The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1858-02-19
MlistsIIansous.
Senator Wilson'S Opinion of john
Calhoan.

I
s,sThe following passages are from
the speech of Henry Wilson, deliver.
ed in the United States Senate on the
Kansas election frauds.
On the demand of the
President, on the promise Of Gov
ernor Walker, and the declaration Of
the Washington Union, they had
promised the people Of Kansas that
they would submit the Constitution
to the people. They provided for its
submission in such a way that Gov
ernor Walker could not correct frauds
as he had done in the Case OF Oxford
and McGee counties, and 30 that
Calhoun could have the matter in
his hands-a man who would not
only permit the frauds, but, fneces-
sary make the frauds himself. lie
was just tho man to do it; for God
never allowed to walk the green
earth any mau who more richly de:
sorvos 10 dio n traitor's dentI,, and
leave u traitors name, thar John
Calhoun.
/ Mr.. Green-Say il to his face.
Mr.. Wilson, have sail it here
and it goes on the record. have
no fear of the tools of border rufiian
ism in Washington or in Kansas
| am able to take care OF myself.
will try 20 do 80, at any rate. Sir
this John Calhoun has defraudet
the people Of Kansas out of their sa
cred rights. lie has committed &
crime against the liberties ofthe peo
pie which will associate his name
with tyranny and tyrants while the
history of Kansas shall be read ant
remembered by mankind.
The Senator from Mississippi jus
tifies the refusal to submit the Con
, stitution. Why. sir, it has been tn
|, policy to ascertain the popular will
! These men knew that il they sub
mitted the Constitution to the peo
pie, it would be voted down, four o
: five to one. The President says
,. they wonld have voted it down. be
! cause they did not like it. Wha
business was it to John Calhoun, o
to that Convention. or to the Presi
! dent Of the United States, whethe
the people OF Kansas should vot
) down the Constitution or notp Tba
was their business. IL docs not bs
long to the President or his Cabine
to pronounce on their motives for do
ing it. 1t is an insult to a free peo
] pie to talk to them in this language
: whether It cJmes from the executiv
I mansion, or that class OF men VIII
: formed the Convention that Assem-
bled in Kansas. .....
The vote taken on that provision
Of the Constitution, whether Kansa
should be a slave State, with a slav
, trade, or whether Kansas should b
slave State without slave trade
Kansas was to be slave State any
I how. In order to make it slav
State without the slave trade, tn
. voter had to vote for the Constitu
]. ton. No one could vote against il
u 1t was one OF the most stupendou
insults to free people that . boi
y of usurpers ever offered. They too
n their votes. They have rsturns
), six thousand seven hundred votcs
d that election thirteen hundred dow
y at this little township Of Oxford.
The town OF Kickapoo gave nea
" ly q eleven hundred votcs-a tow
,. that cannot have legally moro tbs
;. four hundred voters. -Four or fv
10 towns make up three Thousand frsu'
m nj nt votes given on that dc,
b No man who knows any thing
ld Kansas believes that thero we
IN more than twenty-five hundred
". the utmost, legal votes given in ks
lie sas on that Constitution. The lie
he islature have sent a commission
Id xickapoo TO examine into the fraud
,si The st. Louis Republican pu
,at lishes a letter in regard to this 4
ith vestigation; and wish to call !
,rn attention OF the Senators to It, esI
mt lciaiiy the Senator from Missouri.
-|The st. Eouis Democrat makes
tn abstract Of this orrsspondsnce: ot
ne "On tue original pootbook of !
TO fyote on the O Constitution, 'Deceml
,m' '9l, 1887, which book is now'on