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Columbus inquirer.
JUUH **. MARTI*. KAtfv-
Tueiiay Morning, July 17, I860
Mr. Everett's Opinions.
The very satisfactory letter which we
copy below, was written by a friend of Mr.
A Vary ftaaetuial fJirTcretire.
Our exploring neighbor, tin limn, fan-
ies that there la no difference in principle
Hvkutt, at his request, to a leading geu- between ilia L'tab mid New Mexico Ter*
tlrtnan of Alabama, who bad requested an | rilorial bills of 1850, and the Kansas-
to be read before the Helms i Nebraska bill of 1651, because (it says—w
Constitutional Union Ifominfttiom* . Union Convention, The report of pro- ! havo not examined) they all contain this j dictedneae of
esedinga of that body informed ua that Mr. clause: “The Legislative power of the Ter* our polilici*
The Itfrnnl sad the Platform (on I /Ay the coHiem/ilatioH of the philosopher, the
the slavery question) of JOII.1 »
flKI.I. of Tenwessee, the Constitu
tional Vatoa Candidate for the
Presidency.
* Statasmsij: y*t friend to truth, of aoul x1n csre.’*
Editor Enquirer .- The extravagant ad-
FOK PRESIDENT.
JOHN BELL,
—or ■riwwBMf.Be.
vi6e-prf.sjoknt.
EDWARD EVERETT,
or aaasACBOBEm.
Head lien Hill’s WpeerU l
A aoundrr, claarrr, or more logical argu
ment could hardly be condensed in fener
words. It must carry conviction to afl
impartial minds. ^ ^
The Con vent ton Called.
We learn that the Executiva Committee
of the Constitutional Union Party of Hour-
gia, which met at Miiledgsvdle on Wed*
nrsday, haa called a State Convention, to
nominate Electors, Ate., to meet at Mt!*
ledxevilli* on Monday the 13th of August.
The people have been impatiently expect
ing Ibis call, and our friends in many coun
ties, unwilling to await its slow coming,
have already met and appointed their dele
gates. Let the balance of the counties
respond at once. We must fight thia battle
succreafutiy in Georgia* and early organi
zation ia the surest means of winning the
victory.
Why We Corrected. It.
The Sun asya that Ha parsgrapli, stating
the extent of Douglas' newspaper support
in the .Southern States, “was taken from an
exchange, but ihe usual acknowledgment
was inadvertently omitted." it thinks the.
our corrections are “moat probably true
(as if it don't know that ibsy are true I) bui
wonders why it is that we volunteer to
correct statements prejudicial to the Doug
las cause. Wa should think that the simple
fact (which the Sim now appears to admit)
that its statement was incorrect furnishes a
good and »u(Hctcnt justification for our
interference. It is our duty, as impartial
journalists, to do just ire even to political
opponents; and as the Douglas parly has
no friendly press here (we don’t want them
lo consider ux as their political friend), w
furl the more Inclined • to insist on “fan
play" towards them.
We do not doubt that the Sun ropieu
tba article just as it assorts ; and wa believi
that if it bad bostowed a few momenta'
thought upon it, it would have seen *h»
outrageous misrepresentation contained in
the paiagrapli and would have excluded it
iiut we confess (hat wo arc aatonubed ai
the systematic perversity with which Ih*-
lireckiuridge press of tho Mouth are trying
to produce ilia impression that their candi
date ia strong before the people und Doug
las weak I They have actually gotten thi
larger portion of the Democracy hereabouts
to believe that Breckinridge is regarded
aa the regular candidate and will outrun
Douglas in the race ! Politicians at a dis
tance may laugh at this announcement and
think that we are exaggerating; but our
peoplo know it to be true. It may bo gath
ered from the conversations of every squad
ot Democratic politicians in our streets.
Are we, because we are uncompromisingly
for Hall and Evorott and against all other
candidates, to ignore this hallucination find
the means by which it has been produced !
W# do not au interprut our duty to the
public, and we expect tu continue to pub
lish laithful reports of the progress of tho
fight between Douglas and Urtckinriilge-
reports allowing that the latter, liko Tom
Hayers, “goes down" in every round—until
tho summing up in November verifies the
prediction which we now make : that Doug
las will heat Ureckinridgd in the Electoral
vote, and a* least one hundred thousand in
the popular vote of llio Union ; and that ii
the election goes to the llouso of Repre
sentatives (which can only bo prevented by
the election of Hell or Lincoln), where
only the three highest candidates will hr
sdmiKoa, John U. Ilreckiuridgu will bit the
nominee that out.
I hr Irish Vote,
The Atlanta Intelligencer is evidently
alarmed at the indications tbnt tho Demo
cratic Irish citizens of that placu nre going,
almost in a body, for Douglas and Johnson ;
and it rightly divines tho cause, viz.: the
well-known attachment of Irishmen among
ua to the Union of tho Htati-s. Therefou
it atrlvea to represent Breckinridge aa the
best Union man in nominuliim—declaring
that Breckinridge and Lane art “tho only
candidates now before tho people who
election can perpetuate the Union." The
ctaaa of voters addressed ate ahrewvi rnough
to aee that thia declaration is of it^vlf, under
the circumstances, an admission that the
Breckinridge parly ia contingently a disun
ion party. It me«nn that if Brtcklnridgi
io not elected his friend* will ho for diaun<
ion ! If any out.ole proof ia wanted to
sustain ibis interpretation of the Intetti^
ccr’a remark, let tt>« t»*a U*i look around him
and are who it is that fill the ranks
Breckinridge's supporters. Does lie know
• disuuionist who is not in that line! Don
ha know s man, who Ua# hrratofote declare
that be will inska the r«cult of ths F
drnlial election a pretext for dissolving the
Union, who i* not now in the Breckinridge
column 1 The elements composing the
par y attest its principles and aims.
We are outselv«a chsgiinrd at the indi
cations tr.st the Irish vole ia going for
Douglas. Knowing the attachment ot ihi*
class in the Union, w# had hoped that they
would lay asida past aniin <*ities in this
contest and t-npporl tho only National and
consistently Uumu caudidste m nomination
—the oi ly man who has been nominated
by (i union of Ike conservative men of hoik
sections, and whose election would quiet the
sectional states that threaten the Uni< u
and sustain agitators against its peace and
perpetuity. Ww tiust that In lore the close
ot the canvass a Urge portion of the Irish
voter* of the country will appreciate the
importance ol this tact, and, laying aside
old prejudices, rally with us to the defence
of a Union which they have honestly and
emcaraly sworn to support and defend.
Hut, if they mutt have a Jhmocrat—tt
l eople, but especially of
i that species of literature
-fXwhbjgUw-M couwayi^mrTesd a letter ritory shall extend to all rightful subjects of: known as Platforms has luduced
' expresses of Mr. Everett's views, which ; legislation, consistent with the constitution *i«Jer what would be Mr. Bell's views redo-
ouuiisiie
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8, ISO.
gave eutire satisfaction to the Convention
and the Helma Issue (• Breckinridge paper)
publishes the letter which we copy below,
se the one read by Mr. Taylor.
We have heretofore said that we only
regretted that our National Convention, at
Baltimore, did not re-affirm and endorse the
Territorial legislation ot JHf>0, es the just
and constitutional solution of tho relation
of the Federal Government towards slavery
in the Territories. We knew Mr. Bell to
be consistency and steadfastly tho advents
of that policy, because he was in the Hen
o 18.00 and sustained the measures,
and because be hae since emphatically an
nounced bis adherence to them. But Mr.
Everett was nut eo fully committed, and we
have heretofore been able to find only bis
declsred spp’oval of those acts and that
policy in a speech made in 1854. But now,
since his nomination, ho has repented his
endorsement of ami adherence to the prin
ciples of ihe legislation of 1850, and we are
better satisfied with this voluntary declara
tion than with a virtual approval by the
acceptance of a nomination “and tho plat
form annexed."
The following ia the letter, as published
by the /nue
* “Boston, June 18,
Dear Sir i—Your letter of the 12tii
received by Mr Kvareti thin day. When
he accepted ihe nomination ol tin- Baltimore
Union Convention, it was in the under
standing that the correspondence which
miyhi grow out of it should devolve on th><
Union Committee here. Tour letter oi the
l?rii has accordingly boeri placed in my
nundt, and as yon request an answer that
Will reach you by return of mail, 1 havu bui
a lew momenta lo prapare it.
The compromise measures of 1850 were
regarded and have been supported by non
par valive men at the Norili aa u lair end
practicable basis oi united political action
netweeri the two great sections ol ihe
country. To thorn measures Mr. Everett
gave Ins full Concurrence.
