The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
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The Washington correspondent os =,
New York Tribune, writing under da,. %
Feb. 18th, says:
Zone of the greatest, meanest and 49,
Infamous outrages yet perpetrated h, "OSt !,
Lecompton party has just been comw;,. .ns
in the Senate.
Il telegraphed to you, two DAYS suo a.
the Senate Committee on Territories o., nt mat
submit three reports on Kanzas-o"noO "Oua
Judge Douglas, another written bv u!
Green, of Missouri, and third by NJ n, '
lamer, which would be signed also bv - W.
Wade. and that these reports would h. D,ag ~.
to the Senate on Monday next. Douclaaa!:s a!s
Chairman of the Committee the -,
members, beside those have nen,;Oous au5'
are Jones, of Iowa, Sebastian, of ArLaUae'
and Fitzpatrick, of Alabama. These tbrss
with Greene of Missouri, constitute the NJ
jority of the Committe, and are Lecomto~a ra,
ties. The Committee met on Thurs6or
Douglas stated that, IN consequence of 4.
dangerous illness of his wife, it would h.
impossible for him 70 get ready to report ~
Thursday. The majority accordingly agres5
10 defer the reports until Monday. Tbev
pledged themselves fully and distinctly y
this postponement. They were bound u
adhere to the agreement by every consider.
ton of truth, honor and good faith. No,
merely as Senator's, but as men and gentle
men, they were bound to abide BY their
pGghted words. Those words were scarce.
ly plighted before they were basely broken.
The meanness, the treachery, the falsehOOd
and the fraud that have characterized from
Its inception to the present time the Lecomp-
ton swindle and all its abetters, invaded and
contaminated with their loathsome influence
a Committee of the Senate On Tuesday
evening, Mr.. Green sent note to Douglas
coolly informing him that majority of the
Committee had concluded to report on
Thursday morning. To Messrs. Collamer
and Wade no intimation whatever was given
of this change of purpose, or rather of this
breach of faith At 10 O'Clock last night
Judge Wade had received no notice of the
change of programme, and was confident
as an honorable man might we'll be, that the
majority would abide by their pledges
Douglas, on receiving Green's note, set to
work with his usual energy, although be
had hardly closed his eyes for three nights,
and by sunrise this morning his report was
ready, and copy of it, made sheet by sheet
as it was written, was in the mail on its way
to the ". z Tribune. Collamer's report
was also ready, and the evident purpose Of
the Lecompton majority to get their own
report before the Senate in advance of the
minority, and thus compel la snap Judgment,
was defeated. Mr.. Green to-day openly
ventilated his chagrin at the promptness
with which his stratagem had been coun.
teracted.
The reckless determination of the major.
ity of the Committee to disregard the ights
of their associate Senators, and the com
monest rules of propriety. in their eagerness
to tyranize over the people of Kanzas, is
shown by the fact that they did not design
to communicate their report to their Chair
man, Judge Douglas, who remarked, on its
presentation to the Senate to-day, that be
had no knowledge of its contents. A pri-
vate statement on Kanzas affairs had been
made to the Committee by John Calhoun.
who gave it to Mr.. Green instead of to the
Chairman. Green used it in making his
report, and without showing it to Douglas,
or consulting him at all on the subject, gave
the original document back to Calhoun.