The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-07-02


strife until he felt bound to come out from his
retirement into the Senate of the United States
the scene of his greatest triumphs and proud
est services--to see If he, by his age, his expert
ence and his counsel, could not do something to
calm the troubled waters and restore peace and
quiet to a distracted country. From the mo-
ment when Mr.. Clay appeared in the Senate,
all party strife was hushed. Patriotic feeling
subdued 6ctious resistance. Mr.. Clay became
the leaderof all the Union men of the country.
He had the great, the immortal Cass whom you
have heard tonight, for bis right-hand man
and God like Webster for the left and then
there ranged round him all the patriotic Union
men, Wings and Democrats, united by COM
mon object, animated by common spirit, and
that was to restore peace to the countIy-to
quell the sectional strife that AbOlitionism and
Freesoilism had produced, in consequence of de-
feating the proposition of Mr.. Buchanan to ex-
tend the Missouri line to the Pacific Ocean,
For five long month, VIC assembled in the coun-
Gil room each morning, to plan the operations
for the day, to head off faction and to suppress
the combination against the institutions of the
country-and there we arranged, step by step,
the propositions until they resulted in the a.
doption of the measures known as the compro-
mise measures of 1850. You all remember with
what shouts and rejoicings the passage of these
measures were received throughout the country.
You all recollect the great meeting you held in
Philadelphia composed of Wings and Demo-
Gratis, and Union men of all parties, who appro-
we'd of the settlement which was made by these
measures Of that vexed question. And now leI
nae remind you, my friends, that among the
prOudest productions of that meeting therein
fact the chiefOrnament of that mecting-is the
letter of James Buchan IN to the meeting con-
graduating the country upon the restoration of
peace, by the establishment Of the great princi-
pies of the Compromise measures of 1850
Thus VIC find that Mr. Buchanan was among the
first to approve of these measures. He had been
for the Missouri line; so had l. We tried to
carry it out and were voted down. Failing in
that, we took the next best measure, and lortu-
natcly for the country, that measure was return
to the true principles of the Constitution of the
United States as the great Washington and
Madison, and Hamilton, and Franklin, and 9TH
er sagcs framed it in that call. In 1950-having
abandoned all those patch work compromises
which were outside of the Constitution-Jamcs
Buchanan has stood firm and immovable by
these principles In 1854 it became my duty
to report bills to organize Kansas and Nebraska
on the principles laid down in 1850, endorsed by
the Wings and endorsed by the Democracy
and sanctioned by Mr.. Buchanan in his letter to
the Philadelphia ratification meeting-and |
brought in the Nebraska bill in the form that
it now stands upon the statute book. Cheers.
That bill passed the Senate by majority of the
Whig party then in that body; also by maj Or
lty of the Democratic Senator's; receiving the
votes of majority of all the Southern Senators
and also a majority Of all the Northern Sena-
tors; and yet we are told that the country was
betrayed in the passage ofthat bill.
A voice-No such thing.
f Mr.. Douglas resuming-"B Betrayed by whom?
Betrayed by majority of the North-betrayed
by a majority of the South-bctrayed by the
emocracy-betrayed by majority of the
whgs-and that too in carrying out principle
to which every whig and every democrat two
years previously had pledged his honor to carry
out in good faith. The fact is, that these old
line democrats who stood immovable by the
principles of that bill were true to their pledge,
tr,,a tc tbn;r int trun 70 al
democratic principles which we all love and
cherish, and those wings, too, then and now,
stand firmly and proudly by those same princi-
, pies embraced in the Nebraska BILL Stand
: where Clay stood-whcre Webster stood-by
the principles that were consecrated by the
, death of Clay and in the grave of Webster
, Tremendous cheering The old line Whge
/ are now asked to abrogate, to abandon the faith
3 of their party. They are asked to repudiate
| the principles of Clay, when yet the grass is
hardly grown over his grave-they are asked to
i repudate the great constitutional principles Of
Webster, while yet his family are wearing the
l weeds of mourning, and they are asked to do
this in order to join those who not only despised
| the Wing leaders, but denounce Washington
and Jefferson, and Madison, and all the
} great patriots of the past, in consequence Of
their having lived in the Southern instead o
| the Northern section of the country. 1t is
e simply proposition to be decided whether we
shall be governed by sectional lines or constitu-
: tional principles The policy of the abolition.
: lists is to array the North against the South
. section against section-until civil war and
5 disunion shall be the consequence. l ask you
are you prepared to engage in such controversy
/ Are you prepared to involve your hands in q
S brothers blood.
{ Voices-Ncver! Never Never!
Mr.. Douglas-"Did our fathers of the revolu.
c ton make any distinction between Northern
} and Southern army?
No!
Y Mr.. Douglas-"When they made the Consti.
: tuition was there any line drawn between Nor
n thern and Southern statesman, or between
S Northern and Southern patriot. and are we now
It when the Constitution is assailed, to inquire
9 whether it has been assailed on its Southren or
s its northern border? What matters it to me il
f that great instrument is assailed, whether it bt
0 upon time that affects the lights of the South
0 or the rights Of the North? 1t is enough for
/ me to know that the great palladium Of Ameri-
, tcan liberty has been rudely touched by sacri-
t ligious hand. Task if a foreign enemy should
t land an army here to invade our country, woe
e a . q