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Q «ANI) BaTIFIOATIPN
Meeting.
EBILLIANT DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS,
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
' PRESIDENT. ‘
JOHN 0. BRECKINRIDGE,
OF KKNTDCKY.
VICaPUBSIDENT,
G ENEB AL J 9 S E"P H L A ,
! OF’ OREGON.
A MASS MEETING
OfthwßeaeerataeflheeityofPhUaaelpWi will be held
IN INpSPFNpKNdE SQUABEf
ON MONDAY EVENING, JULY-8, I 860,;;
TO RATIFY ! '
National Doraopratio Nominations for Prosidont
>.. -, ; Vico Presidont. -- *
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A<l yfco are in Cstot of tfio bravo BRECKINRIDGE
andjiarwit LANK. r . ’
a 1) by th* Constitution and tbo Union, ud
and Boction&ii*m. '
Ail ybo adhoreto tbe ootabliahed. prinoipleo of tho
Dimocrnlic' Party, and nro orp ud to Abolitidoism
and Blscfc RoDDbUoßHism, dissuiiod. -
Atlvboarn la favor of protonring tho Reynlar Or-
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this Grand ,H eJly of the Uncos qttz* M> Dais ocnac y . '
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Bon HBNRY O ' 808 NETT,of KtDtoSkr;
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VOL. 3.—NO. 254.
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MONDAY JULY 2. 1860.
THB PRESIDENTIAL CANVAStS,
Hass Meeting of the Democracy.
INDEPENDENCE' SQUARE CROWDED.
Tfftuty .Tliousuid Democrats iu the Field.
TEE BEGDtIR SOHIISiTIOiV 8 BITIFIED
Speaking from Throe Stands.
TteE WAltB PROCESSIONS.
JUDGE DOUGIAS AT THE GIRARD.
THE MIDNIGHT SERENADE.
lUaHic, Xanterns, and Fireworks.
ELOQUENCE AND ENTHUSIASM.
INCIDENTS OF THE DEMONSTRATION.
» Puranant to an niaßoanoement of the City Demo
oratio Ekeontive Committee, tbo Democracy of the
city of PhUndelphlA assembled at lodepeDdenoe
- Square, on Saturday evening, for the purpose of rati
fying the nominations of tho Baltimore Convention
arrangements Were*of a complelo and thorough
nature,’and 'reflected utaoh credit upon the mem
bers of ’the committee who had the meeting in
charge - At the main stand A range of gas jets had
been erected, extending over the speakers, and
about s bundred feet southward, through'the avc
puo of treei.’ / Tho varibtis ward orgianizatldhs of
U*o'DemoeraCy assembled at an early Lour In the
evening, 1 formed ‘ln : pr'doQSDioni ; and paraded to
the of ! the; dembaitration iu large num
bers, accompanied by lanterns, torches, mualci
flags, end transparenoies. 1 Long before the hour
anDonneed in /the obU there were .two or three
thousand people the main 1 stand, Imme.
opposite the main avenue of exit 1 from the'
State Houle/ When the hour arrived/Mr \Toeh
Caarraett, of the Seventh ward, came for
ward, and called the meeting to order by nomi
nating Hr. pßßDifiics; Stoktbb •as chairman.
In doing so,j he referred to Mi* B. ns A Democrat
old’ In the service. As he has battled fbt Andrew
Jackson,'hi would now battle for Stephen A. Dou-
glas, of Illinois.* [Applause.] - ; r
J SPEECH OF FREDERICK STOEVER.
After the applause Which greeted this announce
ment had subsided, Mr. Btoeykb advanced to the
presidents chair, and Wild:
~ Mr Dkuoobatic Fribndb : I thank you most
profoundly for ' the honor you have conferred on
me/iUMMCtlDgmeasthapicsidiDg ofiieer of this
]»rge,amlgleriou* Demooraiio ratification meeting,
weft knowing the -favor -was sot conferredton me
for my cajpamlity, but far my strict adherence to
bhWavering Democratic principles for upwards of
hglf adeiUury. - This remludi me most ioroibty of
Jiy-gone days, aad scorns a singular ooinoidenoe
u .my lopg life... On this hallowed ludepen*
deuce groundj thirty-aix yean ago, the true Demo
cracy bf. the oity 'amd county of Philadelphia,
theugbt ’ proper to place me in a similar situation
as ch-tlrman. of one of the first organized Jackson
meetings. 3 - Then, as now, the true Demooraov re
sisted tho diotatlos of oorropt canons and omoe-,
holders, and rallied to the support of the immortal
name of Andrew Jackson, [great applAuse.j and
although elected,by the voice of the people, yet by.
thd fraud and corruption of political managers, our
candidate .was .set aside, and. John Q. Adams
elected; by Congress, President But in 182 S, as in
J 832, the indomitable Democracy swept over the
United States, for the sake of the Union, and piaeed
the old’tana in the -ohair of State. [Cheers ]
Bo cow' I hope and trust that the Demo
cracy of the present thy will come la their might,
and place’a' Democrat worthy ot Andrew JaCk
eon, Stephen A Douglas, in the seme ohuir us Pre
sident of the United Suites. [iVeiaendous cheer
jog ) l For it Is my oandid opinion that wo need
now, as then, the . courage, the seal, and the same
'devotion to the Union that characterized the hero
of Hew: Orleans; to preserve ns as a nation from
sectional strita- and divisions. Let me also assure
yoa that, in thy soleinn judgment, the contest now
is between Douglas and Lincoln; between the. true
Deiuooracy r 'On the one side; nnd black Republi
canism on the'other; and every vote cast lor
Breckloridge dr Bell, will, In fact, he oast for the
Abolition party. Wfc have always upheld the just
claims .of tho South, and we always will; but let
them beware how .they form new alliances, and ae
parato themselves from their true friends who
would have stood''as a wall of fire between them
mid their antagonists in the day of trial. [Cheers ]
| Thanking-you: again for your kinknees, I will
conclude with the earnest hope that Stephen A.
Dovglmß may find the Democracy as true, as brave,
.and as snocessfuras they Were In 1823. [Applause.]
- The following Hat of officers w* 8 { hen r«»d by
Mr' John Campbell, and the gentlemen named
were unanimously elected:
, VICE PREBIDXIITS.
Horn K-XneaW Tho*. Goran,' NleholaaWalali,
Semi. **t*veß*oiit‘ John J.'Sperry, : OporseW. Jones,
** mum L. Hirst, Ldward Dunn, , Wnu N. Ki^s,
Jltal. Dougherty] John Drake, James hjagee,
oho / ,P. WoMaau*,- Robert Dfe*>u.
J. J. Gresnfield, Arnold* , John D. Hnzell.
Ja*.McCl-Uey, Jbs.H. W; Uon, Ttioroa* Dillon,
Kdward C Cliaa. R. Able, . John Ke fh.
Wm. tiarreant, l.«b .M. Lo^an,
Charles B own, Matthew Carr, John B. Makiu,
A. V. Parsons, , Rioli&id yauz* John '•'6o,
win A. KdwardsJi-borye-B‘Bloat, Wm. BekhftW,
Aid.J. lf.Mfttohorßdwin.forrest, 'ArthurFairon.
Wm._.Lehman,.win. Bredlhtd., H.al.Uf chert,
JohnßrLouthlm, Jbs. ArrostronK'* John C. Kel er, •
w»u. K-msi. s L.
Janies Wade, JtobertT. Carter, John WoQ.uaid,
umofhy Mealfi \KdwvWartmsn. John»’ttnen,
|5. D. Clear?, Jm. D. Campbell, .Wm, Vanosten,
Wra.Tarior, , John rt. Lever KW. Power,
John H.TwMt. Benj.F. W jght. Wm.Lwman.
Jos Hnntker* Ads.*ambeu. Oweo BonoDne.
Wm/Wrisht, ' John C. Hoff, • J.‘ P. Wirbtrnan,
John M. Biakel, Autiioat Leckler, James Bojd.
Wm* Moreau- James Pollard, Daniel ,isham,
wSr.fehfibel, JorhnaT.'OweUl John Qolpii.
F. McCdrniiek, .John «. Fnok, ; .Cornelius Maker,,
Geo! R/Bernll* Wm. Hopkins,; George Hoff,
Christian W right, hd-T. Jones, - Wm. jtotoon,
Oliver Bvans. F. W. Kerrigan. George h*egse,
Jss.FMspatrlok,' Albert Lawrence, Wm. h. Fljtoraft,
robt-C. Brodie, Alfred T. Joms, Geo. W-j&riler.
Jts. B. Nicholson, Wm. Conn,, « Oeo, G. Thomas,
B. Pprunsk, Ja t-e* Martin, Arthur Hughes,
ieratah Murray d.S. Werthman, John K. Gambo,
Geor*e L.Jierr. Fr<d Geirier. Benjamin Aien,
Dominick ToreT, birphen Taylor, Tho*. Brookes
John B, Lemen, Oeo. W. Thorn, D. W. Heppaul,
~ SECRrTABIKS.
Jos. E. Hsckett, Fdsr. Gallagher Michael MoArdle,
John J. Atunsuie, Rot*; Anus rong,, Ohaa. Jester,
A-J, Diamobd, S. Vansja»or n» K. K. Hehnbod.
Francis Aiken, > a Golds mih, TUos, MoCrucJdrn,
Cb»* Kolb, F. A Va oleave,
•Win. Walton.' John fi adley', • Oscar Pa any,
Chas Peters, • , M A* Harrington, Luke Koe^nn,
jistMisa.%.«
/j h<MLo;Keefe, John McFaull. Fierce Archer,
'A-TweiUey. , JVtwughc/tKJr., Wm. a Gorman,
John Mulho iaud, Wm.Bsraes, John Bobbins, rv,
James Ker, >l, TTjst*n, Reojamm Wngat,
JiihoOTlirne', Joseph Beecher. Wo-, Christy.
A. F X OaHMhir.geo. dJioemafcer, Fraukl n Jones,
Jas. Jionneily, Wm. J. I>. WoKoe B, Comegy*.
J SPEECH OP HORN li.KNEASS, ESQ.
Hour lit Kusabs, Esq , of Philadelphia, was In
troduced as the first speaker, and waa received with
warm applause. He laid:'
l am glad, my friends, to see present on this oc
casion our experienced and venerable friend who
presides uver this yast assemblage. Although mj
self yoixtig At (bo time, I can well remember some
of the Scene* Id which that gentleman participated
In 1824, in 1828, and in 1832. He was one of tie
staunch Jackson men, who stood by the old hero of
Bew Orleans amid all bis trials [cheers], and as
sisted In bringing about (bat great result, wblob
redounded so muon fo the harmony, the pence, and
the gloTy of one country. When I see my friend,
who sits beside ■ me, l am rermodcd of. those.- days,
wben.Gep. Jookeon, tabooed and proscribed by the
politicians of the day, won the sympathies Of the
! Aineriethpebple, whp carried bim to the Ryeontivo
obaitV atbld the applause of the entire Union.
