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iti existence. A p;iitin-oin wero wholly
M.vlo wllh view lo affect lluj eh-Cliou
8uto and leduml and to op rate for or
ogainst particular nm; and (or this pur.
pose lli mo. ii n 111 characters would be
taken in pref-rvnco to the best, Vuu know
how it wjiin thi JJute and a it ai her
i it w w every where. NullihV tnd Pre
Sjiler, ApoU.ites Slid R"ngade nil
mart full fu their nut. Un single riualin
eathm rsiiuitita that of working in
ilio election; and llit only preference
scorned tu U shown wn in favor of lho
who hod been most violent againtl ihit
Union. l)u Hint principle it was llml an
ajitor wn takn and sent into Egypt, out
into tun-luge, batter mn bat been sent
thern -but a Con-ul Uerwirl of ilia United
Suie ; which editor had published dnily
paper in Wai'jinglon City fur thru year,
wholly devotcj lo ilia separation of tb
tl.ivo from the free State.
fl. Unfit appointments on foreign mi
kiona, This it a mortifying bead of ao
citation g,iiiit tho present Administre
lion. Never were such men nt abroad
li represent ojr country mun without a
particle of Hid knowledge which diplumncy
requires and even :ilioul manner wiih
out knowing how to behave in company
mere political demagogue, lo reward them
for nTvici past and tor vice to erne, al
l!io federal nn J Stat election. They tend
.icli abroad, In orj'ir lo givo lh'..ii iudcin
niiy fur past service nl the KIU,and t en
able litem to come back and recommence
limir partisan labor. Formerly, llm Uui
led S:hU.-i Minister were ilia pride of our
country anj the admiration oftho courts (o
which they Wert sent. Talented, educated,
vmloto with knowledge, pjllshcd in man
iur, nnd est, virtuom such wore former,
ly our Minister abrond. What a contrast
to tliKe h now send abroad. U'IihI a
contrast lo llm llufus King, llie John Mar.
uliuiU, llm Albort Oitilutinii, ilio Joint Q.
Ailmni, tlm Pinkiipyn of Smlli Carolina,
and ih I'iiikiiuv uf Maryland, llm lluiiry
Clara, and ibe loii lint of tplendid namm
tli.it (,'race our diioniaiio a:uml. Such
flpKjintniuiiUalliij Adinini'lration makvt
I ak oflbe inaM, firlliero area few
txai'ilion ar nut only a dinyrice, but an
i-ijiiry lo our country. Tliny iujure our
n.iiiunal ri-putaibn. J'!iey diijirnde u in
Ilia ovun of furuigii nation. Tliey injure
ill whole cluuatur of republican govern
ment. Many of lln-m not only of bad man
ncra, but bad morula. (July think of lliat
jAn'u Owen, nlin pulilinlied a lieMipapur
and wroto a bjuk lo abulUli the intiiuiion
of marriagi, uinl lo p'ruade mull and wo
inon lo Ii vo logelher llku bciwtaof Hie field.
Jin ivtant to a fortign court fur hi election
acrvicen, and mutt convey the idcawher
ever he itt, thai the United Slnlca is
wl.j'.j nuiiuii of Mormon, returning to the
Ktnto of I'or'.'nl uniiiibN, Hut if he must go,
ho Inn curtaiii!y g m lo t'i9 righl place.
'i'iiry i.miI him in Nplt-i, wlicie hia doc
Irine may iiieil with Uht nUliO'" nue than
in any o bur pail of the civilized world.
And all iIii-no luiiiHioiiii are multiplied lo
the (reiiiuit pis.bi't-'.v:il tending thoe
unfit nii-u to (,ite ulirre limy have iiul.li.
Jii' lo do, even if iliey could do anything
iCi fily to piie them pay mid where
many f ilirm, by their vuljiarity and miv
rnnJuet, are cclu led fiom locial inter-
t'ourse nudconiiiikd lo the privilege which
iho tro.tiv (ixure them ; oud Ml lo ill
low company whiJi their maimers and
lanes rcUire.
4. fcAiruvaJU rxpi-iidituroi lhecha.
nctoiiktic of ihii aiiiiiit.itrtiun. Never
wr, kiieh a ir J.lijrale waste of public money
Seen! Scvinty lo eighty million vquau
tlered pcrnnn um aud not a mnploiu of any
uli.Ueinuut. WhiMi Mr. i'ulk went out of
olliuu, wliidi wan iil'lur the uciuiiliou of
ull our new lurriturief, lie cnmiiuit'd llie
tmnual expemiei uf the government at
twnuty-livo loUcuty-kix million; now it
i three time that amount, and getting
vtone. Iiicrcate of ollico and alunos, in
Lioiibe of army and navy, multiplication uf
useless ageiiu lo ntiuuJ lo Ihu election
under the pretext of tilling wine ollico,
wiikto of money in building ships lo rot,
while rtluiiig a dollar lor the improvement
of our e;rcat tiwia. Such are llieir devi
ce lo gel rid uf the puhtiu muiiey. Near,
ly b tlieiuMiid Jullar a man ia now the
uvi rinjocofct of every man in the army and
i .ivy, nn J i ho civil jenin li.t of England
pro puik d for thiir further tuppnri. And
Loth nnny and navy reduced, a fust a
poksihlo, to the cnndiiioii uf government
I'ltablishiuunt I'lenidential, and not n
tiounl iuntiitilioiit. All oppnintmcnl are
conduulod on t hut principle ; all timminiiinn
nud reduction are conducted ort thesamo.
