Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-09-30

despotism, take care lest when November
comes you do not find that the Democrats
think good deal more of their principles
than they do of their organization. For my
part speaking fer Pennsylvania, on the iZtn
of October. when you open the New York Fri
bune, Herald and Times, you will see under
the telegraphic head figures something like
this: &c. 600 majority against the Lecomp-
ton candidate" Cheers.l That is the way
we will make our mark there-yes, we will
do more, we will stand by John Hickman, we
will stand by Montgomery, and whenever
Lecomptonite is trotted out we will try TO
defeat him, regularly nominated or not.
am not to be terrified by this Chinese thunder
of organization. Laughter. | am willing
to combine with any good man, no matter
what is his name, who combines with me to
rescue the American name from this odium and
this disgrace Why, gentlemen, in 1856, not
to 90 back to that but for an instant, we would
never have got the Republican vote we did for
Mr.. Buchanan if we had not pledged our
selves over head and heels for this doctrine
Now let me say word in conclusion on the
subject of popular sovereignty. You Repub-
hcans are coming to it, and, gentlemen, you
will come to it. Now mark. there is but one
way for it. | saw the other day speech
made by distinguished New York journal
ist-and | speak of him as distinguished for
many things, though we have differed Tor
many years. mean Mr.. Greeley. Cheers.
He pointed the way to the coming time. lie
has been denouncing popular sovereignty as
a humbug. 1t would have been if all Demo
Gratis cooperating with him had surrendered
to the Administration. 1t is not humbug
it is living principle. Tell me this is IL
lusory that people to the number of l3, 900
have been strong enough In their own will
and their own way to put down the army OF
the United States, and beat the shareholders
majority, with about S70000,000 of patron
age, overrun with Federal officers with the
Senate aud House against them-wth the
President petraying his trust-tel me that
they, armed as they have been by the simple,
naked principle of popular soyereignty-that
this principle is a humbug? Such wonders
must be real, must be right. Come TO 1t,
gentlemen; the men who are for Congressional
Intervention here are Lecomptonites, men
whom you despise. They are constantly tel
ling you, day after day, that they despse you,
We offer to you the principle Of popular SOW
ereignty brought from the fair field of Kan
sas, covered all over with glory. We have
proved that we stand by it; we have turned
our back upon the Administration we have
rejected its patronage; we have laughed at its
blandishments-nO mean thing to do at any
time, and particularly at time like the pres
ent, when our country has been SWEPT by such
a whirlwind. Believe in US, stand by Haskin
in his noble conduct, vindicate the principle
in his election cease your differences as to |
power, give US the principle and the name
will be little. That which applies to the Re-
publican applies with significant force to the
American, and | must say Il would do injus !
tiee to my character if | did not say it, that
l am inexoraby opposed to one portion Of the !
American creed; that is due to you. gentle |
men, and to myself; but there is another por-
ton of the American creed which teaches u.s. |
and we are bound to believe them, that it is |
national creed. They have their Southern |
connections--they have their Humphrey Mar |
SHALL their Winter Davis and their good men |
whom | know WE'LL and these are your lead !
ers. They tell US that you are national and !
therefore the doctrine of popular sovereignty |
is for you; above all it is for the north the |
South Is committed to lit will not recede. /
The day is gone when seetionalism can pre-
vail in this country the daY for a sectional |
party has passed away, in my humble opin- |
ion. The South gallant and glorious as she |
is, we must protect sir, in all her rights | |
have stood by her from my early years down |
to the present moment. | will stand by her !
to the end, unless she asks me to do wrong : |
then we must part company for time. The |
South, gentlemen, is committed to this prin- |
ciple, and thus with all the pledges of the |
present with all the hopes Of the past, call |
upon you to take the principle, and to take it |
soon; the train is moving and the cars are
filling up. Come on let us take this princ- |
pie for a single principle. Everything else |
that is right will follow, and in 1860 there |
will not be a white man in the North willing |
to say he ever heard the name of Lecompton. |
Loud cheers.