Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1858 — MR. SNYDER’S SPEECH. [ARTICLE]

MR. SNYDER’S SPEECH.

The speech of Mr. Snyder at this place last Tuesday was a nondescript one—indescribable) There never was a speech delivered like it in this town, and we trust, for the sake of the good morals of our village, that another such speech never will be delivered here. It frequently brought the blush of shame to the cheek of every decent man present, to think that a man placed in nomination for the high position of law-maker should stoop to language fit only for a bawdy house. We will notice a few points in the speech, avoiding those parts where the speaker was too indecent to be reported in a family newspaper. Mr. Snyder said we had published a street rumor, when we announced, some months ■go, that Mr. James E. Ballard had challenged him to run for the Legislature on the Lecompton issue. Mr. Ballard gave us permission to publish his challenge, and Snyder knew it. He then asserted that the Gazette was not a reliable paper, and to prove it he referred to the popular sovereignty (so-called) resolution adopted by the Sth of January Convention. As published in this paper, the resolution offered by Mr. Wallace read “now and hereafter” no Territory should be admitted, &.C., while in the one which was adopted the word “now” was left out. Mr. Snyder said he had received a lett&r, which ' he did not produce, from Mr. Wallace, denying that he had written the word “now” in the resolution. 'Mr. Snyder neglected to add that the resolutions were copied inb. this paper from the Jasper Banner of the 14th of January last, and for which we gave proper credit at the time. Rather a slim show for bringing a charge of unreliability I against this paper, but “drowning men catch at straws.” In speaking of the transfer of the Wabash Canal to the bondholders, Mr. Snyder fully ] illustrated it in this manner: “Suppose you,) friend Shriver, held a note against Mr. Hur-j ley for SIOO, and he was unable to pay it. ; You then should offer to take a fine-horse of Mr. Hurley’s for the debt, and Mr. Hurley ’ should say that it belonged to his family, and his wife apd children would not part with it, but if they were willing you could take it. You go and talk to them, and give' them eqc'h a bright golden dollar, and they '; consent to part with the horse. That is the way the bondholders came in possession of the canal.” Just so—apt illustration! And that is the way they expect to get rid of it, again—by making free-use of the “bright j golden dollars!” Mr. Snyder seemed to un- ' derstand that fact pretty well. He then referred to this paper of January 21, and redd: “Senator Douglas, in his present position in regard to Kansas, is advocating pure Republican doctrines;” but read no further. Had he read further he would have seen this: “We failed in our efforts to place in the White House a man opposed to the extension of slavery, and our only hope rested on the people of Kansas.— We knew that they, if left; free and untrammeled, would exclude slavery.”— We now indorse all we said then. While Douglas and the Republicans we striving for the principle of submission of Constitutions to the people, the President and Bright and Fitch were opposing this “vicious doctrine,” and Snyder was noisily upfiolding them. He asserted last Tuesday that Douglas wts right on this question, admitted that Buchanan was wrong, and then insisted that there was no difference between them! Beautiful logic, which none can appreciate as well as Mr. Snyder. He said that, although Buchanan is wrong in this matter, yet he had done enough of g’ood to have his name inscribed high on the page of glory; but forget to tell what good he had done. He said that Buchanan’s argument in favor of Lecompton was unsurpassable, as a legal argument, and still he now opposes this “unsurpassable” argument. An admirable illustration of this gentleman’s ability to blow hot and blow cold in one breath. “I believe,” said he, “that Buchanan is honest, and if he has erred, I will still support him! Lecompton is a dead issue—it is no longer before the people. Why dig up the dry bones and stinking flesh of dead Lecompton and fling them as stink pots at the Democracy! Soldiers sometimes throw stink pots at the enemy, and the Republicans are resurrecting Lecompton and throwing it as stink pots at us!” Poor«Lecompton, AntiLecompton, Douglas, Anti-Douglas, Buchanan, Anti-Buchanan would-be Representative David Snyder! So he finds that the Lecompton “stink pots” are being hurled at him. Poor fellow! we pitty him—ipdeed we do. They will fly thick and fast to-mor-row, in the shape of paper pellets, and before the sun is down he will he buried under a mountain of “stink pots!” He here related a very vulgar anecdote about p dog jumping through a window and running off' in the dark, which no one seemed to appreciate Shame. , » He said it was not right that Territories should be admitted as States with a less population that 93,420. The clear inference

from this is, that as Kansas refused to come in with 40,000 under slave Lecompton, she must stay out until she has a population of more than double that amount —40,000 is enough for slavery, but far too small for freedom. He then said that John C. Forney’s rpime is now enrolled high up on the list of infamy. Forney’s offense is that he supports Douglas and opposes Buchanan—and yet Mr. Snyder claims that he is a Douglas man! Wonder if he knows that his name ought to be “enrolled high up on the list of infamy!” Here Mr. Snyder acted the low buffoon again, insulting his audience by relating another vulgar story about “the best thing to its looks he ever saw.” No one Appreciated it however, but a little boy and a stump-tail dog—the little boy haw-hawed, and the stump-tail dog grinned and wagged his stump tail. The speaker then gave the Gazette another round of abuse, and said it published wilfull and deliberate falsehoods, but did not point out one. We thougt of “stink pots” again. ' Mr.-Snyder believed that the editor of the Washington Union was an abolitionists, because the Black Republican papers throughout the country are quoting him as authority! The little boy haw-hawed again, and the stump-tail dog grinned and wagged his stump tail once more. The speaker then again “pitched” into the Gazette, and called it the most corrupt of all corrupt sheets. “Blistering brands of falsehoods,” said he, “shall rest on the head of the editor of the Gazette!” “Stink pots and bright golden dollars!” thought we. He then branded two men with perjury, but he did not name them out. In this part of his speech lie was exceedingly pathetic, and while he spoke of those two individuaals kneeling on the stool of repentance — beg pardon—kneeling on the altar of perjury, t would have forced tears from a brass monkey, hud there been one present. As it was, the little boy drew his snotty coat cuff across his snotty nose and sniveled in sympathy with the speaker, while the stumptail dog hung down his stump tail. It was an affecting scene, but the audience didn't know what he was driving at, and couldn’t see the point. In conclusion, of all “stink pots” we ever read of that were used in war, David Snyder is the most dangerous, for he stinks friends and foes alike. « Henry S. Lane spoke here last Wednesday, according to announcement. The day was wet and very disagreeable, yet the Court House was as full as it could be crowded, and the audience was edified and delighted with the most telling speech delivered here this campaign, as was fully evinced by the frequent bursts of applause that made the welkin ring. We must say that Colonel Lane is the best stump speaker that we have ever heard. It is a pity that the “Old War Horse” had not time to speak in every county in the Ninth District.