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DENTIAL CANVASS
pooch of Mr, Brock• :
t Lexington, Ky.
Ky. S.y. s.—Everything
1-r ill , ; I , lt
A,h
vi Ow city
hour tha road a from all di
roe". lei with ja , oplo. At
1., a Falettv of thirty-three!
' the arrival of 31r. Bruck
a., hailed kith an t.t.thu,i-
tion. At tw, , nty minutes
BreekinridBe aroso
,ny neighbors, friends and
s, to be assured that 1 feel
ireful for the eurdial s welconie
idol to me. The eirrunts
which I appear before you
unusual. Idoit in °bolt
ptest of friends whose intel
been accustomited to oh,
be an uncommon thing for
• position to address abeam.
can only say that I h0p...,
which are in a manner
unworthy the attitude which
hall certainly indulge in no
h, in my opinion, will fall
ity of political discussion.—
of my health and my psi•
impossible for mo to emend
this vast assembly, but I
route stronger as 1 proceed
n asked, fellow citize n s, to
wit home beatc.e I and the
ization with which I sin rott
en assailed in an unusual
arged with treason to my
I appear before you today
e of repelling certain beau
have been made against me
nd industriously circulated
States of the Union, and
v that the principles upon
are the principles of both the
d the Union of our country.
se.] And surely if any time
on could be found by Any
!sail% the people in the post•
,ceupy, it will Lo found in my
writers and wandering ore
en to tell the people that 1
t a disunionist audit truitor
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1860.
a patriot and ibe act ory of Arnold
But, fellow-citizena, before I come to
those topics, T A newts to make and prove
comprehensive statement in regard to tuy
position in connection with the Presidency
of the United States, 1 have been charged
with intriguing for this nomination.
have been charged with leaping before the
wishes of the people and desiring to thrust
myself before theta for the highest office in
their gift. To that, I answer that it is
wholly untrue. I have written to nobody,
soliciting support, I have intrigued with
nobody. I have promised nobody. To
these statements I challenge contradic
tion from any human being, [Cheers.]
Mr. Breekinridge, resuming—l did not
seek or desire to be placed before the pee.
pie for the office of President, by any
Convection, or any part of any Convention,
When I returned to the State of Kentucky
in the spring of 1859, and was informed
that some partial friends were presenting
my name to the public in that connection,
and a certain editor (whose presence 1 see
here,) in this State, had hoisted my name
for the Presideney,l said to hint : "Friend
I am not in any sense a candidate for the
Presidency," and I desired that my name
should be taken down from the head of
their columns, It was done. A sery em
inent, citizen of the Commonwealth of Ken
tucky, (Mr. titaltrie,) was preeinteil f o r
that Aloe. I was gratified it, and
as far us my own declarations were yen
ta-rued, I united cordially in prestattieg
him mr the suffrages of the American vie°
phi—though at no time, in or out of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, did Ido an
net or utter a word which would bring my
name in conflict with his, or that of any
other eminent American citizen who do
sired, or who,' friends desired for him,
that position. And if you took the troub
le to read the pruceedi'"lg.4 of the 4 harles
ten Convention you will remember that
when I received the vote of Arkansas, one
of my friends arose and withdrew my name
declaring that 1 would not allow it 1,4 come
in Opposi6 , lll, the ge tdlemen before the
eto; oh , {wit that, Convention as
sembled at Baltimore, my feelings and my
t e n d e s t were still unchanged. After the
illsrm Con which took place there,my name ,
whltied any solteitatimt oe my part, was
presented as a timelidatit. Previously, not
let etiu sash a thing po-sible, I sail I did
not desire to be present I to the Anatri- .
can opt., but 1 ant eament with the bon
ers it filth have bon lisapeil upon me by
toy State and my country'. and I look i. r-
V, 41..4 with pleasure to the prospet t i ray
nervingf my country in the Siatatit of the
Chin! States for the next, six years. Inv
name however 113 , pri end I feit
that I (multi not refuse to accept the nom
i atieu under the eireurostanees without
abandoning vita/ principles and betraying
ay frbnils'. It is said I was not regularly ;
nominated for the Presidency : bnt that is,
a , 01 , s1i 4 la I have not time to discuss to
day, and it has already been thoroughly
exhibited and discoursed upon before the
people. I refer Vol to the bold letter of
your delegates front this Congressional
distriet, 1 refer you to the masterly and
extent-tire speech ro.ottly delivered by
my henerable friend in whose grounds we'
are :net. I can only say thitt the Con- -
vention which assembled at the. Front
Street Theatre, at Baltimore, was devoid
n e t only of the spirit of j u stice but of the
forms of regularity. [cheers.] The gen
tleman whom it presented never received a
vote required by the rules of the D e m o .
