Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-07-30
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The Republican Rally Saturday Night.
PoplGun E1plOslOn By the PrOdlEAl sOn.
Tnn DRMAaoaun ntFosRD.

near that specimen OF consistency, N. y. IAR-
Rorr, deliver himself Of n Republican speech,
fresh from Kansas From the efforts put forth
in his behalf, a strong rally Of the supporters
Of Lincoln was confidently expected at the
Wig-wamery, on the occasion, together with
many others ofthe people, who do not usually
worship rotten rails But alas, for the already
defeated cause Of this sectional party the
hour for the meeting came, the speaker came,
a few wig-wamers and outsiders came, but
the rallying crowd numbering hundreds did
not come al all True, there was perhaps a
hundred persons present, with the speaker
but this was clearly not "the entertainment
expected aud to which the people were invi-
ted Things now began to look blue enough,
a chilling consciousness Of the fact that their
labor had been in vain, began to appear, their
cause was in peril, but the expected hundreds
would not come to their rescue. The inquiry
soon started, what shall we dot In answer
some proposed to send for a Band and drum
up a crowd others again thought the people
would surely come, although time was up, and
others still, who feeling discouraged, suggest
ed it was a tcar1a place, and perhaps they had
best adjourn to the Court House steps, where
prospects might be more propitious. Finally,
a vote was taken, and an adjournment followed
to the Court House, where an audience was
at last obtained, not by far what was certainly
desired but sufficient to induce the prodigal
gentleman to proceed with his popgun ex-
%plosion. "And then the mountain labored and
brought a mice"
Stale sophistry the most transparent, and
long since exploded, was dished out and pre-
scented as logic. Misrepresentation and abuse
the most malignant Of Judge Douglas, and
the great principle of Popular Sovereignty he
advocates, appeared in the main to be the
staple elements in the speech of this bOmbas-
tic traitor to Democratic principles. But,
Messrs. Editors, l do not propose to further
occupy your time and space, in Identifying this
ranting diatribe Of Mr.. PARROT with review.
Suffice it now to say, that Mr.. p. is known
here as one who has become u deserter 20 that
flag, that party and those principles, which,
once upon a time, elevated him from an hum-
Bile station indeed, to that of position and
place. That desertion, we as a party do nos
either deplore or regret; but his base ingrufi-
tude and demagoguery we despise as we see
illustrated in his vile abuse, not only Of the
great party, which he once pretended to cher
ish; but also of the great principle Of self
government, which that party endorsed, and
which was baptized in the blood Of the Revo-
ton.
But, Mr.. PARRorT, has became a Btack Re
publican, whether from Interior impulses or
purposes or not, we cannot say, and do not
care. He, however, cannot deceive the De-
mocracy by his desertion of then. flag, nor by
his present abuse of their great leader and
his principles, which will t~riumpEantly survive
the shock of battle, and failing only when the
the Constitution and Union fail -frffeA
AHsnis spov~- n -A-ta.ds c.- ~.
Black Republican dogma of Intervention by
Congress with slavery in the Territories, for
its direct abolition, and denounces Popular
Sovereignty, and the right of the people of
the Territory to settle this with other domestic
questions, themselves, in their own way, ac-
cording to the Kahsas-N ebraska bill, or as
Judge Douglas proposes they shall do, subject
to the Constitution of the United States. Is
this the actual position on this question Mr.
PAoRoTT really and actually occupies? No,
sir, it is not his position at all, or langus. ge
does not nave a meaning, and plain wo rds
cannot be understood. What, then, is the po-
sition of Mr.. P, on this question of Popular
Sovereignty, allowing the people of the Ter
ritorles to settle all questions of a domestic
nature, whatsoever, for themselves2
Here it is in plain English, as copied fsom
his own speech, and uttered by his own Eps in
the House of Representatives at. Washington
City, on the 10th of April last;
"For myself 1 am satisfies and convinced
that the people of the Territory are the lust
deposition of political poEer-that they ought
to exercise it and tha.s goxerRnnent thus es-
tablished, and power thus exercised, will com
port with every beneficial end for which gov
ernments are instituted"
Besides all this positive evidence from Mr..
P's own mouth, which he dare not deny, he is
also known to have favored and endorsed the
principles embodied in the Kansas-N sbraska
bill. And yet, within the short space of three
months from the time of delivering his.speech
in Congress, endorsing in the strangest and
most unequivocal language, popular sover-
eighty" even as proclaimed and avowed by
Judge DOUGLAS himself, this same M. j. PAR
ROT, deliberately comes into the streets of
Dayton and disayows his own doctrines as
proclaimed in Congress on this subject, and
vindietively denounces here the very princi-
pies he avows at Washington City. Shameful
demagogues indeed unsurpassed by anything
recent in this quarter of the country.
How pious and how very candid do the
hypocritical denunciatiOns of the principles of
Judge DOUGLAS become from such a truculent
demagogue as this. They rise, indeed, into
proportions of significance but these only
are proportions u significant contempt.
But Mr., PARROT got the wool over Republi-
can eyes very successfully in his Dayton
speeeh they we're beautifully deceived into
the idea that he was for intervention only
upon the slavery question in the Territories
by Congress. Let us see zow if he can keep
the wool still on their eyes, notwithstanding