Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1858-03-09

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In a while why ain't we here , A truly Yankee notion T Ror lucb profound alleglanoe pay , To fnhloni 'oroit the ootta I What O'.uld be fin.r now than this, ' (And mark ye, too, how daihlngl) A pettiooat red, whit, and blue, With lilror itan all flaihing? Then bang th. Yankee colon cut, ' (And Schotthh ikirtt oonfound'em!) . Our girli ihall tak. the world by itorm -. With th. atari and itrip.1 around e'm. QZT A "hard-money " aditorat the South, Vojoicing orer the defeat of a bank charter, thua goea in cxtacies : f , . . If erer you a Bank Bill tee, j . Letter B. I' Letter Be I ' ' ' For w.'t. got 'em on the hip, ' Letter Ripl Letter Rip 1 Fray bow oan the ladiel' aroid being late ? Theri'i no remedy now for delaying : Became the old ohea patiently wait, Ai their daughters am all fund of ttay-ing. o SOMEBODY CllANGtD. At tha great Douglas demonstrate" Col umbus on the 20th inst., Mr. Payne, who was last fall the Deinocratio candidate for Gorer-nor of Ohio, was one of the chief speakers, and in his speech declared that until within few months President Buchanan occupied the same position in regard to the propriety and necessity of submitting the Kansas Constitu tion to a rote o( the people, aa the Douglas Democracy vow. IIo also declared that " somebody had changed." and asks the ques tion whether it is the Democracy of Ohio or James Buchanan ? Mr.. Payne jthen proceed ed to show that the change is in Mr. Duchan an, and in the following languago, shows when and how that change came over the President : ' ' ' ' Whon Walker threw out the fraudulent re turns complaint were mnrle by theso people, and that was not all some thunder came up from the South complaining of Walker and Stanton; it was about this time, my friends, that a change came orer 31 r. Uiichausn's spir it. When members from Mississippi demanded of the President a chanee in his uolicr and Mr. Buchanan has a sort of constitutional timidity about him in cases of emergency he supposed it was easier to bring into his views' the Democracy of the Jorth than those men oriiie South, urn not Walker appeal to Air. (Buchanan not to carry out his policy in rela. 'tioa to Kansas ? Did not Mr. Douglas leave his home to go to Washington, and in the kindliest manner beg hiin not to commit that act ot wrong by enforcing on Kansa that Cor. stitution ? ' I appeal to 'tho history ol thedia cuasion of 1851, and I challenge when even Southern Senators advocated any other view. Inppeiil to the Cincinnati platform of tha Democratic party, and th03e public doclera tions, for proof of what I say that up to last Jfovtmber thert tea no difference of opinion among member oj the Democratic party. In speaking of the Lecompton Constitution Mr. Payne said : " The truth was that the framers of that Con. stitution nerer intended that it should be fair ly submitted. He was here reminded of the .declaration of Mr. Buchanan that -"domestic institutions" referred simply to slavery. You can only explain this by. taking the excuse given by Wise, that as he i i old baahehr he did not know much about domestic institution. Mr. Payne then spoke in reference to the several votes cast by the people of Kansas, assorting that the vote of the 4th of January was the only correct and fair one, andeanclu dad this reference in this language ; " You find then, but one voice, and that, that four- fifths protest warmly against the admission of xUnsaa under tne Lecompton Uonstitutioa." Now, shaH constitution detest'd by the people, bo forced and fastened upon the necks or the people el Kansas i1 Istneroan houest man who will put hi hand upon hist heart and ay it is nifht? That it attempted to to car ried into eU'ect by frauds and atratagom one need only look to the vote cast on the 21st of .December to be convinced or it. lie believed the people of Kansas never will submit to that Constitution. TitlM uoihinjt Back. . Hat Olw Btateman, as our reader! are aware from the copious extract we have made from that' paper Iron time to time, has been from the tery first a roaring opponent of the, Leoompteo .tiHainy, criticising the course of the Administration and " NationalDemoc ney H goTieTally' With vengeance that the most rampart Republican journal in its severest strictures wotfld scarcely essay. Some i ntimations bavjng recently been made that the Btaltman was gradually receding from the bold, independent stand it had taken, its editor fiercely denies the charge as Mows: " Wb Tbiab wo 3ru BAOKwaBD." We cannot imagine what has appeared in this pa per, or about it, to lead any portion of our patrons in tdia city or in the country to apprehend any change in our positron as regards the lecompton Constitution ' We may say, however, onee-for all, 'that such a tnhtg is. impossible. We enlisted in .Qq.rjrarfare aginst. the Lecomaton eoheme, without prompting or peroiasion fpen any man or any quarter-without inowmg, or waiting to learn, who would be against oi or' who with ui.. . No ar-guaent agiinst the contemplated outrage, m KM could have increased oar inveterate halt of fu author or fiaeharantei'. No man'e? advoctey of that evheme hw wrought the least doubt in our mind Of Its infamous nature or ' any , Cetera tion for kin any way,, .or under , toy imaginable cireumstaaee. . So for t i war know, Mr attempt has been made te brhig undue influence to bear upon ns, for a change In the poailibh' we occupy, or in Jia-aentimenta-wa fronurgt-n ihis question. 