,
erotic organization. 11 lime states were
excluded and disfrartehised in that Coil•
vention,not to speak of individuals; the most
flagrant acts at injustice were perpetrated
for the purpose of forcing, a particular dog•
ma upon the Inenoeratie organization ; and
the gentleman who is the representative of,
that dogma and principles, which I will
be. Able to show are repugnant, alike to
reason and the Constitution. Owing to
the impropriety of those prcusiedings, a
derided majority of the delegates from
your own State withdrew from the Conven
tion declaring that it was note Rational Con.
vention of the real Democratic organize-
Lion. The entire delegation from the Id- I
teen Southern States, and of California
and Orogen, with large minorities from
other States, making in whole ir in part
delegations from almost two-thirds of the
,:tat. •• or the Confederaey, sups ittmd a
National Dimmer:um C iA , ‘ ,, ti ti oli , depend
ing maul the authority and loyidity el the
'.•111 ,• r;ltie party, 'But after ell the groat
• .1 , t • what are the prinelph ist Melt
minimmel themselves to the Amer -
ions P - • pl.' '1
at lame in this cause-. 'Ch,
r,qo 1 ti n t but before
pr. ••. fu titer , I will :.:7ttp together
ithd a....,,r lit t iebt rof p r , iaal
ins. • -am or wrieh the State
Kooto,r iq or-041wro, by
tbrou i di to, it to strila.
down the org . anizat ten with which 1 ant
aiie-ted. it beg , ts isi me almost, a le• •
ling f hundliatio aninvt r einne or a 1.,.
I hut tIA I h a ve i m pos e d upon myself the
taeii I will fro flicinelt them all as briefly
as I cam [Cheers. . )
I believe it has been published in almost
every Southern um -paper of the opposition
party, that signed a petition for the par
don of John Brown, the Harper's Ferry
murderer and traitor. Thin 6 w11 , ;:ly un-
true. So much for that. [Cries of 4;
It has been exteusieely uharged and cir
culated that I was in favor of the election
of Gen. Taylor to the Preside,' 1, and op•
posed to the election of Cass and Butler.
This also is wholly untrue. In the year
1^447, there was a meeting in the city of
AND BLOOMSBURG GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"TO HOLD AND TRUK TWO TORCH OP TRAM! AND WAVE IT 011 E T i DAD,KSNED UADTII."
the Presidency of the United States. A
difference of opinion existedat that time as
to the political sentiments of that distin
guished gentleman. I was assured spun
grounds satisfactory to me, that they coin.
661 with my own political opinions, and
I united in the meeting. Pretty soon af
terwards, I went to Mexico, and when I
returned ,twobre months afterwards,in 1644,
I found the campaign in full blast with
Gen. Taylor the candidate of the Whigs,
and Cass and Butler as the nominees of
the I\ ational Democracy. it is well known
to thousands of those within the sound of
my voice that as soon as I returned home,
1 took the stump in behalf of the Ammo.
racy, and maintained its doctrines to the
best of my abllity—Faiee—All
right]
and I was not afraid to do it, because they
were the representatives of my principles,
and you may judge of my zeal, as one of
those gentlemen was my old commander
and my friend. It was said that I was
not regent, and did not vote at the elec
tion at Lexington, in 154 4 , and that is
true, but with that fact has gone the ex
planation which my opponents have never
published, showing that it was my intention
to be absent during the canvass, but it
was not my intention to lose my vote. on
all know that at that time as a citizen,
could vote anywhere in the State, (being
before the revision and adoption of our
present Constitution,) but it so happened
that there were six or gentlemen
eompanying me, all of then' lelonging to
the Whig party, and they proposed to me
that if I would not return to my own town
and vier they would not. If see had all
voted, there would have been six or amen
vote.: cart for Taylor, and only one cast
for Cass and Rader, [Cheers.] I ac.
e e pted the proposition and we went hunt
ing, [laughter] and if every man had d o n ' ,
as well as myself, we would have carried
the State by forty thousand majority,—
[Applause j Among those with me I re
member the names of three of my friends
—Thomas I. Redd, Nelson Butler and
tleorge P. Jewett.
