Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-10-09
MIR. breckenridge out against the
Declaration OF independence


Mr. Breckenridge, the Democratic candidate
for the Vice Pres ldency, commenced stumping
campaign in The North vest about fortnight ago
He delivered speech a, Hamilton. Ohio on the
I'd inst from which we take The following ex-
tract
Look at the prnciploso this party Uhe
Republican, We are told that the Dec larition
of Independence is embodied in the Constitution
of the United States The Declaration is an
abstraction Put it in the Constitution and what
would follow! II would follow that the Consli
TUT NEST protect every man in his right 10
life liberty and the pursuit of happiness A"
Yon would find it interfering with the insliiu-
lions of the States. and it would lead our country
rapidly to destruction. But why do ! speculate
upou what il would do! Long before this our
Union would be obliterated forever 1t would
become as lNTOLERABLE and HATEFUL,
as its past has been benefcent and glorious"
We are not surprised at this. The diy has
come when we ale surprised at nothing from the
fps of modern Democrat. W. daily hear princ-
pes avowed by them that if consistently appl.
ed, would justify any despo;sm The world has
ever yet seen. NERO, the elect of the pfm,ori-
an Guards, confirmed by servle Senate. could
have wanted no better apologists or advocates
than the tyrant Territorial Legislature of Kan.
sas has been having since the first day it con-.
menced framing its edics. 1t is not true that
the Federal Constitution is at variance with The
Declaration of independence 1t is not true
that BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ROGER SHERMAN, and
Others, when they signed the Federal Consti,u.
ton, recantcd syllable Of what they had SOL
EMMY pledged their lives, their fortunes, ant
their sacred honor to, when twelve years before
they pu, their names to the Declaration of indie
pendence They simply completed The worl
then commenced they applied the principle.
tn IN proclaimed. The Declaration of Irdepcn
dence was manifesto of the everlasting princi
pies of political justice and freedom ;aud, as j
to prevent all mistake in regard to their conlin
ued devotion TO those principles, the trainers 0
the Constitution solemny Sc, forth their motives
in the following preamble
I'VE, the People of the United, States. in orle
to form amare perfect Union, EsTA BLlsa JusrIc,
insure domestic tranquility, provide for tn
common defence, promote the general Welfare
and secure the BLESSINGS oF LIBERTY to our
selves and our prosterity, do ordain and establish
: this Constitution for the United States of Amer
lea"
The Federal Constitution, of course is limit
ed in its scope, for it dvess the States of onl
certain powers of sovereignty but so far as ,
dose extend, there is nothing in it that conf ic,
. with the principles Of the Declaration. Tb
whole structure of the Constitution is .baned !;
reference to those principles. aud woe to IL,
liberties of this country when its ceases 10 b
practical conducted in consistency with them
: The Declaration of Independence. made by on
e Revolutionary Fathers is not barren absrac
ton but the most teemng of all realities.
/. contains The great central political truths are ,
r be referred and by which their trulhfulness is 4,
a judged by ii, and political parties and the pa,
ty or the candidates who scout a, those pripc
Piles as abstract in essence and " intolerabIe an
n hateful in application, only proclaim their ow
9 miserable degeneracy, and before the bar of
u free people, irIevocably seal their own conden
: nation.