Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-09-15

DER patriotic and eloquent Vice President,
Jno =. Breckenridge, recently made ono OF his
powerful specchct before his fcllow-ci,zens oil
florence KY, on tho political disputes Of the
day. We have only room for the following shor'
extract:
The Kansas question was but an episode
Tho CO arse pursued by the Republican party re'
7ayiiu, Kansas was but an incident in tho policy
Of that party which has now the overshadowine
r,li.icai power in the North The purposes oil
shat party were broader and deeper than ress-
t>nco 20 the Administration in Kansas is betok-
snci Its policy was certainly to prevent the ad-
mi ,sOn of any moro slave States into the Union,
and Ultimately abolitonize all the States. That
this was the policy Of the party, was inevitable
from its antecedents. Logically it could not be
Otherwise. Here the speaker gave general re-
view cf the slavery question up to lS2o-up 20
which time slave Gnd.free States had been admit
ted unfortunately, and when Intervention
against slave States commenced.
The Wilmot Proviso movement, and the reac.
tion that followed were rehearsed, and it was re-
lGtci how the enti-slavery continent OF the
North had been broadening, deepening and rush
inr in a more rapid current The people of Ken
tuekv, he thought, had not appreciated the scope
and force of the anti slavery movement. The
tho MON, unless the National Democracy wera
tNo stronger No party but the Democratic
could withst nd it anywhere. 1t was, as an or
gau'zation, strong, compact, earnest, resolute
,0j noperul. And darkly deceived were those
g'a thought that it conceived its work to he
confined to anti Lecomptonism. Its aims were
20 keep out sl new slave States IN all latitudes,
to obtain the preponderance in the General Gov
comment, and to use power to abolish slavery ev-
erywherc. lie would. to show its purposes.
p ad rom the speeches of the representative men
Of the party. men belonging to the body over
which he had the honor to preside. and with
whom it was his duty, a it was his pleasure, to
,uiua,to kindly personal relations. lie read
from q fiery ultra speech of Senator Wilson, and
then f.om one whom he styled IL greater than
Wil,1n-a man whose utterances were the prin-
airies of his party-Mr. Seward of New York,
wbo, in grand speech made in the Senate on
the Sd of March, 1858, said Hero Mr.. Breck-
nnridge read that remarkable and famous para
graph addressed especially to Sou hern Senators,
Alarming that free labor at last apprehended its
mi.sion, and was marching to conquest.
Tha:'s the programme, said Mr.. Bre cken idge
AtJng that line Of march this party must be met
sud resisted The Constitution was not in their
way At all, for they did not even acknowledge
the binding force of one Of its plainest provis-
ians-- that concerping the return of fugitive
slaves Garrison was more honest than they.
iot he Acknowledged s,,st th'll CaaSstitption was
in his way. They grew more bold and enterpr,ts-
Ing in their aggressions every yeor. They were
in the outer rim Of the whirlpool, and were rap
idIy fastening to the rock where Garrison stood,
in The centre. They would pause at no obstacle
10 apr,led at no ruin Already hey had prac-
.ical(y made waste paper OF the Constitution.
They we're arraying one class of States against
anethor class of States. And whenever the line
,,as drawn across the nation, across which the
affection and hopes of the people could not how,
the Union was like a girdled tree, doomed to
speedy decay and death: Even now that venera,
be- august and pure tribunal, the balance wheel
If the,nighty machinery of our Government
tie supreme Court Of the United States, was as.
sailed with venom nearly unparalleled. A bill
had been introduced into the Senate to re-or
,nize this Court, and the threat that this reor-
ganization should take place was not an idle one.
Those who had undertake zen the work were strong,
rampant, confident and unscrupulous.