Alimher charge has been extensively
circulated throughout the Southern States
that I WitS tut emancipationist in ill, or
at least voted for an entancipationig at
sometime. Mr. B. read an extract from
a letter from toe Jim. George Robert-on,
published in a southern paper, havitm,
reference to his p,, , iti o n on this
and ~ 'llloding t t his private affairs, arid
commented on it at some length, and with
much severity. 1 conic to the fact that the
only time I knew of the question of enum
, ivatkm being raised was in I'sdn, when
NV, were electing delegates to the Conven..
ti et to form a new constitution. Then
Itr. I.4. , ekiitrid,:c and Mr. Shy were email
cipationists. Mr. Wickliffe and I can
vawl the county to the best of our abilities
in opposition to emancipation, believing
that the interests of both races in tim Coln ,
Illollwoalth would be promoted by tin: con
tinuanee of their present station. At
the polls Dr. Brvvhintidga voted against
me and I. against hini,[eheerfl because we
were representing opposite; plinciple., and
just so would it be again under stntilar eir
eutustalleeS. So tuucrh fir that chorea,.
But I have seen pamphlets published and
circulated all over the Union, for the pur
pose of proving that I was a Know Noth
nig in the Store of Kentucky. [Laughter ]
have no doubt that a very considerable
proportion of those listening to we were
members of that Order in that year, and if
there is a man mon.; you who belonged
to the Order who ever saw me in one of
your lodges, who did not know that I was
recognized as one of the most uncompro
mising opponents of that Order, let hi in
be good enough to say so now. I believe
I was the first gentleman in Congress who
took a position against the organization.
When I returned home in the spring of
1855, it was making great progress in this
commonwealth. and although 1 had with
drawn from public life to attend to my pri
vate affairs.' opposed it in repeated speech
es all over Kentucky. This statement may
not be very acceptable to some gentlemen
within the sound of my voice, but I do not
want to deceive any man. I stand upon
my principles, and ant willing to view
thou without the slightest regard to cow
wipe Wes.
I. ant represented to this day as having
said that I would make a difference be
tween one of my own religious belief and
another and that between an unnatura lived
and nnouralized citizen I would snake
political difference. I never uttered such
sentiment.(great applause.)
The uuderlyiug principle with me was
this : that the condition of citizen hip be
ing once obtained, no question, either of
birth or religion, should be allowed to emu
mingle with political consideration. Op
plausti.) I deem it only ticcussury to make
these statements hero succinctly and pass
on, because I am speaking to assembled
thousands who know this injustice.
But, fellow-citizens,to come to more ex
tended topics, it has een asserted that 1
and the political organization with which I
am connected, have abandoned the ground
on which we stood in regard to the terri
torial question in 1554 and 's6,—that we
then ciecupied a position which is now oc
cupied by the friends and supporters of
Mr Douglas, and by that eminent gen
tleman himself. I deny it. and I shall
now proceed to prove this denial—both as
to myself mind as to the party therein in•
volved. There was a body to whom we
could refer the question, mud we thought it
unnecessary further to debate, each party
agreeing to acquiesce in the decision as
muttered by the said body. I believe that
est not*. Never tares tt single report of
these speechett reviecti by me or written
out infun. The reports of them ere those
which various persons chose to make. I
have been amused to see stations portions
of what they call Tippecanoe speech, and
the divers reports of the reporters which
they those to make for different papers at
different times. I have in my hands a re
port which roads as follows, in reference
to the Territorial question cyfhe p e ople
of the Territories, under the Kansas Ne
braska Art, have the full right to prohibit,'
slavery, which principle is as old gki the!
Republieton Government itself."
Not only did I
,never utter Nell a Fen
timent, but I have HO reason to I , , , lieve
that any body even thought utt,•red
I had never even it in any mwspap , •r any
where. But I have no time to waste in
comments upon the propriety or delicacy
of a gentleman who is before the country
for the office of President, in introducinn
the name of one who is also a candidate
with me, and giving his personal testimo
ny.
