CI :b;i. T?rr.i.i,ta.Tt-). r r ,i' ;): r e v..lAi;:_si:#? . - V, ~-AI#Tt;:::P,),ITTP:J3:,*:I::.!',! . 1 tei•Vt!..nutiOn' of tlicS . o gmestion: ••!• ' ' 1 '' .tuere.y, s t a t e - at. plc of thiit Ter to form ti.n4 - ,e , i _liptis, ;is tliciy . e. 1 effiirC i liais i heett . ,I c ,viili `a:itigh Inn -I.z.kt.t.ow , CrrrzENs•,:--Th .li nu, ofi 1820, ' legi s late' Slave' known as the . :Missouri Comproml§e Line, i i , ,tattse,), }or ivhich'llini , existed thirty-four vears:atid. • sits ed. ilh, hitd : in'tl reg,7ardtilLits it sneicti.Conitittet,"ikts . ';:riCilliired i. plished., , • to . heyepealed. It was proposed - front all i t ; 'il . ,he can ef, parties at the outli.. 'lt was„i.lecla . ked • tti ,be. 1 , - ;:er• iii the Terri scifish, , ..proscriptive,‘cOn,titary- to. the-Jipirit. of . einitle A intip.:, In our government;and'iincotnpatiile. kvith- the 1 . eyelils it tins h rehitotaetls. , .ed rights. otthe Of.4.eri: `l: - say J,for . tiCitlier. ; the thin: . tlic•,,NOrtli •aerSplieieed in• t11:41. rcpe:al, .fair i,..trnuitie . s, ; nor . 1 • &tirthern :cotes Were 'necessary. • in .ortler 'to 'f.tteied.stittntes. .. secure it. The - line ; of 18'20 *ifs ; pure'hased, i_how ever high t `, and •there Ivits a- tinge :aid valid. considera- i coutiteract suer rtion - paid for it-. .We 'took -it-in 4rtipensa-j of statesmen, ilion for the admission. of 'Aiissouri into 'the 1 . The Anierie ) Uttiort Its a slilve Stte.:••••' Its nti'constittitional. ; ed that•.`tlieir p I ity'tit a later day was: allerect , Cad insisted ; will of the. Ini, 4 , • • lupon:for _the siatne rea s ons that I Ileli'e stated. I, -.The _lPetuoe !atie Tarty, elf parties, have OS i , tilt - it earnprOlitisenll the '_territory : .' imah i ,expre+sed•thei • determ i ination tut abi'd e hi i of,that Vtue,;llieluditg.Kaitsas,arid NebrasKs, i, such a' pritAi e.' Without it then, c an _h e I was virtually made .free, for 7 no' acti• of- the ~ no govertitnen of the pcoi le. Without. it Smuth could prevent itlicin'..;,-dev i bted to free- there itUi lie 110 guarantee for individual dom .- . The act of 1,9,54, - ktiovi;i'lls the Ne- „rightS. ..•,..lts ex •I'lle, and its exorcise a !,11 0 , braSkaliansa4 • ti-it ,T,; l - 0 ., ,41 that it --------•:- : , :,---;.-r-..•.;y'..... - ,,,at ...ne and i makes this a I -, 0 ±,z,ovcriiiiitql.t, and gives to rendered theifate... i 6f-the T e r r itory no r th of it our ,people th fullest ileyt:lopment of social, at , -least '-" oricertfiltr. In• that letFisktion the i..political i and •cligiotis rights. (Applause.) k'S:' - ititli.liad every ad vfintage. Ido .not mean i Its,lo;ts Ott tile itthei hand,. builds up t) ran t to etimplain-of it, because I rcizard.'ilie'rriti. 1 rates, places di spots on the thr,ue, a nd re d tie _ wi •,-, : ,, the - a r i pp ii, g e il iii c h.jt aT :4 4 -iyi : ra j a 1 ,4, 5 t,i, ~, ! CiPlel,eeo."l„lll:.4ed'illy..it-_as.,ttte trueprineiple to 1 es man from I is proper snit ure _to servility - • - ' . •-•----' . ' .4 , .• %' .. s. l !' l Ue reeormizetl-,-bitt..l.do-still , -issert that in 1 and 'ultains. -I is, thereforo ficaltlin It is v 0 , , , ,0erc Fleepirigitirbarit' - , i• '. -'-' . • - - that legi,laton the South hid all.the adv fm . 1 sotitid., .It, is uns6rvtive, It is , the unit Nom! inti.. do Ton think,.. ',.,..,,: ',... ;::• ' Inge.. forlhe:reason, that that, which Wa4"ecr. ~ sa mer i t at doLtrine, The nation did , not or ea:, irer,icu:i goldealink. -••••• '.- • ..- -,,,1 .. • i t'ain„thcOtaire'by - it heea t te.'d'iiheertain and kriiistinderstan us, lo part of the ; pcu - ple I e1.e.: , ,p-td 4e-o-ansl yo ur 'happy, aria: while,. - sitting,.Vy 4 nit.;afe to tile Nrt . h . .. ' The:Z)i.itli hatt,no - , ter- 1 Were petP - iitt(. to misunderstand us. Nor, . vsa,briuk• : ? , • •• 7 ~, ,%. . ' ' .... ritoryite;rtli.of„thaCliiiti :, ( buf,.,..illiniugli they }.l trust, did we misunderstand ourselves. err vfhitn thatiiit,da of gildhig'gliu-t&, of:daushter slid concealed ,we wen 'before that same people. '.I , i,t - 1 li - a:en.lptied of- its music, *Ma We-'ivatellea,3ltro:leht '?ley; - tiectifitplish the' c•Oluitlet' - "of that l'. i . Yet it, wool 1 seQii front events which have 1 , • latticed bars, .. . •-, • , „. :, i, .. ~.- T - :1 territory tuid i 'deviiteiv,to - thetr - peculiar in- I since trialfpir d, that we certainly misappre. 1 ` Sic sileilt hilanight ITeAven, etee'pl.'!g• o'er as trithltsl. s tif ut i c , i i. The pr'oinitieriti"dOetrine of. South- t hentled our o -ii position, and it is supposed'l • stari, --,- .: ,•:. .• . -.. ',... .I' ern SfateStnan is-. tlii - 0 41; ''aii:eltiffilii:itun .must bt some, that t he pecipli - ! hate no reeollectinn 1 .2i.;1 th e day broke, Barbital r•-• ~ _ . . ..1 be restored -in legi.t.lol,oll , tail., the, lialatlce 4 o - what w ti en :aid and '. professed to_ be. i Tr the 3'earsTve - ellanged; "'••'.': ' -; ', lof power mast I;e'restiTed t and - 'they V‘'L've , lier e • But the President of the United Ivilt :est far thy s heat hath ranged:l 1 . 1 . ~ • i ,tool,ed to the'Senate as the titaCe int'whicli 'to States fully c imprchetided.it, and in his In- At-.. 1 nruiF •Fiiis e d i ct-era ' now have been oulne I - , , • .. .... .. , . . . . ‘ . - . -. . r I denture tnat • oby'et. it Slavery ; •slmula : be augural )tddr •ss, lie iiledged, himself to - it, aree ; .red ; • I 11•:i t , " vna I have been faithful, wh ts o ev e r goo d I admitted mite territory north . of. the line of •i tnaiuterianc , ; and, f<•llowlitrrts, fur the ]Faked; --" _•...--,.,, 1 - -'l , . ','.'• -..•-. - / 3OP 130'• the effeet:weirld.- he -to • treciom pl 6li i vij.Y-.1 4 3 . i.", , i.tF0 of triv.iti tain irg that principle . llovvityna, and .p above ray life i gtill han. that love. ,verithing:thet.blive ; had.. hi. . ritiii ,... North i id its integiit -, lie intisted_l4.tt lion. E t iht. .., of - t hat.line-therc is . . One. Million r Stitiare r rnifes,l.J 1 Fallt.!..t . ,sl Oulu] 6 , to thilit Tjrritor - of , i CATATLi(7— . .of territory in'ore . t hati there- is south of it— Ntinsas o - and - Leconte its Governor. Mr. ..... - . - SLIP. I-love -you i ßarbai•a! ;.-. „., .; , enough to mare s'.everal-States of cony midi A AN" allwr decill Nil. Three Feyeral times did y, , ...:tr,ve, I nin nnhl e st;..,,,i•-'-*"7' ...: - ~ - i size ---,-dt , leaq, eight.- .`The-TerritorieS of \e- l.llfi Ti•fuse to ,0, but Arr. Buchanan :it last in- Witi mans- doubts-oppres sed; ' • ' . i fira*•ka anii Banal,, 'of thentgel i r es; eilihracel,isttal upon lts compliance in order that the I " . .illtit`r like a des - iithe'ut'A 'Place to rest: I one•sixtri of the wl a tl*..t e x - rit,4ry lif -elites;, t n i..t. people of Ea isas might be secured in-the weld I btt wiayou•for autuar,from.off:that starry i .1U • - • . • ' I- I , r• 'tneitl,' 1 that soy , r , icrnt • guar antie d to ted, States.