Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-06-26
From the Chicago Daily Times, June 10th.


The distinguished speaker commenced by stating
the reasons that induced him 10 rego his determine
ton of not addressing his constituents during the
recess of Congress, and said that request coming
from such distinguished source, he did not think
he had right to decline, especially as he always
recognized the right of the people, any time to
call upon their public servants for their opinions up
on any of the great political questions upon which
they had to pass in Judgment. His views were al
vays freely given and fearlessly acted upon, and
TO be taken for Just what they were worth and
no more Upon the Kansas question he had little 10
say. His opini ons on that question were well known
and he had nothing to add, except that subsequent
experience and reflection had confirmed him in the
correctness of the judgment he had so often advanced
in the Senate and before the people
| He spoke of the fairness and justice of the law
giving the people al opportunity of expressing their
honest convictions the sub ect of slavery in con-
siutionaI manner, by means Of constitutional con
uention soon to meet to decide that and all other an
portan matters connected with the future of the new
Slate of Kansas. The people of that beautiful Ter
rtory ould soon speak. We would soon have, he
had no doubt free and quiet expression of opinion,
nv means of Ire elective franchise from that SILENT
but most certain weapon OF tree peope--th- ballot
| box. Should the enemies of hat mode Of settling
the much vexed question of slavery in that territory,
blindy and obstinatey refuse to exercise the rights
assured them by the laws of Congress, upon their
heads and theirs alone, will rest the responsibility
For his part, he satisfied ht democratic party IN
Congress had done their duty, and be was equally
well satisfied that the democratic party in the Ter
rtorv of Kansas would do theirs in manner graft
flying to the heart of every friend of the Constitution
and The Union.
He next alluded 10 the decision Of the Supreme
Court in the bred Scott He said before the
opinion of the Court was regularly and legally pro
mugated upon the mere newspaper report, that such
decision had been made, fierce onslaught had been
made, not only upon that honored tribunal colec-
lively but the personal and private characters of the
Judges were bitterly and Indignantly assalled and
vilfed. Even the venerable and noble Chief JUS.
tice, who for forty years had governed the country
and the bench in his capacity as la" giver this is
an obvious error in The report, even he, with the
SHOWS OF eighty winters upon his venerable head.
and the experience of nearly century OF W sdom and
| learning he, than whom purer patriot, and ADLER
lurst or better Citizen does not and never has lived,
this man so high and pure in his great Office, was
selected by these malicious archers who DEFY all law,
for their most envenomed shafts and their most wick
ed and malignant enmity. After passing high and
beautiful eulogium upon the other judges and des-
cantins upoG the terrible results that must certainly
should the reasonable counsels of the leaders
of the Republican party be followed, he asked,-
| What is there TO Justify sucn course :" We are
vaun'ngly told in all the Republican papers that a
tree people 10 rise in the esy of their strength
and resist at all hazards the application of the deci
sion in this rule of law in this country
He adhered 10 the doc..r that this government is
government of laws, and every free and patriotic cit
zen IS hound TO uphold the supremacy OF the laws a
all hazards and against all opposition, come from
what quarter it may. In such a contest, poltca
parties must divide between the friends of the Co2s
tuition and the laws, and the enemies of the law
When that contest comes he had faith to believe
that fully nine Tennis of the American people would
be found rallying under our glorious banner of the
stars, and battling for the inesmabIe besSing q
that fathers batiled fora Constitutions Coun
try-and Government of Laws. Beneath such
flag, with the Constitution and the supremacy of TIT
laws emblazoned on lis glittering folds.
Where breathes the foe but falls before U.s.
With freedoms soil beneath cur feet,
Ard freedoms banner waving DER us.''
If the Republican party desired to force such
contest upon Us, in Gods name let it come +! The
Democratic party, and the honest and rejecting c
zens of all parties, would rally to the rescue
| He reviewed the main points of the decision al
length and said there substantially but two
propositions in the decision. First, The Supreme
Court of the United States has decided that negro
cannot be citizen of this Union and, Secondly,
That the act of March 1920 commonly called The
Missouri Compromise, unconstitutional and
therefore void, before it was taken from the statute
books by the passage of the Kansas Nebraska act
He, the author OF that act, and, consequently of the
reT cal of the Missouri Compromise line, had left the
decision OF the question to the people, and the Judges
of The Supreme Court The decision of the people had
been ratified at the pcls in the triumphant election
of Mr.. Buchanan to the Presidency upon that very
Supreme Court, the highest tribunal of the law So
far as he was concerned his sin extended as far as
the repeal of unconstitutional restriction, and no
farther, and in that repeal he had been emphat
caly sustained and endorsed by the people and the
Court. But The Republican patty say The decision is
Infamous and must not be obeyed. Here is treason
most foul. What, he asked is their object in making
the negro citizen To make him your equal and
mine. He was thankful The Ame lean people were not
so lost TO all feelings of patriotism and love of country,
as to &c prepared 10 resist the constitutional aulhori-
y OF the country merely order to SerUe negro equal
ty 10 do this, the laws of THIS and every oher State
IN the Union must be reversed. 1t would be, in fact
making illinois, situated as she u.s. negro colony,
instead of free State inhabited by white men,
You must strike the word qyhte" from the consti-
tuition OF your State; and what then The negro
becomes your equal your equal in everything
Your equal the polls, your equal at the public ia.
bes' your equal in the jury box, your equal to be.
come candidate for the Legislature, Congress, the
GoVernorship-his children will be the equal OF
yours in the public schools Nay, more, make him a
citizen and you give him the right to marry your
daughter and poIlute your blood. These things the
Supreme Court by their decision have said cannot
and must not be. YETI the Republican party Say that
decision is Infamous Their opposition TO that just
and upright decision is reasonable, infamous, and
olsgracetul to the age in which we live.
/ 100 speaker next sdverted to the meaning of the
phrase in The Declaration of Independence that cal
men were created free and equal,' about which
" bleeding Kansas 50 shreks 80 loud upon the slump
He proved conclusively, and TO the satisfaction Of
every person presen', that thirteen slave holding
! colonies, in throwing off the shackes of tyranny
from Great Britain, meant by that declaration, that
the colonists, up to that moment the subjects of
foreign power, were, and of right ought 10 be flee
and equal; that British subjects, born or residing in
America, entitled to the rights and priv.
leges, as though they had been born in England -
uaH fhn eli nj, &c 4bot;