Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-02

the way the issue will be localized, and thai
man is blind, willfully blind, who does moi
see it.
"a single word on the English bill, gen.
tlemen, and I leave this branch of my
subject. 1t is worse, as l view it, infinite
ly worse, than the original bill, for the
reason that il is insulting TO the North, for
the reason that it degrades the North, for the
reason that it does not recognise the North
as standing upon an equality with the
South, and that is thing which l never
will willingly admit. 1t is unfair, unjust,
uneourteous, and indiscreet in its proyi-
sions. 1t gives too much to the South
and it takes everything like justice from
the North. How does it do it? Kansas
at this moment has perhaps 40, 900 popu-
lation. 1t may be more, it may be less. If
Kansas (provides that bill.) with her 4O,-
900 inhabitants, will take a pro-slavery
Constitution, that IS, the Lecompton Con-
stitution, she may at once come into the
Union as sovereign State and have her
two Senators, and of course as much power
in the Senate of the United States as the
State of New York; but il she will not
agree to come into the Union as slave
State then she shall not come in at ALL
That is the English bill, and it cannot be
read any other way. lfshe demand free
State Government, then she shall not come
in until her population reaches the legis-
lative standard which, under the present
apportionment is $4,000, in round num-
bers; and if she does not reach that by
1860, which she will not, then the ratio of
representation, after 1860, will not be less
than 10000 or l25,OOO, an amount of
population which Kansas cannot reach be-
fore 1864. So it is just this: Kansas, as
Il slave State, can come in now with 49,
900 population, but she cannot come in as
a free State with less than 120, 1000, or be-
fore 1864. That is the justice of the leg
islation of 1853"
We commend what he says on the En-
glish bill to the attention of the Democra-
cy of this District. Mr.. Hickman is very
severe on the President for endeavoring to
make adhesion to Lecompton test OF par
ty fealty. He asked if any Of his hearers
ever heard of Southern representative be-
ing read out of the Democratic party, and
said it had become common thing with
Northern ones. He said that the 'sSouth-
ern Representatives who voted against the
army bill, the deficiency bill, the 4 dminis-
tratiou's bankrupt policy, its Nicaragua
proceedings-indeed every single measure
except the Lecompton Constitution, every
man of them is in good standing with the
President to-day. But the Northern Rep
resentative who voted for them all, and vo-
ted only against Lecompton, is read out of
the Democratic party. Even that man
from the extreme South, who, little over
a year ago-it is not year ago; only ten
or eleven months since-who, from the
White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia, de-
clared, in violent and vindiciive letter,
that we had paralitic Administration and
a Cabinet of mutes, is the man whose
company is most sought and esteemed at
the White House to-day"
He said that he conceded the obligation
of the party to support the President as
long as he was true to the principles upon
which he was elected, but that if he viola
ted them it was his right and duty to op-
pose him. He said:
81 deny the right of the Presinent to
make new creeeds or to alter old ones.
deny his right to invoke new principles -
That belongs to the party and not to the
President. | believe that the President has
endeavored to change the creed of the De-
mocratic party. 1 believe that he has re-
solved to destroy the principle of popular
sovereignty, and that he has done so far as
any one man can do it; for the legislation
applying to the Territory of Kansas is not
the legislation of James Buchanan, Pres
ident of the United States. Applause.
He has usurped the Legislative power of the
country as much as ever tyrant invaded
the rig hts of the people. Long continued
applause. But for his direct interference
with the representative of the people, kept
up month after month, the Lecompton
Constitution would have been DEBATED. 1t
was only carried because it was sustained
by the distribution of patronage"
He paid his respects also to Nirnrod
Strickland, who constitutes the effective en-
ergy of the Lecompton forces in his coun-
ty. He said that Strickland had "spent
the last twelve years of his life in propa-
eating free soilism, in supporting the Will
mot Proviso, and defending its author
fostering antipathies to the South, resisting
their aggressions, and denouncing Mr.. Bu
cbanan in the vilest phrase of opposition
he now, with the suppleness of the vaultel
and the conscience of a gambler, puts him
self to the inglorious task of subverting bis
own doctrines, and rendering his own pre-
vious career Infamous" We know thai
I Strickland never was regarded as an adhe
rent of the Buchanan wing of the Democ
racy in Pennsylvania. Mr.. Hickman als(
said:
The Pittsburgh State Convention which
assembled in 1S49, on the 4th day of Ju
ly, deemed it necessary to have plank II
its platform against the extension of slave
nv to the Territories. l will read the reso
luton which was adopted:
"Resolued, That the Democratic part.
adheres, now as it has ever done, to tn
Constitution of the country. Its lette
and spirit they will neither weaken nor de
stroy, and they re-declare chat slavery IS
local domestic institution of the South
subject to State law alone, and with whc
the General Government has nothing t
do. Wherever the State law extends 1t
jurisdiction, the local institution can con
tinue to exist. Esteeming 1t a violat'o'. Q