[Cheer*] -
■ , JPe.atf here 10-uigbt, my friends, to ratify the
nominations which have been made at B/tUiinore.
We meet ty ratify the nomination of Stephen A
HbUgldsfcrtbe Presidenoy of the United States
[Enthusiastic applause j We are here as Demo
cratic eitisens, to perform thaM«ty;and It is to
me, u I believe It is .to you, an agreeable as well
as a peremptory duty. The Democracy of the
Untoh thought proper*, in conformity with their
Sroetiee, to send delegates to meet in National
onvention at Charleston. They met; they adopted
g platforarrbnt owing to a want - of harmony, and
a secession on the part of some delegates, it was
deemed best by that Contention to adjourn to meet
onthr : lBth of June, at Baltimore. Before the
adjournment, aresolationwas adopted recommend*
Ini to the States in whose delegations there were
vacant shata* to supply, those seats upon the reag*
semblihf of the, Convention., When the Oonyen-
Ren met at Baltimore, claimant* presented them
eWetfo? (he'seata which had been'made vdeant at
I Charleston/- According to usage those claims
| w eta submitted to the appropriate committee, the
Committee on Credentials—thecommittee on whom
had Tina Imposed ai Oharlestdn the important
daty of adjudicating l those questions. They de
liberated ;>ih*y made Ih<ir report; that report
wai adopted by the; Convention* and became its
act. Then the balloting for a Presidential can
dtdate was proceeded with, and after mature de
liberation ey v the members of that Convention,
thelr wiedou, their patriotism, told them that the
man for thccriaii, t£* mao for the people, the m&o
to subserve the best interests of our wide spread
Union, wssStephen A. poug|«,*_of Illinois [Groat
ib/. friend*,' the' nomination. hating" been
paade, Itseemtf to me H becomes the duty of Demo
brail'at ofiee cordially and actively to acquiesce in
St; 7 . [‘‘Tod era right l”J. ;PermyeeW, Ib.oli it to
bf which no, one can
calotay, tnatyrnSU a man 'msy, before the pozni
sating Convention''has' dohbifaiworfe, entertain a,
zrre(erenee for any'parUcnlSf eSftdldate. vet when
fßdndtnioattohhM beentosde*Wheothe assembled
wfrdus haaput forth a man for
ttheeepport those assembled
Iri iV-v.l V»*:
. Tv -'! f'-'J,'.
representatives, there is but one duty to porform,
add that is to saorlfioe all individual preferences
upon tho altar of the. common good., [Applause j
That, it seems to me, is Democratic dootrine. It
la adherence to this prlnoiple that has made tho
Democratic party what it is. . It is .this that has
given success to our efforts, and has placed in the
Executive, chair every. Democratic President that
has graced ft—-aye, even the distinguished states
man from Pennsylvania, who now occupies the po
sition of President. .[Laughter.] Evenbe’wasput
there by the devotion of the Democratic citizens of
the country 1 to the organisation of the party.
! That Convention having, by its majority, put
forth the nomination, I hold it to' be a daty impe
rative upon us to support that nomination, and en
deavor to seoure for it victory at the polls by .our
united and determined. exertions. Suoh devotion
will, I hope, be manifested by the Demooraoy as to
secure that glorious result.
There is one feature in the proceedings of that
Convention to which X beg leave to call your atten
tion. There were upon the floor of that Conven
tion fifty four dolegstss from Pennsylvania, repre
senting,-in a regular way, the entire Demooraoy of
our Commonwealth. Throughout the sessions of
the Convention, ail those delegatoi, either by ac
tive participation, or by silenoe, acquiesced in and
eadorsed tho proceedings of that body. It may
be that, after the Convention adjourned, some four
of the delegates thought proper to go to a secodera’
meeting. 1 take it for granted that they did; I
will even suppose that those four left before the
Convention adjourned.' Btii), those fifty delegates
that remained, representing the Detnocrsoy of this
Obmmonwohlth, pledged themselves, eitherby their
voice or by their silence, as all honorable taen
weald havo done, to support the nominations thoro
made. Thor being your representatives, you, as
their,constituents, are bound bytheiroots. It la
v&ia; then, to say that the Demooraoy of Pennsyl
vania should' now hesitate, should now deliberate.
The worksbas been done, tne act-has been commit
ted, the nomination has been made, and it now ia
oiir duty as Democrats to oome up and do that
wbiob our country oxpoots at our hands. [Ap
plause.] - L
!We desire, of course, union and harmony, with a
view to success It does seem that tome of our
Demoor&tio brethren have been led into error. It
ia to be hoped that time, whiohoures almost every
thing, will bring about a change in their resolves
The ‘‘sober seoond thought, *’ wbiob is generally
happy when it comes to Democratic citizens, will,
i hope,.come to our frionds who now differ with us
in Sentiment Then, when they jom with us, as I
trust they will, we shall have harmony a ud peace;
we shall Work shoulder-to shoulder in tho good
cause, and success will surely bo awarded to us
* ,We must bear In mind opr duty to our party and
toourcountry. The stake is great. We Gybt a com
mon foo. The man whom your own Douglas has
defeated in many a hard-fought battle [loud &p.-
plausej- the man who has dared, upon Illinois soil,
to attempt U compete with your own Douglas, is
now before you, the type asd.the representative of:
antagonisticto tie I emooraey. Shall
that antsconlstla doctrine prevail in tho elevation
of ‘‘Abe Lincoln” to tho Presidential ohair, [“ No;
never!”] or will you secure the triumpb of Demo
cratic principles by. the election of Stephen A.
Uouglan to the Presidency of tho nation ? [“ ?es,
we, will; you may rely on that/* and long-oeuti
nped applause.]
. .At the conclusion of Mr. Kneags’ remarks there
wjero loud ories for “Marshall.’* In response to
these calls, the President next introduced to the
multitude Hon. E 0. Mabsball, of California,
who was received with three oheers.
BPEEOH OF HON. E. 0. MARSHALL, OF
CALIFORNIA.
Fellow-citjzi*6: There isnorostnim in all this
world from which devolves so heavy a responsibili
ty upon the speaker and the audlenoe as that be
fore which you now stand and watch L now occupy.
Eighty'four years ago, from oat the very window
under which this stand is erected, the very air
whioh now we breathe vibrated and bore into eter
nity the must significant, momentous, and tremen
dous declaration to which the human heart end
mortal interests have ever responded. The l eola
ration of Independence was rea<Tirfgbty-four years
ago from the very window of this building before
whioh we now stand Here, to-day, alter a euo
eessiul experiment of nearly a century, the gr*at
popular legislature, the last, ultimate depository i
of power, meets again in times well nigh as dark I
ana dangerous as those, to ooneult and again to save
the interests of this nation and of human liberty
and human rights throughout tho world. [Ap
pUuße.j
lit was once remarked by a FreDobmoD, whoso
patriotism was, perhaps, equal to his piety, that
although Providence could no doubt manage the
affairs of tho. world without the intervention of the
Fjrenoh nation, yet Providence hod nover chosen,
somehow or other, to do so. > .1 aayrefereotly that
doubtless Providence could have conducted and
might oonduot tho 1 affairs of this great American
pfaople, without the Democratic party; hue it does
sq happen that PruVidenoe never has chosen to do
that thing yet. [Laughter and appltmso ] And £
believe that the same power,'tho same agenoy, Is
not exhausted, outworn, or d (parting from its an
cient principles, but is pnrsu:og directly onward
the same Uoe whjoh it has ever, from the founda
tion of tho*Government,-parsued ; is destined now,
in the sober second, thought, with deliberate reason,
.thecalm and' rational approbation of the thinking
masses of the people, still to govern this nation;
still to control its poiioy, still to conserve the Go
vernment and the Union, Will tbnt Democratic
party whioh has resisted all encroachments from
.without, and all rebellions, more dangerous thin
that whioh now threaten it, from within—is that
organisation going to fall before faoilons which are
purely and, .simply sectional—before whioh the
Federal party fell, the Know Nothing, and tho glo
rious, powerful, and time-honored Whig party
fell—is that parly whioh has resisted, conquered,
and controlled everything, so far, national in its
character and pure in its principles, to fall before
this thrice aooureed eootlonal heresy ! [Cries of
M never,” and long continued cheers-j It is true,
that banded against us are the madmen and the
interested partisans of the North; it is true, that
against, us. are banded . madmen and inte
rested'aspirants of the South; but calmly,and
steadily, us tbo Great Eastern in a heavy sea moves
thoroughly-'pOised and is able to meet the storm in
its very wildest humor*, so this wall-tried veteel
of Democracy moves boidy onward- [Applause. |
Gentlemen, 1 am not here to-nlghc for the pur
pose of arguing the only principle whioh is in issue
between the parties. The question is narrowed !
down to a single issue. I am not here for the pur
pose of arguing that.' I am here rnuinly for another
purpose. I oave been announced as hailing from
California. [Throe oheera were proposed and given
for California ] I h&vo represented that State lu
part upon (he boor of Congress. I pretend to know
the heart and the sentiment of that State qb welt
er better than any man now living. [Applause-]
If thore bo in this crowd, & giugle Californian, he
will tell you that be has been in the habit of hear
ing me lor the last ten years, and he will endorse
me when I say that £ do kndw what those people
think. I do know, from the sympathy of my own
heart how these people feel and 1 will toll you
what thoso Californians are going to do. They
are going tv gain as great a triumph now for
Douglas as they gained against all the banded fac
tions in, the last eleotiou ior .wbat they, then con
sidered tbe true Democracy of the country
f Applause 1 And I have another thing to tell you.
Ajinoogh X was introduced as coming from Califor
nia, £ have sot lived there for a good while. I was
born in the State of Kentucky, about seven miles
from where Ur. John C. Breckinridge was born,
and i havo lived there for the last four years All
tbe property and interest I have upon the face of
the earth are thero now—wifo, children, and land—
and I wish to God £ bed some more negroes than
£ have got. [Laughter.] Born and raised thero.
and llviug there now, I pretenu to know something
of the sentiment of that State. 1 pledge you my
word of honor that £ do not speak like a politician,
because this is not a time for politic! ms. If ever,
in God's world, a man ought to tell the truth, now
is the time to tell it. i tell you that the State of
Kentucky will go one of two,ways, and t do not
know which [daughter j it is no- going one of
tnree ways—there Is no three Ways about it. Ken
tucky is an old fashioned, old-line, honest, Independ
ent Whig State That is what Kentucky if*—Whig
to tbo backbone, and if she has given Democratic
votes, it has been bcoanse the seotlonai parties
whioh have been croated in this oountry have left
her no other oholoo. The State of Kentucky hue
r gone Democratic, not because she either loved
Demooratio leaders or Demooratlo policy, or
has abjured or taken* bank in any degree tbo
principles of the Whig party. Bat £ say that Ken
tucky is going to do one of two things—either she
is going for Bell and Kverett or for Stephen A.
