Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-11-01
Douslns on y,oorI,ncI,s,

We clip the following from DouaLAs
st. Louis speech;--
The Breckinridge men make a false
charge and call upon the Republicans to
swear TO il. Laughter and cheers Tho
Republicans make another false charge
and call upon the Breckinridge men to
swear to it; and they both want mo to cal |
them as witnesses, great laughter and
cheers, for the simple reason that they
think il do so, | could not afterwards
impeach their testimony, even if they lied
about it, as they certainly would. Shouts
of laughter and applause, in which were
mingled cries of "Give it to them" My
friends, never call conspirators as wit
nesses. Laughter and applause. These
men go around and retail what they pre-
tend to have been private conversations,
furnished them to the Breckinridge and
Republican papers, and saying that if /
will release them from the obligations Of
honor, perhaps they will speak out
Why do they wish release after they
have exposed and furnished for publca
ton all that they are ready to swear to?
If these conversations were confidential,
they have rendered themselves infamous
by their betrayal T"Good," and cheers
| have only to say this the man does not
live who before God can declare that |,
under any circumstances or in any con-
tingency, ever agreed to abandon one iota
of my Democratic principles. Good,
good" and cheers. The man does not
live who can say that l ever agreed or
was willing, in any contingency, to aban-
don the Democratic Organization
| Cheers. And any man who makes
such a charge knows that ho tells an in
famous falsehood in the presence of high
heaven Tremendous applause, Inever
uttered a sentiment in private inconsistent
with my public speeches from day to
day. Cheers.
Would it not have been strange state
of things. when was engaged in hand
to hand fight, making one, two and three
speeches day, all being published, had
privately uttering sentiments inconsistent
with my public record. But scorn all
these imputations. | scorn them as | dc
their conspiracy in Kansas to make me
the author of the I.eceompton Constitu.
ton. Laughter and cheers A body
of men stand in the Senate day after dav
week after week, and month after month
hearing me denounce the Lccompton Con
stitution, and wait until the controversy
is over and their chief actor is dead, anc
then come out and pretend Just on the
eve of the election that | am tho author
Of the iniquity that | defeated. Cheers.
The Breckinridge men furnish this charg,
and the Black Republican papers publish
ed it all over the country. That
So" and applause. | look upon al
these assaults, with scorn. They onl,
prove that the Blacl, Republican leader
: and the Breckinridge leaders are co-sup
porlers in a common causc. I shall no
> occupy your time in vindicatng mysel
from these charges. ! have been in pub
lie life for more than twenty-five years.
5 For seventeen years Of that time the Con
| gressional Globe furnishes the evidenc
I of what have said and what / bav
done. l defy any man to impeach m,
, Democratic record Good" an,
cheers. ! will submit the question t.
any impartial body of men on earth
whether have not rendered the Demo
cratic party more service-spent NOR
time. more strength, more voice and m or
effort in the Democratic cause, than al
the men combined who are now tryin
to help the Republicans beat me. IRE
mendour cheering. Passing from part
: considerations, ] challenge any enemy
have to show any word have ever spoken
J or any act | have ever done which wa
not loyal to the Constitution and tn
+ Union. Cheers. | defy any man t
: point ont where | have failed to sustai
the rights of each and every State in tt
Union, accordinging to the Constitution
e whether such rights were popular or III
e popular in my own State.