Tne papers enclosed in your letter, viz:
resolve* ol tint Massachusetts L*gts»
lature, Mr Burden's letter, Aud Mr. Evu-
’ i reply, date Irom «he year J8311 They
brought before Senate ol thu United
States in imi.at ihe limit ol Ins nomine-
as mifiistt r io England, and made rite
ground ol a motion lo. its ri-jeu ton, Hen
ry Clay opposed that motion with great
warmth, and said, "that it, thr ugh tho in
fluence ol ibr South, ilot appointment ol a
man ol Mr. Everett's known c -tiservarive
opinions wa* rejected, tho Union wue si
dy dissolved " Ai tho close ol a fervid
spouuh by Rulua Choate, in (support of Mr.
Evereu'a appointment, thi laic Hon. W. C.
Fraatonexclaimed, *f urn alruid I have
limit ted inysefl to vote against film, but,
liraviii, he shall not bu rejected !" Ml.
Preston wue afterwards hoard to any that
'he regretted dial voitt mote than any ever
given by him." Mr. Everoit's nomination
die first Minister in Chinn, two yearn
later, who, lbolteve, unanimously continu
'd, in'he same Henatu, oi winch Mr. Vico
President King and Mr. Calhoun were
members. His nomination sa Secretary ol
onthedcadi ol .Mr. VVoUttr, was
unanimously confirmed in 1852. In tha
following year bn waa elected, by Ihe con
servative members nl dm Luj'tslaiurn ul.
Massachusetts, to the Senate ol the Uni
ltd States.
Mr. Everett's views with reference to
sectional agnation now distracting the
country, il hit in any doubt by Ins own
cour-e, are sufliciemly shown by tho hitter
ostility ol the entirely anti-sluvory prose.
They were reHtfiirmed, to the groat accept
lance ot good patriots turuughoui tho Union,
his apaaoit at Faneutl Hall, on occasion
of the tuteiup at Harper'* Ferry ; and limy
restated irt his loirer Minifying hit rc-
luelant acceptance ol tho Haltiiuuro nomi
nation.
1 will only observe, in cnncliiaion, that
i It si-emit to ua litre no good can result
trout a review of all iliai ban been sa d or
written North or Houili, lor twenty or thir
ty yeats.on die question which now inure
iiiuti ever titan acta dm country. Reasona
ble men will not, in either acciiott, expect*
• o find entire concurrence in die other ; und
if snnfiinenis like those entertained, anti on
all proper occasions avowed, by Mr. Eve
rett, fa I lo win the oonliifenco o1 Union
hiving men at the South, Mr. Olay’s em
phatic exclamation, in 1841, may wall he
•LEVEKETT SALTONSTAL .
Treat. Hiuie Cm tral Committee of the
Constitutional Union Party.
‘ToJoasru W. Taylor, Esq., Eutaw Ala.’’
Douglas iu tho Mouth,
Hut three journals support Pouglua tu Alabama
and tso in (ii'orala. As yet, not one In 8outfi Car
olina, Mississippi, LouMuut*, Texas, Alkalis** and
Morlda, lias declared for him. Thtrc arc live in
TeniiMiec and one In Kentucky.
cut the shove from the Daily Sun of
this city. While we have no sympathy lor
either the principles or tho candidates of
the Dottglaaites, wo think it our du‘y, n«
impartial journalist*, in correct statements
which »o greatly underrate their strength.
Had the Douglas man any pa par hero de-
voted to their cause, wo might leave to it
the task of soiling its party right; hut as
they have not, sheer justice compel* ua to
bear in mind that “lair piny ia a jewel."
In Georgia, ike Augusta Constitutional-
•d, A llama Confederacy, and Route South
erner, ato energetically winking Cot Doug
las. Tho Cassvills Standard indicates an
intention to go the same way; nnd the
Auh ileus jYctci declines to taka aides, but
evidently tegstde Dougina at the tegular
nominee of the party. There tnoy he other
Douglas papers in the Mato, of which we
*mi nut aware, tor we do not exchange with
a number of them.
In Alabama, wo know that the following
eleven papers are zealously sunpurting Doug
las, and there may ha others working in die
same cause: Mobile Register, Helma Sen
tinel, Montgomery Confederation, Hunts-
v.lle Advocate, Adieus Herald, l)sd< v.llr
linnnrr, Troy Advertiser, Gainesville lode
of the United Hiates and the provisions of 1 ced lo the platform shape. It may interval
of your readers who bsvo not auffi-
neighbor really , ciently reflected that thirty years in public
service, never shrinking from the full ex
pression of opinion in the most elaborate
powers. But it form, furnishes as full a test of reliability
as the adoption of the Shibboleth of any
party.
I do not deny that I have repeatedly read
with pleasure a few paragraphs, having
the form of Resolutions, pithy an if clear.
Generally ambiguous and diluted, and writ
ten lo catch tbn ear of the groundlings, it
would be no offence, I presume, to any
well-educated member (for example) of the
Democratic party to suggest that the series
of the Cincinnati Platform is as ailly, mys
tical and incongruous as that of any scho
lastic platform of the Middle Ages—so dark
and yet so crafty. 1 speak nut of individual
articles, but of the absurd congeries made
by making the different propositions striko
together on paper, while an immutable law
of nature prevents their cohesion in logic.
I trust Mr. Bell's views, reduced to this
shape, will not he liable to the same criti
cism, and I trust thal none of your readers
will disdain to give them an tttentive and
impartial perusal. They are not, perhaps,
as fully rendered here as they might be. I
bops you will give us all his record. Keep
back nothing because it may seetn ut the
moment unpopular. Explain, but naver
deny, a true saying. Deliave me, Bell's is
like Chatham’s—“a solid fabric, aud will
sustain tho laurels which adorn it.”
Tours, truly, A» KxzMixaa.
this all.
Wo eupposo that
thinks that this clause makes all those bills
confer upon the p.-ople and Lrgiilatun
the Territories the
occurs to us that we must examine to see
what the “phieLIbna” of the atvoral acts
rrferred to arc, to determine this poiut. We
can stato |b<-ru without looking up the acts,
and it will be seen that the clause quoted
aboveXis so valiantly modified by these pro
visions that very different powers are con
ferred. The arte of JH&O provided that the
Territories of Utah and New Mexico should
ho admitted as Hit rs, with or without
Davory, “as their constitutions nvght pie-
scribe”; nnd Congress retained the power
In annul or veto any act of the Territorial
Legislatures. They also provided for the
trial of questions relating to slavery io those
Territories— making the Fed.rsl Courts,
and not the Territoriai authorities, the arbi
ters. There wa* no semblance of squatter
sovereignty there, and no g»p fen down for
aggression* that would render Congressional
intervention for tho protection of slavery
necessary. But the Kansss-Nebraska bill
did not limit the action of tbe Territories
in respect lo the exclusion or toleration of
elavury to “their Htato constitutions." On
the contrary, i» affirmed “That il is the true
intent und meaning of this act, not to teuis-
lute slavery un'o any TxxniToar or State,
nor to exclude it therefrom, tut to leave the
people thereof perfectly free to form and
regulate their institutions in their own
way, subject omr to Ihe ConstitutLn of
the United States." Neither did Congress,
by the pr .vision* of the bill, retain any
power 11 annul the acts of tho Territorial
Legislatures, but evidontly contemplat'd
leaving the question entirely with them at
.any time when they might think proper to
legislate upon it. They both have avail*d j
themselves of this license, by excluding j
slavery by tbu acts of their local Legists- '
lures, slid Congress has not evrti enter-
taiur d a bill to repeal these Territorial acts.
Both by their provisions and by their
practical rr*4!ls, thvrrforo, the Terr none
bills of I860 have operated for tho protec
tion of slavery, while that of 1654 has
operated to its exclusion.
The proceedings in reference to Califor
nia were not acts of Territorial squalirr
sovereignly at all, because there was no
organized Territory, and tha people acted
m Htaio Convention. They constituted *
revolutionary proceeding, which had its
pricedritl in tho case of Michigan, and was
then »u-taitied by the whole Democratic
porly.
il is only our high respect for tb# Times
which makes us ansivrr its article in this
brief way. Our readers, wn doubt tio|, fully
undersiooil ihe difference Utwrm the hills,
and ucudcd not this explanation.
tVoiuleriul Uncapo.
