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The writer of the Black pamphlet attempts to
shield the President from the responsibility of this
declaration, by charging me with Misrepresentation
| in saying that Mr.. Buchanan had asserted I" that
slavery existed in Kansas by oirtue Of the constu
ton Of the United States" when he had only said
that the Supreme Cour had so decided!
| We'll, suppose we grant him the benefit Of this
miserable bubble! Docs it not show tina somebody
in this country had thought and said that the con-
sttution established slavery in Kansas :? The Pres
ident certainly said that the Supreme Court had so
decided in the bred Scott case; and on the supposed
authority of that decision, declared that Kansas
is, therefore, at this moment as much slave State
as Georgia or South Carolina" Did not the Prcsi-
dent approve and endorse the bred Scott decision
as he understood it and explained it IN his message?
Did he not believe that the Constitution established
| slavery in Kansas? If not how was it established
there? BY what authority WASH establishedy And
| how did Kansas, therefore, become as much slave
| State as Georgia S. Carolina? The President an
swcred "by rirtue of the constitution of the United
States" and appealed to the Supreme Court for his
authority and then endorsed the authority and ap-
| proved the decision Of course the President was
mistaken in suppoSng that the court had made any
such silly decision, in violation of the plain meaning
and express terms Of the constitution. 1t is now
| admitted by the author Of the Black pamphlet
| that
1.-The constitution certainly does not establish
Il hope it will turn out that the author of the Black
pamphlet was fully authorized to speak for all the
persons included in the royal word "me" as it APP
pears in the following sentence, on the concluding
page:
"1es; the Lccompton issue which Mr.. Douglas
made upon the administration two years ago is
done, and the principles on which we were then op-
posed are abandoned"
If the writer was really authorized to embrace
the whole administration" within the word "we,"
when he declared that the constitution certainly
does not establish slavery in the Territories nor any
where else" | could forgive him for many of the
misrepresentation and false positions which he has
so wantonly assigned to me. Since it is now so
openly admitted that slavery does not exist in Kan
sas, nor anywhere else, "by rirtue of the consttu
ton of the United States, and that Kansas is not
therefore, at this moment as much slave State
Georgia OF South Carolina, it will only be necessary
for those who are represented by the word "wc'
in the Black pamphlet to take step more torcstore
themselves to their former position in the Democrat
lc party! That step is to accept and carry out, in
good faith. the doctrine clearly set forth by Mr.
Buchanan in his letter accepting the Cincinnati
nomination in 1856, in which he said THAT the
peopte Of Territory, like those of a State, shaU
dectde for themselves mhe'her slarery shall or shall
nat erist within their limits"
That they were at one time solcmnly an drrevoca-
bly, pledged to this doctrine is certain that they
uu e'ei tiS " tiieif power 10 eject abOltOnlStS to
Congress in Illinois last year over the regular Dem
cratic nominees.
do not regard the assaults and malignitv dis
played IN this Black pamphlet as directed against
me alone. They are directed at all the friends of
popular sovereignty and non-ntervention wherever
they may be found. The Illinois game of last year
IS to be played this year in all the Northwestern
States where elections arc now pending. 1t is well
known that every Democratic candidate in Ohio
md ,,g, IL,
are about to he held is openly committed and publicly
pledged to the doctrine of popular sovereignty and
noll-lntervcntion as it was explained and understood
in the Presidential election in 1856
In fact there scarcely he said to be any diver
slty of opinion upon this subject Upon this point
the Northwest may be said to be unit for at least
nincty-nnc out Of every hundred Democrats are !
firmly resolved never to abandon the doctrine of the
CINCINNATI platform and Mr. Buchanan's letter |
o, acceptance, - that the people of Territory like
those OF State, shall decide for themselves whether
slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits"
Judge Ranny, Your own diStnishe,l candidate for
oovernor OF Ohio, who sits by my side, stands as
'lrmly on this platform as | do and consequently
cannot fail to consider the assaults of this Black
pamphlet as aimed at him, and intended to defeat
his election! The gallant Dodge, who is fighting
so glorious battle on the same platform for the
H"vcrnorshlp of Iowa, against the abolitonists will
ind this Black pamphlet ammunition in the hands
OF the enemy to be used against him and the Demo-
cratic party.
The inoomitabe Hohcrt, who leads the Democrat
&c hosts as the nominee for Governor of Wiscon-
SIN on the popular sovereignty platform. must re-
Sar' TINS Black pamphlet as calculated to help the
enemy IN their fight upon him and the Democratic
party So it is with Becker, Shields and Cavan-
arsf VIII" are fighting gallant battle against the
ab"tlonlSts Of Minnesota. They stand fairly upon
the Cincinnati platform, explained by Mr.. Buch-
ny hpI
popular sovereignty and non-ntcrvcnton wherever
they 60 These gallant leaders and faithful Demo-
Gratis are all entitled to the sympathy and aid of
every true Democrat in the land
regret that am unable to comply with the ur-
gent appeals which have received from the State
Central Committees of each of those States to come
an! help them. The abolition<ts in all the old
States are sending their abcst men and best speak
erS to fight the Democratic party in the Northwest
with the deadly ammunition furnished in this Black
pamphlet
My friends, you will pardon this depression from
the thread OF my argument, to which we will now
return, without further notice of the msreprcsenla-
tons contained in the Black pamphlet
MORMON AssAssINATIoNs.-The murder of Ser
geant Ralph Pike, of the 10th Infantry, L. S. A.,
who was recently shot dead in public street of Salt
Lake City, is bat one of great number of murders
committed by the members of a sect which like the
Thugs of India, hold murder to be religious virtue
1t Was, however, so Deliberate open and bare-aced
murder; so manifestly Mormon assassination
with Mormon approval, for no other provocatlon
than the defence of his own life in affiay, when
carrying out the orders of his superior officer that
the Mormon sympathizers in the States if there are
any, must give up the idea that they are slandered
people, and the government the necessity of adj
opng more efficient measures to protect the lives
OF Its citizens. The feeling of the army in regard
to this ASSASSINATION was sufficiently evinced by the
at the funeral, when the body Of tho
murdered Sergeant was escorted to its last home by
three regiments OF infantry, squadron of dragons
battery of light artillery, and detachment of
sappers and miners the officers of each regiment in
full uniform, following in the rear of their rcspcc-
tive corps Gen. Johnson the COMMUNICATIVE chief
and his staff, bringing up the rear. Does the gov
eminent mean to expose its gallant soldiers much
lOnger to the tender mprcirs of the Mnrmnnc md