ing storm, centring its fury upon you, shall keep you there. Palsied at the time, you could not raise a helping hand for a brother Senator, sinking beneath its blows. We now leave you to the impotent struggles with an overwhelming fate to which your morbid ambition, overriding your discretion, has reduced you.

Quitting this mortifying spectacle, of “Sovereign Squattereignty," we turn with joy to the bright hopes of Republicanism, which requires no spurious oracles nor juggler's arts to command for it our affections.

June 80, 1860.

V.

ARE WE SUBDUED?

"WE will subdue you," was the declaration of the British ministry to our petitioners for redress of grievances upon which our forefathers warred successfully to the confusion of the insolent authors of this impotent threat. "We will subdue you," was the language of Stephen A. Douglas to the people of Kansas, when remonstrating against the oppressive tyranny of the border ruffian rule; and the present state of our people shows this oracle of the southern oligarchy to have been about as prophetic as that of their monarchical prototype.

Presuming upon the power of their government, on the one hand, and the feebleness of the colonies on the other, our illustrious Franklin, who had gone to the mother country to represent the wrongs done the American colonies, and upon what terms a reconciliation could be effected, and

by which alone a revolution could be averted, was dismissed by the British ministry from this mission with scurrilous abuse to himself, and the threat to his people-"We will subdue you,”"We will ravage your whole country, lay your seaport towns in ashes," &c. "My property," replied Franklin, "consists of houses in these Of these, indeed, you may make bonfires. and reduce them to ashes, but the fear of losing them will never alter my resolution to resist, to the last, the claims of Parliament." The sacrifices of the Kansas people, under similar threats, show them, happily, not destitute of similar heroic virtues.

towns.

Benedict Arnold becomes a traitor to these principles, and after attempting to betray the interests with which he had been entrusted, he heads a party of our enemies and goes forth against his own people and native state, with the motto, "We will subdue you," to ravage the country, lay seaport towns in ashes, &c.; and the burning of New London and massacre at Fort Griswold are well known results of his leadership, emblematic, in their unutterable cruelty, of the ineffable debasement of treachery.

Stephen Arnold Douglas—and by what a singular coincidence is the name Arnold here appro

priately found, and becomes so prominent that he is now generally called Arnold Douglas—in a similar manner betrays the principles he had advocated in behalf of the rights of the people to selfgovernment, and relying upon the power of the government, and the weak, distressed condition of what he denominates "Kansas Shriekers," he denounces them in scurrilous language, and demands, as the oracle of the pro-slavery faction, then dominant over the Pierce administration, that they shall submit tamely to the border-ruffian rule; and when remonstrated with, and told that revolution must soon follow, and that no fear of consequences could alter their "resolution to resist, to the last, the claims" so oppressive, he flashes an embodiment of rage, raising himself up with clenched hands, shakes his shaggy head, gesticulating with fierceness, strikes his desk, and stamping with violence his feet, exclaims, We will subdue you!" Arnold like-as he is-he now heads our enemies, and sets forth against his own people; and the atrocity upon Senator Sumner, and the murders and massacres of Kansas, under the subduing process, are well known results of this arrogant spirit, and to be traced, more or less, to the moral effect of his leadership.

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The lessons of Lord North and Benedict

Arnold had been taught in vain for him; but he learns at last, in that dear school where fools will only learn, that we are not to be subdued. A little bit further parallel may be drawn from history. The battle of Stillwater and the espousal by France of our cause, brought Lord North to doubt the success of the subduing process, and then, too late, he proposed to relinquish it. The battle of the last Presidential election, and the effective sympathy for Kansas, has made this aspiring ape of tyranny hesitate in his subjugating career, and, too late, he now proposes reconciliation. His course, like that of Lord North, gains the sympathy of a few forgiving friends, who now assume his fervent meekness as proof of untainted purity. And this is the basis of merit to the support of which our aid is now invoked! Ah, Arnold Douglas! Arnold Benedict had a history, and the events of it cannot be effaced from the memory and indignation of an injured people; nor, sif, will the prominent events of your history fail of proper resentment, so long as shame and outrage inflame the manly bosom or rouse the manly frame.

July 14, 1860.