The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1858-07-13

toT., neio tnat congress lad power owe
the Territories, in 1857 expressed his a
mazing sursrisc that anybody should hav
ever held that doctrine. They will desir
TO Know why it is that there was com
plicity between him and the Suprcm,
Court Of the United States, by which. up
on yonder steps of the Capitol, he was en-
abled to foreshadow what they afterward,
announced as an opinion. They will asl
you why it was that that court, wearing
the crmine of jay, a Marshall, and q
story, when there was no case before tho
court calling for it, went beyond the line
OF their duty, end published political opin.
ions. They will ask you why the army Of
the United States have shot down Ameri
can citizens in tho streets of Washington,
and why it was held IN terrorem over tho
people of Kansas so long. And they will
ask you, doughfaces of the North, WHY
you sat still in your seats, and allowed
men to call your constituents, because thew
toiled, rnud.sills and slaeesg You will
have to answer all these things. You cam
not do it, and we shall beat you like
threshng-foor. We shall hereafter havo
majority in this House. We shall
strengthen ourselves in the Senate, and We
are to-day filling all the land with the Dor.
tents OF your general doom in 1850. And
l say, in the presence of this state of things,
that our first duty to God and our country
IS to devote ourselves to the political de-
struction of doughfaces, who say one thing
at home, and como here to vote another;
and who fawn and tremble, and { II down,
IN tho presence Of the Administrations
No wonder that you. Southern men, call
us slaves, judging us from these specimens
of the people. But tell you they do not
represent the fire and flint Of the grim and
grizzly North. They are but our walters
on Providence, our Macsycophants; they
are our Uriah Hecps; they belong with
Oante's selfish men, Of whom he said,
heaven would not have them, and hell re-
jectod item. tell you, Southern men,
/ am ready to strike hands with fire eaters,
and cxtermiratc :be race. It is Becoming
extinct. Look in thci' faces for the last
time; they are fading away-nSdiug away.
Oh! for an artists to take their feSturos,
to transmit them to curious and scornfui
posterty. Do it quickly, for the places
which now know them shall soon know
them no moro forever.
think it is the first duty of republicans
to extinguish the doughfaces, but 1 hold il
also their duty to bear testimony as to the
manner in which the Douglas mon-and
they will pardon mo for giving them the
name Of their gallant and gifted eader-to
bear testimony to tho manner in which
they have borne themselves. They have
kept the faith; they have adhered to the
doctrine Of popular sovereignty; they have
voted it in this House, AMI they have not
fawned and trcmbled in the presence of n
dominating Administration-in the pres
ence of that great tyranny which holds the
Government in its thrall at Washington
They have given flash for flash to every in
dignant look; and when gentleman from
Virginia, the other day, tauntingly told
them that certain language which they used
upon the floor Of this House was the ian.
guagc Of rebellion, they shouted out. thro'
the lips Of the gentleman from Indiana,
Mr.. Davis9 lit was the language Of free
men," say that it is duo TO them that
we should say that they have borne the
brunt of the battlc--and that they, whcth-
,r from New York, Pennsylvania. Ohio,
Indiana, or Illinois, have kept tho white.
ness Of their souls, anil have made record
which has lain in light; and if my voice
,an have any weight with tie young men
If tho country whore those men dwell, I
should say to them, stand bp these mon
With all youI young enthusiasm, stand By
hem without distinction Of party; they
nay not agree exactly with you, but they
nave stool the test here, where brave men
alter and fall. Let them teach this tyran-
,'cal Administration, that If it is strong,
hat tho people are stronger behind it
rnus | would speak to the younger men
f the country. I differ in sopo points
With those men. and ! do not wish to com.
'licato them. pay also tho high tribute
# my Animation to that band Of mon who
lavc been repoaing outside Of the hounda-
les Of the great parties OF tho country as
patriotic corps of reserve, for the purpose,
suppose, Of saving the Union when it is
When they saw this section.
] issue made, standing as they did in a
osition to look fairly on between the par
les, they saw who male it, and they in.
family took sides; and in tho language Of
{ Mr.. Bell, in bis reply to Mr.. Toombs,
hoy accepted the issue Of disunion. They
cceptcd it; and when, sir, they saw that
,ecompton was synonymous with "fraud,
18th forgery, with perjury. with ballot ]
OK stutiing," then they trampled it with /
heir high manly honesty under their feet
hey have taken it in charge to preserve !
ne ballOt-box pure and open to American
tizens Sir, it was a proud day to me,
hen / heard the speech Of the venerable
enator from Kentucky, (Mr Crittenden.) I
he melody Of his voice, and his patriotic =
cceHt, still sound in my ears. Twas glad t
, hear him denounce fraud; l was glad
, hear him stand for tho truth. As |
stenod, 1t seer cd 70 mo that the spirit of Z
,e Kentucky Commoner had como hack I
gain to visit his old place in tho Senate. v
seemed to me as if his spirit was hover $
g there, looking, rs in days Of old, af- {
u the interests Of tho Union. At that n
onent, the heart Of Mas achusetts beat |,
sponsive once again to that Of grand old q
and / longed to have the day 9
,me again, when there should be such :
alinoa aa in thu ol1an tin,a whom tba