Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-07-07
Mr.. gtanton On Mr.. Buchanan-Elain
Talk.


Mr.. etanton On Mr.. Buchanan-Plain
Talk.
Ex-Secretary Stanton is stumping
kansas against the Lecompton Consti-
tuition. and pouring destructive broad
sides into that ,atrocious fraud and the
miserable Democracy which support
it. During Mr.. Stanton's late speech
at Leavenworth City, he. touched on
the president in this vigorous style:
Gentlemen, have sought in vain to
find an example in history Of such
treachery as that which has been ex-
hibited by the present administration
towards Governor Walker in these mo-
mentous affairs in Kansas. Since the
days of King David no parallel can he
found. Even his treatment, of Triah.
the Hittite, was scarcely as bad as Mr,
Buchanan's treatment of sshis best
friend and wisest councillors. Bv
Uriah's own hand. David sent an or
der to Joab: ''Set We Uriah in the
forefront of the hottest battle, and re-
tire We from him, that he may be smit-
ten and die" But treachero,,slv sac
; rificed as he was, he at least had the
opportunity Of meeting & glorious death
on the field of battle, falling in the
cause of his country, and leaving be-
hind an iUperishable name He es-
capped the modification Of surviving
his own honor, and Of knowing him
self betrayed by his king. David, too,
had the excuse of being moved to com
nit this crime by the most uncontroIa-
bic of human passions. Mr. Buchanan
has no shadow Of excuse. HIS conduct
erh5bats q case Of u771nitiguted treacbe-
ry-treachery to friends-treachery to
principles and pledges-treacfery to
the best and highest interests of the
great and patriotic party which placed
him in power. David's offspring to
Uriah's wife was not permitted to live;
SO the Lecompton Constitution-the
; bastard results of Mr.. Buchanan's un-
natural alliance with the southern disu-
enthusiastically stricken by the curse
of God, will die by the hands of the
people. David, however, having truly
repented Of his great wickedness, was
forgiven and restored to the favor of
his Creator. Mr.. Buchanan, on the
other hand, being obdurate and unre-
lenting, has committed the mpardona-
bic sir, and will receive the execration
of good men in all time to come.
+, The nature of the crime against Pop
ular Sovereignty and the liberties of a
people, involved in the English bill, is
thus wildly portrayed.
Gentlemen, | can hardly trust myself
to speak Of this passage in the history
Of my country. Nc greater crime
has been committed during the cen
fury. All the miserable pretexts-
all the technical and preposterous dog
, mas-by which this monstrous false
, hood has been attempted to be Justified
and upheld, are but the thin disguise
under which tyranny and wrong would
hope to conceal their unholy purpose.
The Administration we'll knows-Con-
gress knows-the whole world knows
that the people of Kansas are almost
unanimous against the Lecompton
fraud. The unfortunate and discredit-
: able circumstances under which the in
strumeht was clothed with the regular
and technical forms of law, have been
: fully exposed. No man need be igno-
rant-of any ofthe facts. And yet by
means of a technical presumption
though mere legal fction-positive
and well known facts are made to give
: Way-a known talsehood is to be es-
tablished as truth-and the constitu-
tional rights Of free people are to
E be sacrificed and trampled in the
dust
Gentlemen, when the passions and
. prcjudices of the present hour shall
] have passed away, the spectacle now
exhibited will be considered one of the
most extraordinary phenomena ever
presented in the history of the world.
The solid and substantial liberties in
tended to have been secured to the
States and Territories, by the Consti-
) tuition of the United States, are to be
) substituted by mere sham, mere
painted bubble, a mere =gossamer, cob
web tissue ofsfalsel logic and contemp-
tlble technicalitics, and almost the
whole body Of once powerful and
: patriotic party is seduced, infatuated
= and mesmerized, to believe the patent
and baleful lie! ..0..
Mr.. THURLow WEED OvERREACHED
HIMsELF.-We presume there is no
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