Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-21

religion and right, and which, If have, |
regret them; but this thing will not do.
Loud cheers. have reached the stature
and years of manhood. and l cannot go
back to Pennsylvania to eat my own words
and become the slave of power. Re
newed cheers. Icannot. But then Mr..
Buchanan, you must tolerate this differ
ence of opinion. Gen. Jackson tolerated
differences of opinion in his friends. Col.
Polk tolerated differences of opinion, and
you differed with him IN his views on the
tariff, and yet you remained in his Cabinet.
Mr.. Pierce tolerated differences of opinion.
But there you are. Men who put ) on where
you are-who ask nothing at your hands
who have refused your favors rs--have tram
pied all the patronage that has been offered
them under feet; here they are, asking to
be tolerated in the indulgence ofan honest
opinion" The reply to that was, "Sir,
intend to make my Kansas policy test"
"Well, Sir" said Il regret it; but If you
make it a test with your officers, we will
make ita test at the ballot-box." Loud
cheers.
Repeated efforts were made to heal the
difference. But it seems to me, gentlemen,
that when the Presidency is conferred
upon a poor mortal, il transforms him into
a God, IN his own estimation, or a lunatic.
Laughter. Nobody is permitted to ap-
proach power TO tell the truth. Power
never hears the thunder voice of the people.
sitting RS it does in its cushioned chairs,
between its marble walls. The independ-
ent man, loud and bold, with a clear eye,
who comes TO tell the truth, is waved from
the Presidential presence as rude in
truder. Then we went home. AS | said,
repeated efforts were made, and made in
vain, to heal the differences. The con-
ferring of this Presidential patronage-of
vast millions-more than the monarch Of
Great Britain enjoys, and nearly as much
as the French Despot wields-this patron
age induced Mr.. Buchanan to believe that
he could make his test successful. How
was it made? Gentlemen, when the chap
ter which shall detail the manner in which
the Administration has used its patronage
is written, it will be black one. When
our children and our children's children
come to read it, they will not believe that
an American citizen, elevated to the Pres
idential chair, in the face of such people,
covered with such an armor of pledges,
would have gone into that chair to have
used his army-ay, his army and the treas
ure--your money and mine your officers
and mine-for the purpose OF putting down
a gallant band of men for standing Dy the
plain Gods truth; and I wish that when
be compelled to write that that President
was born in Pennsylvania. [Applause. ]
| Now, gentlemen, there has not
been an element lacking to relieve this
unredeemed infamy--not one. There has
not been a single circumstance lacking.
They have gone on, step by step, with a
tread of fate and destiny, trying to crush
out the brave and gallant spirits who have
stood forth asking for nothing but to be
allowed to do right. Look at the South,
in whose name this deed, Lecomptonism,
has been perpetrated, after its representa-
tives in the Senate and the House have as
sisted in bounding down Stephens A.
Douglas, and David @. Broderick and their
; gallant compatriots in the House, the South
begins to say, as they see the Admins
Douglas and his friends in Illinois: "ThIs
is too much. We are willing to accept
Lecompton as gilded poison which has
been extended to us, and which is to help
us, though the only thing it has done has
, been to commit our Representative to a
gross wrong toward the North. But we
cannot bear this persecution"
, Read the letter published the other day
in the New York papers from Reverdy
johnson, Of Maryland. ReadSthe state
ment of Alex. H. Stephens and Henry
A. Wise. They are clamorous against
these attacks on Mr.. Douglas. Public
men in this country forget in their truck
ling to the South that Southern people
, are Americans as we are. They have theil
: Slavery. They have their peculiar insti
| tutions. But they reject an infamy-they
reject unfairness just as readily as we do
? They will not submit to this tyranny oi
the Administration upon Mr.. Douglas
I And so il will be when the administration
> begin by courting the South-by de-
claring that the only thing the President
J should do is to yield to the South, thai
> Administration, will end by the South
turning upon it. What than? 1t will b'
Tylerised. Laughter The Admins
tration of James Buchanan Tylerised-
> supported by set of office holders and ex
, pectants only, with all the great parties
and the one that put it in power inclusive
, standing from it, and stunning it like ;
? contagion:
sImperiaI Caesar, dead and turn to Clay
Must stop hole TO keep the wind away"
, HOW DEMOCRATS ARE PRESCRIBED AND oP
POSITION MEN TAKEN INTO FULL FELLOW
II SHIP. -rsF
am aware that am talking to a mixet
audience-there are here present Amer
, cans. Republicans and Democrats.
: A Voice No doubt O. that.
l Mr.. Forney continuing Now, gentle
men, we who act with Mr.. Haskin, WI
8 who follow the flag borne by those great
4 heroes of the day--those immortal chief
D tains, Henry A. Wise and Stephen A
e Douglas-are constantly twitted with com
0 bining with what are politely called Black
/ Republicans. Laughter.] But have yo,