The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-02-25

the Lecompton SWlndle, shall disregard the
viii of their constituents and for the sake of
the Presidents patronage vote for that meas
ure, and the people shall submit to the out
rage, then the President will be as much the
ruler of America as Napoleon is of France.
Mr.. JOHN S. MANN was called upon to
address the meeting, and responded in a
few very appropriate and telling remarks,
reviewing the Kansas question, and the
policy of President Buchanan thereon.
He said, This Compromise Act had been
the great act OF the life of Henry Clay,
and, up to 1854, was regarded as the
most important bill ever passed Mr. Bu-
chanan had, in his Harvest Home Let
ter" opposed the Wilmot Proviso because
1t interfered with the Missouri Compro-
mise. Mr. Douglas even had not daled
to insert in the Kansas-NebraSka Bill a
clause repeating the Missouri Compro-
mise, until threatened with removal from
his Craftsmanship of the Committee on
Territories by Mr.. Breckenridde cf KY
The reasons for SO doing since advanced,
Was that it intertered with the rights Of
the Territories. This was the burden of
It's defense. 1t was not for the purpose
of Strengthening the South, but that the
people should have all their rights. An
argument of the campaign of 1856 was
that Kansas would be Free State if Mr..
Buchanan was elected. The hand of that
same President Buchanan is now seen in
every movement to deprive the people Of
that Territory of their rights-armed
soldiers are sent by his orders to force
them to submit to the obnoxious laws he
and his advisers had concocted for them.
The speaker compared Kansas to Walla-
CHA, Russian dependency; referred to
the admission of the Presidents Special
Message, in regard to the subsection of
the Free State men by the army. The
Lecompton Constitution was framed at
Washington and sent there by the hands
Of one government spy, named Martin,
who reported the real sentiments Of the
people Of Kansas, whom the President is
now prosecuting for those very views
reviewed the Kansas Election-only half
Of the registered votes Of the Territory
were cast for the Lecompton Constitution.
The following resolution was adopted at
WillIamsport Democratic meeting a few
days since:
Rcs0irsd, That it was promised and expect
ed by the Democracy of this county, that the
election of James Buchanan to the Presidency
would be a triumph OF the principle of popu-
lar sovereignty over that Of congressional in
teryention that he would insist upon fair
play in Kansas that election frauds and GER
tiicates would be crashed that Lecompte
aud Calhoun would be dismissed; that the
unjust laws enacted by a legislature elected
by Missouri votes, would be repealed or mod
flied and that slavery should not prevail
there against the " Il Of the majority. Undar
these promises and expectations we triumphed
at that election, and without them we must
have been defeated. We shall still labor to
make good or vows to the people
The county Of Lycomlng gave Mr.. Bu-
chanan 1900 majority. Bleeding Kan
sas" was referred to by the speaker, and
the concessions Of the Lycoming Demo
Gratis discussed. The people Of this Con-
gresSlonal District should meet in Mass
Convention and appoint Committee to
wait upon Mr.. White aud inform him
that there would be vacancy in his Dis
trlct soon unless he preferred their will to
that of Mr.. buchanan.
The President opposes the will Of the
majority by bribery and patronage, and
filings a threat in their faces. The only
way to prevent this violation Of the popu-
lar viii, is by holding meetings and in
structing delegates by the popular voice
and renounce them unless they submit to
the test.
Judge J. L. ROCKS was then called for,
and made some very appropriate remarks.
Col. JoHN NJ KILBoURN was loudly
called for, and after stating that he~was
entirely unprepared to speak, said that he
had, after he came into the room, been
asked by a gentleman if he was not on
strange ground, and was informed that
this was an Anti-Lecompton meeting. He
was Antl-Lecompton, and desired to speak
to his Buchanan friends-of whom he
observed he had a right and left-hand
supporter-and stated that he voted for
ana supported MI. buchanan IN 1886,
but, if Mr.. Buchanan was now a candi-
date he would not vote for him. Tap
plause. He disagreed with the gentle
man who last had the floor, that Buchan-
an now stood square on the Cincinnati
Platform-he did not. He (Mr. Kill
hourn) stood on that platform now-and
he and Mr.. Buchanan differed materially.
Mr.. X. then alluded to the promises, Gas
a Democrat in 1860 which he and his
had made in regard to the prob
able policy of Mr.. Buchanan in regard to
Kansas. This policy had been entirely
dlsregarded by Mr., Buchanan. Mr.. X.
reviewed the Kansas policy of the Presi-
dent in a feeling and thorough manner
and stated that he was. in this respect,
the enemy of Mr.. Buchanan, though in
all other respects hewas his friend, When
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