As to that gentleman's opinions I shall
waste no time in discussion of the pro
priety of such a course. I wish to unit
the accusation of the Iron. S. A. 11 , ,uole:,
in a series of papers which he hes teem
r, tiding in various States, end even r.
ia ntly in Concord, N. IL I give his own
lei em ; 4, Th e r e is nut an bon, st man
in all America," says elr„Doe le las, to that
will deny that Janice lluellanan and Joint
C. B I
Breckenridge, in Veen, were Ides to
the doctrine of non.intorr,hti,il by C on .
ere-- with slavery in the Teral se
Con ;
tesi
, '
Mark the word, it it , there uomott , rtetn
tion.) " I made epeeelles front the same I
stump with t. C. Beeekittridee is teeto,
when lie was advemoing his nun ela en.
to the Vice Presi lenity, and 'word hint ce,
to the extreme length in fovertoo l
ler :sovereignty its the Torritorim."
speakin g of oilier gentlemen front he
South, who had been expriusino 11tm.
solves in the N o rth, he seys, "l t every
one of the spe , ell ,, they ad vomited squat
ter sovereignty in its broadeo - m e
Here, in the space of twelve lines, you
see non-intervention, popular sot., reigley„
all ct i olveyieg the same njoannt , 2f,
that I h0!..1 .o rinds of neminerventiou
as it we . e r e t ua llet utelersto • , I and en
graf id into tie , I gide ion of the country.
as 1 will ;••• ••• • 1 to tt•h•tt.r mere fully in
iii' her part 14 ' my speech. But 1 itro.'
ttno•• that ttt Jai in this stet, tent
h 1 .1 , 1: 1,, !ha', hi I teei. It en ti.,
s wilt 111 . . he tel.., d the I
dm-rite th a t a teteitoriol ti-letio• h a d I
the p r to exclude' slave oty
r territorial e,»elitions, and I al.
preset:to that he m ts this expo , 'on in
filet s n- •; end this is the temstien that
lee, b: , a de whole point of (Roam-el
t‘e It at no time cif hot' !metro ar a fter the
passage of the Kansas Nelmmlett bill in I
Oomer.•te, did I ever entermin or utter the
opinion that a Territorial Legislature.,
prior to the formation of a State Consti
tution, had the power to es:elude slave
property front tine e dintton Territories of
th e r,d,u, and no other advocate of my
doetrines can br feund who will subs
stantially eh moo this expression. Now I
am to entertain you briefly by as clear en
exposition as I can make of the attitudes
of tine parties, in regard to the question
at issue. In Peet, we removed the res
strietiou of the Missouri line, anti passed
the Kansas-Nebraska bi'l through both
Houses of Congress, and it !weenie a law.
The argument of those, North and South,
who opposed the repeal of the Compro
mise was that the Territories should be
left, open to settlement. There was but
one point upon which the friends of the
bill differed. The Southern friends of the
measure, and a few of its Northern friends,
dented the power either of Congress or the
Territorial Legislature to exclude any
description of property.
The ether party assumed the ground that
the Territorial Legislature bad the power
of such exelusion. It was a Constitutional
questiee, however. and they agreed not to
make it a mutter of legislative dispute, but
to insert it provision in the bill refertioe,
the question to the Supreme Court for des
eieion, and MI parties. were hound to abide
by the decision made by the august tribu
nal upon this Constitutional question.
We now prove that, there was such an
agreement. Ordinarily a bill cannot he
taken from a Territorial Court to the Sc.
promo Court of the United States until the
matter is controversy amounts to et ono,
and in order that this question might be
tried fre -.01 a clause
net iu.. ra;d •toin-
Par.!. ti. .1 I \u, . n ,:.•
11. •11 ••C
lit t.,••
0.• -ttit tto set, • tit: :Let, .1
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We in the South held that the 'ferrite
rial Legislature did not have the power.—
Mr. Douglas and his friends held that the
Territorial Legislature did have the power.
We suspended that question and referred
it by a bill to the Supremo Court of the
United States to determine the constitution
al question therein involved.
There was a body to whow we could re
fer the question, and we thought it wince
essary further to dchaL. it, each party
agreeing to acquiesce in the decision as
rendered by the said body. I think that
is a pretty plain statement on that point.
I wake it to show that there was a vow
taken by the Southern friends of the Inc !-
sure in Congress, and, among Clem, a vow
taken by your bumble speaker to support
the decision.
