Daily American organ., 1856-08-13
TooNTINUFD IRON THE FIKsT pAsE. I


strument out Of the way 10 avoid the scandal Of q
public dismission and the greater scandal Of COLI
fession of blunders worse than crimes, and weak
ness worse than wickedness. III there were no
such men within that party il 10 unfit 10 guide the
destinies Of this country. IL there were, then are
they thrice unworthy TO hold power they have 30
grossly abused. Sir, that scene In the Executive
chamber-the proconsul of the President narrating
that he let the very life blood Of the Province ne
ruled run unayenged and unstaunched, the very
flowers of her franchises be trampled down at the
sacred ballot box, marauders from either pole run
a muck over her peaceful population, himself bu-
ried to the ewes and ears in private specuistons IN
public lands over which he ruled, OF questionable
legality and of unquestionable evil example, and,
deaf to the cry of helpless agony that rung
through his domain, content to leave hes peo-
Die ~ TO their enemies if the Protector and the
President could agree ON the color to be put
on the scandals and adjust the division Of the re-
sponsibity; confessing these things to the Presi-
dent Of the Republic, and that President driving a
bargain for foreign mission in lieu Of instant and
ignominious expulsion from Office and, the nego-
tiation failing, dismissing him gently for illegal
speculation silent as the tomb to the civil war
that he allowed to rage the outraged law he
failed to avenge; the rights OF suffrage violated
with impuRity and the yoke Of q Legislation born
In violence and fraud by his Judgment fastened on
tablished by vast mass of resistless testimony,
form a new and melancholy chapter in the History
OF the Republic. R afNa9A
Sir, the party whose policy, however well In
tended, has given occasion to stain the American
name with civil blood by the repeal of the Mis-
souri Compromise, is not likely To stand well with
the men of the North, whose brethren have been
the sufferers Their denals Of the outrages, their
extenuations their apologies day after day, In this
All ~fs
tees evidence overwhelmed them; and their carp
ing cavils at that evidence to my Judgment yet
unimpeached, and, II 80, of crushing weight
scarcely tends to improve the odor Of the Demo
cratic party in Northern nostrils.
That is my opinion of the result OF the Kansas
investigation. / dare not impute perjury to men
by the hundred the concurrence Of 80 many is
itself conclusive against the hypothesis Of fabrica
cation and must be pardoned II my legal hAb
its will not allow me to weigh partisan denials
against testimony sworn in the face of cross exam
nation. i make no plea Of justification for some
strained or onc-sided inferences, 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 here, sir, for no
party. / am speaking this day for the ConBttu-
tion and the Union. [ am pleading for the great
rights of American citizens | am pleading for
the honor and integrity Of the American govern
word in malice that would tinge the honor of the
country or hide one dark trait which the people Of
the country ought to know. The reason the North
is opposed to the Democratic party is, that tn ey
have done these things.
Now, sir, perhaps we begin to see why the
Northern people will not support Mr.. Buchanan
Why viii they not support himp Why will not
she conservative vote be given for him g-for there
is a conservative majority They will not vote for
the Democratic party, nor for the Democratic nom
inee because they have been guilty Of these things
They will not vote for them, because they have
never repented in sdckcloth and ashes. They will
not vote for them, because they have denied the
wrongs before the proof, and defended them after
the proof They will not vote for them, because
they have reiterated the insult. They will not
vote for them, because they have blazoned on their
banner the very words Of the ambiguous oracle o.
the Kansas and Nebraska act, the very cause and
declaration of war, now no longer deuding any one,
but plainly in bloody letters interpreted on the
fields of Kansas. These are reasons they think
sufficient and they likely TO continue to think
them sufficient. IfMr. Fillmore were in that posi-
ton they would not vote for him. Ay, sir, even
conservative Northern man, tempted by spirit of re-
venge and retaliation would have to argue with him
self long time before he could bring himself down
to vote for this man. who has outraged all the feel
nes with which these men have been brought up
the best and the most conservative Of them, thou.
sands of degrees from Abolitionists-- who are
supporting the Constitution and the Union
men who are willing to support and defend the
institution of slavery-men like those at Boston,
who, to execute he Fugitive Slave Law, marched
down the streets of that city with loaded arms to
shoot down their own citizens that you, men of the
South might be protected These are the men
Won have driven from you. Where will they 60 Il
Mr. Fillmore were not offered to them as the sym
Dol of peacep
Why, sir, put it to my honorable friends to
apply to them the arguments they hold valid al
the South These Northern men are of like pas.
sions with us, moved by insult, not above re.
venge and not given to preferring, in q sectional
contest, the candidate of their opponents. Ny
Democratic friends, from every hustings in the
South, exhort the people to vote for M. Bucha-
nan because ne as the Southern candidate because
he is for the KdnSds-Ne6raska act, because he is
AGAINST compromise, in Southern sense, because
he is the strongest man opposed to tie Northern
sectional candidate. And by this sort of argu-
ment they admit that the sectional candidate at
the North represents the same class of men at
the North that they represent at the South--met
who are no more unreasonable in Northern than
they are in Southern sense. As they appeal
to the South so do the men who support Mr.. Ere
mont appeal to the North. Gentlemen Of the Dem
ocratic party, Judge ye hon far they entitled to
weight Are they conclusive? Do they compe
me to yield my political preferences? Is IL rgh,
that shall go for Mr. Buchanan Am bound
to bow the knee to him9 Is it so desperate
case that must stomach the imputations and
the slurs which were hurled on me and the Anne
rican party during two or three months Of thi,
long session? Shall 1, for these considerations o.
merely sectional and Southern character, because
he is, you say, the candidate of my section, aban-
don those who have stood by us? / pray you to
recall to your memories, and weigh well the oblo-
guy cast on the American party. We wcre you say,
an unconstitutional party, yea, the very encmies
of the constitution. We were opposed TO civil
and religious liberty. We were for depriving men
Of enual rirhta. We were for drixinQ the hnneat