'It at almost needless te) add that! those who know nt would' have no hope of effecting by any conceivable meanr, tne least poaaible alteration in the stand w bmrt taken, or in th spirit in whioh w hare aamrtiiaed, nd will-mtinae ttr maiutalnlt. .tfs feel tonrd by conviction, and hy every consideration of political, consistency ' and and good faith,a'nd of . personal honor, to go en aa we ttn begun, and bf th help of Ood and lb peosk wt aha do 10- , FltOffl COLVniUUS. i ansa CotnsiDns, Feb. 28th, 1858. FniKHD Cochran : The Lecompton Democrats in the House have a hard time to keep matters in that department of politics in healthy condition. . ' -' ' An articlo appeared In the Cincinnati En-quirer last weok, stating that a number of the Democratic members of the Legislature hac written to Mr. Pugh, instructing him to pay no attention to tin instruction contained in the Democratic! resolutions passed in the early part of the session, in reference to the admission of Kansas. Mr. Harrison, of Madison county, feeling that a charge of that kind, emanating from a Lecompton Democratic paper, and making charges so dishonorable to the members of tho Legislature, should be attended to, offered the following resolution. Itesolvel by the fJcneraf Assembly of the State of Ohio, That we hereby, without any qualification whatever, reafimthe instruction hitherto given to our Senators and llcpresentatires in Congress, from this State A vote upon i question of this kind could not be had, as a matter of course, without a caucus ana mo scene tbat followed was somewhat amusing; members were up in e parts of the House making motions of Various kinds, and finally succeeded iu getting an ad journment about the middle of the afternoon On Friday, after having consulted the matter thoroughly, Mr. Christy, of Butler, arose to a question ol privilege, and read a paper in which he most emphatically denied the charge in tho Enquirer, and pronounced it wholly and mci're- ly false and HnfoundeJ. " This denial, however, does not eitend to any private corres pondence or conversation had by members with Mr. Pugh on the subject." Whereupon Mr. Harrison offered the following preamble and resolution : " Whereas, the article pub lished in tho Cincinnati Enquirer, charging Deinocratio members of the Legislature with having sent certain instructions to Mr. Pugh, impeaches the personal honor and official in. tegrity of members of this House, and also places a majority of the members of this House itself, in a dishonorable position, therefore be it Sesoloed, That a Committee of three mem bers of the House be appointed to investigate into the truth ol the statement contained in said article : that they be authorized to send "or persons and papers to make said investiga tion, and that they report to this House as early as practicable." This resolution caused as much uneasiness as the other and was laid over under the rule for discussion. The question would very naturally arise as to the reason why the Democracy would not reaffirm those instructions. It is too apparent to admit of doubt that they have voted in the Legislature in favor of the instructions and written private letters in structing the very roverse. Yours, &c. ' C. A Strange and frightful Event ' An old woman named Winterburne, who has been in the habit of visiting the rooms of r. J. 3. King, on Cherry Alley, and who occupies a room in the Name house, paid her accustomed visit yesterday morning. While Mrs. King was busying herself about the room and the old woman was apparently onaiing wuu iurs. s muo gin, mu cnuu uttered a sharp cry ol distress, and the moth. er, to her horror, saw too wretched old wo. man with frenzied energy striving to cut the throat of her child with a sharp raeor. Al though in very feeblo health, she grappled with the mad old woman, who soon cot Mrs. upon the floor and endeavored to strangle her. To this she added an effort to erasp the razor and Jc ill her victim, who only saved her self from this horrid end by grasping the ra zor iu her hand and holding on to it until her fingers were nearly severed from her hand. A second Jittto gift of Mrs. K.. some two years of ago, netl ut loudly Tor assistance, and seme persons auao. and arrested the old woman. Blie is evidently mad, and always laboring under the idea that her family of children, who have all lett her, have been en ticed away by her neighbor. She has been fully committed te) await hat trial for assault and battery .with intent to kill. The child is not seriously wounded, nor the mother physi cally much hart, yet it will probably be some time before they will recover. friwuroa Uix- Mm. ; .V .: :.:. 0;.: m - ' , KTTbe Cleveland Leader baa heard g. gestcd, from "pretty high Democratic author ity," reasons for, the appointment of Governor Meoabt to the Colombus Post office, that should be satisfactory. It says : ' The Democracy of Ohio, at least, well koew that Gov. M. has for long time been a sturdy beggar (er a Cabinet position or a full Mis sion abroad. After having performed his as signed work of securing Minnesota to the Democracy by fair means and foul, the ofUc bee- gar again appeared at the White House and with the melting cry of ,, ''Pity the sorrows -rf -a ftot old man," petitioned for the Columbus rwmb. As the cheapest and surest method f4ry ln teara and getting rid of importunitioa, the small sop was instantly Bung to th would-be Cabinet or For eign Minister, no unusual mode, by the way, of satisfying the presaing demands of Ohio Uemoentw M-Wbeei tiers," for more fodder' .J , J :. . v i. "V. Old Buck understand nnif hot woman nature, and the suggestion is plausible as well as Democratic. . ... ..i-wi .. : OCT The Cincinnati Enquirer hrt private ad- vksealrom Washington io thoeffcet.that aouW of the Democratic membenifrora Ohio, who to-. ted tor Hams Nsoluttert will voto fir Loeotupt-on: " Shouldn't wonder. ' , . U-. ! M .1 if "I ' . - .ff1 I; lid Indiaaa Eogolatora' 1 . Th Lanrwnrg fflnmny,of"th TStrVm' "th work! of orrgil atari goes bra re fy on,1, and atntea LHkA that. aWitUlart at. Iiuuin county have been regularly sjrganixeM nder uicru.vui ui w on, aw n paw. regally 1 authorized to nnunure worn thev niveaoan ergetically begun. ' Thnt must be a singular law of Indiana which