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About The Columbus weekly times. (Columbus, Ga.) 1858-1865 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1860)
abstract question, whether slavery ro*.v ,n! G’ not go into a Territory under tin* Constitution, the people have the lawful mciii'.’ to introduce or exclude it a* they pleare, fur the >'<-;re*'U that slavery cttnDot exist aday or ‘*> <‘" ur anywhere unless ills supported bybc*l H‘* regulations It matters nut ns to the right to go into the Territories un.ter the Constitution ’ The people may Uin/mlly cxelude it while yet in the I’orrlio rial condition. I have shown you that in !*■■(;, hi the Senate of the United State-, he .-aid * 4 t the CoiiKUutktL AjtrrK* ho cry there, let .in und n(Fdflrwwtm earth can lake It away. I would like to see there two sUleifitab reconciled. (Great arqdsrJce.t Whether the Constitution uid iiuftiorise it to go there aud protect tin imhvidu al in his property was a qUcxlion whirh he agreed to refer to the Court. I hi- lha v ©proved, | not by myajhot by him. Jlfhow -ays no mat | ter which Way’thu'i'ouTl test dc<oh , n mi*) | he excluded. [ Prolonged upplauM . 1 declaration hw* n**vcr ‘.been withdrawn. ♦ j he asserti* to-day, that the people ol a * 1 11 : “ l ) j mu) eveiude the property of Southern J£"pic. prior Lu the tuiiaaliou ol a uonstitttUon ••) Jerri inrial legislation against it. “Ac | ii,t tlecm-mtj the Suprmu t'uto< <o.v *a • ulttrnci *t*U thr light uj the j Mat*- * fljotp Uirtt'M if or a .ire* tm //■ •t. ‘>” ‘ /art umdthi Xkru'L'> ■ • teoiloiueu. iu'ttnswer to the ui''U*u! ion against me. of first holding and then abandoning this doctrine. and dtiich I hftrve disproved, l have b* nay that it i* not atateamanlike L> agree t>. refer a controversy u a Constitutional point L* the -'uprame (fowl of the **untr>. and when the Court has decided against you, to any. “no outs ter how it way dcciib*, I will find m> i.t, to i v ,il• il. If again t me. No. It is not fur a statesin in t p iut *.t|i • . • uLorduiatc legislative tribunal io-ii.e v whether it W non-aultoii or unfriendly . i • ion, l*y which it wav destroy ututi-.n.il r*ht. Thai looks almost a- much like “liighei law | a* some other “higher law tire h©ar<l “t t utte r , Fast (Laughter and nppluu-e , And now, if J wore disposed i t imitate ;ii; em. neul, hut had e.Ju*iuph. I uii.'it •-• *r ln-i** not an honest mao iu A marie;*” who tan deny ; that when Ihe friend ■ of the Kai- u? bill di fitted upon the qin - lion <■( um- p*.wo I C“im *"t , Territory to exclude d,*ve prep-iiv dnrin,. Ihe Territorial cwjudil iom, they u t.,* and to nf'*r t’n- Constitutiouwl ion ••* th rfu|*tem<: ‘ urt that Mr. 1 * tiugl.i- was u parly to tin 1 ..nemeiii that the Court decided up. n >u - )!■ >• 1V arming that neither Congress *r u Territory have the power to eai'lude Southern pioj.. •ly from tl.< euruiiHMi Uoin-iiu and Jinally, Uioi Mi- In*ugl . notwithslanding Ihv ngreement, yet dc Inn > f!il the legiaUture may ext*'l *hvn- jifopeity from ilm lerrilurlea,and arelully |H*iuls out the inode hy which he . uppone i the dcei-iuii • ! tl.< i'uuitma,v heevaded. (Loud iipplauae./ Ilut i am run ten I merely to*taH the fuels, :1. • t let the public draw their own euin-lit ion*'. Ifellow oilisea.. the sorioii-illness uuder whu-h I have s.uflered for come days, inaU- n it almost nupoNMihh’ fur m■ to uddres- (hi- vml u vmblage so an to be fully heard, and render.- it iiwcc, - u,v I should le brief. 1 puss on 1• .1 ainv • f tbi ubjert iu*a riot her mpcei of it. Now, gtmtleuieii, how i.-this .jm -i on im t l>o not tho Conrtltutional liuui'-erucy m< 1 It I y fair, manly appeals lo the reason of 110 people and to the OojititituUot) I)'* we not talc our priuciplns fairly '! I>o we not abate them in the very language of (be Supreme Court of the I*n - tad State itself/ l>o rc not stand upon the m stltution as adjudicated by the Court, ami do w not exprw# our reasons in ternptWato, nntuly, and respectful argumapts The langiuigc in which the Sll promt Court s'Mfflfi the Torriloriul (pu-stion and decides it, and the manner in which il i - by the distinguished Senator fi -*m II! in how diflerunt! lien- are qucstiou.- upon which the highest intellect* of the country arcoxt-rti-o 1, engaging the anxious attention of your wind and test men, digu ing tho attention of your higlu judicial triluiaul, dehatod in the Senate, in the llonse of lUpresentatkres.lrtifon ;m iMixi- u- p pie who want to know tho truth. The question should he discus .1 on ih<- dm 1 vt prineiples of the Constitution, divested of all (•rejudiee and pii.-sion Ye’ tlii- is the style ;p|eal eouunoiily employed by Mr. Dougins and the ino.-f heated of hi- follower-; •you .-hail not fnree slavery down the thrmit- of an unwlllihjr |eople.” mic argumont* ruunh!’ of an a|i|>tral to the < pa**ionft of ..iiv portion of Ihe \ tiion against the t cher portion of the Union. Mi. Douglarftiliurclf 1 has o.inotimes admitted, that under our p yrtum. •lave property upon the name footing with other property. The* Supreme Court •*(’ Ibo Uni led States liu*. u* I have kliowu. dt-rided Jlmt under the Constitution it Hliirid* upon the rautc fouling and hae the ame right to protection, and that all property alike must he guarded ami pro tr*t*d ill Upt common Terrlt otic- us other proper ty. Vet we hear the accusation of “forcing stave ry down the throats of an unwilling people.” This is the mode r.f treating i|Uct>Ur>nf of- :-n ii lotional right and private property 1 Substitute the word “property,” for the w->rd ••slavoe.” einee slave mid other property have irottn shown to.stand on the ■oune fooling, and how it would read Von shall riot fom* slavery’ down the throats of an iiinyilting people.’ “You ■ hall not force ‘property’ down the thrown *■( an now tiling people. | Laughter nnd i dmci- W'by, the Territorial authority is the creature of Cougreeij Chngrtm* i the crcaturcofth# Con stitutiyo; the Constitution i- the creature of the Slates- and har.* you would huve aliitle renin, mil Legislature tlirt* r four ile-tcc- him-v.-I from the original - mmi of p*v. r, with the light t. exclude alt the Stater oi the Union with all i heir property from their own domain. ! Applause] This is the irrceistahlu <•••*•• Inri-.ii. Ihe-m are nut tht* Jim trines <>f the Koivtueky Oppositi-.n, i at leaet they were nut last year. J 1 1• ■se mo not the doc[nnr ol the Constitution itself. The.-e are ri.-oti.ii.il docilities the** aru.pot the doctrine that make for the peace amt harmony of the Inion of tlje Stator I'/hccv . \nd t hr.'--sth hecaum: wc will not take them and idom ton the whole prarti re ot - tin* l!o\eminent and the ions of the Suprkluo Court . because we will not how down t.a the doctrine that deprive** u of our lights, we are bolter*, demagogue', • . -iouo t dteuaionist*’ [Continued ipplm ■. Tie li tißgiiirhvd Senator <*f Illim-i- said tN< i t.dk we re a “faition and must ho dt>iro\cd.” When we ure di!idriyfc*tUi<‘) Witt h.vd mm-k thvir di” gwrs through and iHrtmgh the iheir eonutry. [Tmioei.-. uj.p’mi.-e ; Jurt>ic my friends, 1 w ml to .i\ u nod h..ut the il.-elfiiit- us hot) ilillil \ i til ioli whieh i adroitly mixed up with-lhc pbrM~c* “popular *v • t-reignty, a ltd s.|uaityi sovri* ‘>■ oixwith a \ lew to . until*** the |K*opl*. The MIIU: ot Clin . Wet.-lel , lid other i 1 Oi t neia •late ou- n, baveheuii Invoked to *,u.*tain this doctrine or Territorial power, and tlicoompromi ?- of hive been mV .d.ed for I lie ui-e pur ■ pose. la’ ell that from l>l- down t>. the peri od when this falM doetrilo.. i- | u, o nil alike llie Cyuatiturion an I I'-uson. va- lhrti-'t upon th--- . r.untry, no na pwetahle politie.il p.itiy held the ■ •pinion that a Territorial l.?£iUtute li-ol the right to ilctine or evelu le propcity, pcrulin the I'erritorUl condition. Wh< ii did i lav e\ rln i I -m li ituCUificv W hen weie Mieh d-. lj iio ever tinhodiad in the eomproini'i him mi - .1 I- ,iH ; The legUlailou ofttiat period lum • that non in terveution was meant to apply <<|iiully to < • n to tie 7V / it’ •’ t- Th# yUktesmni of that day looked t tin j- i when they should eonio tot.* the Union a- a Sp.i , as the lime w hen the Territorial aulh ti-x an t act Utt tire auhjeet of pr ipei ty, and To -I• ii \ ■ •tude the slave property .1 the S .a; ■ llauee.j Time will tot allow me to do li.uch 10-ue than J xinto lfae.*u propositions, hut 1 will ren t do-rt i v iraeti from the evlehrated report toad.* by the m mit tw of Thirteeii. (ot wkieh Mr. I May w • hairnum,) whieh resulted in the C. iuproiuise .Una-urua of ]ft;.o. It ta eahu, hmd,’ 1. • * < ’a]. trap phrases, And Ur tone i* like the eleaf no 1 < 1 crated language, of the Supreme Court “It in high time that the wound whieh it !.- indieted should he healed up and * .i, and that to avoid tu all future tiuie the agitation which omul he produced hy the confllet of . pinion on th* slavery question- exiaUogti* thi ‘UKtiiuti u -i-.cn in some f the States, ami pridiihited as it i-in other*, the true prinviph vvhoh ouglit t . regulate the action of Congr. * in funning T< r mortal (lorer*nuenti for each nenlv uc.puicd do maio, i- to refrain from ail legulation on the j*ul> jeet in the TarrUory acquired, so loti- it i tuns the Territorial form of government, I- .n to the i*..i pic ofrueh Territory when they have at ained a condition which entitle# them t < aduiU .ion a a State, to de.*ide fur themselves the <jues lion of the allowance or prohibit ion of domes tie -lavary.’ [Applau*e a \ *.ee,“T!i:it i* trued..,- trtoa/j That, gentlinien, was noli Intel veni: nin t s ‘<o. It nu no hitrrlerence u> exclude hy C uigre*-. or the Tarrllorlal Legislature, hut to leave thepu-s non to 1 ilee'dtd hy (he people when tin y euuie to form their State Constitution. It i a* mu.dm violation id’the doctrine .f non intervention for a Territorial l.og min tun*, under Mr. I>.i*lu-‘ I.ran new theory, |o exclude slave pr perty. as it would he for * ofigres* to iu'f, w. . j t.