Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-02
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

are very fashionable, evidently. Not long
since, we were solicited to publish the appeal
to the people" of person previously employed
- q folder under the House of Represents
tives, whose place had been given to another
and subsequently We were asked to publish
similar appeal on the part Of removed per-
son previously holding clerical Office under
the Interior Department. Under such circum-
stances-such manias being infectious-ws are
not surprised to find that Mr. Frederick r.
Stanton, the removed Secretary of the Territory
of Kansas regards his case of sufficient i'm
portance to warrant him in publishing the
appeal to the people" we find in Saturdays
Mteiiigencer, against the Presidents exercise
of his right to remove him when that function
airy became satisfied that he was using his late
position to the end of fomenting the disturb
ances and to strengthen the political ends Of
Lane, Robinson 4 Co., in Kansas.
As the Republican party in Congress will
doubtless seek to use the fact that before Mr.
Stanton turned to be Topeka-ite politician
he was nominally a member Of the Democratic
party-though while serving in Congress he
was VIGOROUSLY regarded by the supporters of
WV PiihSi PiOc Va ZIG parry dc o0iHk
as loose Federalist as any avowed opposition
gentleman in the hall-his "appeal to the peo-
pie" acquires sufficient interest to warrant US
in devoting column of the Star to its eluci-
dalton, notwithstanding the pressure upon us
of matters of substantial public Importance.
He is hard used gentleman doubtless. In
deed they are all hard used. In the whole
course of our experience we never yet knew a
removed Office holder who had not, in his own
estimation at least, been very unfairly dealt
by. Yet. some how or other, the public cannot
be made to enter with sufficient zeal into the
cause of the griefs and disappointments of gen.
tlemen in such situations. The world refuses
to sympathize with them to the extent of SUBJ
verting the order of things political in order
to right their wrongs. Though all Republican
party-dom may howl in chorus until their
threats become hoarse, we see no reason, judg-
ing from the past, to imagine that they will be
able to churn any particular sympathy for the
writer of this last "appeal to the people" that
will make against the future of the strength of
the Democratic national organization.
Mr.. Stanton evidently accounts for his reno
val on the ground only of his bold and efficient
discharge of his duty and, to make that allie
CATION plausible, of course intimates that Pres
ident Buchanan and his Administration; in
Kansas matters, were mere conspirators, plot
ting against the rights and liberties of the peO-
pie of the Territory. In borrowing this idea
from his new fuglemen-Jim Lane, Robinson,
Greeley CO.-Mr. Stanton has hit upon
nothing new; for it has formed the basis of
almost everybody's complaint who has lost an
office through the exercise of the power of re-
moval. The Stars readers will remember we'll
the unanimity with which Democratic public
opinion called for his displacement, in the be-
lief that desire to get into the Senate of the
United States had induced Mr.. Stanton to
strike hands with Lane, Robinson Co. They
could attribute his apparent intimate associa-
ton with those parties-his constant repetition
OF their arguments and statements concerning
Kansas affairs-his evident entire sympathy
and cooperation with them-to naught but the
Senatorial MANIA which has turned the head
OF many far more reliable Democrat in Kansas
before it got into his, to no other conceivable
cause.
In truth, from Maine to Texas, the Demo
cratic party, with one accord, demanded his
removal, because satisfied that he was using
the power of his position to strengthen the cause
OF the Abolition leaders in the Territory So
he was removed
His subsequent course, as seen by the light
OF the newspapers "taking on Indignantly on
that account, embraces ample proof of the JUS
tice and propriety of that act. In the columns
OF the New York Tribune, for instance, be has
subsequently, been exhibited, in accounts from
Kansas as being among the most active and
earnest opponents of the Democracy in the
Territory. So much for his case, personally
His allegations of fraud, violence, &c against
the Democracy Of the Territory, are hardly
worth comment; for they are but the pleas
under which Jim Lane seeks to Justify the MUIR
ders and other Outrages committed by him and
through his Vaccinations. He, and the rest of
Mr.. StantOn's political friends in the Territory,
acknowledge the force of no law there but that
of their own will, backed by violence. Every
thing smacking Of legal opposition to the sue
cess of their schemes to rule by the force of
murder, arson and treason, has so long been
denounced bv them for fraud, suppression of the
popular will-bOrder ruffiansm, if the reader
pleases-as that all but those Immediately sym
pathizing with them know well that Mr. Stan
ton, in revamping them, gives them no addi-
tiOnal force whatever.
Governor Walker it will be remembered,
tried his hand at it in the accounts be gave to
to the Republican-party Washington letter
writers concerning the outrageous character
of the Lecompton constitution. According to
his representations to those parties which were
paraded in print from Mason and Dixon's
line to Passamaquoddy, the Lecompton con-
stitution was but budget Of frauds and viola
tons of Republican principles. In fact, just
what Jim Lane 4 Co. had pronounced it to be
long before Gov. w. thus repeated their views
of it at this point. Its publication in thou
sand newspapers, however, blocked that game Of
making capital against the Democratic cause
as involved in Kansas affairs for it at once
proved to the satisfaction Of the entire Democ-
racy Of the country, that the Governor had gone
over to the Topekaites, body and breeches, in
tho hone If 0eftip1 into ho Copa IN oc tho IT,;