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.• . . ‘ ‘MW CAROS.
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• .1. 86.. 81. Stanley, * •
> A AT LAW, *
jfc% . ; o QUITMAN. UKOOKS Os)., GA.
• Will practha in tin Counties of the Southern.Cireiy?, (
•and Coffee,*Clince, Warj and Echols of the
•*l inaiit. * . dee 17 tt>
• W. B. Etetincj, # * *
Attorns y °at lav,
a. FFMA.V UKOOKS CO., GA*
Will practice in Thomas. Lowiqjes, Broils and Kerri
en Counties. * * t'd l I*ll*
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* J. 15. .Mc\aii(liT, ••
* h TTOJINEV AT LAW, • ••
2% .mli 2i • I ISVILLE, GA.
*• I*. IS, Bedford,
•ATTORNEY AT LAW, •
: * : \\ .\in.jnoßoUGir, qa. <
*4Viff praiOice in t\p> <*■:• ’ - <■! the BruuswOek C%<-uit,
and in Lowndes ami Be men* Count ud ol the Southern
Circuit. • * * jbj" 1 9 *
.loliH >l. !)is*ii,
Attorney at laV, :
AIIO.MASYILIE. GA. •
Oiifee nexfanoor to fir. Bruce’s. 2 nili 1 N it
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* A TTOT?NE*X.‘AT* LAW,
je26-tf *.T 11 T)M ASVIUfF* (U-*
’* • # L. V- Bryan, ** • ;
Attorney at-* law. * * .
mb 10 THMASYII 4 L*, GA.
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• 11. C..lloi2aa, .
Attorney at law,* • . • •
.N ASH V4LLE, BERRIEN CO.. Td.A. -
Will practue in the t*<,ur ** <1 the Soufliem Circuit;
and the Cdtanties Dy, VMnrtkjCd Dooghertypf the
Macon; and Coffee, Clinchml Ware 8f she Brunswick
Circuit. Address at Fb<t Creek Post Qtiice, ua.
a mh 1,8 „ * ’. . ts _.
IJ.*T. Ptt'plt's, • t *'j
Attorney at law,*
* N.OSIATLIJ-:, BERRIEN CO., fSA. *
je 12 • * . * * ts
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. * Sniiitirl 18.• Spencer, , .
Attorney at lAw,
. * fIIO.MASVILLE, GA.
kVill give his entire (attention to'the Prahtije ol Law
in th<> th%Southern*EircniL
a (Otice the second floor of D<*uald M< Lean's Brick
•Jbjailding. • . • . * mh 18 ts
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Justice of th&peace. * •
at tkt • louse, TkamMtvilh, Ca.
All business entrusted to liim will he attended to prompt
.|y with dispatch. ggjy
• . ClitD. 11. Ileitiin^ion
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Office Opposite the Post Oflice, Thomatrille.
* Collections of all kinds taken on liberal terras, eitfier
gt Justice's, Superior or Witcrior o Courts. nih 18 ts
Scholifld’s
IHOIST WORKS.
ADJOINfNG THE DEPOT,
’ Macon Georgia, *
Manufacturers of
STFAJI Etiarines and Itoiler;!^
31 ill anti (win Gearing, .
•• * Cant* 31111 sand Pans,
o Syrup Itoilers.
shall ina: anti Psillor. ,
• AND ALL KIND> OF MACHINERY MADE TO
’ order at short not . * o
* E. REMINGTON k SON.
jan 14-l v m • Agents, Thomesville, On.
* . . Jold. Worli.
■\VTE ari: >tn iitni \itr:i> r uo all
V? kinds of .It >B I’ll INTIN( I. from a Lisiring Card to
ft large Poster, at the t - office Try us. *
‘I A *lt E>E At , 1
0 Proprietor*. \
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M3DICAL AND DENTAL CARDS.
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a I'IKDICAI.hr.QiD.] /a 1
Dr*. Brace £ Reed, • .
WEAVING EoKMED A COPURTNEIISHfP IX
I* * Metßck
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a 5 * • . t Ii < y:. o
♦. 0 |airing Surgical attention; :.<d
a eated gratis.*
A•• * . •
* ... .*R. J. BRUCE, MD.
• Jn 24, BB6P. .. J. R M REED, M. J).
Dr. Hr. c. AfcDraaid, * •
IN TENDERIKG’jUS PROFE.SSIONA P.M-ill VICES
, sville end vjeinity, would in
• . t * * been •
. “ o • ° ehe
* * seases wtiitdi ocifur in :
, a * j
lice formerly*
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A# • • *
> Thouiasvillb, January 7, 18£0 • ,ts f
.. Ur. il. J. 01ii*eros,s # •
Practitioner of Medicine and Surgery*
jan l a < . jp-a.o'.Y. T!,*i ; -m O .
• . , l>r. ‘s. S. tdaiiiNc - * .*
Hereby i.nf.o*rm.s ius kribnds and the
public,-that qpntinne Qie practice of up;di
. epic .it the old stand and -respectfully tendera Ims servic .•
to ! :<• iir • * . • * •
* Thouflfliville, April 2,1860., * ts *.
, lU.KJRSI I'KAt-TK *. j * a •
* s. Bower, * *
O’ FFERS. HIS, PROFESSIONAL SIJ!RYICE*S X©,
.i 4 • .
J alls at ait*houfs, promtplv Attend • 1. mh 18 ts.
