Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-03-04
Col. FOrney turned out a Huge
cFreedOm Shrieker.1

! CccOOA SAI1CAGFsU
Who would ever thought that Col. For
ney Mr.. Buchanan's qxondam 'right bow
err that took the trick that won the elec
tion of the old gentleman, would have turn
ed out ''freedom shrieker" We confes.
we would not. Blu. not only is such the
fact but he out Herods all the regular shrek
ers, by going several notes higher, and
most Justify sereeehimg, instead Of modest
ly shrieking on behalf of "bleeding Kan
sas." We should as soon have expected tc
have caught the editor of the intense MIG.
ger organ next door, at such business, as
the man who used to hinge his knee to the
fire eaters through the Washington Union.
But it is even so;-The Colonel has been
sadly snapped by the South for sometime
past, and he has in turn cut them. He lets
into them and the administration at the
great Anti-Lecompton meeting in Phila-
delphia the other night in the following
style: t@
"Gentlemen, if did not see this vast
crowd here tonight l should begin to think
to defend great principle like that of
popular sovereignty was to place ones self
under the ban of the Democratic party !:
but see here before me the familiar faces of
men who stoodwith me by Martin Van Bu-
rem in 1s4O; who stood by Jamas X. Polk,
in 1914, [cheers; who rallied around
Lewis Cass, in ls48, and Franklin Pierce
in 1852 [renewed cheers; and who are
the heroes of the campaign of 1856, and
they tell me that they will maintain and
defend this great principle, let the attack
come from what quarter it may. Great
applause. And yet the minions OF power
tell US they will read us out of the party !!
1 speak the sentiments of the Democratic
masses of the State-of old Berks, Mon
gomery, Lancaster, York Westmoreland,
and all the great West-when l tell you
that we are standing on platform sup
ported by the will of the majority of our
democratic State. cheers.
''We are not here 10 threatens We are
not here to ask favors; we are not here to
apologize for or inquire into the motives of
men who are attempting 10 perpetrate this
infamous tyrany, this scandulous crime,
this most monstrous fraud upon us ap-
plause: but We are here to demand for
ourselves the entire, perfect and complete
right to express our sentiments. cheers
We are here to say that in the campaign of
ls56-aud allow me for a moment to be
egotistical-I was an organ of that cam
paign-we promised our fellow citizens, our
brothers, and friends Of Kansas 10 give them
a fair fight. Applause. We then, as
the Democratic party put our names TO a
note which is due and if it is protested
these are hard times gentlemen-we are
determined it shall be paid in the end
| Cheers. We are to raise our voices, not
in petition, not to implore, but to protest
against the attempt to force the Lecomp-
ton Constitution, rejected three times by
the people of Kansas, upon that people
Cries of Right! right! and great ap-
plause. We are here to save our glorious
old Democratic party from the shame, the
sin, and the disgrace of remaining quiet un-
der such an attempt, and we here declare,
if the representatives of the people whom
we elect choose to make test upon US
that when the election again comes around,
in October next We will make test upon
Them. Immense cheering.]
This immense meeting passed the most
emphatic resolutions against the Lecomp-
ton Constitution and further.
RESOLVED, that we extend the right hand
Of fellowship to our brother Democrats in
New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Iowa, who have so no.
BY resisted the attempt to force the Le-
compton Constitution upon the unwilling
people of Kansas and now call upon our
political friends in Pennsylvania every
where to respond to the sentiment which |
protest against that unparalleled fraud.
But, though hand joined in hand, how
AN these bold ''renegades" hope to go un-
punished p Wheeling Intelligencer.