- They mire - 111 eater in extett_.l than i t.. ijoy u o ,t c 0 % shore, ' •.• , , . f , Tli--litin:zer Of ray .s'oat r..e.re stilled; :for ;Death . :kath.l' . A.ns.tria and Francit etintt)ined,. or . than .any i therr.'in iheir organic aet. end in a letter. • , two of `'.e S tates . •-•• -''' o f Ito.-' :lot vt•t - givet to the world, of the. date of 10 H . T 6, , ,, Q ,., .. : _,_ , • , . . . , 1,, European t ‘ltt.t,istt e 4 : : .. .• Thltn the. tuelaneholy.-! -- or'l4dot.L= - 1,:now; ;lin' gs (kip- i,.. , :ta, ta , .4laruier than ; t 1.1 ; thi,-_Gernitinic petit r. i .I'2,th Jui.y, .1.37, a . l . ett'cy in the hand.wrikit. , g l i •(''''ll'n•Ptiall k're .• • • • .•i . ! ' 1 torte' tiler. - T he i'liolie "of the territory of - the lof the Presi'ellt, sighe( s l with his (tun prof" ' I.°l .e ' ull IvaC ' lt. 1-3,= r b&rl ~ '••••". :- , .. • ' , . - I Ut c ute4 ; Si i at t ..,-. , i i ot,' now ei n br aee ti I ;,i:f i ip3 er sign !Liam -tl— a letter embracing seven-or ...... _ . .... in vi.n, in vain; in vain! i State limits, is sotliciettt- to .rnalie. thirty-one r eight written pages, the President iiiiisieul v,,,l,iit never come apiiiid;: - ---.ii . '. .1 ,States as• large each-es Ni m -...y or k an d pi,".: l that Govern r, NV al tier should see that ili;• 'of rain; . .. 1:1"'--4"."."'"'"?.... .-..-''''''')';'ll44l:lll°uriaf ' - . ill '' ' C ' ri ' l?-":41 . ‘T . T .:l; i. 7'- eii" ” ti: - 0 - c ' ly 4 ' :-..: ' - iill(ittsi ' '.. - ti --. .. c ; . 9 j:rii .-- ..A11 7, 1) e:0: - . - ,Vi . e. - '1 r i. ,-' )a: 1-. .... 0.1 ..e . ° 1 : . 1 4) - Pel)Plet foi'Lheir - r — liti -11- :; : tiot - i ...,..... 11IE . SONG OF UORTO BY .A.LETiNDYY , .9)11Tli ‘• Cis the Sabbath day, • i • q:,,,, :.h the church-y:10 old and . the crisp and yellow leaks , I• held-ply rustling • .xytv ani - ia the wanis of.nterey, at my soitl like Npa tFc rrr.eou,s. stornls ,or leash: —in the iipwardrstrearaing prayers, the rich and psahris, ' 1.1,1dd carelets?, Dirbara. • • was otliysise - the mpin el k - the: priest. witi -tiLitspread }mods, blazed. 4 - 30 per , ple vith n prayer t • • vht , a, - r hdafr,..to go homeward,. with. a - mild and cairn-like shine -, 7;'1,1,111,;(1 a fano of bcanty. - with its h s earenlyl epee 011 7111:10-7 ...... .... • - rji-;l!eed and iinititted in - ,a; mOnisint=-0; that &co n Fundy thine _ o , n. ed . Hearn, Barbarltl.. • . Ci.p . :01.1.d, pallid face ! • • m .4 :-- _ ~,. 0, vaezt eyes a gro, .3q• , ..., .., z ,, • , : ~. . • k.t......, wh, .s; last I satv.thee, delta-cst,ifAvas in.atiCtliCr place. - V.: .acic illl . ltilig fcrtli to mceciri6 'with joy love .. . . - on your wrist: . - .„ . .'•,- ~.a long witlie . litss;Then.ll,l. - icas..l s Ost in q! ~ t!ti ~,ti..- 7 1c-ple.Ftain - ofb.f.lnily ricnth I.kissed, inctroiDe,-.l.tat6ari4!,i •., , ;i no dri4'd tltattl4,4.ljai you there . . •. n;..•;F::i,d'many a * a,eriitabtlsatwaen you were • - . face b4ried in my hands; beside the .fire 11113=1 Yo;: Lovi: TNT .r..,..1.r5r,(*, I LIE oi -.,,copy - purenaseu .., -.... , have not- in our. poSieision;One:holl•-r.morei or re,k..clit/tt, tiui:one.ttall—:eight.filteebtlis .of the. , ;Omer .1-Plo. of POIRt territory of 11Tesieo, and. f -anorebend that 4,l,cio7erttor-B• Will - pot be•a vecyfintg,•ATlC CIAO. . we, male f-. 04$ . —......-- . • • o_ State, t nvigorpts .efforrto . require • the hhince-_t tt/te he Ile 4 . e ----_-- 14t slave .tatcS, as alreadslorm intied,c4iver'i;4 4 :e a theu;t " .i Family ofEilitsiti.ten6sterT• r 20,0 00 •aquara toi s .more thair• the - free.. t .:lll. the 111 , 14 ' I States while the latter -taive a White popula.l s 4 titntion,wei The Portland Tri&tozeovhicii,_ has a. good . lion double that of the former. 1' state these cpeoplC, I' v ar.f.r melady,ipeaks as follows 0 1a6cl-tali-I t fact,s.at present;•becatise.i they;, will have all I , Fl!;:4-.! 1i r,li 11 .1;1*.1:::1 farriilv,who perhaps are not so much tiMportaLti,bearing upon, portion,s" et - my ..se). i. icv,,r.::l T i tle hop.nri-d by the inusical • 'ifs they ought to be. 4 Seqpent -4emnrit.s... If. the. Sonth .-conirl ric-3. 1 .: 1 KY' ..Stiri. , ,- t , Tny. f F iet - is: ..surprisint, as 'the cOncert 4 quire the i lerritary of the•eonntry'atrt3 1 - ev, i ;' , .e j whieh he th cati•he hea4 • 4o,niost anysurbmer's day_lyjth- i it•to tig.tinstitutibms there - wt.uld 'la ' lilt I - c. _I -ittsirun rit t eoinn f . cut charge.: ~'-, •,..••, ...1..: -, ..,- *, • .- ~_..-._ .1 4ifiieulty,..lapprehi , nd,..iti Mi:ertitining .wi . it to fnai• Of ill the •neste. of-singers—the Hutchin-t would be condition Off the itistitntions of .party: N. sons, arid a score 'of other' famille . give us, 1 'the Union in the future: : - ..... .•- •: • : . -t:orl• it. • ) hi- all • - aa . ., - „the ',Bird 'l',arnifY•.'• . •To • . hear i= If_ the: . 2 TerritolT,. •of Kansas :lane could 1 1 love , lu in tir e M, in: thAr:perieetibti" one Mnst 'w astir 1 ftat'p breti uquired-, it-iVonld. lici - e -- *jade the 1 Oflioer wrol hetitnes,.for their ril . ortaing enrol is ..tvl for the ~ tippth equal in power with the North 'in the Gettiiia.itt i sveetest„ -ablionglktheir.,vesPer • hymn comes '. Senate. ,6f the Utit.C4 StitteS. ' ' Ever v aildi. stil.thiss - it in next to.it. - : , -TFicy-entnrnenee at a .itery- early 1 tional•Stite acquired= b them - largely 'hi- j, tO.-1. 1 1111, v.,_ 11 - Ii , or, heralding - the '`Adil . s-..lk'itti - heir :ehois'estt • creases' their ' power - iii., le , ..Tislatirin ; t nN •iil :er,l,‘ Mit ted, notes, ;ad tialitiwith . .caChsl .r.• •• : .." • they.are!,W l .l,ling'to 'Male bir ,: ie - saerillers iu t so%,ireigni j i• ~. . - . ..... , - 1 - ...'',7o cat*:-..stulote the,sireet.ret*a orre.orw 4 larder to4.teqUiro; Territory-tbasv., is .L not i -caineo.t.let • At about; ft - aff-Pist three:if - 2riM Are :listen; freastinable to believ.e.thatlhoy. - will be will- . that if it w. i:-.;-.-vou will hear-thc , choir'preptrin..r!- , -- - 'tient.- - tsit. to Make as large .orlarg•er• -sacrifices for T (.6-iit cotill ir.e, ilieir . t.lniitts,fer -the, japetnitichoiits.; -,- At 4.e . .s;ine thing to-tiiiirrOWl ' - 13 tie they never I ire's V. h(^l . .11. faint twiner will coma -fh orn - iliis and 1 ‘l 3' ll - Ata c e• - :i ti e , - L l - 1 / : ( r i>ci ..r l'l • .n,. tic?:. , . .. - I.- In s ist 11id not ell' 4, , ,.,, ,t trea; . / .. olkav • e z isaw „, afi a_ th e• m h ys a . a h, 4rt I gone,7;tiii it has gone ihre.ver.....-41y. the , wit4i- ;lye the pt t stn.in.ofdelicioiis . ...iniTylcdy • ..fieSt) as you .V.