. .. -5 N,
* lira. Ilrnfidofi. *
Ills RSMOYRD TCbTHE 05FIC&Ft)RMEBLY #
, rl occupied bv John Miller, Esq., as a Law OfiSfce.*
Calls promptly qjlended* 6 .
* | Spesial attention will l.e given t< Surgery.and
1 tiseas s. * • . .
Thomasvillo,January f5, 1860. a • * . .• ts .*
f . dr*, ij.* i?. At. E. <>.* Arnold, *
• P ent Dentists. Tjtomasville, Ga? . • ,
\A T i: HAVE THE JPRffCTICAL-ADVANTAGE OF
▼ fifteen years expinlv* •in t ° . .
branch of the professions # • a
• We (bill refi r ‘am ..ay \vh > havc-ii: .J i|
benefit of onr tfperatfoAs ia this Co*mty for <
the pifht six v<*,;-s. *. * • . ’•
\\ <• have every facility for doimj the best •
• Plate-Work, ** • .
tjTOW KNOWN,*WHICH IS DENOMINATED * .
Gum Work,*
on Platina Plate, wnieh is intpei v itas to any of the acids,
• evi llain a Boni ta* <ted form. ; • *
‘1 eeth tilled wit h pure gyld il au; erior a a * *
*Palifnts favoring us with tlu ir i*u- ftejtce may rely
•upon onrUtmost exertions to perform*every oporation in
ias jicrfei t a mnniuiiT as liossihle. . n<h 1!) ff •
. ! a i ** a.a . w
New Drug Store. • -.*
nil. I*. W.fiOfTKR has openefl aI *■ Store Vt
ly occupied bv PALM Fils &, BRO.,
opposite E. Remington’s, and is furnish
Bl ifgi, S* ! ftissil'rj , fstiis.
. # . . FANCY SCIAJPS, rfee ,
upon fair terms, to*those who may favor l.iiu.v*ith a call.
’T<> hisaßeform friends if,- would say, that he has oft “hand
j a fresh anif reliable assortim *.
• . .MSBrCfNM ‘
and wiy be glad to sn(l\)ly thlm such articles as
they m;iv need. .. . a •
* p • , ALSO. * a • * •
Kero Fine Cigars and Tobacco, Fine, Medicinal
Brandies and Wines, kept constantly on band Till for
sale. # *. * • iftiy # 23-ts
a ~ • ; ••
•Ji’Rrs ftnd ,-s.,
T.l\*Tf ECElfut A I.Alfi; * AND \VULL SELEJ’
tßd st >ck of Drugs afid M Cl eifticals of all
kftds. * • • •
Also 1’ lints. Oils, Olass. Pudy, Viynish, ftrttfhed? I lye
Stud’s, Patent Medicines, (oirdeii SeeiH. Toilet Articles,
.Perfumery. Brushes,&e. Kerosine <bd and Lamps;
Camphciie, liunihig Fluid and Lamps. * a
alibi WARD SEIJf AS, Druggie.
T. * S lift. May 21, 1 850. t f #
/Apothecary's ’Hall,
,nnHE SUBSCRIBER, HAVING*TAKEN A STORE
ft! ‘i'iianipaoii'x IVt-n jii ii k SJtiildiii",
respeetfulHAnvitcß the attention of the public (p4ns com
mlcte and well select* <1 stock of .* •
Urugs, ’• ’• • a a
‘Medicines, * • # •
Cifcittieals, . •
Paints** * *. .*.*
Gils, • * a a a a •
. . Dye-Stuffs, * *
. . a Perfumery, *
• .. Spices,. .
••* ’
* •’ • Sogars, * •..
• 0 Fyte BrandicSs,
. Wines,
. Ported, .
•* . o
* Toilet-Scaps,
* -Potash,
• . -a 0 • &o.‘ £(?.
aii.°of which wiy. iy: sold on iieasona
. . ABLE TER.ITS. . .
’ m given pergonaKy to the preparation of
. fbyiician’i prescriptiftiiSa
*..* All MEDICINES warranted genuine. 8
.. n o McDonald, d.*
■ Thomasville, Ga., June 6,1860. “ tr’
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a** * •
* Saddle filQs?;'s 31 ;*nflfuctory.
4 LARGE TNI) COMPLETE A>-g (KTMEN't OF
2V 1 111! UC” :. .<1 * “ s, •
Bridles, •• . *
Whip#, * 0 • ■
Bittsf •
Spars, • * . *
Harm ss T.e::th.%.
•bolt Loathe*,
• a >'• 7; W > ’* ** 0
T\ c. 4’ c. • j ,
* • ° Q' . •.
Kept constant 1> • •
* and for sale, at the*slanu- 1 a
| fact! <f • M<<; If ASi 1A N & LITTLE.
Hail |*anfl Saddle REPAIRING promptly at
tended • a
j . Tlfbmasville, Jail. 21, 1860. . • fv
Book’s!* I3ooktb! .
V CHOICE LOT OF BOOKS. *TIIE BEST
Autho -. -ion- and fm - sale. which attention i
offtLadies and Gentlemen is invited. t
• TnEMitJMs
awarded to the purchasers of several Books in th# lot.
• /l. y. McDONAI.I).
Thomasville,_Ga., June 6, 1860. ts j
• # Soda° Water.
rriHIS DELIGHTFUL.rtEYERAUb:. IT ITS PER
J. •* oie Syrups —cool and sparkling —
I Commenced Drawing to day for the season, at the store
| of the*nnd reigned. • *
’ it V kept on hantfconstantly, and for sale hj
May 1. 1860. . JOHN STARK.
