The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-10-28

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sacred organic law, in violation OF all its
own forms and restrictions. which absurd,
anarchial, and mob -justifying theory, il
carried into practical operstioo, would
prove fatal to Southern institutions, and
the institutions of the whole country. |
denounce this most blundering and mis-
chievous Administration on account OF
the cordial sanction which it has given to
the alarming principle embodied in the
English bill, that sovereign State may
be admitted into the Union with popu-
lation less than the ratio of representa-
ton established by Congress; for if this
principle be carried into effect, with the
certainty existing that there will be twen-
ty free States hereafter applying for ad
mission to one slave State it is clear
that all such new States would be admit
ted, with the advantage of being allowed
a representation in the two Houses of the
National Legislature with population
however uncomfortable in mum bers, whilst
the other States of the Union, heretofore
admitted, would be required to have a
population far more numerous.
disapprove in the fullest N amer the
conduct of the Administration in bring
ing the patronage of the Government in
to conflict with the freedom of elections,
and regard its course in this matter as an
ti-Dcm ocratic, arbitrary, and uuconsti-
tutional. The whole course of opposition
to Judge Douglas and his political friends
in Illinois, SO far as Mr.. Buchanan and
bis Cabinet are concerned, l regard as H.
liberal, unjust. and impolitic, deeply dis
graceful to those concerned in it. and dan
gerous to the Republic itself. The mo-
tives that have led to course SO wrong
and mischievous are not at all difficult OF
detection. He is recognized as an aspi-
rant to the Presidential station, aud it is
hoped that if be can be put down in Hi
nois, there will be an end of his claim to
the Presidential dignity. His whole >in,
letting bis own adversaries be his judges,
is that he has nobly remained steadfast
in the support of bis own long cherished
principles, whilst others, pledged in every
way to their maintenance, have meanly
sbrunk from their support. tits present
y to be seen whether the American peo-
pie will permit such a course of beartless
atrocity to succeed; whether they will al,
low genius and moral worth, and high
accomplishments, and statesman-like Wis.
dom, and true moral courage, and Illus
trious deservings every wa5,to be crushed
by imbecility, and unscrupulous ambition,
and corruption clad in official rot'es, and
faction organized for great public mis-
chief, and political trickery backed and
sustained by the accursed spoils of atEce.
Touching another grave aud uttre>tiDg
matter to which you have done NE the
honor of calling my attention, will cfer
few suggestions. | agree with you that
there is no party organization DOW exist
ing capable Gn itself, or by the aid of 9th
er organizations heretofore hostile through
the nstruuentality of any process of fu,
sion yet projected) Of rcmedying existing
evils. The people themselves mu-tachieve
their own redemption from party thral-
dom BY their own noble energies. The
people must arm against the monster eau
Gus. The people must cleanse the Au-
gean stable, and weed away the plants of
corruption. A spirit is abroad which
promises great and speedy reform; and a.
man not closel y connected for several
years past with any party org auization, l
am prepared to do all in my power as a
true patriot and lover of freedom in CO.
operation with such others as may be
found willing to enlist 10 the fiprco aud
vital struggle now at hand, to free the
land from oppression and disbonor, and
renew the felicity and the glories of our
past history.
Of Judge Douglas personally, / have a
few words to utter which | could not with
hold, without greatly wronging my own
conscience. When | entered the United
States Senate a few years since, | found
him decided favorite with the political
party then dominant both in the Senate
and the country. Nj mind had been great
ly prejudiced against him, and l feltno dis
position whatever tosympathise or oorrobo.
rate with him. 1t soon became apparen ut to
me, as to others, that he was, upon the
whole, far the ablest De mocratic member
of the body. In the progress of time NY
respect for him, both as gentleman and
statesman, greatly incre ased. l found
him sociable, affable, and in the his best
degree entertaining and instructive in So
cial intercourse. His power, as a deba-
ter, seemed to me unequallcd in the SEN
ate. He was industrious, energetic, bold
and skilful in the management of the con-
Germs of bis party. He was the aeknowl.
edged leader Of the Democratic party in
the Senate, and, to confess the truth,
seemed to me to bear the honors which
encircled him with sufficient meekness,-I
Such was the palmy state of his reputa
tion and populority on the day that he
reported to the Senate his celebrated Kan
sas and Nebraska bill.
On examining that bill, it struck me
that it was deficient in one material res
pect; it did not in terms repeal the re.
str,ctive provision in regard to slavery
mbodied in the Missouri COMPROMISE