Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-04-25
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The speech Of ~ Mont 6nery; Esqs of Wash

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The speech Of rs Montgo mery, ESQ OIL W ASH
ington, Pa, before the citizens of that place and
county, has been published and disseminated
in pamphlet form for the editication of thepeo-
ple generally, andseemipgiYfor the qualification
of those TO whom it was spoken and by whom
II was well received. Mr.. Montgomery was
Democratic candidate for Congress in that dis
trict; he was duly selected by their regular and
authentic mode of nomination; he is the candi-
date in expectancy; he is a Pennsylvania, is
personally supporter of Mr.. Buchanan and
was his euloeist in their late State Convention.
Hence. the speech has present bearing, apro-
spective influence, and dangerous indication
which cattle it to some notice. As represent
ing local sentiment-which is too general in
Pennsylvania, and if not restrained may infiu-
Sncc or aid in producing some DETECTION of a
Presidential policy in certaineyent-the speech
shouIdnot DO unnoticeti, and especially asslin
other quarters Of the same State similar indicT-
tons have been manifested
After defending the Kansas Nebraska Law by
an argument tending to show that the antt-sla-
very movement has lost nothing by the contro-
versy, he has the following language, which gives
fair view ofthe staple and the lineof his argu-
ment.
q And it matters not how far our limits may ex-
pand, with the assurance that they VIII be cnti-
tied to demand admission into the Union, with
the form Of government they may adopt t., NORTH NORTH
Gu and European emigration united will insure
a majority in favor of free institutions.
''Ciive our Northern working men such a land
az Mexico for a home, with its productive soil
and salubriOus climate, a land where the lo4agc
never falls and the flowers never fade, where
strange bright birds" fit on starry wings,
and make the forest vocal with their melody,
where the mountain torrent sweeps down the
golden sands, aud one bright summer fingers al
ways: give the Northern man such land, and
the quick moveing Yankee squatteT will have
the country peopled and its institutions liked DC
fore the Shareholders Of the South, could pack
their cnmbrous household goods, hand-cutt their
slaves, yoke their oxen and start their emlsFant
trains.
.In INV discussion of the Kansas Nebraska bill
thisfar have considered it as if the Shareholder
could under its provisions emigrate to the
new territories carrying with him and holding
his slaves, but such is not the fact. The slave
holder may go there but he must Lc1re his stHee3
behind: and then he who has been accustomed
to implicit obedience, and to be waited upon by
Others must do his own bidding, and become his
own servant
"Slavery is a creature of law. Without a lazy
to'authorize II, a slave cannot be held moment
in bondage No provision exists in the Kansas
Nebraska bill, authorizing slavery, it's an act
offreedom, and it virtually shuts out the Slave
holder from the new territories; under that law,
slavery can have no iOothOld. The slothtul, en-
,ervNted STAKEHOLDER unaccustomed TO toll, must,
IL would introduce slavery into the territories,
givO up his life of ease leave all the lnxllres anu
Tefincments of civilization, and emlgratc TO the
wilderness; his own soft hand must rear the cab
in which is to protect him from the elements, no
slave can come there to ease his toll, he must re-
side among the hardy pioneers before he VIII be
permitted to vote, he must gather around MN
majority in favor of slavery before he VIII DC aole
10 influence demonstrations, and even with a ma
iority he must await the slow process of legi:la-
ton, But ifthc hardy freedom loving emlgrants
from the North happen to be more numerous
than the Southern planters, all his toll has been
in vain, free representatives will be chosen Tree
laws will be enacted, and the door will DC toreT-
er closed on slavery. Fellow citizens, but for
moment think of the chances there are of a ma
iority of the settlers many now state being conf
posed of opulent planters, who have lett their
comfortable homes in the South, not to obtain
lands not to seek new location, hut SIMPLY TO
procure by thciryotes amaiorlty IN favor OF sla-
very Such an idea is absurd and preposterouS.
No fellow citizens such viii never be the case,
the Kansas Nebraska bill is a death blow to sia-
very propagandism."
His italics arc not disturbed. If this is a fair
sample of the doctrines of the Pennsylvania
school it is but less obnoxious than that of Black
Republication. 1t is certainly, but little short
of the doctrines of that branch of that party,
who profess to have any slight lingering regard
left for that "fossil-idca," the Constitution of
the United States. It smells of all of the alb
stract doctrines of the most designating radi-
calism, which claims sympathy and fraternity
with unmitigated negroism. 1t silently rcpudi-
ates the long settled and thoroughly received
doctrines of historical rights. Indeed he seems
to have no conception Of what historical rights
arc, or that prescription, in personally and real
estate, is a legal aud legitimate foundation OF
right He forgcts the very clements of legal
right, which, by the sound jurists, arc admitted
tobe prcscriptive. He docs not seem to know
how he inherited his own name or by THAT
right, as contra distinguished from positive law,
his children after his death shall take title to his
own goods. chattles and realty. He will say IN
virtue of the constitution aud laws of his State
On his own argument, lie may well be told, that
II he takes his goods and chattles into Kansas
there is no constitution there; there arc no laws
vcsting such right in him. On his own argl-
ment, he goes into state of nature and all
right is in allegiance. Historical rights arc
worthless, because he has seen proper to "oee
into state. of nature. When there the. fact pre-
walls that he who is strongesttakes all A very
wholesome, Camanche or Potawatomie doctrine!
But here prescription commences as it COM
lnenced at the formation of every government
ON earth, and the posscssionwhich commenced
historically tsep, aud, continued by descent, by
contract and by law, is here in Kansas, sacred
ytnd inviolatc against the force of the robber or
1hs cunning of the casuist.
Destroy historical rights and history, cOnsti-
tutions, laws, domestic relations, as founded on