On Wednesday evening last, a littlo eon,
seven years old, of Dr. Wm. II. Fhilpot, of
Talbot bounty, whil* playing upon the curb
siultsmaH, Ihe Christian, and the pktlanlhro
just J This great tact stands out boldly
nelore tho world ; it stands for an answer ;
and il must ever stand for an answer, it ran
ttrver hi $<>ccr'sfally answered. Has human-
drop a war oter the r&ord of this
great fact t Jfas A frica any cause lo
mourn t" .
1 ace tho native race of all British India,
at thie moment, bowing the ntrX under a
system ot yurrsi slavery. But above all, I
_ .il subdued—some of them subdued
■lavery, other* expelled, driven out, and
of hi, r.Ihilr'i woll, |.).t hi, hal.nco , B j I Bufon. ileiieil th« mtghiy pwmiM.
foil to the holtoin, a distance of lifiy-tl
feet, about fivq feet water. His fattier was,
fortunately, not nv.te than eighty or ono
hundred yards ufl*, nml reached the spot in
timo to save him, but tntrtowly escaped
with his own life. The Doctor, on reach-
Big the w"U, hastily unwound ths rope (tom
the windlass, intending to slido down upon
it; hut lie had iio sooner thrown his weight
upon tho rope, than il became disengagril
from lUn windlass, and ho fell m too. Ho
went to lint b utom, ot course, and rose
with hi« little son in his arms, being barely
able to get bis own head out of the water.
With remarkable preecneo ut mind he tang
out “all right," and called for the bucket,
(whicli’he had lull above when he uncoiled
the rope.) The bucket waa lowered and
tho little fellow lathed on and drawn out,
and the fattier, a low minute* afterwards,
followed by Ihe steps. They were both
considerably bruised and rubbed, hut nei
ther o( them ^seriously injured; and their
friends at t» 'distance need entertain no
uneaatnoes. There wars no hones broken,
and the tittl*- boy (who waa worst hurt) was
able to walk in five «>r%ix hours.
Gutlirle against Breckinridge.
The Louisville Courier, the loading Breck
inridge paper in Kentucky, notices another
newspaper statement about Hon. Janwa
Guthrie, ihe strongest Houthnn candidate
for the Democratic nomination at Charles
ton, in such n way aa to strengthen the
report that Mr. Guthrie ictuses to support
Breckinridge. The report which the Cour
ier is contradic'h g in one published in the
Cincinnati Enquirer, t»tbe effect that both
tho Courier and Mr. Breckinridge were
supporting Douglas, Mark how discrimi
natingly the Courier contradict* the latter n^mad
report:
"Tnw. tb<> tbuner earnestly and faithfully la- I
bored in s-curi-U.c imiidht.U>in of Mr. (lu'tulr, l>ut !
•Id not for s moment h.'siime In our 1
hi-orfully S(Cc|>lt-d ho nouiltiM'un of (
t-lge, und Mttli |'rtur||dr »*
I-—Tuc Racoon or rut: Soutuexw Btxtn,
Education. Position and Ciuxactsr or
JOHN BELL, or Tennessee.
1. —About Gl years ago he was horn on
a farm near Nasiivim,b, ill Teunossee,and
lt« passed his boyhood among Tennesseo
farmers and Tennasse* negroes.
2. —Ho received all hisaduoaiion in Ten
nessee. Hu sought not the farno-covored
Mali* of Ynlo or Harvard or Princeton.
Cumberland College, of Tcuneaieo, wa*
bis nursing tnoihor.
3. —Time, which ban now hared hia lofty
brow, iias the more firmly Imprinted on hie
thoughtful couniennnco Hie lines of rcxolu-
tion, dignity and integrity.
4. —Piovidcnce haa prospered hi* indus
try, and many a curly huuJ rejoices to call
him " matter
5. —Tl n people of Tnnneaano would
ituuk Aim silly who questioned Jno. BcH's
soundness on ths slavery question. Poli
tics exposes io much opposition a man who,
like John Bell of Tennessee, baa never
dodged any question; but Inurtccii yearn
heir rcprosoriuiive iu the Hotote o- Re
presentaiives, nino years their Benator in
tha .Senate of flic United Htaies, atteat
what Tennessee think* of her eon.
G.—As to his linnncas on the slavery
question or any other question, lot a acr(b-
bling editor or barking stumper impugn
the name nt that man who supported the
hero ol New OrlcnriH in his rise to power,
and in two political campaigns; but when
he thought him wrong lit supporting Vau
miring aud tumultuous crowds, and
beat hint back iu Ilia own precinct and
Stale—
'* A n<l daresi thou then
To beard the lion in hU den,
Tbs Douglas Iu Ids bsll?"
7.—Let no Huuitiurn mail that llkea the
ristlortn fear for utrengUi of norve in the
arm ihat doleiufat it ! Tho P.atlorin ia
literally and substantially copied. Exam
ine nil of bin spe* 'dies, but do u»t rest till
you havo noticed the whAlo ol tho great
monument rears d to African slavery, on
G'b July, 1850, by John Hell of Tennessee.
11.—John Buli. of Tennessee's Platform
on abolition petitions, and bow ho enure
io staud, on iho !Uh January, 1V37, on
the same plank witli Toucoy ot Co/iiiee-
tieut, Grantlund, Owens and Glasscoak
ot Ga., Dixon H. Lewis of Ala., Pickens
and Pinknry of Lo. Ca., and their Ex
cellencies John Quincy Adams ol Quin*
cy, Franklin Pierce ot Concord, ai d
Jnmee Buchanan of Wheatland, dec., Jr.c.
Plank turned over ami examined by John
Bali in 1858. By this plank the petitions
worn to be received and tho pravere
tbareof to bo rejected, in order to repress
abolitionism in the North. The opposite
course was pursued, end baa it decreased
aboliiiomam ? Let Howard and his co
horts enawoi-
*n a year or two l found that thia course
iho pari ol Southern inoiubcfi* ten tied to
uUtply tho nuin urrs, the power, and the
the
gtr ihe government. It is idle to debate ] applied to ihe Kansas bill and,h # ^
(Speech of flcnj. II. 1HH, Delivered it
Macon, June 30. 1860.
Nr. President, und Friends: The city
papers havo announced that I would speak to
this meeting io day. The announcement
was without my knowledge or consent ^ J
rater to 'his lor tbe purpose of saying thn» c ■ volc , wr nir< LlnCl ^, ai tnev wish io
my appearance now shall not ba jegaraeu U nsuTe jj, e continuance of the frrat. they
iho propriety, the right or the wrong, ol
fact. Il tho experiment ia forced, ihe fact
will turn out to he, in my humble judgment,
ibai this Government and Black Republi
canism cannot live together, if our Nonb*
ern friends wish to imperil ihe Union, they
yet
a* a precedent requiring me lo respond
similar calls in the future. I a in no polili
clan to till bills to order, but if I
should draw my own bills. Do not suppose
I rpeak tliuv. because I ain not settled in
my convicions an to what wc ought to do
in this canvuas, tor on that point i have no
hesitation or doubt; nor yet because J
would not regard respectfully the wishes of
| friends. Whithersoever tb« change* of ihe
dittt u*» the affection I feel for
American, with whom 1 have
inuri make certain the defeat of the !i
. A« no period of iho world’s history nave
1 ; fjur ihohssnd millions ol property debated
0 wiieihcr ii o*^Af to submit io iho rule ol an
enemy. Tne South must furnish the lirxt
example, but wise men will not precipitate
the liaza'd.
We cannot support Mr. Dougins. True,
he says Congress shall not prohibit slavery.
African race, wlir-eo labor i* subject
will ol masters, under such circuiusiancea
that their condition cannot be changed,
though their mailers should will it, without
destruction alike
fare oi b./ili master and slaves Thcae
>n re..r>. in.t.re.t uei io which I | oua , or .
aired* .lludvd—three imllion. ut lb. | m , k ” up p , t ,i„t„ni, i, p
mart live and die together,
health, though almost
rcNiored, is such that 1 must be allowed to
.u.u ».m wi.w.1 . . el ln QWn nc;iu|li during this canvass,
u terests end wel , .j. he v#ry (jlsll 8Ul# heO genueman (Gov.
Johnson) who sddrt-tsed yqu last night, said
the light., by which 1 red »nd tolerpro. i . ,
the law of ns'ure. | , llit
"Your rich and varied crniunn cc, eikier- , er n *
"ml n ornal; your navigation J your j Americans—counirymen all,
conynerc.iel mttiiie, the nurrory Of tfie
military; ydur amp'e revenues; the pub
bile c r edit; your manuiactur«M ; your rich
populous, nnd aplenuid citias—alt, all may
trace io this institution a* tne well spring
of their present gigantic proportion nour
ished and built upioiheir pre.ent umaz ng
height and (?rapd«ur by ihe fincHt staples oi
the Houtn—the products of sUve labor."
ill. John Bell,of Tennessee's, pro- slavery
and territorial plailorm. ns laid down in
the Senate of the United Siam* on the Gih
flay ol July, 1850.
