The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-03-04
Mr.. stanten's new YORK 1peech.

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The New York Tribune OF Wednesday Lar
contains fullreport Of Mr.. s.anton's Anti
Lecompton speech the evening previous, at III
Chinese Assembly Rooms. II 6lls eight col
ums OF the Tribune. Mr.. Stanton goes owe
the whole ground OF his experience In KaDs, ,
90 fsr ri: could shed light sp the Lecompso
movement. 1t il . very able and iuterest;n
speech. The following paragraphs show the
the people Of Kansas understand whom the,
had to deal with:
Nov, - the October election began to ap
Proach, It became, perfectly evident that tn
po'icv pursued BY Governor !. Walker wa.
about to succeed, and that the people had re-
solved almost unanimously to try the thing
and ascertain whether Governor Wake,
would really stand BY his pledges. They hae
determined 10 vote at the October election = =
"lt IS trae." they said, G Governor, that ",
will try yon, but yeu don't know these Off
GERS 9 We do. They will cheat you to You
face; they will cheat you out Of your eve,
and you can't help yourself"
What is still more strange, snd what looket
to me at that time to be the very height of, i'm
pndence, they said, aIt you do undertake T.
do right, the President Of the United State,
will desert you" Laughter and applau,e. =, !,
He will not let you" Continued applause.
Why, this was common saying 10 the Terri.
tory. fheard it trepeatedly. laughed At Il
! did not think It possible that my old frie,
James Buchanan, whom I have respected ,od
supported, and honored. 90 lonK-I did no,
think il possible that he would ever make such y
q declaration as this at ali applicable 10 him
SELF. Bat the people did tell 10, that il W At.
tempted to doright our heads would fiy /, ON
the block instantly. But, nevertheless, they
said they would try the thing. fe . ss',''sa
The following description Of the recent OF
the Oxford returns will be read with interest
The people did 60 forward and vote, and
when they found ont that this result was in
eyilable, the minority resor:ed to another
means to Illustrate the will Of the majority,
and that was by those celebrated returns from
Oxford. in Johnsoa county, and from three
precincts in, McGee county. had heard i'm
timstions prior TO the elections that these
things were about to take plac e, but I could
scarcely believe, and in fact, did not FOR a
moment anticipate, that anything Of the kind
could be attempted by men whom I believed to
De respectable and honest. Why, gentlemen,
when the returns were coming in from the
different parts Of the Territory, l was amazed
one day, VIXEN from an unexpected quarter
roll Of paper was handed 10 me, said to contain
the returns from Oxford Precinct, in johnson
county. 1t was.large roll o: paper, and when
itore of the envelope found ii consisted Of
repeated sheets pasted toge her. written close
" with names, and rolled up like a bolt Of dry
goods; and like dry goods man upon his
counter, Ttook it through along the foor Of
the Office, and Found it extended from o,.e
end 0f the building to the other-from the front
door to the back door-a distance Of forty-fv
to fifty feet. 1t contained 1923 names from ths
celebrated Oxford precinct, the census, Of
whicl. has been recently taken BY . eomnis-
sion established BY the Legislature, and what
do You think is the actual populationp You
would imagine there would certainly be j,
thousand voters there, or at lesst seven hun.
dred and fifty, or fve hundred but the fact i
there are just fkirtv-three. rLoud laughter.