Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1858 — The Facts in the Case. [ARTICLE]

The Facts in the Case.

The Republicans of “High Henry,” the banner Republican county of lowa, held a Convention at Mount Pleasant on the 29th ult. to choose Delegates to their Congressional Convention. In contemplating the present political aspects, they, with Western frankness, say: “During much of the past six months, we have beheld a conflict, unparalleled in fierceness, wag’ed by the champions of Justice and Freedom, led on by Seward, Douglas, Crittenden and their noble compeers on one side, and the cohorts of loathsome fraud and shameless despotism, sustained by the Chief Magistrate of the Republic, on the other side. In the bight of this mighty struggle, we have seen, with indignation, the power and patronage of the Government prostituted to seduce and corrupt the venal, and to strike down life-long Democrats who would not bow to the dictates of a base-minded des- j pot. And it is cheering to perceive, in spite of all the nefarious wiles of a false Executive, during which the intelligence flashed along our telegraphic wires has kept the coun ry agonized with hope aud fear, that the free spirit of the nation is unconquered and uncontrollable. “The Lecompton swindle has proved too monstrous in all that is most atrocious and detestable among decent people to be tolerated by Democratic servility. It has not only disgusted every honest citizen of the country, but has at least aroused the abhorrence of such men as Douglas, Walker, Stanton, Forney, and even of Stringfellow; and we take pleasure in recording the almost universal revolt of the Democracy of lowa against a recreant President, aided by the felon Calhoun and his scoundrel crew of Lecornplonites. Here in Henry county, we rejoice to say, we scarcely know of one who voted for Buchanan, whose stomach has not been turned by the flagitious attempt to force upon the long-oppressed and outraged people of Kansas an abhorred and hated Constitution concocted by a presumptuous gang of self-appointed Border Ruffians We are equally glad to find that the dirty contrivance hatched by English, Stephens and Green, with the low and criminal design of bribing the free citizens of a Territory to surrender their rightful sovereignty and submit to the yoke of bondage, meets with little more favor. “In view of these things, what are we to think of those who still cling to the gloomy fortunes and continue to sustain the wicked schemes of an unprincipled Executive! In our opinion,there is not to-day in all Christendom a political organization so hostile to the rights of human nature; to the development of republican ideas;, to the general progress of the human race, as the Lecompton portion of the Democratic party. There is not a party, even in Spain, Russia, or Au-tria, that dares, in the face of the civilized world, blazon its banners with doctrines so hostile to the rights of man; so repulsive to reason and justice, as are avowed and upheld by the supporters of the present Administration.”