-i:1 • 'di m indefea.''' 4l ° Itet--'"', 04 •1 1 e 1 " 'ocY.l l-- .e- rot i 61an.l us• lit..ar ill n choir - Of a a tria tre l eilliiOng kith m' u d had the-South ToStlior - j - . s nw - er, never •to re; 1 Now, fe 19m-citizens, let us see whether we ,i,.„: a iirilliaritriasjial,-(1.iga5hitytz,fr,,,,h.,:t.ii,..,•14,,. I. tOrn. use_y Tinf in"of as Well tr,, to .i . hove diet. our pledges. The Demeerat if,thicwydith.tr..-,biii; tiiiktdaii t i,v-.0 . -if . N , re ,.. ire pro.diteer the.:wotiarfluagares itt...1,1t0 over. ..tc.porty u the country . is in power--;cgisla . Ai,: tilting their - a ,tviiile, - 'ilie - pre- I.l.4l2l'i"g•klieldecaP?i-,thfi'"gov,c2,•ecitor hues -o; tive,c 4 xeett - - ye, and indicitd power .. is in their ~,,,,;., , 4 „ rm i nek ,g , „ia-a- a -4,44 3 t i. -- ea , icotree; - 'the sum"et upon'the•-pain_ted- cant - tics: • tir the lie o- I‘. t. pinicit. plead inability to aecottr .,„,,, ft ,i tal ., , -ib t: • d chorus, i; A : e lli , , 4 . f i, 0 , . , -pirille iirti'eni4 . l7 to-the , i.tiirly 'ditid. -, .1-Tenge. -p,lis,ll Wita we 'desire, and if re have mit :tie faintest dim to thelitliett • -rreki- each song- !"forth and forever,.l proclaim it here to-night, dOne..ivitO, W • e,Eltldge'd . ourselvjs to .do, the sls. , r striving to outch4„ the other,, and ~,,,..1 . 1 and let the futtrre - spetik - M.lits'lrutii or ialsi. i l 4 . .ti . y .. i ou -s,:ii.n4 ....not . : that of others. We ate ilend:a in_qacifect accord Until - ' ./ t-T; &mitt) will 'never lie , eringllFTE:fli ,w . ere. pine .4,41 legishitiva end exLeuti ve.po w . 4 ---, - 4 1- . . -.,- :. - ti- - -- - 47: - .0:!: - .."-s. - 1 1 pewer ki the Not tit. To ' , effect it, -. Win re• Cr teem it: ,We pledged, ourselves to :maintain , -•• ...rs s. . - Erti , 7 „, r i-. .0. 4 . - Deep traigieit treeirreeetat,ltatibt•tiiv •.- : (pare the t,) subvert Ilae ion's of nature, of , the pripc ,tile of popular : sovereignty'. fit, ' ' Bettding . l4th.ttlewymoisturevelerthe hauls"- • climate ; and:of,'prodtietiort, and the laws reg. l Northei - n"State could have leen earrtud for • --Of the-eay-cheriAers thin . k.glge within. : - s • - tilatirig.poPulatinn. .It .wi IL rt•quirh us' to te -.the their-.DebuAtratiti presidential candidate • . ••••I'a--PfatugaltOritaraiaoY47y--.•:',.1 ..!.•‘l'- , •: -- . I Willipg to parr with •ent."-rattonll vioi'v, to -if We hadl•not.expreseed the opinion's which :-- r‘'er.v 110 " 1 and theOi too. - '.1 4 : 43 ' .1141 ! 110 0' 1 thront avi - ay - NO - rthertr Irt.xo-r,. ittpcito gag free - some of t i ls adhere• to to-day: - (Applause.) theArtudNoiceatittenrietsterktroihst_iwe'erow 1 i.ik e eti. - „ •,:• -,-• -. ... :, -• : ...,,,;... , . , , ; -In..thit ?a- . y.was this district carried, and in Tnat •'. 3- P 2 ' -- - s 'i-- f !te with aotPtisirtg 'eleet- r -- . 20340 .-i Missouri being" a horderinrt 'State, upon no other vay could it have . been r ea f r i t A.,..... an thet a roll•s:•un,„-ttik, ykitit,...,..,,a chaining - relit:- I•Kansas,*and-repteceritod.blr-SoUthern..tegis. rablailblir , AIL a...Datuocrat..v.ithin the sound ot t a i t er-7lipvt: la a sivtl o ol -14041•01441......•.h°1°1-146'w• lators,-ItS • ••Was ttninght,thafliVv : would •have I ni'v vole btit knows thitt . l.statc a fact. wlt,i,..h i 1 n most intri:,.),,ke, fugue, qiid,: s ailon .in a -.in 11 . a -- gr ( i. it i l e ail ' foge..ovk:lfie:;NO)Ati'iti'the pup. I liZcai • t deiryt,:••• -,(lteneWa ( .41prdsosi.). •io 010 Ms, •so liriftlitilpAiti •eisi..i. pint 'that Tlaht . ; i : l itoorjcx• - fiiii.5...15;.: 1 r6ir . ;.64,e(1 ..,t4 3 t, the i ;414/ single specult•which - I triode-before the peo '-'-'1 IPlrtself rniglA It envy. TLes • itt - I people of Aliggogrk.wßali.lo4l.9l.o4atilly. upon t pre of ti . ster'4o Delaware counties in 1850 t.:,•..:iriaes, until ~ - :, _;.:^;... , - ~'''. . 7,...ii_, .. i the requirement 01 - the gon s til, pa ss ~ iitto. tto I did Ive tore to nil:' for .iint'thing but the --,-';•,. 7 tat4tiolotwaf,eounieri,-4.4.44.40Qra.-,.....,,,,..4.4l".erritifitmlot.o4;aneseiiagliditigioiitoto"._ _ " . 1 maintctrittee ('f that •principie. Who corn - .-., - .01, iriithe light Fiat - it tingsivisc , !:r boots,' !.' re," o „ there Ti m , .. h - 4; ' '*;.' - 'l, 'l. , t .. d• ii 1 , taired f vhat . Jih-n said 'i NI • , '-ntl. , - .Aaceirist'ictiniti the'Skf'": , o. •.- -- .. .:•. -fir ~ --• 4 - ••!! t 1 f...... ea ,- u ' e ' l . (3 1 1 Ij'. . 1 • 1,...- ..,- • . • 3,, „,-• - ~,„;,... ~, , ,. n t h. -..:.,..„4. n ., . ..._.,. l. Northern strength land oontaget,\Traad,,'lt„,was 4116‘n, i d -uounced the outrage in Kansas. 1 11 . 0 . 4 .-I staged.l ~01 1. wont-tut-PI: not iihreasonalge that thus- :.I.lgAtlikito_ti do srti. went fu her'.. I voted fur the investigation the•carol gradually dies away ;.and,.:by.:,s.the :1„,„- - r - ki n i at t i i , ema l ue tt L if, IN,, rt ndi. a . - men in into Zia: sas aflitirs'',. - . I voted for* the Topeka' time-tbe- 4rows r.• - altizer•zbegict, 10 '4 0 • - rub -- ii111.1e---CtittgresS - of ...Unit - ea.:States,- their . COnstit ,ien... I did all this, and the men in Avaki t g.ass,- the. ilericats song:lA : at an end; t: rirean . t:. itubservicitee• 'to •.' the •••• bill wits •\of the .bst. Mid t, nirk loudest in their coniplaints. and 11 ' .. ' 116!3c8. t itt 'On '' ' n ' i 'l'l's2.o', ',:are_ 14 i - iA ' tii..'i ' s - ''''.-re' asoha - hle• '1 •Say,'that . c . they Fwere - th very•men who sanctioned and sus &• h = 0-thpfoi . Vd. ii-et•tiivtil:eir - :breakfast; . I '"''" ' ' Nn . s - -.-• .. , .-_.:.•,- ~......4, . ., .- . , •• • ... I should nottftiftir" If - - - -ettit -1 -the true stated. , tamed 1 ie• wit}; their voice, and their votes: i ing of the Northi litt .CtotArrences ' fulloW. •(stpplat si . ;,) They:made no objection then, \ .. ing•the .-Legislation Ipriiiii4„.• -clearly' a110w, 4 - , - Inkt, " n:hinge his•."„cente o'er the spirit of this:'-1,,1e' -act •repealiT'[th'ei--Uhnprotti.,iie rtiv,,7ir dr m:" ..They hope to pUrchase the I.,itttl-of 181 1 .0,.-tind orgitialzrag:tife-2TereitOfies i smiles f - power by the basest treachery„— „of,Finsils.and-.Nebratikalras'sid-intO„a'%;vi,l (I?c,pea ed applaus7i.) • If the people of the 'and those TerritOries - beeinne.". 64i'ailfierim. ' teijitor •.:of Kansas have not been able up to der the f...-zeentiv..e aet:. ; •,11) . :tkx.,.t.tfle,tirfrki - -; this tiA e s to ha'•,e.:', a government: of their tile fpr which - the Southreonteatieksnd which chniited4 - C bate riot kept our faith. I state the -Whole . Detnoeratio••..partzt::. -.the. Utti , w =,. ;..thatils ti_ele.c.r proposition. -Ou the 'contra. 1 teitiPted.;!