\ ‘j .. s j live law. Her* i* the ojiim. nl “V *., , u* ; the saMU tbtie. in the Senate, ii|.oi. ho o. i.n j ofTafrttturiaJ power “W* have alwaya gue upon tL* g ui;d that tha*e Teriiional Uovgrniueulr ware in a • ; pupilage, under the protection or pan o. the (ittuaoil UovernuivPt. The itiriuioi! I* i-iaiuralra- -i Canitiittlion prcrrribtwl hy Con vrexai Thex have no (orwi i D* t given I y that * They iuu*i act within the limit ol the louatituiu n granted then; l.y • nu r*. oi ; else thwir Hot.- hei- inc void. 1 lie j -i le under the Territorial Qtuvrntwaut arc not u - .xercignty. | and do not pc*acre any of the right.* incident to j Sovereignly. Tl.*> are•. if you t„ ph*a-e I detioui I mate it. iu Ala tv if inchoate government and -overeignly. If we weh < n.-ider tin .pjeMi n J upon th* gruumlof our prin tm durin- the laat ♦.alt century, I think w. will find one way of disposing ol 1l It ia our duty to provide for the | po*.ple of the Territory a (J..\eruiut*nt to keep the peaec. 1,, secure tin ir propeity, to -ign t. them a lUbordinate legisdulitc „ulhuntv. t . th.it tho protection of their persons and the security of their property n-gularly provided lyr, and 1 to maiuu.n them in that ■‘late until ihay grow into suflu ient iniMWlinttW, m f oint of popttlatioii, to bo a<llllll wd mm the \ non as ; Stale Jbnflf the him: footing witWthe orig'mad <l bu you up|*ose that Duukd NVabater, iliorthe opinimi oi the Supreme Court, which l hav* read to you. would bave cunswred it laflißiiiif in him iioih Aim <<nu tfiui< mati, 10 point out some contrivam'■ urde*i< by which the Territorial l.i-gi-iatuie con Id violate diet ‘otMtitutional light* of the State; N'htbe’ V.i would Mr. Clay, nor any of the great, and good men who illuatra U l the earlier dayii of your history. [Cboera.] Why, h-w is it with these Territorial (lovern im nts ‘ From the beginning they have been re -1 e nded im Jdihi-rdirmto and temporary, without any of the attributes nt sovereignty. Their judge* ■He! m . and of the other oflieora, art j .| t . ii : i l.y the I’u-sideiit mid Hciiate, and paid i mil ‘*( lb* public i roHiiury-. ami even the daily 1 \pun.-i - ‘d the Legislature, which they invoke to , i-xidttdc your property from the Territories, are i 1 u l ‘ ; .. tl,i j icaniry, from the money which 1 | tin- . i> pi periy cm.iribntc by taxation ‘ |Ap i! 1 1 In- pi.idice of tins <lovrumiit never . wnnauti-d this new doctrine Take an illus j tration which bus uiw iy- seemed to me conclu mh>. The theory is, that in the common domain t •( ih- I. ,; and- tthe Stull s mid their eitUeni s ai- mi .1 1 ... a . ci.until v, mi l entitled to the ..I ‘ ‘ei.-.. .ii ■ ■ l . ’■ ■ • I ■IlH 1,1 < , n 1 * 111 pride 1 i-i. of their per •‘■■ns mid prw|*erly. This -■end’ like amitioiiiil and Const ißutloual doc J trine. Now, suppose that a vessel were going out < : dhe |H.id of.Norfolk !■ >r another port, laden with | tr• .dil, and having oti hoard als” a number of i- . 1 -lid ih.it property in slaves uader 1 u > ii-ui )- il, end cannot get beyond State iimii i11,..i1l special ley i-latioii. This ship get - hcyi.jid 0j,.; league from shore, and is in tin-open 1 1 In -, o!,.l rt,.- limii’nf aiiy Btntr . Can a Writ- 1 , li 1 in. 1 i 1 ouie op mid take the slave from the deck I li,.- v - ml. mnl .-.'iv they are free, because 1 j fhiv-r.v 1 r-o uI unit they are not within the limits 1 ; 0/any i.iie • No. Whnl, then, protects them*’ Nothin;,'lmt the deck of an American -hip, ami I United • property li 1 •poo ■.■ 1 • 11.ui in domain of the IHioii, and the jHi nl Aim-rid protect.* it; and if it dues it on, J 1 iln* deck and a hip. it doc it. in the Territories, 1 ; which me lil.ewi c the common domain of the I I nhui. j Loud applause, j 1 “ilicr word on thi general object. I see mi ,1 i-pci 1 h made by tile Senator from DUnoia, in iVter.-burg, Yit,, he u . the following language to M* people of thal State : , ‘ Vou have, tlo -mum right, under (lie Conutitu - -n. !- iml c.iri •, your propwi 1 v into the Tor • ritojii thal 1 h iii mine. You huve llu- aine i.gtif to c,.rr> your lave , your cattle, nr your hot . that I hav< 1 , , H rry any property that I may I- When you get there, you and 1 tJ'O'l on a ! ‘it in,; <1 exact equality under the ‘aw. ou l*fiiig your properly with .you, *ut>jeet 11ti eim l law, and I bring mine With me *ub jeci tnthe *:iino local law.” It. ay.-you have the name right, . * /* * / 0- ('wiitihitiini, to go ami <'arry your propert;. into tlm Territory that he ha* to carry hi ;"ol I have -hown that ho declared prc*Tl oii-ly in tin- -■ 11 tie, that if the Constitution car lo i it 1 hue, no power on earth could take it iv. iv Vow. he -a).- when you get there, it is iib) -i t > a In al in tv, made by subordinate legls ! niv <• .11Iiorlty, and the sum of it l*. that the mo ment ft gets there, tiller the Constitution, they can driv e it mil against tho Constitution. [ Laugh - tei ..od applause, j tiVntlomon, what is this hut Ihe a.-sertiofi of wholly iiiconsistent position*? IV hat. 1 ■’ but trifling with tho intelligence of the people ? Again, says that di. tii-gnished gentleman, ill tho same *poeoh ■ re-- never yet pa sited a li*W for the pro* !- ■ v • ; oi any man's property in a Territory. 1 1 very m.ni who got::* | ( , a Territory with his wife. 1 hi children, lii erv ants mid his property, is sub* - .!**<•♦ t*< the local law for hi* protection Let o - sec if that i<- Congraa* hu* doue it in tunny in-daim,- r . ] liiipjK*nod to meet, tho oth • r *l.i%. with a si t iking ease in which it did o. In 1 I, when great statesmen wero in the Hon ’ mid ll -n-c, and Jackson wan President of the I oiled .-datci,the territory of Porida undertook t ,lty .1 1 1\ on the ’me and non re-i*lent* high ■ r th* 1 n the tax i'll llm slaves ,f residents. The *•■>• t c-i'Ji'tits of Virginia, and other Htatvs, up 1 j-oalcd r.. Congn t-. ohli .o the Territorial Lcg- I lature t -* refrain from discriminating against their property. Tho <'■ minittcc of Congrec* aov I they “think that Congress should a I way* protect the property of the ritir.cn* of the I nited .State* v 1. 11 subjected to Uic operation* of unjust leg i lot ion by Territorial government*;” and they re- 1 p rted .1 hill enacting that all aueh act* a* those ‘ ■ ••mplaiticd . 1 Imuld ho “irull aud void, and litr- 1 • her, that mi attempt t.y auy ..no to euforru said m t*. p issed !-i tb* Legislative Counrll of the Tern *rv of Klri la, -tould le punished by line 00-l in pri- oinent. The hill |.aamd Congress, ."■■l ii- approx 1d by I'r* idem J.iejksuii. Now, “■mill it ut mi insult to your understanding*, t ■ i\ that this wn not an iaterferem-e by Con* is * * t 1 iT'.ici 1 proper!) against tho encroach* “"'ii : - •-f tin- I Cj-| ii..rial Legislature 7 Yet Mr. il’-” C..nrc*,s “nerer yd passed a II xv 1 .r the pr-ueotloi, 0/ uny man’* property in ■’lei 1 it. rx. hut that “he must always rely “ii • I law. Os * ■ -iir.-- I .lo 1011 doul>t that he be l” ‘< 11., ii. in. nt. bur | relieve hi truth and integrity • the expense ..f hi* information.—* ’LiMi-I.tr. t\ a- “| wunldul care to he *0 relieved” | , L'.i-.w ‘if. rt.- The principle* l have tried J f 1 1 > 1 * V‘l> licale here, are the principle* upon *hi •'* the t ■o-tlluto.iui! Democracy aland to 1 ‘ it 1 tin v .11 the only tine, upon which anv liiiina o 1., ing o ill | n til. I |.i .hinge thelu iv Itb |'"rp I disunion I filmy are the paindplcs I the • ..n-iitutii.il and the i uioii, then ww arc ‘!'• < 1 ‘i'uti-.iial I oi..n um*u |f'rie <d"That'* An t \ .-i for two .r three month*back,yru have heard !■"• 1. mbl i.u-ivmnl .laiuor that I, and Cnoo* tn in-'Cr.its with whom 1 am connec ted, nro n disunion ..rgnni ‘iilion, who seek to bri .1 tip thi- C..i,f.-.kr:ie) -f Slat.--. My frieud-, I hardly kn tx - . f.,r a.• D n personal charge again I uiy-'dl. how t*.. .n.-wer “ \ voire 1.-ll them if- a |iV| In wle*!,* -t.*k in trade .>f many anuiiyuiou* ■ : ‘i . b*vin .r.ihir-all t.er the c.uu 1 noi-v “disuuinii.” “Thiaman ami ! I ..!v 1 tempt to break up the I 11U11 of the -**’*.•'• ■* \ <"i may iippeafto them l*y reason, In ‘■"U ‘ ay the-. the prim iples ofthc ('..ii t.lule o. . h-. rmlnedhy the practices of Hie ‘• vernm. lit The “disiiui.iQ N Oil U. ‘ It tin- ir.- pritivlpUi- of tile r.ilixtitll ■ •h'fan.tond'.y the lll.bed indicia! tribu uni “I the I ,mj Hu- an wcv i di-union” You o . serilng prim Iple- thus an> > •lie-I, l-V n..-,IM S. <1 I. . •Il Jill I the ballot ho. amt under lh.’ C.*u>idutiou The an-wer •fill is, “disunion, and no other *u*vvcr \o.l till, till’ l.u number of y gentleman • x *ged 11 •-iillghlaiiiuglh- pcple upon tie i\n-I knti.>n ..f ike country . by ringing us b* I! >•m o* a- b-ng, mid head*. * empty as the bell they ring. -1,..,t 1.-.,.,,. ~ pro. L.nged l.iUgd.fer and . heejs) 1 ‘-'ll 01 * vet mure eminent . . u.c* them-, co it. “1 1:•1I 11 ud tlo it**l orguifuation X’ 11 Ii übl. ft lain- ntti'cicd, urt) laboriog for the ! •"p Mb. r. i.f. demey Ido not reply 1 v v’ 1 M D u,:’ ‘V all over New I*ng land, iii \u. .;ii. mid whfrvver he goc,, because it may b. pule n itural lota gentleman wlmfeal* ■ ’.. p> r* •nal interest, n- he doe* iu I 1•• at” tl O’ to lluuk that any man who \ m 11111*1 > , , 1 lisuwlunlst. 11 lievr- and Indeed by bin dcolarallon we must .n iy l\euiiieky for he declared th i“! ■ -'in that the territorial legiitU luio h:i j wci !•• evx-hide slave property, and that C.'U-rc- -lo.uld tutertcre for in when 1.. -illy. :ir* ill . fleet dii>unionist* and I T • ’ • what the whole Legislature aud all the ; ! di el Keiitu. ky -aid laf yem. (Applause.) Fell * cillren* 1 vn in ourowti State, where l i.riuiuly jlo.light mv chaructcr and auteee detit- u-.-ic known, one of the oldest and uio.