Douglas [Long*oontmued oheering.] I tell you
that on a grassy mound, hear the city of Lexing
ton, in Kentucky, and hear the farm of Ashland,
rises a marble monument, and upon the top Oflt'ls
ono of tbe noblest banian fljguros that ever towored
among mankind The artiut’e cunning baud has
stamped upon the Barian marble the wagnifioent
lineaments -of that Olympian head, which, whilst
it had brain and life, was always engaged in a
strife against sectionalism North and Suuth And
while Mr. Olay’s monument stands np>m that bill,
while that marble hand remains ontetrotobod over
those Kentucky people he loved so well, thoy will
follow no new leader, and no false lights away
from' the doctrine of popular sovereignty wbiob,
with his parting brestn, and in tho last hours of
his vitality, he so nobly and magnificently illustra
ted and defended in tho Senate of tho Halted
States. (Applause.] Why, Qod bless my bo pi, I
will put Mr. Olay’i marble effigy against a lire Mr.
Yanoey any day in tho year. [Renewed cheering
and laughing ]
Well, i Buppoo I ', there are about forty more
people to follow me, and alj as full of entbusiann
as 1 am, and all having a great deal to say, I ought
to stop, and I have a notion of doing it [Cries oc
“gDO»’."J Butt do not feel as if a Dernoorfttio
speech wer© complete, or even begun, without two
things, and I will do them both as quiokiy as ever I
dan. First, to deal an honest, good, workmanlike
and woodtnanlike blow at that infernal and de
structive npas tree, whioh, growing up In: tbia
Northers coantry, has overshadowed everything
beneath. I mean the Republican party. Within
its shadow can grow no healthy vegetation, and I
whnt to secrit struck at through bark-and rind and
heart,*eo that the country shall resound with the
shookof its downfall. (Great applause,J And. gen
tlemen, it has got to come down. [Renewed cheer
ing] , ;
- And there is another upas-tree, and the two put
together are too muoh for any eontbeut or any peo
ple, I think that the re?peots of every Demoaratij
speaker ought to be paid, transiently, to the Dis
union movements of ultra Southern men. I am
from the South, And every pulsation of my heart is
attuned to the rationul Interests of the Boiitb. J'lo
map can love that country better; bat, when thoso
goutjkmep demand that we shall establish as doc
trines of tho Democratic party dootrlnes which
they themselves, and I with them, repudiated for
years—doctrines whtoh involve the absolute neces
sity of defeat, apd of-party-and psrfopal
diebonor-r-I-connot-.-go wi'h them. (Load and con
tinued pbeering.] - lu ibe year 1848, the men who
aro-aw'- the- leaders of/tpe Secession movement
gttejpjiUd the same jpoyement Eve
rybody who. is a wading' ,maa» or hearing
maD, o tight to be famlHarwith that fact/ 'Yatioey
and that crowd, during the fight oh the Gompro
mlse measures of 1650, wbendeo'rines whlchrfcavo
been Democratic doctrines in & continuous and-un*
broken stream from thatyehi untllnotf were advo-
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1860.
oatocL protested against them, and went home,
raised the tone before the people and were beaten to
death. They have now modified, or pretended to
modify, thoir position. They took plaoe in Demo
cratic Conventions; and yet this man, Mr.. Yancey
for one, has not. supported & Demooratlo President
the last twelve years. They did, before the
people, sufficiently modify their extreme proposi
tions so as to get plaoe in National Conventions;
nnt their repentance was false, hollow, inslooere.
Their scheme of secession from the Convention, and
thejr scheme of ultimate secession from the Uriha
by the States they represent, has been consistently,
and oontlnualJy, and energetically followed by tha
whole of that party who' have now got the lead' oi
that Southern wing. They promised to behave,
well enough, but they will not do it. You can
never trust them in nowerVfor a moment. They
remind mo of nn Inshmairil do not mean any
djsrespeot to the Irish peoplo. \fhere was an Irish*
man, and it was an extraordinary thing, bat he
was fond of drinking a power oTwhisky. [Laugh
ter! It waain ihedayaof Pathor Mathew, and bis
family and friends exerted thomselves to the utmost
to got him to reform. Ho had a real conscientious
attachment to this fluid. He swore positively that
he would quit, but ho would quit for a little while'
nnd then he would bo "in again. Atlast they came
to him and told him that one of his near neighbors,
who was addicted to the consumption of the same
fluid, had, ono day, in tho aot of blowing out a
oandlo, put it too near his mouth, and tho whole of
the juices nnd gases 0/ his system having become
so saturated with this inflammable fluid, he wont off
and was burnt up like a toper. He
saif Nrtiod’ssako brlngbim a Bible. ABiblowaa
brought, and, laying his band upon it, ho said: “ I
do solemnly swear that so long as t live I never
will blow out a oandle. [Laughter ]
Well, you soe that on this thing which the Are
oator* emsume five or six hours in discussing, I
have only taken flvo or six minute?. But 1 will
pßy my raspeots to tho Abolition party. ’Jhlais a
fact which my moderate Black Republican friends
ought to cherish and remember; there are some
who love tho Union and the Constitution, but
tho old-fashioned, braas-mountod Abolitionists
aro, beyond all question, tho real motive
power of tbo Blaok republican party. Without
them it would be nothing that it is. What are
their doctrines? What aro the doctrines which
they have‘compelled their modorato leaders to
avow ? Are they merely to cheok slavery andfenoe
it in with the fence-rails that Old Abe Linooln spit?
On tho contrary, has not_ Lincoln declar d that a
house divided against itself—meaning a nation
composed of free andslsvo States—cannot stand,
that it must bo all one thing or the other? Does
not the declaration ikdt slavery oball be confined
to its present limits show that these men have'been
coorood by the superior onorgy of the Abolitionists?
Look at Mr Seward’s remark. Those, he says,
who feoliovo that this 13 a contest whioh can be
easily settled, aro' deceived, and do not under
stand'the subject; it io an irrepressible conflict
between opposing and endaring forces. What
did bo fiay mat i«r? I will t«*l! yon. It was
because In the State,of New York the .Aboli
tion party threatened tosot up this man —I forget
his name, but ho is the man who was sent to
a lunatio asyiuai—r mean ’ Gerrltt Smith. In
order to keep (Jerrlt Smith from breaking the
ranks end destroying everything Mr. Seward
madp his fcookester speooh, In which he announced
tho Abolition doctrine I have quoted. That is so,
and so it will be. But those men in power, and I
tell you that thoy Cannqtstop If they wanted- They,
will be driven forward by an impulse over which
they or any human power can have no control.
You might as well attempt to stop a locomotive
upon a down grade driven by a drunk«n engineer,
as to attempt to stop these men. [Laughter ana
appl&usej Onoe give them the (minority and the
Federal Government, let them hut have the power
to use tho proverbial iasoleuoe of office, aod I tell
you that John Brown raids and outrages of. every
species will germinated from their abuse' of
powor, as surely as maggots aro engendered by
the sun from the carcass of a dead dog. [Laugh
ter and applaußo j
Gentleman, \ h*veraademy remarks desultory on
purpose; I hare me.’aly jjjcuoed cursorily at a very
few of tho topics which ought to ha disposed ; but
I propose, If f live, to taho tbe audience of fthila
dolphin, apd the audiences of Pennsylvania gene
rally, in broken doses botweon, this and tho elec
tion. I propose to d a > it wbpa-we have more time,
more patience, and more strength than now. £
thank you lor having listened to mo bo long I hope
you will not repent tho time I have occupied when
you Helen to the (< chained lightning” from tbo
gontlem&n who will follow me.
At the conclusion of Mr. Marshall's speech he
was givon three oheora and a tiger.
Hod. Ahi'RF.w b. Burrow, of Louisiana, one of
tho leaders of tbo National Union Democracy of
Louisiana, was next introduced. He was greeted
with loud ohsers.
SPEECH OF THE HON. A. S. HERRON, OF
LOUISIANA.
Hon. A. S. Herron, of Louisiana, was nest in*
troduced to the audionoe and was received with
applause. He said:
Fblluw-Cituekb ; I assure you that it is with
intense satisfaction upon this oooaslon and in this
place, consecrated by so many memories that ure
cfaar to us, and with all tho reminiscences of the past
clustering and crowding around as, that X arise to
add my feeble voice to yuuw'in hearty approval
und cordial endorsement of the nominations made
at Baltimore \ Applause, “ Hurrah for Douglas V'].
Proud of our- candidates, and prouder still of the
glorious party and*principles of which they aro the
very embodiment and representatives,. we throw
our national colors to the breeze, propared to do
battle against all and every opponent, come be frorp
the*North or tho South. That’s the talk,” RDd .
