The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1860-08-17
Speech from Hon. +. r. st.n,op.

This gentleman, ss will he r~.~"- a. q.
was Secre.--.T 80 rxansas, at the time r. ]
walker was Governor, and foe some Tim
! acting Governor Of the territory. He IL
Tennessessn, and has been all his life pro
slavery man. A few days since he made
apeeoh ats Republican Meeting in st. Louis
which we tske the following extract:
"You are all aware ,ha, In company with
luovernor Walker and myself, there were
, otners VINO sustained US throughout, and
known generally as nti-Lecompton Demo.
erals' LED on BY Douglas. I hsvn't an un.
Kind word against him. I admire him 10
some extent for the position be occupies.
believe popular sovereignty 10 be correct.
oue NOT ns embodied In the Kansss. Nebraska 4
bill, because the people Of Kansas had no
ehsnce to sssert their majority. Dougl az
sustained them for awhile, but he has fallen
rom u. Had he sustained that position I
would not now be advocating Lincoln and
hsmiin Tor the Presidency. DouoL.s mas
.or hAisszissa ms POSITION TO rHr rsp.--
htter the democratic party had abandoned
IT'S principles. he ought not 70 have gore 10
Charleston at all. He should have fun nm
the hss OF true Democracy, and defed the
charleston Democracy and this, gentlemen,
do. He thought diEerent and wished TO
purif fy the party. I told him they would
crush him, and they have done il. They
decspitated him for the Chairman OF the
territories, and Senator Green was substi.
tuted in his place. thought then he would
take my advice, but was chagrined TO find
that he didn't meet the outrage as would
have done. Yon see that Just alter that act
Douglas went crawling back into Senator. |
ial caucus as q Democrat - whereas he had
only been kicked out q little while before
Tor not being a Democrat. The next he
saw was. that he was willing to take the
Charleston nomination, if he could get il
upon almost any terms, and
al Baltimore you saw that he took O nomi.
nation on ticket with Senator Fitzpatrick,
4 Lecomptonite who had voted in the teeth
Of Dougles on every question affecting the
Lecompton constitution. Again, in Doug.
las letter OF acceptance Of hi. nomination.
here was not q word about Kansas or her
wrongs, which douglas himself repeatedly
denounced. There never was an act that
,all.d for denunciatlon louder by political
conventions. The Douglas party, the Breck.
nricge, the Bell and Everett, and the Hous.
on party, all omitted to say anything of
hese frauds. THE REPUBLICAN, CosvxsTios
v As THE ONLY CONVENTION TO SAY ANYTHING
N THIS POINT.
Gentlemen, think OF the thing. In 1857,
When the Lecompton Constitution was sent =,
Congress, It was attempted to bring Kan. /;
as into the Union sgainst her will. and the
My reason was, that because size. would c
ave been q slave state. Well, in 1859. G
'hen she presented a fair Constitution ere. +,
ted without fraud. and when her pcpu.
alton had largely increased, and yet while
he whole of the Democratic party sought TO u
ring her in under the Lecompton Consti. n
htion, almost the whole party voted against :,
er admission under the Wyandotte Consti. u
ntion. 1t is true the Republican House OF u
by majority OF sixty, r
oted 10 admit her, but the Senate, CONTROL. :,
d by the Davises. and Fitches, and Gw,n, 7
pposed 1t. Do you think, gentlemen, that 4
citizen OF Kansas, am to stand by and [
se these eu'raees committed W without aising a
seks ks5 ss5 az iixaYSt YStag thsD D.v Why. twelve
he to attend their Convention and TO assist u
fen to organize their party. said that if r
iey would cut loose from the adminis,ro.
on and stand forth in your prlnciples.-- u
hey said "no,' they would be silent on n
'e point; they would say nothing about u
ecompton, but wouli talk altogether about Z,
emHcrncy. ! told them this was not the u
emocracy Of Jefferson and J Jackson. That a
Iey never kept their mouth closed and how n
'uld !, who seen these mons,rous wrongs =,
l Kansasl