The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-02-23

A voice-"the whole Democratic partJ
is not responsible for him."] Of course
not God forbid they should be. Laugh
ter and applause. The great mass o
the Republican party is of the Democrat
ic party. but they are of the good old
American gold with the stamp of '76, no
the bogus Democratic stamp of 1854 and
1856. They are with US now, and will
be With US hereafter, and therefore stand
here and the lights are put out. The
darkness will Dot keep you, however,
from knowing that they sre incompetent
to administer the government that the
whole party is responsible for,
The Snake and its Skin.
Let Us trace the consequences like the
snake; yearly they shed their skin, but
they never go back into the old one; beau
tiful it is at irst, but it i'm z ediately re.
turns to dust and ashes Let US look at
the consequences. Here vas the forma.
ton of the blue Lodges" in } issouri, ac-
cordiug to the Congressional Report IRE
member | don't intend to give any state
ment upon my own ssyso; appeal to his.
tory to substsntiate all l ssy) You
march under your Missouri bordss SO
formed into the Territory of Kansas, and
although it is we'll known, and as history
has proven, that the Republican party
was in clear majority, by force of arms,
you took down the Judges of Election
that were appointed legally. They were
taken by force, the Missouri force going
out with banners flying and with colors
displayed, and the question was asked
not "are you Judge according to the
Constitution and the lawsl" Not "ere
you Judge of Election carrying the dec
laration OF the Cincinnati platforms Of
1852 and 1855, that the people should
determine upon their domestic institutions
in their own way !" Bot, care you sound
on the goose ~ That was what they asked
them; in other words, are you for Slave
ryW Not "are you for the Constitution
and the laws, and for the support OF Re-
publican institutions ard principles as our
fathers handed them down to US T. No !!
but "ars you right on the goose - aud if
a man did not answer that way that P leas.
ed them, they caught him by the collar
and elected him, and many who upheld
the Constitutional right of election were
compelled to fly for their lives, and many
were wounded and killed. Where then
stood the Democratic press Of the United
States Aiding and abetting all this
treason. The free-soil citizen from the
State of Kentucky, as we'll as he from the
Free States, who had seen by actual ex-
perme Dt the glorious benefits of free in
stitutions, and others who had seen the
woe of Slavery, and who found that the
pledges of the Democratic party had been
kept to the word and violated in fact,
late in the day sent to their homes both
in Kentucky, the Slave and the Ere.
States and took up arms, and upon every
field, and by the whole power that God
and nature had bestowed upon them, they
resisted this attempt to en.lave them
What then did the President of these u
nited Ststesl All the time be by the
forces of the United States disarmed the
Republican party, and left them at the
mercy of those invaders of thier rights.
John Brown and his Raid.
Then sprung up this John Brown. |
say be is the legitimate son of the acts
and svowals of the Democrats party that
they intended to take possession of Kan
sas by force Of arms. "peaceably if they
could, but forcibly if they must and it
was only when those descendants Of rev.
dictionary fathers took up arms in their
own defense-snd | thank God there
were Kentuckisns as well as Yankees
fighting there 10 the battle for freedom
that they drove back the invaders, and
now a great and overwhe helwipg majority
of the people of Kansas say that it shall
be free, Notwithstanding James Buchanan
lifts up his impious hands, and perhaps
praying that it may be SO, says that kan
sas is as much Slave Territory as South
Carolina" Is that democracy In the
name of that God to whom he so inpi-
ously appeals, is it so-is it a Slave Statef
Not at all. History tells US that just there
HeRbU J0Gu DEOWU. HOW 1T Is l. Will
state, as it comes to me authenticated
To the best of my knowledge and belief,
before be shed the blood of single man
one of his sons was chopped to pieces in
cold blood, and another son was dragged
in chains by vehicle until, from the
heat, the exposure, the ignomlny, and the
torture of the moving chains his brain was
crazcd and be went mad; and bis sister,
looking upon all these sad cslamities and
scenes Of horror, was also crased. Then
this man took up the knife, end made a
war of extermination upon the slavehold-
ers and the invaders OF the soil. There
is the secret of the whole matter. so help
me God, as believe | am Csssius Clay,
as | stand here to night say the be-
ginning of this raid on Virginia. John
Brown felt that there was no protection
for him in the Democrats party; that the
laws of Missouri and Kansas gave no pro-
lection to him, and that he had once more
to appeal to the God of Hosts for defense,
and he carried that war on in Kansas,
and in Missouri, and Virginia. The