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speaker, that Frenant should be elected, not
one thing could be de for or Sgsnst Slavery.
Well. that is something new, | would think
the slavehodsn would be voting for him with
a grand rush il this be the case. Bui no sane
man who is unprejudieed, and eOnverssnt with |
the history Of Kansas from the repeal Of the
compromise. vii dare to say that the present
lsmentable state Of affairs would have existed
had Pierce done all he cOnstitulionAly might
have done 10 favor Of freedom. To hold out
the language that the institutions Of the coun-
try should be eOnlrOIled by the legal settlers
thereof and then look complacenlly on, while
bands Of rufians enter that country from for
eigu parts, and at the pOiot of the bayOnet
drive those legal settlers from the polls. while
they establish themselves in all the offices Of
trust and honor. and not only so, but tie the
hands and cripple the energies Of these same
4 legal settlers as this Administration has done,
and as everything shows the next will do If
buchanan is elected, should make every lover
Of Justice and humanity cry aloud and spare
not.
Again, this Northern light,-ihis Borealis
informed us that it was no use to do anything,
for, said he, men may work themselves into
misery,-slrain every nerve and refuse to be
happy during their whole life, and yet slavery
does and will forever exist in our government.
Quite prophetic, that; but to the doctrine. Sup
pose the worthless of past ages, = the lovers Of
science, OF peace, of temperance, Of civil lber-
ity,-in short. christianity, had thus been per-
susded that in spite Of all their efforts, igno-
rance, tyranny and paganism would still exist,
. and thus had been deferred from making any
: efforts to stay these powers Of darkness where
!, would now have been our hoasted free inss
\ tutiOns, our civil and religious liberty. Shame
! upon such dOcLrinesl Shame upon the imp,
pudent upstart who would dare to ask the in.
telligent citizens of the XXI Congressional
district of Ohio, TO cease their opposition to e.
/, vii, in order to afford him an opportunity tC
!. pocket part of the extra pay. falsely charged
10 the credit of Repdblicanism.
II In all this harangue the speaker did not once
# to my knowledge, condemn the institution o
!. slavery as an evil The nearest he came t.
,f such conclusion was wheL he said be had M
doubt but that it was bad enough, and ther
i. vent on to defend il from the aspersions of th
is lovers Of freedom. As he said the extension O
N slavery over Kansas would not increase tn
r. number of its victims, so |. thought it woul
of not increase the number if We could let hin
take the place Of some the white slaves @
the far down South, till he could mature hi
mind as to whether it was really bad enougl
st or not. After the speech was oTer and nothiu
tn in the way TO prevent, Esq. Roach very civil
in asked il he could reply 10 some Of the asser
/" ;ions. The Chair seemed rather inclined {
~ submit it to the people present to decide thi
ad question. But our hero was up nstantel
(" with "I object this is democratic mce
ri ing and have made democratic speech.
ng object to anything of this kind. And who d
be you think came to his help in this crisis? o
you needn't guess the old President of Know
nothingism, for will not tellyOu anything
bout that. But Roach did reply to some
the queer things, when be got down stairs in
or to the street. There are several other sui
ir jects which intended to have touched, bu
my communication is already too long.
Respectfully yours,
3D. AUGUSTA.