* • Baptist* Female College, • ’ j
CUTTU’.EKT. GEORGIA.
Fall’ I’^.QO.
r pHE FALL TERM WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY,
I September Third,
And Pnd on Frulav,
December Twenly-flrut, •
N<> effort has been spared t<> secure the best teaching
taßnt. in all the Depart me ~ thorsogh <sd accom
plished Female Education.
For farther information, apply to * •
R. 1). VALLARfIT, President
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“ 7 . BYINGTON HOTEL,
Broad Street. Albany, Georgia.
TT. BTIIGTOH, Proprietor. . .
. ° THE STAGE OFFi-'E, .
i for Stages running to T’.oma>v:!!e. Bair, t
bridge. Quiuey uni Tull;; ee is kcji
I this House. jy lv ti
oo ° a
•THOMASyiLLIi, GEOEGIA’, WKDNESDAV, CH-TOBlill 10,18(5(1
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; Extract tpeeek at Haiti mart,
1. 6,186
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Su.ee 1 arrive*! !iere to night a friend read to
:ie ;i portion of a speech delivered by Mr.
Breckinridge at Lexington, Kentucky, yester
d;i?. In ti: rV: , ech 1 find “that Mr. Bryckin
ridge justifies the breaking up of the Deynocra
jic ( onvention and Uio division of the Demo*
cratic* party .i*the grftit danger of tb6 election
“t a Black llepu blicaq, jm.Che ground, he says,
| that the regnlat party insisted particular
dogma and tTiat he*wopld not take anybody as
. .f<£r*th&.Presidency#who• was thq.
j representative qf that dogwa. a (Cheers.) *
-\..w let ne ask yois what* is that dogayi of I
“•’ * !1 he .'pi aMs, .id which he charges metis
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.in (lie Ti nl; .1 ? Ml ti. • nTv liieiid> desi*'-
® e ‘,90. *
i edat Charlestoft, and against‘Baltimore, was*
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I t hat *the Convention this year ghouid rtvaffirm
the. pla * io i* :t 1 in. Cincinnati in 1856 >
we a.'ki d*inidling m.-ie*. ‘1 hat nlatforui deedar
j ed*the principle of ftioa-interveftitiotf! lyiehtm.-
aq was elected i r< •* :••;(, and John C. Bredk
iniJdge*Vice . * in tbafr platform,.and as
pledged to t*i:lt * , .*
They made President and “Vifie Presi
dentJby the powertdiat very aognia. *Th#y
never *could.have been elected to* office unless
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1 foist hat vei*v dft uni a of* non, iiitervV’iltion. And
now. tells you that rather thafi
I submit tg the* dogma ufion which Wag .elect*
ed, and so oh.'i rve [yhivh he had pledged lus
homyr of fidelity, it \*as fetter to break up the
party so hazard the election of*a ’Blank Re
publican, and all .the dire co'nseqaences that
would fckely follow.. 1 again repeat, that We
.only asked the same dogma upon which Buc
•hanan and Breckinridge,w.ere qletted; .we only
aSkptl tjie tape platToria on wliiqli they were
•noaninafed; we did not°r<*|Ulre ;uiy*.change of<
platform, any change of principle, or any change
qf, wage of the party. But Tfc and his yurty
take the mound that tb£?ia whustniyls wjiere
he and others stood four years.ago fs no better
than Sn.abnlitjoiifst* (Checks.) *
ijid he tell you so four years? ago?* (Crifes,*
“No.”*) Did 11* 1 n*dt tell yoti ibTir vests a<ro
that the peace of this*counti.v defended upon the
very ducyriftc yf non-intevveutjou ? (“.Cries,
l t\es.”) Di l he not tell you tl’at the election
of such fin interventioflift as Frontont* wouKl
be a just cause*of ilissohitiyn ? (Cnc-.q, *“ lie
did?*’) Did l®e not teU you thatJSoutlmrn l*oii,-
itff Foutlyeru rights !md Southern equality in
the camfedeuicy, dcften.h'd /of maintainMg* the
8 igntervqntion, as affirmed iji the.
(.’iyeinuatti leLlibrni ? ? Cries, “ lie did so.”*)
An* suw ’tiiis ]>recklnrjdge, who yvriis i*leetik
*Vic*e President Ly yiftu* efforts iftnl by mine up
.on that s< If same doctrin vm* that no man*
ought to 1.0 eutrei'.U il with the reins of g*\ern
*mei. wit.i stair, *liy tlift •prdieij !v to which lie
[Jedge i l is sacred honor to sU>*l by four years
ago? (( jMcrs* ’ * • .*
.*• Again, my fellow citizens, Mjjjor rpto-kin
4'idge in his stump speech defends l!in*self
against the clmrge that he*was opposed to Gen
ial Gas *n 1648.* Fie sft’y§ it if |rue tlSut in
li attended the meeting v.liich brought
slut (!e*neraL*'i. rT r tl*e Pri‘si<4ency„bnt that
subspi|unitK'. in INtS, ai‘ter.l ass was’nomina
te-d, he tgok*the for Cass befaiffu* he rep
resented his [Mnci}>les?. Nmv*
mark his iSuguage; “ L went liw because
(’as:? # reyivsnted my prineij-h s*” WhaFprin.
chiles did Cav •rejiresent*'’ •Why In; had
written the* ielter. A heers.) The*
.•N’icho! *:i • ‘letter .was non-intervention .with
squirt ter so?Viri.nty added. • (Cheers.)