Two hundred ollio-r have lately bern turn
ril out ( the navy by an open, caiulnlou
wn I r i initial perversion of law, and the aaine
ripuraiion i dcn'red lo bo performed on
the Hi'iny, tlin rulo of dismission being to
kino paiiihinsand favorite, and to turn out
ffuod oOieers, without regard In service or
character, whoto political ntlliiilie or con
nexion are not approved.
6. Violated td.'dges rise up in judgment
njniiut this Administration. I do not al
lude loth inaugural addrovr, these (ddrrs
e nro now made like pie crust io be bro
ken. 1 spuik of public specific jdedgo.
openly and solemnly made, and openly and
kcandalously violated. There whs llie
pledge lo reduce uiitircery duties, and
pet rid of a coriupting surplus revenue.
That pledge is violated has been for four
years and still is. The enormou reve
nue is kepi up, to increase patronage, to
purchase worthless lanJ from Mexico, to
corrupt pree, to reward panixan. to
tr.'iiglhcti ths (ioverrmient, to buildup
afiiiies and n:n ie J and to fibt foreign na
tion if they van succeed in picking quar
rel wiih lliem. Kiually public was the
pledge, and cipia'ly scandalous its violation,
to m ike a national highway lo the I'acific
ocean, l our year ag.i the pledge was
ma I" : the time is out, and ilio pledge not
redeemed. The tnno hi been ot in mak
ing uscli Bed costly urey for two out
tide roads, on for the North and on for
the South, and in endeavorirjf lo purcha"
Iroin .Mexico slice n'ter lice lo carry th
Southi.rn ioo'( lo (iuavnias on ih liulfof '
I'-nlif 'niia. Tcr million were given for
olio slice ; it was luund to be worthless, and
besides, w ml. I nt includa the place. At
lli l-.f t aici-mi funiier cfV' t were mak
ing I ' get auuilier l;e, at atuvhertcil or
twenty millions, s'i!l fur. her iSou'h. In
Ih4 iiK.iii.i.e j ih i i,l., in. tlii.vl and unions'
i-cnir.il r.iiita is rep'i.liate,, alilinuh it is
iiiw inlh!r,l made: fr ih railniads
Wot from It ihiinore, l'hiladeliiit anil
yi.'iT Vtlnnt.'tf Kiiii!s, now 'iieirste the
et. fM.'.-j lo the c ntr before tliev j
I.-.J. !' p', m 1 pii-iKOt witK
the Missouri road, now complete to the cen
tre of the Stat, and advancing lo (he West,
rn bordtr. Yet this direct national route,
tlmugli now one-third made, i rejected and
repudiated for an cn'sid rout through
Mexico, and a ship csnal through fomign
Ur'ilorr In the Sptoiih part of America.
0. Neglect of the Territorial govern,
mem i another of the olTence of (hi ad
ministriitioa, Poliiical partizun tnd ot
houte demnjpgue are nt out lo fill all
their odice men unfit, if they were (Im
posed, but merely electioneer, engaged in
the Btnte and federal election while the
protection of the feder! government i ut
terly unknown, and violence, blood.hed,
and disorder overspread I he land. Utale,
who acrndnl over the lavage mind
chinned the Indians into iiifaantile submis
sion, was d'imissed because ha would nut
eleo ioncer to make room fur a pot-liotisa
demagogue, who could do nothing rise.