legalise! mob into Judge Lynch Courts. A bogus utbhey printing press was added to the trophies of the Regulators in' Lagrange last 'vreek,' ahd imo bUekjegs we're added to the thirteen crimmaU already eouijgned to jail by th Coenrnkteev HEY. HENRY WARD DKECIIER ON .. MONEYS , iiev.' HcHry Ward Beecher preached in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Sunday inorning, on Money and Its uses. As usual, his audienco waa very large, and the attention throughout profound and earnest. He said that ours is the sge Of Wealth. Tho world has had its a,te of war, its age of art, its age of chivalry, and its age when political economy was the controlling idea, but aura is the age of commerce. Money is the world's powor to day. It rules in th j s'ate and settles political questions. It is stronger than religion stronger than any principle of morality or political economy stronuer than all combined. ' For money, the world's spirit would adopt any government or any religion. If the Pope of Rome could convince the world that his religion was a money-making religion, he could send his golden bulls from polo to pole; and there is not a native that would not carry t 'cm. If the Ctar of Russia could convince the world that czar ism was the government most prof)table,cznrism would bo the world's government ; and there is no power on earth that could prevent it. ' For monoy, the world's spirit would crucify Christ in whatsoever form he might appear. There is no such thing as meeting this desiro for money in a successful conflict. It would be a thankless and unsuccessful task, to urce upon the world any principle which it believed to be opposed to its pecuniary interests; and they who do thus stand out ate few, and their task is a hard one. Happily) there is no occasion lor warring with a desire for wealth. The desire to be rich is not evil of itsolf. It is nonsense for a man to stand up and dis. ciaiui me uesire lor wcaitn, and urge upon tha world the i lea that it should be poor. Money is neither an evil nor a good of itself; it nas not a moral character. 1c is sunn v an ogent and whether it be good or evil, depends upon tne manner in winch it is used, it is like a sword. Whether a sword be in the hands of Benedict Arnold, bathed in his coun try's blood, or in the hands of Washington, wielded for justice and liberty it is a sword only, and has not a character. Whether it be an instrument for good or evil, depends upon me cnaracier 01 mm wno holds the hilt, and not upon the sword itself. So it is with money. It is an agent; it is a cisrantic mo tive-power that thunders around the world. If the Devil stands engineer, it thunders on, freighted with untold mischiof, scattering oppression, and wrong. But if it is guided by the spirit of love and truth, it is like the sun, shedding light and summer upon the world. It is an angel of mercy and love, when directed by the spirit of Christ. It is tho duty of the pulpit, then, to direct and instruct in tho use of. wealth, and not preach against it. It has grown to be a great power in the church, and it must be preached to. tie doubted whether, in this city, an equal amount of Wealth could be (bund among any other equal number of men its among our church members. Mammon has joined the church; but he is not converted, and it is the duty of the pulpit to urge upon the church the true uses of wealth. In primitive days, men's usefulness in tho church was measured by their character and their piety.' Now. un- fortunately, piety has become fashionable, and we are more accustomed to measure their use fulness by the amount of their money. Suppose, said he, that twenty poor, but ve ry pious and good men. were to come here and should apply to our examining committee lor admission to this church. The committee would tell it to our . members, and they would say, " Oh, well, that is very well : we are glad of it." Suppose that they were tohearthat twenty men, worth half million each, had been to all the congregations in the city, and had con eluded to join this one. "Oh,;; (said the spea ker, putting his thumbs behind his vest, and assuming a most pompous attitude.) " oh, wo mo delighted to hear it 1 " We should all examine ourselves to see if we have not more or less of this spirit. ' If a minister receivos a call from an obscure village, and one from a great city, is he not very likely, perhaps unconsciously, to think he can do no more good wlier the large church and salary are located ? How the Leoompton Swindlers at Washington Look--"The Begalar State Prison Cnt." .,( , : Wherever you go in Washington vou are sure to meet a number of hang dog looking fellows, who would be quickly spotted by the police of any other city and shown up as suspicious personages. You meet those men singly and in squads on Pennsylvania Avenue. in the hotels and in the galleries of the House and Senate. Their facet are of the regular ocau prison cut. xou wonder that such queer looking customers should daro to show themselves in the resorts of respectable citi zons. These fellows are the camp followers of tainoun and Ulurkson, representatives of "the law and order " party in Kansas. They look like a delegation of escaped convicts from Bot any Day or Van Uieman's Land, or some oth er penal , colony. Corrftpo)i(ic Chicago lime CiT The Hf. Y. Freeman' Journal, a Cnth olic and1 Democratic journal, is Very severe upon the Administration for its course upon Kansas. ' It My 5 What is the practical difference between the ,;HoyaI Prerogative," claimed by the weak: and tyrannical Stuart, and the Execu tive influence so impudently flaunted in our race by the advocate of the fraudulent Con stitution ol the Lecomptonites ? The only drtforenc is, that this '' Executive influence " is viler in its nature, more demoralizing, and more potent than the " Boyal Prerogative," wb tch Uvea 10 th oxtcration of ire men. Wn have been told, day by day. by the ser vont end th ' seekers f Government pelf, that some ten millions t dollars of patron- age." are to be employed1 in buying tbete or the absence or th seprewntaU' ei,e poopte, to secure the passage pf aa act'deaily, to the Interests of the boiintrV and tho'lun- danwnlat principles' of our institution!"" ' br The number of lives lost in the City o id X ice during the late revolutipii, ueoorpwUd siimy. .. i oe ie xicaiia rnpopr nartcTSien' A riot iaBI(itnoreor Louisville ft much more ienlble thanaTuUbtown civic war in and about tUV US I US 94 iuj juuiiiCAttuiu- . W I.. , 11. j .