#as'ulearlys:, l .distinetfy oiidAnie49 - iv.".: .ry, - ;,ve ov...edotte all: • vie could to Cripple pop.. i boillf.,9E - 641 . : ; !!!Asid' Id it Ai . . - etforgotAttir! .I.ller - s treat, 'there, to defeat• the proper i t - . 4 4. i'Y•P44'o2o ' ; .l *o' l ... - a4.'"'•.9' . - •;Lie::,.aiiii i• - r4ll)Orthh , ti , .otth,:and to !Cricketer to a 4 tihall-to-niglit.stieak:mitinly;_ -shall o `•stitiservteney., to , the : South. I re: Ley:- •••The.; principle was.neither f l to' egislate gArd t at_positioti - as so clearly. tenable, :Ls I c.L.4. I 'ls - latitry"intciiitty , tFxriXdry;:tiiiil:O' exclude it. ~sear veto 4eri.any .oeft:nce: :1 car •gentle therefr,44li74;l4.lniii'le:-,:t),te,',:tieople •_iliereet men, i tfie-people of\autNorth have it ma- Perleail.A64.4l..f,ortii ailk.4.iittll4.e. their;'llo- itircry. 11.1 hat territoryXand - have been . Una. 1 likliSti iliSiaigiOnS4ll - A.iiit s own way i .trotijeet, Me upt to this time to' ex ress ,the voice of f.tinly.tOthr.-1-:cormtitutien"of--thetinited•S;tat'eS., that rriajerity inane form f r ‘ yle,_and, if the '7l'lie:.opple.irare"-lO•.he:,.4,',.ii4ilfecity yi:r t. -,- - „Datingrafic•partyrrif - .111:0; C trnitY; . • being in . ..siaity.,wit.§,itot *be 14414.0,Pit0;4.1eij.x.,:, ,py - )1 . 0. ,have bon able. ai_alf tit es to, see that, : "te,ltid4,ol-111.16111..-, tikin :t l.l7,in„ri; TNy ic.i . : ^ : be.i tkiat_v, it.o. , iliviuld be 'expressed crud have not leflito tilopoolor tontrob.fire.fro.w - the--in..-+:tifixe i..then;tl - 11tiak it foilima as it tiOessi, .1 . . Fee gioanthi . g cans s slettly !ire in toc Roishi 5JE.,..11 . .. -Amu. furpWee niiFixLs and wounded sea, _ , 1 1 .1:s;_ i , no mien the ileaee Is with Deatlx,i t.ed thee, A Vaittniv,..,Osnclirr—lstarths junkho IVS ".first in xvar t -first•iti peace _and . 'hearts, of tronntifynipn,'" -- 4sed, ..esy is - surely. "aid ppi • hiora d% yqung les s. o . . t;ttle;:Td idanuaenti.,o7iell as to iuu.uso-th m -_:stAres awl their_ friett4 rather than; to -Frau tleT thee-rolite su - ; etninent 'a—degree - as xo aa r totilst 'the . publie' -a l because irrvit-np larout attention 14..trivial' r aceouiplislitaents Bahl, tti_giva that: more•Salkta-, Il e a..*trriiha T Eiliikte they ':Consigt. 3Df 'an ex.sliibitiortgt.: the, pulTort, are not intfreribently liable to be -accum paniiid : ;tlW vanity;':iind' fend - - til_iatingnish' • tliat-_,syEekAisitpf titnid4k, i+ rich • -in a young Inds la.the most•pixel:l4,6f hei. exterior .slanrrim"-- - ' - - Virtue. rx , 4istnore admireragisOom ra , :re ivittititsyqratte -Imr.6. rear frti;pd lionesti too ••. • . - . - I, • ` , fli ~. 'TryA l 4,,,..., - ._., „1.14,, i...:-.7%, Il a1i....5 ..,.• (4.1 i. .-,..• Lt., f l ITII•r, t, • _ - ~ , • - , .7.1 ••.',,, •,, - ~' . • :, • .::,:: • , , • , . • " , r ,. ..;, --;,- W'' . . f 0.. .„- ...,: . 4,, - • 1 , _., - • ~ .--.. 7 1 4 ,i` ' • . . in .ar43 ••11.' ' , :.:• , fi ' 4 .,?#:. ' ~ : =. . - C ; --:%; 4 ' . _ tILV"-'6l - :-..."_:•-.4-z • -' 4`A -.. , . . • I . , • ' 1 _ -` BE , ,• .7; MI I= X . obit .1114.ekman, opening the Campaign in the Sixth entiiireisio . ) District, Sc. iturilay Waif['. ~. 8;P Et,o`.lt IN - WESTSHESTER, FL, lIIME '.' s •vmgitgt , A . R.Di•non.lr anaargtir.-etafait4-:LsAqty.vc;-!©42' ONTROSE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1858. I will. examine lEEE! bcfore I conclude. I will re, in passing that the peo itorY have not bco_left five ulate. their doinestic install. Liire ; hut on the cOwrary, an Inude to .oppress them, and d, and - against every right, to liyinto the Territories. (AR- . • - live months ivas that peri:ever.. le cod it was virtually accont, . II the c.Friginpl contest for poW orY".of Kv o las I will nut in, the .subsequent iirogress of , come entirely unimportant ; b i acts of' individuals,. 1 r cont. ,rates can repeal solcin ly en• nor can the opin - ns f men, hey may stand in authority, essfully the soletnU pledges An people have always teliev filitieal .purity. rested in the . . it order to maintain the priuct ar suv.(troignty. ' , lex, Owe; of the Senators from Oder-total it, for in a speech livered in R3n,as : _at Paoli, nd people, -he plOged himself .mpbatic terms that.if the-Cun t' not submitted to a vote of th e utild'go to Washington and op . Sonite; and after that, in tno he addressed to - Sycre n,, l c exprossed - the necessity_ uillt existed for submitting .that .o it vote of the people in order the pledges 'of the • Democratic gov.eritor Cobb .misunder o imbl c rent: raisuuderstood it. • mind the faet that a Cabinet litters to high authorities in Yls.aisaFison the subject of the of the o. , nstit uti km. lie.sh9wol, .laboration, how the party uas. 5) a fair maintenance of popular —of that 'principle %%lab had Rthe rresidettial el(lothin ;_and s not submitted, no honest Dent. I,tj asked to -suppbrt it in Com it canto :here for its action. Wi! uudorstaud ourselves, nor did we oplo tin oppurtunitY to triztunler- . ry consequence that wec have 'not kept our faith. that we have done injustice to the North, and that the tendency of our acts. to degrade our own 'section. We :cannot hope for Congressional interference in the fu ture: -It has gone. It is' among the. thin g s that have passed: It has . been repudiated and disavowed. We • have .rested opl• for tnne upon the: doctrine of the . soveferg,nty Hof the people. 1I that fails,'Te fall; but it is sufficient for us if it shall he properly maintained and defended. But if the people of a territory cannot exercise their power, then what is the consequence'{ Rule passe§ into the him& of minority, and 1 have nev er yet learned' in any of my schooling in - the I >emoeratic ranks, that poweriaan legitimate ly re_s - ide in the hands- of a minority, If it fail , ; there, it . will fail fir ntlicir places ; and every failure will increase the strength of its opponents. .I say that there is no man in the courtry, not one, who has any regard-for his diar eter as a Wall, but will- admit that the ma (wits rule has failed 11T KIIIISU.S. In i t every srech that I lire listened to coming Ci-oun a &fouler of the Lecornjton Constitu tion in the present Congress, I have had no man declare that the tnaj,irity of the .I)eopte. in Kansas were in favor of that Gmstitution ; i.n the contrary, every 'fair man ; from North South was„willing to admit that -Free State men there were vastly in the jority. Vught we not to inquire, where we have rested ourfortune Opoll a principle, why that print , ',ple lini;,not been successfully Put prietice ?, 'Ought we not_to inquire —is it not f our duty to inquire, why it is th:it - it has failed, and why it is that; poWer has been Wrested froin.the:proper hands and placed in the hands