New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-10

imagined that be had nv ppou pfrcipse o!
wbeh the property Of he farmers might be pro
teC,sd sssirst the raysges Of the squirrels. OF be
started TO Washington and weut TO Genera hscome,
snd aske his Influence 10 enable nun 70 secure pa
teri. Gen. Mseomb ssAed what q was Never
ujpd said Bob -, is the grsndest tdes tia, any
faimer in Virginia had ever hit upon inuss.eri
IL might have been that too Renewed lsugeferl.
recall that ,1presso ion; if don't they can me ou'
ne your aid, snd then you Will see what grsnd as
oov6ry have made" But General Mseoinv M
ssted or knowing what the idea, what the pnnCt'e
was why said Bob, " il i Ia save the corn iro n
id.s, laid Gtrersl MaeOmb how do you expect 10
do Il ~ Il have made the scovery, said NOD;
give me ny patent and ,he World shaA k9os ny
plan. What is your an sad the Gentra-
TIE plan Is" said Bob, in painting your
corn-fela TO have no outside rows Loud
lsuctierl. Bob hadn't look 80 far TO see that
tie ipside rows would become outside. - with Gen.
Cas- be could not IT, but be had some idea Il might
he dtveloued in the working Of our po.ca machine,
as be worked which the world sss II was tie
greatest cheat snd humbug Of the sge; aud the old
sn still hugging the doctrine, and believes he has
GO; something in Il lLaughterl The old man had
.bou, the same idea of popular sovereignty tha,
old German preacher had OF the antiquity of bis Ian
eusge He honestly believed that the German was
the fir, language Laughter. Said be, ., know dat
e int Language vas de lerman. and can broves
II TO YOU vel as you must believe al vat say about
m Why" said he, "de first man dat breach de
Gospel vas Yermsn und b. have ferman name
HelserGtNIet
cot as near Melchisedek in the pane Gen. AS
20, of the true idea Of what liberty is Cheers Fe-
low citizens the lame actions OF decsyed potcisn
may amvse US, bot the subject assumes more serious
De ct when look at the condition Of the people %
Ksusss A. the frogs said to the boys: d" IL may
be fun for you, but II Is death TO Us. ~, fellow
citizens this que stiOn of life and de ah 10 the people
of Kausas There can be no doubt as 10 the wrong.
l. there any man who wants any evidence of the
wrong d ar be has already Voices" No! no Is
th,r any nan belonging To the sham Democracy
the present daysham 1t is and sham they must adam
it TO be- because you all see, is bnut upon such
miserable shams ss Popular SOvereignty-is there
spy man. | care hot bow deep down into the slough
he NAV be- WHO doubts that these wrongs have
been hesptd upon Kansas l.reS Vi NO. a., J
Nv fellow.citrens this man pcintlng to ayeneraoIe
ceuten an 90 the platform says that MS son has oeen
Killed IN Kansas. But 10 the men that douot con
ctrnirg these things in Kansas, we may Apply me
words that were spoken TO the man IN the deep pu of
d.spair If they believe not Moses and the Prophets
neither will they he persuaded though one rse from
the dead [Appsusel. The men who can look upon
,Lf,e outrages in Kansss-who listen to the tales
of blood and martyriom and then shout for buchanan
and Br, cke pridgt-is past cuIe-s hopei. ssy gone
lApplausel Such men love darkness rather than
light for the the Scripture gives-oecsuse thtr
deeds are evil. Is there in this vast assembly any
horeles-la pause and laughter -prodi ,al that has
Travelled away from bis fathers house where he had
plenty and to spare and Is now endeavoring 10 ieea
hims, If upon mi-erable husks in faron couniry-for
tie De racy to-day IL certainly far of Laugherli
The AL who will leave the green pastures which our
fathers prepared for here, and the still waters
where they resided and enjoyed these blessings OF hO-
tv and 90 ,R and endesvor 10 satisfy the enlarged
caiaciie of bis immortal nature With the miserable
le, sis nd errors of the called Democracy Of the
| pesent day-such a man Is the victim OF strange
| celusion, and believes a ne that be may De damned
Iauplause and laughter Men ssy they doubt-Pres-
1eut Pierce ssys he doubts In his Message, IN speak
ing of the Compromise of 1920 he says the constitution
Atty Of that act very much to be doubted, Inc
| id.a of such q man a. Franklin Pierce douotlng
who ,oon after it, passage, looked into that act with
their eagle inteect and far seeing acumen and came
10 the conclusion that the Missouri Restriction was
constitution slect. There were John Quincy Adams
Ienplausel-.John c. CahouR-who was good at that
linn ns-Iaprlausel-W llism ii. Crawford, Smith
| Thompson and Willism Wut-a noble band they
uereItbey all pronounced the act constitutional but
her, come Fran kiln Pierce from New Hampshire, who
| doubts its constitutionality. IL lust as IL l
should go into an observatory where some man WIN
telescope was scanning the starry heavens, and VINO
should tell me that he was looking a. pane o. 'uuu
| and such dimensions and should look up WIN my
u, etirg little naked eye and say doubtt Laugh
t.rl You will all admit that 1t might be a constu-
tion act and yet Franklin Pierce doubts It, " There
ale more things in heaven and earth than thou hast
dr., amed of in thy philosophy. Those old fathers OF
| tie Constitution, those old statesmen of enlarged
| inds, those men who discussed TINS question "hen
II ere was no sectional issue, and before the attempt
WAS made to nationaLe Slavery settled this question
Tley said that the people of the North had night 10
k e Slavery south Of 800 3V and there was no doubt
ard he lad peculiarly of intellect that rendered II
eseier for him doubt than to believe. But then to
| have such man as Pierce get up In thls
| Nineteenth Century, AMI in this year of grace
| 1886 and with his Pierce (not pierclngl eye
| IIsughterl say, doubt II, Is little too
ridiculous lLaughterl. But have the chsri,yto be-
ieye that if Franklin Pierce could have read the fu-
ture and teseen the Dc ings Of the Cincinnati Conven
| tion lsst week, be never would have doubted Ap
plauss Tie difficulty with him was. there was MIN
over Ls eve he though ne the Presidential char
| Gr . s,cond term; he looked through strangely
refractpg lens. and thought ne was gong sragh, INTO
that cLsr a second time and then II was ne douo,ed.
| II was under ike circumstances that Gen. ASS maze
that memorable discovery of the doctfne oi popular
.overeigpy You will recolect that only year or 80
before be came out with his discovery he was very
much offended at John Davis for taking the fOor a.
the close of the session and not giving hm an oppor
tupity TO 1ive Liz views In favor Of the w linoI
Provfso Only twelve months after that, IN looking
over the subject be Uncovered that the doctrneshrs
enuncated by Jefferson of the power OF Congress 70
| ,e.tyict Slavery within CO tain limits, was erro
| n.ous. The Old setting hen had ncubated year
| he sot and sot and sot-and from the eggs was
| hstcbed this remarkable chickennSIqstter oovef-
| e nty Laughter and spplsasel. lhe Old msh neye.
voud have 5een troubled with that idea had II not
been for the fact that he troubled wi,h certain un
easy aspirations for the Presidential chair; ies freo
denial chair-that il the trouble with the o.d man.
That the trouble at the present day with al men VINO
orr from The truth No man doubt that the people
in Kansas are entitled TO their freedom lAppnusel
Tb.y are rAke pe0ple. This IL not %esTo 9aeston.
1t is question OF white men ana "o'hen' r.aa %
could doubt that they have the night Of Free;
com weie it net for the -polIs OF Once and
| the hoLors Of distinction in our Iand lAPplaus1l.
Nv fellow. citizens, I wish to-day, for the sake
| Of Freedom, that there was no public pIunder
no e1ces,ive attraction of public plumber that there
rere hone of those elevated positions which dAlze and
| Gelude tie minds Of our people OBJ, II men would
opiv talk as they feel, if they would put
tteir hands upon then hearts, if they woild take
The Declaration Of independence, and read II sga.h
and again ifthey would read the writings u Jefferson
and he debates Of The Cayt nton under the Coniedera