I lank 1st—Wit mot Proviso justly oh
notions.—A propoamon [ihe proposition to
apply llio W.iinoi Proviso to Nevy Mexico]
ju*ily obnoxious to ami giving rise to much
exet'traent st tun South."
Fla MX 2d.— Flag of the Union must pro
tect our properly in (very foot oj our ter.
ritory —“Tl»® Constitution. Tl or a to vtoutE,
the flag ol ihe Union, protecs the citizen
fn tho enjoyment ol his righto of property
of every description, recosnized as (in’ll in
any of the 6'ates, on every noa and in uvory
lerriiory of (he Union. 'I he aoundnesv ol
(he general doctrine held on this point, 1
think cannot well be questioned or disprov
ed; and if the question rXltted ion territory
Oregon was whon tne United
poascasion ot it property
tbe prolectb
situated
.States
in slav**a would he cninled
ot the i.awa and Cuustttunoii ot tiie United
Htaies."
‘•Whatever the Jesuitical doctor* ol the
North may say, th« clauses in Hie Coiisti-
tmion relating to the importation ol iicrsuns
under certain limitations, and fixing the
basis ol direct taxes and representation in
Congress, I ufiirni do amount to ail expre. *
recognition ol slavery."
Flank 3d.— Humanity und justice r*.
quire extension of the area for slave in bar.
— 1 “ Humanity to tho slave, not Irsa Ihun
justice to tho master, recommends the |ni|i-
cy ot dilliision ami cxtciui n into any new
Territory i.duptcd to his condition ; and
the reasons arc oo onvious to he itiisun*
dcratood by the dullest intellect. It in nut
4 principle of humanity that dictum* the
anti extension principle of me North.”
Flank 4th—John Hell of Tennessee
stands or fu\ts toith s. a very—Tho N.>rtti
should know bow to excuse the msifennea*
of ilioir H. uihero brcd.ron; and tte no
surprise that they should bu ioi>kiug around
for noino guarantee—i onic additional pro
'uciton to iheir peculiar condition nnd mail-
lutiotis. As lo niyvclf, I shall hold on to
the Cousiauiiofi until I ace thal tt no long
er interposes a barrier to absoluiu uggres
hIoii. lam identified with uus so much
abused inamutiun, by iny reprcaentaiivc
poaition in tli a chamber, in assoent ion, in
character, and in responsibility to the tri
bunal otpublic sentiment*"
IV. John Blll, ol Tennessee, lays two Kan -
sas-Ncbrasks planks on tho 3d Mutch,
1851.
1st. Plank.—The Kansas.Nebraska bill
won’t help the .South, but may hurt it, m
it abolished old slave lawn.-**’ A lew (ioiisc*
nold and oiticr slaves may be taken into tno
Teintory ot Knn«ita, il ibia bill shall pass,
lor the convenience of tlioir labor in oiieu-
mg and preparing lor cultivation now farms,
ami with « VAgtt ■ expuctatiun thavaUvary
ensrf h« autiimiBud. But as (It* Territory
docs not ruvori to llio condition of slave ter
ritory by the provisions ot this bill, but lew
will take tba'- 'ink. Thu great uncertainty
as io what the seniimcut ol the majority ol
tbe settler# on die question ol slavery < r uo
slavery will be, or rather tho ^r ibabihtv
ilist slavery will t,c prohibited, will umici
every prudent slaveholder 'Mm cmigraiing
to lha 'Ferntory with his slaves; eapcciully
a* they will see that die (Wrongest tido ol
emigration will flow in Irom the Norm,
mm Irom abroad, brmginu wiih ihcin all
iheir anti-alrtvcry prejudices.
"Again, the sisvchoider will know, th*r,
should tho Terruoriul Legislaiuto aancti.o,
slavery, vet that tho ordeal of admission
into tho Union aa n Htato will still iuivu to
be passed before ho will feel securo tu bis
property. The example ol Missouri would
be before hull. Beside*. »hero will be no
great inducement in ihe locution nr char.vn
isr ol tho soil to take slaves there. The
principal sudlemrnia will bo upon the bos
lands, and tlioso will ba found upon or n«ar
the great lines ot imigraiiuu o Cali oinin
aud Oregon; am die most profitable and
markeiabie products will be |uu( such a*
bo grown more cheaply by ireo labor--
the Democracy
divided brotherhood. Mine ia very
different. I shall aptsk lo the people. Deni
...j rd ol warning 11 to you! Tiusiaod of
the free ia foil ol corruption, virile and di#-
iraction. Party party, party has done K
all! Uh that tne God ol ihe patriot would
cast mu from our people these aoven (fevtU
ol party, which have already well nigh
ruined u*! ...
It I snail utter a word on this occasion
which shall »p csr to be harsh, I assure you
1 do no* intend such n moaning. 1 certain
ly have no such leebng.
Let us determine first what greai princi
ple a involved in mis canvass, winch we
utight io support, and secondly, lor whom,
patriots, we should veto, iu oid«rr moat
effectually to secure and promote dial prin-
In iny opinion, iho whole nation is now
called on, die first tune in m» history, md«
n It at dm ballot box, wAaf ywierr baa tha
General Gove r nment over tiie subject of
slavery F This quest
voted un in CongP.ss, ...... -
and by lacttors, hut now die whole nation
must vole Upon U difrctiy nt tho ballot box.
Wnnievcr may be our ogmniou* a* to die
wisdom, or neoeraity, or good or evil lo re«
-un liom such an issue, atdl politicians and
events have thrum if upon us, a.id we must
decide it, as far as the hut lot buz i an decide il
Then, in my opinion, »* tho issue is
made, the people ought na National men
and patriot*, by thi* election to declare, dim
iho Federal Government "Aa* wo power over
the subject of slavery uerpt the power, coupled
with the duty, of guarding and protecting the
owner m Ai* rights ’
We ought so in d. c urn. first bccaureit is
law. The sui.reme judicial tribunal <>r die
nation has, ID language, ao declared. Jt
wc do not maintain it, wa shall simply
subject the ainbiluv of the law lo dm whims
uf die multitude and are in anarchy. Wo
ought au to declare, in (he vucond placu, be
cause a is right
die citizen i* the first duty ot every G
munt, and it is the whole and sole powci
duty ol tho Government ot the Uj
Stairs.
he s
provisional a
IDS* prohibit navrry in iwu ways— ur n»»u*
action nnd unlrtendly legislation I have
explained ins non-action theory and die
promiMs on which it is based. I deny the
correctness b>*ih ol the premises and the
concusiuti. Unfriendly legislation is nut
only to deny the duty ot jnottciioti, and the
right to refuse suen additions remedies as
lime and circuiii.nmn * s may sho.v tu be
necessary, out may also imerte>e with and
render nugutory existing resnsd t$. He
claims this power under (he Kansas bill.
It is claimed that the rioudi lias agreed to
die non intervention and denial of pro
tection clause* and doc rines as con
tained in ibal bill. Here, my brother*
oi the Onsiituiional Deun cracv, iu the
light lor you to make. It is not for me.
All the word knows, ire never agreed lo
dint. No, thank* to the sweet recollection,
wli-ob struggles lor truth always fix in the
mind, we. were no parlies to that agree mem,
nor partners in its spoil.
