Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-03-07
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The Kansas Affairs.

SPEECH OF HON. HENRY WILSON,
or MAssAcHUsEr
lN SENATE, February is, 1856
A message from the President Of
the United States 0dS received
by the Senate, incloSing report
from the Secretary Of State, on
the eriSting state Of affairs IN
Kansas.
Mr.. Wilson. Mr. President, the
Senator from Connecticut Mr.. Tou-
cey closes his speech with the as
sumption, that there nay be those in
the country who do not wish the
President to preserve order and he
is pleased to say that if the Execu-
tive does so, their vocation will be
gone. Let the say to the Senator
from Connecticut, that the vocation
of those to whom he alludes is not
, fawsi.s, ~Ljoos sors'|ity 90 Pv~er-
No, sir; they do not
---' bend to power, and lap its milk
If the Senator from Connecticut al
ludes to those who have opposed the
uncaled-for and wanlon repeal of
the Missouri prohibition ii he al
udes to those who condemn the policy
Of the Administration IN Kansas if
he intends TO charge the intelligent,
patriotic men who sympalhize with
the wronged and outraged people Of
Kansas -now bavely struggling to
preserve their iresldes and altars,
their property aud lives, against the
armed aggresslons OF lawless inva-
slons from Mlssouri-wth a disLosi-
ton to violate or resist the laws of
the country, or to cherish sectional
animosity and strife, he makes a
charge unsupported by even the
shadow of truth aud here, and now
TO his face, and before the Senate
and the country, pronounce the
charge utterly unlounded. II he in
tends, sir, to insinuate charge of
that character against me, | prompl-
ly meet it, and here and now before
the Senate | brand it as it deserves.
The Senator from Connecticut,
with an air of confident assurance,
calls for facts. Evidently possessed
with the vast knowledge embodied
in these documents sent here by the
Executive, the Senator assumes the
air and tone of one entitled to speak
by authority, and he invites US TO
deal in facts. Sir, he shall have
facts; for it so happens that the
friends of those who are struggling
in Kansas TO protect their lives, their
property, their all, against unaulhor-
lied power and lawless violence,
know something OF the facts which
have transpired there. All knowl-
edge, sir, of affairs IN Kansas is not
in the keeping Of the Executive and
his Senator from Connecticut
The Senator from Connecticut
commends us to the consideration Of
this correspondence and the Sen
ator from California Mr., Wellerl
asks US TO print ten thousand extra
copies of it, to be scattered broadcast
over the land, now say-and |
can establish what | say before any
committee of investigation, 50 that
no man can question The declaration
that this correspondence utterly
and totally misslates and mlsrepres-
ents the state Of affairs in Kausas.-
These documents, sir, are made up
of telegraphic dispatches, of letters,
of statements, Of orders, written by
Governor Shannon and others, on The
rumors of the hour, in larger Ter
rlory, at time when The people
were deeply agilated 10y all sorts of
reports that flew over the land IN IA
pid succession. We are called upon
now 10 publish these rumors-rum-
ors that turned out TO be exaggerated
or hlse-rumors recognized and ad-
mitled to be false by The Governor of
the Territory in his conversation and
in his treaty with the citizens Of
Lawrence. Yes, sir, the Senate is
now called upon 10 print and send
over the country, as official docu-
ments, these stupendous misrepre-