Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-11-05

career Of Ant-i4ecompionism has been career
of triumph; we have driven these usarpars from
one point to another; We compelled them to
abandon their Leeompton policy; we compelled
them to abandon the English bill, and noW
| there is not white nan running for Congress
in the North who dares avow himself in favcF
| of the policy of the Administration one e
| [Cheers Even Mr. English has been compeE-s
! led TO abandon bis own measure to save himself
| trcm defeat. They have been compelled to adj
NIT the justice of cur position, and that those
who act with Mr.. Haskin, and with the inde-
| pendent Americans, Democrats and Repubiis
cans through 1ut the Free States are right
1 [Cheers.l Yet, what do we seea They have
set price on the head Of stephen a. Douglas
of Illinois. They follow him as If he had COM
mitted some dreadful crime. A murderer, or
a man tainted with treason, could not bo more
! bitterly prosecuted; and only because he has
been true to principles taat the Administrator
have failed to deny or controvert. The issues,
however, between us and them remains We
are fighting the great battle of Popular Soyer-
eighty. [Giheers. That is the issue. They can~
not escape the reckoning. No Charleston Con-
vention will save them unless they come for
ward and accept the doctrine which they now
| lrepudiate. No power-no patronage can save
/ them. | believe to-day, if The official vote had.
been stricken out, aud the people voted without
interruption, there would not be 10000 Dem
ocrats in Pennsylvania III favor of the policy of
the present Administration. TCheers.l Hence
| they are bound to subniIt TO crushing defeat
hereafter, or else come f9rwird and on bended
knees accept the policy which we stand BY to-
day. That is exactly the issue. | am well
aware that those ia high stations in Wasling+
ton and elsewhere arc felicitating themselves
| that those WHO act WITH ne will be divided, and
/ | know they are looking forward to the day
when by means of packed conventions they shall
get such nominations az they wish. But, gen.
tlemen, the day of independent men has ar
rived [great cheering;] the time has come when
no nomination is binding tia, discards great
aud impershablo principle. [Cheers.l Issay
further more, and say it deliberately, az one
man speaking the sentiments Of many thousandss
that il the Democlatie. party desres success IN
1860, they must get rid OF this Administration
at once and forever, Eeheers,l it is in the way.
1t stands in the pathway OF progress; it belongs
to the past; it is identified with the past, and if
they undertake to carry it along, it will be like
a healthy man carrying putrid corpse upon
his shoulders. [Gheers.l There is no rescue
but in this polcy-no deliVerance but in this
course. Those who have been hoping tia, Nr.
/ Buchanan might come down without popular
decree, hope in vain. what can he do Can
| he recall his hounds now assailing Stephen A.
Douglas without losing 'ligpitya Can he fol-
| low the example of Breckenridge, who has had
! the maniness to como forth aud raise his hand
| in horror at this indecent prescription? No. for
he is the author Of it He is worse than this,
| he is the author Of the most sc1ndalous doe
triEe that has been promulgated in this country
! ha dares tell us that the President Is the Gov
ernment. His motto is not Ike that of Old
| Hickory, eSThe Union, it must and shall be
preserved" }" but 'sThc Presisent and his policy
must and shall be sustained" 1t is in vain to
hope that man committed to dogma, to a
| despotism, like this, can be sustained by any
party. He is in the way: his men are in the
way, and they must move off aud let the great
train Of Popular Sovereignty pass on without
them. [Cheers.l know such language may
be regal ded as reasonable, but it is time we
understood each other say no man in Mr..
| Buchanan position can be sustained, and the
party attaching itself to bis fortunes will go
down deeper than did ever plummet sound
| [Cheers.1 This Leeomptonism has been the
greatest disaster that has ever befaleu any par
( ty. It has done good to nobody, has assisted
| nobody, except few miserable miscroants who
wanted Office.
As said at Tarrytown, the blacklist of Ro-
! publicans could go TO Washington and tell Mr..
| Buchanan be admired bis Lecompton policy,
and he was washed white and clean, and re-
warded with any Office he desired. Nothing
has flown from this thing of Lacompton but
/ black and bitter waters. When in Pennsylva-
MIA thousands of lahorors were starving for
work and nearly for bread, when credit was
gone and business paralyzed, and when the peo-
| pie turned TO the man whom they had regarded
| for twenty long years with admiration to pro-
tect American industry-when they did this,
the only reply heard was "Lecomptonism. p
| say here that so far as this question of pro-
tectng American industry is concerned Il
speak as a member Of the Democratic partly
am for it in all its length and breadth. TIRE
nendous cheerngl | have never been what is
called Free trade man; | have always be-
lieved il specific duties; but when | see how
the South adhere, how all their platforms and
pledges and creeds tend to their own benefit,
am for this doctrine of protection, or any other
doctrine that will help US here. tCheers.l--
The South comes to Washington with united
delegations, demanding her rights; the South
can be in favor of the nhuman traffic in slaves
Notwithstanding our treaties with foreign pow
ers prohibit such traffic, yet they are never
read out of the Democratic party. The south
west can como to Washington with demands
for internal improvements, and they are never
read cut. But let New York talk little
about protecting American industry, aud we
are told it is out of the record, out OF the par
ty, or out of tho Cincinnati platform Hence
it is / am willing TO 60 to the extreme upon
this Issue. Within the last week, gentlemen,
| have had the opportunity Of sounding pubic