-J i?- '" u 1 II' J 9 OirOttha, slavesbftfa'cnuMtU." Kar's in Bosom .traveller, "wno Wer made free by .hedeuriorh tirtretne Court of thbjfccts.it h oery that you shoWd knew Slate upon' the eormtitutlon of 1781 bir which ilavefy i the Sttwas-declared to be Illegal, only awe urviecl in tW seetion, on of Whom Known aa lothr Roston, hf now about J0& ari oi age, ana sun rwMej tn West End', "be other i Mr. Vassal, familiarly enltad Dad. dy VatiaL Who 1 novr 9i ear of age." KANSAS AFFAIKS. , ; SPEECH OF HOX. FRED. . P. bT ANTON. Delivered at the Great Anti Lecompton Meeting in Philadelphia, Peb. 8. ' Mn. pRgsiDENTANb Gentlemen of Phil-adklHIIA : . I regret that Gov. Walker has not yet arrived in the city for two reasons : First, becauso it will deprive you, at least for a time, of a much abler explanation of subjects which are bofore you than I shall be able to give ; and again becauso it will impose upon me a task very different from that which I had supposed I should be called on to perform here to-night. I proceed however, to give you some plain and unvarnished statements in reference to the affairs In which, for the lusty oar, I havo borne an humble part, as will serve to eivo you at least my views of those affairs and of their consequences. I do not come tn complain of any act of the Executive of this Confederacy towards myself. I do not Come to mke any exposition of mv own conduct or any defenco of myself, except so far as it may be necessary to elucidate tho subject which is at this time bofore you, And and before the whole country. It is not necessary, on the presont occasion, for moto go back and entor upon the history of Kansas during the time anterior to that whon Gov. Walkor and myself as Governor and Secretary of that Territory, went upon the mission which terminated, I fear, gentlemen, not so disastrously for us as for the country which we propose to serve, and which we love, if you will allow mo to say it, far beyond our personal advantage or advancement.Nor will I go b!tck o the Democratic plat-form, adopted in 185G at Cincinnati, for the purpose of showing you (who know them so well) the principles to which Mr. Buchanan, not merely Gov. Walker, not morjly all who ..-. .............nj iuiu niiu mu auininis- tration of affairs under either Mr. Buchanan or Uov. Walkor. but the wholo Damofimtio Party were pledged the doctrine of popular sovereignty . as understood by the Democratic Party, as proclaimed by their representatives in Cincinnati in 1856. Applause. But you will pardon mo if I undertake to state to you what many of you and, per-hnps all of you know J that before Gov. Walker and myself would accent these nnsi. tions, (not positions which wo sought, but positions which we were requested to take,) thore was a distinct and unequivocal understanding of the i olicv that was to be nursneil during the administration of Gov. Walkor, and of myself, so fur as the Secretary of the 'n : i i .!.. s ... .. ' . . leiu-urjr mu uny wing io uo wun tne admin-istratiou of Gov. Walker, and of myself, so far as the Secretary of the Territory had anything to with the administration of its affairs. In the conferences between the Pmsi. dent and Gov. Walker and inysolf, and iu the liuuiiMieu instructions oi uov. w alker and myself (which I hold in my hand) these principles were distinctly avowed so distinctly that it seems to me impossible 'that any misunderstanding should exist in the mind of any one who will give propor attention to thorn. I do not inted to weary you by reading lonir extiacts from public documents ; but there are in those instructions sumo exnieuairn words, which in themselves, contain everv. thing not only (term, but the whole sub stance of popular sovereignty of the right of the people of the States of this Union to lonu their own institutions and to establish their own government. In the first letter of instructions to Gov Walker, fa copy of which was sent to me ior my i guiaance, when 1 preceded him to the territory of Kansas, as the actincr Gov. ernor.) Gen. Cass, writing at the dictation of ihe rresidcntof the Unitod States, instructed us in this language : , " The sacred richt of each individual must bo preserved : and that bcine: accomplished. nothing can be fairer than to leave the people of tho Territory, free from all interference, ... . . io ucciue inctr own aesuny lor themselves." Again : " When such a Constitution shall bo sub mitted to tho people of tho Territory, they must be protected in the exercise of their right of voting for or against that instrument ; and the fair expression of the popular will must not be interrupted bv fraud or via. lonce." For my part, centlemen. whon I undertook that mission I held theso principles to be sa cred ; I hell them to be fundamental ; I held them to be the only possible talisman by which the difficulties in that unfortunate Territory could be made to vanish forever by which quiet could be restored and the people clothed with all the rights which they possessed undor the Constitution of the United States and by the organic act establishing the Territorial Government. Now, it is very true, as I have stated on other occasions, that when I went to the Territory I supposed that the single question of Slavery wus the only one of interest to the people of Kansas, and that the