2/12 Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, said to the Jews: "My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins." So this Lecompton _party_ found the little finger of this Southern Governor to be thicker than the loins of Gov. Geary. He had been a Senator from Mississippi, and had been Secretary of the Treasury in Mr.Pierce's Cabinet. The complications of this Kansas question had become such as to call for a man of the highest rank and ability. The main object of Mr.Walker's mission to Kansas was to induce the Free State people to vote at the Territorial elections, which alone were appointed by the government at Washington, and recognized by it. |