California, Oregon, Nwr Mexico are all
the scene of bloody outrage ; Indian war
rage private murder previU law it Im
potent the federal ollicor are of no ac
count, and the citizen are driven to the
neceisity of providing for themselves. I
need not mention Konsn; the coudition of
that blood tiained ground i tuflicirtitly
known to you. I will spesk of Utah, where
the federal government is ignored and re
pudiated ilt law and authority et at de
fiance. The term of the Mormon Govern
or, Urigliam Young, expired three year
ago. As h had thrown o(T the authority
of the United Smtc, it tva determined to
end him a luccessor military graduate
of West Point and Cpl. Stcptoe wn call
ed from his pleasunt quarter to go upon the
enterprise. When Krigham beard of ii, he
made a speech to hit people, in which he
told them what rrxsideiit 1'ierce intended,
nd what he himself intended uneke idiug
a new Governor, mid the other intending
lo ri pulu the compline-iii. It was in ihnl
speech that Im said to his p ie that le
intended lo remain in hi pl.io until t' e
Lo d should ay to him Brigham, lilua't
waul you lo bt Governor of Vlah any long
rr." The Admitiitiiaiion was afraid of him,
and undertook lo mil muneuver him, and
thai in the highest style of West point tac
tic ; they determined to smuggle Sirntne
in. For thai purpose the military Gov
ernor was furnished with a batialiun of sol
dier, nnd directed lo proceed lo the Mor
mon Kingdom, a if he wa going to Cali
forniaatop there to hybernale and
watching the chance, dip into the Govern
orship aome day when Hrighnui wn out
something like a weasel thai get into an
other' hula when he finds llie occupant
gone. When I beard of this fine scheme,
I said to my acquaintance, and can prove
that I tnid it, (for I do not indulge in ex
posluclo prediction,) that the first lime
wo should hear of this Governor S'eptoe
again hn would be on hi) tip toes, marching
to th tune of "Jleiah, Deity Afarlia, tiptoe
fiut;n and to it was. For, before the hy
bernation wa over, lie Wnson his march in
good trui Ii to Califormu, to return thence
In the U. o. Dot there was something else
which I did nut fnrectt, which was l lint this
military Governor curried uSY four dozen uf
iho Mormou lietty Marlins with him to
the inlinito distress of the baiuts, profound
ly chagrined to find themselves so encroach
ed itiioti by lite Gentile. IJut it wa the
lii encroachment of the kind. No more
of llm U. S. military lure been there since;
and Drigham any he ha promised (he
Lord, thai if they come again, he will fix
them to that ihcy will let hi Ii. tty
Marlins alone. And that v,as the i-nd of
the attempt, by this Administration, to
givo a Governor to Utah. Hrigham hold
on to the place, and Mr. Pierce stands with
hand oil'; and the Hcandulous spectacle is
seen uf n mm assuming to be Governor by
the will of the Lord, repulsing the United
Siate authorities, trampling '.he laws un
der foot, insulliiig and defying the Federal
Government ; nud no attempt made te re
duce him lo law and order. Such is the
insu rgeiit coudition of the polygamous King
dom of the latier day suiuis. All have
heard of this polygamy a state of things
al which morality, decency, shame revolt;
end I havo been tuld how an institution, o
abhorrent lo human nature, is kept up, and
thai it is by virtue uf the civil power vest,
ed in Hrigham and hi Saints, still marc
than by hit religious power that (here are
enough to overturn the iiiti;;:!Son if ii wa
not that nil civil power, a well n the re
ligion jurisdiction, is in the hand of Mor
mon authorities t so that this Administra
tion is notuallv responsible to the moral
sense of the civilized w orld fur the present
continuance of polygamy iu the Territory
of I 'tub.
Knough for n view of homo afTairs, and
enough to account for the unparalleled dis
mission ol'ihis Admiiiisl ration, without the
ktiperaddiiiun of misconduct abroad ; but
i hero isenouuliof that lo have sunk it with
out the misconduct at home. Never was
such n bellicose Administration nicking
quarrels all the lime, nnd everywhere
atul building ships, and raising troojn for
the inevitable- war. First, Spain wa the
power, Cub the object, and the Hlack War
rior the pretext. You hv all heard about
that lilack Warrior, and how Comn-xloi,,
iMcCnuley was sent lo Cuba with ship of
war to enforce redress; and how a Minis
ter wa tent lo Spain In deiivuid it. K. r n
long time il was inevitable t oil I'lCouut
ufthfllihick Warrior; upon a sieM -n it
wa misticd up, ami but lew knew how
I can tell you. It was hu-hed up thus : the
minister that was sent to Madrid went to
CMeitd after being four mouths at hi sta
tion ; the SecrHnrv of Legation, having
charge of the business in his absence, show
ed the Spanish Minister a Government
di"palch which had been four month on
hand, stating the terms on which the Uni
ted State would etile it. Upon the in
stant the term were agreed to, and that j
ctierioliea cliance for a war with Soain. to
take Cuba in self-defense, wa lost. But,
what followed f Wa lh Secretary who
showed the dispatch, and settled the diffi
culty, thanked by lh Administration I
Not at all I II was dismissed the service.
Wa the Minister, who never thowed the
diptcb eeusured for the omission ! Not
it all ! He wa caressed, and continued
in oflice Until he clioss lo ask his own recall.
That chance lost, another was inconti
nently discovered. Great Britain and
Franco were going to Afracaniie Cub
Upon the spot the Afiicaniition of Cub
became the alarm of the Administration,
aud thu war cry of its adherents, and war
inevitable with It real ll'itsin, Franca and
Spain, and an alliance with Kussia in the
wr upon them, because the burthen of
iheir'ong. la-t !.rji Clarendon rvird
of it, and learnt thi alarm wa lounded up
on tome word of hi in I'arliainent in re
lt ion totomt unity of action between hng
land and Franoe in the Crimea, and in some
mutual complaint ngaiutl Duenol Ay re.
Me made the statement over again, and
declared he was not thinking about the Uni
ted Statei, or Spain, or Cuba, at ihe time ;
and so this terrible Africanization of Cuba,
and the Russian alliance, followed the mel
ancholy fate of the Black Warrior catas
trophe, mid died the death of the ridiculous.