Mr. Itreekinrid •o hero read some ex•
were willing ? he (twinned, to have the
question decided by the eonrts of the Unit.
ed States. Again I say it was contended
upon one hand (upon the idea of the e.
quality of the Suttee under the Constite
ton and their outman property in the
territories,) that the citizens of the slave
holding States may remove to the Terri•
tortes with their sisivea and there legally
hold them until the Territory is resolved
into a State. In that capaoity it may ex.
elude them. On the other hand, it is said
that slavery, being in conflict with com
mon right, can exist only by the force of
Cositive law, and it is denied that the
ourt ever furnished the law. I said that
we demand that all citizens of the United
States shall be allowed to enter the com
mon territory with the Constitution alone
in their hands, for that instrument pro
tects the title of the master to his slave in
this common territory. You cannot com
plain if it does not protect his title, w e
ask no help from Congress. If difficulties
occurred, we were to let them be subunit
led to the Court.
Now upon my . own personal vindica
tion : The doctrines announced by m e i n
that speech were just an T have ever dc
clartal in the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
such as I have ever ,Ladarcd iu every
othlre,s that 1 have made in Ohio,
diana. :\lidlizan and hin,- , ylvania.
t,rward., v. hot it was tualcrst.a.y,l that
had lean ,liatglal, or that I had admitted
that this power ladongtai to the Territori
al
L•gida!ure, in the mouth of Sypt.,n,l,r
or Ortolu.r, I editor of the Ken
tu,ky pii,1,1,4 in this
alluding t., this the
statement, leave to ta•f,r
you. Mark you, this was before the
election of 11554,
Ir, littekinridge then read from an
, editorial in the Kentucky Snaff,sma4 o f
Oetohor, in which it, was stated that,
darin ! , hi., tour thr-u di Indiana and (thin,
be avowe , _ tho t.entiments ha had
often proclaimed in Kentucky, and which
are already embodied in the Cincinnati
Platform, that ha denied that the I),Ano
vratic party was in Federal relations a pro.
slavery patty ; that it was neither such a
party nor an anti,,l a very party ; that it
telintivud the iutcrf,•ronee of the Federal
Government whether to introdue.• or ex
edult, slavery, and led the Territories open
to common ,•ut lemma from all the ; 4 takts;
that each Stat•• ma- entitled to form its
own Con ditaii,n, and enter than Union
without ~ation by t * CM ro!..s Of I
account of it , zOlokl, :MVO r prohibition of
sia,,, , ry, and that the rtaiatucnt. that Mr,
II advocated :-,patter sovereignty was un
true.
Mr. Breckinridge then continued.—ln
the autumn of the same year I received a
Louisiana paper containing some remarks
wed° by General Mills, who heard my
speech, in which he denied that I hail ad
mitted this doctrine of the Territorial pow
er. He sent me a slip containing his
speedy In the same month, before the
Presidential election, I answered him, say
ing : Hands off of the whole subject by the
Federal Government except for one or two
protective purposes mentioned in the Con
stitution ; the equal rights of all sections
in the common territo St ry, and the absolute
power of each new ate to settle the ques
tion in its Constitution. These are my
doctrines and those of our platform, and
what is more, of the Constitution. (Great
cheers)
Now, fellow citizens, against the state
ment of that distinguished &muter, in
which he undertakes to prove allegations
against myself by himself, I thus oppose
my own statement. Next in proof, I read
to you from my speech in 1854, in Con
gress, the article in the Lexington paper,
before the Presidential election, the testi-
away of Gen. Mills, who heard that speech ,
at Tippecanoe, and my own letter in au- !
ewer to the latter gentleman, containing I
my opinion of the question at that time,
and what has ever Awe been my opinion.
(•'You are talking right.") I think 1 have
proven as fully as could be expected in the
limits of a speech, that the charge is un
founded in fact, and I will add that the
position I assumed, was that taken by all
the Southern friends of the Nebraska bill,
and by a portion of its Northern friends.
These were our private opinions—these .
were opinions we urged on all proper oc
casions, but we did not undertake to force
all others to agree to them. We had
agreed to refer that to the highest tribunal
in the Union. Now, gentlemen, having
eindiented myself and the constitutional
Ikuti.ieracy from the charge of having aban
doned the po3ition they took in 1...54 -.5-6,
1 turn upon any accuser and undertake to
show that he himself abandoned the agree
ment he solemnly made at the time the
Kansas Nebraska bill passed the Congress
of the li tilted States, (great applause.) and
1 do not make myself a witness against
him to do it. I will prove it by himself.
( Applause.) On the :fel of .Jul,y IRSO, in
the debate upon a bill to authorize the peo
ple of Kansas to form a Constitution pre.
watery to admission into the Union us a
State, when the question arose as to what
was the true meaning of the Kansas-Ne.
