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COLUMBIA
DEMOCRAT,
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AND BLOOMSBURG GENERAL ADVERTISER.
m L. TATE, Editor.
2 00 PEI ANNUM.
"TO HOLD AND TllIM THE TOUCH OF TltUTII AND WAVE IT O'EH THE DARKENED EARTH."
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OL. 14.--NO. 23
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA-, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1860.
VOL. 24.
l)oicc Poetry.
LIGHTS AND SHADES.
tV MM. 1IRMAN1.
The gloomiest day hath nlama of light ;
'Tim darkest wave hath w hit a foam war it,
And twlnklci througlt the cludl;l nl;ht,
Home solitary star to thjcrlt.
The gloomiest stuil is not all cbomj
Tha tadrlt heart U nt nil Ra.lnoss,
Jtii'l iwpetl) o'er tin ilnrkeft doom
Thvu ihln; so.ue ling, ring beam of gladnsss.
rpalr I nn-er luiti drsnnir,
Nor lift, nor death. th f.it-iri! t lot j
Ani'mund tin ihiimvy brow of caro
Will Hop i an I Taney twins tlnir roisi.
trial ul v dpclnrcd its principles, honinn so abhorrent to every principle of common I dwlicatcil
thereby to conceal its dangerous tendencies fairness so replete with outrage mid I New-
its true theories are belched by the Sum- usurpation divided, dismembered and j lent process
ated to, and wielded the vote of the I upon equal and the same terms' Eve:
,f . ., ., ...... i ., . r ,.. I citizen has a rtcht to tako with him in
J or delegation, mrougu uio .rauuu- , - . of ffWcl
process of a unit vote a rule lorced , ., Constitution of the United States rce
Every I n Territorial Legislature, to bo put up and
1 I ilnirn In It . ntl-nd Inl'nli num.. nt .ilnna.
uro. (UlicorsJ t or those doctrines tlio
Southern States refused to accept Mr.
Douglas as a candidate, and who, had he
been with and of them, would have done
otherwise. But whether tho Southern
States were reasonable
or capncious m
tiers and Clicevcrs, and are reduced to broke up the Convention, as it should havo upon a largo minority of this delegation to ognizes. It recognizes slaves as property,
practice by its John Browns. (Cheers done, and as every sensible mind saw it stillo llicir sentiments, while small niiuoii-1 ana pledges tnc icuerai government to pro
and hissw) It di-turbs and embitters would do, and I commend with my wholo tics were released from it in others to suit tcct it, and Congress cannot rxerei-o any
. ' . ... . . . . .... i urn mitlinritv over nronertv of that tics
the social relations it severs the holy ties heart ana spirit, ami approve the conduct the purposes ol the conspirators will here-, , ' '11.,i',lllnl,ai1.. nr. ' their refusal to accent and sunnort Doue
of religious brotherhood it breaks tho of the President, Gsucral Cu-hing, who ; after be known by the name plainly bran- crc(J0 ovcr property of any other kind. las, tlioy had taken their stand delibratcly
bonds of a common political faith -it blots ' refused longer to preside ovcr a tyrannous ded upon their guilty foreheads at Charles- The act of Congress-, therefore, prohibiting alter mature consideration their avowal
out tho creat memories of tho revolution cabal and of the delations who. under ton "political caniblcrs as creatures ' any citizen of the United states trom talc- was Dciorc me country uisu w as wen un
it destroys comincrci.il interests ami tho , the same 1'rcsidenl, reorganized and placed ' who hang iestcrtng upon the lobbies of " 8 5," . , 1
lty over private property
had
pre-
Political.
CHEAT SPEECH
or
ON. DANIEL ?. DICKINSON,
DELIVERED AT THE
rrnl Dinwcratic Musi Muting, Coop:'
Institute, iav York, July 18, 1SCU.
Mb. President and my Fkllow-Citi-ns
: Ever fleeting Time has brought
upon' another period presciibed by the
nstitution for the election 'if Chief Mag
rato of this great confederacy a popu
r struggle knonn to no people under heav
i but ourselves, and exceeding in interest
id importanoo anything amongst men,
vilized or savage.