Then cam the OsU'iid Conference in which
the three United Si ales Minister ware sent
lo make platform in relation to Cuba,
which watthnt the United Suite must lake
her if Spain would not sell her which it
was known she would not. But that was
going it loo strong; and lh Administra
tion who sent lliem to make it, disapproved
the work, while approving their conduct in
doing it. By thutiime, the chance fur
war with Spain hud run out, and wetned
lobe lost forever, when thechnpparul gov
ernment of Walker offered a nw prosj e,t
more encouraging than the other, It wn
limply to acknowledge the government in
the chnpparal, let aid flow lo Walker, a
fnollmld he established in Nicaragua, and
ihe invasion and conquest ofCub be made
by the United Slate citizen under the
ehapparul flag. That ply w just com
mencing when the nomination at Cinch)
nml extinguished the political life of it
authors.
In the meanwbile a quarrel wa being
picked with Denmark about those Sound
dues which Fun ; e paid U fore Aim-iica
wfli discovert d, and which America has
paid ever since her Independence, nud by
viriue i ,f tree i its made by our iii'ist approv
ed administration. Selling ii-rll' up for
the liberator of the Baltic See, thi admin
is'iulion gave order our merchant to
i e.'ne paying the dun utter the loth nay of
April last, awiming llie rmlit to aorogiua
the existing tn-nty J the Panisll govern
m. n' tnve n.itii e that it would collect them
as u-ual. iimh-r the treaty ; and the admin-i-ln.tioti
finding out that il had no right to
abrogate the treaty, and beside that Co
penhagen was not Grey town, go orders
to the merchant lo pay, but to make pro
testation to the contrary, and to warn the
Dane tha' the government would try lo
get back I ho money ; and so ktands thi
affair, which would be ridiculous, if it did
not threaten the pcaco of two most friendly
nations. And now, why this Quixotio at
tempt to liberate! the Baliioaea I It is nut
our ca ; it is not oppurtenunt lo our con
tinent; iti wholly European ; and Eu
rope, which pays the dues, ha precisely
two hundred time ai much interest in il
a the United States tins sending exactly
I wo hundred ships to our one into il ! Why
this Quixotism I Simply for a fuss fur
notoriety for the gloiypf a war with a
Hnall power, llow different the conduct
uf real statesmen in time past. Mr. Adams'
admiiistrulioii made the Danish treaty now
in force. Mr. U'eHer improved it when
Secretary of State, under Tyler, getting the
due reduced un our stnj.lo articles, nml ob
taining a stipulation lo place us on the foot
ing of the most favored nation, and lo give
u I ho benefit of every reduction which
should be made in favor of anv other na
tion. That wa statesmanship ooulrast
ing as sonse with folly a ju-tic with ra
pine with the conduct of this administra
tion, picking a quarrel with Denmark to
liberate a Fuiopenn sen; nnd ready for a
War to abolish moderule duties in Ihe Bluck
sea while keeping up enormous duties at
home, contrary to a public plcdgo lo reduce
them. But enough of this folly and mad
net; nud those who may wish to under
stand the whole subject will find it, fully
but briefly set forth, in the second volutuo
uf the Thirty Year' View.
But Great Britain is the power which our
bellicose administration deem most worthy
of their prow-ens, nud with which thn at
tempt to pick a quarrel are most lively and
incessant. She barely escaped a brush
with us on account ofthe Africanization of
Cuba, and now we have tha Monroe doc
trine, the Bulwer treaty, the Mosquito
coait, the B.iy of Islands, thn Kuatan Is
land, the Nicaragua canal, tha recruitment
question, the dismission of Mr. Cratnpton.
lion von j, what a list I and all the pro
duct nf a few months, in a season of pro
found praco. The detail of these quarrel
ia loo tedious lo hn gone over, but a notice
of the must prominent will show the folly
nnd insignificance of ihe w bole. And firi,
of thn Monroe doctrine, so incescactly quo
tod, and so tgnoranily and mischievously
nppli.-il. It is nssumed to be a doctrine by
virtue of w hich the United State are bound
to iiaud guaid over the two Americas,
from Canada to I'atagouia, and repulse
all intruding colonies from th boundaries
of each power. It i assumed to bo a doc
trine uf forcible protection, aud the Uni
ted States the protector. Thn individual
mut know but little of Mr. Monre, or his
Cabinet, to suppose such a doctrine could
come from them. No! they "eienot I'm
men to med.llo wilti other nation' affairs
not the Quixotic to regulate their neigh
bur's concerns by force of arms. They were
men of reason, p,.oce and justice. They
laid down ihe Monroe docl tine for them
selws, and invited other American S'a'e
of 8paiii'i origin to ad 'iii it each for iuelf,
and to maintain it, each by itself, and by
itsnnii means, within it own limits. Thi
w the doctrine, as laid d wn hv Mr.
