The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-04-16

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~ III ma Al The gentleman who has Questioned
me whether he does not believe that he and all 9Iner Gu
Gems on New Hampshire are capable Of making .oeir
$50 laws without Congress undertaking 70 dictate 10
~, Sbai local laws they shall not make Everybody
says YES Well now, how comes it tnsl "ben he anu
other New Hampshire men emigraie 70 hSs TUG! 'ets
become incapable OF selEgoyernment ana nave 70 eau
@ conorsss 10 take away their rights, and prohibit
them from making their own local laws -, = 80
mi have not done with those resolutions OF leis,
hS Mr. Wilson has twice misquoted in his seat in the
SC a. ante slavery resolutions lt has furnished a
Iarge amount Of his political capital ana mean 70 seue
now SO as have occasion again 70 reeur 70
Nave shown 10 you how unfairly will not say dis
lss,ly The Massachusetts, senator perverted their mean
% nv suppresng the whole sentence which contained the
reress qualification that these sentiments concerning
vsry common TO the North and repudiaed at the Sonlh
ct;ona and therefore they cannot be made national
y test Not content with that suppression OF the truth
he also suppressed the very next resolution "hich sea
Nm in he face 10 these emphatic wordsi
MN plS That we are rejoieed the people of the
1r,nrje, taking this question into their hands and
t,no il upon the fundamental principles oil republican
governmen-he right q ne PeoPie 20 sStaoliah saen J%"
..;J,,;oas Of COUernnsnt The majority shall elect
'q t 1; th democratic doctrine Of ls49 which Mr.. Hal
lett reported the convention ana Waich uiey anu e
pston post endorsed. II is the precise declaration, IN
, ana meaning Of the act establishing the territory oI
Kansas viz being the true intent ana meaning o. tnis
act not 10 egsate slavery into any TERRITORY or a po
10 exclude herefrom but TO leave the people heeo per
molly free 10 form and regulate their domestic institutions
In their own way subject only to the eonsaauon Oh Tue
United States" ,,.,,,, ,i g.
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,5e,pe in every State in New England, but when they
deny TO New England men and southern men 'he hoeh
they remove TO Kansas a., r..
Now have one question to put to the gentleman
who began this interrogation and that Is, had Mr. wilson
ouoed the whole of the resolutons OF the democratic con-
yenon of ls4s as have just read them from the
this assembly as aui-sayery resolutions
Mr. SWEET don't know as should.
Mr. Hallett No. sir don't believe you would. won't
press YOU further this point because you everybody
here seems against yon and don't wish to say any
thing harsh unkind, but hope you win take this as
canton how you quote Mr. Henry Wilson authority
70 be relied He stands tarer in this respect by
quoting detached sentences and half sentences of series
oresouons and leaving out the rest which give them all
their political force and meaning, than would an atheist
who should undertake TO prove by the Scriptures his de-
NAL of God By quoting from the Psalmist the declaration
4Ts Cod and leaving out the rest OF the passage
aThs fool hath said in his hep will not say that the
senator is fool or knave in this matter Of msquong,
because may have read those resolutions OF l8i9
as whole but if he did read them his repeated per
versions with which he has misled others anything
but honest BETTING an honorable senator.
The is the whole of those resolutions OF S40 were
strongly NATIONAL and directly condemned political abol-
onism in its sectional upon the South and it was
ony by qarbling and separating a few and hal
sentences and suppressng all the rest OF the resolutions
that anybody could be deceived to their national char
acter. "
beg leave to read now from the resolutions which i'm
medately followed those already quoted, the whole of
which Henry Wilson has assumed TO impose upon the
Senate the United States be anti-slavery resolutions
of the democratic party of Massachusetts in ls49 and
which, he Gays, could not be circulated in Kansas.
From the Resolutions Of the Massachusetts Democratic Con-
pention Of l849
Rsolved That upon every issue which the federal or
whip party made with the democratic party since the
first election Of Jeerson ecey question OF the extension
Of territory from Louisiana Terdstbe voice of the peo-
pie pronounced the wing party wrong and the demo-
cratic party right
ResoIped That in every choice Of President by the
people since Massachusetts, and Virginia severed upon the
federal and democratic platforms the democratic candidate
Il al. hgrS nudN
that by the union of northern ana southern democrats
and in the guidance Of democratic administrations chosen
by them for fifty years, ON DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM COVER
UsIos, the expansion, prosperity and true
glory of these United States have advanced beyond all par
s in the history of political communities OF ancient or
modern times.
ery ia Europe (849 Lesson may well be taught the
democracy OF this country that il they persist in gdstn1
v strength upon sentiment or al abstraeton, and quar-
rel about sectional test which for fifty years was never
raised by democrats North South national issue,
the reaction of federalism will DO certain to advance
here TO its conSummston as the reaction OF legitimacy IN
France
"Resolpsd therefore, That in their vigilance and sagacity
the old guards of the republic democratic in every
section ought to and understand that all the sectional
issues Of the day designed fernent family quarrel
through which, as in New York, the federal party may
steal power aud hence it becomes the solemn duty
the democracy euTyprs draw closer aud 6rmer the
bonds Of brotherhood 10 the strength Of which they have
thirteen times elected democratic Presidents and have al
ways held the chain Of this glorious Union bright Its
sword lnYinclble, laws equal,
progressive and lis power and glory and praise
in the nations Of the earth
HResolUed finally That few many in majories mi
norites in out Of Office will continue 10 resolve and
aud vote members of the great national democratic
party OniiRg upon practical platform broad as ht
ONION and haowed by the ipjuncons Of Washington and
Jefferson Of Madison and Jackson 70 bsOdre q geographical
pdrtieS md cling TIE Union and NE constitution
publican fathers made and ddaiHisteyed IT,"
That said Nr. H., is national democratic doctrine in
which no abotiouist could live, move or have being
The emphatic applause Of this great audience and the
blank silence of opponents prove 1t TO be the sound
Unonoyng creed Of the national democracy Of to-day
IN their contest With the sectional and geographical" par
y, Who under the purloned Of republicans seek
ing that old bond Of brotherhood between the de-
ruocracy Of the North and South and thereby reud the
Union and destroy the republic
Nr Hae said that he did not stand there TO yindicatC
his personal opinions They might often have been wrong
or partially formed, and Of sufficient importance
10 raise public Issue upon bu although he should never
have taken the trouble notice Mr. Wilson's repeated mis-
representations in the Senate had he not been called upon
10 this public manner he happy in the occasion 10 put
the record right and vindcate the national democrats oil
MASSACHUSETTS, upon their resolutions in ls49, some por
tons Of which were The suggestions Of Others at the time
but all OF which he bad the honor 10 report by direction
Of the committee And ia order TO take away all pretex
tor any honest eyer to quote eousrue any OF thos
resolutions containing political antislarery doctrines
be would show that In the garbed portion Of the
ouOps which the had quoted tout Of the conex
that distinctly explained them 10 be the exclusive ssnti
plen OF the North and therefore repudiaed them th,
tests Of national pary) the qualifications then made tool
that portion entirely out OF the political creed Of the anti
slavery and snti-Kansas men. One OF Mr.. Wilson's dis
ointed quotations affirmed the doctrine OF the Supreme
Court OF the United ST ties in Prgg Pennsylvania
which concurred in by all the southern judges on th
bench, that slavery could exist in States TeTrtore
except by the local law Of the place and from this princi