Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-06-24

The Sword Drawn in Illinois.

in that State, and per consequence in every
other State in the Union. Tne convention OF
oiIice-holders, held at Springfield on the 9Th of
June has placed in nomination a full ticket
nyninst the regular nDminationS Of the Demo
cratic party, has reaffirmed the L"compton
heresy. and has accompanied this double
treachery by the most violent assaults upon
Senat or DouGLAs and the masses of Democrats
who follow his noble lead As showing the
character of the men who control and stimu-
late this movement, We need only mention that
the leading spirit is D0ctor Chdrfcs L76
we'll known in Pennsylvania, and partrc uiary
in Lancaster and Schuylkll counties. TaS
notorious person always regarded as an object
of contempt, is in fact the chief OF tn" oppo-
Sition arrayed against the Democracy OF Hi
nos ! He has passed through all parties, tax
ing the hue and name of each in turn, having
bepuu his career as the brawling personal foe
of Mr.. BUCHANAN These facts are we'll known
in PENNSYLVANIA LEIB is assisted by II man
called CARPENTER, and hy Cook, tn poStmas
ter Of Chicago, who was confirmed for that
Office by the United States Senate, with the
most diShonoring charges hanging over his
head LEIB is an agent of the Post Office
Department, and CARPENTER Of the Treasury.
We have heard from many sources, that
the most proscrptive member of Mr. BCCHAN-
Ans Cabinet is Hon Howell CoBB but we
have ALWAYS doubted it, until the facts and the
proofs have become irresistible. 1t seemed
10 ms that decent regard for those gentlemen
in PcnnsylY lnia who 50 urgently and emthu-
siasticalIy advocated his claims for q place in
the Cabinet of Mr.. BUCHANAN, should have
counselIed moderation on the rart Of Mr..
Conn. Respect. too, for his own abundant
pledges to our people in 1886, beginning in
Chester county. which he canyasscd in com
pany with Hon .JoHN HICKNAH, and with him
openly advocated the very doctrine which he
now rejects, and remembrance also Of his own
public letters in support of Governor WAL
KEa's course, written as late as August or
September of 1857, should have made him the
defender, instead Of the prosecutor, of the
Democrats who refused to go for the surren
der of the principles which elected JAMES b.
cnAxAx President of the United States How
ELL CoBB should have stood forth for these
men at the hazard of his life, throwing Office
and aspirations to the winds, doing what he
did in 1851, in Georgia, when, rather than
submit to an outrage, far, far inferior to that
which aroused the Indignant protest Of millions
of men in the matter of Kansas he rent out
NHi BOLi'ttC
lion, and electeI himself Governor Of his State
That would have been deed worthy of his
Union-lovng record, and in glorious cOnSisten-
cy with his ten thousand declarations against
sectionaliSm. He knew the men, III the free
States, who refused to swallow the poison pre-
sented to them in the Lecompton Constitution.
He knew that they had been devoted, heart
and soul, to Mr.. BUcHANAN, and that they diff
fered from him with reluctance and regret.
They-at least those from Pennsylvania
had no grefS to ayenge by opposing his poll
cy, but were animated by the noblcst and the
most thorough patriotism. No man knew all
this better than Howell CoDB. Aud now
have the just expectations Of these men been
met ? How has his osentatious pledge to
our people, less than two years ago, been full
filled How has he carried out his dcclara
tions of devotion.to to the Unon and to the ma
tional Democracy BY standing silently in
the Cabinet when many of the noble spirits in
the Democratic party We're aSsaiIed, and by
permitting them to be traduced in their alb
sence BY joining hands with the extreme
fre-eaters OF the South who demanded that
faith should be broken with WALKER while he
was doing his duty like hero in Kansas, Nth
the Presidents crittsn instructions In his h,njS:
BY aiding cahaI at the seat of the Federal
Government to hunt down Judge DoUGLAS be-
cause he would not disgrace his manhood by
deserting his solemnly pIighted faith Nor is
this all PartiSans like CARPENTER and LEIB
scattered all over the Union, are paid enor-
nous salaries out of the public treasury to di-
vide the Democratic party Oh tine l.eCompton
principle to act as apes upon independent
Democrats, to break down regular nominations,
TO caIumniate distinguished champions Of our
creed in word, to give up all their public
duties to the qualification OF a mllignty on
the part of their masters, as meaSureleSs as it
is incomprehensble and insane. We have seen
these mercenarieS turned into place by Mr..
COBB and his associates, while others have
been turned out 10y the same influences who
excelled in all the qualities of Democrats and
of men, and who fell under the ban of re-
morselesS despotsm because they could not
swear by LecOmptOn. SIch is the answer of
HOWELL CoBB to the conhdiHg hosts who so
readily believed his professions, aud who so
generously assisted him to power ovlr the
heads of the mercilcSS enemies at his own home
i'll Georgia. His transformation is complete
The Union-loving CORB has changed into the
cnvenomed tire-eater the orator who pleaded
so melodously for fair play in Kansas in Is
56, has become the trucucnt foe of all who
would not agree to the reverse in 1883 The
champion Of the Union in 1881 gives bis hear
teSt support to sectlonaIln in 1853.
As to Illinois, the hand of the Treasury il
openly displayed in the fragrant dsorganiza-
tion Ut Springfield, on the 9Th Of June. There
is no excuSing or sYading the responsibility.
Every opportunity was given Mr. COBB to ad-
wise another course There was abundance
of time left to him to call off bs dog lie
las seen his subordinate, CARPENrgR since the
regular Democratic Convention assembled and
adjourned. If he did not advise his diSor5a-
ljzation and his cain unnes, and his assaults
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