Adams, in his insiruclion lo our Panama
ministers, as may be seen in the first vol
ume of the Thirty Years' View. Far from
standing guard over t lute American States,
and protecting them with our arms, they
were not even allowed to expect assis'ance
from us, and every asveriion of the doctrine
lo the contrary, i a libel upon Mr. Monroe
and his Cabinet ; and, besides, is an igno
rance of our Constitution, which would not
have allowed them to bind us to ihe wag
ing of such wra, even if ihey had been
witlesa enough lo attrmpt ii, which they
were not,
Well , iti by virtu; of this doctrine, thus
converted into an armed protectorate over
tne two Americas, I list we must nght ureal
Britain in Central America. And for w half
Why, for ibo meaning of a word in the
Clayton Bulwer treaty, which its authors
cannot agree abmit. The Fmilish proposed
to have it to arbitration ; our Admiuistra
tion refused, on the ground that no impar
tial arbiter cmild he found. Then the Eng
lish offer lo leave the choiea loouraelvM
binding themselves to ahija absolutely ih '
i m-c.s.uu oi our own arbitrator, he it what
il iingtit. Io tins otter they had returned I
no answer at the last account. Thi i one :
of the causes of war not only a fit sub
ject fir arbitration ii its'.f, 1 nt ven for '
chance, lol decision t proper lubjecl to
be decided by lot, by tossing a quarter oi a
dollar into the air with the cry, ''Ileadt
von vintalh I hit ;" for It I a con
think in which the loser will be th winner,
especially if w should be the loser. Thi
ia one of ih cause of ihe cherished war,
Then come the Bay of Islands, the Kuatan
Island, and the Mosquito const They art
a bone of contention. The British have
ihein. and w propose to drive the British
out. What for f To Uke them ourselves!
I hope not. With respect lo the Mosquito
eoatt, God know we have mosquitoes
enough in our country, without annexing a
whole kinzdom uf them. And at Tor llua
tan and the Bjy lalundt, who but a good
geographer can 'ell where Ihey are I All
I know about them Is, thai ihey are out
toward the equator, the oib'-r side of Cuba,
and might furnish a point tfappui to a fili
buster invasion of thai island. Now, I am
niMiiriftt filibustering and annexing, und inn
willing ihnl Ihe British should remain lor
ever in these place, iliev were once Hie
haunt of nirutes, and might become so
again if the Briiish were to leave lliciu.
But the canal of Nicaragua the ship
canal acrosn thn continent nt that point
i.i. I !ue construction and protection of
which forms the staple of the Bulwer-Chiv .
ton treu'y, and subsidiary to which is lb
whule quarrel about Central America
Now the canal in itself is a g'ssj thing,
nnd very desii-able to be made, but by any
power in preference to our. Ives. When
made, it is for public use, nud llu makers
will have il care and expense, and no niore
usn of il I'taii other. I would not own it,
no mora than I would own (he Straits ol
Gibraltar, or ihn Isthinu of Sues. I have
two special objections to our ownership, or
crtiardian ov-r that canal. It would be a
foreign work, requiring a fleet at each i nd
to guard it ; and fort at each end to shelter
(lie ships ; mid troop nl each end to pro.
tret thn fort. To powerful fleets, each
strong Fiiouiih to fight Great Britain, (for
that is the object;) two set of fort to
sln llrr great Meets, and two powertul ar
mies tu man llie fort ; such i the expense
point ol view uf this protectorate and guar
dian-hip over the ship canal in Nicaragua.
I am auainst meddling with it. Lei others
make it. We shall have Iho use of ii in
time of peace, without the cost of it care
in time of war. Out 1 am Bguitiit our
meddling with it for another reason. That
ship canal is the antagonist of our own road
to ihe Pacific ! It is the antagonist of a
national road through our own land to our
own California. It is the antagonist of
that road, nnd intended lo make the high
sea the only, and the perpetual, line of
communication with California to make
the Atlantic ports continue to be forever
what they now are iho entrepot of Coll.
fornia trade and travel the sole points of
departure and return forall trade and travel
between the two side of our continent
between the thirty State on the Atlantic
and in the valley or tho Mississippi and the
golden State of California.
Now, I am ng.-iinat nil that monopoly.
Fair play is pretty play. Lettho Atlantic
State havo all the- advantage which the
sea givrs them : let them contiiiuo to go to
California by sea, on any routo they please,
by Panama, by Cape Horn, by the Nic
aragua lake, and (he ship canal when il is
made. Let them use all these routes, and
have prosperous voyages on all (he routes.
But let us w ho live inland, nnd own land
all the way to California, and are almost
half w ay there lei us have a road ou the
land; and not for ourselves only, but for
all for ihe Atlantic cities as well as for the
interior for the North nnd South as well
ns for the center ; for n central road suits.
