The Lecompton Question

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Excerpt from The Lecompton Question: Governor Wise's Tammany, Philadelphia and Illinois Letters, Together With Letters to Charles W. Russell, Esq. To preserve it we must steadily adhere to the Democratic faith and platform, we must stand by yon in standing by James Buchanan as the people stood by Andrew Jackson. He had to contend with the money power, and subdued it by the Samson of Democracy. We now have to meet the black demon of the "higher law, " and the same Samson survives in vigor to fight for the chosen people. God forbid that the Samson of Democracy shall at last be a Samson Agonistes, shorn and blinded, to become a destroyer. Almost every other people and every other party, except the American Democracy, have had their "bridges of asses, " but I do pray that we may not be such asses ourselves as to make a bridge of slavery, or of any other subject, for us to stall at in a career and progress of national greatness. And yet, gentlemen, there are a great many Kans-asses in our country, and they are not half as stubborn asses as the cant-asses. A driver can get along after a manner with an ass that can, but the crudest goad will not prevail with the asses who can't. They are the stubbornest of all, and are sure to stall just in the way and at the very place of most danger. They bray a political religion and religious politics. The best whip which ever touched these asses exactly in the raw, was James Buchanan's Conestoga thong, laid right on upon forty fanatical preachers "all in a row." As to your other motto, "Civil and religious liberty, " ours was saved by the Virginia Democracy in 1855. We struck the dark lantern out of the hands of ineffable Sam, and none now are found so poor as to "hurrah" for him. We, therefore, have some right to say to you on other topics that all common sense and justice require is, that we let each other's property and peace and political privileges alone, and attend to the conservation of our own interests respectively at home. When we happen to meet in the common Territories, to make new homes and neighborhoods there, all we have to do is to respect each other's equal right. If we are Southern slaveholders, don't let our property be invaded or taken away from us, don't allow any power to prevent us from settling upon common lands, or don't drive us away from the settlements we have made upon a domain purchased or won by common treasure and united valor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.