The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-09-08

and a bill was passed, Congress allow
ing the Postmaster General to let the
contract, the contractor to select his own
route. On opening the bids, none was
found for the Southern desert route; but
the Postmaster General told one Of the
bidders, if he would put in q bid for.
the Southern route, he should have the
contract The bid was made and the
contract let the distance thereby being
increased 900 miles between st. Louis
and San Francisco One hundred thou
sand men and women have beaten
plain track across the plains, but that
route must give way to the desert route,
with this Democratic administration
[ Applause. 1 offered a bill rovoking
the Postmaster Generals contract, and
it went to a committee, whereon was a
member from Missouri, and slept I
tackled it on to the Post Office appro-
priation bill, and three members from
Missouri voted against it, Two of the
three were from this border-one of
them your own Representative. Voice.
"He is not in town. care not I
would say the same were he here, Ap-
plause.
The South moulds the policy of the
Democratic party, and it is against that
policy for the West to expand; they only
desire Slavery extension, and for this
policy they oppose the West and her in
terests AS long as the Democracy
lives, you get nothing, unless from God
himself, who planted the gold at Pixies
Peak, which has been so opportuuely
discovered to give a new State and a
central route to the Pacific, for the de-
feat of chat party.
You must look elsewhere than the
Democratic party for aid Our inter
ests as a State are opposed to the South
in this matter. Missouri lies north of
the slave States; she is surrounded by
| the free States, with which her interests
arc identical. I Kisses and cheers. Cries
of go on, and turn him out 1 have
not the least idea Of stopping. APP
| plause. Illinois lies on our eastern
boundary, Iowa on our northern, Kan
sas on our western, which will soon be
free State, in spite Of Lecompton and
the Administration, Tapplause, and
Arkansas, weak and Of little conse-
quence to US, on the south. l have
sometimes noticed in the papers, that a
little beeswax and few muskrat skins
come from there, which is the amount
Of our interests with Arkansas, ap-
pause, while our connection with the
free States is intimate and extensive
We must look, in our national con-
Germs, to the real advantage of the State.
l told you l should speak freely of
Slayery-it is the question Of the day,
or you would not sec gentlemen from
this section vote as they do. AS l un-
dcrstand it, the Dred Scott decision is
the standpoint of the Democracy on
Slavery. Calhoun first promulgated the
doctrine that the Constitutions per Sc,
carried Slavery into the Territories
You know what his Democracy was in
the days Of Jackson--then no promin-
ent statesman thought of agreeing with
him. Voice. calhoun was right.
1 think not. He was opposed to the
doctrines of Jefferson. If you refuse
Jefferson, and take Calhoun, do so bold
ly, and don't "steal the livery Of heav-
en- to serve the devil in" At the re-
quest of Monroe, Calhoun, when in his
Cabinet signed a writing asserting to
the Missouri Compromise, and admitting
its constitutionality. 1t was an after
thought of Calhoun's as of the Demo
cratic party, that the Constitution carries
Slavery into the Territories. l but ask
the protesting Democracy to deny the
name they disgrace, From the days of
Washington to Pierce, the Territories
we're held to be under the control of
Congress. Now, one stakeholder, with
his negro, can 60 into a Territory and
frame laws for all that follow-this is
squatter sovereignty!
True, Douglas says the people Of a
Territory may decide whether Slavery
shall exist there, but he admits the con-
stitutionality of the Dred Scott deois-
ion, which carries Slavery into the Ter
ritories by the Constitution, thus knock
ing squatter sovereignty in the head.
In this way Douglas rides both sides Of
the fence. I hold, with the fathers Of
the country, that the Republican party
is right. Applause and Kisses; cries
of "Kiok him out' reply, "There will
be more than one to kick out" shall
be kicked out in good company, with
Jefferson and Jackson; the Democracy
would kick them out, if they dared. /
find no fault with those who differ from
me; but how can any one call himself a
Jefferson or Jackson Democrat, aud re-
ceive into fellowship Toombs and such
men, who always abused Jackson? The
sentiments uttered by jefferson, Jack
son, and others, are now called aboli-
ton. and for which any one would be
read out of the Democratic party. Half
Of your delegation, half Of the Legis-
lature, and of the Democratic delega-
ton from Georgia, were old Wings;
and old Buck, the Federalist, at the
head, a worthy loader, [applauso and
Kisses, worthy leader of the Federal host
he led, when charging at the head of the
Lecompton column, he didn't need the
black cockade to designate him.
1 have said that Congress- ought to
keep the Territories for white men, and
not for shareholders and their negroes;
and this is called Abolitionism Thank
| God / have lived long enough not to
care for names This struggle going
on is the same as that fought under
| Jackson-thc combination of capital
against labor; the banks against Old
| TIiokorv mart Of the shareholders