IIV cannot, therefore, support Mr. Doug,
las. The (inference between us i* one uf
p:\ncpe. ii is radical, fundamental, und
l tear incurable—certainly so. unie*s he
shad Change. As 1 intend (his day to
t-ueak candid.y, and do lull justice to » veil
an enemy, 1 will add that outside of thia
quest ion, I see much in Mr. Douglas to
admire. On other quesiiouu, unu on many
occasion*, be ha# been a bold, able, and
(caries* defender ol our rights. He cer*
tsir.ly fighis tbu Republican party most
multitily, anti if there i* a man North of
Muckiii « Dixon’s line, whom, above ail
ether*, I could with to bu, not almost but
alto,?edier sucii its wo are, that niun is Hte-
pboii A. Duugi#«. Bui on thia question I
nave uiw^’s differed with him widely, and
must continue to differ. Bull will Uo Inn
jus ice to any, I never m stank’ him. Hi*
ft,ends Momb Havo rumrd mm by denying
.ri 1856, Hut ne held these op.nions. He
wss (uo honest iu alFirtn their de .isln. and
die iruifi i* now nianiluOt. Thu mn**tt ul
■ he Sottlficrn Democracy havo been de
ceivtd, ami for that deception they curse
Mr. Douglas. Tho curse should be on
dioae who deceived them, rather than on
Mr. Dou/»h
Tile i
platform.such a# ‘•cheai;" .
humbug" aud a “deceit upon u it s “ 1 '
On this bill, then, why condemn m'/i 1
The only difference I can sec
.mi Mr. B«ll un ihi. point ,h„ I*”;
cd .11 yr.r, ul bilter „p«rlrocr
n.« w.riiinR. to t„cb you w|,„,
saw from the beginning i ‘ ,r -
n J,' 1 J?, '!" Le P" n P'»n i„„ ,,
Bell did not veto ugainst this bill .
itconiained.slsvrry ! He honeaUeL ‘
it wa* fraudulent. Whether » 0 ’
believed *o, and a«» believins, *** \ r u 1
duty to vote againet it ! W e 0u ,'n
require a man to be carrupf.even m V
feeling*. Every msr,
Dull lor tl", vote, only, " K ‘" 1
i reliability, ooubtlc/, "^‘ c ‘
ttitctulittp jt. However, we mi-i,,' !;; 5
I* lo the fact Of C
washvnelt* ■TTj' tta ^ii
do right against Ilia own* p;i-j.ij, c ^' ,u j 4 ’. :
thua narrowed down to .Air.
Mr. Breckinridge With a perfect
villiiignca* oil my pjri to supptiri dm elec*
ion oi whichever ol the two, would most
flW.iuailv t—c im tho principle enunciated,
'the permit nt.d propotty »l ! “ nd r-mro |,e.c. lo th- cu.tmry. I h.v.
" . ' l^xommul .his quest ion, and have arrived
ion to winch, 1 ttriua, unpriju-
'ga-mn will bring every riou»h-
[n no event, will 1 inako vo|-
iii'y^Ii’ qn .dr. Jirockmndge, but I oui
ily convinced to tbe bc*t policy nml the
,afe.*i patriotism, require u* to support Mr.
Lfeil. I will proceed lo give my reasons,
and beg veil, fellow cu zens, to leave party
and prejudice behind wlnio you listen to me.
1 admr here, dial tno new plstlorni on
wh'uh Mr. Breckmradgu stand*, is.
examined ih
I diCod i
made for (his only, and ii
iung else. Every act of every
department ot the Government nan nave no
oilier scope, purpose, or interpretation.— j ji"’.''
Government can ctbSio nolhiug, and deat.oy ‘ ‘ • *
nothing, unlnss Cieauon or destruction in *
gtvun specified instance be necessary
i-adsluffs and live i
"la ii tor itua ! that wc
inpply new weapons
secure gen. ml protection. Whether it de
clare war or make peace, wbeihor it build
a navy or levy an impost—who I soever it ! ?.
does must be done for mis end. The win* 1
dom ot every speech, the redress of every \ c
wrong, the duly of over) office, ihe legitim*- 1
cy ot every action, must depend upon aud he
measured by i(m fitness lor, and its direct
ness towards (tin one groat goal— tho pro*
tecum, ol ilie person nnd properly ul iho
citizen. Human Government ha* no oilier
claim even (o existence, and (fiat form ol
government must be tho most pel feet,
which most perfectly secures tin* object.
But 1 do not Demand a slave code. South
ern men who demand it, I think, reason
badly. They leap over truths, and jump to
a conclusion, which it graufed, rnigtit ten
der Ihe t-ghLyUtshonuHs. The demand lor
a separate specific slave code, admit* tliat
tlm tenure to sluvo property is peculiar-
different from ihat by wluch other property
i* field, ood ihcroiore needs a different qual
ity «•$ fev'slatum. The great ong upl
ground of this demand i* taken from the
.des that slavery ih the crealuic ol, and
solely de endunt upo municipal las. Ills
upon iht* doctrine turn non action
Him record is not Hound
J Hinson proved last i ight and
proved much more conclusively
.i;d. Bat, t »r my Mil, it Mr.
Breckinridge get on the piSlfornt and thus
• recant* lr* errors. I will admit bun a*
sound ns tho platform. No tasue with me
bare,
.Mr. Bell’s platform does not dedin# thie
quflsMon. II » platform is ib« Conotitutton,
it,e Union and the Laws. To know how
lie interprets the Constitution, and wha>
law* he wifi unlori*e. we must go to his
record. If hi* record tails, ffciO no and
hi.s platform must till. If in# icenrd is
aii'ind, it give* mcanmi! to lua phi'lorrn
deuins Mr. Bell lor tins y
* own re
ding B.
Mr. Bell
Mr. Bell
•ight i _
but lew politician
this is poa.iblc! I km-w >
virtue, nor one more needed at u
our public men.
Mr. Hammond, of South Ctrolin*
this Lecompton bill ought to hiva'iJ
'I here is anoth* r ieu*..n stronclv t lv ,.
cne claimant Mr.jBell, wh cu wecsi,Doi° r *.*l
aider too seriously. Sir. Beli . n ’
man,and hie ekciion will i.afi ns!
principles. But how happen, n #t h
ao sound and yet an national f j
plauaiion ut easy. Mr. Beil ti%,
girded our Constitutional rights
quealiimaule. i'hey were fixed
■ tin power of Government t,
Therefore, ho has uppm-d ,,
unnecessary nnd unwne. Fo,>
lion aiwuys stir* up and iuvit
sggreaaijn. When it*u,s aim
i»een forced by lb« ihoughties',
lias voted right, but ho n»a uu
prteauog the evil to the uouniiy
put.]
lion, and which I shall estublt fi without a
doubt, is, tfist John Beli is us sound an tin
pisiform on which Mr. Breckinridge is
nominated.
This platform uontains three distinct
propositions :
upi.il mi. docinn. m«i «•(.„„ ,, nui B i. >• I,a * P”" 1 ’' 10
bu uniuiu.l to ixclud. uluvflry Iruui Hi. ‘• ‘tI /," t 1 ‘•' rr " u i , 'f-
— ..5 11 I.. 1 2. That tne lcimunal L»
re called upon
warfare to all
the enemies of the South ; and to invite n
comlunnui.n of Wmg t rrc noiferr, doit |
Sneli and IndspstidciK Democrat#, Libtriv
Mon, Abolition.sis, Suctulisia, and Ariieut*. j
founded upon no common pnncipie but j
hosttltty to rite tiouth— uu commen object
out the ac«|uiMti«)ii of power and ifin !
spoils !”
”1 rsprat, that if I could taku life view
of the tm|Hirtanr.«i ul ibis measure
falling In It, i
ilal . «
Mr. Ur.- .
Iib|iim, tiio Rapreseiiutives oi my
Htato, 1 pointed out to them rim mischievous
•udency ul making a question on the right
ol pennon—au old, traditional, and popu
lar right, wlucti I though' it dangerous to
interfere with, particularly when it could
do no possible harut to receive thus* | e't-
ti'iua, refer tne in to a committee, and nave
a report on \bu m at the end ,*t each session
1 thought tbi re wss no danger, at that
report v.ould uniformly
made ag smsl than,.
Mr. Adama, at the turn ol which 1 speak,
waa chairman nt tne Cotnmiuuu lor the
otstnet ut Colombia. Uo contented strong
ly lor tbe right ol petition ; and from his
looks and his manner and tho spirit h
l 'i iiil' .kti ii that have iirtrr b,pp »«r-
.v poll'leal nqiebnti
i, •..il.ni ih.t h. ».'Uld | pbsnlam ; bui il ever any such acquisni. n ' «cl.
milieu piece, beture be ] , 1BW „ tr j„,ty ,h.ll be m,ile-nnil I hone j
the dn>e ol such acquisitions wifi b» far \
the future—I truai it will be under th'
it he regard* Ids riomln iilou n* a scctlooal out
, , .. | D declares that it i* going for Ureckin-
pendent, Gree.abaru’ lit aeon, V\ eiuuipk* | rl jg p
Enquirer and Decutur 'J'nnei.
"« are nut a.ivitsd as to the positions ol
rite papers generally of Houth Carolina,
VIlsstsKippi, Texas, Arkansas and Florida.