THE DEMOCRATIC r.YUTY
Upon preceding similar occasions gen
ally, it has been the good fortune of that
irty to which you and I belong (cheers,)
that great party which has swayed the
stinies of the country and shaped its
ilicy from the days of Jefferson to the
escnt moment, to s'and united in priuci
c and purpose, and movement, liko a
onian Cohort in the best peiiol of the
iirtress of the world. With meh pur
ges, such principles, such united e-iirr.ic-s,
id such harmonious action, tin. demucrat
party jhcryed and won the highest
inhdence anil gratitude ot the toiln.g mus
s it bore aloft in iti banner the sacrud
ord equality it plucked hoary huai'o 1
livhVgo by tin b'aid,aml arraigned trior
id pretension before tho gre t tiibunal of
is people it was radical in the leforma
on of abuses it was conservative in tiio
reservation of ill that expeiicueo lutl ap
roved the cons itution was its. pillar and
s cloud, and progress was its watchword.
Loud cheers.) Under its benign policy
ur borders citti'udcJ from tho Atlantic to
lio Paeilic we subdued and fertilized new
erritories we civilized, educated and ab
Jrbed their barbarous or r.enii-barbarou3
aces, and nearly trebled tho numbur of
rco sovereign States. (Cheers.) Uver
badowing, monopolizing, unconstitutional
ederal bank and protective tariffs, tho-c
levices of.craft and fraud, that they might
ub.-istupon the fruits of others' labor,
iave, after yeais of conlliot with tho do
aocracy, finally been driven from tho field
ind exterminated, and the only great work
eft them in the present crisis is to vindicate
Uc supremacy of the constitution and the
quality of the States. Its present admin
interchanges of free trade it degradts us in nomination Messrs. Brcckinridgj and State and federal legislation to purchase
as a nation before the envious monarch". of ' Lane. The remaining fraction, made up chartered privilege and immunity by cor-
earth, and deprives us of our inherent ! chiefly of delegates from republican States, rupt appliances; who thrive in its foetid
power to vindicate our rights. It sows ' whoso delegations were tho authors of tho atmosphere and swell to obese propoi lions,
broadcast the terrible s.ueds of domestic ' gioat wrong, deprived of their head and like vultures upon offal , office brokers,
strife and pas-ion, that the people may j without a democratic body, proceeded to who crawl aud cringe arouud the footsteps
reap in due season a harvest of ashes and ! nominate Mr. Douglas and Fitzpatriek, as of power, and by talsc pretences procure
desolation. jwo were informed, amidst tremendous "en- themselves or ilc tools places of official
the democratic national CONVENTION ' thusiasm Vermont and other New En- trust and emolument, that they may pack
public expectation. I gland States, and the wholo Northwest, and control caucu-es and conventions at
There was never a moment in tho hi i- ; were piCilgea to .Mr. JMulas (-ubject ol tho expense of the people they defraud
tory of tho democratic party, or a time . course to a slight incumbiauco held by and betray, while honest men are engaged
wheu the mas.-es of tho people looked to i0Ilu Abraham Lincoln) with deafening ap- in their industrial avoaations to cam their
the si;tiii" of a national convention with 1 pJue- Some flntboatmen descending the bread. (Loud cheers, and a voice, "Oo it,
more confiding txp etatiou than when it ! Mississippi, in rather a jolly mood, pa-sod old man.") Oh, how has the once noble
was about to assemble at Charleston i house on the shore w here they were fid- spirit of tho democracy fled from such
April la-t. There was nncr a t me when ""'"o aua dancing on the piazza the boat contaminating approaches ? Home, whose
such confidence was more wickedly, wan
tonly and shamefully betrayed when
reasonable expectations were so madly
iell into an eddy and once m each half proud burner once waved triumphant over
hour passed the houo again, and the a conquered world, degenerated in the
boatmen swore they were fiddling and pursuit of sensual delights to a band ol
blasted as in the results produced by its I dancing in every liou-e lor a hundred hddlcrs and dancers, and the demooratio
action. Its proceedings find no parallel miles on the shore of the river while they party of New York, fouuded in thespiiit
in disgrace and degradation since the em- hud be. n revolving in an eddy and had of .lefforson, and emulating, for many
nir nfttii NW World w.im hold nt miction seen but cur. The Dougla strength is years, the noble effort! of a Jackson and
for money.
