Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-12-29
zpmehbur0 1'ir9imiam.
Menday Mornins. Dcccm'r 30. 1886.


bar.- and tell how che people were cheated by
III. Democracy. Col. Humphrey Marshall. while
defending the position of Mr.. Fillmore daring
the campaign. violently assaied by the
Southern Democrats. and he very quietly and
gracefully threy the squaiter sovereignty bomb
shell into the Democratic camp. II produced
terrible commosion. Col Marshall said he uu-
derstood the position Of the American and Re-
publican parties. but he did not believe there
a Democrat in the House who could make state
ment which would be acquiesced in by the Dem
ocratic party North and South on the subject Of
the right of the people to govern themselves in
the Territories. lie showed that the Northern
and Southern Democracy occupied contradictory
positions in regard TO the power Of Congress over
slavery in the Territories, and tina, side sd-
yooated squatter sovereignty aud free Kansas
and the other side repudiated them. His speech
ELECTED unusual attention and kept the Demo.
cratic leaders very busy defending, explaining.
and Jumping about from one thing TO another
ill they got into regular snarl among them.
selves.
In this little scrimmage among the national
Democracy, some things were bur,ed out that
we're never intended 10 be known 10y the people.
Mr.. Case had jus, made speech in the Senate
in faror Of sesa,;er sovereignty. aud Mr. keiti.
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he understood that ueter the Congress OF the United
State nor Territorial Legislature had a right to
pfchibil slavery in Territory Another portion OF
the party beeyed that that right was inherent IN a
Territorial Legislature
Mr. Marshall replied that the answer was lust such
one as had been gwen Tor the past four years. All
that be desired Was that gentlemen should SO take
their portions IS 70 enable the people both Of the
North and the South TO understand precisely where
they stood II the Democratic party went before the
people Of the North with the declaration in their
mouths that they better FrccsoiIcrs than the
Republicans themselves, and before the people of the
South with the assertion that they were opposed to
the d. etrine Of popular sovereignty, he only desired
that this fact should be made manifest the coun-
try
Nj Smith, of Tennessee, desired the gentleman to
point TO an instance where any portion of the Demo-
cintc party had claimed TO be better Frccsoers than
the lieputlc
NJ. Grow, ofPennsylyania, desired, with the con-
sent of the gentleman from kentucky TO reply to the
gentleman from Tennessee, by reading some extracts
from paper which bore NJ the head Of its columns
the names OF BurhanHn and Breckinridgc lie re
ferred 10 the Montrose Democrat, paper published
in his district lie then read several extracts from
the paper, TO the effect " If there are any miserable
doughiaces in the American Congress Mr. Grow ID
OF them = that Mr. Grow voted TO plant slave.
~ IN free Terriiur, the Democracy rcpud,ts him
for the artn &c.
Mr. Marshall then read from speeches OF soma, orr
Trumhall and feSsenacu 10 prove that ia the North
the Democracy claimed 10 be much opposed 20
slavery eN,ension the Republican party lie said
that the issue in the late election WIS the doctrine of
the hansas-Nebrsska bill lie desired to know Of
Southern Democrat II senator Mason announced the
philosophy upon winch they had tfiump hcd when he
declared that The principle Of the Nebraska act was
" thai the people OF a Territory, when they organic
themselves or are organized under law into a lcgis-
latye body have the right 10 determine for them
selves whether The institution OF slavery should ex
ist among them or not while n Territory
Mr.. Quiiman oi Mississippi, dlssentcd from Mr. Ma
son, not believing hat the people of u Terrtory pos
sessed sovereignty It any kind until that sovereignty
delegated by the States through Congress- under
the power deegttea % Congress TO almtnev states
into the Union.
Mr. MoMallin OF Virginia, WAS unders TODD to say
that thcspeech of Mr.. Mason, reported, was not
correct. lie would tell The gentleman from Kentucky
that every member from the State Of Virginia lcpu-
Inc a,F..
mnlgaied in that speech.
Mr., Marshall replied thlt he happened to be present
when the speech delivered and that il was spn-
substantially ms written, aud with precision that
left no DOUBT upon his mind that the gentleman who
spoke II undersiood and VAS expressing has own SEN
tmepts.
Mr.. McNuilin Informed the gentleman from Ken
lucky that he had called upon the Senator from Vr-
ginia since lac had made the speech ia question, and
that thai gentleman denied and repudated the doc
trine of sqpater sovereignty.
Mr., Marshall argued further to show that the Dem
ocra,ie party differed TO the construction be put
upon the Nebraska bill in conclusion declaring that
he did not believe that Congress had right to ex.
cude slaVe from Territory establish /; there
in.
Mr.. Orr. of South Carolina inquired Of the gentle
nan from Kentucky whether. il he had been a mem.
Der OF the last Congress he would have voted for the
Kansas Nebraska bill
Mr.. Marshall replied that, with the Southern con-
struction he would have voted for it, but that with
theNorthern construction he would have voted agaiust
it.
Mr. Orr said that II not for the Democratic par
ty to construe the Kansas Nebraska act. That was
question Tor the judicial tribunals of the country TO
decide and he would not be driven from his con.
strncon OF the bill merely because others chose TO
dne IRON MIN as TO Ills proper interpretation lie
frankly admitted that there was difference Of opin-