But we know that there are Douglaa papers
mi Arkniwaa and Teta*. Tho New Orleans
Vrue Delta is one of the earliest and moat
thlluciitial Douglas papers in the Houlh,
aud wo Ulitic thal it haa at Irsst halt a
do/su a»noctslcs in Louisians. In Tonnes-
sto and Kcniuc-v, wr are assured, Douglas
is alrong und daily increasing in simigth.
lfest il mike* no such declaration
lor Mr. Gnihrie—it only denies that he i«
supporting Douglas. This goes to coofiro i
rim report which we have heretofore copies)
that Mr. Guthrie refuses lo support either
Douglas or Ureckinridge, ju-ily regardir.ir
ihrm hoth r
‘‘I’ I memlcs ed,
‘be chopped
Would sun cutlet that right. At that very
tune he told me privately that ii >h
pent.on* were sent to tinti
agonist them, m i on the ground
did not think Congress nail power to abul*
nii slavery in life District ot Cidumhia
put because he would consider its abominr
u* a ort-hch ot ilia good laith which wat
pledged by the North when (bis Dis
try which my southern trumd* do— ! guve
—culling oti'the aourre ot all future con* j ci.iz
trovsrsy between rim North and rim dourii , udt*
—putting an end to agitation in bom sec
tions upon rite subject ol slavery—I would
feel justified in waiving ail my objections
tu tuts bill, ami in muting htariliy with
them in Us auppuri. Wm differ only a* to
tho results ol tho measure."
2d Flank.—lie desires to give the south
the benefit of a declaration <>L nan-inter
vention by Congress. He argued that tho
old slave lawsatood and ought to s'snd.
"But, Mr. President, it is said ritat w,«
m#y make acquisition* ol territory hi-real-
ier— perhaps Irmn Mexico—and that then
life Houili will have the benefit ot rim prin*
clpiu ot non-inturvemion recognizrd in tfu*
bill. 1 fear. sir. ihnt th s, loo, will prove
Te'ritonea. Sorue p rsoits say it there bo
no taw directly to mitborixe aiavery, it can
not exist: The »Uvo without law t# free.
Theretofn, tl the Legislature will provide
no law—do nothing—non-uet, slavery
etuded. It >vu admit urn premiae, ihe con
cilia.on is irresistible. This i> tfm lounda*
non argument ut all abolitionism. 1 can
not uduiii it.oecnuee I dy not bclmve it c >r»
rect. .Slavery i* rite creature ot D'vinc taw.
Ho who originally gave man donu-iion over
tno brnst ol rim field, and the fi-b ol thi
»ea, umi tlio fowl ut tbu air, nfmrwarua
made Jitphef tho tnasier of f’ana:iii and
aecrced Canaan to sarvi'ude forever. Too
first dccrcn i* older in date, but unt higher
m ou’hurny ib*n the Iasi, nnd it is no, lor
me to question rim wisdom of cither. Hu
know* beat, and thorn can be no wisdom or
right which u >es mil submit to His will.
Tbe slave, then, is pio]>erty. Tbe title is
not made by human taw. If I had only
human few tor iny mlu or right to my hu
man slave, 1 would lueu him before ihu suit
went down. Slave property differ* train
oilier property, nut in ine right, but in its
use. Uo who made the servant, presv i bed
rules and iijui.ciiuna lor his humane treat
munt, nnd fur this the iiiamer will he res
ponsible, and surely lor Ka abuse he will
be punished 1 demand ul government that
which we have—a p operty code for p'oteclion
of all pioivilf, und Iheiefo't of slaves.
Uu:. again, I will nut now- demand ol
Congrein a slave code m-ruu»o n.o law s an
they now staud, outside ul the Katiaaa I ni,
sufficient lor uur proteettun. If tbu
rriment i» honosily nUministerod, ttie
m has ample protection under tbe rein
i now provided. O j a_iormer
Fermurial LcgiBlaturo ba#
io such power.
3. Tliat, on the contrary, it is the duty
f the Governn ent tu protect property
“ j /slavery ondtratood) wherever oecesaery.
These are liitcc sound prupositiuns utid
cover the whulc ground ol power und duty.
About rim 5:h dav of June, IS5(), Mr.
Suwurd.ol New* Y ork, offered the follow,
ing us an amendment tu the Compromise
measures m the Hcnuta :
‘‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servi
tude, otherwise tliau by conviction lor
cruim. snail ever be uilowcd in cutter of
ssid Territories of Utah ami New Mexico."
This is the Wilmot Frovtau. Jutm Bell
voted no, and lints endorsed, under oath
the first propo-itiou ul the platform.
On the same day, Mr. Berrien—ihnt
great man —irom Georgia, offered tfiu fol
lowing umendiucnt :
" But no iaw •hail he pnssed interfering
with rim primary disposal ut rim vut), iht
establishing or prolubmg African slavery."
Tina was against Squatter Sovereignly.
John Bell voted yes, and thus endorsed tfie
second proposition ol the platform.
On the 27ih ot .May, ul rim same year,
Mr. I'rsri, ul .Maryland, and Mr. Davis, ut
Mississippi, agreed upon, and Mr. Dsvia
offered, iho tulluwiug amendment to the
sanitation. Ilall
taken John Bell tor u
the South nnd the perpetuity oi ia* V
would to day, be unquestiunatm
questioned.
The election of Mr. Bell will ^, e
principles a peaceful, quiet uiamj.h.
disband die Republican party i: - , „
non ot Mr. Breckinridge wiu »wcr« u *e’■
strife, and tend to build up tne He. ,, ,
p rty.
Aaain. on the ground where my E r f C
tnridge trienda nows land,and claim • t
credit Ihr sta ding, JuUu Beil t,», k L >
sfat.dmg for yocn. Yea, ha and w,. * e
.l.i.d.na i nero wlicn we .. , ww
mad, catrtud away in thuuKhtlevv # !
ol this -‘cheat" and "s wind if,' y
•erm tho Kansan bui; and y..u abuse,;
catted us traitors, anu aide* ol ab»i>', ;
You drove turn Irmn in- *eat m ifir
tor in# very fidelity. Y r - u unm i' lt - , 3
and noble Cruieiitfen truin nis •.<-*! i„t
stoic reason, and have placed .Ur. it.-,.
ridge m tiis place. l«i this hour .,t
vnidicatiun, must we abamfun .Mr, ||,
Honor and a high tense of jusi.re »i
lorco you to him. Nothing bin iura:
aud the loss oi sell-rcspoc', can d .i
Irom turn We hevo learned how tu !<><
enemies, but w» have never fearned iiJ
abandon friend*.
Again, Mr. Bell wa# in the {. ;j
The convention wa* cslfed while you
hi ill in the Nailonai Detnocraci w j
"sound Jorly-tour faithful li^
back alter once going out. Y <*. uug„(
to have nominated another, ami in*, divnird
ihose who agree. Besides, ao ire more
National and nave greater strsug.tt Noiili
Mr. Buchanan waa eluciud bv a f.Iamfit
vuto. 'Fuat minority'being sgstn Uivnteu
liow can you auccued ?
Hu I will aay to our Douglas friends, ebf
not support Bull f Y'--u are N*uun»l ;s
your wisUts, but you canuot auc:wd. ¥w
aru dividing our strengrii and i azsidiog
I nation. In voting tor Bell, you onlv ;
J up squatter sovereignty Are you width-i:
i Hac t If Mr. Douglas and Ui* ir,e...
• wore io unite un Mr. B -I*. 'lie date:,
| i.incoln is sure. And by such au nn •
! (ton ol National patriotism, 'l . i> uf.
would write his namu higher tn ihe i'-iaj-
of Liberty than any living ktziunian n
climbed.
But it our Breckinridge itientl# 'in-..
vote lor .Mr. Bed, there is yet a diai.ee
union. Let u# be equal* I 1 buy* 1 »e
seated heretofore an arrangenmni ol i.
ki id. ‘l'lie rcsponaibilny ol ks rijec.i
and ol the consequent con.inuaiico
str.lo shad be with you, and iv.th joa
Why should our Breckinridge fr«J
still cleave io Democracy t The organi
lion, and rite name, belong to Mr. L>.iagi
It is Imly to deny ii. Feople can’t be in
to #ay anything, nniplv bucau-e you *
them <o feity it. Bos des, ri Detnorr
his become mo corrupt, aud ha# d...
the country ur. you sny, why shou.d j
wt#h to uppropriutt- its name with -utfi
prestige F More Ilian ail, tl
imposed on the country
i bill:
■‘I'ronded, That nothing herein contain
ed snail be construed ao as io prevent said
Territorial Legislature front pas-uig svett
fruit but strife, und blood, i
deception, how can you expect u# i
counted in its membership t
My countrymen, i nppi-ni Irmn
fender.' to you ! How long will you c
politicians to tla ter you 8# suveroiffu
ii«r you as victims, without awski. g
If Howoffei
uflicie
to stc»«* rim general Isc
ioutside of Kansas ana
protection to slaxoty wu.< rcluto I
organic act ) Bu it may bu end it 1
sirilicient laws already, why now in
tbe power and duty ol Govuroniunt
^ ^ present
piesum purpofua,
pro
laws ul the United S
ouced into ssiu Territory.” M
dfeo prefaced this pruviso with ■
iriAiks. declaring hi* object to bo
■ he du<y ot the (ioverument u
slavery.