The democratic tiaitv for its steady de
votion to tho principles of tho constitution, 1 ok H , which would dishonor the resorts of a Pe
tho catholicity of its creeds, for its grand Waning all questions of tho merits or tor I'uhk in cast off clothing j cheating
radical nuahsis and it- ju.-t and lolly con- delimits of Mr. Douglas as a candidate,
scrvatis.ni, had won the confidence of the his pretensions were pressed upon tho Con
masios and wiuug unwilling admiration volition, sometime" under the practice of a
from its heredituy opponents, and :dl good platform upon which lie could stand with
men looked to it in this, I ho evil day of cotivciiienc-!, sometimes in the admission
vir country, fur iLliwrunec and safety uud i ejection of delegates by the procesi
Its convention as-umbled at Charle-ton of machinery and management, and at
and oi '.Nimzul lor busiiics. A holy man ntm.r nines in the direct presentation ot
arrayed in the iobcs of his sacral office, his nam:, beyond all pveccdmieu or bounds
with raised hai.d and f rvent supplication, of eourtisy or ie:i".ii, in a manner and in
iiuolcrs the favor of the Bctiut'.i -ut lning a .-pint, and with a feeling which spoke
who has vouchsafed to us, a. a penph;. so di fiance to nearly one half of tho States of
many ble.-Jngs. Tho whi-pcr of beauty the confederacy, when it was well known
is hu-hed in tho sallurics the used bow tlrv would not aermicsce in his noiiiina-
tlifl. ni;iv liMii.s iii svinimtlieiio ami deer, tinn . tli.it tl,ev n-m.i.l nnt ,m.ri l,!r !f mociatlo masses, but "Wo to the i iders that
devotion-levity U humbled into silence, nominated, and that ho could not be eke ! "'"''I'l-'1 '' down.'' Political gam
and even lurking fiaud is abashed and tod without tluir votes ; pressed, too, in a wrs . you navo ureatuau your contagion
cowers for a hidinu' lilac. But tlu praur tone and temper, and with a iWued and ! throughout tho democratic citadel, and
is over, and a bund of conspirators take obstinate pie i-tenoo which was Veil eal- ptofancd and polluted its very walk You
possesion of the assemblage, and, instead ciliated, if it was not intended, to break up luvB defiled its holy places by your cor
of a National Convention, a great buck- the Convention or force it into obedience ' rul't;"c l"-' "ci i ""-loati hca-ts (old in
the aica ot its temples, and hlthy rep-
he removes to der.tood : and, unless ho
the Tenitory in quistion to reside is an j cmptivc right to the nomination which is
Mp.reiso nf nnthoiitv over nrivate property . not conceded, they had a rii'ht to set him
which is not warrentcd by the Constitution i aside as a mere matter of choice without
.i .!..... i e il. .,1 o rr 1,,. 1,; I anv reason whatever. Theso States lielil
uuu tuli nulltill v iiiu 7i,.i.iv..., kij m. 4
i. a.. Tn..:in.H nH..A 1.,',.. a hStn i onu limurGil and tweritv electoral vnt.n
UHIIU19 IV llik ,atli llliil - -' J -----
to freedom, ' Isuro for the democracy with an acceptable
.Vntvifall anm.iesend in this deel-ion. oanuiuate, wh.leevcry other State expect
1 . I flm.n nn tin. nntiho ivfiMi pnimlnH ...tn.l
us or aoubttul, and yet, managers ot tho
minority and doubtful States, by artifice
and combinations, sought through the
strangely protracted sessions of the Con
ventious held at Charleston uud Baltimore
to force tins one candidate upon the South
rm S ates, and in tlii- persistent and in.-auo
cltort, lirst dismembered and then adjour
ned the Convention at Charleston, and fi
nally divided and broko it up at Balii
more. It was of all others an occasion
when -11 mere individual preferences
should havo been forgotten surrendered
for the public good j but it was Douglas
or nothing, and hence the result. The
I estimated in the same way. a Tompkins, has, in the hands of "political
i ...... .i.i . i i i
CAUSES Of DISRUPTION THE AUTHORS B""'"! "KK" uugiauuu uy piaMnv.cs
tho sctitinieiit of ilia people of the
State and nation ; cheating :t greit and
confiding party, whose piinciplcs they put
on a disguisj, for tho purpose of enabling
tliom to cheat ; cheating the Coiiv.ntiol
which admitted them to seats; cheating
delegates wno tru t-d them ; cheating ev
erybody and everything with which the)
ea no in coi.tact, except Mr. Douglas theii
iniuince, and then lamenting through then
accredited organ, Iro n day to day, that
tin- Convention hid tot remained togcthei
so that they might havo finally have cheat
tedium. Thev have ovei thrown the de-
like good citizens ; had yielded willing and
cheerful assent and obedience to it as an
authentic con-truction of the fundamcttal
law, by the highest tribunal, the question
of slavery in the Territories, would have
been at rest, and tho democratic party
would have been on its way rejoicing.
