Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-08-14
Extract from Senator Douglas Speec


THE RATIFICATION MEETING IN NEW YORK CITY.
We make the following extract from the
strong, able and logical speech of Senator
Douglas. recently delivered in New York
Mr.. Douglas said:
Instead of carrying out their pledges,
they new wish to ignore every plank of
their platform, they desire to dodge all the
issues, and in lieu of it make up a side is
sue upon the recent events in the Terrific
ry of Kansas Now what are those events?
They tell us that civil war, bloodshed and
violence prevail in Kansas! Why is that?
Is it the result of the Kansas Nebraska
Bill? Bear in mind, my count, ymen, that
the same law, the same act Of Congress,
which created Kansas created Nebraska:
both Territories depend upon the same or
ganic law, and have the same rights, the
same principles secured to them. And yet,
in Nebraska there has been peace, harmo-
ny, quiet, good will-everylhing to gladden.
the heart of patriot. (Applause.
On the other hand, i'll Kansas, You have
rebellion against the law, violence, murder,
house burning, bloodshed-every crime
that can disgrace humanity. Why is it
that-both being under the same organic
lawn one Territory every blessing that
a free people can desire, results from the
Kansas act, while in the other, everything
that can disgrace free institutions has oc-
Cured? What is the cause of this differ
ence? You will find the cause in the action
of those men, who, originally opposed to
the Nebraska Bill, resolved and determi led
to render it odious by the vile acts which
should be perpetrated under It. In Nebras
ka, where peace prevails, the Aboilionists
and their emf grant socie les, don't extend
their influence Foreign Interference was
kept out; the people were allowed to regu-
laje their own affairs in their own way, un-
molested and undislurbcd by foreign iner-
ference In Nebraska, therefore, the true
principles of the bill-ihe principles Of self
government, in obedience to The Consii,u-
tion-had fair play. (Applause } And
whenever fair play has been given to that
principle, peace, quiet and happiness have
been the result. On the other hanl, in
Kansas You find that the New En- gland
Emigrant Aid Society, through corpora
tons, with a combined capital of S5.OOO,-
600, undertook to regulate the affairs of n
Territory fifteen hundred miles off, and to
control the liberties of the people, with re-
spect to their rights and interests in the
Territory. This interference on the part
Of The lreesoil, abolition, and black repub-
lican parties, by corporations from New
England to regulate Western affairs, has
created in Kansas what every man suppos-
ed it would crea,e-civil war, dissemsion
violence and bloodshed. For every drop
of blood that has or shall be shed in the
Territory of Kansas, the black republican
leaders are responsible.
1t is part of their line of policy to get
up civil war there and then make political
capital out Of the innocent blood shed by
their tools and dupes, for the purpose of
promoting the interest of their candidate
in the Presidential election. What is their
excuse for not obeying the law in Kansas?
They tell us the laws enacted by the ter
ritorial Legislature are bar6arous and inhu-
man. The laws comprise a large volume,
of at least thousand pages. containing nu-
mcrous enactments, protecting every in
terest in society. Yet out of that long list
of laws, only two short enactments have
been specified as being either unjus or i'm
proper. (Applause.) The first relates to
the question of slavery, and the second reg
ulatcs the affairs of elections 1t is worthy
of remark, ard should never be forgotten,
one case arisen which was objected to as
being improper No case has ever yet
arisen, no writ ever been issued, no trial
ever occurred under either of these two OBJ
noxious laws. Then what excuse is there
for that violence? These men, these black
republicans, sent their agents there to get
up strife and bloodshed, to be copied into
abolition papers here for political effect.
Contributions are taken up TO buy rifles to
send to IN n that they may resist the law.
Preachers adopt rifles as the instruments
of salvation, instead of the Holy Scrip
lures.
The pulpit of the house of God is turn
ed int" n recrui ing Office to get brigands
to go to Kansas, to stir up strife and civil
war, in order that the Tri6uae the Times,
the Epening Post and other abolition pa
pers here may parade the horrors of
the Missouri border rufians, and that
your Silimans, your Theodore Parkers and
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