Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-02-22
Lrcourrox DENoSs1RArIoN IN NEw

Democratic antI-Iecompton meehng was heIu
in New York on Wednesday evening last, to
hear the history of the latest wrongs against
Kansas, told by one of its chief territorial OH
GERS, appointed to his post by the present adj
ministrution. The hall was crowded soon after
7 o'clock, aud many left without being able 10
gain admittance, though the notice Of the meet
ing had been limited, and the weather Was ex-
ceedingly cold At IL ocloc&, Mr.. M>NAS-
tiers, editor of the Fre<zss:,.s Isxrvf called Ihe
meeting to order. znd nominated the Hon,
George Bancroft to preside. The nomination
WAS received with loud cheers
Mr.. Bancroft then announced the Hon, 4 i.
Stanton. Ternsr&ins tia, he reproSeate>i the Al,
niuiStra,ioa Itself, tia, he w&S tey ten ycArS
representative Of the southern state II reaneS.
see, ard that he wsS called ioorn private life by
the President, 70 assist in the paeiti,a;iou oi
Kansas Listen 70 MS Sec-y, <aii Nr. Bancroft.
and then answer whether KanS=s ought 10 be al.
1niItei under the Leoonpton constitution
Mr.. Stanton came forward, and Was greeted
with prolonged applause.
BE aivertei TO the struggle pending the sd.
mission OF Missouri, and observed that, in his
Judgment, upon the solution Of the present CUES
uon depended great reSulIS-wheiher they
should be cohesive IN their nature, and cement
the bonds Of the Union, or volcanic and explo-
Sive, rendins aSunder ali the ties that bind US
As people, was 5 question whether truth and
justice or fraud and violence prevailed. Mr..
Stanton then went into history OF affairs re-
Specling Kansas from the time of his accepting
Office secretary OF that territory, reading from
his instructions on the subject OF the formation
Of state constitution strongly favoring the sub
mission Of the instrument ~ the people, free
from all foreign intrrfsrenceS." Mr.. s. also said
that in his private conferences with President
Buchanan and Gen. Cas-, the whole tenor Of
their remarks harmOniZed with these inStruc-
tons Mr.. Stanton went on substantially in
the terms Of his address to the people of the Uni
ted States on the subject, recently published
He became satisfied on investigating affairs in
Kansas, that the complaints against the border
ruffians and the borier-Tuffian legislature were
substantially true He was satisfied that the
census for the Constitutional Convention was not
complete, the free state people not caring to be
registered, and the proslaveTy officeho,ders Of
course being Indifferent the subject But ne
had no doubt that the census of the interior
free-state counties was omitted for the purpose
OF depriving those counties of representation
IN the Convention. If ne had been aware of the
state of facts that existed when he was called
upon to make the aPPortionment, he would
have omitted entirely 10 make such apporIiOn-
meut, but have allowed the act and convention
to have failed, rather than to have in any way
aided in the scheme which is now sought to be
forced upon the people Of Kansas. He and Gov
ernor Walker both pledged themselves TO the
National Administration to do ali in their power
to secure the submission OF the Constitution to
the people and the Administration was kept adj
vised of those pledges as well as assured of the
necessity of such submission, in order TO pre-
vent civil war, and not one word Of reproof or
dissent had even been written by the President
to either himself or Governor Walker; and he
left citizens 10 determine whether the honor ef
the President not committed under the
circumstances, to the support of the policy in
augurated by Governor Walker lAPPiauseJ
Mr. Stanton then detailed the circumstances
attending the October election, exposing the
frauds Snd duplicity practiced by the pro-slaye.
~ party. When he found that the whole pro-
slavery party Of the territory, with = few hon
oTable exceptions denounced Gov. Walker and
himself for oyerthrowing the frauds attempted
at Oxford and Mckee, he fully understood the
extent OF the outrages to which the people had
been subjected. The pro-Slayery party pro
claimed at this time that it had the support of
the President and the national administration.
Mr.. Stanton read from the Silliman letter to
show that Mr.. Buchanan adhered to the policy
submitting the constitution TO the people for ar-
proval or rejection, Is late As August last And
/ he was quite sure that at one time disposition
prevailed in the Leconpton convention to sub
NIT the constitution for ratification or rejection
/ but that this disposition waS overthrown bv the
| agents OF the ANTnlIliStFatlon-At least agent
Of the Secretary of the Interior made himself vc-
~ active in the Convention. He then proceed
| ed to show that the Lecompton Constitution
continued, in spite of the pretended reference OF
! the slavery question TO the people the inStirll-
ton Of slavery in that territory when admitted
as state, and Mr.. Buchanan had said that it
was as much slave state aS South Carolina or
/ Georgia The few SHAREHOLDERS in Kansas were
mostly ccnservative-in favor of fiir subinis-
sion Of the matter and it was the - ere poIiti-
clans alone who had counselei and ems ID all the
violence. Mr.. Stanton exposed in ma t rly man
ner the LecomPton constitution an the out
/ RACES Il attempts to perlretuate. II it were
for nothing but the iniqui:ous airport, .Tineut it
makes Of the legislature, it deserved ubc ex-
ecTation. But the whole instrument was so foul
that 1t smells 20 Hezven!H He was convinced.
however, that the proceedings Of the Lecomp-
! ton Constitution were but part of the whole
plan OF proceeding, iUstancins the giving TO
John Calhoun the appointment OF all election
Offices, although the people had just elected
their offices, requiring ali returns to be sent to
the same individual, emitting all o=tts of Office
on their part He showed that if the pro-slave.
" legislature Is declared elected IL will be four
I years before It can be thoroughly changed. and
that 1870 would be reached before the cUnstilu-
ton can De changed In accordance with the L.