The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-08-21
NO. 721.
Hon. =. =. Stanton for LIncoin..dis Opia
lon OF Douglas.

Ion OF Douglas.
Hon. F. p. Stanton, late Territorial Secre.
tary Of Kansas, and warm friend of Douglas
has come out for Lincoln and Hamlin, as the
honest antl-Lecompton Democrats all are do
ing. He was among tho speakers at rous-
ing Republican meeting at St. Louis a day
or two since. la tho course of his remarks,
he gave history of his experience IN Kansas
the efforts of the Democracy to make slave
State Of it in opposition 10 the wish of ,he
people, and finally of his uncermonious expul>
sion from office, for refusing to be party to
the prO.savery conspiracy. We subjoin an
extract or two in relation to Douglas, with
whom Mr.. Stanton has been on terms Of uti.
mate friendship:
You aro all aware that in company with
Gov, Walker aud myself there were Others
who sustained us throughout, and known gen.
erally as anti-Lccompton Democrats, led on
by Douglas, haven't al unkind word against
him, but shall not vote for him. | admire
him to some extent for the position he occu-
pies. believe popular sovereignty to be
correct, but not as embodied in the Kansas.
Nebraska bil because the people of Kansas
had no clause to assert their majority. Doug
las sustained il for while but he has fallen
from it. Had he sustained the position | wo'd
nat Eow be advocating Lincoln and Hamlin
for the Presidency. Douglas has not main
tained his position to the end. After the
democratic party had abandoned it's principles
he ought not to have gone 10 Charleston ~
all, He should have hoistcd the flag of true
democracy and defed Charleston democracy
and this gentlemen is what I, in my humbl
way, advised him to do. They decapiiated
him from the charmanshp of the Committe
on Territories, aud Senator Green was substi
tuted in his place. | thought then he WOO
take my advice, but was chargined To FIND
that he didn't meet this outrage as | would
have done.
\ on saw just after that act that Douglal
went crawling back to the Senatorial caucuse,
rs a Observation-Disclosures he had only little
while before been kicked out for not being =
Democrat. The next we saw was that h
was swilling to take the Charleston nomns
tion if he could get it harmoniousy, upon al
most any terms, and at Baltimore you saw
that he took a nomination on ticket witt,
Senator fiizpatrick-a L.comptonite, who
had voted in the teeth OF Douglas, on every
question affecting the Lecompton Constitution
Again, in Douglas letter accepting tho nom
ination. there was not word about kansa,
or her wrongs. There never was an act tha
called for denunciation louder by politica
Convention. But the Republican Convcr
ton was the only Convention to say an;tH,t-
on that point.
Gentlemen, ask your attention 70 '1.,
point particularly, IS feel that having a. wa.
lived in Southern State, it is necessary
me to explain why am now advocatin
Lincoln and Hamlin. II is because no othcr
party hgs dared to say anything about tn"
outrages which were inflicted on the people 0 t
Kansas 10y the Administration, ana doing jus.
tice to that part ! was called on to Act in tha'
contest.
Gentlemen, think OF this, think of thi,
thing. In 1857 when the Lecompton Con
sttution was sent to Congress it was attemp;
ed to bring Kansas into the Union against
her will and the only reason for it was be
cause she would have been a slave State.
Well, in 1850, when she presented fai
Constitution created without fraud, and when
the population had largely increased, and yet
while the whole Democratic party sought to
bring her In under the Lecompton Constitu
ton. almost the entire party voted against her
admission 1t is true that the Republican
House of Representatives by - majority OF
60 voted to admit her, but the Senate. post.
ponel it. Twelve weeks ago the Douglas
Democracy called on me to attend their Con.
venton and assist theI, to organize their par
ty. | asked them if they would cut loose
from the Administration and stand forth on
your principles. They said no, they would
he silent on that point; they weud say moth
ing about Lecompton but would talk alto.
gether about Democracy. l told them this
was not the Democracy of Jefferson, and
Jackson. That they never kept their mouths
closed, and how could |, who has seen these
monstrous wrongs in Kansas