Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-08-11
Extract from John IIiekman,s speech.
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Senator DOHglaS dsIcibsd BY Eho ka0rB Hin !
From speech delivered by Hon. John
Hickman before the Republican Club, in
Concert Hall, Philadelphia, Pon the Great
Issues of the Day" we make the following
extract. Read it, everybody ''gl11
am not aware that the supporters Of
Mr. Breckenridge attempt any concealment
0s to his designs in case of bis success, If
they should desire to resort to prevarication
they have placed it entirely without their
power by the frankness and boldness, and
/ had almost said the recklessness, of their
declarations. He has been brought forth
prominently, alike in speech and platform,
as the Achilles of the armies of the South
and as the determined foe of free soil, free
soil, free speech, and free men. He stands
upon no single Democratic sentiment, IN.
less, indeed, what were regarded by oil
statesmen within the last fifteen years as
the pretentious hereses of John c. Calhoun
con be regarded He so reads the teach
ings Of the sages of the past, and their
primary law, as to make it fruitless TO at
tempt an exclusion Of his peculiar and fa-
vorite institution from the organized terri
tories, and so as to make it indispensable
that Congress, courts, aud Presidents should
exercise all their ingenuity, and all their
powers, to fortify and sustain it there.
Legislative action is to be invoked, judicial
DEGREES had, executive fats pronounced,
navies equipped, and armies marshaled, to
exclude forever settler therefrom who will
not bow down before the black god of his
idolatrous worship. appeal to yon, free
men, to know whether this is the Democra.
cy of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and
jackson. / appeal to you to know wheth-
er you have ever found anything 10 the an.
nails of parties so insulting to the under.
standing, until within the lifetime of the
youth who has not yet reached his majori-
ty. appeal to you to know whether the
honesty, intelligence, and unmixed blood of
the offspring of Northern mothers can ever
accept an excuse for those who would en-
deaVcr to fasten such ruler upon us. But
we may congratulate ourselves that even
official zeal can perceive no chance for Mr..
Breckenridse's election. If there has ever
been any, the recent stump speech of Mr.,
Bnchauan would have effectually disposed
of it. No amount of popularity would be
able to stand against the enconiums of such
an advocate. His midnight appeal can
only be accounted for by supposing the
"old public funetionary" was unable to OBJ
literate his animosities towards "the young
gentleman of Kentucky" aud that his well
known craft suggested a speech as the
readest and least offensive means of de-
struction. Such suggestions are the more
reasonable as it is not to be imagined that
the aged tenant Of the White House should
for moment believe, after the investiga-
tions which have been had, and the expo
sures which have been made, snch testimo.
nv as he volunteered could be otherwise
than ruinous to any cause, The. daring
evinced by him ON the occasion was only
euualed by his lack of self-respeet. and his
utter disregard OF the circumstances by
which he was surrounded, and which should
have restrained him. trl. au ,tr...
Whatever conclusions may be drawn of
my estimate of Mr., Breckenrdge's char.
acter as politician, can only say that
my esteem for him is profound when
brought into comparison with that which
/ entertain for his Democratic competitor.
There are few, if any, living men concern
inc whom more has been said, and less
really known, than Stephen A. Douglas.
of Illinois. There are thousands, by far
too many thousands, now sustaining him
under the mistaken and delnsiye idea that
he is directing his efforts to eounteraet the
plans of the Southern Democracy. O. This
is frightful hulluciuatiou, but the natural
one when we take into consideration the
bumiliating fact that all that devotion
could do has been done, by those surround.
ing his person, to distort true record, and
10 stamp counterfeit character for him
ON the public mind. Viewing him as one
| of the most unsafe aud treacherous of lead.
ers. you will pardon me certain statements
which it now seems necessary should be
made. and the correctness OF which, pre-.
sumo, will not be impugned. l have NOT
vet forgotten, when, in the winter oI
IIS55-6, during the 6rst session Of the thir
ty.fourth Congress, the residents of Kan
sas. assevorating that the cardinal princi
ole of the Kansas-Neb act bad been
wantonly aud wickedly nulli6ed, that fraud
and violence, concocted in the blue-lodge'
of Missouri, had invaded their homes acc
imposed a foreign rule upon them for th'
purpose Of forcing upon them institptienl
which they abhofFed, aud invoking the in
terpositin Of Congress 10 then behalf th'