*.Yet iTreckfiirid/e sass he Went foH.Cfa^ 1
against Taylof, ‘after l.eing first committed to
lay lor, because Cass represeiklMd his principles.
*it sc*ins • tlii'ii that Brecklwridge
was sound Oft the dogma iri*lß-!8. (l.auNitdr.)
Aua;u, in Cdfiveuiioh wi tigs <*ity in
1848 when they nominated Cass*for President,
( they adopted the .‘■finie**ji!atJ'orni of non
veut*>n. No \t look oil that Breck
e *. # *
inridgj’ was gmiud in 184-8, and he pledged
himself to the uoctriyc of noii-iiiterven?io% by•
Corigfess with *-!ave*y in tdie r i*erriiories.
“ llreckinridge went for heiaiuse (*ass rep
resented his rrincipkf on this Jouina. to) i.
seems then tout- Breckinridge.and ( ass, in the
Sou|h, Were
tin 1 the dooin;? Then. J.et iwfv mast read ihe
record if He lias a doubt lyion tA is point. The.
only objection f had my -i;h.to Ca*sjt the time
was *ffhat lie went a liktle *too far on squatter
soy ere (Cfieers.) *Buf it seems tTiat
Bfeekinridge Wpnt th<?‘whole bog with him—
a ghter —foF CSss represented,
IT:.-• jirintiples. .Noiy the differendb between
myself and Mass pup it- was.that Cass
•ai.ftlfe pci* e h.*l n.iMLUo make th#ir owif
.laws in the Territory outsidewof the Constitu
tion of the I nited Stiftes. And this 4 recoTlect,
was the if Breckinridge— did not
Cass refrescrtit Breckimi®!go's [irineiples.
I did not, however, believe hliafccfoctrine. I*
•lahl* that jh*.\ Tiad a l iaht to make they- own
laws iis the Tiirritoiy inside the Constitution;
whide Cass and Breckinridge’s doctrine of.
squatter sovereignty Was outside of the Consti*
• tution. (Cheers.) 31y old ffcicmf, Gengrul Cassf
who is a very good and a very patriotic man,
thigight tlui jieople had the # riglit outside th
Constitution, nol Breckinridge in his stump
sfeeFli tolls you that Cass ip JB-48
his principles. Again, iy 1802, the jtemoefa
tic part', assembled in this city
and nouifnated Pierce for President and adopt
ed the platform. 0 °
hat platform ? It was an appro
val of the gimpromise measures of 1850, con
taining the dogma of non-iirtervention by Con
-1 stress with slavery in the .Territories.* 0 The
Whigs also assembled in th;s*city in the same
year and nominated Bcott lor President, and
they too adopted tjie same principles on the*
j subject of slavery.* Tlfe only contest then
rayed was, whether Pieitse, *tbe # Democratic
candidafe. or Beott, the \\ nig candidate, was
the soundest on the dogma ot non-intervention.
( Laflghter and clapping.) • ’
Aon Whigs,*if there be any Whigs among
you, claim that* you yiv entitled to the greatest
portion of the eredit of adopting the Compro
mise measures of 1854) founded on thesfoetnne
-of non-intervention —because, you said, that*
your great Clay reported the bill —that year*
> Cod-like V> i'ljsUi 1 (cheers; defeyded its priuei-
ples in thii Senate,gun! hecaure that yofir model
J’resident, FiUmore, was S4IUIIII on the jiolicy’
and gave to th’e bill tin; force of law. lUnce,
j'/a claim this*measure was a Whig nieas
"lne, and tlyit we are hot Entitled to
any credit for it. * .* o .
1 came Po Baltimore that ybar and made a
speech in Monument Square, in* whiah 1 con
tendSd.that we L>eniocrats*were eirtitled to quite
# as much eredit, and perhaps*a little* mofe, than*
higs. And* while 1 admit your Clav,
•and.youf VTlister and y.Sir Fillmore—that you.
furnished tjie Ceneral that ‘the”
Jqratnotic army, and led us to success—vet tl*at *
\ie I’emoerats feirnished the votes in hotli
Houses of ('.engross ’vhich passed the law**-
that ii- - — 1?. . .1
j’ntu mjw, to (leePPi'c that on Unit one question
the honors ure.easy. 4> etween y<*u and me. •
Th(^ Compromise measuTss of lSSO.and tlfe
doctrine .ot non’intersentiou on ‘which fkey
‘were Uisetl* ifas t.he joint work of “the
and the Demycra’ts. It was the joint wiy-k of
all patriotic men of*Hie Union. Whig# and
Union Democrats,, aiql fehe adoption of thu§e
measures was a SkgmH triumiih over Northern
abolitionists and*SoutluAn disunionists. (Great
. 09 ‘ o
eheeringA * Uenoe you \\ hfgs and Tfe Demo
crats, in.ogr r£spe®tive yaticfyal conventions in
■ tliys*cfty in 1852. affiriuGil the saftie principle.
In the saftie ySar J. C. Breckinridge was elected 9
to CyngrPss from Kentucky* a* the. saiue tigie
pledged .to't-he same principle.* He was then
’sound otl* the dogma. (A beers ami laughter.]
