Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-01-16
THE LETTER THE GOVERNMENT ORGAN
REFUSED TO PUBLISH.
Stringfelioyv on Kansas

Hon. Marcus j. Parrot, Congressional
delegate from Kansas, has, by request of the
writer, sent DR.. Stringtellows letter that the
Washington Union refused TO publish to the
New York Herald. 1t explains Stringfel
lows almost miraculous conversion to the
Free State side. 1t is as follows:
To the Editor Of the Union:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, lS5S.-In the New
York Tribune, of 4th January, a correspou.
dent from this place, in noticing my arrival.
uses this language :-"Stringfelow, of Kan.
sas notorety, arrived here last night. He
denounces the Lec0mpton constitution as an
imposition. 1t is too gross an outrage even
for him."
am not vain enough to presume that nv
opinions viii have any effect in settling the
vexed Kansas question. Still am unwil-
ling to have them msrepresented i will
state what have said on this subject
When l arrived at Washington, on the 25th
of November last, directly from Kansas. |
found q division in the Democratic party here
on that part Of the Presidents message rela.
tive to Kansas matters. | stated then, that
although there was no violation Of priuci.
pie in not referring the whole Constitution 10
the people for direct vote, it would have
been wiser to have submitted II, as there WAS
an understanding amongst the people that
such would be the case, and all parties would
have been satisfied. That the South at best
could only obtain mere empty and tempora.
~ triumph, the question having already been
settled against them by emigration, the only
way IN which that settlement could perma-
nently be effected.
In few days after my arrival it was an.
nounced that Acting Governor Stanton had
convened the Territorial Legislature in extra
session, course he had undoubted authority
to pursue, however much the policy may be
doubted. The representatives of the people,
elected by $4,000 voters, 5000 Of whom voted
Tor Mr.. Parrott for Congress, as being op-
posed to any constitution from the Lecomp.
ton Convention, passed bill providing for
the submission OF the constitution TO the
people Tor negative vote, thus affording
them the only opportunity they could have OF
expressing their objection to that instrument,
or OF being admitted into the Union under it.
l have said that should the Democratic
members from the free States, urged by the
South, and for 10 practical good to the South,
to lug Kansas into the Union against the re-
monstraEce OF two-thirds of the people, that
remonstrance expressed in the only legal way
they could express it, namely, by a vote OF
the people under the Act Of Legislature, with
all the penalties for fraudulent voting that
could be provided by law, that in such an
event the Democratic party would ofnecessity
be broken down at the North, the peace and
interests OF Missouri and Kansas, if not of
the whole Union, seriously endangered, and
by no sort OF contingency could the interests
OF the South in Kansas be advanced So
believing, have urged that if the people of
Kansas, by their vote on Monday last did,
by large majority, decide against the Con.
stitution, that Congress, and especially South
ern members, should, in answer to the peti-
tion OF the people thus expressed, reject the
application for admis ion, and at once pass
an Act for the formation of a new Constitu.
tion, upon terms similar to those proposed
by the "Toombs bill" of 1856.
j. III. STRISGFELLow.