Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1860 — Mr. Kellogg's Speech. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Kellogg's Speech.

I From tlie Chicago Press and Tribune.

Wc print to-dav a telagraphic abstract of the remarks of Hon. William Kellogg of (Illinois, on the question at issue between himself and Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune. It will be remembered that Mr. Greeley in a letter to his paper assailed Mr. K. severely for a motion to adjourn made by the latter during one of the early days of the contest for Speaker; that Mr. K. retorted, and in his defense charged that Mr. G. was during the Lecompton struggle engaged in a secret attempt to secure Mr. Douglas’ turn to the Senate by means of Republican votes, and that lie had an interview with Mr. D., in which a treaty for that purpose was concluded; that 3lr. Greely denied this accusation; that his denial was supported by a letter from Mr. Douglas; and that Mr. Kellogg pledged himself to make his charges good. The speech which we print herewith, is the last move in the game. In relation to the matter in controversy, we have this to say: The politician who does not know that during the Lecomptnn struggle, Mr. Douglas repeatedly declared to leading Republicans that he had broken with the Democratic party; that he had “checked his baggage through,” that “he had crossed the Rubicon and burned his boats;” that “hereafter he should be found in opposition to the South”—who does not know the plausible justification which he put forward to satisfy Republicans that the Kaiisas-Nehras-kn bill was really a frec-soil measure—who is unaware of the fact that it was the Senator’s habit in those days to illustrate by the inap the effect of his future measures for circumscribing the institution of Slavery—who does nut know that the excuse for running the Pacific Railroad South-west from the 31 issouri River was that it would carry into si 1.1 the country through which it passed a flood of emigration that would make Slavery impossible in any State along the route —the politician who does not know these things is not acquainted with the secret history of that struggle, nor with the real reasons •which impelled certain leading Republicans Ho espouse 3lr. Douglas'cause in opposition to the well known wishes and settled policy •of the members of their party in Illinois. 'We violate no confidences when we say that these things are true, and it was believed Li}’ nothing but the premature action •of the Senator’s Illinois friends in their April Convention in 1858 in reaffirming the Cincinnati Platform and violently attacking the Republicans, prevented the cunsumation of the had bargain and the dissolution of our party in this State. We mention no names, because we have always believed that the parties in the trade, save 3lr. Douglas, were honest in their endeavors to promote Republican success, and tliat, though unwise and •easily cheated, they labored with patriotic intent. Our complaint is not that they were wheedled by Sir. Douglas; but that when the course of the Illinois Republicans had been determined upon with great unanimity, they were not suffered to make their fight for 3lr. Lincoln without the impertinent interference from without, by which they were distracted and finally beaten.