* Vibes Congress assembled after tl*e‘Presi
dential election., was chaitysan of thg Com-*
yiFte on Territories, aryl I hrouglft for*vard the
Kansas and Nebraska bill,, whierti repealed the.
Missouri (]ppipjomise. iTi tiie section conkiin
ing the clause ®f repeal I inserted these words : j
“The taws qf the United Htafcs, si®far as they
are not local and inapplicable, shall extend over*
saidM’erritory — marly thd vrerds]
cept.the B tli section of the Missouri Act of
Mgrch,
dot;trine pf uon-interventi&n by Congress With *
slawesy.in the* States’and.’Teri itories is.hereby
tfeelared-nall and void.” [Cljeeis.] Then ad-
Ming theStyother ‘words it. being*- that is, mean
ing the act, “m*t tu legislate slavery into* Any
State or JTerrithry or to euclude it therefrom,
but to leave? the people thereof perfectly free to
“regulate th'eir domestic institutkms in*their*iwn
way, subject only to the Constiriition ol* the |
United .* * * . ••*
That is The language of tlje Kansas*NeUrask<i.,
hill. That l‘an*guage contains.the,v®Vy essqjice
find suhstanCe and principle of which Breckin**
ridge now complains, and Brpckinridge ivas
then a* meftibqr of Congress of the. P[tited
.States froyi Kentucky, am? nyide a speech iti
fag 1 or of this dggina. ‘J hat speech went the
full lpngth of non-intwveiiWon aiubpiqieilar sov-*
ereigrrty. lie then voted for'tlic kill, with the
hfiigfiagt; in ?t**which l lng’erocite.d, under oiytli.
Aryd Tyiw l*e says he is justifieiT in bolting the
‘regular organization and Lift;akin*g up the Dem
ocratic party, hMofluse the pflrey ii/siAed in ad
hering 4o that very dogma for* which he voted
’under.oath. [Cries *of “<a ivi* it to him.”]
. Thhn again, about this time‘Kentucky had
been an anrt Demqcrariu St&te* —one 06 the i
deejies? dyed in tpe wool agaiifst Democracy.
Bvqn in 1852, hen Pierce*carried every State
in.thc Union except foifr, ri)®bt
alongside of Vefiuont aid Massaishujetfs, yr
against the Democratic pirttv.* But*.When 1
hiought forward the KansasNehvasta bill, next |
year, I raised the hopes* of the Kamjtucky De-
Tliiiiefticy, m 1 they sa®v shat I °gave fhein a
oliance, by advodhting thys great principle f
’ non-intervftntii/Ti to make*
Kentucky a Democratic State. •
. Hon. John C. Breclfinml’ge*wro( to me in
Illinois, jmplortng me to cyme to Kentucky, J.o
where lie livtd, to make a speech to
the assembled people of explaining
Ibis glorious doctrine of non-intefvention and
popular soyeretguty, as nov* contained in this
.rfoima. [Cries otl # “ Every hord of it.”] I felt
great iiesitatioa about going to Ijentuckyf be
cyiuse 4 had my hands liiH in rilTnois, and I had
jusf travelled frtom New to*Chieago.
Along the at nightil half tke
of® seeing myself burnt in effigy, and hung from
tlie o trees in the*daytime, because 11iad become
the representative man of this tdognffi. ])ut
will, tty* unusual wxeKtrens, .expense of \oie
.and strength f cogvinted the people trt’ llliwyis.
*tl)at the principle*of self-government was # right.
Then I fek a for iriy ft ii®id # Breck : n-
iu Kentwcky^whoJived in that.dark be
nighted regiidi, wlie’re the people had never yet
• voted a ltemocaitic ticket, atid henee Igigviwjd (
to he4p hill®. I went. *. * * • •
NYjien T atrivej at Lexington, on tlie ap
pT>intd day. I t*ound all CollegeT’ire*-n crowd
ed .ijul jauimed with people, aS I find Aloument
Square to-night. But it \\?is • rainy, uarjc’aiid
gloomy day. 1 stood in th*t rain addressing
<.j)osepeople for three mortal flours and dreniji
rf;d in rttin,*during.whipTi L expounded the prin
ciples of^n<tn-intervention®and pogtilar so\°c- (
reigntjj as 1 have ®jxpiaifled them to you t®V
niglit. Breckintidge ‘stood bj*ftry side and
f)atted°me on the back. [Chews.]
. At any imnoftant park of tjie speech he caM
ej for three cheers for the “Littlq GSantJ’
[Gneat cheering ]. I kept on*for three lymrs.
1 he consequence was a severe attack of*bron
chitis, wlfieh laid me up for Jour months, until
4iy friends lost hope.that l would ever speak
again on # aliy subject, much less thfe diyrma.
0 However, in th% course of thejiext Fe^urtirf,
I recovered my void; enough to get to V asn
mgton* late in*the session. I then wrot* .the
celebrated report f‘ro*i the Committee*on Terri-,
tories against abolitionism and rebellion in Kan
sas, putting rebellion supporting
squatteß .sovereignty, abut report gained tl*e
contest pf 0 *
When the Cincinnati Convention
Buchanan become one of the Democratic nomi
nees upon a platform containing that very dog
ma now denounces. John C. kreck-
becaiue # the nominwe for \ ife President
gon the'same platform. 0 .
