The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-11-20
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JUDGE DOUGLAS POSITION.

not vote as tell you, will take of The heads
Of your friends Laughter. ! replied to
him, "you did not elect rue J represent Hi.
nos, and am accountable to Illinois rs my
constituency, and to Gcd, but not to the Pre-
sidcnt, or to my oilerpower on earth" Good
good, and yociIerOus applause
And now this warfare is made on me be-
cause would not surrender my convictions of
duty, because | would not abandon my conSti.
'tnency, and receive the orders OF the Exccu-
tive authorities how should vote in the Sen.
ate of the United States. Never do it, three
cheers, etc. / hold that an attempt to con
troll the Senate, Oh the part of the Executive,
is subversve to the principles of our constitu-
tion. That's right The Executive Depart.
mcnt is Independent Of the State, and the
Senate is independent of the President. In
matters of Legislation the President has a veto
on the action of the Senate, and in appoint.
ments and treaties the Senate has veto on
the President lie has no more right to tell
me how shall vote OH lis appointments than
l have to tell him whether he shall approve or
veto a bill that the Senate has passed. When.
ever you recognize the right Of the Executive
to say to Senator, do this, or | will take
off the heads Of your friends you convert this
government from republic into despotism
Hear hear, and cheers Whenever yon re-
.cognize the right Of a President to say to 4
member Of Congress, "yote as tell You. or
will bring power TO bear against you at nome
which will crush you," you destroy the indie
pendence Of the representative, and convert
him into tool Of Executive power That's
so, and applause resisted this invasion
of the constitutional rights of the Senator, and
intend to resist as long as have voice to
speak, or vote to give. Yet Mr. Buchanan
cannot provoke Inc TO abandon one ota OF De
mocratic principles out Of revenge or hostility
to his course. Good, good three cheers for
Douglas. l stand by the platform of the
Democratic party, and by lis organization
and support its nominees. If there are any
who choose to bolt, the fact only shows that
they are not as good Democrats as am
That's SO, good, and applause.
My friends, there never was time when it
was as important for the Democratic party.
for all national men, to rally and stand togeh-
er as it is to-day We find all sectional men
giving up past differences and continuing the
one question of slavery, and when we find sec
tional men thus uniting we should unite to re-
sist them and their reasonable designs Such
was the case in 1850, when Clay left the qu
ct and peace Of home, aud again entered llpon
public life to quel agitation and restore peace
to distracted Union. Then we Democrats
with Cass at our head, welcomed Henry Clay.
whom the whoud nation regarded us having
been preserved by God for the times lie be.
came our leader in that fight, and we rallied
around him the same rs the wings rallied around
Old Hickory in 1882, to put down Nullifca.
tlon. Cheers Thus yon see that whilst
Wings and Democrats fought lcaressiy in old
times about banks, the tariff, distribution, the
specie circular and the subtreasury, all united
as a band Of brothers when the peace, harmo-
ny, or integrity Of the Union was mperilled.
Tremendous applause. 1t was 50 in 1856,
when Abolitionism had even so far divided this
country, North and South, rs to endanger the
peace OF the Union, Wings and Democrats
united in establishing the compromise measures
of that year. and restoring tranquility and
good feeling. These measures passed on the
joint action Of the two parties They rested
on the great principle that the people of each
State and each Territory should be left pcr.
fectly free to form and regulate their domcsticI
institutions to suit themselves You Wings
and we Democrats justified thom in that prn-
.ciplc. In 1854, when it became necessary toI
blc t'i4llOlies VI hiilHaN dHti .NGbPnS
ka, brought forward the bill on the same prin-
cplc. In the Kansas-Nebrask bill Won find
it declared 10 be the trua intent am meaning
of the act no. to lcgisa,g flu cry mo 8nyI
State or Territory, nor TO cXt lde it aerefrom,
but to leave the l4-9plc-++H-4-of perfectly free
to form and ragatNc their domestic institutions
in their owu Wy I''rhat'sso," and cheers /
stand On that same platform in 1893 that
did in 1890 1854 and 1856. The Washing
ton Union, pretending to be the organ of the |
Administration in the number of the 9th off
this month, deyotes three columns and half
to establish these propositions First that
Douglas, in his Freeport speech, held the same
doctrine that he did in his Nebraska bill in
1854 second, that in 1854 Douglas justified
the Nebraska bill upon the Ground that it was
based upon the same principle as Claws com.
promise measure Of 1850. The Union thus
proved that Douglas was the same il l85sI
that he was in 1886, 1884 and 1850 and con-
sequently argued that he was never q Demo.
crat. Great laughter. Isitnot funny that
| was never a Democrat? Renewed laugh
ter There is no prctence that | have chan,
ged hairs BREADTH The Union proves by