The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-10-07

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1t was right that another treachery to the
great principle of the Revolution should
be exposed and held up to the public view
on the same spot. 1t was right that un-
official men, private citizens, should meet
on the ground hallowed by the noble
deeds of the poor private soldiers, Paul
ding, Vanwers, and Williams-sbould
meet ir that place to admonish their
countrymen against the new attempt to
establish false doctrines, and to punish all
who would not accept them. Ii this al
lusion is not pleasant, the Washington
Union must thank itself. With insane
negligence of history and of truth, the
Union has sought to turn the fact that |
spoke at Tarrytown into charge OF trea-
son upon Mr.. Haskin and myself. Not
ours the treasoh-not ours the shame
No, mol We have not sought to surren-
der the sacred rights Of the people. We
have not been tempted by the glare OF
patronage, made mad by longing for
continued power, or rendered Indifferent
to duty and to patriotism by the belief
th at our influence was boundless, and that
our desertion of faith and Of friends would
pass undetected and unrebuked.
Whatever personal disagreements may
have taken place between the Chief Mag
istrate and myself after his election--and
| am not here to lift the veil that hides
them from the public sight, and only re-
fer to them in so far as those who now pro-
fress to be his organs may compel NE,
and even then without the violation of the
sancities of private correspondence aud
private life-one thing is known, not
merely to the world, but to Mr.. Buchan-
an himself; I INTENDED, fully believing IN
his public yirtue and LIS dcuotin to the
Democratic party, and, aboud all, to the
great lrinclPl9f popular Sovereignty ,aehaol
lie was elected 10 maintain, TO signaliae
myself By giuing TO has policy, and himsey
an ardent, eGectire. and. I mag be permit
ted TO sag, a disinteyeSted support.
His Inaugural had fallen upon the hon.
est heart of the people like refreshing
shower of wholesome truth. 1t had par
alysed faction. 1t was bringing over to
the Democratic party thousands who, in
doubling him, had voted against that par
ty in 1856. 1t may well be conceived
how anziously strove to N aiDtain state
of things which would not only assist to
push Pennsylvania forward in tho race of
empire, but would advance all the true
men of the State who had been steady in
the faith which gave US the signal victory
of one year before.
What motive could | have had at tha
time to come into collision with any men,
Der of Mr.. Buchanan's Administration I
AS to the cry Of having been candidate
for the Cabinet, that SANDER is best an
swered by the fact that my name was
never presented with my consent to his
consideration, and that the only part
took in the form alton of that Cabinet was
industriously to labor to elevate Howell
Cobb to a sent in that Cabinet, because lie
honestly, as I Supposed, s1estainedMe prin-
ciple Of popular sovereignty IN tie Plesi-
cle,atial election, and also to raise % voice
against the infliction upon that Cabinet
of Mr.. Jones, of Berks county, whose ca.
reer since then has SO fully fulfilled all
the apprchensions which [ entertained of
his subserviency, bis treaehery, and his
incapacty. Nor could | have felt any
disappointment after my defeat for the
Senate. Indeed, Mr.. Buchanan has now
in his possession a letter from me, In
which | thanked him, in grateful terms,
for the manner in which be was pleased
to prefer me among all the distinguished
gentlemen named for that high place.
Amongst those now most anxions to
consecrate fhe great betrayal of principle
by the present Administration on the
Kansas issue is the Hon. Jeremiah s.
Black, Attorney General of the United
States, position which he would not oc-
cupy to-day, and he knows it we'll, but
for the very anti -Leeompton Democracy
against whom he is now constantly, coarse.
ly, and calumpiously railing.
Yes, had these gallant men been will
ling to yield to the demand of the extreme
South, that Pennsylvania should allow
that South to make Cabinet minister for
US in the person of Jones. of Berks coun.
ty, the loudest and m ost valiant opponent
of the Lecompton policy of the present
general Administration would be the il.
lustrious Attorney General himself.
will now come down to the causes
which led me to deliver the speech which
has elected such unlicensed abuse from
the paid organs of the Administration, tc
which organs | will, in the proper place
pay my respects. After Mr. Buchanan
had determined to make his Kansas poll.
cy test with the democratic party; after
Judge Douglas had spoken his first cele
brated speech in the Senate, and when
the fact had become notorious that the
moving cause of the surrender Of the prin.
ciple to which We stood committed IL
1856 was the threat of secession coming
from certain politicians in three or foul
Southern States, (not the people of these