But, every kind of means was resorted to
to evade it. llampart abolitiouism, more
manly than its accomplices in mischief
openly denounced it and defied it as it is
wont to do all legal obstacles to the con
summation of its own distempered idea
demagogism inflated itself fauaticism
foamed, and trimming cowardico shrunk
around it and insisted that the question
was not decided and a'l these combined
together, sought to deny to tho ci izens of
the slave States the benefits of the decis-
ion,tither in theory or practice. (Cheers.)
I repeat, the South were satisfied with
non-iutcrvcution, awaiting in good faith
the decision of the courts before this adju
dication ; since the decision, they would
have been satisfied with non-intervention,
and tho acknowledgement and practical
vxtcu ion ot'it according to its fair and
.quitablo spirit.
run orjeltiun of the south to mr.
douolas.
The South did not object to Mr. Doug
las because of his principles of non inUi
veutioil nor of lii.s duetiilied of qualified
popular soveieignty in tho Territories, as
u so oitcn and so pompously alleged ; but
their opposition to him airNes. to say noth
ing of his unfoitunate controversy with the
administration, from his advocacy of what
they regard as a most rank and mischiev
ous error, tho squatter sovereignty heresy
contending, as he does, us we have already
tive duty of this Government to proUct
the naturalized citizens in all Lis rights,
whether nt home or in foreign lands to tho
same extent as its native-born citizens,
' lieicus, Uncof the gieatest necessities
of tho ago, in a political eommercial,postal
and military point of view, is a speedy
communication between the Pacific and
Atlantic coasts : tlicicforc, be it
Jno led, That the national democratic
party do hereby pledge themselves to use
every means in their power to secure tho
passage of some bill to the extent of tho
constitutional authoiity of Congre-s, for
tho construction of a Pacific rail-road from
the Mis-iasippi river to the Pacific ocean,
at the earliest practicable moment.
Let us herealtcr bear no more from any
one profes.-ing the democratic ciced, and
pretending devotion and obedience to tho
constitution and laws, in denunciation of
the Southern democratic States, or assert
ing that they have titbtr proposed or de
manded a slave code, or that the Conven
tion of democratic States which nominated
Breckinridge and Lane have adopted one
but let all such foolish fabrications be left
to the rantings of Sumner, and Checvcr,
and Giddings, and their sombre associates.
(Cheer, laughter and hisses.)
democratic Nominees.
Tho public and private history of our
nominees constitutes iheir eulogy. Both
are now, and for years have been, in high
places in the government. Mr. Breckin-
Convention broken up, the party divided, stafcsman an(1 G;n. L0 ha3 W1itt(rn hu
and all for a candidate who cannot get an I m ' t,:, , ,,., i,,.
electoral vote The democratic par.y.un- sWord, Th nrc true fil-nds to tho
der such rule is like ho serpent m the fa- constltutioni 'and frco from tho cxp5uien.
ble, winch gave up the lead for a time to ev ,. tran3 of d.. The wcrQ
the tail instead of the head to prevent its placca nomination by 'he opcrat on of
clamor, and m attempting to go tail fore- ',,, -cnilruelit. and not forced unon tie
most it stuck last, and thus remained the
tail rclusmg to give up tha right tu go
ahead. And thus will the democratic
pirty remain until it shed its tapering cs
trjmity which insists on being honored
with command.
CHARGE OF A SLAVE CODE TUB DEMO
CRATIC PLATFORM
I' or the jurpose of turning attention
from the weakne.-s and absurdity of their
own po-ition, for tho mad and selfish pros
tuition of the democratic party, to alarm
the fears uf the timid, shake the knees of
the weak, and minister to the morbid cra
vings ot a lingering ami dormant aboli
tionism theyiioelaim that the national
democracy who havo placed in nomination
urccHitiridgc aud jjiuiu aic the advocates
of a slave code for the Territories. This
ideal bantling was begotton by design up
on ignorance, at.d supported by empty
noise and brazen clamor. Tho platform
asked for and in-isted upon by Sojthcrn
States, was just what the eon-titution en-
stering bazaar is erected a political trade to tho behests of a combination. (Cheer-.)
