The daily union., 1856-12-30

thousand minority Is that rsbukiDg ths republicans
approving the doctrines and platform Of ne democrats
Certainly Al all
There Is another feature Of this message which wish
10 call AEtention before entering uPcn Il a large The
cess the republican party did attain any considerable sx
tent must be attributed 70 the exercise Of deoePuon-tne
Of false pretencez What the false pretsnceS
The prncpe they presented the world that the gene
goyernmen possessed the power Of Sovereignty the
Tebories and ought exclude the insttaon 0f slavery
thersron- He says THAI Frses and The reA! par
pose 10 interasdde with slavery IN tn1 States WhAf
3 the legal notion Of lAe psetencss2 t u that men At
tempt do Thing BY covert design and unss you
expose their covert design they viii succeed IN their
object and TIE only Way 70 prevent the ls 70 expose
their covert purposes Apply that principle to tins ease
The President much says thar The doctrine which
they holdthe exclusion Of slavery from the Territories Of
the Unions doctrine in which they viii Sncceed IN
less he make il APPEAR thai IL is covert design
trick pretsncs he admits that that principle they
vii succeed We are told fariy, frankly, nonorAny oy
the gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Mason that the eand'
date whoever be WAS whether man OF straw or not was
entirely aatsral The question s what - tho principle
involved Thai told that whenever the princ
pie which hare stated shall be adopted by the majority
and asserted then viii time for separation. The
President tells that unless he make out that that
Is the design which they have in view, they VIII sue
ceed in IL Il not this precious professon IL 70 an oo-
vious and logical one though probably not intended
But sir tbs probable ultimate OF that princi
pie simply upon this oblique confession OF
the President II rests some more important basis than
this.
Whenever We q set a party Of men come forward
for the Of Of are APT
TO think and suppose have good grounds for th+
presumption that they made for the OCCASION and
they entitled very little consideration from the
fact that they got up simply FOR the time being.
IL that the character Of the principles adyocs-
ted and sustained by the republican party-f they
are the mere creatures Of the day-they would De
very likely be Of ephemsral exisience II they
novelties-H they be the Of the hour
the fgments Of the brain At the mOment-then, in
deed, might be supposed that they had some other
and obque, and purpose in view, aud they will
be likely 10 be sustained. Though the republican
party Is party which may De one, the principles
which il susains the doctrines which il 10 based the
purposes which 1t announcs may be very ancient What
insist upon is that these principles these purposes and
these objects old and older than the history o.
this government and further that they have been sus
tanned at every of this government until within
very period They doctrines which entered InIo
the very framework Of government They were not
only brought forward and supported by the savehodng
community ITSELF but they have been reenscted and
established and rehrmed stage Of our history
from me commencement OF this government Tor more man
half century The progress OF this country under these
principles until within very recent occasion, and the
prosperity which has attended IT. 90 fully affirm the
soundnes Of those principles shall contend further thai
these principles which reArned and declared oy
the republican party have been renGhed upon only within
short time past by the action OF the southern people for
local purposes entering upon system Of measures thai
have called out and demanded the formation Of this
republican party for the purpose Of redecarng and fully
sustaining the principles Of their fathers.
Sir, when the settlement Of this country commenced tie
history Of the human in all it civil and social pela
lions commenced Of progress; il began from
starting point The institutions Of government in al
the forms in which they had existed in the European
world, were intended and expected be slOughed of
The idea that here there should be established ys
ten Of equal laws and Of happy They commenced
the settlement OF this land with the great idea Of popular
system Of governmenta system Of government which i'm
piled democracy, yoG please system Of government
which implied The elevation Of every in the commuBi-
y 70 occupy an equa position, aud exercise equal
power IN The regulation Of It's Il has been said
BY some that their idea the establishment Of STATE
without king an -N.r-rh without bShOr. Yea Er
but Il equally clear in their minds that they
Be not only clear Of yrants and 0f kings bu 8ey
also To discard the whole idsA Of nobility There vas
oe no hierarchy and 0IigArChy. All that relationship
with which the world in IL progress bad bern enbar
rased Tor centures-under whatever name whether pAtri
clan and pebiAu whether patron and client whether land
lord and tenant whether lord and vassA whether master
and save-should Cease in this country
This great idea took form 6rst upon that little piece Of
paper not bigger than mans hand which written
in the cabin Of the MsyAswsT. That contained great
seminal principle, and when they entered upon their
oni course far lay within the ccut Of their power
they ererted themselves realize that idea Their frst
impression ever shall the land be cult
vstss aud every shall himself cultivate the lznd be
yes Of aodia ttle- They struck of all the notions of
prmogcniture and they vent IN their progress IN this
way long tney continued IN their colonial condition
When s5t in the ordering Of Divine Providence the
time arrived when they compelled thsiT inde
peudencs sgainst the Of Raglznd, what did
hsy sayl WehaEs acquired that position have passed
MANHOOD Nuicn enholeA 70
say You have right TO make laws for without our
being represented, ron have right With
consent The T-ht of government lies in the
people Of this country. Il for the ASSERTION O. ,
great principle that he declaration NADIA Tbese
principles Eee inhOded fully and largely and
in all their latitude in the Declaration Of ndspsndenos
hen the crisis arrived fathers Of New England found
themselves standing alone in relation to tes. prnr
plea They looked down little south Of them and therp
were the people from The rspublic Of Holland rps and
ready for sustaining the principles uls further
on they tonDd AL the fee equal principles of the QnAksrs
who established themselves under Penn little further
on they looked AZ the liberal provisions which found
IN the colony established by the English Catholics under
Lord Baltimore Virginia, with all her high notions o.
ehvsry then entertained IL the extent bur
believe with good oundsti0n now e<dy for tbs
sans thing The institution Of slavery bad pressed
grounds Of complaint against the mother couuy So
cefy bad not formed itself with any reference 70 depend
euce upon that Institution and condition Of things
tine
Passing further south thsy came 70 North Carolina
where The Proy Of Meckenburg had put forth the
hrst declaration Of ndependence in anticipation of that
oi The 9Th Of July 1916 The ee liberal notions %
Hugusnois deeply implanted in the eiinRs q the
Peops 81 south Carolina All these colonies up
oody Of ripe and ready the people of Gsw
kngisnd IN all those great principles s5d theories Of civil
goreromenL They imboded them in the Dcclsrns0n al
Independence They together hkzarded their lives 1no-
TIE nigh places OF t5e Battlefield In common 70 a.sist
them and they suoCecded When We came q De form.
tos OF our constitution 0f gpvSrnu-nt are told thar
the people OF The iben 5sats recently colonies were ss
holdsrs Yes sir, 80 they beltsre Mass~r -~fts
ssd sdoped her constitution which the caurt asr-srs
ss'd u lts bill Of gkisi sbollsasd slavery bat a. that
dmc ksT hardly conscious of IL We NAV So
that all Of hsm, all erospt Massachusetts II roai
please, were shareholders. What II they wrrp o.
much The better for my argument I want 70 know