The present Administiation is thn deadly
enemy of this central routo. It ia for any.
thing in preference to this route for an
outside road North, along the frozen Inti
Hide of 49 ; for an outside road South,
along th burning sand of Sonora and
Sinaloa; forn foreign water route through
Central America, seven thousand miles
round ; and it is for this foreign routo ihnl
we have all iho quarrel with England about
the Bulwer-Clayton treaty, tho Mosquito
coast, the Ruatan Island, the Bay ol I,
lands, and thn Nicaragua canal ; and it is
Tor this also that we havo the libelous per
version uf the Monroe doctrine, iiiimity
to this road and prostituting ihe powers of
llie Government to d. feut it. is one of the
great offenses of this Administration an
offense against the wholo Union, but espe
cially against the State of Missouri, the
natural route for tho road, and along which
it is already one third built from the At
lantic const to tho center of this Slate, und
v' ri it would be in communication with
all ihe railroad lines, and all thn steamboat
navigation of the thirty Sta'esou this si. I
of tho IWky Mountains. But this is u
large Milijcct, and will require a full speech
to ilselt': which il shall receive,
The crowning of all these attempts In
pick a quarrel with Great Britain i in the
recruitment question, and in the dismissal
uf Mr. Cramptun. This crown lo the
work is ilia labor of Mr. Cashing, whose
fitness lo make forf ign war, or to guard do
mestic rtejita, may be seen in his own ac
count of his mission to China, nnd in his
speeches in Congress justifying the British
attack upon the steamboat Caroline, under
the flag of thn Union, nnd nvored to our
shore boarded by stealth, her crew
slaughtered in th .c sleep, and the vessel
set on (ire, and, wrapt in flxmes, sent plung.
ing over the fulls of Niagara with ihe dead
and dving on hoard. All that Cushing
justified, for which he wa scourged upon
thespoi by William 0. Butler of hfentucky,
and who took ihe scourging as a man
would w ho knew he deserved all he got, and
was thankful he got no more all of which
my be se-n in the second volume of the
"Thirty Years View." Thi is the man
to staud guard over American right to
pick a quarrel with Great Britain when she
hat done u nn harm, and has made apolo.
yie for the mero technical offense which she
may have committed. The case was this:
our Atlantic cities were full of unnatural
ir.ed foreigner, most of 'hem her former
subjects. She wished to recruit them for
the Ciirnean war bulla do it without vi
olating oar laws getting them to go to her
own territories, end there enlist. After,
wstd objection was made, and instantly
the practice was stopped, and apology made
for any unintentional wrong.
There was no harm don us. The only
danger of harm was that Russia mishl re
sent as aiding her enemy, in violation of
oar neutrality. That would have been a
serious complaint ; but Rasia never made
it : the war was over before the recruits (if
anv)cu'J ;.n to .! Crm:a; aid no-v
va has been long mad. JiWia and
kmrland are friend, and wa must pick
quarrel with England no account of Ru.
-Kussia herself Laving no qoarrel with
Great Britain, and no complaint again! u.
Thai wa the only harm apprehended, and
it never occurred, A lor tailing ucn peo-
nla awav a aha ende avonng lo gel.
.hnuld hold their Ium no damage to U
and that irrepctly of their foreign birth.
I l...ld that anv man. native born or foreign,
who would quit the United State where
good wage, comfortable living, and Indn-
kniliiira arA in ihe reach of all and go
0000 mile to the Crimea to lead the life of
a Rriilsh soldier for sixneLca a day: I hold
ilmi ihu loss uf anv such men would be nn
damire to our country, go a many of
them as might. For I hi. Mr. Crampton ii
dismissed. No. not Mr. Crampton, but th
Hi ilish troveriiinenl. For he only did what
i.i government directed, and what il ha
justified and awtumed Thi is very differ
ent from dismissing a Minister for an act
of his own: il ian ii,--i!t to the urillsii
irovnriiinent ; it i a challenge and defiance
hi it. It i just cause uf resentment, but
the danger i passed.
The Administration which dismissed Mr,
I'ramntoti. have themselvei been dismissed
igniiinitiiowly "! by theirown party thi
is in say, ihe sound men or tlieir on par
y. and ihe whole power of the country
The whole country ha dismissed mat AO
ministration. They have no parly, no nd
herenu, no support. Their own janizary
iriiard the venal office-holders have U.
rt,-rl ihein '-from their ruinnl forlunei
ilunk all aieay" and crouched at the feet
of the conqueror. And lo itiiisn inn om
versa ditailion. I bey Have ucneriea iucm
. . . i t .1
telve fled from their own lolilude and
uiven in their udhesion to the people that
whipped lliem. jni must sshmj o
Britain, and restrain her fei-ling. until the
... -t . .
new Administration can retore peace and
friendship with her. She hat been greatly
mil raged, not only in the act of dismissing
Mr. Crampton, justrlone In the nick ol lime
for tha Cincinnati Convention, where (mnu-
irre the presence of the two Administration
champions, Captain Rynder and Tom
Hyer.) it nod a contrary rinxi; ncsuie
this act, tho official papers, even including
the President's messaro to Congress, nil
contained in-uliing expression toward Mr,
Crampton and his government all dicta
ted bv Cushing. Shame that such a man
diouid have been placed in a ailuation to
in-ult a L'eiiMeinan, much less to pick
qmirr. I with a great nation, and undertnko
to play off hero hi tactic of the Chi nose
mission.
Ciliiens! I liar told you of th attempt to kill
otT Mr. Uuchaiiau in the convention under III two-
Hunts mlci tliers was another tttrnint, of a difler.
m kind. t do Ihe same th.nz. Il wa wilb I
plsM.inn a i.stitiulary structure wiin a rope over
the lioud and tmp-door under th feet and so
euiitr.ved Mint ir lie got on it, lis was strung up in
the Norlli if not, Ii was laid out ia th South.