of those who had _no right to exercise it 1 Now Where is-the man ia ye v,13 - u ill venttire to say that the great majority of the people of Ramps are not di rectly hostile to the Lecompton Constitution ? If they are-opposed to it, then ought they to have it forced upon them? If 'they do not , :atict.loll it, OuOit it not at , once to be reject ed ! bt lias never been defended upon the ground that-it met with the approbation of the people, and therefore it has never been defended on a proper ground. If the people of the territory were to be left perfectly free to forma r tid regulate their domestic instita f ions in their own way, as the nut declares they should be, why is it that theY have not ,xerised that right—mid why is it that they no: c;xercist, it, not in the future, but in the prt;sent I Why is it "that Constitution ivas not rejected at once when it tt as present ed before the Senate and Hous - e ofßepre ,;entatii'es at Washington: It was maintain= ed and defended.not upon .the principle of theprganie Act,-but upon the ground- that it iris in compliance with the finlns of rested it not upon truth, and right, and 'o.Stice, and fiar dealing', but upon a legal ab straction. - - MEE But . I 'am as willing to deny that that in. striamait is supported by form? o 4; law, as 1 'of a tnajo;ity of' the people., \Viten a—Le,,is y,,tero is placed in poser by a gross fraud, by : the incursion of strangers, by Violent seiz ure ,of the polls, by murder and all manner I.le-inves ; when that - Legislature, passes an act authorizing a Convention to be called _to :traille an organic act, and declares that no •Qounty in the territory shall be represented in the C , :nventlon unlels a cemms shall be •faken by otlicers appointed by themselves, and That no man shall vote where a census has not been taken ; when the creatures of 'hat body, its agi!nts, fail to discharge the,du ty imposed upon them by that law, when one half of the counties in thlt territory, nineteen led of thiEts-eight are unable to send dele gates into Convention by reason of the fail ure of the required appointment ; when 111-,j icon counties out of the thirty-eiAt cannot] vote by reason of no .poll books being made ; and l'lor the deleerates elected from only .nineteen counties meet ?ri Convention and framc a CA;nstitution cutirely repugnant to the-' ishes of the majority,. who are distran . c hl io i, a m I to be told, :is an American citi- Zen, stamlicg upon free tpii, that that Consti tution is in conformity with !a w, and must be held as a controlling enactment 7 (A,p - - t ,latts6 ) 't he name of GA.', has is mi l e to this Why, gentlemen, this is to add in ,ult to previous injury. It is but aggravat ing the original fraud, and eedetworing to , anetify nit unholy and unction thing. Why did not the President of the t:nited States, when he sent in his Kansas messti,ge, rest it upon that ground, as-tk sniff:lent one? I Iv not venture, to.do .44). 11 that message he did not rely upon the peticiple of the genie act, Lut he threw himself_ upon the ground of expedieney.l for hegaye as a rea ,,n, w!-ty Kinisasshould be admitted into the atriet, under the Lectimpton -Consti tution, that it would localize tag issue and re store peace to the territory. localize the issue! I will tell—you how it will focalize the issue, my Deniecratie friends. You w ill ! see in the Mule how it will Idealize the is sue. I tell you- it will locale the Demo,! erratic party to the South.. (Applause.) It ill localize the liemoet atic- party in the Soutii„tiir it Will tlestrov these in the North. (lleßeated Applause.:) It wil localize that large Democcatie majority n die.' Present Rouse of B.epresentatjr,es to half of one side of the chamber in the next r Congresi.,......(hn- MellSe Applause.) It will ltualize the- Dem-. ocratie candidate _for; the Pasitkney .iu . 1860, to his botte and-hisl9mo.. That, is precise ly the way the issue will. bi...lueadized; and • that than is,blind, died, Ivho does not see it. A single'Word on the'.E4ish Bill, gentle man, and I lethe this brad' of my. subject.. it is worseos - I view it, itfu.itely worse,than the oripal bill, for the rtasen that it is in. stilling to the. North ; fin the reason that it cads the North; for the reason,that it does rot rceognize , ths :iiier)ilui : Staning up. on an equality with toe South; and that- is : thing.whiulkl never vill will ably admit: It is unfair; 'unjust, •Lnaiurteous„_ and iftdis. erect in its ,provistons4 It ; gives too much to the South, And it ekes everything line I justice from. the Norf.) - .'llow does it do it ? Kansas at this momet has pe - rhaps 40,000. population: .. it may More, it may helm.' If Kansas,' (provides at bill) with her 000 inhabitants %atilt& a pro-slavery :Con itition, that is, tWeeompton COnstitntion, she may . 'it onee'eotti into the Union t lis a `sovereign State, andiave her two Setiaturg and - of course as mph power - in the Senate . of .the United State: - as the Sta'te of New York.; Nit if 'she dal not agree. tO cope in. , to tilt: Union as a_slve State, then she shall t not come:in at all: ItAt is the English_ and ieeitA4lie F^ Wally °tint way:. If she demands'sTree:Stith government 'then she Wall hot 'cotrie - in until her population re t lehes the Legislative , standard, :which ult. 'der the : present apportionment is 94,000 in round numbers, and if she . does not reach that by 1860, which she will not, - then the ratio of representation, after 1860, — will not be less thou 120;000;or 125,000, an amount of population which Kansas cannot reach be fore-1.864. So it is just,. this : Kansas as a slave `Mate can come . in • now With 40,000 population, but - she s cannot come in.as a free State' with less than 129,009; or beforelB64. That is the justice of the Legislation of 1858. I therefore repeat that it degrades the North. Keeping in view the fact that the original legislation incorpOrating• this principle is democratic; (which I desire - you shall not loci: sight of;),keeping before you the few baton of the Cincinnati Conventian, endors .ing and republishing. • it; retnetvbering the ten thbusand speeches that were Nade over the land stitaining that principle, from flow- ell Cobli:down to the smallest Man -in our midst; recollecting, too. that the majority principle has. not been maintained in Kaarts, o . but has been trampled ender foot, and that the people of that Terraory are as much ! the ! victims of the contrary rule as the slibjeets of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine, I want to 'know of you, my fellow-citizens, who - has. been true and who has been false to the prin elide ? Who 3 those Who support the Le l compton Constitution-and the EsOldsp,l3ll.l., or those , who repudiate and despis& them ? (App ) ause.) . But for the action, of the President of the United States, not of the_ Democratic party, there would have been no question with re gard to the fate of that Constitution. He took a ground which had never been contem plated 'by his friends—hy hot bue friend at the North. •It was a.; unexpected as it was unfair. ! lie exacted a compliance with his demands. He made it' the only test of par ty fealq, and his creatures` now; some of them from motives best known to themselv : es, seek to destroy, nay , worse, to disgrace every Map who will not swear by a fall God. '(Applause.) 