■cheora } Yea, prepared alike to w«sjre war against
Southern gecesbion and disunion and Northern fana
ticism and Abolitionism. [Afplauae j
Follow-citizeno, why Is ii that after*the nomina
tions at Baltimore there is not one voice of aceord
risiug from tho Douiooratio ranks from Maine to
Alabama? Why is it that there aro seceders from
our, ranks? Why is it that the men who have
been promoted to high office, and who have reaped
the Towards duo to parly services—who have been
honored, yes, honored and honored over again by
tbe Democratic party, are now rebels from the
oauip ? How can wo explain tbolr defection ? Are
wo to be told that thetso gentlemen seriously and
deliberately quit the Democratic ranks because,
forsooth, tbo Convention at Charleston adopted
that platform, which in ]Brui was accepted by the
South, us well as by the North) us the very best
platform which bad ever beea given to the Demo*
cratio party? [Applause] Are wo to be, told
(bat these gentlemen aro now willing, in their
anxiety to protect and buvo the rights of
the South, to break up the Democratic party,
rather than subscribe to those doctrines whiob
we of the South in 1864 and 1856 held to bo univer
sally right? Or are we to be told that when those
delegates from tho old State of Virginia, from
Maryland, from North Carolina, and from other
States, seceded from the Baltimore Convention,
their deliberate purpose was to break up the Con
vention and tbo Demooratio-party, beoause one set
or another set of delegates had been received from
different States? Are we simply t* be told that
those gentlemen wero acting from the motives that
originally Jay at the bottom of this rebellion when
they seoedi-d upon' thceo light and frivolous
grounds? It cannot bo eo. We must look more
closely ok what they did. In order t« dlacovor (he
true motives which actuated most, if not all, of
these delegates. Do not understand me as casting
oepsnre upon them all; do not understand me ns
imputing wrong motives to all of them; but by the
history of the times, by their own conduct,
and the cooduot of tho leaders of this revolt
tion or rebellion in the Democratic party,
shall they b* judged. (“You aro right, ” and .ap
plause ] '»he lender —yes, tbe loader par fiTecMcrue
cf tho seceding movement nt Charleston, tho
guiding spirit wbo has raised this storm but who,
I think, will be unahlo to ride it—Yancey, of Ala
bama, has outDUMV'irred thun all; and, 1 bcllevo,
whether it was his intention or not at tho begin
ning. that ha now thinks ho has almost succeeded
in doing what he dt sired to do .two years eg»
And what was that? Ife is rtengnized as the
leader and tho guiding spirit of this movement,
now, end it l-t proper that we should know what !
his position was then Did he stand side by side 1
with tho rank and die ot the Democracy, fighting
their battlrs, and tho battles of the country ? The
question la bast answered bv a letter he then ;pub
lished, in whloh he spoko of oleaning out tho De«
mociatio party as cleaning an Augean stable,
and, alluding to the protection of bouthorn rights,
distinctly d'dared that “no national party can
do it (protect Southern rights); no seodonal
party can do it; vro must, in inUAtiou
of our fathor’g of tbo Revolution, organize
committees of safety, and by this means we will bo
able to fire the Southern heart, inßtruot tho South*
om mind, And, at tbo proper momently one con
certed notion, we will preoipifato tbe cotton States
into revolution. There are the sentiments and
tbo words of Mr Yanoey, the leader of tbe Seces
sion movement ot Charlmton. Aro you. Pennsyl
' vanians, prepored to follow in tjie wake of one
whose dearly cherished object has been to precipi
tate a portion of tho South Into rebellion end revo
lution for tbo purple of bringing about a disunion
of these States ? [Orlesof “No,” “Never,” and
applause. |
Fellow-cltizonß, on the other hnnd, thero is
another sectional party, whoso objects and whoso
nuns are I sincerely believe, ns fraught wi»h evil
and danger to the Union as are those of the Southorn
Seoeders It matters not whother tho objects they
aim at are direct and immediate revolution, so
cePsloD, and disunion, the tendencies aro, and the
results will, In nil human probability, be jaet tho
same ns If the Southern secession movement were
to prevail. In cither ooso wo are threatened with
disunion, and in elthor onso this glorhue Confede
racy of ours, whloh is calculated to do so much
good for Us own citizens, which already possesses
fo much power nt home and commands so muoh ro
ppect abroad. will be f-bivorrd into atoms (Voices,
*< Wo are the mediators.” “ Douglas will gave tbe
Union ” Three cheers for Dougins ] The Consti
tution of the Union, after a long. roTioitous, and
anxious debate, was finally adopted by & compro
mise on the part of the North and a compromise on
the part of the South Ttiere was no compromise
of pnnoiplesorofdearlycberiehed rights by either
side, but there was a compromlscof opinions The
framers of tbAt instrument met on a common; na
tional platform, and, for the good of their common
country, sacrificed their Individual opinions, nnd
raised an oltur bofore which we nil can worship.
[Cheers j Combining nil these elements, though
in an hnmbler point of view, now stands tbe real,
true petnoorailo party. It. oconpies tho ground
now wblbb thofathersof thecountry occupied fbou
Our leaders advocate tho same doctrines North and
South. They tell you that thero is no reuenn
you should not urge the same opinions as dogmas
and dnntilnes of the common party in Louisiana, os
yon ndyocato ip Pennsylvania. In tho dlscovory,
or !h tho ppUlng Into force, so far as the slavery
question is l conoerned. the doctrine of non-inter
vention, a panacea was found for all tho evils which
had threatened thocMintryforyears. [Choers.l The
docirJno of non intervention, which you in Penn
sylvania can endorse, as well as wo In Louisiana, is
simply the doctrine of self government This
principle lies at the very foundation of oar Govern
ment ; it called forth tho Declaration of Independ
ence ; our Constitution wasbnsed upon it, and it gives
tn tbe people of tbe Territories tho right to govern
themselves, sofar as/domoatic relations aro con
cerned, In their own way, subject only to tho Con
stitution of the United States. What objeotlon
ean PennsylTanU; uMn to the 'operation of this
principle? What directinterest Id it to you
whether thapeopto.te'New Mexico have slavery
?£ n . is : business, unless you go
there. And to sMn the‘South what matters it
whether the peoplo ofNebraska, or Oregon, or any
Northern Territory,or State, have slavery or hot?
ji 9 no P® of orif business. j[“ Yoa are right!’*
ahdappUoaeJ .’lt IS » matter for the people who
reside in those territories afad States to determine
for themselves, aad u U only subject to their do
o*Bio®‘ " slavery Is hwieotod in the »TerrltoHes
by the ConstitdtieU, the 'Democratic party. Cannot
deprive the;people who ohooeeto take sieves there!
or their right to do do: It til anuestion for the peopt*
aod v theebt,irtB and when thboourts hare
?**! ? d «Q»d»d ,lt; every- man North and South; if
h<l is A good in-submission >to the
decree of the-pimfiritanaL (OheerS'] Can we,
foj a moment JMjstfa that'the simple enunciation,
the simple-fwmljta'.apd reaffirmation of this
doctrine, Sanctioned by the Demo
cratic pariy in 1854, .and
again endorsed;:'and-.made*-a portion of the:
platform in tho-,cause of .the with
drawal of from tho. Charles
ton and Daltimoyo CoWefationsV iWhot prin
oimo of- thfr.jparty cjia they 'show was then vio
lated, as an Ncjouio for their action? What
sensible mao’ob % thero'who believes, decide this
question as you wmahat It wttCH&er-ijje status*!
a Bingle AfrlojpsrOttv&m continent*? Tr-is nn ath
stract qaesUnbj WiteoaV-feeaning and witbodt'slg
nifioanoe; It diaastronslv-is*
the South Norm. Thon,
why should we - -disorganize; the’- Democratic
party? Why* should we 1 War asunder - those"
ligaments which ■' Xikve bound us together as
with hooks
interest and bavo*'ma3b the Dowo/
cratio party tho tufwWtKHestifeies of ibis Coun
try for almost a flentur|? f:, W%y>ehtfcld wo forsake"
tho party now ltfto tho'
hands of a SefttiontoArtyVCfthor -Worth or South,
whlob could adminteur it for four Vtwte, and keep
peaco in th* Undl‘nV|paM-*lt'ba right to do so,
unless some real bgurjrwirild result frotn’tho tri
umph of our partf tand Iprinciples'?- 1 Unless
-there was soma jirifipiple involved Whidtf, although
It appeared an nbatfactWaeStiour dYpTesent, would
In tho future be'uquostWnofvast'l&tpdrfc- to the
country ? In that Jltrenfc'w* might give- up even
for an ftbstracttott.rrbut, wHert therO'is no poesi
bllity that oan -affect tho rights or in
terests of any portion of tho Confederacy, I ask
in the npmehf'God, domen try to destroy
this great party *ud thus bring disaster and rain
upon the country?*- / i ■ - ' ■
Fellow-citizens i We *ave nominated atiokotat
Baltimore pledged to harry out tho doctrines of the
Democratic party. proclaimed no.new
doctrines; wo taue no innovations or interpo
lations in the Democratic creed.. Our candidates
Iged to dl what our CftndidatM in 18&6 were
Stodo; yes. whhe bathes Bacbahftn, tho
□t of tfae;l;nited 'States, notonly agreed to
.dp by accepting tho ( -nomisatioh,-but what "ho
agreed to do in the most clear and explfoit terms
In his commentaries on'the'Cincinnati-platform:
Not only did Mr. Bufehanan'etidottfb.thesp princi
ples, but so all* dld-Mr. ’Breokjnrfdgo, the Vice
President.- John 0 ''JJreokinrldgo,' in-1854, in dis
cussing the Katisse-RdbraekabUl, stated tho ques
tion distinctly -and ticequivobally. He then said:
“ You. gentlemen oLt&e South', or a portion of you,
contend that the Territorial Legislature has no
power to prohibit Slavery, and yoa contend that
it should beprotefited; you,gentlemen, from tho
North, contend that the Territorial Legislature has
the power to prohibit Slavery; bat we both agree that
it Is not a proper, qtfWtfon for Congress to droide,
or is It a prtfpor question for a Democratic Con
vention to decide. - We all agree that it is & ques
tion proper for tbe bourts, and for the oourts only,
to decide.” [Applause.] GonMemen, this ques
tion is the dnly question upon which Mr. Breokin
ridge now pretends to differ with the Democratic
party, and upon which he is 'attempting to destroy
it, and yet he has admitted that it was aqueetion for
the courts, and not- for Conventions, to deoide
[“ He is a Jeretoy Djddler ” Hisses for Brookin
rldgo. ] It is assumed by tho Secessionists that this
question has already been settled by tho Supreme
Qoprt. We say n«-; it has not been deoldod, be
cause it has never hewn brought before'the oourt
fof argumoot or decision, and it is a • well-reoog
nized and nanctionedkjootrine all over the country,
that no oourt can decide a question which has
never been brought before it for its decision.
[A largo delegation with transparencies hereon
tend tho Square, precoded by a fine baud of znu'io.
They were reoeived as only Democrats can reoe}vp
Democrats, and tbe shout that went up fairly made
old Independence Hall shake After the enthusi
asm of toe crowd bad somewhat subsided,
How. Charixb Broww said: Fellow-citizens—
I desire, before Mr. Herron resumes hia speech, to
read you the following despatoh whtohhas just been
received from Wilmington:
... , ‘‘Wu.MtxoxoN, June 30.1800,-
9 o'clock, o trntml**.
To tho I’residont oT tho Bamoonitio Meeting m Imle
peortenoef-QU’ro.
Mr. Uoujl’ n is in the cars. He had a tremendous re
ception core by las frioacss. J. D. Uaaso. M
Throe times throe cheers wore' hero given for
Douglas, and throe ohoors for the Demooraov of
Wilmington J
Mr. flsßitox resuming. 1 Fellow-oltizeDs—A
few words more end I will oonolude. I have al
rpady upon yonr time long enough ;
and) besides, tuy voice is failing mo from the
Immense effort ft has repaired to make myself
heard by even a portion or this vast assemblage.
