Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-11-07

ny curiosity, and n few ladies', they nearly
filled the Hall at first, the audience gradually
dwindling away, however, to less than half
Its original proportions. The national flag
draped the windows back of the stand, and
the long streaner, which has Haunted from
the Buchanan Pole, tapcring off to a point
like the sham Democracy of Vt, with the
names of Buchanan and Breckenridge nearly
faded from the canvass, as the distinctive
principles of Democracy have faded from the
platforms and practice of their party, fcs,
tooned the West side of the Hall.
Mr.. Smolley first reviewed som of the OK
ploded issues of former days, the Bank, the
War of 1912, the Tariff, &C., claiming that
the Democratic Party had always been right,
and modestly asserting that the Country owes
its greatness and prospriety, to-the intelli-
gcnce and enterprise of the people and the
excellence Of our form of government NOT
at all,-but to the Democratic pdrtyN Mr..
Smalley then traced'thc history of the slavery
agitation, incorporating the facts Of Ills
tory throughout, to the present day, and
went on to argue at length, and with laborcd
iteration, that the People, and tho Press, and
the Statesmen of both sections Of our coun-
try, are mistaken as to the issue Of the pre-
sent campaign that it is not whether slave.
ry shall be extended, but whether the people
of the Territories shall decide on their own
constitutions instead of having them deter
mined for them by the fanatics of South Ca
rolina and Massachusetts, This Phrase
% fanatics Of South Carolina and Massachu-
sets lis, it would seem, Mr.. Smalley's
designation for Compensation the Republi-
can ground is that CoNGREss has the right to
legislate for the Territories. of course the
speaker went over the stereotype glorifca-
tions of " popular sovereighty,' said, and
endeavored vainly to prove, that the North
has never considered the Missouri Compro-
mise as a compact or acknowledged its binding
force-said the Kansas Nebraska bill was n re-
turn to the princir les Of the founders Of the
institution, and all right, and showed, per-
haps to his own satisfaction, but certainly
not to the conviction Of any intelligent man
that there had been no such thing as southern
aggression. He owned that there had been
troubles in Kansas las there always have been,
he said, in new territories, and will be again,
no doubt. The excitement there was of
course owing to the operations of the - .Aho-
lition Aid Society -, Mr.. Smallcv showed
the weakness of his cause, by not abiding to
the practical working of his Wanted doctrine
Of popular sovereignty, on the soil of Kansas.
H. r,i1bt bavn upopt n half ln,r ,,,ct ,,,Gt
ably and int restingly in explaining. and
iustifying, if such a thing were possible. the
invasion of Kansas by the Missourians,
the connection of the Administration with
the Border ~rufians, the conduct Of the
United States troops, and of Gcarv in
stopping peaceful emigrant trains and
imprisoning free men by hundreds for no
crime, while armed bodies of Southerners
move freely through the borders. But Mr..
Smalley passed over those things in
silence. lie never alluded even to the roun-
dation outrage, the invasion and enslavement
Of Kansas by the Missourians.
Mr.. S. retailed again the misrepresentation
and sophis,ries of the BostonPost in reference
to the course of the Republicans on Dunn's
bill and on Toombs' bill, incorporating IN.
tircly the character of those bills. and OF
course finding it an easy matter to prove that
the Democratic party, Toomhs, Davis,
Brooks and all, had tried their best to make
Kansas a FREE State, hut had been prevented
by the "Black republicans"
In speaking of Kansas, the Speaker wa,
particularly severe on the Minister'S. He sale
they used the livery Of Heaven to serve the
Devil in,-that the once sacred desk was nc
longer so,-and that the perversions of tn,
precepts of the Sacred Book and Of the mceI
and lowly Savior by Bcecher and others
''made his blood run cold"
Mr.. Smalley considered the Sumner anC
Brooks affair a "most unfortunate and I'M.
justifable quarrel between two extremists. :
The act of Brooks was, he %vcntured to say
a cowardly one, but if there could be a Jus
tifcation for it Mr.. Summers remarks ha(
given it. The Endorsement Of the act b,
South Carolina, he considered discreditahle
but the endorsement of the act hv the Demo
cratic party in Congress, Re did not allude to
The candidates were next discussed. Mr.
Fremont was a successful adventurcr, and
renegade to his religion. He was not tn,
conqueror of California. How Mr.. Buchnn
an, who was Secretary Of State at that time
happened to be so much mistaken when h
said on his oath that he considcre
MIN so, was not explained. Mr.
Fillmore was a highly respectable man bu
nominated fy a bad party. Mr.. Buchana
ence and ability.
= In our view. nothing he said wa
more discreditable to Mr., Smallcy than wa
his re-assertion of the lying version Of tn
affair between Col. Fremont and Ex-Goy
Foote, concocted by the adherents of the nd
ministration and circulated in defiance of tn
, truth. Mr.. Smalley said he had no doubt Fro
mont struck the first blow in that affair. an
, denounced him as duclist, and his course q
as much an offence against freedom Of debat
as p. s. Brooks'.-This he said in the face q
a widely published statement from FIX Gov
FooTE himself, stating that HE, Foote. wa
responsible for the ONLY BLOW strucl;
that Fremont did NOT challenge him, and tina
, his conduct was in no wise calculated to in
fringe on the freedom of debate, After :
=, complete a denial of the charge against Ere
-. mont, we confess our surprise that any ma
protesting to be respectable, should be foun
openly retailing it.
= Mr.. Smalley closed in a triumphant strai
of Hail Columbia, American Eagle &c. glc
rificatIon, in view of the victory Of tho dc
2 mocracy, in this campaign victory whic
we will at least wait for the rourns, bcior
o . conceding.
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