-t min ■ ..t .111 public men has not indeed said 1 mu ad. o- ni>t. but iiitluiated that If I am not o, mi-li | mu rouiioeted with an organization •* : 1 “ - Ib -.ly is di,union I refer to Mr. ‘Tin. ! n. 1 I t 1 speech recently made b v him at Louisville. (icntlcn ■ 11. t have known and .1 lutlrvd Mr. ’f • ! Ixx i hoy He also ha-km wn me: luwiii l be in,| his f hare ever cbcii-hed aud i -i t biii'h relations of Hie iuo*t re* px x 1; • ■ “dial e-tiein There are reason* I ‘u 1> hi publp-. which, eca it l had > l for an •pi “site course, would pt. X. i t .11) Int tlo mult perfect courtesy in reply. Art* 1-I’ ll f ’ Mr. Lincoln iu term* fully as 1 1 yus his priux iple* merit, and of Mr. D ■ ‘ m term . f worm eulogy, he come* to speak • ■ hi wn fellow cltleen* iu the language following • We. 1. uee ‘tl only t.> compare Mr. liell with the third candidate who stand* in oppo sition ‘l, Drrvhinridge. And here agoiu, a* iu respect t .Mr, Douglas, my object|. i* not I t-.tti c.ui.|o!afe as au individual. 1 -Imuld hope that Mi. L reck lor idge wa* not a disunion ) mail \ ‘<■ “ye- ] lie ought not lo li ‘•’ ‘ --ton tribe of fnitbtul, devoted j I'm , men tin- tribe of Kcutcckiati*. jiireat •ipphu!--. Hi mu?: have been -educed away tr iu fi,,- p.jtti of hi-duty, far from the path iu nbi* if tic utiuilse* o! hi* blood ought to ‘■ ‘ ‘ ••’ ! ■ • bcroOre a disunionlsl. Hut Mr If •. ij - tin.- made hiiuself the head of i IL - 1 art ai l parcel f the present l ur l 1 “'y irni. a* in the ease of Mr. , 1 ‘C 1 i I"‘ot i'llge • 111* public Course by - j the parry he ■ n-ciif- to represent.” t •vL *’ I thank my venerable and I j d.-irn m-'o and t rt-1..1 |..r the lingering ho|e he r I yet tiiut I mu n t a diaunlouist. • I k. humane law ■ | )*‘f h■ o - | ; ■ I.ally the Iseuetlt ofa doubt <l • H... t I thunk him. (Kent wed j che.-i A-’ n v liiicelioli with principles I 1-1 1 *.■ “ h•. id- in that direction, 1 may | al. *I F pre-fatly My obje*t i now to r • pci .I,trx'ta the imputation of living a disuni>>uiL and In thi- ease 1 would 1 j greatly prefer to receive n -mog and direct ijbh.wivm t .have it sound n-it •!•*, like the j.. urt irit , rt ‘ ful'friend f Ap ia paaMnf. 1 ranjr ay in Tegard t-* ‘be di* J tinguished gentleman associated w illi in a.- a eoadidate for the \ ice I’rcsidoimy, that,he whole ( life is a refutation of the charge made .. alr.nl I him. Brn in North Carolina, fen rod in Ken- ‘ tacky, long living in Indiaun tu-ndi reefwtly 1 from far on Oregon, he ha* been in all part* ol hi* country, tried in all, honored In alt. Ho has served his couutrf with distinction iu pcadw or war, aud hears on his person enduring me tin, rial* of hi* patriotism and courage IF- lasi :mt of treasou was to add another -tar to tlm g daxy of the Fnion. (Loud app!au*.'!.| When a man is liefore the people lof public trust, a great deal depends on hi- persona) char acter ami antecedents. Much tuen deja-mi- on the fart whether lam a lisunloni-t. * ric of “You’re not.") Horn within -igiit ihi- -pot where wc are met. known to many of you tor nearly forty years, your representative in tlto l.cgislatnre of Kentucky, in the Cong re- the Luiloil State*, aud station* ol public UuL i in vite any one to point to anything in my charm* ter or antecedents which would ftmciiou such a charge or aueh an imputation. ‘< iic> r - I will not degrade th dignity of my declaruLon “ii this subject by epithets . lut f proii ily challenge the bitterest enemy | may have on . ;it*. to inf zut ail met. to disclose an utterance, to rex cal a thought of mine hostile to the l.'o;i>titnior .md Fnion of the States. Loud cheer- A v “Jl* < ould'nt do it.’ . fee iy friend* the man d> e-not !in ol the t ommonwealth ot Kentucky, no matter how exalted hi- station or character, who ha- ‘ power enough to connect my imiim sm-cessfuily 1 with the alightest taitrt. of disloyally to the Lon ■titetioti and Inion of my country. 1 Applause. A voice “No you'd -tie first."| Hut, fellow ejtiaeoN, if tiierc he nothin ; in my eharez-ter ‘r antecedents to justify thi- aecilin what i- there in the principles upon which I stand? If is not pretended that the resolution.- which relate t<. the acquisition of Cuba, tho !’n cjfir Lailroad, the right- of “niilurall/cil riti/cu , Ac., contain disunion Mint intents. It must then he, if anywhere, in the resolution a* t.> prop erty in the Territories, and its protection. 1 will read these two resolutions, and y u e.m I judge whether tin y accord withtbc t >n titutmi . the decision of the Supremo Court, ami the practice of the government .1 J have •hown it to 1 ■l*7 ‘ let. Huso I ed, Tli.U the government ‘ler ritory, organized by an act of Congress, i- pro- ; visional and temporary. ,od during it ex i tenre ’ all citizens of the I uited Statea have an 1 qitnl 1 right to •‘♦•tile with their property in the Territory ; without right* either of persons nr propert y h. ing destroyed or impaired |tv Congrc, -iomil or I Territorial legislation. I'd. Resolved, That it i. the duty of the Fede ral Oovornmont in all Its departments t > pro teet, when necessary, the right of pei >ons and proparty in the Territories, and wh< n\ c* > I it constitutional authority extends. Those are the principles wn avow. Arc they Constitutional? Are they just’ Aro they < • tional’ If they are Constitutional they arc n t •eetionul, for the Constitution cover tho whole Cnlou. (Cheers.) Why lie who tumJ- upon the Constitution can neither he sectional imr .1 dlsunionist. 1 have shown you that these prin ciples are taken almost word for word* from the opinion of the Hanretne Court of tho I uited States, and wc liud they are supported by alum 1 all the precedent* and practice of tin- (Joverm ment. They are principles upon whieh we may well live and by which wo may well be willing to die. [Cheer*.J They are important, they me vital. They concern the rights of per.-on and properly. They cannot be abstract, they cannot ■ he minute or unimportant, for they concern the’ honor am] the equality of tho States of this broad ! Cnion. What has been the position of Kentucky i upon that platform. You remember the posit ion ( 1 taken by the candidates for the (Jovernor of thi • ) State last year 7 Both held that Territoriul Leg 1 isiature-. have no power to exclude nur property, j 1 und each contended tlmt every department 1 (lovernment must protect it when it became n cesaary. Mr. Joshua K. Hell, I believe, went 1 step further in thinking the lime had now arrived 1 when it was necessary for the (lovernment to j interpose. The Congressional Convention: ot both parties, with scarcely an exception, and | their norninoo* for Congress indorsed these j-rif ciploa. The Htate Democratic Convention on 1 !■■- fttn us January last adopted hy an overwhelmin'; vote the following resolution, which ninhnu-i precisely the same principles “1 Resolved, That the Democratic | rlv in Kentucky believe thal the (loviyuniont of ti e 1 Inited States bolds the public domain jn Ini'! for the lnellt of all the citizen* of the respect iv. Statos; and that Congress pos.a-s.-e* the polWi and in the faithful discharge of its trust is bound to exercise tho power, when it shall be uri c to protect the citizen* or inhabitant<■ of any TN-; rltory iu the n-e aud enjoyment of every -j>ei of projerty: but that neither the Cm>gr< 1 of tk l nited Slates nor any legislative agent of • .n (fress'ean, by let i.-dative enactment,or untriend;;, egisiatiou, deprive the owner <d’ hi* j".r. pert’ restrict or restrain him in the use of (he ,m. “ Again The Semite ot Kentucky, last winter, l-> unauiuiou* vote of both parties, declared the 1 : principles to l>e important, Constitutional nod true, by the following resolution, which I inn- t ‘ read, it is *0 apt, *0 pertinent, -o com lw-ivr “Resolved. Thai tho'J’erritoiie are the com moo property of the Fuinn.und n- :i tield for the expansion of the institutions and tin- develop ment of the energies ol an advancing and pr gressive people, arc open to llie citizens of nil t l ’ States: and that there exists no power in t (•eiieial Uovcriiment or the govcrnimut <■! a tei rltory, during its continuance as -ueb, and nut 1 i attained -uflicient jiopulution it -halt have ioriued n t’oii-tilution and been admitted I into the l’ nion, to impair the right of any eiti/ijn emigrating thereto iri the ownership and enjoy ment of any specie* of property winch may recoguited by (he laws of any one of the Kt.it* . 1 hut this right having been solemnly affirmed by 1 the decision* of our highest Judicial tribunals,) should be guarded b) .-uitnble law-. faithfully ad ; infnistired: and if, in any ease. Terrltotinl(!o vcrnmeiit should assail that rigid by unfvfendlv leC islatiou, or experience should-how that e\ ting laws hic inadequate lor its protection, it j will then be flic duty of tho<leneral (Liieriitm'i t in the exerci-a <>t its power- --legislatin', mdi- j ciul and executiic • each acting within it- *p propriata sphere, to provide surh ,-erurity nod protection a* the exigencies of the or<-aion may demand.” 1 A simitai resolution wa- urmiiiniou-l v greed to In the • t HepreM jj'atives of th- I • lature. What 1- hII tin-, but adopting in prim iplo and . lunguage. tho opinion o| the Supreme Court, and j the resolution- j hme rcail of the National Dorn oeratie Convention Both parties in Kentto-ki. 1 at the poll*, twelle months ago, h\ ununituoo voto*. in h -ill branches *d‘ the l.’ i'islaturc. have . de. lared that these principle- ago Constitutional, ‘ and vital to the interest* and honor - I tlieSiuic Surely 1 might pause hen*, but l wjint.in -iq port of these priueiplvs, the individual noth , ity ! of one of our inoet veuernblc statesmen. I want j the authority of Mr. Crittenden himself \p plans*- ) Uentleuien. whatever d'Uil't he mu have as to rwy fidelity to Hie Constitution and tlo L'llbm ot these Stales,l dutmt hesitate to snv.tl t in my opinion, that eminent gentleman i< *b voted to the I ninn. Ido not believe hr ivoubi ad*.