[Cries of ** Go on,” “goon ”] When interrupted
by the entrance of opr friends, I was upon the
question of the doctrine of popular sovereignty in
the Territories by the courts, and with one single
remark, I nil) oonolodo that branoh of the sub*
jeot. I say that the courts have not deolded that
question. In the opinion of the mass of tho North- 1
ern Democracy, and of an Immense nnmbor of men
In tbo South, 1b« question stands now exactly
whore it did in 1856, and in 185-1, when John C
Breckinridge, the candidate of the rebellious fro*
tion of the Democracy, made a speech. [Cheers] I
say rebellions fro Mon because they arc nothing elso.
[Cries of “ That’sfo; M “Good, good,”and oheers.l
They have no claim to nationality. [Applause.]
They have violated the usages of the Democratic
party, and have bolted a Convention wbloh oven
after the secession df this faction represented over
two third** of the electoral college by Its delegates,
nod showod that It was strong enough to eleot
Stephen A. Douglas, tbo candidate it placed In no
mination for tbo Presidency. [lmmense applause.]
The question. then, is preofsoly tbo same now that
it was in ISSO, and as long a a it remains so it Is our
duty as Democrats, true, to the cardinal principles
of our faith, and true to the cardinal principles
upon wbloh wo fought and won in 1850, to adhere
to the sumo dootrloe we advocated thon, and with
the help of God we intend to do it. [Cheers 1
; Follow-citizens : lam from Louisiana. [Three
cheers for Louisiana | I am froth ono of the
largest slaveholding States in the Union, nnd T,
for one, ora not willing to commit tho guardian*
ship, the peculiar guardianship of the rights of tho
foutb, to Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts. [Tre
mendous applause ] Who Is this man Calob Cash
i'ng? Giving him nil the benefit and advantage of
laving lately presided over what is called the
Southern Constitutional or National Convention. I
cannot forget that, in 1336, when be was a member*
ot Congress from Massachusetts, ho voted against
the admission Into the Union of ’ho Independent
State of Arkansas, beoauso her people wanted I
slavery, and deoreod that it should exist In their
midstin tho Steto Constitution. On that ground
alone, ho votod against the admission of a
sovereign State into tho family of States. Are
yen, the Democracy of Pennsylvania, prepared to
say that be shall be tho representative) of this
old Btat-e, Tories of “ No, no*”J and are we, the
people of the South, prepared to say that be is a fit
custodian to hnvo placed In his hands the keeping
of Southern institutions? [Voices“ Wo hope not,”
“ Never,” «to ] And whilst speaking of this man,
lot me refer to that other notorious representative
from Maspnohusstfs, Mr. BuMer. That young man
was so shocked, and his feoMngs wore so wounded,
by tn© mention of the African elavo trade in the
Democratic Convention, that bo contd not longer ro*
mala ln|it. and hastily withdrew and joined tho Se
oedera’ Convention [Laughter] This course of
Mr Butler may eeoure many Abolition votos for
Mr* Breckinridge in Massachusetts, and might,
top, bring him thousands In the tfouth. [Great
langhter ] Citizens of Pennsylvania, be tme
(to 'yourselves nnd true to the Democratic
party Are you seriously Democrats? I address
this question particularly to those who propose to
vote for John C Breckinridge, if there be one
man within tbo hearing of iay voloo who intends
to do so [Cries of “Thore are nono.” “Wo
ftand by regular nominations.” <• Hurrah for
Douglas,” oto ] If there bo such a man, I nsk
him, are you seriously a Democrat? [Voice, “Go
on, thord arc no Breckinridge men In Pennsylva
nia,” and ohoera.j Do you believe ns & Demo
crat that the safety and the well being of this
country depend upon a strict construction of the
Constitution of the United States? [“We do”]
Dj you believe, ns Pennfylvanians and as Demo
ora's, that the good of tho country is depend
ent, ton great degree, upon tho success of the
Democratic party ? [“Certainly.”] Aro you
honest and in oarne«t when you say you
are Democrats? If you are, why not suppoit
the nominees of tho Democratic Convention?
[•♦ That's so.”] Why not at once throw over
board tho candidates of tho rebellious seooders
nnd support the uumlnecs of the truo Nation
al Democracy? [Cries of “Douglas forever,
Douglas,” ana cheers] What do you propose to
do in Pennsylvania by supporting John 6 Breck
inridge? [Criosof “nothing ”j You certainly do
not propose to give him tbo electoral vote of your
State? [“We propose to give that to Douglas”
and npplauso ] It would bo madness to suppose,
and bis most devoted, most hallucinated follower
could not for a moment entertain the Idea, that
Brookinridgo oould, by any possibility, pocuro the
electoral vote of this Stato. I hen, what will bo tho
result of their persisting in keeping his namo in
tho field ? It will be to cast the vote of tho g‘orl
bus old Keystone State, which never beforo filter
ed ia supporting the ConstUuti<m”and the Union
io evory crisis, for Abraham Lincoln, tho
Black. Republican oandidato. {Voices, “Never,
never.”] Are you Democrats, and do you propose
to pursuo such n mad policy as that? Could you
look your Democratic friends in the faoe after such
treason to your party and your country ? Are you
propared now to basely t-rn baok and do that wbloh
would result in more injury to your State than any
Other ? 1 oannot believe it. When the boat of the
moment, wbloh wdh oaussd by the discussions and
differences at Charleston and elsewhere, has sub
sided, and when the extraordinary pressure of
those distinguished citizens from all parts of the
oouutry who hold efiioes under Government hail
passed off, £ bellevo that every Democrat will Be*
piously ounsider the suhjeot, and will oome to the
conclusion that hU duty, and bis whole duty, is to
rally around tbo old Democratic standard and vote
for Stephen A. Douglasfor President, and Ile'eohol
V. Johnson for Vice President. [Cheers.] Again
thanking you for your kindness, I will now give
way to others who are more able to address you
upon the exoiting questions now at issue.
Mr. Herron retired amidst great applause.
BPEECH OF HON. JOHN L. FORSYTH, OF
ALABAMA.
Jn presenting Mr. Forsyth to tho audience, Hon,
Charles Brown said that he would Introduoo a dis
tinguished gentleman from Alabama, whose father
bad been In tho oounolls of the nation in good old
Jackson’s time. He had always been foremost In
dofence of the Demooratio party, and waa a noble
son of a worthy gire.
Mr. Fo&byth said;
Fellow Oitizbns : I would to God that X bad
the voioe of a Stentor and the eloquence of a Do
niosthenes to reaoh your American, hearts this
. X find myself weak in lunga and - weak in
ability in the presence of this immense exhibition
of the Demooraoj of the city of Philadelphia/. The
honorable obairman has done me great Injustice in
his introduction. I* , B trne that I was born of &
Demooratio sire, thatl wasoradled in a Democratic
crndle; :bnt .though a Southerner born, bor* in
. Georgiy, and having passed the whole of my adult
life in the ootton State of Alabama. I stand before'
you not as a Southerner, but as an American cUi*
gen. f Appkusp J . And it is because X feel all -the
generous and noble Impulses of 'hat proud position
that lam here from my distant home to speak to
you the voioe of tjtte South where X belong. [Here
Mr. Forsyth was ' interrupted by the .arrival
of a great many of. the delegations with music and
banners and cheering,] I cannot be expected to
be heard while this mnsio is sounding In my ears
At the head of the Douglas Zouaves. [Applause.]
With patriotism in their hearts, with defiance to
to bolters and seoeders flashing from the points of
their bayonets, and the light of battle upon their
faces, they .will come in countless thousand! in Kb*
vqmber to save this Union from fanaticism North
and fanaticism South. (A voioo, “Trust the people te
putdownfanaticism!”) Wq rely upon the people to
but if you .tho office-holders and
politicians, they will novor do it.” As there is a
God in heaven, they will pull down the pillars
which support tbo fair fabrio of this Union, rai in
volve you inevitably in a civil war. And for
tVb«?;,jyby should the North feel an enqalwVtha
Bquftr, and .why should; the w South feel- an'
oqmlty to the- Iforth? Are we, mot - brothers,
sprung from the same loins, with a common l Inn*
gfiage. & glorious,past, and oommon,hopes for the
future? Why should North or South
disturb the peace of this great and happy country,
and pnt ns to,cutting oaoh other’s throats? , If we
wore to go to war on this question-and things ore
tending (hat way*—and cut half a million ofeaoh
other’s throats, and if we were, alter 'deluging the
land in blood, to have a pause in tbe.tldb of battle,
and look eaoh other in the face, oould, we. for the
lives of us. tell what we were fighting About ? . That
Is'tfio condition of affrirs. This idea of Southern
rights ha? been pressed by politioians-for the pur-'
poao of private ambition and aggrandizement.
The South has cow no quarrel with the Federal
Government on tbo subjeot of slavery, The Issues
arising out of It.hHvo been settled by Southern
oonsent and Southern acquiescence. The people of
tho oonntry have nothing to -fight about, unless a
foreign enemy assails us; ahd wby, in God’s name,
should we quarrel, when the result may-be*the an
nihilation of the last hope of humnn liberty upon
this globe? [Applause]
' I come. ho?e'for. tbo purpose of adding my teetl*
mony as Southern noble fidelity und
daring intrepidity,of the standard-bearer of the
Democratic party, to tho honesty apd energy of the
trihuoe of the. ; peoplo—the champion of popular
sovereignty, Stephen ,A-_ Douglas, of Ijlinnia.
[Long*qontlnued choqripg J, Yo* h»vo heard that
the South.was, ag&ipsp bun, and for Breckinridge
It Is false—the politicians and ; not the people of
the *outh, have spoken Mr, Yancoy does not re*
E resent'the sentiment of the s 'outh. excepting, per*
Bps, k tbe?senttmentof South Carolina, and there,
eras, a different condition of things would ex*
Ist if the popular will were not chained down
by the power of tho press, apd because of a
Constitution and a Legislature which utUr
tho voioe of the people instead of letting tbo
people speak it for..themselves, Mr Yaqoey.
looms a much greater man at this dlstanoe from
homethan he does at'home. We have taken his
measure there, fie has never been able to lead a
suooo&aful party in Alabama. The people there
do not trust him. They know that he is anaturnl*
bora They know <hat this is the
third time he has-boiled a. national nomination
It has got to be a ohronio complaint with him; If
he wero to have formed the Southern Confederacy,'
of which ho is so fond of talking about, ho would
not be in it six) months before ho would find fault
with it,' rebel against it, and try to form a new one.
If .be were ever to be'admitted into Heaven, he
would rebel against the King oi Heaven himself.