1)41 you ever hear ofd Southern representative being read out of the Democratic party ? it has become a erannron thing with Northern ones. (-Ap plause.) I never did. But it may occur hereafter. Northern and Southern repro.: scntatives have a Marked difference of recep tion from the 'President and his Cabinet. A northern representative voting for every - measure of the Administration, excepting only that ef Lecemen, ts, as. I have said, trampled upon and ataklmpted to be disgraced before his own constituent; and the people of the entire nation. f Applause.) A south ern representative who opposes every mea sure of the Administration, except the Kan sas measure, is „received with - marked db. tinetion and great favor and appreciation.— . And I say to you, that a freeman, knowing ,_that he has sonic manhood left with hini,vill lotion—nn, . 1 erlr'iiha't . ed dee v° ! d:df : ri ‘ 13 l : sclr"as7ouAouhi : despise T eery iano : you, 1 ffit l da.areet:-ilhese th9, rtpres,,t.i., WOO VOteu ~.• .....-- 1..- .... •••: Bill; the Defleiency Bill, the r Adininistratien's Bankrupt policy, its Nicaragua proceedings._ —indeed every single measure eXeopt the' Leeomptou Constitution, every man of theli;_ is in good standing with the President to day. But the northern_ representative who voted for them - all, ant} voted only against Lecompletn, is read out of the Democratic party. Ever, that man - from the ekareine South who, little over a year ago—it _is not ' a yetti ago—only ten or eleven months since —Wlio, - frorn the White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia, declared, in a violent, and vindie- ' tive letter,-that we had a paralytic Adminis tration, and a Cabinet of mutes, is the man whose earnpiinv is most sought and esteemed at the White House, to-day._ (Applause.) ' Felloiv-citizens, it is said that you must not denounce the President of the United Statc-, i - that you must net express an opin— ion against any portion of his policy. I ad reit that you cannot as-a,-northern man du o, but a southern man may- denounce him - personally and viOlently, And yet his stand ing as a politician end ! li favorite at the White House - remains unimpaired. ;Let me not, however, be mi'sunder'stood: 'Fitdmit the obligation of the party to support their Pres ident as long as he:is true to the principle on which ins was elected, but . if. he violates env principle which constituted -a -que?tion before the people and on which lie battled for power, then I have the- right-rimy it is ray duty to oppose him... (Great.ApPlauSe.) I bilieve with Plato, that the greatest' felici ty of a people consists in. the, obedience of the people to the Prince, that of the Prince to the law,and, that Ilielavy . shall be ;node °in conformity to the public good;-. We have supported the Princes ..We have supported him fairly. We have sappolted hint honest ly. We have.supported-him as far as con sistency with previous declarations and pled ges, a thousand tithes repeated, trotild fillcw us. But the Prince has not been faithful to the,lato. (Applause.) ~He .has not been . faithful to:that Ian?: whieb..iinOt only in COIF fomtity with the public good,,l;nt that upon which the 'ratline safety depends. I day the right of the President to make new 'creeds or to alter old ones. Ideny his right to in-, yak° new principles: .That..belongs .to the . party. and .not. to. the President. , ll,helieve that the President hasendeavored to, change tire creed Or the Democratic party. rbe lieve that he ba's !resolved to destroy- the principle:of popular sovereignty, ,and .that he has done so as far es any one man ! could , do it. For We—legislation applying ,to the! territory of Kansas-is not the, legislation, of the people's repeclientatii , ea, nori..s it the leg-, 1 !islation' of ohe State's repreSentativett. lt' is the legislation of James Buchanan, President of the.tliiite . 3.States., : (Applause.). ...,gelias usurped the legislative Pawer:Ol'lln; country as Much-as:ever a tyrant invaded the.-rights, of - the people. (Long - ,contintiet 'applauie:) But fur his direct interference ;with' .the rep, resentatives of the *people, kept ..up njonth after month, the Lecompton Constitution Would have been 'defeated. 'lt was Only'catc;.,! tied bedatise it Was sustained by the'huttil 'Of poWer, and- by theidistributiOn'of pattonate. lf,we are to suffer politiell rtastlsmatimi(be.: -, cause it does not be-called. by, any, 1 better name than thitt)-4 we are to, , .Sufrer... political aiieSSinatiOli,bof sie:ari3 to be dig.: graci , d Air standing against - 7k' net :Of' plain. usurpation Illtm , we say let the!ake fall, - and' let the deed beeecomplished:at'lha. earliest; - moment. We-never wil,tiubmit. ; __l ,44,Fae , will submit - to it, tier.er, until, I ant Willing to: ' I : part with my ofti'inhiAio . ii.d.ani self respect,." . . { H. H. FRAZIER, 4.--N 01.1,46. and make myself a hewer of wnotland draW er of water, to-tlie first • aristocrat - that de• maads-it at my,lnitids. - ,(Applause.) I will not suffer a self inflicted disgrace. -That is what I - object to. ; Those Who oppose me May dis.Traeme if they'can, but I will,not bear self-inflicted disgrace—and that has been re quired of me. 1 will never take ikstep back- . wards.. Against this gross and flagrant wrong t' hope to stand fighting to the last, through this year, and the next, inid'the next. _ {Ap plause.) I shall ask (led for no Anon-, wiil thaw! have to resist it. I shall_ only. invoke Ilis strength. . And, if needs bo„:1 am will ing to die for this principle, like Spartacus, upon my hnecs. (Great applause.) Fellow-citizens : I wish now to bring this• matter nearer home—to " localize" it.— (Laughter) I shall • appeal to the xecord,' and by it prove inconteatibly that the sup porters of the; Lecompton fraud in the State,' of Pennsylvania, have-been, and are, filSe to their proniises and professions.T . 