Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-04-02
SPEECH OLE SENATOR FOOT

o clock to-day. Mr. Wilson had the Aoor
Z but yielded to Mr. Foot, of Vermont. who
begun by saying that he opposed the admis-
sion of Kansas under the Lecompton Consti-
tuition, because that constitution was approv-
ed or even tolerated by the people of Kansas
but on the contrary was protested against by
them in the strongest and most emphatic
manner. That Constitution was born in sin
and conceived in iniquity II was the last
result of fraud, Of device, of outrage. 10
3 force it upon an unwilling and protesting poo
pie was to commit crime hitherto uuhcard
of in our history.
In opposing the attempt 20 impose n rcpug-
nant constitution upon the people of Kansas
he. as n Republican, joined hands with the
great leaders Of the Northern Democracy
with the men who had so often and ably
b led the Democratic party to victory. lie
Joined hands also, with the conservative and
patriotic Southern men who opposed it--with
Walker, Stanton. Wise; with Crittenden and
Bell, the illustrous and venerable Senators
G from Kentucky and Tennessee. Men who
s could not be charged with abotionism, and
t whose corporation gave to the opposition an
i unqucstionablo national character
10 The Free State party in Kansas was not
made up exclusively Of Northern men. IL
80 embraces many Southern men. So, too, the
8 Pro-Slavery party there was composed too
70 largely of Northern men. Calhoun himself
a the presiding officer and the presiding genius
a of the Lecompton Constitution, was a Massa-
C chusctts man. Gov Ransom, the late candi-
T. date of the Pro-Slavery party for Delegate TO
n Congress was a native of his own State Of
Vermont, and had more lately been a RESIDENT,
of Michigan. Tho worst Border Ruflians in
y Kansas the contrvers Of the frauds and vii
y lainies which had disgraced the territory,
were from the Free States. lie was ashamed
r. to confess it but such was the fact The
@ Slave Power was always accustomed to do its
y most daring as well as its most cowardly acts
by the agency of Northern men. On the 9th
u er hand as Mr.. Stanton himself had told him
e personally, a large number of the most zeal
ii GUS Frcc-State men in Kansas were from the
South. They were men born and reared in
Is the midst Of slavery, and they knew that
IS Kansas was certain to suffer from the intro
ducton of the Institution. He was informed
by good authority that, il vote should be
taken in Kansas on the Lecompton Constitu-
ton, it would be rejected by a large MAORI
ty. even though not a Northern man voted.
A majority Of the southern men there were
opposed to it.
Mr.. Foot adduced those facts to show that
Lecompton was not a sectional question II
was hardly party qucs ton. as the old par
ties had been constituted. The great mass
of the Northern Democracy was opposed 20
1t. IL was truly an Administration measure
most cmphatically an administration measure.
IL was made the tombstone Of fidelity 90 the
Administration and was urged on with
zeal and pertinacity which illustrated the old
IA adagc that whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad.
ING Hooo"l P'oh constitution was inc cul-
III ''''l'"''V' % long an" long eonlh-
or .'" ''1'"'c "' i"uu an" NioI'hce oi Whl'h
" '"' '''f.5 0'i'sN''''lI.loH' ne hIst
81 ''lr was 'no "slon oi Nahsas ol armed
OF lIUans nom missouri VINO, IN thelr own
n iN"ce 'isHn sweep OF thc Legislative
'd $50" ol lne ler''ofy' inns had been
We -" y 0o'''Ns''e' un"ns"eIaole ana un-
Us sNo'eu evidence IL was iact as notou-
Is Gus 'ne ia! "sen he "o"la ask the
Is "n11 oi5S'll@eN OrhoS rom Iennsyl-
IL ,"'i' Snouu mafch lnto delaware or Mary
e. .ahu ana 'IEinia' ana make clean sweep of
IN y,I ''sil'''o e'eS''ons IN nose states
is W hat would be said of them He would
40 ieu'o .ne quesnon unanswered because ITS
he '''ou'en' was suih'iCh' 10 suggest 'ao
nc GUNS 'l'", nu'ut''ly ho"cu NO,l w.
re 'ii''o'y .nus pu''s'u 'P-
s. ''oie s'io,sE even man
A. - 0''''' 10"U'o .h' ieIt"oi! was
wy, IN loOici care ana pro'eCuoh'
rel. "0 '.''''i nom 'e'ihoHt thoH en'ciO4
n Ir. ,'.'u a''n n'Snly eloquent oenuhca'loh
k - S'' s""'' '"5s VI 'no pcoPio Oh
R rI -, ''o'. me- warm! "sisnoSG as peace
~ ol''' an" l"" -@o'u'nB
n .Lo, ~ "a '''e ii'yii'nn people
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