usual. The city council attend to their business, hut avoid any but the 'most useful and necessary acts. We have no idea as yet fwhat he intends doing, but if hecontinues in as drunken and crazy a state as at present, he is a dangerous customer to be 'around. The

city council may hare to banish Urn as a nuisance.” 1 Every reader will appreciate the infamy of this vileness when we tell him that Governor Walker is one of the calmest, coolest, most deliberate and most temperate of all our public men. It wa a the combination of these and other great qualities that commended him to Mr. Buchanan (and no one knows him better than the President) above any other man for the difficult mission in which he Is engaged. —Detroit Free Prcu.