Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-02-01

not the man to carry out squat;er sove-
reignty in Kansas" Then he took Mr.
Wilson Shannon and Mr.. Wilson Shan
non went, shouting over the plains as he
went, that he was for Slavery in Kansas.
He went too fast; and, think, between
the North and South, Mr.. Wilson Shan
non win not find a very wide place to
stand upon. / do not think he win find
a friend here to say, God save him !"
when his time comes up.
So much for Kansas. After this allusion to it
in his message, the President undertakes to read
a long lecture upon Slavery. 1t is not the first
time the President has delivered lectures on Slave
ry, and have a word or two to say on the view
which he takes of it. The President of the Uni
ted States, in the paper which he sent here few
days ago, takes the ground that the gentlemen
who do not agree with him in his peculiar notions
are the enemies of the Constitution. He so puts
t it, for he says: .' s.Is
"If the friends of the Constitution are to have
another struggle, its enemies could not present a
more acceptable ISSUE than tlat of State, whose
Constitution clearly embraces a Republican form
! of Government, being excluded from the Union
because IFS domestic institutions may not, in all
respects, comport with the ideas Of what is wise
and expedient, entertained in some other State.'
+ Thus the President undertakes to designate as
enemies of the Constitution those who differ from
him on this subject l dc not know how others
feel but say it is Insult 70 the majority Of this
: nation. The President knows, if he reads any
thing beyond the most servile sheets which his
creatures send to him, that the public sentiment
i of this country condemns most decidedly his &C
: ton in that Territory. No man knows it better
1 than he or at lest no man ought to know it bet
ter; and when he goes on to characterize as enc
mics of the Constitution those who differ from
: him. he knows he so characterizes certainly one
half of the popular branch Of Congress, and quite
number of the members of the Senate-no mat
ter for them, however: as they do not belong to
i " healthy organizations let them take care o
Y themselves. / will not speak for them, but
Q speak for myself, and SAY the President can Dc
me no sort of harm by any such denunciation as
/ this. am perfectly willing to take it; but. sir
/ standing here as representative of our native
= State-his and mine together viii not have hin
:. hurl such an imputation as that, unchRlenged Oh
y unrebuked.
Il He has no right to designate any men. who arr
e here under the oath to support the Consti-
tuition which he has taken, as enemies of the Con
stitutior; aud when he does it, he comes dow
, from the high place which God, in his wrath fo
the punishment of national sins, and for the hui
F o,,, no tio,,a1 NJ; lo hoe t;,,
to occupy. l say, he conesdown from that higl
place, into the arena of vulgar denagogue. an,
/ strips himself of everything which should cloth
If with dignity the Office of President of the Unite
). States deny the issue; l hurl it back into hi
face; tell him, when he undertakes to designate
these men as enemies of the Constitution, he abu
n ses and defames men whose shoe-latches he is UNI
worthy to unite.
Sir, these are plain words, but the time d.
:, mands them. When the President of the United
o States sends such message as this to me, Or t.
a body of which am member, l shall be re-
; strained by-no consideration from speaking wha
is / believe to be the truth. The President says
e that if the enemies of the Constitution-we al
:. know whom he includes in this pbrase-are +
have another contest with its friends, there canno
Il be better one Grant it, sir; let US have it.
toll him that this is the vary place where tho igh
IS is to be made This part of his message, strip
ped of its verbiage, means this: If, by the illega
violence of the men who have gone over into Kan
q sas, and undertaken to establish Slavery there
d they shall come here and ask for admission int
J, the Union with slave Constitution, and Kansa
will be rejected, the President tells that is tn
, most favorable aspect in which that question cal
y be presented That will be the issue; and if i
= be decided against 81 avery, we are threatene
with civil war.
Sir, am not man of war; but when hav
N heard it threatened so often, have sometime
le wished that God in his providence would let
,. come If it had no other effect, think it wou
have one. l think it would learn those men VIII
are constantly talking about a dissolution of til
lie Union lesson which neither they nor their chill
70 dren's children would ever forget. am not Ger
tain that l should not want the war to come O
I while we have about just such President as W
ut have now; and will tel you why. 1.-THE atterr
v at disunion were made with such a man as Gen
=. eral jackson, OF General Taylor, in the Presider
~ tial chair, and it were reeressed promptly, as
would be, people would say, 4" Oh, it was his grea
re military power, his reputation, his popularity
which did it" God knows, they could not say
- of this President. Laughter in the galleries. J.
y If the President succeeded, and ifthe Union wer
u sustained, as it would be, it would be by its owl
inherent energy, and from no Fictitious powe
% which it would acquire from the overshadowin
popularity of the President.
1e Sir, when the President undertakes to stigma
I'd TIE, as he has done, those who differ from him.
so steps beyond what he has right to do; he step
: over the mark; he violates the laws, which,
Vi think should govern the intercourse between tn
es different members of this Government. When
s. denounces as enemies to the Constitution thos
who differ from him, think it proper to met
him IN this way, and to take issue with him.
10 Does the President think that upon this issue
it can go before the country Does be think that /
stands in place where it is safe or prudent f
him 10 denounce as inimic&l to the Constitute
u views which are entertained by vast majority
ay the people of this country?
"a If he is safe, it is his obscurty, and nothir
else, that shields hint is the utter hopelessne
- Of his position. Sir, heard very instruct,
he comment made upon his message by soutEei
on gentleman within very brief time. !" Oh" sa
he, " it is one of the est messages that ever WI
written, aud Pierce is the best President we ha,
a ever had since Washington" Well" said Il
ed rsrsan n whom, he vras sneakinp von will ~