1 do . not speak of the Democratic party, I separate these men from, that party, tbr they are'nfr portion of it. (Applause.) This is especi allirthe case in the County-zit Chester. (Re newed applause.) The warfare has been waged, here. feltow-eitizei* . principally by one roan 7 ,-Niitired „Strickland--,the responsi bility of it rests entirely. U - port his shoulders, for he constitutes tiv brains end the effective energy of the iyholeopposition, In his writ: ten correspondencolvell distributed through out this district, he has made a very free use of my name. a . fact about which shalt never complain. ITe - .has a right to do it,. and I ask the closest scrutiny into my acts. As _he is a public officer, like myself, I trust that he will accord to me the same free speech .9f him that he has ever exercised towards' me. Nam, if ever there was a man who-complete ly filled the description given by - Lord . By ron of Lord Ifem'y,. h certainly. is, that man : < Alpiend to freedom And freeholders, vet No less a friend•to government, he Bell ci That hc'ekactly the just tnedinnt hit. ' 1 'Twixt place and ptriotism. ;1 .. • His hfe is only a history of the enjoYment. of one public office ttQer another, and at present, even. he professes to possess a faint hope of ' pithlie confidence, Having spent the last twelve years of his life in propagat ing freesoilism,. in supporting the Wilmot Proviso, and defending , its author, fostering antipathies to the South, resisting their ag-si gressiobs, and denouncing Mr. .Buchanan in the vilest phrase of opposition; he now, with the suppleness of the vaulter; and the con science of a. gambler, puts himself-to the in glorious task of subverting his own doctrines and rendering hiS"coim previous career ;nth mous. his zeal, at this- time, for slavery propagandism and extension ; is fie'ree and un bquiiediand unscrupulous. I trust that-the men who surround the President of the Uni ted States as a wall of fire. will rau'se long. enough, in -6°4. <1.,.,,•,...n..t.0g courso ON ue- i nuneiation tekd proscription, to reward with • suitable Pivot he base ingrgitude ;and the bald inconsistencies of this modern Talley rand. (Applause.) Of the few othicr . men .__ . . .ay. They are su ti •te it p10ti0ut.„ ; .,.. , ' 111 '6 . t '....4C I ji,ve nothing to to justify me in speaking :kif them. ' (Ap plause.) - Nor can . I condescend to ;notice their organ of. its editor, who,,jf he were to etpress . any' opinion on the .. subject, would doubtless say that Judas Iscariot was over paid in-his thirty pieces of silver for, his in lniman treason to tlid Savior of the World.— (Repeated applause:) -But to the record, and I shall trent itriair ly. I wish, however, to say this, before go ing further; some of my remarks. 'may be eolisi&red, and objected 'to, as personal.; -I have-no fin - ors to ask-1 shall avoid no re tpoasibility. - If - the gentleman, of - whose . name I have made - a free - use, or his' friends, take exeeption_to my temarkS, it wilt be ~p rop" f .,-, Erlvp, ma notice of, that fact 'at the. .earliest moment, for I pledge myself hetore Os s assemblage to repeat, substantially, the sa:ine things in every part of this District, and I . think they Will not at all improve - by that repetition. (Laughter and epplause.) Ia- IS-la, a member of Congress was to be -elected in this district. At that time it 'gem , 'denim, whom I &stem very highly, became the candidate of the party ; the- free-Soil:Cle ment in the district was strong, and the votes of thernembers of that partrAilero'yery- hie.' sirablc. Interrogatories being- propounded nto'that gentleinan, as to the.course he would ,pursue on the Ar'estions- then ,affecting, the. territories, involving the Wilmot Pro,yiso, he M rettirned a written answer, which: W cub: ruined to the inspeetion_of three gentlemen, hefot 7 e it. was handed to the publie, press, one of whoin OS Mr. Strickland.— In that letter (I have it here, but it is too long to read,} thewriter pledged himself, should' ho`-be elected, to exert himself -to prevent the ex tension of slavery over territory ~then ‘ free. He declared that shivery was an - institution: to he restricted; and not extended, and that lie•was sorry that the:policy .of . the govern ment, which bad formerly been .restrictive, 'was being changed in there dege.nerate days. A:feiv of these words are my t*ii; but 'that is the stthstintee of the letter:. In.: the sante' number of •the "American- Republican and; Chester C_outity„Dernocrat," • which' contains that letter, is-stn editorial by . Mr. Strickland, in tfiese words: - Itls'under the date of oe , tuber 2, 1848. . .. "'The Free Soil ItiterrOgritories..--On ,our first page will be found the.ansWera.of eandi dates - to the- interrogatories . proP ;by` . Abe Free Soil Committee." ... . ' "-, ,' . -. "-The repliei of Hemphill,/ Heckel,. and _ iMiirphy, are such as cannot be .'ex to by any - voter however strong his opposition to the extensioikof SlerTvery.":,• , ; . - " On this qUeit.lonthere is little or. no dif-1 &came : between the Position of Mr: . lilero= phill.rind that "of -Itir. '. Wilt-not •' Both' d is; claim modern- abolitionism, - both.gir :agaltitt th Mart cif Slavery.", „ . . . •Shat, then, the organ of the Democratic I)anthe.4 of OetOber;''lB4s, -declared that 'Mr. Hemphill, tbe,Demberatie elindidate for . COligress, tvas - pon. the N . Vi I mat FrOviso platform; 'and that thereWai'nediterente on the subject-of slavery extension betweetille„ - Wilmot and.himselt. Now 'Whitt, was :Dr. Murphi'alettet . J. ,It . lp very .short, aktiheta, is the.lliain point it . 1 - 1 . ', .r. .., ..... • '"lsl4llj4lll,od.uttequiFcleally'resi , st arty, grad every 'atiempt ak* . the !bailee ? , extension of slavety : ,to . any territery fio*:pOssesseki:ir which'May : hereafter Ate possessed - bY,.the --: - 1 : 1!I llai lit 1.ete 8 1 i t Itte i. : S t ates: ' .... : ~ .fullY : endero4 ; ..lbY : 1 . e . ..' Strickland ; .:1 , :;:.. ::.-. -. :,', ;--: :.:!.'• -'-: The rittAlittigti*:COniwitiorPOttiplit;eis ,, ME • sernbled 'k 1849, • - o - En - 4th day of . suly, deemed it neeessary to haVe 'ii - plank' in . :its Pia t flirm. against the extension' of StavaiY to . • the Territories. •' I Will read the :resolution. which was adapted. , . 7:, . 