Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1858 — “A DARK AND FATAL FRIDAY.” [ARTICLE]

“A DARK AND FATAL FRIDAY.”

There is no flinching in Forney. His Press of the Saturday after the passage of English’s swindle is full of denunciation of that sherrre. From an article under the above caption we make some extracts: “This wicked deed of proflgate politicians will stir the moral sense of the country to its profoundest depths. It will awaken wide-spread indignation. It will call out emotions which have been stilled, because it was believed such a deed was impossible; and it will hurl into utter obscurity and shame those servants of the people-who have sought this opportunity to assist in a betrayal as wanton as lit was causeless and unnecessary. To see these men gibbeted and transfixed before the eyes of thejvQrld may be a melancho y satisfaction; and to this extent the black business of the blackest Friday that ever this century has seen may be full of compensation. . ' | *f *• * ■ * * * “But the great crime did not stop here. One wrong after another was tried, till at last, as if to mock at even the semblance of right, the so-called English, bill was proposed, the incarnation of treachery and of duplicity—a bill, be it understood, which differed from its precedents in this; that they were swindles, and this was a bribe; which, professing to submit Lecornpton to the people, did not submit it, according to its Southern expounders; and which, starting out in the preamble with a scandalous! misstatement, crowned, the whole proceed-1 ing with the declaration that if the people of Kanga & did not take it, they should tester in dissessions till it suited their masters to admit them! “And this is the scheme that was forced through yesterday—the black Friday of ourj century. “Well may the Senator from New York! cry, ‘Shame!’ upon the damning deed. “All h : story will ery'shame upon it, too.) The burden which this outrage att iches to the Democratic party cannot be carried without crushing it. Candidates for once will be compelled to speak out against it, and those who are silent will! pay the penalty of such acquiescence. “What Kansasjmay decide upon we are not authorized to say, but we cannot doubt that she will reject the bribe with scorn. Whether she does or not, the wrong done will be avenged, and the sacred doctrine vindicated. The Case has passed into the hands of the people of the States, especially those who have been insulted by their Representatives, as we have been by-eleven of our members from Pennsylvania, four of whom represent this proud metropolis, where there is but one sentiment, outside of the office-holders and office-seekers, and that fearlessly against the action of the Congress of the United States, in forcing an odious Constitution upon a prostrated people.” Hyde, oae of the Mormon apostles T boasts that if he lives ten years and thrives as he has been thriving he, will have “sons enough to make a regiment by themselves.” King and Queen of Prussia have just sent 1,000 florins tQ-the subscription: for erecting a monument to Luther at j Worm*.