The South and Kansas-Rotation

There is a solicitude of an earnest character in this city respecting the course to be pursued by certain statesmen of the South on the subject of Governor WALKER’s career in Kansas. Messrs BROWN, of Mississippi, STEPHENS, of Georgia, are understood to be determined to deal gently with the President, if they can do so, and denounce WALKER at the same time; but Mr. KEITT, of South Carolina, and with him Mr. BOOOOK, of Virginia, and others, are by the politicians in this region expected to denounce without respect to consequences. The best we can hope for is, that the trouble times of Kansas may be over before the next session of Congress shall commence.

Apropos of rotation: who understands this system? No one here can recognize a system in it/ Men are displaced and men are appointed, and it may be always well, especially if the former are found unfriendly or lukewarm toward the Administration, and the latter friendly. But this is not assumed in any definition we have seen. There are many offices which the public interests call for being held throughout the term of good behavior, and they should be so appointed. As it is, however, it is absolutely true that men in various offices are denouncers of their room-mates and companions, seeking their confidence, learning their views in familiar conversation, making memoranda of the sentiments they daily express, and presenting this record as testimony against them. This is a base business, but it is closely followed, and I am sorry to add, with some profit.