[Groat applause ] Ho tells you now th-«t he is
not a disuriionist- [Great laughter.] Ho took
delegates with him from the Charleston Con*'
vbntion, and upon tho stump at homo he said that
he would be dishonored if ho went to Baltimore;
and yet be did go there, and knooked at the door
for admission. And wby did he do that ? Because
in his own Convention there was a conservative
element whioh coerced him book into a national
pariy. [Applause] He did not go willingly to
Baltimore, and when be wont be did not deserve to
bo admitted. [Renewed Applause] Here come
more delegates, and I will wait until they come,
in—[Here Sixth street and Walnut street were
orowdod with delegations on theic way to the meet
ing]—and the ory is, still they ootuo. [Applause.]
If this bo a preliminary Douglas'meeting,'what
will you not do in the ermpaign? | a voioe, l( We
will elect Douglas.”! If this be breakfast, what
will your dinner be r
Gentlemon: I will say a few words on the subject
of non intervention. I am fearful I have not the
time nor you the patience for a diecu'fiion rueh as
the eabject deserves. From this vast demonstra
tion it would seem that argument is exhausted, and
all- we have to do in order to eleot oar man is to
stand to our arms. jApplauso.J X will toll yon a
few words on the subject of oon*iaforvention It is
the great antagonistic prinoiple to tbo irrepressible*
confiiot prinoiple- If you do not support non-inter
vention that eonfliot will come, ana it will lead to
fraternal warfare fA voice, “ We’re for popular
sovereignty !”J Extremists North and South most
ujjon ihe ground of intervention and would
establish slavery in all the Territories, or exclude
it therefrom. It will open the flood-gates of ugita*
tion and discord.
There can be no posable good result. The only
trne way is to leave the question of slavery to the
peoplowho ore Interested in It. It is thedoctrlneof
the deroooraoy. Hailing from the far South, I
avow myself before you to-night a squatter sove
reignty man. Squatter sovereignty isaniokname.
It means popular sovereignty, and popular sove
reignty means tho power that rests in the strong
arms und the clear niluds of the good people before
me. [Applause ] ‘ Yon, the people, aro the sove
reigns of this nation, und not dongrOfS. >lf yon
choose to emigrate to any of tho Territories of this
country, you have a right to govern yourself under
a Territorial Government, as much as you have io
the State of Pennsylvania. [Cheers for Forsyth,
and a salvo from tho oannon in the square.] There
are but two sources of'Sovereign power in this
world—the feudal and the Domooratio source.
According to the feudal dootrioo, sovereignty de
scends from the Icing, and is dealt out
to tho people ns cuprioe may jJiofate, but
according to the Democratic theory, sovereignty
resides in the people. It goes up and out from the
people as from a fountain, and is bestowed for the
publio welfare. If wo go into a Territory, is thore
anything which prevents ns from taking caro of
ourselves thore, which would not prevont us in a
Stato ? If we aro not ablo to take oare of onrsel ves
in a Territory, when does our sovereign power
oease? Is it when we loavo the Ktuto oi Pennsyl
vania? Is it when we arrive at tho frontier of the
Territory, or after we have passed thellno? I say
that tho sovereign power never ceases—lt will
never die out—never.until disuolonists pull down
this freo government. [Crlos of « That’s bo,” and
unbounded applause } The people of tho South,
gentlemen, have the same national purposes that
you have, and they will sustain this glorious prin
ciple, nod ita gallant and heroio advocates, as you
do. [Renewed applause j ,
I will not detain yon farther, beyond saying a
word about one other subject. [Cries of “go od.ro
on! You’re a trump, and we want to bear you!”]
There has been some talk about acompromlse with
the Breoklnridge’bolters [Derisive laughter]
Gentlemon. I do not wonder you laugh at the pro
position The proposition for compromise, I am
happy to say, came from the other side, and not
from the regular Domooraoy. [That’s bo! and ap
plause ] My voioe is against it. [Amen!] My
voioe is agoloBt it on prioclplo. and on policy.
There are buttwo methods of treating wi'banopen
enemy: fight and whip him, mako a treaty *i<h
him, or go down bravely on the field. With muti
neers and rebels you oannot oornpromieo. They
deservo condign punishment for their treachery to
the great National Domooratio cause. [Long-con
tinued cheers ]
Gentlemen, wo have a Dig train, and it is in mo
tion. There is a locomotive of tremendous power
at the head—Stephen A. Douglas.- [Applauso ]
In that train are allwho stand by their country,
its welfare and its glory, and those who do not got
1q now will soon bo loft behind, in the cold.
[Laughter J It [is dnDgorons, too, .to stand upon
the outside platform whdo tho oars are iu motion.
[Renewed lnughter ] Who ever heard of CAmnro
.inising with a deserter in titnoofwir? The,
same will apply in You must hang the
deserters. [Applause.J If yon do not, thero is no
discipline in tho camp, You must punish
mutineers, or tbeie i 3 no organization
upon sblplDoard. Thore will, and oan bo, no
compromise. [Applause J You oan mako a
compromise any minute you please. You could
imvo dono it at Charleston or at. Baltimore.
You oan do it how by surrendering to thomiuorlty.
[Cries of “No, nevor.”] You oan doit by surrender
ing your opinions, your platform, and your candi
date to the minority. Will yoa give up Btepbon
A- Dougins, theohoice of the American people for
the Presidency, a man who has won, if a Democra
' tio patriot ever did, by bard and valuable services,
the nomination which he has recoiyed from tho Na-
tional Democracy? [Cries of “No, never!] If
you give him up you cap have peace in a few
minutes, because then the rule-or-ruin policy will
have prevailed, and the majority will have sue*
curabed to a minority. Dut if you do it in tho
North you will demoralize the National Demooraoy
of tbo South. You will enable the Disunioniata to
put their foot upon our neoks, and wo oannot budge
or utter a syllable We will tberi be put down
and sacrificed by tboso in the North with whom
wo are tryirg to stand io defenco of the noble. in*
stltutione of this oountry.. [A. voioe, “Wo wilt
never desert you/’ and applause ] Bow did Gen.
Washington treat the accomplished Major Andre,
the British officer, s gallant soldier, who was taken
as a spy upon tbo Hudson, .in the Revolutionary
War? The benovolent heart of the FAthor of his
Country beat in sympathy for the misfortune of a
brother soldier, but, under the demand of justice
and patriotism, he sent the spy to the gibbet.
[Applause.]
And why does this proposition for a compromise
come to ua now? It is the coho of the people’s
voice North and South, and East and, iWest, like
the sound of many waters, proclaiming adhesion
to Douglas. [Renewed applause,) Those who ask
us to compromise feel that they are wron* before
great sentiment. This movement began as a
Southern secession movement, and Mr. Yancey
headed it. How is It nbw } It became a Consti
tutioD&l Convention in Richmond, and In Balti
moro, a National Democratic party. [Laughter
and applause ] What a fall was there my country*
men ! Yancey gays that ho is not a disnnionist, or
at least that he is not for disunion or against the
Union. If I entertained Mr. Yado ey’s opinions
I would be tor disunion. It I thought
the right of my section had been denied
by the'Democratic party and tho people of tho
North, I would unfurl the disunion flag, and I
would nothide it. But Ido not think eo. I think
that the doctrine of popular soverei nty is a fair
settlement. It is a settlement which will give
peace to thin detracted country. If the South
TWO CENTS.
were to select me a* their umpire, their agent, their
minister plenipotentiary, to settle this aa an origi
nal question, I tyeuli settle it precisely as it was done
in the Cinoinnati platform./. [Applause.]' I would
tike non-intervention as perfectly fair, andll would
stand up by it Experience bar satisfiedme with
it. We are .told tbat with pOB-intervention the
South never will get a pew, slave State, I know t
that if we have intervention wewill never get any.
You might aa well, under the’doctrine of interven
tion, go to the devil for holy water as to go to Con*
cress to admit a.n«w slave State. fAnpU'aUe
laughter. J... .
I suppose that the South ought to feel perfectly
safe since Caltb Cashing, of Maieaehusetts'. bar
come to our rescue because his delegation eottld not
get a slave code for tye Terriioriea [tJreat laugh
ter.] Ifheoould make.Massaebuietts attbnd to
the discharge of her oobstf Rational obligations; if
he could gat her to repeal her statutes enacted in
violation of the Constitution of the- United States,
he would be doing better than by taking oare of
slavery in the Territories. Tf.jbe will pay that
down in cash I will give him au eternal credit for
what he will do for ui in the Territories/ Xdo not
want his protection I do not want anybody’s
protection. I only want the grand olimatlo and
productive laws made by the “God of nature—laws
Immutable and _ unchangeable by sUv-' Enßan
P°wer- f Applauie'J* coft&Wl
grow, rto nofafcfe' 'it is colonlced frdia
Georgia or Massaohosetts, or Alabama., -or’
-.i*h« .':#m ’ W
-etntfTSyed. [Aplflsuße ] X never know a Tan
kee who went- South who >u not glad to sot a
negro, [Laughter] If Iheqafstiap ga'settiedhe
-ooritag fo the wishegof thepeOpleTonodriiid Tam
sfttisfied. I ,do not Hrant to propoxate ‘slaTerv
dmongst people who dopet-kant Jt." IfX hid ft*
■power r would not dolt." X d«Bf thi'pokerorcsn-'
fcress to’e&ert 'any authority not'plauily.' aod gb*.
oifioally written down'in the Constitution. Tferthe
people, are the soverelgni.' We peri glvencer
taln ipeolfled powira to Congress, and we ought not
to permit It to traSoeod’them. 1 AoplaPse I
■ A word in regard to our standard-boarer. " At
last, tbrough'muoh trial and tribulation, the peo
tile’a manhas been nominated by the National
Demooratio Convention'' of the United Bhitet ■lt
haa been it hard fight again it the rfiJOS hotderaand
the Dlstinloh&ta, I against' lb# President ‘and ■' the
Vice President, eleoted Ibnr Veers ago’-by’ DAmo
oratiovotea ‘Before they doffed the livery of their
party, they have turned renegade, to ohr great
and glorloua principles and party organisation.
But the Demooratio party haa gained a triumph
Whi’h makes me pronder of It than T have ever
been In my life The worn is over. It will be
easier to eleot him than It was to ’nominate him.'