- cute principles which he believe*! were on*-"n-t* tutmiial or calculated t*> destroy the I'nion, and if I eau time his snnctiuii and indorsement lor the principles 1 advocate, surely it will go a groat way in proving that they are constitutional, nd the true I'nion principle*. 1 hold in mv hand the Jonruulof the I nited State* Senate, lor the mouth of May last, when the followingn - !uti..n wa- adotded by nn overwhelming vote ••Lef.ixe 1. That the 1 nioa 11 flu eSI on the equality of rights and privileges anion its members; and that it is especially the duty of the Seuute, which represents tli State.-, in their sovereign capacity, to relist all attempts to di criminate either in relation to tier son* or property in the Territories, which arc the common p* * •ion* of the I tilled States, .-•> a* to give advim tagos to the citizens of ope State which arc not equally assured to those of every other State.” Mr Crittenden's vote D on record In the affir mative ou that resolution. On the same day. the following resolution passed the Senate “Resolved, That neither Congress imr a Terri torial Legislature, whether by direct legislation or legislation of indirect or unfriendly character, posse** power to annul or impuirthye. r.-tituti- n at right of any citiren of the Cnitcd State to lake hi* slave property into the common Territ ■ rle* and there hold anil enjoy the same while the Territorial condition remain*.” Mr. Crittenden's vote I* recorded in la 1 resolution. On the same day the following rvsolut!* ■ V o passed the Senate. “Resolved, That It et|>crieiice -houbl ;-.t ,m\ time pro re that the judicial andKxccutiie a.’- thority do not possess means to in. urea b .* itc protection to constitutional rights In a Territory, and If the Territorial (internment should tail i.r refuse to provide thenecetfary remedies i t that purpose. It will be the duty of Congress f> up ply such deficiency, within the limits .f it ,p. •titutional powers.” Mr. Crittenden’- name ts.rccorde*! in t.iv.*r ••( this reaolutk'n. Then I hare the vote of my rcsjiected friend declaring that these question* are nut minute or unimportant that the union of the State- rest* upon equality or rights among its members that neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature lias the power to annul or impair the 1 n-ii u tional right ot any ciUsen of tho l ulled State- te take Ills slave property into the common Territ* ries and there enjoy the same while the Territ rial condition remains; and that if such assailed by that Territorial legislature, it t*c come- necessary for Congress to interfere to pi teet it : precisely upon the earns principle um>n which we stand to-day. (Cheer.-.] Mr. Crittenden, a few days after, followed these resolutions by a speech in the Senate, which 1 find reported in the Daily tllohe, the official or gan of that body It i* true, that Mr. CriCcti den express'd a hone that the time might never come when it would lie nece-ary for Congre- f intervene to protect the** right- in the Tenit. t i* l alvo tru -t the time never come when any Territorial authority ’Vill be so ruckle** of its Couatltuliousloblige VHjss aa to make iiMecet *ary foi Congress *.r other branches of tha fJovernmcnt to inters era for the |rofectlon of jmr sonil right- and priv tie property. ! (’boors.) Hat in tbe -peech 1 n Which f refer, he sustain* the position I ocoupi', In language which com* pares well with tha* of the Supreme Court itself Ho say - “My id 1 up... that subject, Mr. i're*ident, without a shadow ofuVjubt, is that a Territorial government is the more creature of Congress, made and fashioned by Congress a* it pleases, with what function* It pleafs**, with what power it think- prop* 1 t*. - ntcr that all tliese power* are liable to b<- resumed at any time, or to be fasliioned and controlloii and changed at the pica-ure ot Congrcs and according to it* dis crete n. Of'-ourse therein no sovereignty or par ticle in tin- Territory . all is a mere delegation of power, and is in subordination at all time* to the Congress of the I ‘nited States. I know of no Sovereignly in this country, no supreme political power, except that originally vested in the peo ple of the Cnitcd Stales. They ure the natural <kp .-it.r:>', they arc the natural owner* of every thing like supreme power or sovereignty. They ‘have, to form thi government, delegated a eer -1 * • portion of that -'.vereignty to the Congress of Lie United State The whole, then, oi this sovereignty exist-, a * to that part not delegated, in tire peoble. A to that part which they have delegated, that i- in Congress : and here is the .disposition of tbe whole sovereign supreme pow cr oftlii,-: c.auii-y. None lie.- been delegated to iiny oiic iT'-. None certainly, Ims been delega tci to the Territorial government.” further on in the same speech, Mr. Crittenden employs tho following language ; “A-tho Territorial government has no sover eign or independent right to act on this subject, th<’ - ipreme (tourt of the ( nited State*, having determined that every citizen of the United State may go ini’- that Territory, carrying his • law- with him, arid bolding them there, my opinion i- tint the. Constitution is to protect that property which it Ini- authorized to go there. Os course, that . a logical conclusion. It seem* to me unquestionable. To assert my right to go I there, to carry tny property there, audio enjoy I that property, and then to my there is anybody oi-ongi r -.r mightier, or more sovereign than the Constitution, that can take from rue that whieh | the Constitution snys I shall have and enjoy, or i shall expel nin from the place where the Con i Mtitiition ony* I may go, I con imagine nothing - * inconsistent and m contradictory. 1 say, I therefore, when the proper <r extreme < u*e oc j cur.-, when property going there under the sane t iou of the Constitution, s interpreted by the Supremo Court of the I nited States,shall require rucii inferpo-ition, that it is the duty of Ongree* 1 to interpose and grant protection. Oive it, and | give it adequately. That is my opinion.” Nobly und well said, in language worthy of his exulted character and reputation. Mr. Dougin- says lie wilt lie content to admin i- i.*r the Government, and makes the acceptance ..f it mi the condition that a Territorial Legist* tore, no matter what the decision of the Hupreme Court may be, can lawfully exclude property from nT rritory ; that you may tike it there under the Constitution, hut that the local legisla ture may then expel it by hostile laws. The Su preme Court t :i) ihc Territorial Legislature can not exclude it, and Mr. Crittenden soy* that be can “imagine nothing b inconsistent and coo trudicory” .*? t*- say that yon may lake your property there by virtue of tbe Constitution, and 1 then to -ay lharrhe.ro D somebody stronger *r mightier than (lie Constitution, thut can take away that which tin- Constitution say*you may hold and enjoy, and yet, unless Mr. Douglas can Ibicc half the Htatcm to accept this surrender of their right.-, lie will rend add destroy as he goes. , (Applause.) l derive some satisfaction from the la t that, the lion. John J. Crittenden, whose name and authority will go far in this Union, hn* declared, by In.- speechc* and Votes in the Senate, that the principles upon which we stand are Con stitutional and true. (Cheers.) Follow'-citizens, I cannot enlarge: I appeal to you if I have not conclusively repelled the ac cusation •< against me. and if ( have not shown that it is neither I nor the Constitutional Deton eracy, but Mr. Douglas who departed from the agreement of the Jvaiisa* bill ? Then pa-sin , to a more extended view, we have .* in that these principles have been sanctioned by fin- prad ice of the government: nflirmed by lie lii; to--tjiidiei.il tribunal in the world ; voted kbe true by both politic tl putties in Kentucky in : unanimously assorted by both brunette* of the Legislature, and by an - 01 erwhelming inajo rit > ot the whole I'emncratic party in Htete Con v* ‘ii ...ii, uml declared Ity Mr. Ciiueuden himself, 1 in tlic m -t solemn form, to be not inly Constitu tional, but t i be .mml and true, essential to the right-a ini 1. (ualit y of the MLate*. (Cheers.) — \ .'in l.v the . ii.i>.iiiukc u pyramid of authority am! 1 um. .t in their support, which ought to - “iHincnd tinm. n not to the adoption, cirtaidly to the grave and candid consideration of ail men who wish f” know the truth. And I have tried 1 ) fii.-iaiu tin ml) legitimate fact* and argnmtat. t tun ii"’ *'"ii-ciniis o| having appealed to any prejudice. Fellow-citizens, these principle will give ns I peace and prosperity ; they will preserve the equality and restore the harmony ol the States. They will make every tnun feel thal in his person- j alright.-’ and right of property he -lands on a| i• ■•* 11 ■ i:: us equality in the domain common to all | the Ft ate.-. (Cheers.) They have their root in tho *'"iislitution, mid no party can l>e sectional whieh 10. lint iin.- t ii-tilutimial principles. And 1 are ‘ to I"• driven front their maintenance ? Is I nur . : to bo twitted round the linger* of poli tician-. .1 * they would twist a gumdastie thread? j Are the | ■ |.leyf Kentucky t.i l>. made to turn j their liaeks t*. dav Upon principles they thougiit j true un*l Cunstituticnal last year, by loud and ; unreasonahle clamor? Are they to be driven, | nrriiied. 1.1 v :*-rod, atid hewildered by idle cries ) of ••disunion,” fi"iti maintaining ilteir Constitu . tionul rights And when Kentucky i* n.-ked to j * xpi* s her>.w 11 opinion oi lier own right* in tbi* : ('mifederal. tius tho spirit of the Commonwealth sunk * low (hut she dare not do ity (Cries of “No’ no !'