Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-03-09

OF his talents, position and influence to
crush out tho oAopes Of freedom in Kansas,
by ,slandering their )friepds and falsifying
their history; and had used every means
and artifice within his reach to build upl
and consolidate the Democratic party,
which. ruled. as he knew it 10 be, by the
Slave Power of the South, was made the
instrument to fasten on the people, while
they were too weak to resist it, their hated
despotism. But that failing in reaching
power, and satisfying his ambition by that
line Of policy, and the people of Kansas
having triumphed, in spite of his party
and his falsehoods-no longer the weak
and crushed, but the victorious party in
the Territoiy--their true history coming
to be understood by the country in spite
of him and with the absolute certainty
that the great heart Of humanity will in
the end beat in unison to the music of
freedom, and that that time was near. he
all at once jumps into the arena, and with
"shriek" that would strike Republican
dumb with amazament. denounces the
Administration of his choice in terms that
could only be Inspired by large infusion
of disappointed hopes and personal feeling.
So it tappesred to us-and that his present
object was simply to out-do the Republi-
cans in their condemnation Of Buchanan
and his schemes, and thus reap the bene-
fit of popular sentiment he had failed to
crush and could no longer resist. We
will, however, in the exercise of abundant
charity, modify our judgment so far as to
say, that if Henry B. Payne is not, at this
present time, an irredeemable demagogue,
then he is, through repentance and con-
version, most earnest and honest CO.
worker against the Kansas swindle.
The speech itself was rep!ete with truths
: sent home with terrible earnestness. He
endorsed all that had been said by Judge
johnson, of the villainy of the Lecomp-
ton outraees-pressed them home on the
Administration with directness of aim
and force Of indignant denunciation, that
rather excited the sympathies of Republi-
cans for the poor old bachelor. He said
the administration of Buchanan had be.
come the center of immeasurable corrup-
tion, which if not checked instantly by
tha irresistible rebuke Of the people, would
result in the speedy suppression of the
last remnant of freedom in the country
that every man who was not willing to
wear the brand Of tame servility must
denounce him--that the reign of George
the Third was justice and honor in com
parison-said Southern members Of Con-
gress with faughty pride could glory in
proclaiming that they were pro-slavery
men, while Northern men truckled and
cringed before them like coward slaves.
He said the people of Kansas ought TO
hang every miserable minion sent there
by the Administration, and if the Amy
WAS again employed they ought to fight,
and, if need be, the Free States ought to
aid them. He said the threat of dissol-
wing the Union was base appeal 10 the
low born fears of towards, and that il
met with the spirit of manhood would be
heard no more forever. But that even if
disunion followed, he could not, and would
not submit--that lie had spoken in more
than sixty counties in the State last fall,
and had everywhere pledged the Democ-
racy to fair and free vote by the people
of Kansas--that the Republicans had told
the people that the administration would
not give the people fair play, and that Ad-
ministration that he had labored SO hard to
elect had gone far beyond all that had been
charged by the opposition-had by their
measures pronounced him, and Douglas,
and all Northern Democrats liars, and asked
them to take on their brows the voluntary
brand Of hypocrites-declared that if he
did not denounce the Administration, and
, war against it to the bitter end, he would
, be ashamed 10 ever look an honest man in
the face again, DC, &c. But can give
you no fair conception of the speech. Ii
was exceedingly severe, and as we thought
infused with great bitterness.
, In the evening, Judge Morton, late U
S. Dist. Attorney, spoke. He made an
able and digni6ed speech, cutting wholly
, loose from tie Administration, and de-
nouncing it in courteous but terribly Sc
we're terms. We will not attempt to give
even an idea of his remarks. He was
followed by the veritable Joe Geiger, the
head and soul Of Know Nothingism in
Ohio, until lie went over to the Democracy
with his cohorts, in the Presidential cam
paign He was simply crazy, in the fury
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