White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-03-01

say it frankly. that / regret it in its ex.
istence. / speak as ! feel, and when SEE
all the power of this government exercis-
ed for the protection and perpetuation Of
that institution, l must protest against
IL. (Cheers. have seen for the lest
eight weeks men, Northern men, and
was ashamed to see them lending them
selves to the depravity, il / may be per-
united to use the term, but certainly to
the degradation, of endorsing principles
never before Witnessed But, gentlemen,
to bring, as 1 said before, these desultory
remarks to close, let me in conclusion
repeat my thanks for this demonstration.
You may remember this passage in "Ma-
zeppa''-my friend, Mr.. jackson, from
Kentucky, will also rememoer-when
Mszeppa I cannot repeat the exact
words, is bound to wild steed, which
is turned of. and which few with him
over mountains. through valleys and for
ests, and across rivers, pursued by wolves,
shouts back to his tyrant and prosecutor
that some day he would return to repay
him. Loud cheers. "Some day 1 will
return" said Mazeppa, "to thank you,
Count, for this uncourteous ride. Gen
tlemen, / have had this ride for the last
two or three years. loud cheers )-but l
have also Mazeppa like. come back to
settle with the respectable and venerable
gentleman at the other end of the avenue
for that ride. l am returned to pay him
my respects. (Cheers. A voiee-"Give
him hell be has no friends.") I have
returned to settle accounts with him. "a
voice-"Dont spare him he shot us
down like dogs with marines. If he
is now sitting in his easy chair at home
tonight he must hear your loud and hear
ty cheers. and they will remind him THAT
his old friend Forney has come back to
settle the old debt with him. loud
cheers and laugter.)
Mr.. Forney once more thanking the
assemblage, retired from the window
loudly cheered. c-.-... --...
The lines alluded to are as follows:
They it'll. thOughi. that day of pain,
When launched, the Eghtning's fash,
They babe me to destruetion dash,
That one day shoald come sgain, .....
With twice FIVE thousand horse, to thank
The Count for his unsOureous ride:
They played me then a bitter prank
When, with the wild horse for my guide,
They bound me to his fosmins flank.
At length played them one as frank,
For time at last sets all things even
AAd il we do bot watch the hour,
There never yet human power
Which could evsde, IL unforgiven,
The patient watch and vigil long
OF him who treasures up q wrong.
REMARKS OF JOHN HICKMAN.
Mr.. Hickman, being loudly called for,
said that in the conflict between the
North and the South, the patriot could
have but one desire, and that was to Sc
cure equality and justice to all the States.
The chief difficulty was. that the South
assumed Garrison and Phillips as types
of Northern sentiment. There was no
sectionalism in the North, worth consid-
ering. The North was eminently conser-
vatiYe, because the North was eminently
wise. A man who would say that the
Union should not be maintained at every
cost and and every sacrifice. was not q
true American citizen, and was not a
wise man. (Applause.)
MR.. HAsKIN's REMARKs-ExPLANATIo OF
THE FORREST LETTER.
Mr.. Haskin, after expressing his hap
piness on account of the great victory
that had been gained read dispatch from
Lancaster, Pa. the city of MIR. Forney's
birth aud Mr.. Buchanan's residence, sta
ting that one hundred guns had been fred
in honor of the election of the former.
(Great enthusiasm.) He said that Lam
caster had responded to an appeal, made
in person by the President, just before the
local fall election, by giving a majority
of three hundred against the Democratic
ticket, the first Opposition triumph, he
believed, ever had..there. Laughter and
applause.
They all knew that from the COM
mencement of the session down to the
present time the New York Herald indi-
Gated the course to be pursued by the Ad-
ministration members in the House, and
that they had implicitly followed its ad-
vice in more than one instance. A short
time ago that paper had, at the instiga-
ton of Mr. Buchanan, as he knew, reyiv-
ed the Forrest letter, and had suggested
that it be read from the Clerks desk
when Forney was nominated. Singular
" enough this had not been done, but ex-
pecting that it would be, Col Forney
addressed him letter in relation to the
famous Forrest letter, so much niscon-
strued. and so much used by the penny
whistle newspapers that follow in. the
wake of the Herald. to prejudics Forney.
He would have read this letter in the
House, but there was no necessity for it.
He would now read it, however, as be
knew those present who would like to
hear 1t. The following is the letter
49, WAsH1xorox, Feb. /, 1860.
Ny DEAR SIR I need not repeat to
Won that nv name has been associated
with the position Of Clerk OF the House.
rather hrough.psrtiality of kind friends
like yourself, than because OF any efforts
of nv own to become candidate, ]
have importuned no single representative
for his vote. In the present condition Of
politics, I have preferred to let events
take their course, so far As / am concern
ed, maintaing the position l have held for
the last two years, Of incorporating
hostility to the proscriptive and shame