American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-10-11

would have bitten ont their tongues ere they
made the confessions, poured by Gov. Rec
: der IN the Presidents ear, or hearing them
would have held parley with the con(essor,
proposed honorable banishment on foreign
mission 10 coax faithful but obnoxious in
strument out of the way, to avoid the scan
dial OF public d'smisson, and the greater
scandal Of confession of bunders worse
than crimes, aud weakness worse than wick
edness. IL there were no such men within
that party, 1t is unfit to guide the deslines
J OF this country. Ii there were, then are
they thrice unworthy TO hold power they
have 6" grossly abused. .I...9 t..., ........ i.
Sir, that scene in the Executive cham
ber--the proconsul Of the President,-
narrating that he let the very life blood
Of the Province he ruled run unavenge d
aud unstaunched, the very flowers Of
her franchises be trampled down at the
sacred ballot box, marauders from Ell
therpole ran muck over her peaceful
population, himself buried to the eyes
aud ears in private specula'ions in pub
lie lands over which he ruled, of ques-
tionable legality and of unquestionabc
evil example, aud, deaf to the cry of
helpless agony that rung through his
domain, content to leave his people (3)
to their enemies if the Protector and the
President could agree on the color to
be put on the scandals, and adjust the
division ofthe responsibility; confessing
these things to the President of the Re-
public, and that Presden. driving a
bargain for a foreign mission, in lieu of
instant and ignominious expulsion from
office; and, the negotiation failing, dis
missing him gently for illegal specula.
ton; silent as tho tomb to the civil war
that he allowed to ragej the outraged
law he iailed to avenge; the rights of
suffrage violated with impuni,y; and the
yoke of a Legislation born in violence &
fraud by his Judgment fastened on the
necks of American freemen; these things
established by vast mass of resistIess
testimony, form new and melancholy
chapter in the History of the Republic
Sir, the party whose policy, however
well intended, has given occasion to
stain the American name with civil
blood by tho repeal of the Missouri
| Compromise, is not likely to stand we'll
with the men of the North, whose b:e-
thren have been the sufferers. Their
denials of the outrages, their extcuua-
tions, their apologies, day after day, in
this House, till The slupendous mass of
the committees evidence overwhelmed
them, and their catping cavils at that
eVidence-to my judgment yet unim-
peached, and, if so, Of crushing weight;
scarcely tends 10 improve the odor of
the Democratic party in Northern nos
trils.
That is my opinion Of the result of tho
Kansas investigation. ! dare not i'm
Pute perjury to men by the hundred:-
the concurrence Of SO many is itself con-
elusive against the hypothesis Of fabri-
cation; and must be pardoned if my
legal habits will not allow mo to weigh
pailizan denials against testmonysworn
in the face of cross examination. |
make no plea Of justification for some
STAINED or one sided infcrences, which
my friend from Ohio has drawn from
that evidence. | tender no apology for
the one sided results drawn by my friend
from Missouri. ] am hete, sir, for no
party. am speaking this day for the
Constitution and the Union am
pleading for the great rights Of Ameri.
can citizens. | am pleading for the ho-
nor and integrity Of the American gov
ernment and the American name,
will set down no word in malice that
would tnge the honDr ofthc country or
hide one dark trait which the people of
the country ought TO know. The roa-
son the North is opposed to- The Demo
cratic party is, that Mey have doue these
} things.
Now, sir, perhaps wc begin 10 SEQ
why the Northorn people Will not sup.
port Mr.. Buchanan. Why will they
not support himl Why will not the
cohse vatiye vote be given for him?-
for there is a conservative majority
They will not vote for tho Democratic
party, nor for tho Democratic nominee
because they have been guilty Of these
things. They will not vote for them,
because they never have repented in
sackcl0M and ashes. They will not vote
} for them, because they have denied tho
wrongs before the proof and defended
them after the proof. They will not
vote for them, because they have rel.
teraed the insult. They will not vote
, tor them, because they have blazoned
on their banner the very words Of the
, ambiguous oracle Of tho Kansas and
. Nebraska act, tho very cause and de.
D claretion of war, now no longer delud.
!, ing any one, but plainly in bloody letters
interpreted on the fields Of Kansas
These are reasons they think sufficient
I aud they are likely to continne TO think
q thom sufficient. II Mr.. Fillmore was in
1 that position they would not voto for
him. -Ay, sir, oven conservative n or.
o ,ho'n man, tempted by spirit Of re
: venge and retaliation would have to az.
/ quo with himself a long time before
be could bring himself down to vote for
this man, who has outraged all tho feel.
. iDgs with which these men have been
c brought np--the best and the most con.