Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1860-01-19

ell, but he has no Othcr Standard tnaIl the
fuctuating passions of meu. That is gov
ernment OF men, net of law. The first and
glorious characteristic of tho Anglo-Saxon
race, from which most of us descend, is to
be found in their devotion to the ilca Of per-
sonal independence.
Even in the worst times in English history
during the last thtcc hundred years there has
been glorious theory of personal ihGtren1-
ence which was beautifully set forth once by
Chatham in one of his proulest exhibitions of
cloquence. He spoke of the freedom and in
dependence of the English peasant, and sal!
that his very mud-wall hut was his castle ; it
might be shattered so that the wind might
enter there, the rain might enter there, the
snow might enter there, but the King Of Eng
land dare not. [Grcat applause.l Why p
BecatIsc lc is protected by the strong and inn
partial ramparta of law, and that is the high
est principle and :hc crowning glory of the
government of this country, that man may
look into book and read his rights and OBJ
legations and not look into the couutcnancc
of man, who, to-day, may, perhaps, be y scav-
enger and tomorrow al Emperor, debating
the law like Jack Cade, and saying, "My
mouth shall be the Parliament Of England
[Checrs.
am not Democrat you pcrccivc-not q
bit of it. never was. | cannot say what
Mr.. Buchanan was once reported to have said
that # he had one drop of democratic blood
In his veins he would send for barber sur
geon and let it out But never would 50
that far. Nor am a Republican of the mo-
dcrn school. donot think there is any such
here. am not right SuiS that ever saw
one. Men adopt name, but names are
things my friends-living, breathing, propa-
eating things, and some times very strong
The name of Democrat has beaten me and my
party a ds1cn tmes-nothing but the name.
What makes the 40, 900 Germans in st. Lou
is--somc of them good and excellent men,
all vote the democratic ticket 1t is nothing
but the name, for in their country the name
is thing. There the democratic party are
opposed to oppression, and when they come
to tlris country they consider it 4 virtue to
vote against us for that reason. This is the
thing we have to contend against. 1t takes
them five or ten years to learn their mistake,
and now, thank God, they arc beginning to
learn it. think they will practice on what
they learn, and some gentlemen will find that
this will be the case, at Cincinnati as well as
st. Louis after while.
With regard to the existing troubles in
Kansas think they spring from the action Of
very honorable companies Of very desperate
! ly Jealous men at the North and at the South.
A ftcr the government had dcsccrated its high
position, and Abandoned its high duties, and
: laid out that country under the false doctrine
that it was to be scrambled for by such as
could lay their hands upon it first, it was ma
tura that chose who were very eager to OBJ
tain possession should put themselves in a
condition to be first in the scramble for it,
In Massachusetts and some other States, they
got up emigrants aid societies. suppose in
the first place for honcst purposes to help their
poor and honest enigrants to get to Kansas,
and at the same time TO secure a free State on
the Western borders of Missouri.
presume that was the reason for their cs-
tablshmcnt. In looking at this matter,
trace it back to the root, and from that fol-
low it to the branches, the stems and the leaves
The South began to form combinations to en-
able themselves to compete successfully with
the North. 1t was but the other day that
saw a company passing through st. Louis
who came from about hundred miles of my
native place, Petersburg, Virginia; they were
number of young men that looked as little
like a set of cmigrants that w6ic going 10 clear
the woods of bushes as anything could be. and
upon inquiry found that every one of them
had enlisted with so much money in his pock-
ct, and with the promise Of a quarter or half
section of land, and they were cmigrants 60
ing to Kansas, If they had had gruJs, axes
and hoes, or any Of the ordinary means and
appliances of farmers life, should have
known at once what they were; but they had
nothing of the kind. | have lived forty-two
years in the Western country, ana Know c.n-
igrants by sight in moment; | can tell an
emigrant wagon quarter Of a mile off, so as
to distinguish it from a merchants or pcdlar's
wagon.
Why, gentlemen if the government had on
ly had the sagacty of II hen partridge, all
these difficulties Might have been sctted long
ago. One single order that Mr.. Secretary
Davis might have written upon piece Of pa
per less in size than my hand, would have
kept the peace in Kansas. 4 most excellent
friend of mine in the Senate Mr.: Crittcndcn,
proposed some time ago, to send out the
commandcr-in-Chicf of the army; &ho, it was
supposed might have settled the difficulty
but the Senate would not send him. The
Kansas game from beginning to end, was noth-
ing more nor less than game of brag On
each side they would threaten to be very va
liant, and try to look exceedingly ftrociouS,
and they were very much in hope all the time
that their adversaries would run away: but
still it might have been there as it it is some
times with bullics in playing with knives !;
frequently the knife will slip Or .hcy cut too
near, and they get more than they bargain
for. That is about the condition in Kansas.
Instead of sending out Northumberland,
a Major-deneral, o. even a Brisailicr; gave
It as my deliberate opinion, from my knowl-
ctlge of the frontier, aud my knowledge Of
particular facts which have occurred thcft
among the mass Of falschoods which have
been circulated, that there never was time