fair setlement of this single question would be perfectly satisfactory to them. But I soon found that the difficulties lay lardceperin the popular mind than this. I found they affected the very government itsell affected the whole machinery of the territorial organization. I found the peoplo of that unhappy Territory in a state of great dissatisfaction ready, upon the slightest provocation, to break out. into civil war. I do not deny the statements which have been made in tbe recent Message of the President of the United States, in relation to the rebellious disposition of th people of Kansas during the administration of Gov. Walker, and of myself, when I acted in the character' f Governor. But in order to do justice to the people of Kansas (whether Democrats or KapuhltcAoa, l'ro-8lavery men or Anti-Slavery men) in order to obtain th truth, and the whole truth is order to do justice io my own conscieuce it is' necessary, it i - -:.-(.. i i.-i. : .. j f - , . i. rigu. iu gv ucuum 1110 iuvi, ami aaceruun now far the people f KansateTtrTOilttliiible WW if fMA jirslriubke, how far ' they wore excusable n trm iioUiuof hostility bh rtbejMusuuied agains the Territorial Goverft- .! riot my fellbw Country men', stand here to-night to justify the conduct of the people who have reuieuJ the Terrixmtd 0oternment. IIq not stand her tolpelociza for' any of the eta of violence, and oulrago, and wrong whioh may rraro beon committed on the onede or the; otMrer. 1 But f do believe and maintain that in cruet to give ro a lair exnoeitrw 6r the tn) appreciute'the circumstances under which they acted -th complaints tie mde-tb wrong they suffered',: If he, did iuffjf u'fbe substance oi (tie c'omf lathis made By tu peopi w in icmtory, wnen 1 arrived in Xanana, waa that they bad ao lair partici pationindeed, no participation whatever in tun uovernmeni or the Territory which was . e.jtablishod over them, t found, there intelligent men rom almost .every Stat in the Union mon from your own treat conser vative State. I found them settled upon their farms intelligent, industrious, sober, good citizens, desirous of peace and order. Ye I found them denouncing the Territorial organisation, many of them declaring that they would never yield obedience to it. And why ? i ne simple reason ottered was, as 1 have already stated,, that they bad bscn by violenco and fraud erfcludod from any fair participation in the election of the officers of the Torrltory in other word9, that tho Legislature of the Territory had not been elected by the people of the Territory, but that the House of Itep-rosentatires and the Council had been elected by the population! of a neiirhborinir State, or by fraud anil outrages which left to the people of the Territory no possible opportunity of conducting their own nffaiis in their own way, under the Territorial organization. Such was thoir complaint. I did not know certainly how much truth there might be in these complaints. But it was certainly an astonishing thing a fact calculated to arrest tho attention of any man, or any public officer who desired to do his duty to the whole country to see the great mas f the population of the Territory resisting the laws, refusing obedience to them upon the ground (which doubtless they sincerely belioved) that these laws had been unjustly imposed upon them. Under these circumstances, Gov. Walker and myself he as Governor, and I, irt his absence from the Territory, as actine Governor. with the same power and authority had the unlimited control rr tbat portion ol tho army of the United States which Was within the Territory. When I say " the unlimited con trol, " 1 mean unlimited so far as the law ol lowed the use of Jhe forces' for the purposes ior wnicn tboy were required , that is to say the officers of the army were left no discretion, but were bound to obey . ihe command of the Governor, the whole responsibility resting up on him, and not upon the military, officer. We did not doubt we knew, os any pian having the same opportunity would necessarily havo known that a vast majority of the people en tertained these sentiments in reference to the Territorial Government. Of this fact there was not the slightest question. Three or four or five to one of the people told us to our face that they would not obey tho laws, because, as they said those laws were imposed upon them by illegitimate authority : they had been defrauded and cheated, and they would not submit. In this state of things. Gov. Walker and myself, generally in company, went among tho people for the purpose of listening to their complaints, of ascertaining their sentiments, and.their wants ; wo endeavored to persuade them as peaceablo American citizens to submit to the law until they could right themselves at the ballot-box. I was astounded when they laughed in my face with scorn and mockery at tbe very mention of the ballot-box. They said that the local officers were the merest and most unscrupulous partisans, utterly dishonest in these matters of public elections ; and that if their neighbors of Missouri did not come into the Territory for the purpose of outvoting them, these officers would cheat and defraud them by forged votes made for that purpose. I confess that I could not believe theso things, I did not know certainly whether such things had transpired before within the history of the Territory. But Gov. Walker and mnself, in tbe strongest language we could command, in the most earnest manner, pledged reputation, honor, everything that at tho ensuing election they should have a fair chance at the ballot-box. lireat appiause.J We pledged our sacred honor, that so far as we had anything to do with it, no fraud, no trick, no ledgerdemain nothing which we could reach should succeed to deprive them of the sacred right of managing their own affairs by their own votes, Cheers. - . Especially did we say the Convention which was about