Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-04-07


you Southern gentlemen have submitted
TO such an Ouirsgel
Mr. Hammond IF we. as slivehnldtrs,
bad refIaiucd form voting we would have
submitted until it was changed in the due
forms uf law.
Seyeral Senatofs--Thai's 80 exactly.
Mr Douglas fhe Senator assumes what
is not in evidence.
Mr. Hanmonl--Ir: IS universally stated.
Mr TOo,nbs--That is.noI the lfue state
Oflhe matter.
Mr. Douglas retor,td that it was all as
siatedl lie regarded the principle invol.
we'd "a vital. asfundsmehtai, and its yio-
latiOn IA teatli.bow to States Rights aud
states SoyeIeiguiy. Ao1eoyer.s sid Ne.
il You adult KaGsas undef The Lecdinptoa
Constitution, you admit also her fraudu.
lent Government. The false returns are
proved ut Deeware CrOssings, Kiekapoo,
Shawnee and elswhere, showing three
thousand fraudulent votes. The Senate
will remember the effort he male 10 pro.
cure an investigation into the alleged
frauds. Oan any man tell whether weave
admitting with this constitution men who
at on election threw these fraudulent votes
or those who were lega y elected by. the
popular voteY Que day it WAS this ru-
mor, another that, and so on alternately,
like chills and fever. He here quoted
from Mr., Calhoun's letter in Yesterdays
Star, saying lAat he thinks the Delaware
Crossings give the Legislature to the Fee
State men. 1t was Of no importance what
Mr.. Calhoun thought but the facts are
important. as on them depend the integri
ty of the vote. AS Mr.. Calhoun is 40
sent, il is satisfactory for the depose Pres
ldent TO address letter to the editor of
the Star. stating bis private opinion
lie would like to know what the Presidents S
pro tenn opinion il, aud whether the Pres.
ldent pro TEN has not already issued the
certificates to pro slavery officers, while
Mr. Cahouns opinion is that the Free
State party have t3 Where is the Pres
dent pro TEN? Is he too, fugi i've from
Justice, and it he is, what conclusion have
a majority ofthe committee of seren ami
we'd al? Can we not get the President
pro TEN also TO write letter to the Star
or the committee Of seven? Were it moi
for the Slavery question, would there be
any objection to send this constitution
back. He tDouglasl would send it back,
and lie would say to his Southern frien Is
that he would act on this question irrespect.
i've to The subject OF Slavery, provided it
were submitted to fair vote, with no for
gerry, no fraud, no concealment, and would
abide by the result. Yet another point.
lie rarely referred to the course of news.
paper, but the course of the Washington
Union is 50 extraordinary that it reads him
out of the Democratic party, and keeps
reading him out,and as lift were not enough
it reads him out again with the words Of
renegade, DC, and other polite terms
He had no vindicaton to make for his
course to The Washington Umon. His
course for go years shows his attachment
to principle. But the publisher of the In.
ion has personal grievances. When he
was nominated for public printer,he Doug
las declined to vote for him,and since then
there have been these vindictve attacks
Mr.. Douglas here read the editorial of the
9Th November last. That, said he, was
the first artlcIe giving in the adhesion of
the Union to the Lecompton constitution.
Since then every man is branded as a Free
Soler, Abolitionist and fanatic, who does
not subscribe to the articles Of faith that
the citizens Of Slave States have rights in
Free States, and that the citizens OF those
Free States have not-that a citizen Of
Virginia or Kentucky may come into Hi.
uois with one hundred slaves. If this be
the creed of the Democratic party, he to-
tally dissented from it. The State of IIIi-
nois has equal sovereignty with TIE State
of Virginia to regulate her o~n domes ic
institutions. He recognized the right of
the Slave States to regulate their own do
mestic affairs and was prepared to perform
all his duties toward them, subject to the
constitution of tho United States But
when you 90 higher than the constitution,
and above the constitution he could not a,
gree. In that article ia the Unicn.he saw
blow struck at States rights aud at the
principles on which the Democratic party
nds,and on which he hoped it will stand.
On seeing these doctrines promulgated he
declined to vote for the editor of the Un.
ion for Public Printer, and had been read
out of the Democratic party every other
day since. Who, Sir. has abandoned the
Democratic platform?-He who stands by
states rights or lie who would subyert the
Republic and consolidate the government
into an empire? Mr.. Douglas then recap.
itulated the principles of the Democratic
platform on which lie and his friends
fought the Presidential campaign of 1852,
and re- asserted his adheIauee there to-
Our government, he said, was founded on
a principle of uniformity, but in diversity
Our fathers saw that the institutions which
would suit the granite bills of New Hanp-
shire would not suit the rice fields of Geor-
gia, and what would do for the hills and
wales of Virginia would not be appropriate
for Massachusetts. Hence they ma h
diversity of State Sovereignty giving to
each til, management Of lis own instiIu-
ticns. There was no such quality in SIa-
very ss the higher law oyenides the con.
stituton. When the higher law was first
introduced it caused great outcry, and
now he { Douglass) is read out Of the par
ty three times a week for denying it.
In conclusion he would ask who made
this question of Kansas with the Lecomp'
ton Constitution a party question, test