The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-27

Straub, whose upon all the great questions Of the
day distinguished for straightforward and manly ad-
herenee to the principles Of the democratic party His
speech upon the Nebraska hill his steady support Of that
measure and his activity as member Of the indomisabe
majority which carried through gave him strong hold
upon the respect and confidence OF the House He left
Congress at the close Of the last session. and returned to
his constituents TO find Sehnyki county prey 10 fac
tons Of all kinds The banks and corporations, which
WELD SO great power in that county, combined with the
formidable organization Of the know nothngs and wings
seemed to have swept its many those who had
heretofore been the active members Of the democratic
party and TO have almost oberated the organization Of
that party What would have daunted ordinary man,
however, stimulated Col S,raub TO almost superhuman
ertons. Throwing himself into the bosom OF the people
literally unaded by the leaders, he called county meet
ing of the masses; and although it known that the
know-nothngs had in appointed the officers of the
meeting himself and his friends took possession of the
courhouse and proceeded boldly carry out their plans
He reported the resolutions himself and they viii long be
remembered for the courageous in which they
serted their faith in all the doctrines avowed by the demo-
cratic party, their hostility 10 the know-nohing and
pecay their confidence in the great principle of popular
sovereignty The resolutions denounced by name the
tors who had attempted to pervert the public mind
in chuylkil county and formally read them out Of the
democratic party Among the resolutions adopted was
one constituting county executive committee with full
power to from the ticket thereafter to be settled
any justly suspected Of know-nothingsm The county
convention subsequently, held and after contest Of
unprecedented excitement in which the banks pub
Iicy enlisted against Colonel saub he placed upon
the ticket for State senate aud hardly had the ticket
the will
had succeeded in nominating know-nohings the
ticket for the house of representatives Of the State
legislature The executive committee boldly exercised the
power confded them by the Of the democracy
and threw overheard these two knownothngs, subsu-
ting welknown democrats in their places and then
began contest before the people which the annals of pol
itcs hardly parallel Not only the know-noh-
ngs in the field ormdaby organized bu spurious dem
ocrac ticket published mainly for the purpose
of drawing of votes from Colonel Straub and bis
friends to give the victory to intolerance and pro-
scrption Very few who did know toe thorough-go-
ing character of Colonel Saub and his warm strong hold
upon the people of Schuylk county believed that he and
his friends had the slightest chance Of election but the
result proved that these apprehensions futile the
whole regular ticket headed by Colonel Straub tr-
umphantly eleced-and this too, after contest in which
only the know-nothings were unsparngy and every
where denounced but the Nebraska bill and its principles
everywhere defended. The secret of Colonel Sraubs
strength in Schuykll county is easily understood when
reflect that in his long eonnexion with politics be has
cheated the people but has honestly carried out all
his pledges, and when the day of conflict came was al
ways found battling side by side with the democracy in
support of the democratic platform. He goes back the
legislature with brighter laurels and higher fame than il
he had been returned TO the American Congress- because
he his election neither to the efforts Of political
ayers corrupt corporations but in defiance of all the
schemes of his enemies and sustained by the
of having honestly advocated the democratic creed
SHORT ARGUMENTS ON THE NEBRASKA BILL
The late speech of Judge Douglas at Chicago, to whic,
referred yesterday, imperecty reported it is
tains number Of arguments the Nebraska bill which
should everywhere be read. Take the following striking
passage:
He asked when did these anti Nebraska fall in love
with this compromise They asserted that Henry Clay
the author oft. He quoted the disclaimer made by Mr..
Clay in Senate in 1850 of the authorship of that
promise He then gave its history In 1885, taking it in
the spirit in which adopted to be applied indefinitely
all territory be acquired by the United States he had
moved to attach to the sannexation resolutions IL
then adopted ~ lSAs acting again carry out in
its original spirit aud Intention be had moved to apply it
the territories acquired from Mexico. IL rejected
ed and repudiated by NORTH Every southern vo-
ted Tor it, Northern members said it wrong. They
said dsgraceul establish black iine the
Union south Of which slavery to be permitted thus
king MISUNDERSTANDING and securing its existence south
line by national legislation They pronounced it in
famous and the Union would they agree
it. No passed that year. On his he found
himself denounced for being favor of the infamous compro
mise, as it called, just he denounced for
IT'D repeal The abotionsts that year Buffalo adopted
platform in which they boldly took the ground that slavery
should be abolished ereyhre in the Territories the Uni
ted north and south of that line They did think
then the faith of the nation being pledged preserve
the sacred compact The whg party nominated Gen.
Taylor In nearly all the northern States, particularly in
Illinois, they pledged themselves to the of slavery
in the territories OF the United States Every
where he supposed, included north and south Of SO 30
Did the whg party, when they voted under that pledge
blot regard this compromise the thing they now
profess believe it The democratic party same year
nominated General Cass who had just his
Nicholson letter. in which he boldly declared that Congress
had right power legisae upon slavery the Ter
rtories and that the Missouri prohibition unconsttu
tiona and therefore void With that declaration openly
endorsed, the democratic party voted for Gen. Cass
Thus in ls4s the North in Congress- repuated Mis-
souri, line, aud all parties resolved to blot it The only
difference that existed them was what should
put place of The wing abolition parties resolved To
replace with general prohibition Of slavery, while the
democratic party according to General Glass; pledged
what called squatter soveregnyhe right of the peo
pie settle it for themselves In every abolition paper were
published, with heavy black lines around them, words
Stephen A. Douglas the solitary exception meaning he
only the country the North in favor of that
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