His founds fuiind out Ui game, and determined to
mount it. U it what it might. 1 hey said th
President dues not swear lo platforms, but to th
Constitution, and besides, il i Iswlul to tight fire
w.lh firs. It wus coucooted by III old jamiaries,
and l.r. d uccd at Hi moment the balloting wa to
eoinmeue.e so u lo rnaae oisorder in ilio ruuss ;
bul the trick failed. Il was received in a tempest
of emulous applause, nd extolled t th skies. 1
Ofked one nf iho inisit vociferous of these applaud
en. how he could swalluw neb stuff I lie an.
werrd promptly, "at I do iperac! la pule it up
again." It wo a New Yorker, of course, who
ffsve tint nuivo answer and I m sure Ins slom
sch would feel the clesuer after th relief.
Ciliiens ! this business of making pisiform I s
now invention, uuknowo to the old Democracy,
who had no pisiform but the Constitution no sun
but the public good ; sad they are generaly the
work of demagogues who have no thought of the
Coiisilnliou no thought of the country nn
thought of any thing l.ul to get office, aud keep it,
changing for that purp.we with every ehange of
ailmiiiislrat ou, and swearing to every crciu niai
tuns an hour. It ha been my prerogative to kirk
over these platforms. X was bred iu a political
hool in which they were unknown, llie Lou
slituUon was Ibe only ulatturin known in my
school, and th only one to which I swear. If one
is made beyond the Constitution, il is surplusage ;
if short of th Constitution, it is defective ; if dif
ferent from the Constitution, it is vo d ; if the same,
it is superfluous. Iu any event, then, these plat
forms arc, to me, useless ; to ni iiiy, pestiferous :
tu their authors, stocked cards, which Ihey throw
away when the game is won.
1 have on more accusation to nvike against this
Adiu nistration. Il has broken upa:l pol.iieul par
ties founded oil principle ; il U ths author of the
fractiuiial partus which now spangle our political
firmament like those fragments of a burster! planet
to which the astroumneisgive llie name of asteroid.
It islhe amli'ir of tin in all, and finds retributive
justice in the scorn w-iih which ihey all treat it.
Il is unnecessary for me to speak of these parlies;
I adhere lo my own, and s-ippoil it, und th t is
the exclusion of all the r. -1 One only I allude
to ooe w th which the ns.n ol a member of my
family ' o iuncuted. and in re errnc lo which
so.ns persons who judge me by themselves, (a fa
vor which I most earnestly decl.ne,) attribute to
me t sinister connexion. I will uol answer such
insinuations by word, but by conduct. Great
applause. Now. when has It ever happened that
I have b en inlluenceil by family connexion, or
even by my uwu interest I What office have I
ev. r got for one of my fs nily ? What appointment
have I ever got for myself? No, eitiitiis, I am
hove such considerations. I am above family,
and a'.ove self, wlun the good of the Union is
concerned.
From first to last I h ive been for my coun
try, and ineau to coot' nut fur it I have mad
many sacrifices fur it, an 1 am making a great on
now in (landing this canvast. The good of that
Uuion alous brings me out. Clouds overhang
our foreign relations ; sectional hate prevail at
home ; our own State is the theater of conioiotisn
which disturbs us at home, and injures our charac
ter abroad. Peace is my object the sunshine of
peace for the Slate and for the Union and the
aid of all good men is solicited in obtaining it.
We have a f.iir nominal on for Ih Presdency, a
man who csn be nationally elected, and whoso
aims mint be national He will Deed support.
lie n not soing to repose on a bed of roots, bul
rather on the thorny pillow. Our oatntry is in a
deil..rablc condition. Fraternal atteclion gone
sectional hate ep;r.ilered extreme parties ia th
asoeudant Violence overspreads th land ; we
open no paper without seeing blood. Ths whole
country seems to be without government! and the
Te ritories are so: Kansas io civil war I Utah in
revolt : New Mexico ores off than under the
Spanish viceroy ally ; Oregon csnyingon Indian
war for itself, and voluntarily a State California,
driven to the recourse of voluntary associations of
eit iiens far the protect-on nf life, iibeny and prop
erly. The pr.e nt admin s-rat on, in violating
sacred compromises, is lbs author of all ihe vio
'eucs and disorder which overspreads the lan-
foresaw, and foretold it at the lime inj ,trj
ved eg.ros it Prevention was my' nmtA
that having faded, cure of lb, aiseas. mast U
attempted. The people hav, rightly judged thai
.he author, of ih. diseae, lM tJh,J 1
XVmJhhY "
nd we most help him in th application si aU tb
remed.es heshsU prescribe,
,C,''"".!. a BR.p and America
are upon this eleeuaai, sot as it concern wen, but
s il concerns Ih great o,ueiona whjck alarm and
!'tat lbs country. I repres.nl the principle of
pee of order, raw and jostioe, at honw and
abroad. Europe and A me oca kaow that fact)
aad as th lection gaa, so most be their opinio
ofthe cantiouanoe. or cessation, af tb present do
plorabi slats af thin.
