Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02


Hon. L. Z. Stanton. late Gov. OF
Kansas made speech at ST. Louis a
few days ago from which we make the
following extract:
You are all we'll aware that in COM
pany with Governor Walker and
my self, there were others who sus-
tanned us throughout. and known
generally as anti Lecomton Democrats
led on by Douglas. haven't an nm
kind word against him but ! shall not
vote for him. | admire him to some
extent for the position he occupies. |
believe popular sovereignty to be cor
rect. brt not as embodied in the Kan
sas Nebraska bill, because the people
OF Kansas had no chance to assert
their majority. Douglas sustained
them for a While, but he has fallen
from it, Had he sustained that po-
sition, | would not now be advocating
Lincoln and Hamlin for the Presiden.
cy. Douglas has not maintained his
position to the end. After the Dem o.
cratic party had abandoned its princi-
pies, he ought not To have gone tc
Charleston at ALL He should have
hoisted the standard Of true Democ.
racy. and defied the Charleston De.
mocracy; and this, gentlemen. is wha,
in my humble way. advised him tc
do. lie thought different. and wished
to purify the party. ! told him tha,
they would crush him. and they have
done it. They decapitated him fol
the Chairman OF the Committee or
Territories, and Senator Green substi
tuted in his place. thought then. h,
would take my advice. but | was cha,
grined to find that he didn't meet thi,
outrage as | would have done. 70,
saw that jus; after that act that Doug
las went crawling back into Senate.
rial caucus a, a wherea,
he had only a little while before beer
kicked out for not being a Democrat
The next we saw was, tnat he wa'
willing to take the Charleston nomi
nation. il he could get it harmoniousl,
on almost any terms, and at Baltimor
you saw that he took a nomination Oh
ticket with Senator Fitzpatrick, 1
Lexomptonite, who had voted in tn
teeth OF Douglas on every question al
fecting the Lecompton Constitution
Again Douglass letter accepting th
nomin ton, there was not wer'
about Kansas or her wrongs. abou
which Douglas himself repeatedly de
nouaced. There never was an ac
that called for denunciation louder b,
political conventions. The Dougla
party. the Breckenridge party. tn
Bell and Everett party. and the San
Houston party. all omitted to say an,
thing of these frauds. The Republi
can Convention was the only Conven
tion to say any thing on that point.
Gentlemen, | ask your attention t
this point particularly. as l feel tina
always having lived in q Southern
State. it is necessary for me to explail
why / am now advocating Lincoli
and Hamlin. 1t is because no othe
party has dared to say any thin
against the outrages which were in
fllcted on the people of Kansas by til
Administration. and doing justice {
the part | was callel on to act in tina
contest. 1t may be personal con
sideration, but l feel that the interes
of the whole country is involved i
this matter. But these Conventions
omitting this subject from their pla,
forms, have shown want of inter
est in the wants Of . sovereign pee
pie and have given no cause for polit
ical action. Every man who has ha
an interest in the doings on the plain
of Kansas. ought to feel an interest i
this thing. Because the Republica
party has denounced this thing. fee
in honor bound, and in Justice 10 nv