Daily national Democrat., 1858-08-18
senator Douglas at HONG.


9Th OF July last. When be made his appear.
ance, he was greeted by the firing of cannon
and the cheering of the assembled multitude.
lie stood upon the balcony of the fremont
House, and delivered one of the greatest
speeches that ever rolled from the lips of an
American orator. We give the following
extract from his speech, in order to show
how broad is the difference between the po-
sition of Mr. Douglas and the position of the
Administration party in Illinois, and in this
State. Read it and then compare it with
the Administration Lecompton Platform late.
ly issued at Sacramento which delares in
effect that minorities must govern and that
the people at large are to have "no say" in
matters of government unless their so-caled
Representatives consent to it:
What has brought you together with
unanimity and cordiality never before ex-
celled if equalled, on any occasion? ! have
not the vanity to believe that it is any per.
sonal compliment to me- 1t is an expression
OF your devotion to that great principle of
selfgovrrnment to which my life for many
years has been, and, in the whole of
the future, will be- devoted If there is any
one principle dearer and more sacred than all
others in free Governments, it is that which
asserts the right of every people to form and
adopt their own fundamental lows, and to
manage and regulate their own internal af-
fairs and domestic institutions.
When found an effort being made, during
the recent session of Congress, to force Com
stitution upon the people of Kansas against
their will, and to force that State into the
Union with a Constitution which the people
had rejected by ten thousand majority, felt
bound, as man of honor, as a Representa-
tive of Illinois-bound by every considera-
tion of duty, fidelity, and of patriotism, to
resist to the utmost of my power the con-
summation of that fraud We did resist it,
and resisted it successfully, until the attempt
was abandoned. We forced them to refer
that Constitution back to the people of Kan
sas, to be accepted or rejected, as they should
decide at an election which is fixed for the
first Monday in August. 1t is true that the
mode of reference and the form of submiss-
ion were not such as | could sanction with
my vote, for the reason that it Disseminated
between free States and slave States-pro-
viding that if they came in with the Lecolnp-
ton Constitution they could be received with
$4,000; but if they chose to demand another
Constitution more consistent with their sen
timents aud their feelings, they should not be
received into the Union until they had 93,-
420 inhabitants. CCheers
did not consider that mode of submission
fair, for the reason that any election is a
mockery which is not free, any election is a
fraud upon the rights of the people which
holds out inducements for affirmative votes
and penalties for negative votes, cheersl
but while | was not satisfied with the mode
Of submission, while | resisted that mode to
the last, demanding a fair, Just, free mode
of submission; STILL when the law passed it
placed it within the power of the people of
Kansas, at that election, to reject the Lecomp
ton Constitution, and then make out another
in harmony with their opinions and princi-
pies instead. | do not believe that either
the penalties on the one hand, or the induce
ments on the other, are going to force that
people to accept Constitution to which they
are irreeoncilably opposed. All can say is,
that If their votes can be controlled by such
considerations, all the sympathy that has
been expended upon them has been misplaced,
and ali the efforts made in defence of their
rights of self government were made in an
unworthy cause if they are to be influenced
IN the result by these considerations
Hence, my friends | regard that Lecomp.
ton battle as having been fought and the vic
tory won, because the arrogant demand for
the admission under the Lscompton Consttu-
ton unconditiOually, whether the people
wantedit or not, was abandoned, and the prin
ciple which reco lnizes the right of the peo-
pie to decide for themselves was substituted
IN its place. My friends, while | devoted my
best energies, all my energies, mental and
physical, to the vindication of that great
principle; and while its result has been such
as will enable that people to come into the
Union with such q Constitution as they de-
sired, yet the credit of this great moral VIC
tory is to be divided among a large number
of men Of various and different political
creeds [cheers | rejoiced, when found
in this great conte t, the Republican party
coming up manfully and sustaining the prin-
ciple that the people of each Territory when
coming into the Union, had a right to decide
fir themselves whether slavery should or
should not exis. within their limits.
had seen the time when that principle
was controverted. had seen the time when
all parties did not recognize the right of the
people to have slavery or freedom-to toler-
ate or prohibit slavery as they chose-but
this power was claimed by the Congress Of
the United States to the exclusion of the
decision of the people of the Territory, and
VIXEN found, upon the Crittenden-Montgom.
cry bill, the Republicans and Americans Of
the North Joining with, and | may say, too,
some glorious Americans and Old-Line Wings
from the South, [applause,] like Crittenden
and Bell, Applause when saw these gen
tlemen uniting with a portion of the Democ-
racy to carry out and vindcate the right of
the people to decide whether slavery should
or should not exist within their limits, | was
reioiced within my secret SOUL for | saw an
indication that the American people, when
they came to understand the principle, would
give it their cordial support
The Crittenden bill was as fair as perfect
an exposition of the doctrine of Popular Sow
ereignty as could be carried out Ly any bill
that man ever devised and it proposed to re
fer the Lecompton Constitution back to the
people of Kansas, with the right to accept it
or reject it, as they pleased, att fair election,
to be held in pursuance of law and i'll the
event they rejected it and formed another in
its stead, then they became State under the
Const tuition of which they approved. The
bill was Just in all its provisions. | gave it
my cordial support, and was rejoiced when
found that it had passed the House of Rep
resentetives, and for time | entertained the
hope that it would have passed the Senate.
fregard, therefore. the great principle of
Popular Sovereignty as having been vindica-
ted and made triumphant in this land as
permanent rule of the public policy in the
organization of Territories and the admission
of new States.
A Coon JuDGE.-California is defined to
have another able and good Judge placed on
the supreme Bench. All parties concede
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