The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-08-10
speech from Hon. F. p. stanton.

This gentleman as will be rccollectcd,
was Secretary Of Kansas, at the time II
J. Walker was Governor, and for some
time acting Governor of the Territory
He is a Tennesseean, and all his life n
pro-sluvery man. A few days since ne
madn- a sPaaah 80 - n-r~IIiy-,, -hfuvtinu
in St. Louis, from which we take the fol.
lowing extract:
"You are all aware that in companv
with Governor walker and mvselc
there were others who sustained us
throughout and known generally as an
ti-Lecompton Democrats led on by Doug
las. / hav'nt an unkind word apninst
him. admire him to some extent for
the position he occupies. Ibelicve Pom.
ular Sovereignty TO be correct, but not
as embodied in the Kansas-Nebraskab bill.
because the people Of Kansas had no
chance TO assert their majority. Doug
las sustained them for awhile, but no has
fallen from II. Had he sustained that
position would not now be advocating
Lincoln and Hnmlin for the Presidency.
Douglas has not maintained his gosifio1
10 the end. After the Democratic party
had abandoned its principles he ought
not to have gone to Charleston at ALL
He should have run up the flag of true
Democracy, and de6ed the Charleston
Democracy, aud this, gentlemen, is what
/, in my humble way advised him 10 do.
He thought different and wished TO puri.
iy the party. | told him they W ould
crush him and they have done il. They
decapitated him for the chairman of the
Territories, and Senator Green was sub.
stituted in his place. ] thought then he
would take my advice, but / was cha.
grined to fined that he didn't meet the
outrage as | would have done. You Sc,
that just after that act Douglas wen
} crawling back into a Senatorial caucu,
as a DemOcrat-whereas he had onl,
been kicked out little while before 70,
! not being a Democrat. The next h,
} saw was, that he was willing to take IN,
: Charleston nomination, If he could pet /
, harmOniOusly, upon almost any terms
and at Baltimore you saw that he took I
, nomination on a ticket with Senate
: Fitzpatrick, a Leccmptonite who ha
, voted in the teeth of Douglas on ever,
| question affecting the Lecompton Con
. stitutiOn. Again in Douglas letter O
acceptance Of his nomination there wa
not word about Kansas or her wrong,
which Douglas himself repeatedly de
nOunced. There never was an act tina
| called for denunoiatiOn louder by politics
Conventions. The Douglas party. IN
Breckenridge, the Bell and Everett an
the Houston party, all omitted 20 sa
{ anything Of these frauds The Republ,
T con CORUeHiiOR i0as ihe only CoaUsafio
/ 10 say anything on his point
! Gentlemen, think ofthe thing. Inis
81, when the LecOmpton Constitutio
was sent 70 Congress, 1t was attempte
20 bring Kansas into the Union again,
her viii, and the only reason was, tbs
= because she would have been a Slay
State. Well, in 1859, when che preSer
q ted a fair Constitution created withou
= fraud, and when her population had large
, increased, and yet, while the whole q
The Democratic party sought 60 bring he
in under the Leeompton Constitution, Al
4 most the whole party voted against he
: admission under the Wyundotte Consti
: tuition. II is true the Republican Hous
, Of Representatives, by a majority Of 6C
= voted to admit her, but the Senate cor
e trolled by the Dsyises and Fitches, an
. Gwin opposed il. Do you think, gentle
men, that |, citizen Of Kansas, am /
stand by and see these outrages commit
ted without raising my voice agalnt
8 theml Why, twelve " eeks ago the Doug
I las Democracy called on mo to atten
4 their Convention and to assist them I
Q organize their party. said that IL the
4 would cut loose from the Administratio
Q aud stand forth in your principles. The
5 said "no," they would be silent on III
: points they would say nothing about II
7 compton, but would talk altogether
I bout Democracy. / told them this wa
!, not the Democracy Of Jefferson and Jacl
2 son, That they never kept their mout
closed, and how could /, who seen thes
monstrops wrongs in Kansasi