whom we
silos is opened management inaugurates The authors of this outrage
her slimy and repulsive court, and tlu should hold accountable, and who are
office of Chief Magistrate of this mighty justly aud directly chargeable with it,
republic is put up like the board of a puhhe weic the ruling majoiity of the New York
pauper, at the lowest bidder. Its proceed- delegation, They hi
ings boar evidence of deliberate and long power, and madly and
cherished design, of a combination and ruptly u-ed it for tho disruption of the
con-piracy to tie up minorities agaiu-t democratic party iu endeavoring to force
them, and leave tho-e free who were for it up to .i fixed point to sub-erve their in-
them, and thus attain bv fraud or force a famous -cliemes. Thev wc.io there chare-
- . , ,..,,.. n,i .... .
paiticular result, regardless of popular id with high responsibilities by a patiiolic 1 outlaws, ami set .u ueuauce. mere is no
sentiments or of consequence which might and confiding constituency in a eii-H of i iox f0 cratty but his hide, finally goes to
follow. The ruling faction had snuffed up unusual interest in the history of the party j -be hatters. You will hang upon its skirts,
stration by a wiso and foicseciiv lbrcin i tho scent ot lour hundred millions ol spoil, and he country tiiuy , in an evil moment, -,..... run v.- ...... .,v ... .l-
,ml ,lnm,.vt!e sllr-v- m,i. tlv advanehU I and for them the administration of Doug- luld in their leprous hands (he de,tii,i s of , venge but as an open enemy you are pow
M I 1 " . . .. . I 1 .... ..!.. .1 . .1
COIllltn tllOV iVllvss, ,iuu mu uin. vi.uut wus V'J iiivrsu
and hail Moil'- profesa! to be trovcrued by honorable
-veil, that notwithstanding tne decis.on ol
the Supreme Court in the l)red Scott case
holding that all citizens witli tlicr proper
ty are to be admitted there on, on equal
terms, slave property iueluJeJ, a TeiriiO
rial legislature may, by its cuacted law,
exclude slave propc.ty from the Territory
thus virtually investing a to rdorial
Legi-lati.ro with powor to anuulthis pro
vision of the constitution as construed by
the highest tiibunal known t the law.
These arc the articles of creed proposed
l.v Miv !)isnr. as. in whirl' llm Smith nli.
litieal gamblers I you h ive perpetrated juct 1,, the celebiated campaign debate
vour last cheat toiisuminatoil your last 1 with -Mr J.incoln, previous to tho Drcd
tiles have inhabited
the sanctuary of its
gols Its toweling eagle has lied for
a brief season, and foul ravens croak for
prey and what their bloody beaks and
1,1 ,i, . i.i dirty tallotis upon its sacred alters. I'o
selfishly and cor-
your
public sentiment, and tiot forced upon t io
public by the process ot political machine
ry. They will carry seventeen States by
acclamation, wi h a fair chance for others
in addition.
1UOULARITY OF NOMINATES.
When all other expedients fail, we arc
reminded that the nomination of Douglas
and Johnson is entitled to support ovcr
the other ior its legularity ; aud I have
observed that certain gentlemen who
were regular members of the speckled
Buffalo Convention of IS lb arc most
emphatic iii swearing allegiance to regu
larity. The Convention which made this
nomination had no sign nor show nor
shadow of icgularity. Tho delegated
Convention at (. harleston had no power
to adjourn to Baltimore a distance of
hundreds of miles, in another State, and
nearly two months aftcrwaids. No such,
thing was ever conteinp ated ; no such
power or discretion was delegated even
by tho most tar letched implications. A
entitles them to, as con-trued by the Su- f00tl nom u: al 'vo
"more Here it' oiuuieu to re-pett ami suppon, tut
fraud unon the democratic nartv for vou Scott decision, in answer to certain qucs-
vv ill never airaiu bo tru-ted. lleneeforth 1 'ions loied by Mr Lincoln, Mr. Doug-
you will bo held and treated as political
Mr
U rt ;nif..-.'.t nfi!m n.mirv in vnitn nfl las was expected to rain mi Ik and honey, a noble paity and of this coimtrv they I
s . '. "... i t ... . i i M VI - n' r i.l 1 1 1 .11.1 u-tinl-iNl ,-nit Willi iktirli.w ,isi,l ,,-Ti'e,!i t .
ho efforts of foes without and foes within. I "how powdered sugar, and hail Mofi- profi-sal to
md democracy was in tho zenith of its at's Vegetable Life Pills. (L'uightcr ) cotisi,leiations and to de-ire the unity, and
inu,v Tc in.,in timt rrr.snt Under pearl v two weeks of this niipliciiti in harmoiiv, and success of the democracy.
