The true Democrat., 1857-02-17

homer, and territorial sovereignty humbug. l understand, sir, what is meant by State sov- ereignty, and in my opinion there is no other kind of sovereignty existing in this country. Squatter sovereignty, territorial sovereignty, and popular sovereignty, (when applied to the territories, )all belong to the same category, and they are all political absurdities in my | opimon. ButI am not going to bore the Senate oy giving the reasons why think so.
 In extension of his remarks on the subject of slavery in the territories, and in conclusion of his able and comprehensive speech the speaker said:
 We of the democratic faith all agree that they may, at the proper time, settled the sla- very question for themselves. Some think it may be done sooner; but we all agree that when the people of a territory meet in convention to frame State constitution they may, in that constitution, admit or exclude slavery, as they please; and we agree, further that their deci- sion is final If Kansas comes here with oon- stitutlon made by her bona fde people, free from all outside influences, excluding slavery, there Is not democrat in either House of Congress who will not vote for her admission; and if, on the other hand, she comes with constitution similarly made toerating slavery, there Is not a democrat who will not vote for her admission. Break up your emigrant aid societies at the north, and all interference from the south will cease. Then Kansas, being left perfectly free to regulate her domestic affairs ;n her own way, may assemble her people in convention, frame herconstltutlon to suit herself, admit or exclude slavery as she pleases, and she will be welcom- ed into the Union with open arms by every trend of free institutions from the Aristook to the Rio Grande, and from the Atlantic to the tar-of Pacific. Sir, the democracy has stood for hfty years, like our ocean-bound republic The waves of faction have beaten upon it, and they have broken, in harmless nipples, at its feet. It stands to-day fit type of our glori country-the hope of the oppressed in every land, and beacon-light to the sons of freedom throughout the world. It will uphold the con- sttuton. It will preserve the | nion. It will diaappoint the tyrants of the old world and the enemies of liberty in the new. Democracy will go on conquerng and to conquer, until all parues shall confess its dominion, and the whole world be converted to the sublime truths which It teaches. This is its mission.
 We mean, Mir. President to settle this sla- very question on a firm and lasting. because on just, liberal, and constitutional bass. We mean to stop agitation we mean to give repose to the south and quiet to the whole country: We mean to rout the aboltionists and bury black republicanism sol low that the sound of Gabriel's trumpet will not reach 1t on the day of iudg- ment. This is our hope this our prayer; this our confident expectation; but if we shall be deceived in this-if 1t shall please God to pros per our enemes-if there shall be no settle ment-if agitation is kept up-if the south can have no peace-if our enemies have the power. and are resolved to use it in breaking up the Union, and tramplng the constitution under foot--then we will turn to the senator from New York, the great cheftain of his party. and the author of all our woes, and we will say to him and his infatuated allies, as Abram said to Lot: :" Let there be no strife, I pray thee. and between me and thee, and between my herds men and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren. Is not the whole land before? Separate thvself pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand then l will take the right; or if thou de- part to the right hand, then will go to the left" If this appeal shall fail to reach the heart of the senator and his allies, there will be but one alternative left us; and that an appeal to the god of battles. May Heaven in its mer- 1 cy, avert such a calamityl