Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-15
The Vice President Misrepresented

The Observer and Reporter repeats, what the same paper had been guilty of last fall, an at- tempt to place the Vice President in false DO. sltlon, by misrepresenting his speech at Tippe cahoe, last September. In silly article de. signed to stigmatize the administration and the democratic party as allies of the abolitionists, 1t says:
 "Mr. Breckinridge standing on the same platform with John Van Buren, proclaimed at Tippecanoe last fall that the democratic party was not in favor of extending the area of sa- very"
 Why did not the editor publish what Mir. Breckinride did say at Tippecanoe? His whole speech was in accordance with the published platform of the democratic party, and was de- signed to assure the people that he belonged to no organization which proposed by Congress to legislate slavery into or out of any Territory of the United States. The following is an ex- | tract
 "The speaker had heard it charged that the | fifteen slave States were conspirng to obtain entire possession of the general government, with view of bringing its power to bear to extend and perpetuate their peculiar insitu- tions. Gentlemen, there has been no such at- tempt. I am connected with no party that has for its object the extension of slavery nor with any to prevent the people of State or ter ritory from deciding the question of its exs- tence or non-existence with them for them | selves"
 In September last, that paper published the l following garbed extract from the speech of Mir. Breckinrdge at Hamilton, Ohio:
 "The democracy was also equally obliged to array itself against the so-caed republican party of the United States. They charge us with being the pro-slavery party, and say that the object of that party is to extend slavery over the territories of the United States Eel low-citizens it is not so. have no connection with any party which proposes to extend sla- very over the Territories or anywhere else"
 This garbled extract was taken from it's con- nection, and published with the hope, doubt less, that it would make the impression that Mir. Breckinridge was personally opposed to the introduction of slavery into Kansas The editor knew this to be untrue, but did not seem to regard fairness so far as to publish the fol- lowing, which was in immediate connection with the above:
 " But 1 do belong to an organization which says our constitution was made to secure certain rights to all our citizens, and among those the right of all our people to form their own institutions and their own laws, subject | only to the constitution of the United States know your opinions in Ohio. 1 know you are satisfied with your institutions and the state of society here; and has Kentucky any objec- ton to your society? Not at all She will not interfere. Would it not be breach of harmony and concord for her to do so? But the difference Is, she does not want the com mon government of all the States to legislate for any particular State or Territory" These extracts contain the substance of all MT. Brecknridge said at Hamilton and Tippe- canoe; and the most malignant partisan editor will fail to find anything in either of the speech eS which can be construed into an opposition to the adoption of slavery by the people in any Territory. The doctrine of non-ntervention by the general government, and the ri ght of the people of the territories to establish sla- very if they choose, was fully indorsed.-Ky. ,SatesDa1n