to bo elected as we said that afterwards, when it was about to assemble ought, in our judgment, to submit the consti tution which might be framed, to the vote of the peoplo. We appealed to the instructions of the President of the United States ; we appealed to that solemn understanding which had been had betweon the President and Gov. Walker and myself, not only upon these instructions, but in the Interviews had before wo went to the Territory wo appealed to those, and told the peoplo of Kansas that we should be supported in that position by the President of the United Statss and his Cabinet. I think we had a right to give this assurance to the people of Kansas ; I think wo were justifiod by the loiter of instrnctioas given us by the President ; I think it was no unlawful or improper interference with the affairs of the peoplo of that Territory lor Gov. Walker and myself to assure, the people that the Convention certainly ought, and probably would, submit the Constitution to the people. But Gov. Walker, In his celebrated Tope-ka speech, made at a very early day after his arrival in the Territory, went further, and said that if the Constitution should not be submitted to the people he would join them, tne people, in ail tawtui opposition to its adoption by Congress, and would assist tlutu, bv every lawful means in hi power, to prevent mv imjnmiiuu upun mem ui constuuuonai instrument upon whose character they had no opportunity to decide. . I think that these assurances on our part were in strict conformi. ty with the position of the President and his instructions to us. But whether they Were er not. ene thine is certain (for I hold in my hand now the doc umentary proof,) tbat not a single position of this kind was taken by Gov. Walker durincr. his whole administration of the affairs of that 1 erntory, that waa not- immediately or toon afterward communicated drruetlv .to the President of the United- States. Gov;Walk.r Informed th President thai he had Jold th People of the Territory that they ought to U permitted to vote, upon lb Constitution, and that he would oppose it if it were not submitted' to' the peoftle."! 'could show you, by reading (rom tin doeuisent. that that a repeated .over and over and over again in Gov. Walter's dispatches o Geo, Cass,' and tothe' President 'of th United States. ... But in all thrcOTKWr dance" 6f the State Department of th President 6f the tjniud Slates with Gov, Walker, not on word it to be found of reproof or dissent from theat bo- sitioM assumed by him, and Mr. Buchanan suffered him to go before th people of Kansas, and, irr his name am) by bit authority, follow ing hut Instruction t the letter, to assure the peopU .tstt the; ought to have lb right to vol upon their Constitution ; and if that right was not allowed Ih.sss, tbat lb Coni ti tulars, ought to, be rejected, and in tar a' ne toulil bring it about.. lliat it should ka re.'! jotwu. a uo do sy, genueraen, mat jur. Duchanan pledged hie honor to this, but I do lay that Gov. Walker pledged his, and pledged mine, with the full knowledge of the president, and without any dissent or reproof on his part. Cheers.) I think if it was possible to investigate this subject, if it would be respectful to tho President (and certainly I do not moan to be disrespectful to him here in his own State, before this intelligent audience, in tha city of Philadelphia) to ascertain the facta, it would appear that be had Raid to hundred individuals that he approved the course of Gov. Walker up to a certain time, when, perhaps, in his judgment, it becamo necessary, for the good of the country, laughter, to modify his position, Con tinued laugnter and appiauso.j v- . ... ow, follow-citizensi, thore are several thing to be taken into consideration as we go along wun mis narrative, wnicn are extremely Important, although they may seem to be small in themselves. When we first commenced this scries of addresses to the people of Kan. sas, for the purpose ot communing with them and ascertaining their complaints and their wants, a minority (and very small minority it was) that had possession of the Territorial Uovernment became extremely restless, and in murmurs and low tones, at first complained. and afterwards denounced Gov. Walker, for having intercourse with lilucit republicans. They did not wish to go amongst the people. and it was very evident they did not wish th people to vote, because they knew perfectly well that if the peoplo could be prevailed up on peaceably to go to the pollsnd deposit their votes upon tho pending question, whether it was for officers, or anything else, that they would be voted down, and would loos their power, llenco it was they complained, in tho first inst inco, at every step taken with a view of conciliating the people, and bring ing them back to a recognition of the luw. Having the army, Or that portion of it which was in ivansas at our command reeling it to bo our duty, under the circumstances, to maintain order, aud even to enforce existing laws, inasmuch as they evidently were laws, and bound to be cnlorced until they were legally altered at the ballot-box we on all occasions informed the people of our determination to maintain the laws, but at tbe same tiiUo to protect them from wrong, whether threatened by intruders from other States, or by a falsification of the records and poll-books from fraudulent voting, and every other kind of fraud it was in our power to reach. I do not believe it ever was the intention of Gov. Walker it certainly never was mine-to occupy a placo in tho Territorial Govern-tnent of Kansas and see frauds, wrongs and outrages perpetrated at the ballot-box orelso-where and continue to enforce upon the people tie laws thus maintained. I say here to-night that I would have resigned my commission I would have thrown it in the face of the authorities at Washington applause if I had understood, or thought, that