Washington telegraph., 1855-09-12

All true, and Just so, it is my opinion, the
great body of the American Party believe.
The last point of Importance, which L have
space to notice. in this already too lengthy
! article, which he paid his compliments to,
was the Philadelphia Platform; and right
here [ reckon if Capt. PIKE just knew what
was uttered-if he was just aware of the
fulminations which reverberated around his
great name, he would -; well, | guess
he'd stroke his whiskers Mr.. g. took
much pains to show that the Platform pub
lished was adopted by a minority of the Ma
tional Council. I here take special occa-
sion to state that Mr.. G. stepped as ginger
ly upon that Platform as you could possibly
imagine. [ don't think there is a plank
missing, and had it been sprinkled with
| -four, you could not now find his footprints
on it. IL was a document, which was not
very good evidence to sustain his position,
and he is too good a lawyer to risk an issue
upon such testimony SO, after having kill
ed SAM, as he said, he would not admit the
| Platform as his dying declaration. Good
idea, that. To prove all his ~positions, Mr..
G.. introduced sort.of .Omnium Gatherum
made of clippings ffofEshe Irue Democrat
I presume, though do not know which pa
per stands Impartial on the questions.
| Having traversed the Union Mr.. g. finally
| descended to Pike county, and made an
overwhelming appeal to the 'unterrifed'' to
stand firm in their resistance to the new par
| ty, aud to be ever faithful to the doctrines of
! JEFFERSON, MADISON and JACKSON, which
were the doctrines of the great Democratic
party at this day. During this appeal he
instituted the inquiry, as to whether we had
anything to fear from foreign influence
whether there was a single foreigner in the
limits of the county. (:) when some one sug-
gested that there was Paddy y in Jail
for horse-stealing, upon which announce
ment, had you just arrived. you would have
supposed the aforesaid Paddy" on trial
for larceny. and Mr. G. making an appeal
to a jury of the country in his defense.-
About this time he closed, though having
gone through two hours or more, in his har-
angue. But the end is not yet: this morn
ing the jail-bird aforementioned is absent.
uncaged and gone and as the Prosecuting
Attorney remained in town, the b'hoys
about town wink at the Sheriff, and tell
him. that having their sympathies aroused
for the bog tirottcr, they had released him,
| that he might no longer be compelled to
breathe the polluted air of prison And
the story gains plausibility. too, from the
fact, that at last spring Court in Clark coun-
ty, some fellow was committed to jail and
an attempt was made to rescue him, the
noise of which. arousing the jailor, he put
the accessory to flight, when he asked the
culprit who it was had attempted to force
the DOORS AT first he refused to tell, but
after much solicitation, and solemn prom
ise of secresy on the part of the jailor, he
said that it was HUBBARD and CAN'T.
| cannot close this without saying, in JUS
tice to my friend CAN'T, that he made an
elegant speech, and having the whole case
without opposition, could handle it as he
pleased But l do not think he met all the
issues fairly, and he will permit me to add,
[ hope, that it was not without its sweeten-
ing in the way of bunoomJe at least,
such is the opinion of
Yours truly, x*M