[Applause ] 1 The polltloians have gone down be
fore tbe people In the Convention as they will 'be
fore the people in the country [A voice, “ What
do you think of tho Covode CAmmittee I’M It will
hurt the President nnd his faotion, hut the
.Democracy not a bit. [ApotauseJ Mr. Breckin-
Hdge trmk occasion to aay in his speeoh of accep
tance, that ho was not a Dlsnnlnnist. Perhaps he
is not. - If he he not he'tslika Little Billy In the
story. A father died and left his two sons a pair!-’
mony in sheep, to be divided'between them He
direotedthat the elder brother should divide the
sheep into two lots.'and that the younger brothel"
should hare the .ob<dce. Amobg the sheep was a
lamb oalled Little Billy,- to whioh the younger
brother wss much attaohed. The elder brother,
with the instinct Of his sge, thought he oonld make
a good bargain ont of “the affection or hit brother
for Little Billy He look ell the lank and mean
sheep and put them and Llnte Billy In one lot, and
all the good sbeep he pbt In the other. But
the younger brother showed that he had some of
hi" elder brother’s quality. • Ho paid, “ Little
Billy, we have long boon friends; I haTe loved
yon; you have been my companion in pleasure
and In grief But, Little Billy, vou are in damned
bad company endive must part." [Laughter.) My
friend, Mr. Breckinridge, has got Into bad com
pany. [friesaf* ( Tbat*sso!”] -
That Is tbe reason they want to compromise It
I? tbe most impudent thing X ever heard of. After
they havo bnlly-ragged ns; efter they have
threatened ns; af'er they have .tried to make a
minority govern the majority; end, after their
defeat, they ask ns to compromise I Compromise
means mutual concession. They have got nothing
to ooocede 1 they havo nothing to give. The only
compromise wo oan make with thorn Is, thstthey
shall lay down their arm", oonfesa their sins, sit
upon tbe atool of repentanoe, and vote For Btorhen
A Douglas. [Brest spplause | If we do com
promise, we oannot compromise with the Breck
inridge faotion or the Black Republican party;
but thore is a Union party weoan compromise with,
and that is tho Bell and Everett party. They have
the same object in view we have—to preserve tbla
Government and not to allow It to be saorlleed te
the passions and ambition of mlsgnlded men. If
thore be a compromise, yon may take my word for
11. tho result will he—with yonr approbation and Ihe
voice of tho American people, and nowhere more
emphatically .than in Alabama—the triumphant
election of the champion of popnlar sovereignty.
Throe cheers were proposed and given for Mr,
Eorsyth, and three moro for Alabama.
SPEECH OF THOMAS C. FIELDS, ESQ., OP
HEW YORK.
Eon. Charges Bbown. Fellow oitlzen?, Ibave
bow the ploasureof Introducing to you Mr. Field?,
of New York, who, you will remember, addressed
you in .1856, during the Presidential contest of that
yoar. f‘‘ Throe cheors tor FJelda."]
Mr. Fields said:
Mb. Chairman and Fellow-Democrats : The
last time I oame among the Demooraoy of Penn
sylvania, it was to urge upon them the necessity of
elevating to the first office in the gift of the people
their own son—[a voice. “He has gone,” and
laughter,] under whoso guidance they bad strug
gled for many years, whose ambition they had en
de&vored to gratify, and who, to his days of adver
sity as well es of triumph, they bad adhered to
with unswerving and unquestionable fidelity. I
oamo to yon, then, from a neighboring State,
asking you to sustain James . Buchanan, be
cause he had been nominated according to the
usages of the Demooratlo party, and stood upon
the platform laid down by that party; I come
among you to night for a similar purpose. I come
to ask yon, fellow-Democrats of Pennsylvania, fo
sustain the nominee of the Baltimore Convention,
who was nominated according to tne usages of the
Demooratlo party, and who stands upon the plat
form of the party, as it was laid down in the Na
tional Convention In 1849, in ’52, in *56, and in
’CO. It is said by some that the nominations of the
Baltimore Convootion are irregular. And why are
they irregular? They have told m, or pretended
to tell us, that the nomination of Mr. DouelSs Is
irregular, because he did not receive.two-thirds of
, tho vote of the whole electoral collego. Why, in
1848, when there was noquestlon in regard to regu
larity except in my own State, Lewis Cass, the
standard-bearer of tne Democracy during that can
vass, was placed In nomination by avoteofless than
two-thirds of the whole electoral college, the dis
tinguished Southern gentleman, Andrew Stevenson,
of Virginia who then presided over the Conven
tinn. (indirect variance with the new views ofCaleb
Cashing, who presided over the last Convention,)
having decided that the two-third role meant two
thirds of the delegates present and voting Now.
follow.oitizens. there is nothing in this question of
regularity. The Btate of New York in the Balti
more Convention, so muob censured stood faith
ful and true, and our delegation to that Convention
played no small part, and contributed in no
small degree to the result And let me tell you.
in all sincerity and truth, that In the election that
will take place In November next, the Btato of
New York will play no small part. Her
people are dotormined; ttHr enthusiasm now
has never beforo been equalled; and the cer*
tainty that they trill deotsre in November next in
favor of osnriog the thirty-five votes of the Empire
tato for Stephen A Douglas, of Illinois, is fore
shadowed in the f*oo of every man yon meet.
[Unbounded enthusiasm ] Oar Demooraoy have
no fear of the result, and the Demooraoy of your
State and of the country should hovo none
[Voices, “Pennsylvania will he as sound as New
York.” “Douglas will carry thlsBtate,”«nd cheers.]
The Demooratlo party is the party of the people;
it belocgs to them, and Is the embodiment of their
sentiment?, and it is by the people, and through
their efforts, that Stephen A Douglas Is sure to be
©looted the next President of these United States.
[“That’s so,” “bully for you,” and applause]
Gentlemeu, in our State we have one sa
tisfaction in this canvass which we have not
had before for many years. VTe have gone
Into the contest heretofore with energy and
with determination. We have gone Into n with
sympathy and with foroe; but we know • this
time, that if we elect Stephan A Douglas, and we
will elect him 1 [Cheers? President or the United
Stales hr mill h* the Prr*!dcnt. [Hurrah for
Y»ung Blokory ] And will govern the country
according to the principles upon which it has been
established ns ho understands them, and not accord
ing to those principles as they are understood by
his Cabinet, nnd by who may attempt to
control him [Great applause; a vaice—“Jackson
still Hve».”] Perhaps the motives of your own fa
vorite son,. whom we elevated In 1856, [voioes,
“spare us,” “we’ll close no more.” nnd lAugh
ter,] were pare; perhaps be really designed doing
wbat was right when he took the oath of office;
but his ambition whs great; bo desired to control,
nnd ho sought false oounsels. With a Titan’s lost,
“bo woded a goddess end he clasped a cloud.”
[“That’s so ” +* He neverolasped anything else,”
and laughter] The power besought has departed
from him forever, and I say it with all respeot—l
say it with all modesty, that when the Demooratlo
party shall have survived this Administration-, it
will have accomplished a triumph that no party on
tho jfoce the earth hot the Democratic party
could bivo accomplished. [Cheers] It fa a habit
which I have somehow or other formed to spenk of
things as 1 find them, and to.giv© expression to my
sentiments and embody my-thoughts as they in
habit my brain In words. I think it is the most
honest way for man to act towards his fellow-man.
[“CettMnly it is.’* 1 i{ Go on ” “We like your
frankness.”] I desire to toll ray fellow-Democrats
here to-night that if you believe we are to fight
this oanvass on; velvet cushions, and in silk stock
ing? and gloves, you are mistaken. We have two
enemies to fight, and we must fight with determi
nation and direotnes*. Wo must fight with power
and troth, and we will be* successful. For one, I
pay that tho Democracy will have no oause to find
fault with me because I do not plainly express to
them the esaot condition of things.
Tbe shortcomings ot this Administration the
Democracy ere not to father. [“ God forbid,” and
applause ] Why should they? The Administra
tion has separated itself from the Demooratlo party.
Mr. Schell, the representative of tbe Administra
tion In tbe State of New York, Is held so elo3e
and bo dear in the affections of tbo President
of the United States, that when we went to
Washington and represented to Mr. Bnohanan
the evils whioh were oonitan*ly resulting from bis
impotenoy, from his want of knowledge and ability,
ana from bis want of executive ospaoity. ana
E roved to him that by retaining snob a man in so
igh a position, be was ruining and distracting tbe
Demooratlo party in our Btato, and that Mr. Schell
should ejther be compelled to administer tbo office
.whioh he held according to the principles and
usages of the pemooratio party, or make place
for another and a better man; the answer we re.
oeived was, “Mr. Schell Is my pdfeial.friend,
and I cannot disturb him.” Wo TeoVffcJbat an
swer for what It was worth, and Mr %hell is now
oredlted by tbe Democracy of New York to tbe Ad.
ministration. Bat, fellowoiUiens, while we have
THE WEEKLY PRESe. •
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foetmeetereare reunasM toeotae Ana* kf '
•aa Wnnr Panes.
CALiroKBHA PBKnn.
Bte^^e. SWal " MOIIUIIT *" ** the CaUteßda
these two .enemies before ns, we should not be die
heertened. ■ The Demporeov to*dev in ■trnnrnr ■ n
more powerful than it wonW hitTObeen if^ r -A^
minietretlon hed'oomo to oar eapport. [“Thet’e -
so,” end oheera-I The ,true ere. to
day m.rsheiw , under the t^pUa
for «»,defen«e of the ,
right* of the people, has. been proscribed, and u
S»rt? pi i f opt«f ,<heJJ,!,S«S
l?i rt T'j led , Baoi . gentlemen e$ JJ r . Dewta, of
lt!oS d S?.V ~h u 0 "‘M ,he S»U*te.of the Dolled .
TftJf 8 !.I*** 1 *** ben h ® a Wort*4 General Cm* in
Rcpponed him nudes * probqft, f“flach ‘
men are not Democrats,” and applause I nicUr
?4ffS :", firBt . kno -^/ Q Wi*il« of the ,
ST* 88 o member «f the Administration of-
Mr. Pfewe, and pat into bis CaWoet after
( J« 8 <**o State efltieeissippi rebuked bint tid •
the Madoentf. he advocated; by *leetibg t io’oppo ‘. .
