The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-03-29
Mr.. Kellogg speech.
From the Chicago Press and Tribune

We print to day 3 telegraphie abstract OF
the remarks of Hon William Kellogg. Of H.,
on the question at issue between himself and
Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune
Ii will be remembered that Mr.. Greeley in a
letter TO his paper. assaulted Mr.. K. severely
for a motion 10 ad journ made by the latter,
during one of the early day of the contest
for Speaker, that Mr.. +. retoried, aud 10 his
defense charged that Mr. G.. was. during the
Lecompton struggle, engaged IN a secret at
tempt to secure Mr.. Douglas return TO the
Senate by means of Republican votes. and
that he had an interview with Mr.. D.. in
which a treaty for that purpose was conciud-
ed; that Mr.. Greeley denied this accusation;
that his denial was supported by a letter
from Mr.. Douglas, and that Mr.. Kellogg
pledged himself 10 make his charges good
The speech which We print herewith, Is the
last move in the game
In relation TO the matter in controversy,
we have this to say: The politician who does
not know that during the Lecompton s'rug-
gle. Mr. Douglas repeatedly declared TO lead
ing Republicans that he had broken with the
Democratic party; that he had checked his
baggage through that che had crossed the
Rubicon and burned his boats" that "here
after he should be found in opposition to the
justification which he put forward to satisfy
Republicans that the Kansas Nebraska Bill
was really free soil measure--who is una
ware of the fact tina, it was the Senator's hab-
it in those days, TO illustrate by the map the
effect of his future meas ures for circumscri-
bing the institution Of Slavery-who does
not know that the excuse for running the Pa
citic Railroad southwest from the Missouri
river, was that it would carry into all the
country through which it passed flood of
emigration that would make slavery impossi
bic in any State along the roulette politi
clan who does not know these things is not
az quainted with the secret history of that
struggle, nor with the real reasons which inn
PEELED certain leading Republicans to espouse
MIR. Douglas cause 10 opposition to the well
known wishes and settled policy of the mem
bers of their party in Illinois. We violate
no condolences when we say that these things
are true, and it is believed by many THAI
nothing but the premature action of the Sen
ator's Illinois friends, in their April Conven-
ton. in 1853, in reaffirming the Cincinnati
Platform and violently attacking the Repub-
Leans, prevented the consummation of the
bad bargain and the dissolution of our party
In this State. We mention no names, because
we have always believed that the parties in
the trade. save Mr.. Douglas. were hon est in
their endeavors to promote Republican sue
cess. and that. though unwise and easily
cheated, they labored with patriotic intent.
Our complaint is not that they were wheed-
led by Mr.. Douglas, but that when the course
of the Illinois Republicans had been deter
mined upon with great unanimity. they were
not suffered TO make their fight for Mr.. Lin
coin without the impertinent Interference
from without, by " hich they were distracted
and finally beaten.