Litchfield enquirer., 1859-09-22

pudiate Slavery therein. Here they come thrusting sticks at us all the time, and stil ; saying Why don't you be quiet wh, . don't you be still 2" Great laughter aut cheering Each of these an act committed |, by themselves, and theirs are all the benefits of the aggression yet they are always com
 plaining that We insist on and struggle for ole
 paths-to keep things just as they were. A.
 though we are agitators, disturbers and radi
 cals, when We demand that things should stay
 just as they were Now, other questions :---
 People talk of ignoring the Slavery question
 sprung on us day by day, and always by the
 Slavery side. see project to divide
 your State-to cut eff all below 36 deg. SC
 min, and make Territory of it. Yes-we
 know what that line, 3s deg. 30 han means l Great laughter and applause. The same
 line Was run across Texas after being TUT
 through Missouri Buchanan and Douglas,
 believe, proposed to extend it to the Pacific
 We said No, you have a fair Territory, and had best benefit by it. Now when we come to organize newly acquired territory into Free Territory we demand that the policy which
 has worked so long aud so we'll for you, shall work for us." You said Louisiana, Fiori- da and Arkansas were Slave Territory. Now we demand they shall be admitted as Slave States" Very we'll You have had the be- eft of that to the utmost Now, when we come to admit new Territories acquired or bought frot. Mexico--all free when so acquir- ed-we demand the application of your prin- cIple {; that as they come to Us free, they shall remain so that as they come to Us without the touch of slave upoa them, there shall be none placed upon them by the consent or laws of this Union. Was not that a fair demand Yet they struggled You all know how long your State of California was kept out of the Union, with the design and for the purpose of gaining some concessions to Slavery-some nterpoise--which they finally got. All the while your Senators and Representatives waited admission to Congress.
 Fellow Citizens, let us now have the effect Of the rule by which the slave interest has benefited so largely. know that the day that Texas Was annexed to this Union, express messengers went out 10 all parts of the slave breeding region, telling shareholders to put their prices up to l5 per cent, and to buy slaves in order to profit largely by the great market opened hy that annexation. l know that Governor Wise of Virginia told his pco- pie in public speech, that if they could only have planted Slavery in California, they could have made their slaves worth 5000 head to dig gold in your mountains did not then, and don't HOW believe it would work. But, if Slavery had been planted here, it would have raised the valne of slaves throughout the Un- ion, and correspond:ngly depressed the value of free labor in California. Now, they ask us to take up and practice indifference, nol-in- tervention, a total want of care with regard to this question, while every shareholder has di- rect personal interest in extending the area of slaveholding, whereby the demand for his mer chandise may be increased. It is a totally ul- fair and unreasonable arrangement that per sonal interest and active, eager care on the one side shall be counterbalanced by indifcr- ence and hecdlessness on the other. We can not expect to get along that way. You might as well as well give up at first that Slavery shall be extended everywhere, and Free La bor go nowhere.
 Well, then, speak to the questions between us as they affect the peace and quiet of this Union. know that-which history confirms --the doctrines proclaimed by Jefferson, indor sed by Washington, and today upheld by the Rerubhars gave tic country suIstan- tial peace respecting Slavery for more than thirty years. It gave us peace. There was division there was line. All the Territo- ries were to be Free Territories, excepting on- ly those that came to us burdcncd with slave .ry. There was no other line. That gave us quiet. Under which principle-this or the other--the new principle that every Territory shall be bone of contention, even of colli- sion, where free labor aud slave labor shall go and struggle for the mastery, would peace seem the likeliest result ? Against that new doctrine l protest as necessarily embroiling and involving us in a perpetual contest You see how it operated in Kansas. The people were to be left perfectly indifferent. Free State men went there Rto make it (Kansas) Free State and slave state men to make it a l slave state, by driving out, riding out, or kill ling out frce-state men. A great struggle commenced and continued for years with vari- ous success. The leading city of that Terri tory was believe. twice stripped of all it's free, state inhabitants some killed in their own houses for nothing but earnestly desiring the admission of Kansas into the Union as a Free State Such has been the practice- It. has covered the land wi.h contention, plunged Kansas in civil warsand buried mo- ny of her citizens ill bloody graves. They had Popular Sovereignty there. We had Con- gressional intervention and prohibition in the States between the Mississippi and tue Ohio, and there we had peace and quietness and the land had rest" I am in favor of the peaceable doctrine--that which yields peace l able fruits--rather then that which yields con- tention. hear men say, "Oh well; but the popular sovereignty doctrine has got that start and obtained that development that we can always make it work in favor of freedom ,"
 No you can't. We see that you can't in the case, partially, of Kansas, now, and wholly in that of New-Mexico. was in Kansas this 1 Spring when all election was going on for Del epates fO a Constitutional Con vantion Hba,o