* and cheer*, j Such were not the men w In-laid Hie foundation of thi* State. Such were j ii*'t those who maintained our iudepeudonre in ,I , Now the que-t .on is the one of equal rights ! ol person* and and nropertv in tlje Territoriee, ! though indeed just behind thin outpost lie all our ; “iMtitutioual rights. I'bcn it was a question us the freedom ot peocb, and whether the friendless |..iei ;nur might he driven from the country for jr *-..|is i"lie locked up in the breast of tbe I'resi* [ dent. Need l recite the glorious pert Virginia •id Kcntiu-k) played iu that gr*t irama’ j Many State- replied to their resolution* by stig mnl 1 ziii'/ them a disiinioiiist- . hut, undeterred by threat- .md false prilieiidei, they inaugurated ( .* | ‘litienl rev >luti"ii wiiieli saved the Conatltu \ tiou and your liberties, t beers.) S..w. in lathi, !••*- Kcntiu ky ‘hire to defend tho Constitution 1 1 <•- •!> dare to as i *ert the e-qiality of the States, and her own rights | hi ihv Coni."lcruey They are her* by the cur i ion! of nur Ituti'i v . her* by (bo practice of the Guvvr"lim it! ; tin bv the sanction us judicial anti” 1 ‘.ty. Ib*n. u ill site fly front ihem -driv* • n ly tin.-lauior of bells nn*l tbe noisy orators, • r will In land up*ji* iheni brave and selfposted, and nuiiitaiii alike her right*, the Constitution auJ the I ne-l ICheeet*. and cries of “Wc'el stand hy (ben, “) Fellow citizen-, i! uiy strength will last, can you bear with me a little longer? [A voice l know *•! imt one p*diu- itl organization which iv-sert* tin* principle.-- 1 have attempted to de fend. The Republican organization holds pre cise!) opp” it.- principle -. They lay wc have no riglit-’ hi the Ivn 1! *ries with our property. They say Congress bus aright to exclude it, and it i* it- duty to do ■‘o; but they are soiuewliatindiller • cut oil this point as long a* they are quite sure it will bed “lie hy the Territorial Legislature. In regard t<> tho pUUrin*dpted by the t'on vvnli” 11 which nuiniuatexl Mr. Hell, of Tennessee, und Mr. I’verett,ofMa.-. ; aehuiietts, I have only to mi) that certainly it announces no principle, at all upon this subject gentleman tell u* they are advocating the claims <>f these distinguished uicu upon the principle* of the Constitution, the Union and tho enforcement of the Laws. I presume that there t* ‘ areely a man in this assembly—per haps wry lew, North or South, who will admit that they arc oppo-ed to tlie Union, the Consti tution, mid the enforcement of the Laws; but (hey entertain (he most diverse and oppositeopin ions .1 i” the her! mode of sustaining tho Con stitution, and tho diameter “f the law* to lie en forced. Mr. Seward, of New York, Mr. Burlingame, “t Mil aelni.-etl . Mr. Giddlugs, of Ohio—all identified vvitli the anti-slavery party, wilt tell v on they are for the l nion, hut it i* their vwu sort of Inion they want. They say they are for the Con-1 iiiiti<n. I'ui they construe the Constitution - it* to take away our rights. They tell you they are tor the enforcement of the law*: hut they at *• for laws which would take away our properly. ( lic* rs.| For the “Union, the Con iditutioii. lin I the law-. They shake liands with you “it that, hut yon cannot agree on a *in _le thing under llenvcit afterwards. (Laughter aud cheer*.) Then this platform, gentlemen, declare* prac tically nothing, and 1 have nothing more to say about it. ["Hood ! good !] Hm. tho platform 1 have read to you does con tain a distinct enunciation of certain principles which touch the righte of pro|*erty ami person in the Territories, und which declare the equal right* “I the State-: and now is Kentucky ready to meet the i--uc v Wo appeal to you. not In l>ehnlf of any individual, hut to stand by your v*wn principle*. re*t;ng as they do upon’ the C'.n-Jituticti of the United State.-. (Cries of N**vv, ii it be true, thut I am not a disynionist and If it lie true that the political principles I nd v. cat. are the principle* of the Conatitution, will it net be pretty difficult to fasten disunion on sound men. with Constitutional principle!*— (Cries of “That's am**) That, gentlemen, would -cvm to exhaust the ‘tbic. >"Uiul men, vvithJ('oiistitutionaf|vrinci ! !< -. wb'e h arc ndinned in the mode recognized •i*’ .1 i which we propire t maintain by raison und the ballot-box. Really, thia would Aeeni t*.exhaust the question. Hut, it is said, although 1 am not a di.-tanionigt, and the principles 1 maintain arc Constitutional aud true, yet the object*: °* t-be organization by which I have been nominated is to break up thi* Confederacy! and I suppose they have selected me oh the tool with which to execute that scheme. (A voice—“A bad instrument!” Cheers.) Gentlemen, 1 do not think any man will charge me, in my public address to the people, with waut of candor. F have no doubt a great many gentlemen in the Houthern States of the Union think thut their Constitutional rights will never be recognized. A few arc, perhaps, /->• di - unionist; though I doubt if th'cre tire Ilfly such in tho Union, aside from the AbvdUioni.-i* -d the Garrison school. Undoubtedly, a number “f gen tlemea who Were disuatislied with the Compro mise Measure- of 1810 now prefer me f>>r the Presidency, ami sustain mo on thi* platform: and if 1 could descend to Count ic .-* I doubt not there are many more of the .-nine character who sustain other gentlemen, upon plait..no- ii"t *0 Constitutional and desirable as mine. Cheer.-. What is the charge? Nearly the entire delega tion! of a majority of the States, made Ihi i.-.m in allot 1 and it is sustained by the mo. f Jlic Southern Democracy, and by si rong"i'gniii/..itbiro> in most of (lie Northern State I'” they m< an to soy that theseinssecs wore cliitlnioni : 7 Why, gentlemen, the country is in a bad way if tbi- be Hut the charge is u r* ‘ k!.. ■ 1 . tire delegations from California and *n. 11 uni ted in my nomination, and affirmed - nr prim : pies. Are these disunion Stale 7 They lie iliou sands of miletf away from'our dome (i in! What have they >nid or done that <■ui i!• I. • man to suppose that they would break up t U Union of the .State*? They arc impart iu! arl 1 trators of this depute : uml they tell our North ern brethren they must do justice and give <• pm! ity In the Union, and thus alone can they 0... n tain tho t nion and the ConatUiifion. Arc a majority of the Senator’ in 1 nr. unionists? Are three-fourth of tho Deni “rat • inemi*er>* of the Hoiiseof Jleprc'cntaf ives diMin irmi*t*? Are nil the eminent men throughout tbe Union, who soßtnin thi* cause, disuinoni t I My friend*, the charge is bascle-s nn*l absurd. Advantage biu been taken <if the loynlt’ ft 1 • people of Kentucky : and equally, to the surpri > and delight of the gentlemen i-ng;tg‘"l in scheme succeeded better than they expert-d. 1 am sure that the sober, *e< “Tid thou ■!, >.f the people will reeatl them to the irmintennnce • 1 their well-consiiiered opinion-. Kentuel-v will never abandon a prinelple which Tie fist- ie> r. and to be the principle of the <‘on-: <trt*ic.n an ! tl • Inion. ( Loud applause. . I will not answer these new •paper n-’ u . that thi* gentleman and the other ronttetoi n itave held extreme opinions, *up|>nrt nn-. G* tlemen of far more extreme opinion- .-upport ti..- other candidate-. What, if A, B, V, and l>. w e j opinions you do riot like, thiulfing bc’ter of certain set of principle than t hey d> ■ ♦< rt . j other set of principles, or no principt- >t all, ‘ (laughter an*l applause.) ehoo-c ♦ ft* for n will you, for this, fasten the •tigm;i es and upon one half of the Confeder;n . Geiitleoien, It Is unworthy. Judge men their iintceedeni’ and hy the principle opp -rt. ! by the inane of their tdvtK*al<'. I* > tlmt, ,<nd : you find tho mannnexeeptirmable, m. I tl.- | n elple* true, what brave ninn will bed :.-r ’* Itr m , his support by a false clamor of'di-mu -n 7 l ?; ereouiu understand how it was .'ceth mil t” a ■rt > a Constitutional right, for F hare olwu . n ed the Uonatitutioii a coverin ‘ tin■ wh"!- 1 j try. ((‘beers.; Hut, while you tire- wrangling - selves, there are dlsunionist* nil over thi- • intrv. I working, and working actively, for H ■ > vcittimw J of the Union of rim State-. They arc the-’ w 1 j deny (JcmstHnlional right': for up< n t*,.- r .nt j ‘ution the Union rests. They ire tho win- ■ I ! over the North ftre engaged t- day in tr:n;*| n under foot, without sliume, the plaitic-t n :.t‘ guaranteed to 11s by the Uedetid (’on. titutkvii (Cheers.) The Governor of the Slat*’ 1 Ohio re fused to deliver up a man Indicted f <,r f, ‘ \ n ! Kentucky, because be lays under the I• i- ; it is no crime to steel n itegr**. To-day, in the ! State of Wiseonsin, a man indicted fur ;i ‘ r 1 1 rescue from the custody of th<- Marsh >1 of (!■■•• United Htate*, is protected by a mob, v. . <■ kiw less proceedings seem to b u-t" ; n< and j.iit.l.. * opinion. Where, in the North, can the !'u -'.v 1 slaw be executed, except here and thci.- nb.rigtlte i border? lFow many of the <t:i(. in • t ; , n..rlli > have passed law.-- making it on ofl< nee, to be pm ! isbed by tine and imprisonment, t ■ iid il .. •! ■ of the United State- in exectiting tl* Ilw n. r gard to the return of fugitive •lav • \ I believe. I,ook at these thit • I• k at the concentration of anti-sluvery opioi. u. I kat tbe gradual advanee, year after year, *d'tin- 1 I tiiliaiiat eneroaehinent-. See fionr - Ivc- ervi ‘ MSel tuul closed in upon vvitli -tejdy and rc!*-nt less steps. State utter Stale enntin•/ Inw- , 1 .1 l ing it penal in the pewple t<> n in tin: : I the Unite*| Htntc’ to execute the law . whi*di pi j led your right*: armed nod- m iking re-, from the Marshal and refusing to urrender pri i oner*: a thorough anti -lavery opinion ni.tiuriog * and taking the form of pnliticul nction in tk. J Northern Stales ; inroad-’ in every dire* ti 1 Harper's Ferry : arson* in Texas : the.