C" The greatest friend of truth it tlmej
bcr grealeit enemy is prejudice; and ber
constant coropnion it humili'v.
OUOOXaT CITlf
SATURDAY, AUGUST S3, 165.
Mat' Mweeek.
M' have filled large ahara of our ipact
lo-day with Binton'i epeecb at St. Louif,
Wa hava no apology to maka for II. In.
deed, wa could not well find better matter.
Road it everybody ; rrad it twloa, and than
gel yonr neighbors lo read it. It la all
ouod, excepting what ha aay about Buch.
anan, and thnt of course ia all gammon
mero lait on bia trap to catch vote, At
least this i what in think.
Th War Dbu
Wa notice a great dual of correspond,
encoand editorial in ibe paper of Oregon
in reference to the payment of the war debt.
Many people seem to be laboring under
rather a weak idea, we think, that newt pa
per ditcuuion hen will afToct lha matter in
Washington. Tho fact is that the evidence
which comprise the whole history of t!ia
war, ha already been transmitted to Con-
gres, in the shape or official report!.
Nothing outside of that can be brought to
bear a evidence. We have no doubt that
the debt will be paid by the U. S. Govern
mcui. Tho volunteer will be paid the
pricei agreed upon, and a reasonable price
will bo paid for proporly furnished by our
citizen. Jhose men who have nut in
horses nl four and five hundred dollars each
ought not lo be disnppoiutcd if they get but
about two hundred. We have no idea
that lha appropriation will be made ibi
session, but it possibly may. Provision
will be made by the General Government
for having the voucher rigidly scrutinized
before Ihey aro approved. Tho money
must come from tome source, and if lha
U. S. Government rifumi to pay the debt,
tha Territory of Oregon mul pay it, a
our last Legislature assumed the debt. If
tha money is raised by taxation, our peo
pie will probubly be anxious to know what
went with ibo money which hn been late.
ly taken in al tbe "cash sales" of govern.
ment properly.
We do not wish to be unreasonable, and
we shall wait aw hile before we charge Mr.
Drew with wrong Intention in reference to
thi money; but it dons look, even lo a
man in tha bottom of a well, as though the
property ihould havo been sold for tba
same currency thai bought it, and that the
penplo who furnished tho aamo ought to
have had the preference lo tuonied capital-
iU in bidding it in. This we know i not
according to the creed of Oregon, or black
democracy, but it is the kinJ of democracy
wo advocate, and iho kind the people
ought to vole.
t'.ouruslua worse CoufouadrA.
C. II. Muttoon hrt nearly a column dc.
voted to clearing up the four charges we
made against him. Hi effort it fully a
lucid as the one in reference lo our teeing
hi bid for printing. His charge that we
called tho publishers ofthe Advocate "rum-
mics" lie acknowledge ho can't exactly
prove, but anybody else could make it out
in substanco," by ransacking an old filo
of the Argus and attentively reading our
corresjwidcnce (?) nnd our own "remarks."
Just as definite and conclusive as we ex.
pectod ; make your bow, and you can go.
IIu next snv somebody told hiui that we
had been "expelled from one college Knoxl
and disgraced in aiiother," ttetbany.
lie also say that he has seen thnt some
body, and he tell liim he "wa not
mistaken." In a few sentence more
ho tells us thn' tho same somebody told
him ho was misiaken, in referenco to the
whole rnnticr nt Bethany, nnd that wo left
"becnuse we had aoro eyes." .He also
goes on lotell a cock-and-bull story, which
ho say he got from somebody, a Re
former, a very respectable man, from llie
vicinity ofGalesburg, to the effect lhat wo
offended one of the professors in college, by
persistently rendering the word haplixo
immerst, and lhat on account of this, and a
composition we wrote, read, or recited, re
viewing something the president had preach
ed, we were either expelled, oi left as a
sort of a compromise to escape being ex
pelled, and we went off to Virginia with
one Royal Payne. Well, well, what a fit
zle ! If there was ever a Rovat Pavne in
Galeaburg, or nny where else, we never got
glimpse of him. Every iota of the Hate-
ment in reference to tbe other parts of the
story are false intoto. We charge that
noWy ever gave you (his story. If ,
please get the lignalure of that somebody,
ppenaeu loyour atatement. We rathe
think you will ride iome',ine before, you,
will find somebody; ibat woulclliUtasign,
The whole concern U natched. botched.
nnd tin'vAw.1
the history of a matter oonoeming an
other person, which, bat got into this ton.
gled sbapo In pasofng through your crocks
ed and hollow cocoanut. If your readers,
ever expert to get to Heaven by your di
rectian, thej will find tbemtelvea, (w fear)
mightily tangled io the brush. If yon have
the love of God In yon, Mattoon, or any
regard far oul., do throw down your pen,
and take up the grubbiag-hoe.
If every falsehood your three last papers
contain had been a live thing, the xpoi.
tor would crawl like maggoty cheese. You
are certainly atmott equal to your brother
Bush. Some of ibe Paptit here think yon
oreifTy eqtul-
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