I should be required to continue the same state of things in Kansas which had existed there previous to my arrival. I would never havo consented to becomo the instrument of oppressing the people, Black Republicans or anything else which they might be, cheers by maintaining a Government of tho minority, by force and by means of the Army of the United States. One fact is beyond all dispute that since I have been in lvausas, and so far as 1 have known any people, upon severul occasions, have re. fused to participate in elections. They have stood off and said, "We have no lot or part in the proceedings ; we have no confidence in them; we know wo cannot get justice, and therciore we turn away lrom them and will have nothing to do with them." Whatever may be the truth in regird to the complaints of the people ol Kausas, it Certainly was a lamentable stato of affairs, which must have been the consequence of some great wrong, real or imaginary, inducing the peoplo thus to refuse to participate in their own government at the very time when they were clamoring for the opportunity to govern themselves You are aware that I went to the Territory about the middle of April. When I went there the census wnich had been prescribed by law, passed the winter before, authorizing the assemblage of a Conven-vention, was in process of being taken.' Tho returns weie to be made to the Secretary by the 1st of May, and the appoitionment was then to be made by the Governor, and the election wag to take place on the 15th of June. I arrived there just about the conclusion of tho taking of the census, and I learned that tho great mass of the Republicans, or, more properly speaking, tho Free State men of the Territory, had refused to purticipate in the process ol taking the census. By the terms of tho law, it is true, they were not required to have an activo agency in it ; it was made the duty of the Territorial officers of the Ter ritory of the sheriff of the different couutres to take the census of all the inhabitants' and I learned that the Free Stato men complained loudly and bitterly that groat numbers of them had been denied a registration. Their names were not open the risti although in many instances they were wefl known to the community, and of prominence and respectability, who could not have been unknewn to the officers whose duty it was to tako the census. It is equally true that the Probate Judges were required to correct tho census list, and these individuals, whose names were omitted, if they had tbe curiosity to examine, bad also the opportunity to go to the Probate Judge and inform them of the omission, and ask that their names should be put upon the registry. But they did notchoose to do Uiiii. arid a very imperfect registration of tho people of the counties in which the registratioa was attempted was madu. There are thirty eight counties, including the distant county of Ar-rapahoe, in the Territory of Kansas, CThe man population of these counties lio on th borders of th Territory adjacent to tho Stat of Missouri, It is in these border counties that tho Vio-Skvery me had, almost their entire jtrenglh,- iu the interior of ill Stat, the great mnsa of the people,, with but few exceptions, Wif mcft from tl gtvat.Kor-tharn Slates ef tho Union, with occasionally men from Tennessee, Kentucky, aivt Missouri, and very much to my astonwhsnent, tuaoy of these latter in: favor ( sualrhrgt Kansas Free state. Ilireat applairsu, ln nineteen of tbest intoriurountiei there wasuo tucftipt whatever made to UK the census, or obtain registratioa of tie names ef the people, and in the other nineteen there was but a imperfect registration obtained, beoaus. I learned that in soma of tboa counties th people fcad opposed the taking of the, census because hey were opposed to th. execution of th law, .. In Anderson county 1 was informed by Judge rWilson that b had bn expelled trout the county where ti waa frolMt Jutig and would have had) the consul, take in the b-enoa of th Sheriff, but ' many f th people informed m thnt his sjutemeqt was not true, ajid that Uiey did tt resist having to ceor sus taken, but actually desired to b registered in Order that they anight vote ; aad afterward th people f thi county did make thingof her history, the Government there am" - has been the Government of the minority, rm,,ui,.. iftlij v Applause. It is true that the vast majority of the people, unon severul occasions, have re. i" ',J fc . . ".I u'y"t registration of their own, electing delegates to th Convention, who asked to be admitted W seat in that body, but were refused by th ixty member who were, elected under th law. In other counties, to my certain knowl. edge, the failure to make a complete regustraJ lion, or any registration at all, wta tbe fault-of the officers, and not the fasilt of the people. When it became my duty to make the apportionment for delegate to the Couv.ntion, 1 did not know th ml state of thlora in thss counties, and it was impossible for eu to know it. I was recently in the Territory. I had arrived there In the middle of April, and the) .