The true Democrat., 1857-01-27

E su nnon A State institution, and was di- |# ps to interfere with the municipal regula- # tu'of af sovereign States. Jefferson saw and
 .9olJ when Congress drew that cursed line ioV tba map of the confederacy, the new Ilrn Ip and fearful danger Again, in a later K ;I tbe Western Cass, at that time leader s8 Ps aomocracy, was not unconscious of It's lm- E o' uU rce and sounded the alarm through the
 md holdly asserting the inviolability Of south
 obts under the constitution. CasS was Tn
 ' 'n, Senate sleepless sentinel upon the outer
 ,nau of the constitutional fortress Henry Clay
 wal o' Lo nriyacy of his Ashland home, when
 was i' startled the reposing giant into active
 tue S',,a anI he said to Kentucky, send me back
 li'c 1,;oa arU said to Kentucky, send him back to
 the 1a,L n"S'o senate, that his clarion notes may
 the ieus sir, the turbulence of the storm and as- :. asA'' aosforing peace and concord to a dis
 sI'' III eountrv. These veteran leaders sat
 uaceq q.ogethsr-laid their withered hands to-
 ooHa .Ss, and settled once more this mischief.
 sIi saIino oneston in accordance with the good
 .J nlan of our fathers. (Cheers.)
 And then came the time to settle Kansas and Nshraska. The abolition murmur rose again; a,d who is he conspicuous in the breach, a cb,mpion of the constitutional rights of the .onth-bold, impassioned and indomnitab,e? A san of the west, the gallant Douglas of llli- k ros Cheers. It was he that in 1851, as # senate chairman of the committee on terrlto- 4 ries, used the language in his report, that It # vas the true intent and meaning ot the act, & not to interfere with or exclude slavery, but to leave the people of the territory to decide the $ question for themselves, under and m accord kN ance with the constitution" why, t'ls was AE the political faith of the revolutlon else why N war with the king? The long struggle was maintained on the tented field and m continent # tal congress halls, because George III assumed E to make laws for the colonies coerclng them M into measures of his royal pleasure; and the black republicans are equally guilty, in that S4 they arrogate similar despotic power over the territories Our fathers agreed ln the constl- s tutional compact, that each colony should be sovereign in its municipal legislation, and each the peer of the other in State ndepenednce. Is the venerable example worthy oi lmltatlon M If so, then by adherence to democratic prlncl- pes alone can it be strictly and wisely followed. Yes said Governor Willard the question was settled long ago--this question of usurpatory 2 dominion, above the authority of the constltu- ton. Our fathers argued it at Bunker Hill, Trenton, Monmouth and Saratoga-not exclu- & svely with our weapons, but with the necessary aid of the sword and wars armament; and at
  in its favor. [Applause.l
 lie would see-thc democracy of the north would witness-that the constitutional rights sf the south were maintained intact in the ter ritories and that unwarrantable federal inter- ference should not be permitted. In doing so, they would but emulate the patriotic action of the revolutionary sres towards George Ill., {Cheersl For himself, he would be willing shat his son should go to Kansas with the son I Of the southern slaveholder and amlcably con- stitute such government as should suit them Sselves. Loud cheers.
 Southern Know Nothings may tell you lob served the Governor, that the democracy Of the north are opposed to territorial extension. H. is not so. They were in favor of the acqui- stion, for the obvious reason that they desired new and opulent markets for the products of a teeming soil If Spain desired to sell Cuba, the 4west would contribute her share of the two Alundred millions purchase money. Or if des- rotism became intolerablc and revolution fol- Bowed, the democracy of the Union would go Ito the assistance of the oppressed, even as France aud other nations gave aid to revolu- tonary America. [Cheers.l Therefore, he would say, make if you please, the honorable acquisition of Cuba plank in the democratic platform, and the true patriotism of the north
  ment.
 Would to God [fervidly exclaimed Gov Willard that southern Know Nothings would come back to their allegiance to the con- stitution. Surely, the brave southerner was not frsid of that once terribly formidable person age the Pope of Rome! A laugh. Where e'snd when, in this country, were the Catholics dSloyal 10 the constitution, or faithess to the n al ,f ait < Nas not an instance. Better look to the fidelity of other churches north, whose allegiance had, sof late, assumed aquestionable form, and whose @ Iupits were degraded into rostrums for the fa- naticaI displays of clerical demagogues. In his own section of country, the Catholics ranged under the banner of the constitution, and the priesthood of that church left political ques- tous to the secular mind, and tongue and pen. 4Nhy it was Protestant England that laid the etieayy and ;ntolerable yoke upon the necks ot bur fathers, and it was Catholic France that aided. in irving our political ietters. Unpalata- be as 1t ght be, the truth belonged to history and mere justice demanded its assertion. And Ngth all the imputed power of Catholic priest hood over the mind of man, he, for one, could leyer believe, by the most stringent exercise 0! that power, they could induce commuuicants ' sto believe that Heaven was to be propltiated by treason to the country of their birth or their loption. Cheers. This glorious land was the peculiar asylum of liberty of conscenc. During six thousand years of bigotry and Prescription upon this foot-stool of God, but eighty years past had witnessed this one epot-thjs confederation of States-where man could worship the Creator in union with con- Science, and go his way to Heaven in that man. ner most grateful to bis own feelings. And was the reign of freedom wearisome? Would men rstrograde to times of kingly dominion and religious persecution. Oh, he would ab- sjure the Know Nothing to break the unhallow- ed bond that bound hm to the midnight con- cave of the lodge room; the black republican to break the goddess compact that welded him to the abolition school, and both rewrite the common compact as it was written by our ia E thers. Applause.
 E As he had said yesterday, his hope was in the valley of the Mississippi. They were one people, from the Canada line to where the Ms sisspp disembogues its waters in the Gulf The west would never be laggard in defending any ieoparded right of the south. The sons of Mississippi, he well knew, would pour theii blood out freely to protect the jeweled daugh- ter of the Pacific, as they would draw the sword h the old donlnion's hour of peril. Cheers. lt was for the south, then, to unite in crushing out Know Nottingham, and the trt democracy of the west aud the north would see that the sboGtonsts were kept harmless. To accom- pish this, no new platform needed. The Constitution was magnificent platform upon which all could stand, and by which every light and every interest could be plared ur with strength invulnerable, except to the hand of Omnipotence
 How proudly would he go back to his own < 6tate, could he tell them that all the soutt were friends to the constitution-tell the hardy he industrious Irish and German born citizens NhoSe tolls have given greatness to the west that the repentant Know Nothing had entered his southern lodge-room, dark and dank, kneel- ed down and prayed God to ght our white singed ocean ships with stalwart conquerors of be soil, friends of the south and enemies oi