On this proviso Mr. Bell voted
asserting, untier oath, the duty
Couamution and
and unsettle the slavery question btlore )
discover the only meaning rilty litve u
excite your prejudices and get yoar von
For how many years shall changing dc./
gi.gues Biiulllo ) ou as the gambler •;
hiscardM—in win a stake—and •*i• • )
willing to ho ah ii filed ngainF Yoa
told to worship life Kansas lull; *rnh
blind but earneet devotion of a Alercx i
grim you did kneel and kiss' \ wu *■
told to abusu your ncigiibor beesuss
would not worship with you. In *11
billingsgate ol tfie demagogue's vocabu
you did it. Now Jiuhold! They •*
told you to worship, tell you the thing i
worshipped is a cheat, a swindle, x I.
bug, yea,u •'deception to Iho South /" •
neighbor you uoused nas pfovm a »
m«n and a .run |.a^.ol ! Will yuo !■
again the supplo knee, and rfir-ui si<
with tho niuiblo tongue, when these *«
priest* ahuli order you t Will you f #n<
'• Government aur*
rounded by two large slaviMtoiding Stales.
Now, bust Utu airotig langusgo vt Mt.
Buchanan, ol Feuusylvania, un me subirct
ot receiving suolitum prim-ms; and It
"« align'd report „| #orur great national antf patriotic j Sunply
ground that he | mipuLo- -prompted by cunsiderations •>! a I ody
com niun interest, and policy which knows
tin North, uo South ; sod ritcao will turn-
ish tar slranje*'guarantees ol the righi* ol
the Soutli in any such acquisition*, than
anv vote ot Congress iu lavor ot thia mea
sure. But tl it be rfeem d ot any—the
•lightest—importance to any future tuterest
Wo mu»t Insist upon it. first, because ]
this right and duty liave been denied, und
they who dewy, aru seeking to get conrioi j
ot rim government. Their success is a
triumph ot tha denial. Alrcacv haa tin* i
doctrine of protection been denied by actual
legislation in unc case—iu the Kansas and j
Nebraska lull.
.Again, fill experience ahowa, tLac rem- |
sutiiciant tur the present,
feoume inctfiuient under the changes ul !
ever progrus-ing and aggressive events
Jiir LegisUtdres meet nun .ally F
pass such new laws and io rciu- ,
detects i
the platform
reseaty in the very language of
Me. Davis’ proviso,ace Congmsion-
il Ulotw, vol. SI, t art f, page |tf?4. F r
ill thu votes, *ee same book, page 1134.
Tlmrutore to an actual demonstration. Mr
deli is certainly as souuu %■ tbe B reck Kl
udge piatlortn.
Mv next proposition is, that Mr. Bell ia
platform. Now to the
1 have spoken to you frfenda in kiminri
Davis | I have spoken tho truth. 1 do nut
me re- . that I shall speak again- May you
u ns#ert your duty, save your country and rtsa-l»
protect ! proven at last.
rs, thus i The H“H and Everett Katllicatfon Mt<
Jug on Tuesday Night.
Notwithstanding tha excessive he#:
the weather, and notwithstanding a £■<
■ nanv ot ourcmxens are uow abseiu tr
ihe city, there was quite a goodly numt
the City Hail Tuesday night, lord
South that the scminteni ol this
expressed in lavor o| tfie
iniervr.'tmn, why not bring
•ctional candidates nnd thu I •hall have iho attention ol honorabm \ j 0 , WM ,i a resolution divclaratory of the
representatives ol sectional putties.
i principle f
C7* "Harmony
pond'
the proposition for
Senator*, wit do I read (lie opinion ut Mr
Buchanan :
-' Let it once he understood that the
...... sacred right id petition and thu cau.v ol , j r ," r n,|#
111. Mobil,* KieiiUr ooucin, i'bo Abohuunu 1 mu.i M* or nui tail n~ i .... ....
* l a«ih»r aud the conscqueucea must be tatsi
southern gentle.
> dif-
Tall l»r*(nflU|J.
Tho Atlanta Confederacy ^Douglas pa
per) publishes a call fur a Dnugl
J.ihiison raltficstion meeting in AtlauU,
bo held on the 17th inst., signed by
winqa of Iho New Y’otk Democracy, writes
' Y'c.rk i
of tbe two ) i would inert-lore
and i
• 111 »ajr to the u$il men, *
et, with the uiiUenuanUIng
their attachment !•> that name and their voters; and it accompanies the
niljp toward* the Opposition is too strung * tbe taiuuate that »ot nineteen hundred 1
ivircome—we tnuet acknowledge
their rorrectnsse in accepting Douglas as
' TM» u fair, r
» \ork
II K<)uslM * snoot
i-jour vote to Uvll. if he can
suiqmsc Udl csrrlr* tiruru
tea, »n(t need* M nor* in
Ihi# union 11,11
voter* in Fulton cauo'y, at least twelve
hundred, in our opioion, will support Hie-
th* enly candidate of their parly not tainted ^ pben A. Douglas"; and "we honestly bi
by tbe genetal support of secessionist* and , have tbat th# trial* ia already certain for
. Poigtas ttteewrol ticket, f»r
.« IkeVrolclde* or'rilrcckiurlJg,
dtsumooists.
C7* NN e feant that the Cousiilutionsl
him (Douglas) by *t feast six thousand Union parly ol Harris county had a routing
Hum. IIu-miu >> ar tier*
This geatfeujan, in • fetter to the editor j
of Ihe Atlanta Confederacy, declares him
self in lavor of Douglas and Johnson; stid
tbe Confederacy iuvitva any one who is |
**tiling to meet .Mr. Warner and discuss i
brio re ths peoplt the questions involved j
in th, -taction to --.(ipnmt ,Si, Inn, .n* p , I „ cipali ,
place,
tv Private letters from official souicea
majority.' meeting in bt-half of Bell and Evurutt, at
'Phis ia about equal to the boasts ol the Hamilton, on Monday.
Breckinridge Democracy hereabouts, and
• oflsel them ou* with the other.
Whangdoodle snswerath whaugdocdfe
wi♦«»- ——-
CP" Tho Atlanta intelligencer fully vi
the Irtvnd* of Bell and Evemt fro
the haugiug of G,
Johuson in effigy at Mscou. Jtsays: •
perpetrated by blackguards i
> rtfiect seriously in what situation ,
j ihty place their Irtends to tho Nur.h by !
| nis'siiiig that this petition ehall not be re- I
octved.
" Wc have just as little right to interfera t
with slavery in tbe South a* we have to
touch tho right ot in triton. Whence is
this rigtu derived F Cana republican, guv-
einmeut exist without it t Man might as
woll attempt to ex at without lirestlnnq
the vital air. No government, possebai. g
any ot the elements ot liberty, has ever
uA.stsd, or can ever exist, unless its citi
zen* or au jecis enjoy this right."
5th I’l.AXk. -Slavery Atmu*i*e.< ear negroes
and how 11 ns As* our Country prosperous - ■
“dome century sod % bail ago, uf a Rule
more, s low thousand native* ol Airies, in
lurnt and mind atani;ed on y with the coars
est rkdiutema ot tbe Caucasian race; scarce
ly bearing the impress ot the human lace
divine; savage tn their haon* both ol war
slid penes ; ferocious a a the wtld beasts ol
heir own native hauuiai, ware caught up.
already said that there
ferencA (m tween mysclt und iny southern
in to fAis principle. 1 w ill
vote |ur such a lusoluiioit jn»st cheerfully
V*—Jong Bell -ot Tennessee, si the Galt
House at Louisville (Ky.,) on May 17th, 1 (urife'n!)]” 1
186(1, re*examines his planks and scaffold- oi me huu
ing aud declares them sound, and appeal* | d*r.iagogu
to history and his countrY* to sustain
onsimiilv shuo
in i:«J3. Comer.
a lugttive slave law, to carry outs plain
consutntional provision. For that day, anu
h»r years after that day, that act w*t> *ulfi-
meni. But tlio cvur-gruwir.g rnAdncMs ui
uiiti-*!avory tuiiaticism, and rite interfer
ence ut am (-slavery Legislatures, rendered
uiferlv nugsiory thu remedies provided by
the set t 17*33. Ifence, it bvcsuiu just at
much s necessity sod just a- much s duly,
to pans a new and more efficient law, us i;
wss in pa*e the original act. VVhat
proul.