- nth < vironed and l*o*ct: the (.'otiHtUutioii thr*>wn v> h ‘ 1 contempt into her face: the parpo-c uv. .J 1 j exclude her from all the common *1 -in in t, f tin? I j l uion, and thus to begin ih;U “irrepre .t.i. n ! | fliet which mist end in the abolition of i *\. rv ! in the Stats*. (Applause.) \nd y.- when a p litienl organization ventures to pr 1 t. in <'* * ii tutUmal language t* ,i-k i..r ('"nstifutima! : rights—those right* which you have ! re yours, having n> ear to hear, n*. *\< (•• >rc. 1 voice f eons ure to rebuke the iiiM-on.iutiunal encroachments, you turn upon and t*l.. >*.th olumoroHScries *if disunion, your own fellow 1! izens. who are tdniggliir.: for yoni- . wu right-, (applause,) und like the J. wwhen F'ittir- !■. seigud their ••ity, instead **l defen*tn r t!*- t. nq . of your litter!ies, you waste'the pr<*< “11 hour - iiixaue wrangling mnl mutual .* -u * : Id newetl applause.) A single word upon another p unt. I ■ id that Mr. Lincoln, reproentifig them h otfcnaive prluciples Iwfore tin* oounlry, ought t . bo <l : n •A and that I am the only man In the wav of h, defeat. I agree he ought to U- d*-t.\iU>d 1: ,r. ,• \ that he represent* the most obnoxious j .\*tn iu the teuo In tlri twmvnss. | agree th..• h;- . ctpies are clearly unconstiiutinaal. and, i: the Republican party shduld undertake t” Ciu• then oat, they will destroy the Inion. lint one pretend that Mr. Lincoln will earn 1 mv! Southern State, in any event Wat- Mr. Dough-- willing to unite in tbe only prteli al mode fortlu defeat of Mr. I.ineoin, an man of the *\i-.-1 m in the Hast thonght* Os the demihvf that 1 know nothing. Did uot fhc Dcin<*.mtc State (’on vent ion in Pennsylvania, before tlh* N at ional Conventlan assembled, nominate m *■.*•• ticket and place it before the people m l .-. ■■ | n. i a large majority of tbe State Central ■inm.'tce of Pennsylvania, after a ili'rnpiion at lkrklrrv re. propose that the |>eoplo of IVnic ylvauia ■> *n!.t vole for the electoral ticket, without .-mv chai. - . and that these elector. 4 *honM vote t r ■ • < r could lefcat Mr. Lincoln? Waariut t! r- ,n tm-tided 7 and did not Mr. Dongle--. *!codaring that “ulland water i “iil*in"t iu- li • I should not vote for this electoral t id., i hut should nominate one devoted to him alone, which eve; child know- has not a chance to . cry 1 . t. . while It Is equally sure, if th*- rc< inn ci: !. ; n 1 the State Pentral Uommlttec had been .< * .(. ) t<, the united voh* of those wlm prefer thal **cn tieoian ant tnysvif would defeat Mr I m (UheeM.) The same thing mnv be predic *t. I. in almost the same language, of New J.-r-. \ and other States. Hut no. We who -i.nnl up n ito principles I have viu*lieafe*l to dav amdi-nt ists, soceders, un*t they will have r. lm witli us! And so he break-- up the only m I. ! . which, in ihc opinion of the regular “■ nm tion of those State 4. Mr Lincoln ip I - Now, as I have said, Mr. Lin* 1 ■ . . event carry a single Southern State <: ii Un ion; aud with them, Pennsylvania. N. and California would make a 1 • riy*. ■ the defeat of Mr. Lincoln would he ur i:'per chance he should heelectod. nothin will have caused that result hut tho ••rule or ruin “ purl “-*- the rciitles* ambition and elni---t In an. | .ti.■ \ one man and his violent adherent . Fuii.l eheora.j Not content with attempt in g North, the surest ui"da by which the l>- m>* r. organization might control the result nt the next election, this gentleman has turned hi- lira 1! a.- course to the South. Ani what, 1 ask, i hi • > jeet in coining South Doe- l.c expect. ‘-> y u u ox poet, does any sane man expe-t thal he will carry a single Southern State (Urn \ > no!” It i* said hi* friends claim MDsoari. I will not snter into particular* about that. Snpp*. c be can. Yet 1 think be hn* no more eh.r • t.. t - Miasuiiri than I have for Ma-saehtp-i’tt'-. What other State, from Maryland to th* Hi - tirandc. will any honest gentleman say he expects bun 1 carry 1 ’ And you, gentleman of th* Opp ..u party, who stand on principle, nn-w* w!, q, * jeet do you think he must have In ooTiiinj: mb. (A voice - “lie can’t carry live thousand in T< nessee.”] Some gentleman says lie will not carry dvo thousand in Tennessee. Suppose he * Irr < - twenty thousand, doe* not every “in* i now i . has no chance for that State Is it not then, hi* otyect in • ming uiii i •lomoralize the Democratic organi/a’i ui ineverv State in South. (A voice ‘‘That’- • t r t* purpose of .losing tothe Dcm rate organization of these State**, their candi*latr and their principles, an*t throwing the Mu ten into ti c hands of Iheit p*ditical opponent- il pun -0. and none other. (Appluo-e 1 It will lm. gentle in hi*, for the J*i . r.u-y > Kentucky, an*l for the gentleman of the opp*>-. tion party, who l>elieve our principle . und u i Constitutional, to liuieriuiiic whetiiei ih*v will countennnce aueh a movement Fellow-citizen*, it is linpo-Vrido (• rme 1 t ’. |.*w unt thia line of remark, or to any main thin. I have intended to say. (Orle* of “On <ll My physical indl*j<oitioti make* it imp.-•*-ilU* t**r nm to do so 1 ant not a'-hamed *if the pm.. .pi. q n * 1 I stand. lum nut ashamed of tbe by which they arc su-!ain< and. lum not ashamed us the friends that support me. fam nut ashamed of the tone, bearing and character of “ur whole or ganization. [Applause A voice—" The truth will prevail."] Yes, the truth will prevail. You may smother it fora time beneath the passions und prejudi. * of iuon,hut those passions and prejudice- wijl sub side; and the truth will reappear as the rock re appears above the receding tide. I believe thi - country will yet walk by the light of these prin ciple*. Bright and fixed, u> the rock-built light* house in the stormy sea, they will abide, aporpet ual beacon, to act root the political mariner to the harbor of thu Constitution. ( Loud applause. | J’eople of Kentucky, you never abandoned a principle you believed to right. )*ou may be misled, but the stigma never rested on Kentuckv tlmt plic abandoned principle* be Wlieved t>> b true. (Cries of “We never will."] For iniself, coneiou* that tny foot )■* jdanledon the rck of the Constitution surrounded and sns* tuineikby friends I love und cherish - holding principles that have been in every f*irm ln*lorsed by my native Coniututiwealth with a spirit ere t and unbroken I defy all calumny, ond calmly I await the triumph nt Hie truth. (I'robuigcd ap | up use. ] -Oia( ,<j \te Mt**’ tmi MKtH. tio>tm, AKfmtßFi: -it. istwt. FOR IREBIDB\T, JOHN C. BRECKINRIUOE, : OK KENTICKY. KOI* VICS-PRKSIiatN'T, JOSEPH LANE, OF OREGON. BRECKINRIDGE & LANE ELECTORAL TICKET BTATE AX LARUK: 11. n. .1. M, IKINAI.D, i.l’ < 11 i! jackhon, ui ni.iiiiiin j AI.TEI-.KAT*>: Ho 1. 11 * oi.Qt:m\. 1 1;.1 •’ W*l. 11. II.MiM'.V, ol I o.nioll. FOHTHti DIHTHiOTH | lu. I'KTI'.IK'ONi:, ill f'ullo. li. I J.I. VV. M Sl,.VUfl!lTi:il,or Dmi.-hcly. : I il. o.l'. t.'IIISON, of S|oil.irh-. 1 I'h IICCII BUCHANAN, ol I'.mci.i :.lli, I.KW'IS TUMI.IN, nl'l'a*. mh. It A III) V .STRICKI.AMUoi tV'-'llj, j 7lli. Wi A. lOJ’TON, nCJaApor. ! mil. VV. M. M’ INTO TLol Kllwri. . j I “tiiS’ skcckss’ ok seen .t paVTV l(K|.ul>li il WITH six'll AN OtIJKrT. 1 |MI SJ UK Till: UIBSOUITION Ol Till.- 1 I Ol.oltlor,” I NION. ‘- Mim.au*> I’-||.aii. •‘Thu nipporter.-: *>l Mr. Duitglas were -till aide 1 | to concur with them i Beil party) on this yi-mt , •fHruti-ii (Territorial question) and were prepared i I in many of tho State* of the Union to unite their i efforts.” Washington Hunt, l‘ro idont Hell ( ; vent ion, Jo y City apieeh, Aug. I7th. I m. # ; 1 Slew Milton The expedient 4 t- which tin- ipp -iti.o, p f ,- y driven, in it* effort tv inject a ray of light int*. I tho dark record ot Mr. Bell, are -upcrlaliwlv ! Uiitusing. We must remind them. h< w ••* er. th:H ! I in thirf though they have the example *-f (heir ! candnlateas a guide, they are departing fr- .n their published programme. Mr. Bcll.Tn Id* let ler of acceptance, used this language I “The Oonvention, in disregarding the 0.-.-i.fj J plait trius, exact- 4 ha pledge from those whom I (hey doom woii’iy *.l the highest tt u l.- under tlu- j | Govern men l, wisely cohsideriiig that the >utt-t‘l guaranty **f u man's future WSefulnes and fidelity ! ) to the great interest* of the country, in an \ ..i!i ! j eiel .-tarinn to which he may Iw eh-( u, i to ).• < lound in his past history cu.m.-nd ’with u„ public service.” “Mr. Bell cw refer only t*. hi* life and iii ! opinions, already exprt *d*l *, (tic • ..pmuui I lut he above weave ..bci-.ii l\ referred I* ► his i Mr. Ikll rclcuteil -o fur as p> authon/c the is*u- i liu.j of il elected < o*ll petal of his “part hirt .ry,’ j from which wa* carefully excluded the most oh J ■ uoxiiia- <if hi* many anti-riouthern votes and j j peaUton-, Among the latter we may mention hi;- j ) fifteen or twenty v. tea against tho h'outk and side i \bv side with the abolitionists. Adams, rilade X Cos., oil the q.ie*tioi of Abolition petition-', and i I bis dceiuraliun that the deei-ion of the Supreme I Court iu the Bred Scott cbm* did not pervutmenthj settle the question id’ tho pvowor of Congress to J interfere with shivery in the Terri to ries, uml that j Congress will not be contrnled by that opinion j jin future legislation. Jlut the “very latest” edi- i J Hon of Mr. Ball’s opinions is communicated through the I.uquirer >4 tlim city, f--.tr to-i-ldi ii I says: “Mr. Bell has sent tir >• uram e? that “he wa* , ui nn if* a? thoroughly opposed a* any Suit hern mtih could be (•• the emancipation of slavery in fcbe District of Columbia w ithout the absent of j Maryland and Virginia,” or “willmnt com|H!tisa ti ‘ti t > thu owners us the dayec,” and “then only on couditiun that it nboul l f*v accept.wi as the lost coaccssfuM tothe anti .