Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1858 — GOV. WALKER ON LECOMPTON. [ARTICLE]

GOV. WALKER ON LECOMPTON.

The Lecompton press has been in high glee over the announcement that Governor Walker approved of English’s Compromise. He did desire the passage of it—not that he indorsed the swindle, hut felt confident that the people of Kansas would utterly repudiate it. Here is his letter:

—— Washington City, April 27, 1358. Dear Sirs: Your letter ot this date has just been received, and I hasten to say, that, in m y judgment, the conference Kansas bill should be adopted. I expressed this opini m on first reading the hill on Saturday last, and mu>t adhere to it, allhough, if the bill had been, as falsely represented, a submission of the ordinance only, I should have sternly opposed it. Tiffs bill, as interpreted by me, is in precise conformity with my views and course not only in Kansas, but since my return, and in following the path where duty and conscience bade me, I must support it. I must be permitted, however, to do this in such a wav as will cast no censure on valued friends, who honestly .Oppose this bill, because their construction of it differs from mjq own. Whilst this bill maintained my views as to popular sovereignty, it would, if adopted, save the Union from imminent peril. If the bill passes, the odjous Lecompton constitution, born in fraud, and baptized in forgery and perjury. will be defeated by an overwhelming vote of the people of Kansas, thus demonstrating by practical results, the truth ol my interpretation, that this bill does in fact submit the#constitution to the popular suffrage, for ratification or rejection, which is all I have ever required. With such a bill, and such a decision of that people, under it, no formidable effort will ever be again made to withhold from the people of inchoate-States a vote 'or or agonist the ratification or rejection of their State constitution, and the oligurchive doctrine of conventional sovereignty will be abandoned. I write in great haste* and will, at a future period, embody my views in full in a letter for publication, as expressed in our recent conversation. Yours truly, R. J. Walker. Hon. S. S. Cox and Hon. Win. Lawrence.