“Now if *3*m should doubt whether Buchanan
understood the platform as l now 6-j, just reaj
his letter of acceptance. In ythat letter you
will find*that he not only accepted the nomiifa
’ tion on the *('ineimiati •platfor'n. but he told
you what the dogma meant? lie said tlut the*
1 meaning was (I will use fiiy owu*langjiage) that
a t ) 10 P e oi* a ‘ferritofv. as well as those of a
State, shall decide for themsftlviw wbelter sfa
\?>ry shall iii‘ shad not P.Flst within their limits,
i hat is Buchanan’s 1 uiguagg, and l qeUer stat-i
ed the dogma-strongcr.* Old Bgek was elefted
‘wiili that construction of tTie.Jogma. **Breek
inridge returned to Lexington, 1 think it was
on June the GtU,. 1856. * And jnSde a speech
in wlucji .he accepted the *u*omination*of A ice”
President. •
In that siiAhch he defined the dogma in the
. same language, substantially the same, as M?.
. Buchanan. Bu'J, rfnfortunately, about this time
the abolitionists of the Nor[!*‘ *;yul especially
Gov .•Chase, of Ohio, Started the story that the
Southern De;necracw did not understand the
that‘the people of a ‘Territory could no 4, like
thosp of a State, decide the questipuref slaveay *
in the JL’snitory ii£ tlfomschri's. •
* What do you think we didjy refutif ‘hucli.a
slander? .AN'by we went ftivitations to Breckin*
1 riijge, asking •him to come ai? A l. address the i
Northwesf, and tfill the what’
an infejnarlyj it was tlftit fjrere was any*diffyr-
I eniiiiiif opinion upoli that question. We # a!sq r
: incited meu from the i°lif?
fertent States to tome North and tell.riie* pco,
]4e than? that the Southern peiq*Je, \jer.6 iill.in
favo® of that dogma,as expounded by Buhflan-' 1
fan and* Breckinridge hi their Otters ofltccep
tance. Breckinridge came out in the Nirith
west. I mht him at.Ti^iecanoe —on that fa-®
battleground—in (fct., 185^.**
•We made speeches from .flic same sta^d. —
,He lukviftg pgiority of s acanduftite, spoke
first, and when he came to expound* this doc*
trine of non intervention —this right*of the*
(•people U> govern in the Territork s,
I w?n\so delighted with his arguments; that 4
1 got right behind him, clappedhim,on the back
1 aipcl told him to “*gj® it.’* [Great •laughter ]
I tclj •WOUathe sovereigns, out thigre
were ; til delighted,* and wlieft he got tjirough,
he introduced me ws the authol 1 of th&.doggta,
fund L got*up and explaineii jt to who,
had assembled by thg acre. • • •
* .On all**tU<®telliflg poiifts, whcn.l was giving
the abrilitionisls r.artictflar A Jl;ssim” a*?d briny
-07. . ‘
iifg the Democrats ufi Po th.point, Breckinridge
would st®rtd at* ba®k, ciap me i®ti the back
cm? endorse my .sentimenfc. I assure you 1
did not St that time doubt hut that* Breckin
ridge was sounchon jhe dogma. NYcHien went
t* Maine, leaving TippecSrtoe in convpariy (N illi
, Gen. Cass, traveled through Mains, making
spe<*<*hes lirim the stand and complimenting the (
•old Genevalfis the autluirgwf the Nieholstfli let
ter, and.of tlfe dqptrir.cw'f tl?doguia w
long before Douglas was thought of.
•* llcuCe. L nevyr doubted Bifckiflridgc’ssound
nfcss... Buj agaifi, we .Northern men were
colitcnt alsne with th*3. . Breston, of Kentucky
■a relative of Breckriiridge’s* came aiwl made
groutyd. * Cobh, oij Georgia, ;iso came anrt*
made speeches to show* that* the jriopK* of a
Territory, like those ok’ a Staty, could ex'cluilg
slaveryrtby tlfeir*f.egi # sl®turys ‘either Ry nnC ac.
.trim or unfriendly Jegislatkm. If yiyi doubt
ibis read.C*hb’sspeech* made tit estel\pst(*r,
in
which Mr. Buchanan maje lyim secretary*o['the
Treasury. Benjamin, yf Louisianyia went all
flie* way to M;Jiiy3 to explain to the ]}Cople of*
the North-eastern States that the whole South
•was # soyridupon the dom ; #nd eyi ry Soufh
cm man that trod upo*i Nhit[iem soil thattj-car
a.® fiu*as I could ascertain,‘gave ihe syme
to ilie and to tl?eountry. *’
1 liuw ask you, wf Maryland, tvherth*-
er you bulicve th.es* men wiyc perpetrating jip
on us ut time a diJiberaPe fraud ‘i .if
tlrt'v were not hones# then the*. wer& trviflg to
client and swindle the ]>eople ouC of theic votes. 1
rCritsof *‘‘l hat’s 1 We*Northern Dctuo-
L o • • o I o ..o
crats entered into a solemn compqCt .with you<
Southern Da?nocn*t.s that, you wold**stand by
.this doctrine of noninterference by® Congress
with the question of slavery i the Territories.
>We are read^ r to stand Ry ,tl*at .cdTnjmct now 7
atW. forewir. We have redeemed “that pledge,
and liftw we are hnoted dirivn by the Cory men*
who wtire elevated to pow,er lyon a pk'dg'O yf
adberenedo the saiiie principles. [A .voioe,
“"What about Stephens, of Georgia . .
