Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-09-11

btlldll voice Ill tUc DDODlt tldI IL
iects frauds, and this is not only fraud but
dishonor. ] do not claim to be more honest
than any other man. | have done as all politi-
clans havc-some things which may not square
exactly with the relies of religion and right, and
which, if | have, regret them but this thing
will not do. Loud cheers / have reached
the stature and years of manhood, and l can
not go back to Pennsylvania to eat my own
words and become the slave Of power. Re-
newed cheers | cannot. But then, Mr.. Blu
chanan, you must tolerate this difference ofopin-
ion. Gen. Jackson tolerated differences ofopin-
ion in his friends. Col Polk tolerated differ
ences of opinion, and you differed with him in
his views on the tariff, and yet you remained in
his Cabinet. Mr.. Pierce tolerated differences
of opinion. But here you are Men who put
you where you are--who ask nothing at your
hands-whO have refused your lavors-have
trampled all the patronage that has been offer
cd them under feet; here they are, asking to
be tolerated in the indulgence of an honest opin-
ion" The reply to that was, "Sir, intend to
make my Kansas policy test" "Wen, Sir"
said |, 81 regret iti but if you make it 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 seems
to me, gentlemen, that when the Presidency is
conferred upon poor mortal, it transforms him
into god. i'll his own estimation, or lunatic.
Laughter Nobody is permitted to approach
power to tell the truth. Power never hears the
thunder voice of the people, sitting it does in
its cushioned chairs, between its marble walls.
The independent man, loved and bold, with
clear eye who comes to tell the truth, is waved
from the Presidential presence as a rude intru-
der. Then we went home. AS | said, repeat
co efforts We're made, and made in vain, to heal
the differences. The comforting of this Presi-
Iautio1 of tl,,,,
the monarch Of Great Britain ENJOYS and nearly
as much as the French despot wieds--this pat
ronage 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 Admins
traton has used its patronage is written, it will
be black one. When our children and our
children's children come to read it, they will not
believe that an American citizen elevated to the
Presidential char, 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-vour money and
mine--your officers and mine--for the purpose
of putting down gallant band of men for stan
ding 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 i'll Pennsylvania. Applause. Now,
gentlemen there has not been an element lack
ing to relieve this unredeemed infamy-not one
There has not been single circumstance lack
ing. They have gone on step by step, with a
tread of fate and destiny. trying to crush out
the brave and gallant spirits who have stood
forth asking for nothing but to be allowed to do
right. Look at the South, in whose name this
deed, Lecomptonsm, has been perpetrated after
its representatives in the Senate and the House
have assisted in bounding down Stephen A..
Douglas and David G.. Broderick and their gal
liant compatriots in the House. the South be-
gins to say as they see the Administration hell
hounds pursuing and attacking Douglas and his
friends in Illinois: This is too much We are
"willing to accept Lecompton as gilded poison
(which has been extended to us, and which is
"to help us, though the only thing it has done
"has been to commit our Representatives to a
"gross wrong toward the North. But we can
mot bear this persecution" Read the letter
published the other day in the New York pa
pers from Reverdy Johnson of Maryland Read
the statement of Alex. II. Stephens and Henry
A. Wise. They are clamorous against these at
tacks on Mr.. Douglas. Public men in this coun-
try forget in their trucking to the South that
Southern people are Americans as we are
They have their Slavery. They have their Pc
culiar institutions But they reject wrong
they reject an inta,mpyNthsy reject nntarpess
tration begin by counting the South-by declar-
ing that the only thing the President 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
Administration of James buchanan Tyeriset-
supported by set of offce-holders and expcc-
tants only, with all the great parties, and the
one that put ii inpower inclusive, standing from
it and stunning it like a contagion!
"Imperia Caesar, dead and turned to Clay
Muststop q hole to keep the wind away" Laugher,l
AN OLD PoET IN THE D1RT.-A singular in
stance of folly in an old and much respected lit
erary gentleman, has recently occurred in Eng
land. No less person than Walter Savage
Landor has been tried for hbeling a woman, aad
fined thousand pounds, $4,000, with costs of
court The woman was the wife of Rev Morris
IescOmbe, of Bath, with whom he had been in
daily friendly intercourse for many wears. 1t
seems that Landor became very attentive to Il
young lady living in the family and the clergy
man and his wife thought it prudent precau-
ton, to avoid scandal, to send the young lady
to distance. This provoked the old poet and
turned his friendship to the btterest hostility.
lie first accused Mrs Yescombe of stealing his
money and defrauding him in various ways, but
was finally persuaded by their mutual friend,
John Forster, the celebrated essayist to with
IRA" tnese carSes ana apologize Tor having made
them.
Soon after he renewed his attacks in the form
OF anonymous letters to the lady, said to be of
the lowest and dirtest character. These he fol-
lowed up with several sarcastic poems which he
published, and finally in pamphlet called "Dry
Sticks Faggoted," in which Mrs Yescombe was
caricatured, insulted and held up to ridicule as
if she were swindler and an indecent bag
There seems to have been nothing in the cha
acter of the lady to justify these attacks, and on
the trial the only defense attempted by Iandor's
counsel was an appeal to the jury for mercy on
account of his old age, approaching to dotage,
and the free style of literary productions which
was tolerated when he was young. The poet
seems to have become perfectly insane III his
anger and malice, and the poetry which he lev
eled at Mrs Yessombe is declared by the Lon
don Times TO be too vile for publication. One
OF the least indecent of these squibs was as fol-
lows =
"Ihe weakest of the Devils imps
Younger or older, seldom limps
Come, Clarke prepare the sable pills;
Resembles are common human ills.
lmped, fellow sufferer
Last year, and know the cure for her;
RI