The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-12-07

the consequent peace ana harmony OF the country
tie end of their occupation. The standard of
violent opposition if by general preconcert, was
raised in Congress and throughout the States al
luded to- against the President anu his policy;
infammatory appeals were made to the people of
Kansas, and that eminent statesman charged with
countenancing fraud and tyranny. How fraud
and tyranny he would ask? BY recommending
the unheard of outrage that territory with small
population should be raised from that condition of
territorial dependency and made sovereign State,
equal with the greatest of the confederacy, and
the consequent power to change her constitution
at her own pleasure ! Indeed, this is a new dis
covery in the commission of fraud and tyranny.
Tn the language of celebrated patriot of antiquity
in an angry dialogue between himself and friend,
he would say, ga friendly eye not such faults
He (Mr B. dissented widely from the views of
the Senator from Orange, as to the relative posi-
ton, in respect to State rights, occupied by the
party he proposes to sustain and the party he pro-
poses to implicate by his resolution. The Presi-
dent had endeavored to carry out the views before
entertained by him, and which were subsequently,
fully conceded in by the decision of the Supreme
Court in relation to the institution of slavery in
the Territories and which principles recognise, in
the broadcast sense, the equality of the States.
The views of the Senator from Illinois, if his
speeches reported in the newspapers are to be cred
tied, conicted to extent with those opinions.
nois the credit which he had Justly earned before
this difference originated. What the friends of
the administration, and he would say, and those
entertaining national sentiments of all PARTIES had
ght to complain of, the violent efforts that
had been made to break down and disorganize the
administration party in the North and West, when
the great aim and end of the President, all right
minded men must cOncede, was to restore peace
and harmony to the country and equality to the
IL Il l. l,l o~ol
He, therefore, would not consent to unite with
those who were disposed to censure the President
for the firm and manly stand he had taken, in
deavoring to protect the reserved rights of the
States much less could he consent to applaud
those who sought to paral we his exertions when
he engaged in such a patriotic purpose.
President Buchanan had stood by the constitutions
and the rights of the South-he would say, the
equal rights of every State of the Cnon-and it
would be unworthy of the great national democratic
party to abandon him when he manfully and
honorably contended in cause which was en-
phatically the cause of the whole country
Mr. Humphrey moved to lay the preamble and
resolution on the table.
Mr. Leach demanded the ayes and noes
Mr. Steele hoped the motion to lay on the table
would be withdrawn to allow Mr. Turner to reply.
He was for t:ling these matters If they were to
come, let them come-for one he was ready for
them. Mr. Humphrey withdrew the motion.
Mr. Turner assured the Senator from Caswell
(Mr Brown that he meant no disrespect in the
call he made upon him respond to the resolution
AS for himself, he assured the Senate that he did
net presume to lecture Illinois. He gloried in her
courage But the Senator wanted proof of the
removals he had alluded to. If the Senator had
kept up with the news of the day he would have
received abundance of proof Douglas had stated
the fact; and he had also stated that of
interference had been committed by those men,
except that they were in favor of his Douglas)
election. He, Mr. T., denied they were elected
from Office account of their interfering in the
election And what was the character of those
put in? Did they not subscribe sums of money to
carry out the contest in the election?
Mr. Brown rejoncd and said, as respected the
allegations that the office holders in some of the
States had taken active part in the elections, in
favor of the administration, they unsustained
by any proofs, SO far he knew, except newspaper
publications, and all knew that they were not to
be regarded conclusive, especially when made
by violent partizan editors. This charge however,
was irrelevant to the question raised by the
resolutions before them; and that question was as
to the removal Of the officers in the State of Illinois
He reiterated the charge that most of the officers
not perhaps, all, as may have been removed
for official delinquency-were removed for active
political partizanship; some of whom he had
understood were delegates to conventions In which
the leading measure of the administration before
the last Congress denounced; and that, too,
while national Democratic ticket was i'm the field
in Illinois. IF office holders turned political
propagandsts they subjected themselves to the
rule applied by some of the early administrations
to such transgressors. and had we'll earned the fate
which, by their conduct, they seem to have courted
Nor, said Mr. b., was this proceeding the less
ec1> urable: from the fact that the moment chosen
to assal the President was precisely that when the
combined elements foppositon-ofwhich abolition
tanatlclsm formed the larger part-were engaged in
violent warfare against the President for announcing
principles of State equality in the confederacy-|
principles which deserved to meet warm and
hearty response in every patriot bosom-from every
portion OF our country-m from Maine to California
On the doctrine of the reserved rights of the States
the President had firmly planted himself On this
doctrine Of the reserved rights of the States, so
ably advocated by the early leaders of the State
rights Democratic party, he had for long period
believed depended the safety of our federal Union
Every departure from this doctrine was a step
towards cons ii lat:on, and every tendency in that
e't.on was step towards absolute military
government. Mr. ID. said to the affections of no
one was the federal Union more dear as the
constitution intended it, than to his; connected as
1t was with the most interesting memories that ever
formed a nations history. Those IN favor of the
reserved rights of the States the best friends
OF tie federal Cnion and strict adherence to that
political faith was the only certain means of its