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egates TO the P-e-e-p- l-e'-s Convention
Among the names mentioned | notice
those Of several have deemed reason
able men. and from what follows. | am
surprised that such men could so far for
get themselves as TO originate and father
sentiments there nvowed and boa stingly
published. Followers Of the meek and
lowly Jesus" who humble themselve be-
fore God. and profess TO teach His doc
trines, such doctrines as qucnched fire
brands. banished discord, built up peace,
promoted harmony. forgave offences, re-
buked harshness. and said 10 the self
righteous crowd "let him that is without
sin cast the first stone" and 10 the degra-
ded. weeping creature before him Ego and
sin no more" Such men. who should
carry the olive branch of peace. chide
human frailty with moderation, set an ex.
ample of truth, showing the great truth,
that moral principle stands or falls By
virtue of its own inherent strength and
purity. which other influences cannot
change or cOntaminate. Such men have
published a deliberate lsehoud-have
uttered sentiments worthy only Of Nero.
Have mounted tho Rostrum, md anaihe
mailsed good men from the pale Of human
existence--driven them from all human
n-barred the gates of "soci
ETY.. and shut them GU, as beasts simply
because they happened TO differ in opin
ion from them. They have mixed with
money lenders and Jews. sLch men as
their Diuinc Master drove from the tenn.
ple--and with disappointed Office seekers
and malcODtents, and feio--very few
misled honest men. to publish fdlsehood
and utter language unworthy of men of
honor, and TO abuse the rights their free
government gives them. Not content
with trying to bride the liberties Of un-
born States. with tying the hands Of the
ha rdy pioneer who braves the battles of
frontier life. and knows his own wants.
while they like sickIy women. live in old
countries and preach, and say daily pray
erS. and live on luxuIies, without know
ing one thing of what that pioneer needs.
Not content with making their own la VS.,
but desiring TO make them for people
!hey VIII not live amongst. Not content
with saying III another Convention a
short time since, THE people are capa
bic Of self government. and nearly an
hundred years of successful rule has at
tested it," and then trying to deprive
them OF that privIlege--not content with
all this, they must utter falsehoods, stis-
Matte those who do not happen to think
with them as mass Of putriidction tina {.
stinks in the nostris of men now and for
all time 10 cOme-as unfit to live in so.
ciety. as conceiv, in Tyranny, ami born
Of drunkenness; and all such language,
unworthy Of Billingsgate, or brothrl. -
Fdllstsff, Doll Tearsheet. and Mistress
Quickly, are patterns of modes,y in Ian
8uage, in comparison. No reservation,
no exception. no restriction Whatever
But one sweeping declaration. as TO
everybody that don't believe as they do.
The resolutions of ,he democratic con
ventlon fdvors the prohibition OF liquor
selling. but disca rds search, SEIZURE and
confiscation.' Does this warrant their
assertions that it was brgo,ten In vile
ness. stepped III whiskcy, repete with
Tyranny?
agogue, does that warrant the exclusion
OF every man from "society' who thinks
Richardson's Nebraska bill right, and tue
assertion that every man who voted for
1t (and of course every man who does
vote for IT. as millions will at the coming
elections.) mass of purified corruption
unworthy Of place among men unless
/ ~ ha To- 1,
Grafton? Yet this is their avowa!. these
are their published sentiments. such is
their will and feelings.
Permit me TO assert, that not one in
five Of them had then read the Nebraska
Dill, or can now repeat any two OF It's
provisions consecutively. And whe ther
II is right or wrong. or whe ther Temper.
aCce rules or not. such course is faI
more unworthy of men, and an hundred
fold more unworthy Of preachers and pro
Tossing christians, than all the unworthy
acts OF Congress or Conventions eve
done before ;his. The enforcement o.
such sentiments would breed more evi
than oil the slavery or whlskey that eve
existed.
If prohibitory law was passed, leav
J ing out the 'seorch, seizure and confisca
ton, with penalty ever SO light or strin
gent. with all their loud mouthed cour
age. they are too great comardS to en-
4 force it--and afraid of--what? Nothin!
but their popularity? With all thei
brawling zeal. they would no, use hal
the energy to prosecute an offender VIII,
]! they kncw they could convict, that the,
y do 10 pass the Maine Law Why? Be
;, cause the first would be some troubl
Tor the sake Of principle. and the pub
lie good; while the latter only makes
II hobby on which some Of them hope +
h ride into Office
h No matter what the Nebraska bill ma
be. or the want of the Maine law; sue
men disgrace themselves and abuse thei
e privileges, when they so knowingly false
IS ~. say that it wos a meeting of the "cit
y. liens OF the county" (as though NEE
= ing of twenty or thirty such men wer
all the citizens of a county Of at leas
=" 5000 inhabitants,) that the Democtati
; platform was conceived in oppressio
= and nourished in strong drinks and tina
every man who differs from them in hi