ionscrvativo party of the people amf the I of the foiciug process the Convention (Cheers.) They proclaimed, personally J of reckoning aud retribution, and yours is
.i. .-..i. ...r... i.. ' rirnverl nnfnii.il in tho oiner'encv. and nml tlnnu.'h their aeciedlted organs, that '. at hand
Jonsitiuuon, mo couuiry a baiuiv imu uiw i - i- - f r. --- - -
ly cliques, who betray trusts and abuse
power as with individuals, there is a day
patriot's hops, is ciipplcd and divided if
ts power is weakened, its forces scattered,
tj energies weighed down, and there are
brebodings that its proud banner may fall
railing in the dust let it bo remembred
ihat it is not the fault of the party or its
paused lor health a portion ol theueicga- m their n;w the Southern states were en
tions withdrew, aud tho residue adjourned titled to name a candidate, and declared
to Baltimore for a peiiod of some six wevks, that it would be their first policy to second
for ventilation. Tho public had reascu such suggestions as were made in that
to hope, that separated from the influences quarter, and suppoit such candidate as
which surrouud them, and no longer should be named by, or be the ino-t ac-
orinciples, or of its masses, that it is thus I breathing tho contagions they engendred, ccptablc to the South j and with such pre
" .... . .... . i -1- i. ..i.i i . i . ... : ..jr..i. -........,.. .1...:.. i:....
degraded, but that it is because in an evil
. imsnt its management fell into the hands
of the selfish, corrupt and venal, who have
betrayed the trusts, half gained by stealth,
half confided to thcin, and because iu at
tempting to use its power to advaneu per
sonal ends only they havo destroyed its
organiiation, divided it into sections, and
brought them into conflict with each other,
instead of concentrating all its forces upon
tho enemies of the constitution. (Loud
cheers.)
THE REPUBLICAN TARTY.
This organization, with many elements '
but inhaling a healthy moral atmosphere, tea ions and false pretences on their lips,
they might return and discharge the duty they went to Charleston. But from tho
which they had undertaken. But abstin- moment they entered the Convention at
dice only edged their appetites, and their ' Charleston, until it was finally broken up
last state was worse than tho first. (A by their basj conduct which secured them
voioe "That's so.") The same drilled, the designation of political gamblers upon
packed, machine majority, met again, the floor of tho Convention, their every aet
composed of delegates from a portion of
States, and assumed to sit in judgment
upon tho rights of regular delegates from acceptable to the Southern States, aud
another portion to punish them for some their every cuoit in season and out ot tea-
was to oppose the wi-hes and resist each,
any, aud every candidate who would bi
I ur timi hi l.i-t fi-l- ntl iliiii::. rvin.
Am) it i .-.In Iml wnli li hi lumr.
I In tt- ni-.i-r J. l vv ri Imiiii.111 imwur,
W llm null! 1'inilr il utlfnrulv f-ri.
Mi,- t'ltli'-i'l f'-uri h nml M.'il li'iij.
las answered as follows
The next question propounded to me
Lincoln is. can the neonlo of a Terri.
I .. ..... . .1.. i.
lory, iu an liiniiii wuj, aaiu-i uiu wi.-u-cs
of the U. States, exclude slavery from
tin ir limits pi ior to the formation of u
State constitution '! I answer emphatical
ly, a- Mr. Lincoln has heard mo answer
a hundred times from every stump of Illi
nois, that, in my opinion, the people of a
Tenitory, can, by lawful means, exclude
slavery from their limits prior to the for
mation of ti State constitution. Mr. Liu
coin knew that I had answered that ques
tion ovcr and ovcr a;ain. Ho heard mo
i aruuo the Nebraska bill on that principle
I a lover the Statu in l'-ol, iu l-?55,and in
I W)G. and ho has no excuse for nrctendins
v,, .un. i,,. u,,a ni-ua-nmut) t0 ue , U0Ubis aj to my position on that
THE DRED SeTTT DECISION. quc-tion.