' braska bill, and the limitation of the pow
er of the Territorial Govcrumen., Mr.
Trumbull offered the following amendment
as au additional section to the bill : "And
be it further enacted, that the provision iu
the act to organize the Territories of Ne
braska and Kansas, which declares it to be
the'true intent A meaning of said act not to
legislate into any Territory or S . ate, nor
to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the
mottle thereof perfectly ft
of the United States, Irm Wedded and
doe* confer upda, or leaves to the people
of the Territory of Kansas, full power to
esolude slavery from said Territory, or to
re ice or regulate it therein."
That was Mr. Trumbull's amendment,
against which an overwhelming majority
of the Senate voted, including Gen. Cam
and Senator Douglas. Leg me, however,
do Mr. Douglas the justice to say that he
voted against that 11121411a111011t, not be
cause ho did not believe the Territorial
Legislature bad the power to exclude sla
very from the Territory, but iveanft he
did not believe it was consistent to decide
the question legislatively which they had
agreed to leave to the Court.
Gen. Cass said Of r. D. here quoted
from Uen. Cam}} to show that the North
and the South differed about the powers
that might be given a Territorial Legisla
ture, and that the Kansas bill left that to
be adjudiented by the Court by which
alone the constitutional question could be
settled.
Finally, (Mr. Dreekinridge continued,)
Mr. Douglas in the Sadao debate need the
following language, in apeaking of the at..
tempt of hie codkagua to imeree an (vim ,
eut of biro up,“ que.-iion whether
the J, rritoeiat L zi,:atart• had Ow rarer
t,o,•..clud , tlavcp:•jpdty bet •r• they be
e A, (}I r. lha,l„inc . ohs , her,:
'1 r. a tiveittra.
that Om- p •iat ut th • N.b.ra,ka biit
u;:.:, juli ial ~t et. ii bib he would
e ,1 .liby the bill it ivie.
tie. Couit-.1
Mr. lir , 4• • ••• • • 1:•;•1... i•
:slit,} 1.14 in tip. :—•.11 'kin. 1'.,•i.;.
-aid-111••co )Ir. 1; rr.nl lin • im• ••
frvin Mr. i• N 4 . 14
thv 114;3ortion—" ‘Ve ii-r••••• 1 r••i• it t •
ngT• • •1
I think i Int‘e rdelwn timt up.m the
point sdrlireptu....; u the it -,•!.d. of
tits Katia, bill as td the 1.-vrer t•
td c xeltute mare pr-p.•r
ty it was azreed t•r refer it to the Supreme
Court, and when it had been judicially
det e rmined we should abide by their de
,d,ion. Now bear with me while d read
a very litt.ie 11 , mt the deei-ion of the So.
preme Court of the r Status in the
' , red Seett ,•. Let uc fr)r a iff ont•:It•
turn the calm, e n4htened, judicial
ut
taran.•e of the imed a ugo.t. tr . :ban a l upon
the chilli. lb•p:, rtpplan-e] Phis
opiuiau
WaS concurred in by .all the Judgell
except t+Ao. tufd Ittr•l,•.l 1. , y the illus
trioar. , Chief d ardiee lb • [Mt.,' :.4tate.k.
Gre e kinrid,• 11 , 1 at eoncidtra-
Ide length from the ltr,l decisteM,
eminin ming on the peint- maintained in
that opinion, an continin d follows
Now, my fellow citizens, what is the
authoritative deeision of the Supremo
Court of the United States, to whom we
agreed to refer this disputed question of
the power of the Territorial Legislature
They decide that the Territories have been
nequired and are held by the Fed , ral
CFuvcruutc'nt, and that the eitizem of all
the States may hold and enjoy their prop
erty its them until they take upon them
selves the functions of sovereignty, and
are admitted into the union—nothing less
than a State being competent to determine
the question of slavery or no slavery.
