The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 9. 1858.

of an honest opinion" The reply to that
was, "Sir, 1 intend to make my Kansas
policy test" "Well, Sir" said /, al
regret it; but if you make it a test with
your officers, we will make it test at the
ballot box" Loud cheers Repeated
efforts were made to heal the difference
But it seemed to me, gentlemen, that
when the Presidency is conferred upon a
poor mortal, it transforms him into god,
IN his own estimation, or lunatic.-
Laughter. Nobody is permitted to ap-
proach power to tell the truth. Power
never hears the thunder voice of the peo-
pie, sitting as it does in its cushioned
chairs, between its marble walls. The
independent man, loud and bold, with
+ clear eye, who comes 10 tell the truth, is
waved from the Presidential presence as
rude intruder. Then we went home. As
l said, repeated efforts were made, and
made in vain, to heal the differences
The conferring of this Presidential patron
age-of vast millions-more than the
monarch of Great Britain enjoys, and
nearly as much as the French despot
wields-this patronage induced Mr.. Blu.
chanan to believe that he could make his
test successful. How was it made? Gen.
tlemen, when the chapter which shall
detail the manner in which the Admin
istration has used its patronage, is written,
it will be a black one. When our chill
dren and our children's children come to
read it, they will not believe that an
American citizen, elevated to the Presi-
dental chair, in the face of such people,
covered with such an armor of pledges,
would have gone into that chair to have
used his army-ay, his army and the
treasure-your money and mine-your
officers and mine-for the purpose of put
ting down gallant body of men for stand
ing by the plain Gods truth; and would
wish that when the historian comes to
write, he would not be compelled to write
that that President was born in Pennsyl-
vania. [Applause.] Now, gentlemen,
relieve this unredeemed infamy-not one.
There has not been a single circumstance
lacking. They have gone on step by step,
with tread of fate and destiny, trying
to crush out the brave and gallant spirits
who have stood forth asking for nothing
but be allowed to do right Look at the
South, in whose zane this deed, Lecomp-
tonism, has been perpetrated; after its rep
resentatives in the Senate and the House
have assisted in bounding down Stephen
A. Douglas and David c. Broderick, and
their gallant compatriots il the House,
the South begins to say, as they see the
Administration hell hounds pursuing and
attacking Douglas and his friends in Illi-
nois: "This is too much. We are willing
to accept Lecompton, as gilded poison,
which has been extended to US, though
the only thing it has done has been to
commit our Representatives to a gross
wrong toward the North. But we cannot
bear this persecution" Read the letter
published the other day in the New York
papers from Reverdy johnson, of Mary
land. Read the statement of Alex. Fl.
Stephens and Henry A. Wise. They are
clamerous against these attacks on Mr..
Douglas. Public men in this country for
get in their trucking to the South that
Southern people are Americans as we are.
They have their Slavery. They have
their peculiar institutions. But they reject
= wrong-they reject an infamy-they re-
ject unfairness just as readily as we do.
They will not submit to this tyranny ol
the Administration upon Mr. Douglas
And so it will be when the Administra.
ton begins by courting the South-by
declaring that the only thing the Presi-
dent should do is to yield to the South,
that Administration will end by the South
turning upon it. What then ? 1t will
be Tylerised. Laughter.] The Admin
istration of james Buchanan Tylerised-
supported by a set of Office holders and
expectants only, with all the great par
ties, and the one that put it in power in
elusive, standing from it and stunning il
like contagion!
Imperial Caesar. dead and turned TO clay,
| Must stop hole to keep the wind away"