--lavery sentiment of the North which UiqSnpth would <<•• he called upon to makeahu, that in Ids speech he in i ted *n i-.oi lilting the feeling of the “South veil j This is all, iloubtless, vary true. Uiough w thought that the “as-uiranec*” were sent by the Nashville Batrittt: but It prove* that Mr. Bell wo* demented when he uitefcd the language to which wc have before rn**!, ami which we i ‘•r would bo glad I.) see all cause ol disturtunco and contestlinn m tho District wholly rcmove.i; but let mo say thut tliis can never be done by the abolition of slavery, iiulus* It be accompanied by | some adequate peovisiou for tbe removal *.r the effective control es tbe slaves alter they shall he emancipated. With thi* yHniijiratuin, and in or •ler to test tho determination of the North in re j gard !■* any further and continued aggression j aponHontbern property, / teoulH nn contkst to j lU* DUVRRY in the I)i*trirt ARO|.lsnßl> TO-DAY.” I Now, all this controversy between the Knquir- I er and oursedve*, in respect t<> the * •*■ iiditiont” | OB which Mr. Bull would be willing to abolish ■ i slavery m the Itistrict of ('oluinbi.i, nc rtcard as Ihoffy immaterial. Our neighbor tlmughtit all impnrlunt to its position to establish tho fact that tho “cuudUiona” were demnnded, and, hence, wc have cnduavwrctl to show Ahnt it had no legit-j I imate foundation in the record. With or without ’ the demand, the record would Ihj equally objec tionable to m. It concedes, bv the admission uf] tiie Enquirer, thu CNui-litutional power iu Con* 1 gres; t*. abolish slavery in the District, un.lth'* I concede* the whtde question. If the right bend-J tnitlod or yielded, an Abolition Congrc-s will J take c ry yvnd ran of tlm ‘condition*.’ and if tbe j Geoogle Platform doe* not go a* far ns Mr. Boil in tho maintenance of the Constitutional right* of tho South *-n this question a.- the Knquifcr affirms, it is high time another Convention were called to revise that instrument. But wc imag ine that, when our neighbor reyiews that plat i form, ho will lin.l that ho has unguardedly verit ten another “libel” on his State, j conclusion, we must remind tin* Knquirer, | that, .-.line time since, when wc inferred from it | language that it did not hold thi-’ abolition dogma j of Mr. Bell in . nffieicntly great ahhofrenre, if , charged us with ‘ unfairness.” It now nvyai ■ “Wo übk, v]oc* euyd£*outhcrn tuaii insist *.n urc than is required l*y Mr. Bell a- a pro-re quiKitu fori'ungrc*Ki"ii:J actiuimn u ukject aith iu it* jurisdiction.” i Now. wliot i the “Mibject” here referred to? The abolition of slavery in tbe District of Culutn- Ida. Andie the abolition of-lavery in tho DL trie! a “ übjeet within tho jurisdictiun of Con ur*- •” Tuko care neighbor ’ EDIK>I;I AI, ( OKI! MSI’(IND KN< ’H. New Yobk, Sept. 11,1 SCO. Dear Tiint*; 1 have heard Douglas in one of hi# grant cam j rig it speoebefl. Was present at Jones Wood, *.r. the occasion of the barbecue, vv he n the “Little Giant” and Governor Jobn tm\n addre.-cd tho people. It u minister ais*ir. but in the upitiiwii of ihc writer half tbe number prociil were entirely uninterested in the proceeding' l . The wind blew high, the speaker* j could not be heard forty yard* from Ihc stand, J ■ ‘ there w.* i‘..hliim.oi and noise in the crowd, and j upon the whole, there was little attention or en thusiasm S"tne were roiling ten pins, perform- i irig llceu iii c-.j l"it-, shooting with air gun-, j -moving around on flying horse* ajd eating at oyster si and?, w bile oltisris luoked in the direc-i ; tion of Ihc p* akt-r* uith-ut hc; H i,g a Word. These grand demonstrations in* New York are j i the verb-dr tion.te.g-. The inertings field in J Georgia arc (qiisll v .i large and more order and qnud ur*- observed The hpec U of (Joreruor j John, nat the recent barbecue wa.-not one of his 1 ■ best. He wa out of his eleine%t. It was odd for j him t >apps:.r as the e*lvoCate <.l the and denounce Southern oectiuoaliat.*. T* say that j j the eh* liojj 4*( LinctJn iv.* n*> cause f*r a tup- i lure, wlien his letter to the “Philadelphia Aui* ri I can” in ■*■ eptembrr, F'-ai'# fully coiutnitted liiiatu [ I rerlstonce in *ioti ancient; and that too, with out “waiting” fur an ovc ft u. r. It was stranger still to hear Lim talk about the reynfar nominees j of thu L'cmocrutie party, when he had not re j I cciveil him elf the nomination of any Convention I |ndtoeulogi . e Douglas, wliogc squat ter sovereign- I ty he denounced, even alter the Milledguvillc j Convention, in a letter over his own signature. , J Ho much for being in bad company, Douglas'* speech wa- the same as,that spokes at Norfolk. Ife did not advocate a )>roteetiit J tari i for f\;nsvl vani.i a.? he did. when in Har ! rDbiirg.he did nut .-peak *f “loving eUms better ! than niggers” a* he did when in one of tiie abo lition Btfitus. lie spoke fur the Union—announc ed the old Federal doctrine that the Government ; Was a * <-mpoet of individuals not States’, that a | State could not secede, tnystt£*d the term? “revo lution” and “rebellion” with State Bights nml • ide remedies, wa ■ oppo?, and t u fusion with any • party thfriwdid nor wfvo.-ute thb Union and would j inaiutain It under all “eireuniAtances” and “con tingein i’ .-.” In oilier Word*, that it should re i. I ti oi. could # iire her right-, pri- erve her proper J ly,-'uve her children hy au< << <*fl “rebellion” dhcrutec the rri-H- would be hung! The j Bell party and Douglas faction agree here. They ! in!ika ti. war upon each other - huve tu-ed, they j ?ay. upon principle, ami writ not take the “pro j tecii*nii*t ‘ <*n tJieircloctorel ticket, a* U will be J acoalilion, they roglend, in which everything)* • acrifivfd for the spoils If the Uon. it. H. UUI I wa/’ known out 11 tw-orgia. a* ho is in it, . that h:s M-icon speech would have influence with j the tun ‘*c -. it would be a . plendid cainj.oign | do. iitucnt for tho Breckinridge party. Xu advo cate of Air. Boil in tbi* raniun, eonstnu:.* hi> J “political reci rd” to mean that lie is opposed to ’ the doctrine of j|on -intervention, in the .-cu.-e in which Mr. Iteugla* views it. His follower* deny 1 that ho i* in favor of protection by the tJovern ntfent to .-lava-property, and the RepnbKean pra.l - p®tfk <<l hi- “past -crvicc: “ with comtnendation i all', r. -pci-t. CoimuiUed to him, u.* many were. i the compr-iOiUo candidal# of the abolition | ! i party at Chicago, they have for him no word* i.f t fbproach. While Brc.-kirirnlgc is sj..kon of a- I i tin 4 sdespot,* - wJiuOu. “gang* fuJlow him with the f ; clanking of .diains and the eric* of sol it at) home l ” Afr. Bell receive* no censure from the “friend? < f freedom.” This L the state of thing? I ! here. Mill, tlu re are brave spirits who breast the tide of fV<noth'<'!H, who -;.y the i- | j ••uLHc.I to protection to her slaves, that they wil l j j fall with her, if nece onttidc of the Lincoln j ■ and Dongbi:’ lk-U-F\creit party. The'-o giillar.i i men look, alone p. the rit cress of a grekt priuei | | pie, winch, wilt settle forever the agitation of j the i ivory question, place it npon tho iintturinlde j basi •( right .md give peace, hnruiony and] quo- to th < yitntry. They d.-joiir of New) Yorl .-mce Douglas, Hi* thonght. prefer* Lin 1 I Coin to Rrcckinridqr. I t nillawrflr yoii next frmn Wr t loisr, th. j •Il of Ihc United States Military A* ademv. U. ! M’i , l*i sr. N V., 1| mui | n- rim,: The scenery me iludco.i i •l'*‘ *NrT..ud ami |fl. turcs.pic. Going on lma4une of ti: • .[lin.lid . !,.umi that muvw on the water .if thi.’ • r ,1 1... . . I ’ . ..,I,lm i- l-#, .* . 11,1 i ‘um i -ii* am, JMvo a .low,; *>i luo f you 1 j I**l* h” C thin, red and black strata, kmk j , | keep v. iibin bound the majestic waters ihot pour I ; Huncaib. A you n.-cend rapidly, scene after j scene of primeval bc.iuty dolighl* the eye and tills j ! tho soul with rapture. Here, beautiful and efe- : j gam Merchant villas can he seen, surrounded by j trees “f and garden* ornamental with j i choice shruhhery. tlicre, the rugged mountain ! i rises t. a sublime height, clothed in a mas* of j rendu re at i: top, where the eagle builds hi* I i eyrie and rci-u secure in the *diiu*le of his h**mc. j At every turn of the (earner,you think the very ] iiourco of tho llud*.m \* reached, a.* the moun tains eloMin so ftv*t,but the illu.-imi ii difpUil j as you emerge from the narrows aud fresh glimp se. dbeb.&e new beauties; co bright, so rich in their new rondure, that you have scarcely re- j viewed one hes-re another present- it- ilent claim : to admiration. I doubt whether the far-famed Rhine or Nile, nr even the Quspborua, can excel tlic r.indcur, niagnificciu-c un*l r.-uiantic .-.•ene - ry of tbi* mighty river. “Siuny*.le,” the li.nuc id 4lic laic author td tho “."'.oteh-i.*.dc,” i- visible from the boat a- I yon a *-ct. I the llud,*n. It is situated in a grove of wood m *r the water** edge, and appear* t*. Ie i a romantic <(> t. Higher up the river. J (..wards Ihe spur of the Allegany, where the J mountain.- i k, I inrtgine. .1- they did when tbe | Mohieans lwelt upon them, can be #eca the old Beverly ltobin*oti house, where Hmelict Arnold ) meditated trea on during tho Revolutionary J j -truggfe. If ij nearly opposite: West Point the j-v il ..f ihe I. R Military A.-a.lrmy, Here the beautie* of the Ilml-un cuimumte. In visiting lif, thou :uul rminioccnce* of the post came teeming ha*-k to iny mind, like* tho .faint music of I \os per belU. Here, at the foot if the mountain, l j i- tiie grand stone barracks, of sufficient ditiien- j d’ ii- to aecenitnedate near three handed Cadets, I within whose \* ,!t- I wa- quartered for many long I years Here, in uil its beauty and loveliness, is j the wide green plain, upon which rest, like dews j and morning, the recollections of long, weary drill: . J evening prirado .tnl delightful pastimes. Here, | float* in the sky, the ? :nne old flag that rudled uver uiy boyish h.’ i 1 only Hc stars arc increas j o.d which I w.ts accustomed to sec rise with the rising und fall with the sitting sun. Here, j around every object presented to uiy view, cluster’ like gathering mi ts. by gohe associations and re membcraucc* of day* long since hurled in the tomb I,r Hi. . , • and beantiful. Tin venerable ruins of Fort Put onui, overlook the plain. Crows Nest rise to 1 fourteen Immlre.l fuel abwvo the .