The true Democrat., 1856-10-28


 the restriction should apply to all territory north of the line of 36 deg. 30 min, without an equivalent south of that lne that the re- striction which assailed the rights of property without compensation was no compromise; that there no constitutional power to pass it, and that its repeal restores the constitution as the true compact between the parties. (Cheers.)
 know, moreover Mir. President that de- monism is complaining, hypocritically, that peaceful rights of property, and the peaceful settlements of the people upon the public lands or Kansas are assailed-a territory not yet sovereignty, but mere creature of sovereignty, wth no other guaranty of government than an organic of Congress. While they complain that border ruthans are assailing persons and property in Kansas black republican ruffians are assaulting persons and property every day and every hour within the sacred limits of the sovereign State of Virginia, all along line of nine hundred miles of her boundary and iron. | tier. Virginia sovereign before the Union began-she is one of the old thirteen original States, who since independence, have been the creatures of eregntes-who created sover- eighties to be equal, not to be superior to them selves. She asks only for equality out of her limits. Only for peace within erlimits. En- thusiastic cheers.) She has every guaranty of
 
 and of laws; and yet black power within her limits, assumes to say, and does say, and per sists in saying, that slave property shall not be peaceabiy and safely enjoyed within the limits which she reserved from her original vast pro- portinns-that the constitution and laws shall not feign anywhere in respect to these ights on the subject of slavery. You might as well own a thousand dollars on chip on the Ohio river, as to own slave worth thousand dollars on the banks of that stream in the limits of Vir- gna. Is this to be borne much longer? If Kansas may complain oi her wrongs, may Vir- gnla not still more complain? If sympathy Is reused for rights in the territory, may we not be pardoned for having sympathes for our own rights in State? Enthusiastic cheers.)
 Now what is the issue-the alternative? With civil war raging in Kansas about slavery and its rights; with black republican mob seizing all the powers of the sovereign State of California, and hanging and banlshing peacea- ble citizens, and mprisonlnS supreme judges; with incendiary revolution attempted n the popular branch of Congress, and for a time ave- for session of Congress-successful, and within three votes of being finally successful; with the black knight, with vzar down. stand- ing astrile the limits of Virginia, and forbid ding and preventing the reign of law for the
 
 limits. In this state of things, with these ma gaines ready to explode, with these burning plough under our feet, whilst the strength of Fillmore Is nothing whilst the old whig party Is dissolved whilst but two antagonists 1 arc left, when the whole issue is slavery or abolition, Fremont or Buchanan, democracy or | demon!sin-tell me, whether the issues are not terrible, for sheer SecJlOnalism to rear black flag ill sixteen States of the Union only W here there Is a numerical majority of a people with out tie association with the property to be protected, and when it dares not raise its stan- dar,! in the other fifteen States for fear of their pcla laws? They are fearful issues; they are issues of peace or war-of civil war, of blood disunion and death. Tremendous cheers } Slr tell me we should submit to the election of black republican, under circumstances like these, when the election would be an open, overt proclamation of public war, is to tell me that Virginia and her fourteen sister slave States are already suhjusated or degraded-( (cheers)- that the southern people are without spirit and without purpose to defend the rights they know and dare to maintain (Cheers.)
 When in Charleston, kanawha county last year, was told by the best authority that that town was paying $8O night to guard against the escape of fugtives from the salines of Ka-
 
 such is the tax already levied by black repub- lcanism upon us, from without our borders and within our limits. What would be our burthenS, If the whole executive power of the federal government, great it is, should be put into the hands of black repubilcanism, by proscriptive sectionalsm, for the very pur- pose sf invading our property in our very homes, at the hazard of our lives? Do sober rational minds expect us to wait and submit a moment, If the trust of that power shall be contided to demonisln for such a purpose?- (Cheers.) Should John c. Fremont be thus elected by black republicans, tell me, men who are jealous of your rights, would you dare trust him and his party after the proclamation they have made after the blood they have shed, after the losses and burthens they have already imposed? Loud cheers.) l know not what you will do for we have enemies in our midst whom It behooves us to guard against with DO less vigilance than against those beyond our limits; and we have men who set themselves up for the only conservatives, who are wolves in Sheep's clothing-men who pretend to be for Fillmore, but would throw up their caps if John c. Fremont were elected I do not hesi- tate to say that believe there are many voters in the State of Virginia ready to fc How the leader of party in this town who made that execrahe speech at the African church, in his treason to his State, his kindred and his home which he openly publishes. (Cheers.) I wish he had been battling for Fillmore alone: but the effect of his blows is to tend to the election Of Fremont. Fillmore is angel oi light compared with Fremont. (Cheers.) God only knows what the real intent of the speech was but have no hesitation in saying that 1 regard John Minor Bolts as utterly needless of the effect Of that speech, whether 1t tends to elect Fillmore or Fremont, 50 democracy would be defeated. It is more Fremont than it is a Fillmore speech.
 I 1 undertake to say to this agitator and dis turber of our peace and unity among ourselves, that there is mayor in this city, common weath's attorney, and grand jury, and he had better look to the clauses of the penal statutes of the code of Virginia which imposes fine and imprisonment for the offense of speaking, writ ing or publishing matter tending to impair the value of property in slaves. Draw up the in- dictment-summon venire-read the statutes -produce the offensive Wilmot proviso speech made years ago in Powhattan, believe, and his speech made here a few weeks ago in the African church, fit rostrum for its black re publcanism. Give both in evidence to prove his confessions and the quo amino of guilt or innocence; and if he could not be convicted, it would be because he would avail himself of some technical and formal defense. (Enthusi- astic cheers) Ispeak more as acitizen-more as saveholder-lnore as southern man, feel ing deeply on this subject than as one learned in the technicalities of the law, when I say, if he has not violated the letter, he has violated the whole spirit of the laws for the protection : of slave property. Cloud cheers.) He has : furnished arguments and ralying cries to the New York Herald and Tribune: and he rased a black flag in our very midst. A speech like this--an otfense like this-cries to Heaven against one who ought to have let his right hand forget its cunning, and his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth, before he uttered treason to : the hearth and home of the mother who bore him. Tremendous cheers.) Housing at the call of the State, now when every loyal spirit is planning for the public good-when the hra hands ai