After the passage of all oftheso meas-1 After tho Dr-'d Scott decision had been
urcs, came the Dred Scott decisi- n by the pronounced aud published, Mr. Douglas
Supreme Couit of tho United Statos, pro-1 tcs his position thui :
nouneed after unusual labor and dclibera-1 matters not what way the Supremo
, . ,, n ..... .. , ,, Court may hereafter decido as to the ab
lion, const tu ng the Constitution and tho , , .
n . . stract question whether slavery may or
rights of citizens of States in the Terrifo 1 may pot go in a Terri ory under the con
ries, as Mr. Calhoun and other Southern ' stitution, the people hive the lawful means
statesmen had contended, and thus setting to introduce or exclude it as they please,
the question for ever, for all thoso who l'or tlia' &lavci'y c;,'"lot. .sist a dui' ,r ,a"
',.,,.,.... , hour anywhere unless it is suppoited by
propose to abide by tho Constitution and . . . regulation can oulJ bo cstab-
Haws. The substance of tho decision was ijshn(i uv the jocai icaialaturo ; and if the
this :
Tho territory acquired is acquired by
nonconformity to the majority standard
or other delinquency in short, to deny to
sovereign democratic States the right tore-
of personal cleverness, bodes evil to tho turn to tueir scats at Baltimore, because
best interests of trudfrcoiom and humanity, they did not occupy them for tho whole
It is founded in sectional disturbance, its period of the protracted sitting at Char
aliment is prejudice and passion, its efforts leston a question belonging entirely to
calculated to array State against State, the constituency of theso delegations' alone,
Boction against section, man against man, and with which the National Convention
brother against brother to destroy all , had no business whatever. And not only
kindly relations and l'ght up the fires of, wcro theso delegations expelled un
sectional discord aud strife, to end in bat-' der such pretensions, but bogus dclega
tlea of blood. Though its managers threw tions, made up to suit tho convenience and
overboard its nr. at founder and leader, necessity of the occasion, wcro put iu their
Governor Seward, because ho had too pUccs. (Hisses and cheers.) A decision
sou, by uiglit and by day, was to force
upon the southern states a culminate
whoso creed they repudiated and condemn
ed : a candidate they had declared, in tho
most solemn form and with npeatcd as
severations, they could not aud would not
support ; a candidate who was at open war
with the democratic administration, who
had but a single supporter in tho demo
cratic Senate, and whoso special adherents
had just aided the republicans in the elec
tion of Speaker and Clerk of tho House of
Representatives, two of tho most influential
and commanding positions in the govern
ment. (Cheers.) Thoso who ruled, and
the people of tho United States for their
common and equal benefit, through their
agent and trustee, tho fedoral government.
Congress can exercise no power over the
lights of pcrsous, or propeity of citizen in
the Territory, which is prohibited by the
Constitution. The govcrment and the cit
izens, whenever the Territory is opened to
settlemont,both, enter it with their respec
tive rights defined and limited by the
Constitution. Congress has no right to
prohibit the citizen of any particular State
or States from making their boan there,
whil j it p irmiti citizens of other States to
do o. Nor has it a right to give privi
lagos to one class of pcopla when it refuses
thfin to aaollur. Tho Territory is ao
quirod for their equal aud common benefit
tod if open to any it must be open to all,
prcme Court and nothiii:
is in all its length and breadth, as adop
ted in the Convention of Democratic Stites
which nominated Breckinridge and Lane.
It is the same non intervention which every i
true denncrat has advocated, aid giving
effect to the decision of tho Court and
nothing more. Let every democrat r;ad t
with uuc.oudcd isiuii,and not through thu
smoked glass of incipient abolitiouiim ; let
him analyze it carefully, and then tell us
in what section or sentence or syllable
this terilio slave code reposes; and when
read weighed and understood, let all who
cannot subscribe to the great principles of
per-onal aud State equality there enauci
ated, as established and guaranteed by
he constitution, and authorized and vindi
cated by the decision of the Supremo Court
ofthu United States, remember that he
has taken the first lesson in abolition ru
publicanisiu, and is alieady on his way to
that organization iu his yu pathy with a
scetiou.il bigoted creed and narrow political
beliet. Hat hero is the platform ol demo
cratic priuciples which will speak for it-
sen : -
PLATFORM OT THi' REGULAR NATIONAL
D'MOJKACY ADOPTED IN CONVENTION
AT BALTIMORE, JUNE, IsflO.
R'so'o-:, That tho platform adopted
by the Democratic party at Cincinnati be
affirmed with the following explanatory
resolutions :
1'tr t. That government of a Territory
organized by an act of Congress is provis
ional and temporary, anil during its exi t
enee all citizens of the United S ates have
an equal right to settle with their proper
ty m tho .territory, without their rights,
either of person or property, being de
stroyed or imp iired by congressional or
tcrritoiial legislation.
Seoi'ttt, That it is tho duty of tho Fed
eral Government, in all its departments,
to protect, when necessary, tho lights ol
persons and property, iu 1 ho Territoriess
and wherever else its constitutional author
ity extends.