They declared that the citizen enters any
Territory with the Constitution in his
' hand, and that the Federal Government
can exereis:. no power over his property
there which that instrument has not con.
ferred ; and they declare that since the
Federal Government cannot do it, still
less can it force a territorial government
to exercise those powers which it could
not confer upon any local government—a
right to distinguish between slave proper
ty and other ids of property, for no dis
tinction exists—that property in slaves is
recognized by the Constitution of the Uni
ted States—that there is to word in that
instrument which gives the Congress of
the United States greater power over it,
or which entith s that property to less
protection than any other property,—and
that the only power which the Congress of
tin,t United States has is in guardine , ' and
protecting the rights of citi ens. Lan.
gvage could not IL akti it plainer.
itavc Iward it :said that the case which
went t•• n•Ino Court of the United
the eftac which went front
tl:• but a ea 3 4, that wont from
a State, tiktador, md..dy
anti:.. ;, • ...••m••., fr-nt ct t , rui!.-ry
,!. • I'• •
....!, • I.H /1 1 .•
•• •1 . • , 11 • • •
/ I •-•
..: ••: IL
i• it: 1 I.:I •
Now I have shown you the points of
idifference betwecti us in that bill, awl the
iireen.ent between the friends of the bill.
I have shown you the deei,iou of the Su•
promo Court. IVe hive arrived at a
point where there should have been bar
many and peace—a point agreed upon.
1 The only point of difference had Icon
;determined by the highest judicial author
ity of the Union. Of course the constitu
tional question was settled according to
the agreement.
The opinion of the Supremo Court was
delivered in I t 457. Everything was quiet
utitti the year 1,458, when the Senator
from Illinois (Mr. Douglas) was a camii•
data for re election from that State, mid
then for the first time iu the history of
American ,olities we find the inion ad•
Mil
Ithe opinion of the big ,
Union.
Then we thet the
by the deetaion of the U.
the declaration mato ih
territorial authority to
exclude from the teiritor
citizens of the Southern
retard to the option
Court to the tHintrary.
In a debate between
and Mr. Lincoln, the fo
neat question propounded
Lincoln is—can the
is any lawful way, pip
the United Sago, onelu
their limits prior to the
State Constitution ? I
cally, as Mr. L. has het
hundred times from eve
note, that in my opinion
Territory can, by Lawful
slavery trona their limits
million of a State Conati
That question rPe agr
sas-Nchraka bill, t rote
Court, and it was decide
shown you, the year b
was made by Mr. Dottrel
eision they l'ay tl'at mill
the t-rrit,rial -lature
(X-11.1.10 ,!arery, but its
duty goa:FI and pr
era Mr. It.
tho to that Co
l ao.-e-,1 in the ileeisio
1). coheerning wh
al,drot . i t.--Cirm." The
t. but it is 0
. I .lllif States of
igh. • of more t
" it matte)
IP " what way the
Ina ) hereafter decide as to
riot), whether slavery in ,
into a Terri. .ry under
The peoph Imce the !at
trodutx or exclude 1,4 the
reas'on that isrery
RA hour anyti here, mde
by local j.eliee regulat
little as to the right to
tories. The people way
it."
I have shown you tin
Senate of tint 'Caned Sta
if the Constitution author
and protects it, no pow
take it away. I would
statement , reconciled. [
IV/al/ter the Cott:di:tido,
to eo there, and protect
his property, was a to
agreed to refer to the co
proven not by myself ha,
now says, '• no matter
court decide,, it may
[Prolonged applatto ,
If I were dispirit d to
example of an eminent D
as he said about me, th a t
ea id man in the Unite ,
deny that the agreement
the decision was nnid , ie
our view , of the Oc. -o is
agreement has been v;:.1
tar and hipersonaladLe
to abide by it. [Applau
Do not we state our I
Do we not state them
gouge of the Supreme C
stand upon the Coitstitut;
by the Court ? And d
our reasons in temperate
speetful arguments ?
The pure language it
prone Court states the
cides it, and the manne
stated by the distinguish
Illinois, are questions
highest intellects of the
eiscd, engaging the an.
your wisest and best In
attention of the most to
earth, debated in your
your House of Roprese:
before an anxious peoplo
two stated front one end
the other. The cry is,
argued in the decision?
yet temperate, without
«teeti and passion and prt
The question whether
the same as other pr ,
has the saute rights in t
other property; the sta
" that you shan't force
throats of an unwillin
arosments consist of an
am- of one section of t
:d• r
: t :
m to t:::
,•• . •
Yet we hear the item
cing elavery ilowu th o u
willing potle." Who
Dool the ovastetwo of t
t,CLIOU of private prop
imply that the Souther
to take charge of such
tute thi word " proper
" hlaves," anti rit'o ha
You attempt to terve
throats of au unuilth
tempt to firee pram! rly
of au unwilling peop!
olicem] IVh,y the terr
the ereaturo of (Lugo.
creature of the ColiAi ,
itttion of the States au,