•I havrt not quoted lyy friend” Stephens, yf
Georgia, for tin* reason thiyt, liko aft honest
nan, he now kauris by the jdedgr as he uyade
it*theiy [Chegrs.] I “could name inenv otjler
firtble and iruc menwhcf liave'reyeemcd their
faith and preserved tlelr iionor in like manner.
1 bylieve the masses of the are goiuftlo
(| do the savno thing. [Cries of “We are.”] —
J>ut Breckinridge has chosen to Jell tl£e peodlri
in his stump specli t°hat°l*am not the Regular
nomjbee fur t?i*i Prftsidency, and therefore U* -
was right in ruiTning against me. *Y’ou all
k"ow Cow the facts stand. Twojthirds of the
Ounv*iuion we*c*figr*me—one-third against mo.
That, o:: # ‘*-thirfl k when they found tTyut othey
could nij; control the *fwo thirds,” bolted and
broke up the Convention. Breckinridge takes
’ tin? nominatiuiiolrom oue.iiiinl and claims that
lam not the r<reul a r nominee. „
• I hrtve only to say, that l never yet descend
ed kiV*enough to talPe thy nomination “from
one-third if my party. In” 1856, when the
telegraph announced that Blichanan at Cinci
nnati had recieveti majority kote, and that I
iiad the next highest nuiyber—more than a
third —nearly a half—l sent a message quick
as lightning woyild carry it, withdrawing my
name, upon the ground tlirit I Scorned a nomi
nation while ft magirity of my countrymen were
against me. Should I ever go to a Convention
and fail to a I wi[l not say how
1 would regard myself sdiould I be “guilty of
theociishonor of running against ttie nominee of
nwf party. , ®,
Wha; is a Convention worth unless the dele
gißtes who go to it consider •themselves houyi?
by honor to abide the result? Is he an honor
able nuyi who would go to the Convention with
the understanding that if hewon he wrtuld®
take ti ie stakes, but if he lost he would not gay.
( ptjheers.] In 1812 ? whei? I’icrce got thy ma
jority *\l)ti?for th? Presidency, and 1 was the®
next highest, the announced a des
pv Ift’ orn me # declining in favor of Pierce be
fori?the result of fclie vote was # offirtially Orecor
°gled. A ml, “geßtlemen, I have iy;ver yet des
# eended low 7 enough to desire to bg thy Ci*ndidte
of my party wheu I w not the first # choicy.oi
9 0 O
\ tivo'domakm, )
t „ *|u .Idrancr,* o “
0 0 o ‘
the majority. Nor d<? I come before you to
night to yr<s; my own claims, much less to ut-.
ter :i word against a ctftnpefcitor*
* IMiof.M m>t have relgrred te Major TJreek-*
but lor the fact ’that ifi his spdtch yes
terday lie sfk-ailed ftie without provocatidh.—
1 he report says that lie went so far as Jo say
i that J had broken faitle in regard toathe jleci-
I si on oj t lie (\nfrt in this question.
faith . hholfl that any honesf man is bound 4>y
divisions the Supreme (’ourt of the Uni
'f ‘.States* in all questions within their jurisdic*
[Loujj cheers] In reference to the*
ihed Seott case l have more speeches
in its <*efence jiving ’man •Evert”
point contained ip tlm I’AAiy-1, .i* Ah®, i IT
qpvtli its decision was final, and any cood citi
zen is.'bouml by it, whether*he likes it or not.
[Cheers.] M „ * ♦ ..* * ®* ®
No\j*let me ask any Democrat,••
whatjdoes any Youthen* fnast nope tr> gafn by ■
dividing ti e Democratic part£ and tlius elect
ing Lincolfl l’rcsidenr? Sllould Lincoln be
elected, no iuan*can doiibt but*that lie \v<suld
‘o\\*e his election tb (lie Southern tfblters ami sq- •
Every inteUigqpt man knows that
if shev bad t!>t ’"bolted, 1 woulcP*have beaten
r . • 7 ,• . - T .
Lincoln in every Sta}c ol the l moti* except
•Verinoqj.ond * •
The secessionists thoifghl it was a leaser evil
to ditiife the elect Lincoln than to
‘stand* by the nominee*, of the” time-bfinored
platform of the party, and allow him to.be elec
ted, Thwy must bi presumed to have design
ed that whicti was the necessary result ol their
‘conduct. The only tendencg*of their conduct =
ft SUCCESS in?,- was to elact Lincoln. A*id now,
o•• 9 *
when speakingat Vuijulk the other nmht, the*
head of the electoral ticket *for
V irginia, anticipating Liifcoln’s elcctioij, put a”
question, to me whether’! did not think the in- °
“auguration pi. Lincoln, without tuny <3vojt act
hostile to f*outhevn rightft, woulfl justify the
S*itbjn scceSing*and dissolving the Uuiog.—”
i they iii*f pursue a course of policy calculated’
to elect Lincola, and.then they kflidly ask me.”
IT I*.wil[*not help them dissolve the Inion,”
shoiflcT they succeed in electing Lincoln. I
told them—No; never on * • , *
°1 said then what T say to, van to*night, that the
election of*any man, no matter who, by the people,
w-eorJitig to the*linns of the Constitution, is no ex
cuse far’- iueSkiyg up this g fernment.” I should de
plore the election of Lincoln as a great calfftnity. I
am prepared to do all *:i my power to prevent it. But
1 say to you that if flnfbrfl ornately he should be elec
ted, lie lie inaugurated according to the Wniis
of the Constitution. L will sustayi him in the exer
cise of any constitutional function. But after
augjtTation, if lie fliould violate the” Constitution,
Rr make war tijVn your rights, or yUemrit any vio
lation of that i*istfument,J[ am prepared, in obedi
ence* to the Conltitutiotf and th laws* to aid in
hanging him higliy? than Virginia didUohn Brdwn.
