The weekly Butte record., 1858-11-13
Extracts from Col. Fornsy's Address.

to the assaults nf the Lecompton organs" pre-
cludes its republication in our columns entire
We must confne ourselves to extracts from it,
most important features, After an able vindi
cation OF bis own position and the motives in,
ducing it. be thus shows up the Presidents
organ, the washinstqq Union:
"When these ID no serious dispute upon the
Constitution, either ip the Convention on among
the people, the powers OF the delegates alone
may put it in operation. But such is not the
s9se IN Kansas. The most violent struggle this
country ever saw, upon the most important is-
sue which the Constitution is to determine, has
been going on there for several years, between
parties so evenly balanced that both claim the
majority. and SO hostile to one another that nu.
mcrous lives have been lost in the contest I'm.
der these circumstances there eua be no such
tang gns ascertaining dearly, and wahost doubt
the scM Of the people IN any tray except by their
oscn d,rert srPress,on Of 1t at the polls. A Con-
stitution not subjected to that test, no matter
what it contains, will never be acknowledged
By its opponents to BE- anyth1g but a fraud.
"A plausable color might be given 70 this
| assertion BY the argument that the members of
the Convention could haze no motiue for ref,s-
ing TO submit their 4rork to their constituents,
except consciousness that the majority ,rould
condemn it. We confess that we shoxld find
some difficulty in ansvering this. What other
motives could they have? We do most de-
Toutly believe that, unless tie Constittit,oa Of
Kansas be submitted to a direct rote of the peo-
pie, the unhappy controversy acheh has hereto
fore ragged IN that Territory wM be proion sed
for an tndefnue time to come
Amongst those now most anxious TO conse-
crate the great betrayal Of principle by the
present Administration on the X alsas issue is
the Hon. jeremiah S. Black Attorney Gener-
al OF the United States, position that he
would not occupy to-day, and he knows it well
but for the very antiIccomption Democracy
against whom he is now constantly, coarsely
aud calumniously railing.
will now come down to the causes which
led me to deliver the speech which has elected
such unlicensed abuse, from the paid organs of
the Administration to which organs will in
the proper place, pay my respects. After Mr..
Buchanan lad determined to make his Kansas
,nnicy test with the Democratic party after
Judge Douglas had spoken his first celebrated
speech in tn Senate, and when the fact had
become notcriou- that the moving cause Of the
surrender OF the pril.einle to which We stood
committed in 1856 WAS tnC threat Of secession
coming from certain politicians III three or four
Southern States mot the people of these States,
but the politicians and managers.) the most ui
exampled prescription was resorted to Tor the
purpose Of intimidating those who agreed with
Judge Douglas and Governor wise, and Gov
ernor Walker, and to compel them to take
sides with the administration in its unexpected
metamorphoss.
| returned, after my interview with Mr..
buchanan, still anxious to maintain friendly re-
lations with his administration but was soon
convinced that unless debased my manhood,
and recalled all that had said in favor of the
Cincinnati platform and the doctrine of popu-
lar sovereignty, l would be called upon to
bear the brunt Of violent collision And from
that day, from January, 1858, up to Sep
;;.c,bcr, when | spoke at Tarrytown, there was
no calumny lvc vile to be coined and circula
ted by the organs o. the Administration
against the journal of which, I am the owner
and the editor, and the gentlemen with whom
l am proud 20 cooperate in this great cause.
Every friend who had been appointed to office,
and who still dared to sympathise with me, in
my stru, ,gle for principle, was elected from
place. i Was denounced as not only false to
my party, not only as false to the issues Of
1856, but was declared ito be under the pay
Of the Black Republicaus;" and, to cap the
climax, the same administration organs were
kind enough TO alege that had proved my.
self ungrateful to James Buchanan by refusing
to follow him in his betrayal of Democratic
principles. Appeals were made to post masters
throughout the country to attack me in my
business, and to leave no effort untried to Grip
pie my enterprise. In word there was an in
genuity of prescription, a fertility OF galsehood,
u recklessness of persecution, which induced me
more than once to inquire in the language Of
Governor Walker, whether indeed I'VE were
living in the lat year of American indepen-
dence. or the first year Of the American monar-
ehyi" cav the basest wrstches, men who had
never been recognised by the democratic par
~ in this State, and who in 1856 had scarcely
m opinion TO avow, ready to 90 for Fremont
or Filmore-I saw these men not only clothed
with the power of the Federal Administration,
but authorised to speak in denunciation OF men
who had created it. saw the money OF the
Federal Government expended to break down
the regular organization of the Democratic par
ty whenever and wherever the organization
was not committed to the scandalOus Kansas
policy Of that Administration. / saw Senators
turned into spectators in order to induce then,
to desert their written and spoken promises to
the people; saw Representatives purchased
to betray their constituents, IS q southern
STAKEHOLDER purchases his slaves; saw news
papers openly and actively engaged with me
on the side OF conscience and the Constitution,
threatened or bought into silence or acquies-
ccnce; witnessed an era OF official dcspotism,
and an organization Of Official insolence, SUCH as
had it taken place under an opposition Admin
istration, and against the democratic party,
would have hurled that opposition into perpet-
ual obscurIity. 1t was in vain that patriotic
Democrats in all parts of the Union, North
and South, East and West, held up their hands
in terror at this abandoned spectacle. 1t was
in vain that Wise, of Virginia, protested, that
Douglas protested, that Ryerson protested,
that Knox protested, that the nearest and
dearest friends of Mr.. Buchanan protest
ed-the crusade went on. ! saw the demo-
cratic party of Illinois, standing under the
flag which marshailed US in the great victory
two years ago tradnced as traitors to that flag;
| saw Stephen A. Donglas leading the regular
organization of the party to a daily conflict
with the ayowed enemies of that party, and
yet attacked front and rear by the Administra-
tim | saw Hickman eontqndinp apainSt the