-am. The Hud son turn* suddenly around tne Point, presenting a view toward* the North, un urpaased for uiag nifleen.H: by any landscape painting. The uioun j tains of Faith, Hope and Charity, peer up from j tho Last, while the smooth, level plain— tho pa- * ro>lo ground of the Cadet*—contrast* well with tlic wild scenery above. The Military Academy was founded iu iM)-.-*- Thure arc now Lteft Cadet* hi the Institution. The term of service i* five years. Each Cadet re ceive* twenty -eight dollars per month, from the General Government., which about pays all cx potiM-.-. The drill in the Infantry is in accord vv i!: lUil'h-f ! u ml tllO rapid*! with which tha Cadet.-'execute every movement from line of battle into column and the reverse, both in quick and double-quick time, in surprising and astonishing. The fencing and bayonet exercise.* are interesting ami instructive. Tbe Cavalry drill is particularly exciting. The Cadets ride well ami have no conscience in the use of tboir long spurs. Bars are jumped, some three ard a half feet high, with the hor'e- at foil speea.— Also, a ditch seven feet wide and four feet deep. The day 1 witnessed tho exercises, many of the horses refused to leap, even though the spur* were applied with vigor, nnd a row of s ildier* stood on each side of the track with long whip* lashing tfirtu on. r minding one much of the ***••** at o “Gander pulling,” so common in old times; in Georgia, and so ludicrously dene rite *1 by Lohgstrecl. In mv next, 1 wilt write from •hi* pin*. **n. * mv letter i- too long to say j more. c. U i r Point, Sept. I", iHfdb 1 ,, “i 7 My last It:)I mu speaking of tha ta* let - ;il Rivalry drill. They ride doubtlas* ns i well u- iin- t ioi inehc-. for they never l*t loose rim bridle amt always .ding fast by the lugs, ! ihut their . **ntrc of'gravity i maintained, aiboii I i|,eir •>• a- viheal/uddenly around, tntnl.lu ovar ! ihe bar -r awkwardly jump tho ditches. They ) have !■••. the *■ requisite of good inter:-, to j wil. ura . They are dating to a fault. 1 liave u .t. dii’iii-- my witoasfad the * Artilh-ry ••xett io-, the tiriiig\ol bomh tbollf, or ! tlo- tar-.-t |.r .. (T cos the. ( iwb t Jln the Lab..jr al<>ry, f foiiud rnuuy i-amiou, taken at dittereut ; period- 1 ■<!’*mr country’* history, as trophies from cncui'.- I lioii.'.-d one piece captured at the ! -tcriiiii* ; *>f :■-t. nv I'aiiitJ io IT'/ik Another, hav i ,i in-ci*!<e*l uj •ii it, “death to the Yankees,” laki-u ir-.m the Mexican-. Another, . oiiiaitung the charge of the Xtexicuirs, w hich wa.* struck with . much rreci.-in lv camion ball fr*<ui the American Artillery, a* to enter j Ihc b-re and ted;/.- half way down the piece. Both the l *d of the Mexican* and the can non ball fired by our men are in this, raunon. l aw otei a mortar captured from the inemy, I"’i inches in diameter. Light hundred piece* were taken during the Mexican war, but only or ninety were'preserved as trophies or relic--. Mere can be -cen, also, a piece of the chain stretched a< r*..-s the llu<i*oti during the Revolutionary war to prevent the p-*Age of the British Meii-ui Wur up the river. It i* made of ir .n, two inche- anil n half square, ten inches in width and twcnty*tiiue inches iu length. The arm u .*1 by the Cadet- .* the Minnie Ri fle Mti-ket. J -lint one at the distance of kin* yar 1 . by clevatiru: the sights, with considerable accuracy. I also aimed a cannon—a three poll a - r ami a : ix-p<undor at the distance of 1400 yard- ‘wlii.-li would have struck three ‘men abreast. Thi _required .elevation of three ami; halt degree-, and a -light ‘variation to the left, all--wing a little for the grove which turned F* the right. Ut.'ii itAL b’< -ri is at Wc i Point. lie rule.- Li a Cab and drives a very large, tine looking hay horse, which’he will call y.ur attention to should, v.i <• tivcr'c with him. He di*e not dre- in hi-i military -uit, but wear* a beaver hat, a “hurt blue military ■ .er cort, and though “o/y •. rent i !-.ur ve.tr.l old,” ** he laughingly tells it.be-.ir- hitu-t-lf w ith great stateHau**. I ’ f'.un.t inui a strong"! nion man,” which mean here opposition to Republicanism. A vote wa- taken iu the Corps of Cadets yes terday for Pre-i.lent and Vice President. Con ridering the fact that every Representative in Collar.- lu. a Cadet from his District at the In riituti i. I” ~ irniiii’ance may k attached t.. (lie ballot. ‘J'wo hundred ami fourteen ballots ii WCI. ..* •; *>i th. Breckinridge received - j vote*; t; Bell tl; Lincoln 24 Total | 211., uuc sixty did not vole, being on duty or J feeling no Inclination to indicate their choice. Among the vi dt.-rs ut We t Point are the Mi- < • (,'iiihn in laughter* of the lamented Gen. Quitman, of AT [ find the officer* ‘gallant in j the ey; In me and great admirers q*f beautiful la* j dies. “Fur,,,..- i iu< i t oniiatn, Jrn nni pufehritudo rajitinit,” S V. (You IKK TIMKS.) Mr iU”!.t- tin- vullttirrH —lbr Scr--*i*.N!v* I tic Pror Um at lon amt force Hill Ho :.r t.q ic.i are broiigftt promineutly to our vi.-w by Mr. Douglas iu his Norfolk speech, in l*<- ho w.-r (* two qiie-tion* propounded by some j •'"* who uf.dcr-t • l hi* priurs, *we would think | Tho object being t.. ailovd him an opportunity t*> h<w how far he Wwnld •< and wbad he would do, t.)) !• ■>•'vc ii.c f’iti.u. *1 in hi* p<<wer. And how b n Mr Ure.! iuri 1. •• w -übt c*.ruc, ts pot in I power. I in- uv-. qu. u, if vine -ul'.SliiUtiallv the-c i “U ..i you tliiitk (hut thu election of Mr. I;"i* “Iu would be a uffi ient cmise for a disaoln : !i..n *.f the Union * IU i*e or more *.t the State* shoubi think it suflieietil cause :n.d take that course, what would i you*te “ 1 ‘ Hfe hr-t Mr. Douglas replied, “1 do not.” I*'tlo- ‘.u i In- replied “I Woiilil apply the , remedy that old H!eWy did iigaimri the Nulb j flerc'hf ffotilh t’aroßna.'’ din portion . : Mr ln.iigia* is a very grave ; “tic-; full ut mu “it iid i.f vital importance to the a ‘rily iuierc ; in this Union, if they would j fi.j-y iii. ou-tif . ibe 1 uiou, and preserve the . l'"Ustilni m thi ir guaranty. It sap* the j foundation of Stale- rights, make* the Federal i (*’ vcrntu.Mi i -u pro me Consolidate.l Govern tuc us, divests the State* of nil reserved right* slot ) all attributes of sovereignty. This would be saying enough of Mr. Imugla i p"*ition ; Lut a List name J* before us ns a Detu j oeratie candidate !■ r President, we cannot, a* true | Democrats and lovers <*f **ur Ftate. refrain from j saying that hi* position is anti-llepiridican anil ; anti-lcmocrati**. U ‘ *bc j -ii. *n of tin- old Federal petty—tbs 1 old W big party and Mr. Lincoln and his party without which their Federal aggre*ive me*-ura- I Would be* inefficient against tho minority iuterc-i, J unu the Constitution und Union would riand. All the Lincoln partv want is the recognition 1 of thi- Federal dugnt, an*l -lavery will heabu) j isbed vu the State.- a* certain a* it exists. Mr. Douglas ha* rcd.goizetl it in defiance of the Democrat;• creed, and has thereby placed himUelfon Mr. I.ineoin'; plat term, and toihedc | (fuel will -hoiv. He ha.* thus, iu one hour, done i fin.rc (. pull and wri Demiw-racy aud ret up Lin j coin’ pn,, th:<n uuy of Linc.du's profease.t > ‘ friend And n*> man *>f Georgia, claiming to hr j a Democrat *r a friend to (teorgin. can consist eutiy support Mr. Douglas. Believing thut thase pro|M>sition arc just, w wi I, if pcriiiiftfd, * vamine und iilu*trate them. PUTNAM BLOKIOIN 91 KWH t Kn\l MACON ii;-’ •; i’ x i .>tt nttriKivninnic vvn i.ask! The (.{Rowing intelligence fr*ui Macon give.-* lui the “key note” of the result In Georgia. It wit! Wc reiiicmbirol that that city has leeii, tor long year-, under the rule of Whiggery and Kn'-w-Nothingisut. If Opposition stronghold* give out such music, what melody will ving fr**n J the old time Democratic districts? Mai o*, Sept. 22, 18011. i : tin l’i At [ihe elention for ! Mayor, held in thi* city this day, th© Demin'racy ! itehicved a gloro u* triumph. Dr. M. S. Thomp • ,-u.ii, the Brc< kinri.lgc can li.latr, was elected over ; Dr. Harri.-on, tho Bell candidate, by a majority jof twenty-eight. I hi.* i a largo Democratic : gain, and w.*- made nguinst an attempted fusion ■if thu Bell and D parties, und against thu trenuou.- cfl..rts t the Opposition city authori tic . police md patronage Many of the Doug la.; men spumed “fusion” and fitlHcit under the old Democratic banner. i GKN. M ALKI il AN D COL. KUDLEft SHOT. Nkvv Gjci.kash, JSept. 20. We have received report* via New York) by ! an arrival hero that Gen. Walker and Cal. Kudler iiad I*een shot by tha HonduraJ Government. — I Walker - men were allowed to depart ■><• le-ted. _ _ Tm C"Sf!AMi. All of Mr. Breckiuridgs’s al la ion to Judge !*• ugl i were courteous, <ligni fie<L, and gentlemanly. All of his allusions to Mr Breckinridge, “ti t;<- other hand, are i*oarie, piteful, and unbecoming. There i*, with all bis ability, a ‘•ubtereanesn rowdy ism al.-ul .Judge Dougla-; that education md. •"Ci.iti*n have failed t> enniicate. It i* an old saying that what is bred in the bnne can not cotue out of the flesh. lio interlard* hi- Baltimore speech with ex pre- ions that ill suit the grave position he occu pies before the country—and he manifests throughout it the low arts of the demagogue and the paltry trick’ oflbe?pcial pleader. Philadelphian.