-MMwwuiiiiiw, iii -mi mini nit ursi to the middle of May,nd after I had received returns uad been made to -roe from the fir all the returns which actually came iu, being ui iui:i ic-ui rrgisirniion m ninet-.en counuesj I waited with great anxiety to receive th returns from othercountie. I waited until the) . last minute that 1 thought It safe to wait, be' fore making th apportionment, in order that' the election might take place at th time re quired by law; but no further returns coming in, I felt it to be my duty to make the apportionment for delegates to tho Convention, up-' on such returns as I had received. Tbat was! my duty under the law. I really did not know what was tbe condition of things iaf these counties. I did not know whether there were any officers there. I knew the Logii4 ture had appointed auch officii! , but theeounJ' ties were distant fioui my residence, and it was impossible for the, Within the time sllowi ed by law, to see or ascertain whether the had discharged, or attempted to discharge their duties. I was utterly in thl dorlc iu reference to the true state of affair when I ' made the apportionment. The aixty delegates) to the Convention, therefore, were apportion-' ed among the nineteen counties, composing one-half of the Territory, from which the imperfect regiatration had beon obtained. It has! ' been said in tho Territory, by the opponent of my party, (if I could be said to have par- ty in that Territory,) that I ought not to have made the apportionment until 1 had received the returns from every county. Hut the law ' required that the election should take blaed on tho 15th of June, and I did nut know what number of pople there were in those eoun-. ties, and could not know anvthino- about the fact. I did not know that there was a uffl- - cient number of people in those counties to) i justify mo in withholding the apportionment uitu i was uireciea io mane uy taw. As I have stated. I waited Until tha last hour, anxious that Gov.. Walker ihould arrive in the Territory, and I should have bit? ? advice : but he did not e'erme there until th 27th of 3faj and tho election taking place ott ' the 15th of J une, and ten days' notice waa td -' be given in every county, nnd the information ' was to be distributed from the centre to thai extremities o the Territory within th f' ' riod between the 27th of May arid the iStls June, so that delay was impossible. I did' my duty; but I say here to-night, that if I 4 had known at that time the real auto of af- " fairs in the nineteen counties, in which nor '' registration had taken place, and if 1 had ; supposed it possible that the Convention elee- ; tea by the other nineteen counties, under ' those circumstances, could have refused, supported by any respectable authority in ot euv oi tne territory, to submit the constitutions which have subsenuentlv taken place, th ta has been an engine of wrong and oppression? " and I never would havo been the instrument ' ol imposing such I Constitution upon th po- ' pie of ny Stat or Territory in this Union f Immense applause.! It Was not in the now- er of Gov. Walker, with all of his persuasive ' eloquence, to inspire the people of Kansas' witi ' Confidence Sufficient to go into the election; on ' the loin day or J une, lor dlega's to th con- vention. I believe that if prior to that lim ai ' fair registration had been made to th Voter1 ' ' of tho Territory, that Gov. Walker would ' have induced (tie people to go intoihat election. . uut it was not made the uecrplessid thsttb ' great mas of their number bad no poWr or ' light to vote, becauso their name had not ' been registered, and the comparatively few " who bad been registered refused to aonerato from the members of their own party who had " been excluded, 'ihev did not ro Into the' election on th 15th of June, ahd th cense- quenco was, that out of the 9,250 voter, wnose names Had been registered,- tne Sixty : delegates who framed th Lecompton Cooatl- ' tution received and were elected by Use thaw ' 2 000 votes. Laughter. There were in all about 2,200 votes cast.and of these the success- -i ful candidates received 1,800, which, upon aat average, was about 30 votes a piece. Laugh' - ler.j iconteiM to you that it never occurred tof '- me as a thing probable, or even possibl, that: these 60 men, thus having place Jin their hands - t ihe interest of the people of that Territory ri could have dreamed of refusing to submit their - worK to tbe great masses who bad no partici pation, or opportunity to particinate, in thir eloction. I did not dream of that conuntettcr.'' much less did I ever siipptf'e that revs- pectable authority outside of feanstt or eve : in Kahsas, would seriously bat Contended !' for such a nronosition : least ftf all eotild I ', t have supposed that, with tfi iviatruettomt of th President before me, fcef could have been ' lound at thi time proClaifuint to th Corrrea of the United. State, and to th world, th i mi constitution ought to be adopted by Cm- grc.m, and taKened upon th pcopl against their expres and unequivocal protest Ap. plans. - . ..... it. . .1 her is another little Bmkm at hlatcf y eoK. - nected with thi matter which nerve to (now t tbe real state ol thing la that Territory at -' that time. -Towards th middl ofAngost.os1 theflrstof September whew tho October ltu t:t tion wa coming on, it tKarof apparent that -. ' Gov. .Walker effort Wr about to ts imw. ;,I ccs!ul in infl iemring tho great maw of th (Rople of tbe Territory tog quietly ndp?-;j:- ably to th ballot-boat, under hi pldg tfiatv " they ahoald-hav fair.chano. to vol i e4 .v. the minority who bad controlled th goir- r..;-.J luent. ( that In thl ventvtheU bmV . ould b otUrly gon. ft Wa th that thi- colebrelcd uu queatiost W fauwd. ! Th pw pi of tl. Territory, to rt-iitrig tho Uw. n-, naa riud to prttir-et tn ' tu operation of ,-" 1 th government. In many Mail srs at fn .-. Territory no Mmot had been rmuto and no' r laze could bo paiJ. Sim yoar prtvion sr. f .' law had bora paused sv,uiring a tax quntiSeo :'. r tion of every, voto, tat ; in. Legwlatur t 1857, in the pUinost-vSsnd auon distinct -Hani- '- ."t ner. repealed this Uw, arid -it waa swi ongft n in th. Judgment ft ihe best lrTis t th -a' -f Territory of h requirements' of A law. that a nua hoold &a pant a tax instrder t i quainy qimteir a a otr. 7 he mmar.tr bv sirtei that thil old repealed taw s tiU nt . force', nd they procured th opinion of on , of lb United Stats Judges and th L'aif.l Otatta Ulatnet Attorney to lhat effect, n $ thylollddporitbGvri)ornd tbojudr- ejt-.leotioatonfcrc iV isud circular . . to them, in which thoy dvi4 them to ex- . dud from th polls every roaa who hid no? paid (ho tax- To. tffMt f" thi wl fer-o- - r: