Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-07-17
They are Frightened.


No change ever came over the spirit Of any.
body's dream so suddenly as that which ha,
OVertaken the Doughfaces A few months
nay few weeks ago. they were all in good
sPIrits-rampant, confident, insoent They are
now crsst-iallen-groWing not only peaceable.
but humble. They are down on their knees
drivers and all. And the RufIians are
on the "anxiOus seats" Even Douglas, who
threatened, few weeks since, to "subdue"
all creation, is becoming quite lamb-like We
have broken his teeth and bent bis spirit He
don't buster as he did, before the Cincinnati
ConveniOnl We rather think he wouldn't
stand by and see Sumner beaten again. The
poor fellow has been trying to get Congress
adjourned. He is in hurry to "be off," He
Smells a raj. Coming events cast their shad.
ows before;" and the return Of the Kansas
Commission fills him with horror. lie imap-
ines, and well he may. that the committee have
kind OF Pandora's box. from which they are
to let loose all manner of woes for himself, and
''N'NN' anu 'ho OthOI INunans' Even 'lOOmOs
is terrified. He is bobbing about in the SEN
ate trying to hatch up some method to restore
peace in Kansas. And all his ruffian brother
hood partakes ofhis alarm. Brooks is chop-
fallen; and Butler didn't dare to be otherwise
than civil to Massachusetts, calling her the glo.
rious old comrade of South Carolina This he
said in his speech in the Senate, in reply to
Sumner. How the "GhiValry' bends its neck
Now what has produced so happy change
in the DOughfaces and the Slave Drivers-late.
ly SO ferOcious and beliggerent Why are
they so troubled about Kansas? Why in
hurry to break up Congress? What has done
it? What alarms them? All, they fear the
people," as the old hypOCrites did ancently.--
1t is the thunder of the Pecple's tramp that
terri6es them. 1t is the clang of Free Steel,
and the floating of Free Flags, and the ringing
of Free Voices. The first stunning blow came
down in the Cincinnati Convention "a thunder
bolt that swept down the rzfian camp, as veg
etab!e life bends to the shaft of the sky. 1t
came unexpectedly. 1t could not be resisted.
How that Convention bowed the Ruffian chiefs,
and made them bite the dust.
Pierce and Douglas went to Cincinnati win
high hopes. They felt that Rufianism was
Omnipotent-th they were to be the idols, the
gods inthat Convention. A las, FOR the terri
bic deluson. Never were mea more sadly
mistaken. Never came the cup OF vengeance
to such reluctant lips. 1t was in the Peoples
hHnd-and most cruelty the People pressed
the draught to the very dregs. "Sjc sensper
trannis" What, said Douglas, are the peo-
pie so mighty? Have they the power to de-
throne me? Am ITO tread the scaffold as
Haman did; and swing from the very rope 1
have fastened with my own hands3 "Certain.
ly" exclaimed the people, "and your dear
friend Pierce must swing with YOU" Par no.
bile trutran! So fell Douglas and Pierce at
Cincinnati. So rufianism received its first
blow-a blow most painfully felt, THAT stag
gered the scoundrels and set them wondering.
But another blow was to folow--a more dis
aStrous one still. Philadelphi completed what
Cincinnati began. When the cry for FIRE.
MONT and FREEDOM rang upon their star
lied ears, they felt that it was their death knell
They knew that the People were pushing after
that the People were behind that terrible
voice. Belshazzars were they all-wth knees
shifting and hearts quailing. The Rufian
power bowed-and is bOwing meekly.
So it is. Every one who is watching the
current Of events, can but notice this change
in the bearing of the Rufian party, They are
less confident less audacious. They are now
troubled about affairs in Kansas. They are
trying to soothe the people. Blu! it is of no
use They are doomed They, and their
Platforms, and all their bloody rascalties, must
go down together. And poor Buchanan must
go down with them. There is sno help for him
Even he cannot save them, as they hoped
He has gone into their Platform, and can never
come out alive. Fremont is coming!-a name
that is a "terror to all evil-doers-" The Peo-
pie are with him. And well may the Ruffia an
party stand aghast, and seek some escape from
the impending storm. Their struggles will
prove most vain. Their repentance has come
too late. And more than all, its sincerity is
veiy questionable. There is no safety but in
the Peoples ranks--in the Peoples movement
under the "Path. Finders" flag.
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