The daily union., 1856-10-24


SO thought Clay and Oas and those other ustrous
who planned and matured the Compromse Of 1850. And
such will be the calm Judgment Of this whole nation
when the present excitement shall have passed away,
and public shall be tested by their conformity
and 10 the principles OF government and
not be tortured and perverted In the erucbe Of natcsm
and passion The southern planter or farmer claims no
right to settle with his slaves in Pennsylvania or in
Michigan, in Iowa You have formed yourselves INTO
States You have adopted your organic law And in the
exercise OF your sovereign and supreme discretion you
have forbidden African slavery within your limits OF this
we do not complain. TO such authority we cheerfuy
bow But for the representatives OF Massachusetts and
Vermont say to the people Of Virginia and Georgia that
our immense unoccupied boundless western dominion,
purchased has been in part by the blood and treas
of our own people shall be open TO the immigration
and settlement of all the inhabitants OF the earth TO the
German the Swede the Dane and TO all Others except
their equals of the South is indgniy and injustice 10
which you expect tamely TO submit To tell US
that we may emgrate there but slave prop
ery behind u.s. is practically to deny the right OF settle
at all This is 50 the matter plain to us, and ad
ms OF discussion When southern planter emigrates
to Territory with his slave property he does with
the full knowledge that making himself one of that COM
muniy he must abide by the judgment which that people
shall FORM TO the expedency ofsavery when they shall
proceed to form their organic law, and establish their
State governments This is condition inherent in the
very nature of all popular government and to which he
will cheerfully submit"
He thus speaks of the position of the democratic party
/ upon the subject of slavery:
The democratic party regards the relation OF master
and slave precisely in the light of any other domestic
lation-as matter over which the federal government
has no rghtfu control and which is be regulated
abshed, prohibited by the people of the State or Ter
rtory which is to be affected by its good or evil. AS a
party it neither approves condemns slavery In the ao
sract but recognising all its rights far as they rec
ognised by the constitution 1t refers to the people of the
local government the determination of the question OF
its policy and justice In adopting this course the demo-
cratic party follows the teachings Of the founders of the
epublcavods all seconaism and carries out the true
spirit of federal compact Aye more it follows the
example Of the Divine Founder OF our Religion who when
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the system of slavery then existing in the world but left it.
like all other matters of municipal government to be de-
ermined by the people themselves in view Of their own
interests and position"
Mr. Faulkner thus happily presents the principles of the
Kansas bill in a nut shell:
1.-THE simple inquiry presented by the Kansas bill is
Will you sustain will you repudiate those principles OF
segovernment which lie at the foundation Of whole
republican system2 Shall Congress dictate TO the people
Of Kansas their internal pocysay to them whether they
shall shall not tolerate slavery shall the people deter
mine that policy for themseves This the whole ques-
ton If the people OF Kansas shall think slavery injurious
TO their prosperity let them Danish it from their soil We
will not complain If they think it calculated to promote
their social comfort and material advancement we claim
that they shall be allowed to settle that question according
to their view of their interest The right to prescribe
their internal policy and to regulate their domes
tic institutions is right which the people of this country
have claimed from earliest history 1t is right which
they srenuousy claimed in opposition to the power of the
British crown, and which they pertinacously refused to
surrender to the old when her national
independence threatened by the British armies. Look
at your colonial history When Pennsylvania con-
sented send representatives for the purpose of form
ing confederation she prescribed the limit of their pow
by the following Instructions Reserving to the peo-
pie of this colony the sole and exclusive right of regua
ting the internal and policy OF the and
upon subsequent occasion Pennsylvania expressed her
sentiments in the following emphatic language: we
mousy declare willingness TO concur in vote Of the
Congress declaring the United States free and independ-
States provided the forming of the government and
the regulation of the internal policy of this colony be
ways reserved to the people of said colony Such
the instructions given by most Of the other States to their
delegates Ny own ae-Virginia-annexed the follow
ing condition her instructions to for the declara-
ton of Independence provided that the power of form
ing governsnN for and the regulation OF the internal
concerns of the colony be left the respective colonial
legsatures Would you deny to the people of Kansas
right which you zeaously reserved TO yourselves 2
Are they less worthy of seEgovernment than you
Have they less claim than yourselves to the benefit Of those
fundamental principles of sound government which your
took such special to guard from viola
/ ton "
Mr. Faulkner gives the why tho South supports
Mr.. Buchanan
Mr.. Buchanan enjoys in very high degree the conf
dence of the people of the South. | believe that am
within bounds when say that he will certainly receive the
electoral votes Of fourteen Of the fifteen southern States Of
this Union. do not yet Despair of the vote Of Mary
land. Why is it that the South looks with much soci
ude % the election of Mr. Buchanan Is it that he has
aVowed himself in favor of the policy of the system Of fri
can slavery We know that he has not And we know
that his opponents in that section have not been idlein
paadng before the public mind extracts from his speeches
In Congress which he frankly expresses his preference
for the system Of free labor prevailing in his native
Commonwealth and in the North. To the expression Of
these opinions have taken exception because they
we're uttered in spirit Of aunt reproach TO us-with
view TO inhct wound upon our peace and
y but under circumstances which warranted the frank
and candid declaration Of his sentments Is IL that we
calculated upon the aid Of bis administration In the extern
Of slavery with any Of the Territories Of the Union
deny that any such idea has for moment ever been
entertained in the South We repudiste all interference Of
the federal government In the establishment OF slavery
deny all right In the government 10 prohibit
restrict II All parties with us without distinction demo
cratic and American, unite in denying any such power
the federal government Why then is it that the South
desires bis election will briefly the reasons TO you
The South loves this Union and desires see It perpeua
ted She knows II cannot be perpeuated without proper
observance Of the federal compact We believe that Mr
Buchanan reads the constitution Of his country Il was
read and acted upon by Jefferson, by Madison and BY
Jackson and that be will carry that instrument in the
good faith which marked the administration Of those
| lllnsirious men.
I'VE believe that he will permit the powers of the
federal government far least his executive nu
ence can prevent A. TO be perverted from their legitimate
purposes and to be used instrument Of assault upon
the interests and institutions Of the South We expect
under his administration faithful Observance Of the prin
cpes OF the compromise policy Of 1850 and Of the policy
Of the Kansas bill Of lsb4a policy which denies to Con
gess and secures to the people OF the Territories the deter
minaon OF their domestic institutions We expect
from him faithful execution Of the fugtveslave law and
full recognition Of the equality Of every member of this
oonfedeacy and Of the right Of each to an equal
participation In all Of its benefits and We be-
leve that he will make SAFE national and conser
President free from all sectional bias in favor Of the North
or Of the South that he will give full effect to every
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