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

enco. But 1T seems to me, gentlemen, that
when the Presidency is conferred upon poor
mortal 1T transfers him into god, in his own
estimation, or a lunatic. Laughter. No
Dody Is permitted to approach power to tell
the truth. Power never hears the thunder
voice of the people, sitting as it does in its
cushioned chairs, between marble walls. The
independent man, loud and bold, with clear
eye, who comes to tell the truth is waved
from the Presidential presence as a rude In
truder. Then we went home. As | said re-
peated efforts were made, and made in vain,
to heal the differences. The comforting of
this Presidential patronage of vast millions
more than the monarch of Great Britain en-
joys, and nearly as much as the French dee-
pot wlelds-thls patronage induced Mr.. Bu-
chanan to believe that he could make his test
successful. How was it made? Gentlemen,
when the chapter which shall detail the man.
ner in which the Administration has used its
patronage is written, it will be a black one.
When our children and our children's chill
dren come to read it, they will not believe
that an American citizen, elevated to the
Presidential chair, in the face of such peo-
pie, covered with such an armor of pledges,
would have gone into that chair to have used
his army-aye, his army and the treasure
your money and mine-your officers and
liant band Of men for standing by the plain
word of Gods truth and i would wish that
when the historian comes to write, that he
would not be compelled to write that that
President was born in Pennsylvania Ap-
plause. Now, gentlemen, there has not been
an element lacking to relieve this unredeemed
lnfamy-not one. There has not been SIN,
gle circumstance lacking. They have gone
on step by step, with tread of fate and des.
tiny, trying to crush out the brave and gal
liant spirits who have stood forth asking for
nothing but to be allowed to do right Look
at the South, In whose name this deed, Ie-
comptonism, has been perpetrated. After It's
representatives in the Senate and the House
have assisted in bounding down Stephen A.
Douglas and David c. Broderick and their
gallant compatriots in the House. the South
begins to say, as they see the Administration
helIhoundS pursuing and attacking Doug
las and his friends, g 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
" 1t has done has been to commit our Repre-
" sentatIves to q gross wrong toward the
" North. But we cannot bear this persecu-
" hon.D Read the letter published the other
day in the New York papers from Reverdy
Johnson, Of Maryland. Read the statement
u.
They are clamorous-a against these attacks on
Mr.. Douglas. Public men in this country
forget in their trucking to the South that
Southern people are Americans as we are.
They have their slavery they have their pc
cnlIar institutions; but they reject a wrong,
they reject an infamy, they reject unfarness
just as readily as we do. They will not sub
NIT to this tyranny of the Administration
upon Mr.. Douglas and his friends. And
50 it will be when the Administration begins
by counting the S0uth-by declaring that the
only thing the President should do is to WELD
to- the South-that Administration will end
by the South turning upon it. What then?
1t will be Tylerised Laughter The Ad-
mlnlstration of James Buchanan Tylerised-
supported by a set Of Office holders and ex-
pectants only, with all the great parties, and
the one that puts it in power inclusive, stand
ing from it and stunning it like contagion!
Imperial Caesar. dead and turned 20 clay
Must stop hole To keep the wind away" IIauglter.l
| am aware that l am talking to a mixed
audience-there are here present Americans,
Republicans and Democrats. A voice-No
doubt Of that.
Mr.. FoRNEY (continuingl-Now,g gentle
men, we who act with Mr.. Haskin, we vino
follow the flag borne by those great heroes of
the day-those immortal chieftains, Henry A.
Wise and Stephen A. Douglas-are constant
ly twitted with combining with what are po-
litely called Black Republicans Laughter
But have you Americans who are present wit
messed the Efforts Of the Administration to
make union with you? The Administration
can combine with the Americans Il believe
you are called Know Nothings sometimesl
and that is all right. Or if Black Republi.
can comes out for Lecompton, he is immedi-
ately washed clean and wiped Laughter
Why gentlemen, the principles that we fought
for IN 1886 are now reduced to-Lecompton.
We may be as true as the north pole upon
princIpIe, but If we don't go for Lecomnton
we are id indeed. Laughter But if the
Republican or American becomes Lecompton-
lzed, ne is not only speedily forgiven, but he
Is elevated to the highest seat in the svna-
gogue, and he is pointed at as brand rescued
from the burning. Laughter. The Admin
lstraton is pledged, recollect, to platform
OF hostility to secret political societies He
is pledged in its platform to those who speak
with rich Irish brogue or sweet German ac.
cent But, gentlemen-you Americans and
you foreigners and adopted citizens are not
to recollect when an American becomes Le-
comptonlzed; only those are infamous who
unite with Republicans and Americans to
vindicate principle. Applause.1 Then
you are out of the party and are excluded
from decent society, and henceforth and for
ever you are never to be forgiven unless az
the last moment you come forward and saw:
Praise unto thee John Calhoun and Le-
compton" Laughter l have been tolinr
in the Democratic party since was boy,
and | am not now quite Al years of age. |
never voted any but a straight out Democratic
ticket My excellent friend, Samuel j. Ran
dali, who was very good American, and who
was elected to the Senate of our State-Sam
said to me: - am freshly in the party, and
you are freshly cut of it," Thus l End my
self turned out of the Democratic party if win
consent to it, and because | will not consent
TO leave Democratic principles. Laughter
This is an age of newspapers and telegraphs
on the land and through the sea. lCbeers