The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-09-09

any other man. have done as all poll
ticians haye--sometthings which may not
square exactly with the rules of right. and
if | have, I regret them; but this thing
will not do Loud cheers. have reach
ed the stature and years of manhood and
cannot go back to Pennsylvania to eat
my own words and become the slave OF
power. (Renewed cheers.) | cannot
But then Mr.. Buchanan, you must toler-
ate this difference of opinion. General
Jackson tolerated differences of opinion,
in his friends. Col Polk tolerated differ
ences of opinion, and you differed with
hlm 10 his views on the tariff and yet you
remained in his Cabinet. Mr. Pierce toll
Grated differences of opinion But here
YOU are. Men who put you where you
are--wbo ask nothing at your hands
who have refused your favors-havetram-
pied all the patronage that has been offer
ed them under foot; here they are asking
to be tolerated in the indulgence of an
honest opinion" The reply to that as
in manner and in substance, "Sir, intend
to make MY Kansas policy St.
''Well, sir" said 1, 81 regret it; but if you
make it test with your Offices, We will
make it a test at the ballot-box. loud
checrs.) Repeated efforts were made to
heal the difference. But it seems to me,
gentlemen, that when the Presidency is
conferred upon poor mortal, it trans
forms him into god, in his own estima-
ton, or into a lunatic (Lsughter) No.
body is permitted to approach power to
tell the truth. Power never hears the
thunder voice of the people, sitting as il
does in its cushioned chairs, between its
marble walls. The independent man
loud and bold, and with clear eye who
comes to tell the truth, is waved from the
Presidential presence as rude intruder
Then we went home. As | said, repeat
ed efforts were made, and made in vain
to heal the difference This confering oil
Pre-idential patrouage-of vast millions
-nore than the monarch of Great Brit
ain enjoys, and nearly as much as the
French despot wields-this patronage in
induced Mr.. Buchanan to believe that he
could make his test successful How was
it made? Gentlemen, when the chapter
which shall detail the manner in which the
Administration has used its patronage to
force this test upon the white men Of the
North is written, it will be a black chap
ter. When our children and our cbil.
dren's children shall come to read il
they will not believe that an Amer
lean citizen elevated to the Presidential
chair, in the face of such people cover
red with such an armor ST pledges, could
have gone into that chair to have used his
army-ay, his army and the treasure
your money and mine-your officers and
mne-for the purpose of putting down a
gallant band of men simply for standing
by Gods plain truth; and | could wish
that when the historians comes to write
he be not compelled to write that that
President was born in Pennsylvania. Gap.
plause.) There has not been an element
lacking to relieve this unredeemed infa.
my-n ore. There has not been sin.
gle circumstance lacking.
They have gone on, step by step, with
the remorsele-s tread of fate and destiny
trying to crush out the breath Of the gal
liant spirits who have stood forth asking
nothing but to be permitted to do right
Look at the spectacle in Illinois at this
moment. Democrats, if there are any
here, and [ trust there are many. YOU
who take the regular organizations, you
who swallow this miserable dose of LIE
comptoDism, because the regular orgaui-
cation Of the State supports it, look at H.
linois, and blush with very shame at the
spectacle there exhibited to the world. -
There is regular ore anization for you. and
how does the Administration treat it >
They treat it with contempt and scorn ;
the gallant Douglas standing at the bead
of the column. If you open tie pages OF
the Washington Union OF to-day, read
what it says of Stephen A. Douglas. You
would suppose, from what you would read
there, that he was sowing pestilence and
death throughout the Northwest. Ave,
and he is. too-to false doctrines and to
false men. Applause and cheers
Look at the South, in whose pane this
deed, Leeomptoni>m, has been perpetra.
ted. After its Representatives in the Sem
ate and the House have assisted in houn-
ding down Stephen A. Douglass and Da-
vid G. Broderick and their gallant COM
patriots in the House the South begins
to say as they see the Administration
hell hounds pursuing and attacking Doug.
las aud his friends in Illinois: "This is too
much. We are willing to accept Lecomp-
ton as gilded poison which has been ex-
tended to us, and which was to help US,
though the ouly thing it has done has
been to commit our Representatives to
gross wrong toward the Democrats Of the
North. But We cannot bear this perse.
eution." Read the letter published the
other day in the New York papers from
Reverdy johnson, of Maryland. Read
the statements of Alexander H. Stephens
and Henry A. Wise. They are clamef-
Gus against these attacks on Mr.. Douglas.
Public men in this country forget, in their
trucking to the South, that Southern peo-
pie are Americans as we are. They have