Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-06-24
mr.. stanton and the President.

Hon. +. p. STANTON has returned to Kansas,
and is entertaining the black republican abo-
litionists and free State ruffians with a series
of speeches against the adoption of the Land
Proposition which has been submitted to the
= people. AT Lawrence he had something to
say touching the original policy of Mr.. BUcH-
ASAN relative to the. affairs of the territory,
and his subsequent change. He said:
: He (Mr. Stanton) came to Kansas in '57, be-
lieving it to be the intention of Mr.. Buchanan
70 deal fairly by the people. Had not this
been his opinion, he would never have accep-
ted the position of Secretary, nor Walker that
of Governor of the Territory. Justice de-
manded the admission that he still believed
the intention of the Administration TO have
been good originally. It's present line of
policy was an aftertbonght Until the month
of September, he and Gov. Walker were sus-
tanned throughout by the Administration. He
would mention one circumstance, which was
not generally known as showing this conclu-
sively.
On the LIST of September, Gen. Whitfield
and DIR. Tebbs, of Kansas, who were then in
Washington, signed a letter expressly stating
that the course of Governor Walker and
Secretary Stanton was acceptable to the peo-
pie of Kansas, in as much as an undoubted
majority were in favor of a Free State" This
letter was written at the special request OF
Mr.. Buchanan, who was anxious to shield HIM
self from the assaults then being made upon
him by the South. Through Mr.. Buchanan's
agency, the letter was sent to the Union Office,
and was actually in type, accompanied by
editorial comments, indorsing the character
of DIR. Tebbs as gentleman of unimpeach-
able veracity,n when il was seen in proof by
Southern member Of the Cabinet who order
ed its suppression. From that day to this the
course of the Administration toward Kansas
had been most INSCRIPTIONS and shameful
one.
At a subsequent day, the 9Th inst, in
speech at Leavenworth, speaking of Mr.
BUcHANAN's change of position and desertion
of WALKER, he said
Gentlemen. have sought in vain to find
an example in history of such treachery as
that which has been exhibited by the present
administration towards Gov. Walker in these
momentous affairs in Kansas. Since the days
of King David, no parallel can be found.
Even his treatment of Uriah, the Hittite, was
scarcely so bad as Mr.. Buchanans treatment
of "his best friend and wisest counsellor"
By Uriah's own hand, David sent order to
Joab: "Set We Uriah in the forefront of the
hottest battle, and retire ye from him. that he
may be smitten and die" But treacherously
tunity of meeting a glorious death on the
field of battle. falling in the cause OF bis
country, and leaving behind an imperishabe
name. He escaped the modification of
surviving his own honor and of knowing
himself betrayed by his king. David too,
had the excuse of being moved to commit this
crime by the most uncomfortable of human
positions. Mr.. Buchanan has no shadow of
excuse. HIS conduct exhibits case of unnsuigated
beaciey- treqchery 10 tTiends-tr eachry 10 pria-
cples and piedges-beacheTy 10 The best aud highest
interests Of the great and patriotic party tCh'ch
placed him IN poacer. DdUid offspring by Uriah's
U!fe sras not permitted TO I,Ue; the LeconlptOn
Constauton-uie bastard esut Of Mr.. B,Gchanan's
un,aaturdL alliance nth The Southern disim,onists-
already stricken nth the curse Of God WH dee By
the hands Of The people Dauid houeUer, hdpug
truly repefed Of has great 1cickedaess acas JorgiUe
and restored 10 the favor Of his creator. Mr..
buchanan, on The other hand, beng Obdurdte and
unrele'ting, has committed the objectionable sin,
and iriit receive The erecrdtion Of good men IN all
tsnse 20 come.
This is what may he called plain talk. 1t
does not evince that great reverence for the
head of the party which some of the organs
would have the people believe pervades the
entire ranks of the sham democracy. We
presume, however. that il does not really in
dictate a want of harmony between these dis
tinguished gentlemen. A poet tells us "all
dscord is harmony not understood" and the
public will doubtless understand this by-and-
by. But of the desertion charged There is
little if any room TO doubt the fact. When
Messrs. WALKER and STANTON inaugurated
their free State policy in Kansas last year, the
course of the Washington Union, and the
leading organs OF the party generally as well
as of the administration, showed that they
were but carrying out the wishes of the Pres
ident The American press of Tennessee took
this view of the. case, and held the President
responsible for the action of his proconsuls.
Mr.. BUCHANAN, after the action of the Consti-
tutional Convention, declined to sustain his
agents further, and came round to the posi-
tion occupied by the American press. Mr..
STANTON denounces him for so doing Well,
he has right to do so. Let him go ahead,
and if he furnish us with weapons to beat
down the President and his own party, we
shall not decline to use them, though we may
despise him as the corrupt tool of corrupt
and facile ruler.