This platform, of course, #ay»
about sls-ery s« a political, moral
timid >*r evil; nor does that plait >rm
uav good in slavery to rife country,
con'ributing to its prosperity.
But on the (»tU ilsy ol July, 1850, in hia
‘ “ fe, Mr. D".l made s st>cech
rite nominal ion ol Bull and E
onlv naiional ri.-Kei in tbe field, i
c.ste iheir Icalty to the Consul
Union and the Law*,
lo tfie The Hon. Thomas vV. Miller
tinguishcd Stale senator from I
nothin'* county, though laboring
i i. w hich, slier
lection to be c
j tionabte," be pi
slavery itsfll.
1 "it
torsi, social i
> bo t
tt-tied
> bad t
•it God. and a puittical
religious good ! I l*eg
Sou h to get away tro
party—sit down with a pure and h'
bran, boo read that speech before he
Mr. ~
duty ot lurthrr pruiection t
though the legal rente'
'idiapi*
iplieo l-elingiy and eloquen'ly
assert j repeated calls ol hi* Irtends- He
of a* j upon ad men, now ih^t rife Demoer^
party was disbanded, to rally to tha ttw
in his I which ia the embodiment of • nst
• •rgsoixstinn pledged to main'Jtn me t J
.titrmo.t tn its purity, to secure ««
ngltia to all, to enforce (be l.«s *
Und. and (As* to perpetuate tiie L uioei
the Stale*.
Ha wf.a eroded with Irrquent spp!**“
and Ais name is s tower «>l streM **.^
onlv to Riciwnund. but tnrough“tri Gen*
icry man in ih# The H-.n. Joon Milledga, chsirman
demagogue# and meeting, responded to tfiu call ol iho
__.i «. .. . lt n ii| M usual eloquent style, and m*l r
• short but rousing appeal in favor ol °
'blc standard-beaf’ f
ihu usual bitMf"’
of the par< >• in about lam. but goes sue*#
io las work, wi.hout indulging tu '
verity against honest appom ' r *■"' '
. Mr. Belt, rounder Ilian Iht pin. ■
i ^ uriu ' sender than Mr. Breckinridge j speech wa* received with great enibu»>* ,n
tid his ptiaiorni togotfior.
him.
"Hia lull and complete record (ao he said)
showed his position on slavery and on all
questions which bavo concerned the country
K>r many years. ID' had alwave been uue
to wliat fie cuneidcicd the micros'* of the
nation. Wherever he was, before bis con •
e itaeuts or in Congress, alter due delibera
tion, ho had always taken bis stand lor
what he deemed fair and patriuiir and firm
ly adhered toil at every hazard arid though
demagogues, the invasions ui * mad aim-
sis very. wurlJ-wtdo acn'iniem, and the
(•oiiive Inti r vention of unfrieiidly Terri
torial Legudstutcs and people, render prv-
eeni remedirs uuerly nugatory t Wo must
insist that guvernment, every department in
* appropriate sphere ahuli keep our reuto-
e and against all
auiuority ot that ,
efficient t
government ck'eu^i
ot t
I'sred onNs# the ir
on in this canvass,
i next «i«qairy is,
all Mr. Bell's record incouaiaiem »
1 esie n<.: how Ucrign ng edi urs and deini
g.tguoa disgrace ihi-maelvee with garblin
Isfeehoods, and mean |wrversions to ta
contrary, ih.s is true, aud there live* m
in the South a purer, sounder, belter : Chronic!,
siatcamsn, lor the South sad toe Union,
tttsn John Beil.
But you will say iiov
wild such a record but
as he^nobly piosd tor "Truth, J astiq
‘ e Constitution*"
We fi Aye *et rite ball in motion, smi
oejple sra determined io leave nuttn:i|
done io secure a victory over the c«m r
enemy;* victory which aasll l'« ve
inttcrurs# and no sting, bu: wh<cii *
red'iund emirely to the good of our coat
it* peace and its perpetuity.—.4«•/
U5"The August* Constitutionalist de
nies, "by authority," the rejiort that
H ““. H - 8wpb«n intend, to .uppoit j ]"^napnru<t
Urtckinridge and Lane. | state of bone .... ...... ,„ m
.lama held in slavery until ihta day. But | racy ol Fmiadalpina, who had assembled
fiT Tha Montgomery ( \l*.) J’ozf, here- 1 w ® n ® w behold t These few thou j the number of about twenty thousand,
American history
verification ot bis course, his counsels, his |
predictions and hit warning. Oxr ok uotii
will sooner or later vinoicatk iiim."
Kentucky,
Tlio lion. E. C. Marshall, of Kentucky!
addres-rd the .Mass Meeting ol the deiuoc-
•Hy 1
id the
shall w«
cure tb#
To secure tbi*
constant and liouvsi
Wc must endorse the principle
t that Mr. Bed
declared to be
[ unsound to nl.cn st me »uu<h. The
I grounds of iln# charge hare been two—
i tus votes against the K«a*xs bill, ami the
| Lecouipcoa C-nstitutmu; snd *Lo the
general lac; that every body not a democrat
-• hsb.tually deuounc d as uii*ouud oy tbe
•insl* men ol tfist party, ln 1856 they
burnt me in effigy as a ally of tn« Repub-
| liesns, and last ntgnt 'hey hung Giv. John
son lor ihe same reason l suppose. To tbe
j tioverno 1 atiid greeting, wttfi tho hope
<hat tour years hence, he may aland ss
• the sgriaiioa, and thus picservu tbu stsbtli* j *u«ly vindicated as 1 do to«day.
in 1 Ui,. tltr Prince cl W.I.. | '““••I**, U»cl.niiJs* mcn-»hg
will go as fsr Esat as 1'orUsod, add
\Y r»t as Ciucinuali, in the Utillfd Hl«tr
I I# belong to the lid
11 tha house taxi >
i neutral paper, ha* run up tha flag
ol Bell and Everett.
rT r The New Oifeaua Crcectnt de*
I sand savage* have become a great people— ratify the Domination of Douglsa and
Johuoon. lie said bat he was born and Mr. Lincoln. Hut why r *Be<
~ mr ~ A “ -Uiic# of where It is ilio right und tfie duty ol
and tbat Ken* probimt .-iav t ry in the Tt
way*, and not is a claim ot p u w rr oilier
Bui v
Alabama.
Tba Tuscumbia Democrat bas Lo** 1
iba Douglas and Johnson flag, uts*
twelve Doug's* papers in Alaba'^a. •'
it i» a none#able fact that every oo*
these pa|wr* is publishm! io a ‘.ounty 8‘"
a heavy Democratic vote, vvbich ws n
aisle in round it umbers as fellows: •"
1800, Coos* U00, F.ke UMI, Madison 14
Tallapoosa 1600, Dallas !0OO, Green* *
Morgan 1000, Franklin 1000. Lio**’*
1000, Hurnler 000, Montguuicry 800 -o**
cannot support
r Breckinridge friend J in f 1
■ tgsiast the,
believe and
i ill about 14,000 votes; and '
improved features, mcatai aud physical, and John C. Breckinridgo I,
‘ - approximation tu I tfleky would go
v.ty shou Id
condemn Mr. Bell to
!inr;s. SLf'.iTs.teEa i »• -
a«d only evil to the South snd the L nion. Douglaa connty in the btatc.
Urecktnridga and gowaJor Bell and Ev.ntti. ,h * ^ukUL Ai i the an- one of threu way*. It wusld gn either tor and. .therefore, «te which we bony; und
R .1. Ik ,11 ! , , safe ot all history .and where, U h «s hud u John Bell or Mepheu A. Duunlts.—C«**- t»c<34U#f, sfeo, hi* election will not ie«'or,
«zt. w.II leave s sinking ship. f m t so striking and wond.rfyt, one so nor. , ill. Standard. m k p „ InrrJm* *dtMra«tlan Ml 9»iZa
L>., vu
d«d at Cfiarlcatun. jou put ou record tne •. " . « « «» ,i.. i
IC.MD, tar 111,. KC-iuTi, »4 ia lortl'K I b,l-,ea DoujU. ,»J U,.cl..onJ«r. ■
'over your mt ' ‘ m am *- s - « - l
tall admit it F W ban you »««- 1 btbiy l>« “nip anJ tuck" tu AW*
i m"" Toaita; “<—»»«i
epithets ! *eeon<l place l-ekinJ the Bel! ticket