Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-11-04

[Cheers. Hence they are bound to submit
to crushing defeat hereafter or else come for.
ward and on bended knees accept the policy
which we stand by to-day. That is exactly
the issue. | am well aware that those in high
stations in Washington and elsewhere are fe-
licitating themselves thatsthose who act with
me will be divided, and I know they are look.
ing forward to the day when by means of
packed conventions they shall get such NOM
nations as they wish. But, gentlemen, the
day of independent men has arrived great
cheering;l the time has come when no NOM
ination is binding that discards great and
imperishable principle. Cheers. / say fur
thermore, and say deliberately as one man
speaking the sentiments of many thousands,
that if the Democratic party desires success
In 1860, they must get rid of this Administra-
ton at once and forever. Cheers. 1t is in
the way; it 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 pu-
trid corpse upon his shoulders. Cheers. =
There is no rescue but in this policy-no de-
hverance but in this course. Those who have
been hoping that Mr.. Buchanan might come
down without popular decree, hope in vain.
What can he do? Can he recall his hounds
now assaihng Stephen A. Douglas without
losing dignity? Can he follow the example
of Breckenridge, who has the manliness to
come forth and raise his hands in horror at
this indecent prescription No; for he is the
author of it lie is worse than this, he is
the author of the most scandalous doctrine
that has been promulgated in this country;
he dares tell us that the President is the Gov
ernment. His motto is not like that of Old
Hickory, The Union, it must and shall be
,nI hob L.
icy must and shall be sustained" 1t is in
vain to hope that a man committed to IA dog
ma to a despotism, like this can be sustained
by any party. He is in the way; and they
must move off and let the great train of Pop
nlar Sovereignty pass on without them
lCheers | know such language may be re-
garded as reasonable, but it is time we un-
derstood each other. | say no man in Mr.
Buchanan's position can be sustained, and
the party attaching itself to his fortunes will
60 down deeper than did ever plummet sound
lCheers This Lecomptonism has been the
greatest disaster that has ever befallen any
party. 1t has done good to nobody, except
few miserable miscreants who wanted Office
As | said at Tarrytown, the blackest of Re
publicans could go to Washington and tell
Mr. Buchanan he admired his Lecompton
policy, and he was washed white and clean
anu iCnhAuSu WIN ouCc ueSiTtu--
Nothing has flown from this thing of Lecomp-
ton but black and bitter waters When in
Pennsylvania thousands of laborers were
starving for want of work and nearly for
bread, when credit was gone and business
paralyzed, and when the people turned to the
man whom they bad regarded for twenty long
years with admiration to protect American
industry-when they did this, the only reply
heard was "Lecomptonism. | say here that
so far as this question of protecting American
industry is concerned, Il speak as a member
OF the Democratic party,) | am for it in all its
length aud breadth. Tremendous I1ita.d1se ta.d1se.
| have never been what is called free-trade
man; | have always believed in specific du-
ties but when | see how the South adhere
how all their platforms and pledges and creeds
tend to their own benefit, | am for this doc
trine of protection, or any other doctrine that
will help us here. Cheers The South
comes to Washington with united delegations,
demanding her rights the South can be IN
favor of the inhuman traffic in slaves, not
withstanding our treaties with foreign powers
prohibit such q traffic, yet they are never read
out of the Democratic party The South
West can come to Washington with demands
for internal improvements, and they are never
read out. But let New York talk q little
about protecting American industry, and we
are told it is out of the record, out of the par
ty, out of the Cincinnati platform. Hence it
is | am willing to go to the extreme upon this
issue.