The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1860-08-31

q tell you those Yankees arc til
i bravest men on earth. Save M
,I from the men who first load the
e muskets and then get down on the
" knees and pray to God to stand b
Q them when they shoot. Tdon't war
e to meet them. But how did it com
d out? They swept the invaders lrot
Il the soil of Kansas--and Kansas
e free.
U DOUGLAS AND THE PRESIDENCY.
And who was the instrument i
. this abortive attemptl Who had tn
courage to betray thirty millions c
, men9 Who attempted to take ava
the rights belonging to the people a
= OoutrH' 'uistii,s uiot.oi f-.-> 49, Ill
garchy2 There was none other com
petent to do this thing than thi
same Stephen A. Douglas. Wha
were his views on this question: Il
!, 1S49 he said 80 sacred was the Mis-
souri, Compromise that he feared tn
curse Of God would rest on that maj
who would attempt to strike it down
10 1854 we have him reiterating ,h,
sentiments that that barrier shoulc
be held eternally sacred. But ht
aspired to be President. He wat
greatly exercised. There appeared
to him great figure, and it said tc
him, 80, Stephen!" And he said
"Who art thou!" III am the slave
power. make and unmake Presi.
dents in these United States, and
the truth is, in the contest for do.
minion the battle has gone against
us, and it is now necessary for us to
seek some other means of getting
into Kansas. II you will not repeal
that Compromise, Dixon. or Kep.
tncky will" And forthwith Ste-
phen cried. "AlIah, il allSil there is
no other God but theelwe3A nd he
went to the Senate chamber and
accomplished the repeal of that sa
cred compact.
| am charitable man, but | say
never has there been so disgraceinl
a tergiveisation as that Of Douglas
in relation to this question But he
could not meet his constituents, and
he must have a parachute. The
Courts had ever stood by the doc
trines OF freedom: what did Mr..
Douglas do? lie discovered at once
that be was mistaken that former
enactments were not legitimate-in
a word, that the Constitution of the
United States was itself unconstitu-
tIonal Though he was not in favor
OF slavery, he could not bear the
idea of the inequality Of the states
The experiment was tried, and
Kansas is still free; though for this
reason her rights are ignor Il and
she is kept ont of the Union.
But where was the champion Of
popular sovereignty while this con
test WAS going on? Let us look at the
record.
ResoScea, Tha. the people of the
territories should be left perfectly
free, without intervention bv Con
gress or the Executive Of the United
States, to make their institutions as
they think proper subject to the
Constitution of the United States.--
why was this last clause added! -
Every man knows that the terrific.
ries had no power to overthrow the
Constitution of the United States
1t was the doctrine OF Calhonn, the
arch traitor, that the Constitution.
per SO, carried slavery into all the
territories. 1t was then received
with an universal shout OF dcrision.
1t is now the doctrine on which the
Democratic party ia based, and it
was for this that Mr.. Douglas in.
serted that clause. How do | know
this! Why an Ohio Senator-Gov.
Chsse--the right man in the right
place, tremendous and prolonged
cheering,) knew something Of this
Calhoun doctrine, and he knew
Stephen, and he smoked out the
little lox! daughter lie proposed
that the people OF the territories
should be permitted TO have slavery
or have il not. Where then was
Stephen? He killed squattcr sove-
reignty right there in the Senate -
lie voted it down. And this "sub-
ject to the Constitution" was loop
hole through which the trickster
might escape.
Where do we find him practically
in this conflict OF despotism with
popular riehts2 When the New
England Ciergylnen petitionei him
to defend the rights Of the people, he
denounced them in such . manner
rs to outrage all the proprietles and
decencies Of life. When tho cries
Of the suffering and the dying came
up to our ears from Kansas, and we
wished to lay our grievances before
the servants of the people at Wash.
ington. this little fellow, whose
coat tail, Mr.. Benton said, was "toc
near Inc ground, stIutted about
like a cock-sparrow in the Senate
smacking bis fists and saying to the
defenders of popular liberty, wv,
will subdue you'll" ..
Again, this champion of the peo
ple's rights processes the most pro
found indifference as to the result O
the contest. He doesn't care wheth
er slavery is voted mp or down.
Only make mo President and 20,
may sink every African, and ever,
white man too, into tho bottom o
, the sea. .T ... I.
\ Too Muou ARSENIC. - Richar,
:. Shafner, q German Tailor Of thi
village, took spoonful OF arsenic o,