The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-19
niiehis Politics.
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE COayENTIoS--spEECH OF
GENERAL CAss.


From he E.trot Advertiser Sept. TO
after II. nomination were made. consisting Of 7. ".
sherman for Suoerin't pdent Of Pnhlic Works Hdman
r >ta'e leasrIsr and others the following resolutions
we're unRn inously a1c Pied
Received, That the .elsgatsd crazy OF the state
Of Michigan here affirm their continued support of the
PRINCIPLES embraces In the resolutions adopted by he
peu ooratic Nmtionsl which in Bal
fraTe in June ls52 abd that the docrine of congress
sionsl In the domestic iegsla of the
States end Territories therein embodied hirnonizcs
with the tue spirt ef institutions aud IL the ooy
Plato up'p which the democratic party of the Union
csn a'ntain its ascanceucy aud preserse the Uuon
The croit Adertiser (whis) Of tbe 10th inst says
Peck thfL called for q speech but the eloquent
few Of language which usually chsreeIzes his efforts
on such occasious did not follow 1t evidently
up hill business for hin to speak Of the ouo with
spirit, as appeare, to he well they did o.
up 10 the scratch the Nebraska question and left the
party In fale p'ri'ion was claimed by some that
the contained reflection Geo Cass not
entoyspg he Nebraska bl, he had done so
in lboIed speech before the convention
GEN. CAss's SPEECH. IL
The Gene oil begnn bv ing that unpervarted human
FEELING was oppossd to slavery This inch, he assured
u.s. h. hsd tho boldness to at Washington But he
continue He NUT NOT suffer our human feeling to biod
us to our constitution al "biiga.ions and although sla
very IL social and political, evil set here s
situtonai power given 70 interfere with it, must let
1t alone. A compromise vas not sacred. Life full
OF compromises As Instance II previous compr ,mte
in politics he refereed the tariff question Would any
one pretend TO FAY tho tariff compromise rrepcala
abes Why, then, should the Missouri promse be
That was mere expcdi nj In time Of political emergency
Copsress bound BY no compromises but the compro
misses Of the constitution.
The drift of the speech of Cen Cass was to 'reuder
an account OF his ste ssrdship to the party the Ne
braska bill and to present it a test If democratic
faith He commspced BY thanking the ton for
its invitation aud said tho the Nebraska bill was
stirred, the better and brighter 1t would appear The
hill he'd been ctr ngly 6enouocca bat thu prnaple 1t
contained was right 1t true the rthsrn sens
ment was opposed to slaveryit was natural that it
should be- Ia opposed to IL, and had said Ia the
Senate that II political evil aud many other thirgs
greatly to he dspieasure Of the south and would stick
10 II under all circ Instances bat yet search tee con
siitutjon from end the other and there is
word Of au'horty 10 touch 10 erere with the sub
ject Of slavery in auy shape There ~as no power in
Congress to abofh establish 1t in the Territories end
the sttts were infcpeueent sosercigntes controlling
their oin institutions by loca lava
Saying pob of tie expectancy OF the act, II was
clear that Cong had the power repeal the Miss sur
compr mse there were no compromises binding upon
The Missouri promise mere political e.pcdient,
net the OF principle and hal been
charged BY mutual understanding Col Benton said in
his let AT could ouch 1t in oost aud alter
IT, why not in any other n whole and repeal Y'
General Case cited several decisions Of the Suprems
Court Of the United States strengthen hi arguments,
rather Shicb called BY many sopbistry He said
the Nebraska bill ras founded the everlatng oriu
s OF to, RICH. Of every separate sovercEny TO govern
veHs had got In this convention they had got into the
~rus place
iorwsrd briefly to the tine whom should say to the
South govern your own affairs you like, aud let
state.
There was no reason why teop,o In the Teri tories
81 MT 'nemeivts, their local
ar define the character Of their Institutions.
He maintained that t,e Nebraska b did not open Ne
brsks and Kansas 10 savery-if IL did to would yield
all s'guuen,-bu slavery could rot go there unless
the rsopl. themselves wanted It, clause Introduced By
his sague ha cut of all claims to establish slavery
der thu optr ton Of the old law when the ferriory
acquired by the United States
slavery Is rot recognized in the Territories and Is
ony suJec. to local isssevery mao there IL fIec-no
slave, matter was recognized until the peope voted
it, They rsy INTRODUCES slavery II they ssh--thero
pn don az that factbut that does effect the great
prb cpie that every political community sha govern
tseH Slavery might exist ia Michi In soe OF Con-
grese IL the people wished it The abuse Of power is
reas Why II should not exist smti portion Of
the delegates 70 themselves whether this doc
| trine would apply TO tho Maine lsv)
He read extract from Bcopscns l-tter, who, he
said was one Of the candidates for Governor OF New
Yort-he dd no, kno~ but they bad tweutv-at least,
than no hoped the democracy Of Mishigan woald
have and said tho extract the correct doctrine
! the principles Of the Nebraska bill
Fsally he ovsec the convention to let SYM sthy
with any section withjrsw tfeir sympathy from the
cen t.u'ion Michigan, be said had no more right TO
sbo,b slavery In G~ gs than Georgia he'd 70 establish
II in MIC isan, every political community "a indc en
srrt IN tt. .t- K .s :rTS-ss ronIrAs ~ sss44s
The above ID onlv brief synopss Of the rvmarks, ~
they occupied eseg hall IN hcnx.