The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-04-09
p.-.,r.nw, s.s,,S,


Mr.. STANToS returned TO the Territory
on Saturday last from Washington, where
he mas been spending the winter. He
appeared in excellent health. and was
accompanied by his daughter, who has
been sojourning for several months in the
extreme South. Mr. STANTON occupies
the same position, politically, which he did
whea he left us last autumn He has 10
sympath;es whatever with the President,
in his wild schemes of annexation, and
bis usurpation Of prerogalives not vested
in him by law Wbafever difference may
nave existed between the people o; Kan
SIS and Mr. STANTON on his first arrival
in the Territory, have now passed away.
He is how one of us-one in interes, aud
feeling. His family are here, an here is
his home and residence, aud here he will
labor as heartily as any Of US to advance
the real interests of the Territory.
Mr.. STASTON's worth has hardly been
appreciated by our people, ard never will
he by those who do not know him. A a
lawyer he stands at the head Of his pro
fessor. For several years he represented
the Memphis district in C ,ngress, and those
who have taken. or may take occasion to
examine his Congressional career, from
files of the Globe, will be surprised to fird
his moderate, conservative course on all
subjects of Bation4l legislation Turning
over hound volume of Holden's Maya
zine, which was published in New Y nrk,
in 1S47, and reading description of
various prominent literary men of the
United States therefrom, our eye CHANGED
TO fail upon the following, which we take
pleasure in copying. 1t viii be found in
Volume 4, p. $40, of that Magazine:
"The Hon. Frederick P. Stanton repre-
sents, in the Congress of the United
States, the Memphis Congressional Dis
trict Of Tennessee Mr.. Stanton isa true
poet, and had he written nothing beside
the song of the "Alleghany," another
name would have been added to the list
Of American poets. The best thing Mr..
Stanton has ever written is his ode TO the
mississippi" This is truly a national
poem-and in feeling, deep as the river
which gave it birth. Should literature
ever arise among us, representing our
peculiar institutions, the mind that gives
it birth will be born on this noble river
Il is there that the bare! will arise, with
the intellect Of a giaut-jn the broad
prairies of the West, with spell on his
heart, as deep as the inspiration on hi.
mind. His vision will he as large as the
savannah around him, penetrating as the
sun, and deep as the solitude of her forests
From the two oceans he will look. as be
stands on the broad prairie, with vision
that mistakes not its object, and with con-
scionsness that glows with the noble theme
of his song.
Ia selecting the stormy arena OF pali-
tics for his station, Mr S Sianton has rob.
bed his country Of poet. lie had NJ
right to do this-for any common mar
can become respectable in the halls o
legislation. He owed his country some
thing, and to that country he should have
given the best fruits of his mind. Hi.
inspiration will now die on his heart, anC
the burning words it would have brough
forth must now die in the echoless throe,
of his own bosom Ii is not common
loss to lose a poet-for they are God'l
chosen instruments in the accomplishment
Of his most glorious works. Ten Thousand
men might die, and among them lawyers
doctors and eiiviues, and who is the loser
Bat let "a poet die, and the whole worl,
sustaius loss"