S.-Poot, as Governor .of
the State. The same Union e*ntun#nt which than'
; J * S6n s\ Mississippi, itiUlivei.
j to the breasts of the people of the Southern M*tea,
J and will rally around end sustain the only national
standard-bearer, who, -Jfc, if ' -
hw.en, eJ?anoe m ; ;
Doug'.M .or Itliopil. tepid I, .
sthp people etect Mr. Douglas ?. It Is adraittedoS? '
*ll handeihat he 1; competent; and It ii admitted
that he baa .displayed more statesmanship,than
any jMp.ifbohas gconpiad a piuatq&gAntMeftidd
1 gienta of the Senate, Clay, Webster,
and Calhoun. passed away. It U admitted by the
Repqbjicans, that be in ,
Jn^ntof^s,- bepraijucal or not in s'm. ~
«ttcal sense, in tbe eud.thequ«itfda*f<alaVOT
W^^X*Territ o rtS
«d%atith the only -way In wbtob It can be
pfaftUeaJlT - settled , ,1 ehonld
*» not elevate Mr. Dmglai* to tbe’PresideneyV
Hiswfperftttj* . a
or Lincoln, his two seedon*! .opponents. The peo
plo of Illinois have once decided that pomdaa was.
more competent 1 and bettef acalifed tb advocate 1
* T B d protect their interest to' fheßebatd of tbe •
UnUad StatM tban Ltocdlni'fltoßHefcEatobUean v
B^ Dd t rd ,^V* r-r t A PPton*«.l - £at<.g*t)Uemen, I >
am afraid that tbe Republican* amfeoaU©ftho
•twggliog Democrats do notloofc at tbe prihciplM
jr the qualifications bf tbd ibdlv4dalls dhohave
• been placed before them for their suffrages. Taft' U
Jear/ol it is offioe *»#y tar*l#okl*g.§taf..rXf«a*£
in. the condition,of theorimlasl to »
°^ r «ofObio wfaocaJled upon Tom Corwin to de-~
fend him. a The. honorable was .Tbtvrninc to , 4
hu home after the adjournment of -Congress. *wi«i
be was stopped Jn. a small town:by a note from a r
man in jail reqaestlag bis presence immediately. I
Corwin walked oyer.to eeeertain vbat bis diffienl. .
ties were, and . was informed by -him that .
he had been arrayed,-, and- was to be tri*d ..
on the morrow for atealiog-ipork. 4 [Lvnfrhter 1 , .
The lawyer told him 4 that it was a grave ekaitt. ,
aeked what evidence there would be agaiSst: •
bim,. Tbe prisoner replied thatevidenoe weald be
submitted to tbe effMt-thttonsfien&lbday be was
seen loiteriog about tbepremUea of a neigl.bericg
tonn ; that he went nndera shed there and took 5 •
;hog from wh«roll,» h»n*ingiwhi«h Jitpnt otthk ■ •
shoulder, earned to hlsnvn bomo, nndth*te oat an
-and salted dO*n. /‘Well, 5 ’ said*Corwin, *«thU •
will eertainly be very strong .testimony, andouH
you must certainly be convicted.” Said the man, .
** You have nothing to da with my conviction or mo«
quittal. I desire to retain yon to make a lawyer's'
plea in my defence, after-tfae teetimony baa been '
olosed/ nrth this understanding .of the. Case, -
Cerwia waa in court, when the trial->came .on
to defend ibet prisoner. .The facta, as they were
■prMented to the jury, were tbe same as tbe man
bad given? them to bla counsel, and after all the
jritnessea had teftifted on tbe sutject, Corwin made
hli plea, the judge.delivered theebarge, and J tbe -
jury retired, end returned In fiverstoates.mthr a
verdict of acquittal.. The ooarft wndmou&ael were -
all amasemonc at this Bnexpteted resale, and nono
more so than Mr. Corwin himself. - Approaching :
his client, be said,' My friend, bow the devil waa
at that yon were acquitted?my eloquence per
taioly cguld not have produced tbe verdini;
it?” “Oh,no; cot at all,” replied be: -“tlfeflß
TCQBOB of my acquittal was. that eleven of rae rnWaWCB
men had >ome ot tbe pork. [Great laughter jamOfSl
applause J Our Republican fnead3, and
moerats, are after the pork. They do not
principle; and, therefore, it.behoovesyoQj aMdi^u 2 --
behooves the Deznooratio party, which has
stood true to principle, awl baa carried the,'Jv-*
country through its infancy to iu present--* ‘
growth of prosperity and power, to preserve
our gloilqu3 Institutions as they b».ve been
handed down to ua by our fathers.- This is the
mission of the Dcmooratio party on earth. It is
the embodiment of the liberal.aud progressive
spirit of the age t It sympathises with the r.p-,
prosged throughout the world, and sets an example
of liberty to allcoontriesand all ages. It Is the ,
Democratic party which says to the dependent of'
every portion of tbe globe, “ Come among us,
come to onr shores, be .ye from the green islo'of*
Erin or from the vine-clad bills of Italy, be ye fr<gn ;
any portion of the earth; come to ns, and be one of
us In your love of independence, and yonr people
shall be our people, yont God shall be our God. n
[Great applau&a } Lee not, by any lack of'eceigy
on yonr part, this great Democratic party be broken
up. Let not this abstraction in regard to slavery
sway yourjudgment or confuse yonr understanding.
It Is an abstraction, os. our friend from the South
baa told us, Why, there is no fear that slavery -
will go into any new Territory where it is not ro
quired by the people. There is no fear of that.
Kot until the water-oresses grow upon tbe sand- .
plains of Alabama, or the magnolia blooma to
splendor and fragrance on the shores of tbe AreUe
ocean, will slavery go where the people do not de
sire it. or where it is not to their interest to have
it. [Cheers.J Why, fellow-Demoorats, | wba4
Is -the history ef yonr State and mine ? Iu
my own State, and no .doubt it was so to
yours, when a vote was taken upon the qmßtioa
of abolishing slavery, the record shows that the
southern and eastern portions of New York, com
prising Long Island, Richmond county, the city of
New York, aud the river towns, voted against the
abolition of slavery. The people there regarded it
necessary to their interests to have slavery, and,
therefore, they voted in favor of - it; while tbe
people of tho western portion of the State f»und it
was to their interest to dispense with slavery, and
Voted accordingly, outnumbering their brethren of
tbe southern and eastern portions of tbe Stato,' and
thus abolishing slavery. Youseethatwe regarded
the question simply and solely as & question of in
terest.
i I have no doubt that tbe came rule applied in
regard to the abolition.of,slavery In every State of
the Union. It was, in each case, a question of In
terest, and there Js no Territory now subject to be
overrun, with slavery where ihe interests of the
people are ioimioal to it. On tbe other band,
where their interests are to bo benefited by it, all
tbe laws that Congress may pass will not prevent
them from establishing it; for, when they come to
form a State CoDStiturion, if it is to their interest
to have slavery, they will incorporate it into that
Constitution, and Congress has no authority, the
oninion of Mr. Cushing to tbe contrary, notwith
standing, to reject the State thus applying.
[•‘ Tbars 60,” and applause ] *
Now, fellow-oltitensjthe regularity of tbe nomi*
nation of Douglas and Johnson being recog
nised by the Demooraoyjof the country, and
the ' qualifications of oar candidates being
admitted, and the principles of the party
established, and our record .the same;to-day
as it has bean heretofore, I ask you whether the
peaco and safety of the whole country do not de
mand of us, the people of the North, the repre
sentatives of the Demooratlo sentiment of the
North, to rally as one man, around one standard
bearer, determined to sustain our brethren
who are fighting this fight iu the South?
[ U W« will,” and cheers.] I say wc rhocM
do this. Wo havebc-eu through the issue; wo
have discussed it before our people; we have
had it before the people since J&4S; and we bare
stood by the South as one maw. We have re
mained true to that section os men who had common
’ interests and a common future, and while doing so
we have seen free State alter State leaving us, Wo
have Boers the infatuation of the people warp their
judgment, and when we went to Charles'on »pd
laid to the Southern representatives, to tbe fire
eaters, weoome here with ourprlnsiples well-estab
lished, with the principles which you have aided us
in placing before the people; and feeling that they
are the only true ones, wo como with & candidate
representing the sentiments of* the whole North
ern portion of our Confedoraoy, and we ask you In
kindness and In friendship to stand by us, and not
send us home empty handed. Their reply, through
Mr Yancey, was, that wo bad no rights in the
Convention, beoause, forsooth, we represented
Btates that had gone Republican! They had
been oarried by tbe Republicans, because tho
Democratic party would rather be right then
be successful, beoauco it would rather be
true to its principles than give them up
for the sake of patronage. I tell these fire-eaters
to-night, th«ttheDemcoratio party of the North, any
time since 184 S. could, by forsaking the South and
taking oare of themselves, as they now s*y wo must
do, have carried every State north of Ma»on &
Dixon’s line. [‘ 1 rue,” and cbeere] There is not
not & State, save and except old Massachu
setts, [laughter,] but what is with tho De
mocratic party in all its finuuciri policy,
and in alt it 3 domestic policy. But, fellow
citizens, I think it is tho highest honor that can be
given to us or to any party in tbo world that we have
stood by cur whole country, that wo bavo had no
individual preferences, known no section orlocality,
but have stood by the wholocountry, North, South,
East, and West. [Cheers ] Why, the gong they
sung to ns in Charleston, and repeated at Baltimore,
vividly reminded mo of the old soug we used
to hear Jn some of the Southern States
during the nullification cf John C. Calhoun. It
was \ “lam a Southern man; lam a Bouth Caro
linian; I ppeak for my section; I speak for my
State. We had supposed that wise counsels had
prevailed, and that the people of tho South were
actuated by the game impulses that governed and
controlled the Democracy of the North, and that
their representatives in National Conventions were
the trustees who had in tbeir keeping the welfare
of the whole Conlederaoy, and wore representa
tives true to their constituencies. [Hear, hear. I
Wo find now that in this belief we wero
not altogether mistaken. There are men In
the South who are standing op, and are wil
ling to stand up, as representatives of the neonlo
of tho Bouth; and I believe that lam not mista
ken, and that the result will prove that I am cor
rect in saying, that when the conservative voice of
the Southern people is heard, when the conserve
tive sentiment of the South has had an opportuni
ty of expressing itselt, a msj >rity of the people will
deolare in favor of Mr Douglas, as tho regular
nominee of the National Democracy. [Cheers I I
have never since wo have be*n a party—let
U £ n \ B y* hat will, let them croak as they
will, let those who have formerly been our friends
eland upon the outskirts and point the traitor’*
finger, at us—known a time when the ohonocs, nav,
the certainty, of sacoes? was more conclusive end
convincing than at present, I remember, and so
do you, that in 1844. when the great ceattat de
pended upon the energy of the Democracy of New
York, when our hopes of success were dork and
cloudy, and tho certainty oi our victory wascovered
as with a funeral shroud, that we rallied tothenaGon
al sentiment, and against the Odds of a great name,
carried the State for the nominee of opr party the
mm whoQjr opponeodwUred »« so in«lgaijio»ot
that thoj.hudlj know his Damn. On ih?pre«Bt
occasion, I repeat, that yon have only to be true to
ourselves and our party, and success is certain. It
i is a glwioM and a peculiar feature in the history