Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-06
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which. it will be remembered advocated the eiee
tion of Mr.. Buchanan gives the following eAhiei
ton of the acknowledged duplioity and treaehe
nv of It's party. The frankness and inderen
dence of the Delta is more remarkable than thu
perfiay il rebukes Says the Delta:
The Washington Union, journal which, though
of,he eas, consequence in itself demands our atten
ton as political editors iuasnaeh as it Is supposed
to he sort OF clock to indicate the hour OF tn
a.v on the Democratic dial thus speaas Of speech
made not long since, by Mr. English Democrat o
Indiana.
The speech Of Nj English delivered in the House
of Representatives the 18th, which we give entire
this u,urning is able and successful 'ndic@tion o
the Northern Democracy from the combined "s'ani,s
of Know -Nothings and Black Republicans. IL wiz
be read with both pleasure aud prohl
During the delivery Of this speech, Mr. English was
;n,orrpnted by Mr. Marshs, of Kentucky, who asked
him to give his views The doctrine oil sq""uer
.overcienty Mr. Marshall said he considered thai
Mr. buchanan and Mr.. Fremont were equally uhfe-
liable on the slavery question, or, said he III other
words, the doctrine of exclusion and sqnater SOW
ereontv are TO the Stakeholder the same doctrine
precisely There stand and challenge the gentle
man or his party 10 meet me here or elsewhere upon
that proposition,
In reply, Mr. English said
am willing to coueede to him aud his party that
there is some difference between the position oeen-
pied by the Democratic party at the North and that
occupied by portion o. the Democratic party ut the
South upon the particular question of popular soyef-
eighty.
We agree that the will Of the people should be
carried out Where shall we ascertain that will =
portion of the gentlemen from the South hold thht
-. 81, 10 G4rt hp
pose of forming State constitution. believe that
is the position of Southern gentlemen generally II
is not the position of them all \ portion of them
hold, do that the tight Of people begins Mt an
earlier period--lhat this question is within their
control from the time the organic act passed and
pat into operation
Mr. English said also in reply to a question from
Mr.. Cumback
do not know man Of any party in Indiana who
is in favor OF extending the institution OF slavery But
Of the Democratic purity are willing TO allow other
people to do they please on this subject and hold
their own opinions in respect 10 u
When asked further by MIR Scott if lie DEM .raey
of Indiana recognized The legal existence Of slavery
in Kansas a, this time Mr. English replied that II
wasa question not yet settled by the couf,s, and lac
continued:
But prior TO that decision will give whit un-
derstand TO be the position q tie Democratic party
that they ~ not hoiieye that to constitution c,iss
the institution Of alavery into T,ratarF Try
think that there must hr.t lac n law riilh.h,i -.ar
recognizing The Institution besale O. Can lH,c sus
legal cXlsitbyc. Gentlemen We't rs hrrn 0sh
their SLAVES and holi them hy sntc,,,'tfe and pcru
sion q bui apprtfa1 not L. H,h lrssl rirhi -
could oyes be ,Aiuf#el ia .he eauIi-
The above t>frsasz d.sgts IL hr - aI..-.' -
pondered o,er Hsa couee Notlef loyDaIa=,
direct an indirect, lat .tuiai ga auf5ezu', M
English Is Democrats meHtsf %, tog5 ftsl iaaa,
Indiana. lie IL ole ot The fsa Da4 eattI t.f IH
Kansas act. and Vas reelected. lilo h. t,. "a
again reelected, and, having thus tajer ,assal
through the popular ordeal Is vel qualified 20 =est
for the Democracy OF Indiana This of4er bc aeH
assume, and what is the result Nlg. ~ Llt-#lAe
Union, the organ Of the Administration, present an
to come endorsing as able and success. nll Tin
dcaton of Northern Democracy" ma aafemlriati
readable for "bo'h pleasure aud pr IT. o speech
which admits that sqaaitcr sovereignty is the doc
trine of the Northern Democracy aud Of portion of
Southern Democracy that thero i. uot a man Of the
party in Indiana who is in favor of The extension al
slavery that he and his constituents do not hcief9
that slavery 90 under the Constitution into nnY
of the Territories without law admitting 1t aud
finally, n great boon, this ,indieator OF North
ern Democracy informs us that Southern gentlemen
may go into Kansas and Nebraska and hold their
slaves by sutIerance and permission but not by
such legal right as can ever be enforced in the
courts"
And has tinleed COM to this2 Isthis the mouse
which laboring mountains have brought forth Or,
rather, is this the ugly, grizzly, grinnng, hooking
monster which, after so long travail aud so much
superhuous obsterical skill and counsel, we are
called upon to baptse and eonsecrate as the eglti-
mate offspring Of the Constitution aud the pelara-
ton of independence Has the Kansas act so soon
been turned into armed adversary against the
South Shall the South drink TO the drcgs tho
poisoned chace which the central Democratic organ
commends to its lips