Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-08-03
Political.


Hon. Frederick P. Stanton, in bis re-
publican address at St. Louis. spoke in
the following convincing manner of Mr..
Douglass
You are sill aware that in company
with Gov. Walker and myself there were
others who sustained Us throughout, and
known generally as anti-Lecompton DEM
ocrats, led on by Douglas. haven't an
unkind word against him, but shall not
vote for him. / admire him to some ex-
tent for the position he occupies. be-
lievs Popular Sovereignty to be correct,
but not as embodied in the Kansas-Nc-
brssks bill. because the people of Kan
sss had no chance to assert their major
| ity. Douglas sustained them for while,
but he has fallen from it. Had he sus-
tanned that position / would not now be
advocating Lincoln and Hxmlin for the
Presidency. Douglas has not maintained
his position to the end. After the dem
ocrstic party had abandoned IFS princi-
pies, he ought not to have gone to
Charleston at all. He should have hoist
ed the standard of true democracy, and
defed the Charleston democracy; and
this, gentlemen, is what I, in my humble
way, advised him to do. He thought
different and wished to purify the party.
| told him that they would crush him,
and they have done it. They decapita-
ted him from the Craftsmanship of the
Committee on Territories, and Senator
Green was substituted in his place. l
thought then he would take my advice,
but I was chagrined to find that he didn't
meet this outrage as I would have done.
You saw just after that act that Douglas
went crawling back into senatorial eau
little while before been kicked out for
not being democrat. The next we saw
that be was willing to take the Charles
ton nomination if he could get it harmo-
niously, upon almost any terms; and al
Baltimore you saw that he took q nomi.
nation on ticket with Senator Fitzpat.
rick, 3 Lecomptonite, who had voted In
the teeth of Douglas on every question
, affecting the Lecompton Constitution
Again, in Douglas letter accepting the
nomination, there was not word abou
Kansas or her wrongs, which Dougla:
has hims e If repeatedly denounced
There never was an act that called fol
. denunciation louder by political conven
. tons. The Douglas party, the Breckin
, ridge, the Bell and Everett party and tbs
Sam Houston party, all omitted to saj
anything of these frauds-the Republi
{ can Convention was the only convention
! to say anything on that point"
The Breckenridge Democrats of Yer
mont have issued call for State Con
: vention to be held at White River juno
ton on the 9th of August, for the pur
pose of perfecting State organization
? and nominating State officers and twt
l. Presidential electors at large. The fol
: lowing is an extract from the call Z:
"The reasons which dictate tn
course are rendered obvious BY the pre-
sent condition Of the Democratic party
The committee who have called Dem
: ocratic Convention to be held on tn
18th inst, were elected before the un
fortunate division at Baltimore. The
:. have called meeting of the Democracy
without designating whether the friend
Of Douglas ard johnson, or the Nationa
Democracy, supporting Breckenridge an
:, Lane, are to represented. It would on
ly result in useless strife and bitterness
> of feeling to 60 into such an assemblags
: There is, therefore no consistent cours
left for us to pursue but to invite th
National Democracy of each town i
" the State to send their delegates, that "
may be able to effect an organizatio
y which shall emanate directly from til
!, people, and give 10 each locality fai
= representation in our State Convention.
This call is signed by upwards of fiv
: hundred Democrats, representing ever
. county in the State.
: A letter from Chicago July 2l) thu
e speaks of politics and Of our candidate
a. We are perfectly confident Of carry
lie ing the Northwest-Illinois by q dee
= sive majority. We shall have no al
ID from the Breckinridgeites. They ar
Of few and feeble, and their present polio
= although they have ticket in the feIt
!. seems TO be to give the State to Dougla
re that the contest may be carried 10 ii
g House. But our gains from the enem
% are many and important. We have al
= IL