'Resolve4, 'That the Democratic Partyad heres now;as it,,ever:has done, to the COnsti- • intion of the country. ' Its l!tter, mid spirit they will neither • weaken nor destOy;.' and therresh)elare that-slavery isin-locril:doines- - tie institution. ,of the South, ,subjeet .to: State law alone, and With which . the gene'ial g'ov ernment has nothing to (16:• Wher p ieti the State law extend.s. its juCistlietiottthi?,lOcal n•in stitutio cannot continue to . exist,'. . it a violation of State r(Olots to.'earc . ll#6e- • ' youilState limits. We deny . :the' pOwer 'or any c itizen to•extend'the,areit'tif boridage'be yond its pres - ent dothinion—nqr do' jwe . vitt- shier it a part of.theConipromises oEl66;C:in stitution that slaver.x. - shbuld forev4riiiivel With the advancing,colUmn of our 'territitiriat , . . . progress': . , - f= • • Ninakia Strickland theughtit necessary to notice and defend this resolution ofilia.Pitts 'burg C,Onyerition. I, will rend .extracts fkosttt his editorial article. Ithppeared iti.the . col. . titrins of the,l?epublican , i nud,'Peinberat, -- -of July,24th, 1849. • "Some of our Whig friends profess to;c9n.• „. .sider the position avowed by thel.ate . Demo. . 'antic State Convention at-Pittshriri on • Oh subject of slavery ; as new and mit,eonsistatit with that heretofore occupied` b3r the., party ' on the same 'subject." .. • • f- ; • "We do not se'regard it.. , Whitt.-is that . position ? The resolution speaks Air itself." [Here follows the resolution lhave,justread.l _ • " What is there in this inconsistent with any former position of the Deinkracy' of 'Pennsylsania on the same questioiS." : . "ln the first, it kfows and re-assertswhat . the Democratic party of the State iiasalways maintained, that sli.`,very hr. the St.tesi. , , un der our national•ttitution, a .local institu tion sitbjeet only'lie; State action; and ' free •from.control or inte'r'ference frost-any other - , ..• quarter."'t •' .. "This is•the doctrine of the Unicn. It .is - c. the doctrine and spirit of 'the Constitution ; • and the Democratic party.has nefer advoeat e or maintained . _ ed• -2 A different one. 1••• , "In the SecondVlace, the resolution de nies the power ofstiiy citizen to :tarry and maintain slavery . . ir hef ond -his -Statp, And de clares against the.-eitention of the .:-institution into free territory:": • 1 "Tina is no new doctrine, for .the :Demo. eratie partyf Penqsylvania. Ir, j 143 always t been theirs, - s is prtved , by the Whole action' of the State the subject." l.. ----; • . ' t" It was Pennsylvania doetririeldurinff the . Missculd agitation. It was re-avdwed.l; the Jegislation 4'46 and no instance fin be .pro (laced in whkii the Democracy Of pentisylva-- nia has ever advocated a contrary ; : doctrine."' “We thus, tee that the De4tocraey of - gl u illfsl'MANiPoki3ll - 4 111 kVArd4rtki l tilPHi e position, Nor one inconsistantwitif Previously . : expressed' sentiinents i bilt ..thatithe3: - .stind now - where - they baviT ever. stood;., upon the :Constitution of the Union; oppOse 4 d toitriyat ,iemots to control or "interfere W;ifit, :slavery -- , ‘4,, gw es . a l id.also opposbd to its ex tension.” ! . i •----, .. . _ ".This position .may not exactly suit the ultra abolitionists-of the North, 4r the. Slav ery- propa g andists of the South, bOt.it, was the. po-ition of Thomas Jefferson, , s isiktl has 6en Tr..practiced .upon during our. entareittatid al ex istence, and wilLnot fail-to meek the .appro bation of all friends of.he Unioti and Free= domi" - " " • - About the saute , time a resolu'tior. was pas sed by, the Demeciatie Convention of the State of Maine, in the. folloiving_s'words: _ "Resolved, That the institution of Human Slavery is at variance with-the theory. of our government,gthhorrent,to the eqrnrhon senti ment of mankind and fraught - with .danger to all who come within the sphere! of its infld epee, '1 hat the Federal Gonernment posses ses power to prohibit its existencein the of the Union ; that •the `constitution ality of this power has beet= :settledby judici, al construction, by contemporaries and re peated - acts of legislation i .and.thats.r - enjoin upon our servants .:and \ representatives in Congie . siit to make every exertion and employ all th f c l r z , ,, influence to procure the-passage.of a f law - ver excludinvlavery from : theTerri -tories ofUalifornia and 1 4 ..few:Mexico..", •-• This resolution was , cepieJ-into the-eol= arms of the sante paper, to:which . I have made allusion, With the approbation- of 'its editor. 1 During all this time,. as. airt , .pdpor will show; Mr. Strickland was'a defender of David 'Wilmot and_hisProviso;hud.li's - lind • defamer of James Buchanan and MS -public acts. ;When Governor Walker delivered, his inaugural address . to :the: people of. Kansas, and after he had addressed risSemblages". in that Territory on the duty,which existed to submit the Constitution twbe.framed by . the - COnvention to the rfecision. of the people at the-polls, this sante gentleniati, to whom I have referred, declared that the liernoeratio _party was placedlkii these 'acts upon firm and . irnpre€;nable gr9unds;- thatlhe Constitution would be submitted for, the raii6eation or re, jectlon of the people "of katims ; - itild that 'as 'GOV. Walker'Avas the intiniate and,,cOnfiden tial friend, of the Presidisnt of -tlia . -11.nited Sates, and had gone to lianess'at his' argent request,,it, Was impossible to'hellavethet / Mr, ' l3ncliainta Aid not fully endorse 'suitrin Ids, course...,' . : ~. '''...,''' . ''. * ' Thus'has tha Demberatin party. ln, Petal- Sylvania stOod-uperi the. question of slavery extension,' and thus' has it stood; particularly in Chest erCoun ty. -, IJerc has Nimrod Strick land stool): Again, I , ,raite the inquiry— . who js is - true who - true:oam the:doctrine of populai soilier . eignty'f' Who is false, and .who true, oplhe question of Southern hg -1 grebsion and; . NO.rthere htirajliationl, Are ' those the trtfe ipen wlio' taie-'#,O'pe t4ionst the extentton of slayeri.VOretc , fOre, nothist the form; oflaw ,and, the, impaises of our ‘..\='''' '' 1 o''t th 'wlo• n 1 . a -- n . state . rus.l pat? \ . I ow- ,b an , where 1114 InvaalWays stood=..-giving to ihe Stiuth:all. they - can :sightfully demand , and clainun" the slime for op rAiVAII pepple I ' (AP , ,e, 11,t u% tolanse;)' , n, this man, pr these men, : have - tbceethelittiop.to - hpow, ; that if they, ..:havo Arostitutid . itlemielv s e4j.-kihtle • bee 4 -at' the be(*ehit 1 044444 power It he or they 'llaVd n6CT)4I - 11,41.q toi:Yvitl4tail .tha=ledue li 14 . °(. 1 50 Y i g ibUlaY Pr l3 o4.bq - attra til i td in re, to ,the, inflonities of their nature, , :than tO uything elap.., •At leash they •will.be able ) ,1.0 p i :: u t a ll e : ) ex: : use_ , I'lnrn,-4.lte..,ixittrtizan, 'W ' .said t ,whers ac c used , "I,have:ltever' atif fe ed royaelftp*.be: polluted; by,etty person .) ' than-a dietnter, 4.01124: or tt•s•cemr," ~....•?°'-' * , - ' EMIR 3 111 GI MI =ME
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