Tlunl. That when tho settlers in a Ter
people arc opposed to slavery, they will 1 ritorv havinu an adonnatn nnnnlatinn fnrm
elect representatives to that body who will a Stato consti ution, the right of sovereign,
by unfriendly legislation effectually pre- ty commences, aud, beinc co-uinmat.-d bv
vent the introduction of it into their nud t. admission into the Union, they stand on
If, on the contrary, they are for it their an equal footing with the people of other
legislation will favor its extension. Hence St.ves, and the State thus organized ought
no matter what tho decision of tho Su- to be admitted into the Federal Union
premo Court may boon that abstract ques- , whether its constitution prohibits or recog
tion, still tho ruiht of the people to make nizes the institution of sluvory.
a slavo Territory or a frco Territory bill. ' l.tsn'ied, That the democratic party
I hope Mr. Lincoln deems my answer are in favor of the acqusitiou of tlu Island
satisfactory on that point. of Cuba on such terms as shall be hon-
If it bo true, that the Territorial Lcgisla or.ible to ourselves a . d just to Spain, at
turocan, by an act, cxeludo tho citizen of the carlie-t practicable moment.
a Southern State, with his slave property, lies lo , That tho enactments of State
from all tho enjoyments of. and participa. lei-laturos to defeat the faithful execution
tiou iu tho common territorial property of of the fugitivo slavo law aro liostilo iu
all the States, as is asserted by Mr Doug- character- subversive of tho Constitution,
las, the constitution and tho deeisionsof the and revolutionary iu their effect.
Supremo Court, aud the rights of person R'solvd, That tho Damocraey of tho
and property there, are tho playthings of United States rccognizo it as tho iinpora-
uot on the score of regularity, lor it had
not even tho semblance ot it. lhc i .'gu
lar delegations for a l irgo number of
States were rejected, and bogus contes
tants, soma of tuem without prcteacj cf
' regularity or delegated authority wuro
admitted in their places, while i galar
delegations trout numerous other Slates,
because of this outrage, withdrew, aud
j this pvoWnded regular Oouvention was a
mere traction of one, paitly but not wholly
filled up with uiiauthoriz.-d persons fmiu
the outside It acted in violation of the
uui.orm lulc of democratic National Con
, ventions, which it had it-elf adopted,
requi ing two thirds to nominate, and then
l diircgaidjd it iu making the noinina'ions,
for at no time, bogus dclcgat-s included,
' did the vote icaeh u ar a two thirds vote.
Its nominee Ior Vicj Pre idei.t was Mr.
l-'.tzpatriek, who declined to accept such a
I nomination, and the regulaiity of iir.
' Johnson, who now ruus as Vice President
' with Mr. Douglas, counts iu tho request
I of some half dozen individuals, aftr tho
! adjournment, that ho should run and iu
I which request, it seems, ho cordially uni
ted. (Cheers.)
The rogu ar President of the Conven
tion, lieu. Cushing, lclt bis chair and
went away, aud piesided over tho Con
voutiou which nominated Brcckiuridgj and
La.ic 3o that the regularity of the nom
ination of Douglas and Johnson may be
summed up in tins : that Mr. Johuson was
not and has not yet beou nominated by
&ny convention ; that Mr. Douglas was
nominated by delegates of an irregular,
iraeuoiiai, inoiteu up uonvontiou, without
a head, without a deiiiocrt.c body, but a
mere skeleton, half solt, half republic in
Stato delegation and a bous tail. No
one pretends that tho nominations ot
Breckinridge aril Line li ive the authority
of a legular National Cjiivotitiou accord
ing to tlio usages ot tiie party j but they
have uiore claim to regularity than thj
etiur. This Convention had a head in
the President of the wholo Convention.
It had a democratic body in tho re- utar
delegations trom all the sure democratic
Stat.-s a majority of the States ot tho
Union it had no bogus extremity, aud it
tiad a platiorm of manly principles of
liberty, equality and lratemity upjii which
every true democrat of tho vihois Union
cau stand. Tlu questio.i recurs, what
shal we dot Dol Why, stand resolute
ly by principle, and let tho s-orm rnge
ou there is sunshine beyond the clouds.
We shall thus commence to descrvo suo
ccss and if we parsevero in this stern path
of coustitutioual rectitude wo shall pre
serve our sen respect, command tlio re
sp.'ct of all others, and our efforts will bo
crowned with triumph for our party and
our principles, tho good influences of which
will last when party managers and
tricksters and their vile uchemos arc for
gotten, or remembered only to bo hated
and execrated