Daily American organ., 1856-08-13

reason about il are half crazy now. They who
talk OF ii do not mean it, and dare not mean il.
They who speak in earnest Of dissolution OF this
Union, seem 10 me like children or madmen. He
who would do such deed as that would be the
maniac without tongue to tell his deed, or reason
to arrest his steps-an instrument Of mad inn
pulse, impelled by one idea to smite his victim.
Sir, there have been maniacs who have been cured
by horror at the blood they have shed
Gentlemen ask, II Mr. Fremont be elected, how
will Maryland go what will Maryland do? do
not allow that question to be asked. She knows
but one country and Lut one Union Her glory is
in it. Her rights arc bound up in it. Her chill
dren shed their blood for it, and they viii do it
again. Beyond it, she knows nothing She does
not reckon whether there is more advantage in the
Union to the North or the South-she does not
calculate its value--nor does she cast up an ac-
count of profit and loss on the blood Of her chill
dren. That is my answer to that question.
But, sir, it is portentous TO hear the members
of a party cOntesting for the Presidency menace
dissolution and revolution as the penalty they will
infiict ON the victers for defeating them. People
who do not hold the Union worth four years de-
privation of office scarcely safe repositories of
its powers
But If these are to be the bloody consequences
of successful concentration Of the Northern vote
on Mr.. Fremont, will not my Democratic friends,
as the result of the argument, allow the moderate
and conservative men Of the North and OF the South
chance to cling to those around them who being
open to reason yet doubt how they shall vote, and
reiterate in their reasons why they should not
drive this dangerous issue to decision They
suppose that because in the wreck of parties they
must go to the wall, or to the bottom, unless
Mr. Fillmore can be gotten rid OF, that which
is necessary to save them is likewise necessary to
save the Union " We are the State"-what is
good for us therefore is good for the State is their
reasoning; and the Kansas act and civil war is the
conclusion Selflove, party-devotion, have misled
them. Their safety and their success inyolvesgreat
danger to the Republic, and an their ruin lies the
safety Of the Republic.
Sir, they boast at the Southland it is their 10
triumphe-that they have defeated and overthrown
Abolition. Is it from this great struggle, then,
that the Democratic ranks are weak and wan and
thin? Why, sir, the Abolition party fell beneath
the blows of Millard Fillmore, leading the c0nserv
alive men of all parties-the Clays, the Webstsrs,
the Foote'S the Bentons of that great era OF 1850.
1t died of the Compromise of 1850, and was laid in
a tomb inscribed with those acts, and bearing on
its base the words: Millard Fillmore tecit.
Their leaders covered the journals of the Senate
with their protests against those wise but obnox-
ious concessions which laid the evil spirit. But
when the monster was overthrown and the field
deserted they dug up the dead body and laid it at
the feet of the South, and claimed their reward
"Lo our trophy--lo our scalp--to you be the spoil
of our sword and spear Aye, cir, "they fought
an hour by Shrewsbury clock"
While Prince Hal made Percy food for worms,
Fallstaff counterfeited death, and when the fight
was DER and the victor gone, Falstaff thus solilo
quizing: a-.
"zounds, am afraid of this gun-powder Percy,
though he is dead. Therefore, Ill make sure OF
him-yea, and I'll swear killed him. Nothing
confutes me but eyes, and nobody sees me. !"
Stabbed the dead body in the thigh, shoulder
ed it, and cast it at the feet Of the victor
"There is Percy. If your father will do me
any honor--well. If not, let him kill the next
Percy himself look to be either Earl or Duke,
can assure youF
The Prince turned away-Falstaff following
"I1l follow, as they say, for reward. He that
rewards me, God reward him !"
Mr.. Chairman, have but few words more to
say. Whose cause am peadings speak here
in behalf of that vilifed party, representing the
mass Of the American people in revolt against the
domination Of effete parties, which is willing, ire
spective of the chances of success defeat like it's
great leader, to devote itself to the Constitution
and to the Union. / have sworn to support the
Constitution and the Union. am bound to see
and will see that contending factions shall not
make the foreign yote the balance of power in
this country. ! have resolved that, so far as in
me lies, religion shall be banished from politics,
and no man shall attempt to invoke the religious
prejudces of any man. Sir, | will devote myself
to wedding out these transactions with the seces
sion party of the South, with the Abolition party
at the North with religious parties aspiring to po
ltical power, be they Methodist or Catholic, with
foreign votes that can be bought with the venal
of all parties, who play the game of power with
the interests of the people, and light the war of
sectional interests that they may be suffers to the
camp. And whether we succeed to-day or not
till tomorrow, time is for us the future is ours
the Young America cries the name of the Ameri
can party and imbibes its principles in his earliest
and pristine vigor. These sentiments will not
die out for generation, and in less than gen.
Grafton the republic can be saved. /, sir, shall
abide by that candidate who has been selected by
this party to protect the interests of this country
Between the candidates of rival sections will
not select. . @
can accept no statesman of twenty days, whose
only principle is, the forcing of the Topeka con-
stitution on the necks of the Kansas people, with
out pledges to fortune for good behavior or past
to read the future by. marvel at my Republi-
friends, still smarting under the experience
of what one unknown man may do, walking with
their eyes open into the same trap. ..rM.#. ...H +
| can accept no man whose tortuous career
touches alternately each extreme of the political
sphere, his political life merged in party plat
form, and chosen as the leader OF the Democratic
party to torment the North to madness, and to fol-
low in the footsteps of this administration on the
bloody grounds of Kansas.
have no preferences between two men who
dispute the doubtful honor of applying the torch to
the temple of the constitution.
No law can quiet Kansas, unless a soothing ad-
minstration soften the exacerbated feelings Of the
people. With such an administration no Lag is
needed. If Mr.. Buchanan be elected, he win fol-
low the bloody policy Of this administration, whose
sins and glories, Greytown, Ostend Kansas, and
all, decorate and oppress him. If Mr.. Fremont
be elected, he win be the hero of counter
rexnlnfion farco and merciless "a is The rotala.