Vtewill n* the jjr*t instance per for no all our duties
.under thtfCnßstitutiofl. This Breckinridge elector
trtso watt ted to know whether, in’ilie event of a dis- .
so!utionof die l eion, I would go for tbe” enforcc
ment of the law - * ainst tSose violating tlnyn.* I
foldbiyu die law* must be enforced. The president
would bes w*>rn to enforce tjicm, ae-l every hobfgt
ni.iTt in tin* Republic would help the in.
enforcing die lab. • Nor
nfider the pretext that tlyis would.be making jvar
ypon sovereign states. Sovereign S/atcs cannit
commit treason,, Individual* may. #
When R citizen of Ve#monitayays himself against
the Constitution and the laws* by resisting the'iyar
bhal in die execution of the .fugitive slave law, wc
Tlo not allow the v tola ter to screen himself under the ’
sovereignty of ‘Vermont, but we puniA the violators. 0
of the law wherevfr we find iho*n. Secession means
revoletion.e It"is onty.anotlicr word for the same
totalling. 1 hold to tiie inherenbrighbof revolution,
wlyetfever the evils of civil watjand revolution ete •
less flian obcdfc ncc in the law. o ‘l(*is upon that prin
ciple only that Washington, Jefferson, Fnfbklin pnd
Adams* justified their conduct in seceding fronf the
British Empire. • ••
When they seceded they did not slailf behind th*°
pretqpded sovereign tv. #f the coionies. “They looked
the gallows in tlie Lye, and like brnve men dared
yll tiie con.Aqucnccs otj their acts, though tbe lielter
awaited their rne-ks had thej’ failed. • . .
And jvlfcnhlhtyles < *rt t roll, of Maryland, God bless
J)im, wae t olgl in sighting liisLameto tfieMeclargtion
of Independence, det* there were so many Charles*
.Cajfttlls th: tjie King would not be able to find him
who signed thag papey, iie stepped Jtack and addeck
after his Carrollton.” *1 hopJhe revo-
Jutiortlsts of this day who have a sclngne to break
ini the government wilf ligve manliness togmt
cfown the name of their residence, so that we vfill
be able to send tl*e after them.
1 believe tlgive is no evil indhis country for which
tiie ( institution amfclaws will not provide a remedy,
much Jess is there any for which Recession is a pro
pier remedy. At when (lie Breckinridge
elector put dto#e questions towue, indicating that he
afidbtis party intended to dissolve tl*e Union if Lin
coln \aw tdeefed, I answered tliPm frankly, and after
doing so, said to him that lieevas bOutid as a man of
ltotgur to propouifti iPe same <ieiesticiet to bis jandi
date. and J#t Mr. Breckinridge .answer them, ifie
answencamc to me from the crowd, “It slmll he done.”
The Louisville Democrat, in Ke®t uekg r , a paper
friendly to eie, copied these questions and my an
swer, and called upon Mag, Breckinridge to respond
to them in hi/speech at Lexingkdi yesterday. In
that fg'.eech, acwording,to<l jeport which I saw to
iTiyht, Mr. Breckinridge *-efer to in
Nefl[ Englagd an( so in tho South, showing thaT
he i*ad seen my Virginia epeeelies-e-and the oftes
tioiui and answers wtre in thebirst speedb I made®n°
tleit State —bit* 1 looked through hip speech in vain
to find his answers to these questions.
I ask you what does g mean? A Brcckinridge
electtfh catechises ntc whether 1 will favor disunion
in a certafii event, which Breckinridge and his
fihends will be respousibTe for producing if it hape
pens, and plten Breckinridge is called upon to an
swer the same question be cannot answer it. Other
questions, trivhil questions, imaginary charges,
\ohicli no man ever dreamed lie was guilty of, were *
specified and answered, hub this great question, in
volving tig; fate of this Union, involving the exist
ence of a ttonspiracj* to break it up, ghen brought
to bis notice is not answered. .
I tell yoif, my fellow citizens, Tbelieve this Union
is in danger. In my opinion there is a mature plan .
throughout thifSouthcrn States to break up the Un
ion. .1 believe the election of a Black Republican is
to be the signal for the attempt, anft. that the leaders
j of the scheme desire the election of Lincoln so as to
1 have an Acuse for disuqjon. Ido not believe that
every BrecWnrnlge man is a diapnionist, but I d<* ,
believe that every dtsunionist in America is a Breck
inridge man, and hence I desire Major Breckinridge
to Answer on this point, or no,
he will enforce the laws of the land itethe event of
an®ittjjmpt to secede or break the You
haveg right to Rave an answer from him to shat
question. _ ® ...
9 I ant fat’ burying Northern and cou*
1 them secession in the ‘-ante grave. I believe the
Democratic party, according to its old organization
and its old platform, its usages and its time-honored
principles, is the only political organization in this
country competent for that task. Be that as it may,
let us perform our whole duty to theßiouiJtry, to the
CuQsUtution and to our children. # *
a •
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