Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-06-09

f, God and our country is to devote ourselves to
/ the political destruction of doughfaces, who
| say one thing at home and come here TO vote
another and who fawn and tremble, and fall
| down, in the presence of the Administration.
| No wonder that you, Southern men, call us
| slaves, judg ging us from these specimens OF the
people. But tell you they do not represent
| the fire and flint of the grim and grizzly \ orth.
| They are but our walters on Providence, our
| Mac sychophsnts; they are our Helps; they
belong to Dante's selfish men, whom he said,
| heaven would not have them, and he'll rejected
| them. L tell you, Southern men, i am ready
| to strike hands with fire-eaters, and extermi-
nate the race. 1t is becoming extinct. Look
| in their faces for the last time, they are fading
away-fading away. Oh for an artist 10 take
| their features, to transmit them TO curious
and scornful posterty. Do it quickly, for the
! places which now know them shall soon know
| them no more forever.
| l think it is the first duty of Republicans to
extinguish the doughfaces, but hold it also
| their duty to bear testimony as to the manner
| in which the Douglas mcn-and they will par
| don me for giving them the name of their gall
| liant and gifted leader-to hear testimony to
| the manner in which they have borne themsel-
yes. They have kept the faith; they have adj
| hercd to the doctrine of popular sovereignty
| they have voted it in this House, and they
have not fawned aud trembed in the presence
of dominating Adminstration-in the pres
| ence of that great tyranny which holds the
Government in its thrall at Washington
They have given flash for flash to every indig
nant look; and when gentleman from Vir
ginia, the other day, tauntingly told them that
certain language which they used npon the
floor of this House was the language of rebel
lion, they shouted ont, through the lips of the
gentleman from Indiana, Mr.. Davis,) sit was
the language of freemen.'' L say that it is
due to them that We should say that they
have borne the brunt of the battle-and that
they, whether from New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois, have kept the white
ness of their souls, and have made a record
which has lain in light and if my voice can
have any weight with the young men of the
country where those men dwell, | should say
to them, stand by these men with all your
young enthusiasm, stand by them without dis
tinction of party; they may not agree exactly
with you, but they have stood the test here,
where brave men falter and fall. Let them
teach this tyrannical Administration, that if
it is strong, that the people are stronger be-
hind it. Thus would speak to the young
men of the country l differ in SOME points
with those men, and do not wish to compli-
cate them. pay also the high tribute of my
admiration to that band of men who have
been reposing outside OF the boundaries of the
great parties of tho country a patriotic
corps of reserve, for the purpose, / suppose,
of saving the Union when it is endangered.
When they this sectional issue made,
standing as they did in position to look fair
ly on between the parties. they saw who made
it, and they instantly took sides and IN the
language of Mr.. Bell, in his reply to Mr..
Toombs, they accepted the issue of disunion.
They accept it; and when, sir, they saw that
Lecompton was Synonymous with sSfraud, with
forgery, with perjury, with ballot-box stuff:
ing,'' then they trampled it with their high
manly honesty under their feet. They have
taken it in charge to preserve the ballot box
md To An,a oifi ~
was proud day to me. when | heard the
speech of the venerable Senator from Ken
lucky, (Mr. Crittenden.) The melody of his
voice, and his patriotic accent, still sound in
my ears. was glad to hear him denounce
fraud was glad to hear him stand for the
truth. As listened, it seemed to me that
the spirit of the Kentucky Commoner had
come back again to visit his old place in the
Senate. 1t seemed to me as if his spirit was
lowering there, looking, as in days of old, af
ter the interests of the Union. At that mo-
ment, the heart of Massachusetts beat respon-
sive once again to that of grand old Kentucky
and longed to have the day come again,
when there should be such feelings in the
olden time, when the Bay State bore the
name of Henry Clay on her banners over her
hills and through her valleys, everywhere to
victory, and with an affection equal to the af
fection of kentucky herself.
l also felt proud to hear the spcach of the
distinguished Senator from Tennessee. IMr.
Bell.l l was glad to hear their confreres on
this floor, Messrs. Underwood, of Kentucky,
Gilmore, of North Carolina, Ricand and Har-
ris of Mary Iaud, and Davis, with his surpass-
ing eloquence, worthy of the best days of
Pinkney and of Writ; and l also express my
gratitude to Mr.. Marshall of Kentuckey, who
has labored so long to secure this union of
patriotic men. L owe it to these men, and to
myself to say that do not agree with them
on the subject of slavery, and know that they
do not with me. Neither do agree with the
Douglas men; l take what / think is higher
position. l hold to the power of Congress |
over the Territories; they do not. But while |
l oppose the Lecompton Constitution for one |
reason, and while the Douglas Democrats op- |
pose it for another, the South Americans may
oppose it for still another. God knows we
have all cause of war against it, and against |
the Administration. And we have come to- |
gether here as unit, not by any preconcert |
not by any trade among leaders, but by the |
spontaneous convictions of our own honest |
minds. / trust that this may be an omen of |
what may happen in the future. As to what
may happen, it is not for me to prophesy. |
Let time and chance determine. We come |
together, not in spirit of compromise, be- |
cause we compromise nothing. bat in a spirit |
of patriotism; and in that spirit for one, |
am prepared to sustain the substitute offered /
by the distinguished Senator from Kentucky
After first voting to reject the bill, will vote
for that substitute, not because wouid vote
for it as an original measure; /; L VIII vote Iof
it because L think that it will make Kansas
free State. The Administration says IL is
slave Territory to-day-the Lecompton Con-
stitution makes il a slave State. feel that
the I,ecompton Constitution, without TINS sub
stjtute. would pass in its naked form, and that
Kansas would he slave State under it; and
il / forego this opportunity to make it fee
State. the opportunity will be lost forever.
And how could meet nv constituents and