Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-13

take hIs labor without due reward and aEHH=l p
will Dc wrong
Tho Hon. John l.. Dawson. one If the re-
creant Democrats who misrepre-ented their con
stitneneies in voting for the Kansas Nebraska
bill In speech delivered at Democratic mas
meeting IN Greene county, PennsylY ania Aug
81, 1856. says:
Zine defence Of the Kansas-Nebraska bill is 10 L,
found in its entire accordance with the great tHeor!
Of Democratic republic. We maintain that the
IDEA Tint the interests Of slavery gaia any thing by
such an arrangement Is mere illusion.
Sir. the gentleman from South Carolina tAlr.
Brooks) was right when he sad;
"rhatthe creates differences fopuiou ia fcEtfl to
the true construction Of the asNebrska act re
entertained hy Northern and southern democrats,
and hy each among themselves Is beyond doubt, aud
this difference is the shoa which is Threatening US
with wreck
And, sir, he has given fitting rebuke 10 such
Democrats as were disposed to dodge behind the
bush and to play upon the words free Kansas
| He says.
The assertion has here frequently been made and
unconiradctel that at many Democratic. meetings in
the North The people were ulied under banners upon
winch werr inscribed. Buchanan, Breckenridge, and
free kansas Ia,enotlaree placarIs been here ex-
/ hibed with these words u Tie largest letters upon
them, and the warj fr,r III italics? We arr told by
our Democrats friends on tie ioor that nothing
NOR meant than that the people of kansas honld
be tree 10 decide upon lie subject Of slavery for them
selves Nbtt alsonf Is not the question. How
were the aur17 understood 10y the Masses What
their oB,ef upon the solers2 That is tie qne.-
ton aud II the Presidential election Wa carried mp
on ldse precntc- Nhh; cause Of triumph hnye we2'
Ii not only "Buchunan Breckenridge, and
free Kansas" hut, u the extracts which have
introduced from god Democratic authority, a
bundnutly prove, II wn- also emancipation o
all men. white men ns well bfdck from the
shaekles Of bondage md that the Democracy
OF tho non slnvchulding States are not in favor
of negro slavery, or any kind of slavery, in any
State or in any Territory" 1t by such
means and such declarations only that thousands
of Pennsy lvnna Democrats were induced to vote
for Mr. Buchanan. And, sir, il the incoming ad-
mnstration dare USE is influence and power to
mike Kansas slave STATE. and it tho South
should adhere Ia it. "ultimatnm," then will tho
"seeptre depart from Judah and that right
speedily.
The creun,tance stated below, for which we
indebted 10 Boston cotemporary, will show
by what combinations and progresses, the means
raised to operate upon the venality of Com
gross.
1t appears that in the autumn Of 1854 meet
ing of Railroad Companies was held at the Aston
House, New York. and n committee appointed to
procure thu remission, or repeal, or suspen sion,
for limited time,of the duty railroad iron here
toiorc, to be, imported With this committee,
Of which several able aud influential OK members
OF Congress the leading spirits, tho various
Railroad Companies concerned entered into an
agreement rs follows;
The Railroad Companies whose names ARE here
unto ubscihed hereby agree to co operate with the
Committee appointed bY the meeting of Railroad
Companies held ut the A.lor House New York in the
autumn ot l4ji Ia uhitlu remission, repeal or