The Kanzas news., 1858-07-24
Mr. stanton,s speech.

t
-Ex-Goyernor F. Stanton addressed
the people of this place and vicinity on the
subject of the Lecompton Constitution and
the English Ordinance. on Friday the 9th
inst. Mr.. Stanton spoke about two hours.
reviewing the history of the Lecompton
Constitution from the time of the inception
of the movement until the adoption by
Congress of the English Juggle. The
speech contained no new facts and but lit
tie new matter of any kind. Mr.. Stanton
..pitched into cold Buck" with s.per-
feet Iooseness'" which showed that the usu-
ally happy Democratic family is pretty bad
Iy broken up at this time. The t.hot shot
which Walker and Stanton have thrown in
to Buebanan's camp since their removal
has done much to awaken the people eve
rywhere to just appreciation of the pres
ent Administration.
Mr. Stanton is undoubtedly deserving of
great credit for his course against Lecomp-
ton. He has the appearance and man
ners of frank, unostentatious, honest
man, and we doubt not his entire sympa-
thies are with the people of Kapzas against
the Lecompton Constitution. A very re-
markable change has taken place in his
mind since one year ago last April. when
he first came to the Territory, as Secretary.
In his speech at Lawrence Immediately aft
er his arrival, he told the assembled citizens
that the Territorial laws having been en-
dorsed by the Federal Government, were
in fact United States laws, and they mast
be o6eyed. Bogus law was not popular in
Lawrence just then, and the crowd shouted:
ssNever neverip % At this Stanton waxed
exceeding wroth, and said: ''Then between
you and me it is a0ar to the knife and Knife
to the hiH!'' This ebullition of temper was
explained by the more charitable as being
the result of small charge of whiskey.-
However that may be, his views of the peo-
pie of Kanzas and the struggle here were
undoubtedly those received from the Ad-
ministration at Washington, and the fire.
eaters and Rufians of his party elsewhere.
That his opinions have changed so much
is to his credit. His services to the people
of Kanzas in the hour of their peril, and
when professed friends were forsaking them,
will be long remembered.
After the close of Mr.. Stanton's speech,
Mr. L. D. Bailey offered the following res
lutions which were adopted with three
cheers, and followed by three more for Mr..
Stanton:
Resol1ed, That the thanks of the people here
assembled are hereby rendered to the Hon. Fred
erick P. Stanton for his able and statesmanlike
address this day delivered, and that we embrace
with pleasure the opportunity his presence here aft
Ords to express the heartfelt respect and esteem
with which his firm, upright and disintereted
course in KanZas, since the deyelopement of the
Leeompton fraud, has inspired US.
RESOLVED. That President Buchanan by his re-
moyal of Secretary Stanton for his efforts 10
the viii of the majority in Kanzas established be-
yond cavil his completely in the frauds committed
on the ballot box to deprive the people of their
rights act deserving the indignant reprobation,
of every lover of Republican Freedom.
Res0tred, That we regard the English Bill, so
called, with the most unmitgated seorn and con-
tempt as more despcable if possible than the orig
inal "LecOmpton," and that the people of the Cot
tonwood and Neosho Valleys will, on the first
Monday of August next notify the political black
legs and swindlers who supported it in Congress
that their tricks and devices thoroughly under
stood and regarded with loathing and abhorrenee.
Res0lUed, That by the trials and sufferings OF
the past three years, the people of Kanzas have
well learned the poets lesson, ''to labor and to
wait" and whether she takes her place in the I'm
ion the next year or the next century, she will
never purchase her admission by the sacrifice of
her rights or her honor the principles which
lie at the basis of Republican Institutions.