The Kanzas news., 1859-06-11
The Pennsylvania Rebels.
BOLD SPEECH OF nov. Join H,cK.. !

BOLD SPEECH OF HON. JOHN HIcKMAS.
Hon, John Hickman, member of Con
gress from Chester and Delaware counties,
/ Pa, made speech at the Anti -Leeonpton
State Convention recetly held at Harris
burg Hickman, with Forney, profess to
train with Douglas. but they are miles in ad
vance OF him. While they are boldly leading
the advance he is skulking in the rear,
among the stragglers, watching for chance
to desert his friends and join the slavery
propagandists. z.z ,.-,.- =. -.
| We have not space fol-. the whole of Hick-
mans speech, but give enough to show the
metal of the man. It was yociferously
cheered by the members of the Convention.
Mr.. Hickman said: :.
By the action of the Thirty fourth Con
gress, the complaints made by the residents
of Kansas were ascertained to be true AL
though the Southsby the legislation of 1854,
was pledged to maintain the domestic SOW
ereignty of the Territories, portion of
their people from Missouri entered upon the
soil of Kansas, and by force and fraud seiz-
ed the law-making power, stilled the voice
of the majority, and enacted statutes dis
graceful to the age and nation This fact,
when legally revealed. made deep impress
sion upon the public mind, and Mr.. Bu-
chanan found it necessary, in order to car
ry the election in his own State, to pledge
himself distinctly to the maintenance of the
doctrine of popular sovereignty, and to de-
fend the rights of those who had been thus
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indicate the particular weakness in his ma
ture that induced him to turn the hand of
the suicide against his own fame, as it mat
ters little whether it arose from timidity, a
fear of his enemies outweighing a love of
his friends, careless disregard of fair deal
ing. or weak and puerile vanity. 1t is
enough to know that he deceived all our
hopes, turned with blackest ingratitude up
on that self lf-sacri6cing friendship by which
he reached the goal of his feverish ambition,
and sought, by all the means within the
reach of drunken and staggering authority,
to disgrace every man whom he could not
debauch. Suddenly, and as by the touch of
the wand of the magician, he became trans
formed from the sympathizer with down
trodden Freedom, to the open and shameless
defender of aggressive and aw-defying
Slavery The halls of the National Legis-
iature were turned into marts for conscience
He published his interpretations of party
principles and platforms with the arrogance
of a dictator, and commanded his subor-
dinates in Office, and his coward slaves, to
reiterate and proclaim his bulls of party ex
communicate against all who were rash
enough to follow an independent judgement.
These acts are enough of themselves to sew
er allegiance. It would be an ill-shapen
manhood which could tolerate them in si-
lence. But because we denounce them, we
are mathematical as rebellious. Sir, we
will see where the rebellion will end. It
will end in the supremacy of the laws; in
the integrity of the Constitution; in the
publication of parties; in the sworn loyal
ty of Executive; and the vigorous growth,
material greatness, and eternal dominance
of the North. That is where 1t will end
Popular sovereignty, invoked by the South,
will be defended by u.s., and It shall unfold
the yeiled yet dimly discovered destiny of
this great Republic. We are battling for
the right, for the spirit of the institutions
our fathers established. Let US feel that we
are doing this, and we will accomplish the
victory of our country; not mere naked
trump at the polls, but the great success
afterwards-the uutFampled self govern
nent of man; the dedication of continent
to a consistent liberty. .p
Those who stop to talk of Cancellation and
compromises between US and the seif-eon-
stituted oracles of the Democratic party
can have but feeblee appreciation of the
real condition of things. When you can
harmonise light and darkness, integrity and
corruption, the patriotic devotion of the
private citizen to the principles of our Gov
eminent, with tyranny worse than that of
| the middle ages. it will be time enough to
cry peace" Let This truth be made prom
inent-that there is an eternal ,antagonism
between Freedom and Slavery. The consti-
tuition of the human mind and the hu-
man heart makes it inevitable; and the one
or the other must eventually gain the as
cendancy- The struggle between them, but
just begun, is now going on in our midst,
and he is but a superficial observer who does
not discover it. We have acted honorably
--benevolenlly. For long. long years, we
have defended the chartered rights of our
Southern brethren; we have even conceded
| their exactions; we have given them all the
advantage springing from unequal legisla-
ton, We have changed policy. to suit their
notions of interest; until having grown fat.
they demand as prerogative what we gran
ted as favor, and having found President
without affections. sworn officer not afraid
of perjury willing to back their pretensions,
they would nov treat us as a common ene-
nv, and brand our names with indeiible in
fanny They have done more-they have
gone further; they have come amongst us,
and bribed cupidity with gold, ambition
with promotion, and vanity with temporary
consequence. to do violence to Justice
Longer forbearance not only ceases to be
virtuous. but it becomes cowardly and base.
The North has rights, long in abeyance