Year: 1860

of Virginia, who supported Breckenridge in
the late campaign in a speech during the
canvass boldly takes the same ground, in the
the following language:


"Fellow citizens, am aware that l am
now handling a topic OF some delicacy,
question on which many perhaps here present
| were induced to differ from me at the time
of its first and most immediate significance.
! II so, the necessity to speak the whole truth
Of my honest conviction at this time must
plead with you my pardon for any apparent
indelieacy in urging point OF difference
previously existing among brethren now firm
ly united for n great purpose of common
welfare and plighted faith. OF the President
of the United States himself have no par
don to ask owe him no forbearance and
be is especially responsible for all the evils
which boldly attribute to a policy origina-
ted by his suggestion, and pushed beyond
the verge of factious strife by his official ac-
ton. This device. this infamous Lecompton
fraud cunningly concocted at Washington,
was employed to rush slavery to preciptate
your interest and mine, your homo" and mine
on the bosses of the buckler of popular
sovereignty. When strict and equal Justice
was the only motto even as expediency, left
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netdS to impose on State sovereignty itself
the dictation of force fraudulently devised,
and fraud most violently executed North
ern men were told that the South would per-
NIT them to vote for but not against a pro
posed form Of State Constitution and South
ern men were entrapped into the scheme of
rendering slavery the only institution which
Congressional Intervention against non inter
vention should permit to be prescribed at
the polls. For the sake Of suhjecting slave
ry, and slavery alone, to unfriendly discrim-
ination, Southern men were taught to forget
even the wisdom of the cock in .Esop's fable.
That cock did have the sense to say to the
horse If you won't tread on my toes l won't
tread on yours But our cock was taught Il
cock-a doodle-doo strain of unprincipled arro-
gance-taught to scratch the iron-shod hoof
OF anti-slavery sentiment, to provoke aggres-
sion by aggression, to clamor for the game of
hardest fend off, by fair means or foul
People at the South asked each other is
this Southern policyY People at the North
asked each other, Is this Southern justice 2
Slavery was made to stink in the nostrls of
the people of Kansas; the justice of our po
sition, the morale of our organization was
sacrificed, and our friends at the North were
estranged, dishearteued, crushed rendered
powerless for our aid, and easy victims of a
persecution directed against our welfare and
dignity"


This is the language of man who, finding
the catastrophe upon the country, which
this Leeompton policy has produced, takes
sides with his own section right or wrong.
arguing that, since the crisis has arrived, it
must he met Gov Wise was right in resist
ing the Lecompton policy, but wrong in Civ
ing up the battle of conservatism as hopeless
at so early period. There was yet time to
prevent the war of ultraism upon each hand,
and he should have stood by the organza-
ton of the Democratic party, and sustained
now occupies the position of a man who is
engaged in q contest which he did not wish
to see but which he has suffered himself to
be instrumental in bringing about While
he is fighting purely sectional fight, he de-
nounees with all the bitterness, of which he
is capable, the man whose insanity or whose
crime first threw the political issues of the
country into so dangerous channel


Verify, this man Buchanan will have
severe ordeal to go through with in the
judgment of posterty. At the head of
great and united party he deliberately went
to work to split that party in twain, by inau
guratihg policy which none of that party
had ever contemplated, a nd insisting upon
its being carried into execution, when he
knew that the responsibility Of such a course
would be more than the great bulk of the
Democracy in the North could bear. lie
knew that they must sink under the weight
If they chose to assume it, and was told by
those authorized to speak that it would new
er be assumed. He urged the infamous thing
on and through everywhere distracting the
Democratic party, and producing an utter
prostration Of the party in the North. The
Northern Democracy have been held respon-
sible for the iniquities of his damnable Ad-
ministration, and the result has been that the
Republican party have grown and increased
to such an extent as well nigh to sweep the
entire extent of the Northern States.


If Revolution comes, civil war, insurrec-
tion in the South, and all the ten thousand
horrors of fratricidal contest, that hoary
headed traitor to the trust reposed in his in
tegrity, and to the principles upon which he
was elected, will be alone responsible. Such
is the judgment Of Gov Wise and hundreds
of men who are now taking sides with the
South in the issues presented, and Of others
who, though yet standing aloof, in the hope
of peace, must ultimately take sides with
their own section of the country, if the worst
comes to the worst.


Oh what language can measure the scorn
aud indignation which should be heaped
upon the head of a man who would calmly
and deliberately bring upon the country
such issues and such crisis


God grant that the calamities of his Ad-
ministration may yet be warded off, and the
Nation revert to that happy state of repose
and quiet which it knew, under the reign
OF true and united Democracy.


The PoPuLARrTY OF c. L. DELoNe.-The
various elections in this county in which Mr..
DeLong has been a candidate, prove his great
personal popularity. lie was elected in 1858
to the Legislature by most flattering vote,
but then his entire party was successful. In
1859, his whole party was defeated, but, as
candidate for the State Senate, he ran very
considerably ahead of his ticket. He was
beaten by his opponent, Watkins, only ~