St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-23

tanned myself, in my assertion that the
Senate desired to do something which
should better the condition of things
in Kansas, or not? If Mr.. Douglas
desired it, will it be asserted that any
other Democratic Senator opposed it ?
Mr.. Douglas remarks are clear and ex-
plicit, and the quotation from the let
ter of explanation which Mr.. Letter
felt compelled to address to hisconstit-
uents, shows that in the vote upon
Dunn's bill but one Abolition member
(himself) had the integrity or wit to
rise above party and cast an honest
vote +; and he was denounced because
he did not draw straighter in the abo-
lition traces.
But Mr.. Humphrey denies the cog
nomen of Abolition, and says his
leaders " did not commence opera
tions as emancipationists, &c. 1--WE
recognize" says he, "as our immedi-
ate leaders Fremont and Dayton at.
ter them, Seward, Sumner, Wilson,
Chase" &c. Ihad supposed that these
latter gentlemen were leaders," Cab
clifton leaders,) before Fremont and
Dayton, who now, like Van Buren, on
a certain occasion, lead Abolitionists,
while they are not Abolitionists them.
selves-Fremont being a Democrat
and Dayton Wing, both of the old
schools. This support of men out Of
their own party, shows that the Adolf
tionists have no integrity of principle
but that Office and spoils alone arc
what they arc seeking In reference
to the Buffalo operation of lS4s, Of
which Mr.. Humphrey appears littlt
ashamed, he says:
"The gentleman, to trace the connec.
ton between the Abolition and Republi
can parties, begins with their support
of James G. Birney, (who he tells us
tore a little girl from it's mother
in Alabama, and leaves them sup
porting Van Buren,, but forgets to
tell us that Van Buren, supports Bu-
chanan! Truly, he has traced them
to his own fold ! How proud must he
feel; first traducing, villifying, and
then finding them at his own door I"
| Such twattle is too silly for school
girls. After Mr.. Van Buren, had used
the Abolitionists, fausa purpose, he
went on in the even tenor of his way,
leaving them to hide their corruption
as best they could. a.....
Mr.. Humphrey is probably a recent
renegade Wing, and does not appear
to relish the name Abolitionist but
men are known by the company they
keep, and l suppose it is sufficiently
notorious not to require proof, that,
the present Republican party was got
up by the chicapery of the old Free
soil or Abolition leaders, and that, at
the Philadelphia Convention which
nominated Fremont and Dayton, these
very Abolition leaders "bossed the
job" l hope that, even to the befogg-
ed understanding of my friend Hum
phrey, proof of these facts will not be
deemed necessary. Conceding these
facts, while Mr.. H. helps to make up
the rank and file, or continues to train
in that company, he will have to bear
the title, and take his share of the obi
UNI which he is conscious attaches to
the word, Abolitionist.
Again, Mr.. Fl. gives us some more
twattle about the Republican party be-
ing the national party, and the Demo-
cratic the sectional party. Any one
but an idiot ought to know that the
Democratic party is the party of this
nation, both North and South-that,
in success or defeat, it always
has and always will be great and
powerful party, while the Republican
party of the present day is a conglom-
GRAFTON of all the fag ends of all par
ties, sects and isms, and, whether tri-
umphant or defeated, they are sure to
divide and crumblc in pieces. Their
only adhesive power at the present
time is hope of public plumber.
Mr.. H. alludes to my torrent of
abuse poured out upon Col. Lane, a
brave soldier of the Mexican war;
One would suppose that man so no
infamous as this "Jim Lane"
is, is past abuse from any source. But
TO show what choice instruments the
Republicans use to advocate their
cause, i will state that the editor of
the Davenport Democrat recently had
an interview with Mr.. Baldridge, the
father Of Lanes late wife, who stated
that when his precious son-in-law in
duced his daughter to go to Kansas,
he sold her property, amounting to