The weekly Butte record., 1858-11-13

nv otficeholder who expressed such n belief"
Gov. Brown acted rightly in defending HIM
self by stating these facts, after lie saw It was
foregone purpose of the Administration to
allow its adheren.s to abandon the English bill.
l stated my conversation with Mr. buchanan
under circumstances almost precisely simular.
General Jackson had few or no confitiences on
great questions. He never allowed one man
to slander another to him, under the veil of Sc
cret conversation or anonymous correspondence,
and he would have despised himself had he
held one language in secret with one man, on
q public question, which he feared to let all the
world knew. The revelation of certain private
interviews falsely alleged to have taken place
MT the private house OF Judge Douglas, in
Washington. greedily copied into the Washing
ton Union, and other Administrator organs,
remain staple Of assault upon Judge Doug
las, up to this day, though branded as n.isre-
presentations by the Judge himself Private
conversation forsooth Look at the expose
of the last hours OF Colonel Benton, made
since the death of that illustrious man, There
were conversations in the sacred. silent cham
Der OF Colonel Bcnton-heard, we are told by
but two men; the one the dying patriot. the
other the living President ! I be whole life of
, Thomas II. Benton was one unceasng battle
for principle one bold protest against seces-
sion; one prayer for the preservation of the
American Union. He was the known and no
toriOus foe Of the whole Lecompton policy of
the Administration. He had supported Mr..
Buchanan against his own son-in-law, Colonel
Fremont, because he believed that he would be
u moderate and conservative President, aud
because the open enemies Of the Union, North
and South, were the opponents Of Mr.. Buchan-
ans nomination. And yet, by rrais OF 4
"priyate conversation, mysleriollsiy divuIgod,
and now published III HE Journals under pay Of
The 4 administration, Thomas H. 5eutons uame
is made to figure IS the tnsiogser Of one Of the
most siupendous frauds tla,t has ever been
perpeirate.i upon any CIVILIZED people!
There is an exquisite sense Of proprioty in
the complaint Of the revelation OF private con
versations on The part Of those who applaud
such an example as hi-
I have word as 10 the SO caed Finalily,"
the new coinage which has gepjaccd the rerct-
ted counterfeit Of The English bill The true
Finality was reached III I65!. be.ure and after
the eectono oi GoYerlor i'nc,,er Kansas was
a settled question ID Sgr'clnher All Ociobor
of that year. Goyc1uor N ,krr hs,: set. led IT,
Secretary Stanton had sc;,gi If. Mr. Bucl-
anan had settled Il. iht people in K ansas,
and al the States, N0i,n aud south, had set
tied it. Let those who cry o8t fog peace ROW
trli US 3~io unaefiro Il. L,ttliose Nno charge
that We are keeping The question open, tai 'ri0
Teopened It. L was n5t ihc peopio-it was cot
the Democratic party. 4 few rcsi!ess and am
bilious ulen in tn south, eager for local fame
demanded that Governor Walker should be
sacrificed because he stood up for the rIghts Of
the people aud The viii OF the majority. They
pledged themselves 10 make his course cansu
cf secession from the Union, and the aiterHa-
tive was presented to the President to e1
Walker and Stanton 10 these influences, for 30
other offence than brayely doing their duty, or
of seeing certain Legislatures in the Suuth
called together to consider the proprieiy OF
Leaving the Union on the Kansas Issue. Cen
tlcmen, here was an opportunity that Jack
son would have seized th patriotic prompt-
tude Had Mr.. buchanan told these men that
he was solemnly bound, by public aud priya'e
assurances, to stand by his representatives in
Kansas and, above all, to see that no harm
came to the people there these violent men
would have been compelled 10 carry ont their
threats Woald Alabama, and Georgia. and
Mississippi have responded to these appeals
The answer TO this is IL lie recent pass, upon
the crusades against the very principle now in
volved, and when an appeal was taken to the
ballot boxes, and the great dortriue Of popular
sovereignty and the great Union idea prevailed
over all their adversaries. III lS50-'5l, Geor-
gia and Mississippi would not even respond to
the call of her most eloquent and beloved sons
when these SOUS attempted to miSead her in
tho one State, Howell Cobb, the present Sec
retary of the Treasury, really left the dcmocrat-
ic party for time when tie organization Of
that party had fallen into the hands Of the dis
unionists, and was chosen Governor as the rep
resentative of the great truths for which We
are now contcnding ; and in Mississippi q re-
suit no less significant took place about the
same period OF time. | will never admit that
in order to sustain, cause SO unjust as that of
Lecompton, these glorious States would ever
have deserted Mr.. Buchanan in standing by
Walker and Stanton. On the contrary, the
masses would have vindicated his frmness.
They would have rejected their false leaders,
and thus would have perpetuated the power of
the democratic party for years to come. The
golden opportunity was suffered TO pass; the
fountain OF bitter waters was reOpened and
the only fnaity that could endure was broken
up amid innumcrablc calamitles 10 The party
and to the country,
The address ends as follows:
We hare nerer get had triai Of Leoompton-
ism IN Pennsylvania. Oar last election-that
which took place in October Of l857-resulted
i'll the triumph Of Vim. +. Packer, who stood
broadly and squarely and publicly upon the
princip pie of Popular Sovereignty, which prin-
ciple he afterward manlully reiterated in Ills in
augura address. But this is the first election
in which the distinctive policy of the admins
tration in this respect will be involved in the
result, but the new idea. lately enunciatcd,
that the President is the principle and that the
Administration is The party that all creeds
and all platforms have passed away, and that
the Cabinet and the powers that be shall make
our creeds and reconstruct eur platforms. III
thus arN be in isSte IN the days OF General
jackson the great MOTTO which immorialized
his Administration was The UAlon, il mast
aud shall be preserved. This motto has now
been changed into l'e iFe5idei.i, he must
aud shall be sustained PENNSYLVANIA III DC
tober next viii be called upon 10 decide ~hctii-
or she will prefer to sustain the doctrines
which have made the country prosperoGs or 70
desert these doctrines for the purpose Of sus-
tanning the President