The Washington union., 1857-10-02
From the Barnstabe Patriot.
REMARKS OF HON b. +. HAILEIr AT THE DEM
OCRATIC STATE CONVENTION IN BOSTON SEP
TENDER 16 1857.

oA'A
TENDER 16, 1857
Hon B. f. Haett was invited to address the conven-
ton and was received with enthusiasm He said
have recently left a sick bed, and not in ply
scal condition to make speech if you were not so
weared as not be in moral condition to listen to one
but cannot refrain from making response to the
generous and friendly call you have made upon me-
have not enjoyed the honor of attending delegate
State convention for six years until to-day for though
my democratic friends have done me the honor annually
to compliment with election, have not deemedit
advisable while holding public Office under the United
States to participate in State conventions am
private in the ranks, and ready to fight with you under
our national banner of UNION North AND SOUTH to the
last at the guns, and the last shot in the locker
stand here gentlemen OF the convention as one
of you with very great pleasure because although have
declined for several years to take part in the conventions
think may say, without much assumption that left
behind me some little marks OF prominence in the form
of resolutions affirming the nationality of the democracy
of Massachusetts, The whg presses used to say that
wrote resolutions by the cord am happy to ind that,
whether not they constituted cords by measurement
they did help to form that strong cord Of Union which has
bound together the northern and southern democracy
in that bond of brotherhood that has achieved all
democratic triumphs When, after much conflict and
division among us, they became imbodied in our
State PLATFORM i had no further desire than to see
them faithfully carried out in all relations to
the democracy of the whole Union and since that time
have not been in State convention The spirit of the
same national resolutions proclaimed by Massachusetts,
conventions has since been adopted in the platforms of
democratic national conventions upon which two Pres
dents have been elected and now to-day take great
pleasure in saving that the resolutions which my friend
from Springfield has just reported from the committees
and which have been adopted with such unanimous APP
pause precisely in and substance the prnc
pies for which the national democrats of Massachusetts
have been contending for years and we can now hon
esty say to democratic brethren in all the States
that upon these principles of the Union of the States the
rights of all the States in all the Territories and the
rights of property in slaves in States and Territories un
der the constitution there is division in the ranks of
the democratic party of Massachusetts,.
Where are the who when we announced the prn-
cipcs of nationality in democratic assemblagcs used
to rise in their scctionalm and dcnounce them Where
the men who when proclaimed the equal rights of all
the States in all the Territories when affirmed for the
South as we'll the North all the rights of property
which reserved and maintained in the constitution
as the uniform rights pertaining to every old State and to
every new State coming into the Union; when we in
voked the oahs taken to support the constitution Of the
United States for the sanction of the duty of every free
State return to the slave States their fugves from la
Dor where the who then stirred up strife among
and camored for northern party to make war upon
the South? Where they nowl In the back-republi
can ranks, in the know-nothing ranks, anywhereno-
where and ready to prove false to them they
ou Thank God they not here they are not even by
false petences, any longer with the democracy We are
puged as with hyssop and made clean washed and
made e by the process which has made the democracy
of Massachusetts to-day, as it in the days of
publican fathers sound portion of the choe body of the
democratic party of the whole Union And now
stand on our national platform relying not merely upon
present numerical strength in this uneasy State of Mass
chsetts but upon the moral element of national in
tegrty fidelity to the constitution our love of the
Union and respect for the laws and conservative judi
cary expound them. This it is that makes up the
grand the noble character of the democracy of Massa
chusetts.
wish could impress upon all democrats the import
position which the democratic party of Massachusetts,
If true and constant will always command in its relations
to the party in the whole Uncn especially in its moral
influences and its power defeat northern disunon
see before my old associates veterans of the fight
of twenty years in the democratic cause, and know
friends, that you where we ever have benin
union with the democracy of the whole Union. see
aso-and il glads me to them--young men who
coming up the help of their country against sediton
and sectionasm. ! want them to study and understand
and make the ingenious young men of Massachusetts,
comprehend that simple but great principle in the cons
tuition which constitutes the fundamental principle of the
democratic party regard to slavery and in all the rea
tions of State to State and the United States to Terrific
res It is the union in government which makes us one
people Why cannot any conscientious citizen under
stand that 1t is the definition of our federal govern
ment used by Washington in his Farewell Address, THE
UNITY WHICH CONSTITUTES Us ONE PEOPLE
most remarkable expression, rarely quoted but pecu-
lary applicable to the present position of the democratic
party in its contest with fanaticism and sectonalism
Whence comes that ''uny of government which is to
cover all the States and all the territory p Solely from
the express grants of powers In the constitution given by
the States to Congress and all powers Of government
and all rights of property not there granted reserv
ed to the States and the people and upon that unty
the general government can establish and the Supreme
Court can enforce laws only that universal touching
the domestic concerns and inherent rights of the States
and of the people of all the States touching their rights
of property in the Territories therefore you
for the old States who made the constitution