The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-08-11

Inc racine railroad Is III the Sdme u4 as tne
rivers and lakes. The West will never have it
till the Democratic party goes out of power.
TApplause.] The Democracy refused to survey
the Central route, but imported cames to sur
yey the Southern desert and disunion route,
which proved fit only for camels, carrying water
in their bellies for three or four days. Ap-
plause. They refused aid to the Central route,
lest there should be a chain of free States on
this parallel. The Southern route was surveyed
without an appropriation, for what care they
for the laws of Congress2
Missouri asked for an overland mail, and
bill was passed, Congress allowing the Post
master General to let the contract, the con-
tractor to select his own route On opening
the bids, none found for the Southern
desert route; but the Postmaster General told
one of the bidders, if he would put in bid for
the Southern route, he should have the contract.
The bid was made and the contract let the dis
lance thereby being increased 900 miles be-
tween st. Louis and San Francisco. One hun
dred thousand 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.
offered bill revoking the Postmaster Generals
contract, and it went to a committee, whereon
was a member from Missouri and slept.
tackled it on to the Post Office appropriation 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; would say
the same were he here. Applause.
The South moulds the policy of the Demo
cratic party, and it is against that policy for the
West to expand they only desire Slavery ex-
tension, and for this policy they oppose the
West and her interests. AS long as the De-
mocracy lives, you get nothing, unless from God
himself, who planted the gold at Pixies Peak,
which has been so OPPORTUNITY discovered to
give new State and central route ts the
Pacific for the defeat of that party
You must look elsewhere than the Demo
cratic party for aid. Our interests as a State
are opposed to the South in this matter. Mis-.
souri, lies north of the slave States she is sur
rounded by the free States, with which her in
terestS are identical. Kisses and cheers. Cries
of go on, and turn him out. / have not the
least idea of stopping. Applause. Illinois
lies on our eastern boundary Iowa on our
northern, Kansas on our western, which will
soon be free State in spite of Lecompton and
the Administration, applause, and Arkansas,
weak and of little consequence to US, on the
south. | have sometimes noticed in the pa
pers, that little beeswax and few muskrat
skins come from there, which is the amount of
our interests with Arkansas, applause, while
our connection with the free States is intimate
and extensive
We must look, in our national concerns, to
the real advantage of the State told YOU
should speak freely of Slavery-it is the question
of the day, or you would not see gentlemen
from this section vote as they do. As under
stand it, the bred Scott decision is the stand
point of the Democracy on Slavery. Calhoun
first promulgated the doctrine that the Consti-
L
tories You know what his Democracy was in
the days of Jackson-then no prominent states
man thought of agreeing with him. Voice
Calhoun was right | think not. He was
opposed to the doctrines of jefferson If you
refuse Jefferson, and take Calhoun, do so boldly,
and don't steal the livery of heaven to serve
the devil in" AT the request of Monroe, Cal
hOun, when in his Cabinet, signed a writing
asserting to the Missouri Compromise. and adj
hitting its consttutionality 1t was an after
thought of Calhoun's, as of the Democratic
party, that the Constitution carries Slavery into
the Territories. | but ask the protesting De-
mocracy to deny the name they disgrace From
the days of Washington to Pierce, the Terrific
ries were held to be under the control of Con-
gress. Now, one Shareholder with his negro,
can go into Territory and frame laws for ali
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 constitntionality of the bred
Scott decision, which carries Slavery into the
Territories by the Constitution, thus knocking
squatter sovereignty in the head. In this way
Douglas rides both sides of the fence l hold,
with the fathers of the country, that the Repub-
lican party is right. Applause and Kisses
cries of " Kick him out reply, There will
be more than one to kick out"1 / 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, and
receive into fellowship Toombs and such men,
who always abused jackson? The sentiments
uttered by Jefferson, jackson, and others, are
now called abolition, and for which any one
would be read out of the Democratic party
Half of your delegation, half of the Legislature,
and of the Democratic delegation from Georgia
were old Wings and old Buck, the Federalist
at the head, a worthy leader, Applause and
his es worthy leader of Federal host he led,
VIII charging at the head of the Lecompton
colu.nn, he didn't need the black cockade to
designate him.
/ have said that Congress ought to keep the
Territories for white men, and not for slave
holders 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
jacksonville combination of capital against
labor; the banks against Old Hickory. A part
of tie shareholders in the United States Bank
wanted the United States deposits, often fifteen
millions, to loan; for this they proposed to regu-
late the exchanges, and make a uniform cur
rency. Shareholders are another lot of capital
lists, who wish to seize the Territories for them
selves and negroes, and throw out the poor
white men, The plea is plausble-similar to
the bank plea. But the Territories should be
kept for the general good, and not for a few
shareholders go for Keeping these Territories
for free white men, for the good of our State
to build up rich States west Of us, to be trbuta-
res to us. Whoever opposes this is against the
good of Missouri. Applause and Kisses.
| will revert to another parallel-the contest
between the Gracchi and the patricians. Though
the narrative comes from writer's of the olgarch,
and they are called agrarians-thus giving them
a bad name, as | am called an Abolitionist
Give dog a bad name," &c.-the Gracchi
only claimed that the lands conquered by the
Roman armies should be equally divided, and
not given to the patrcans alone, and this is the
question now: Shall the Territories be divided
by homestead bill and presumption among the
people, or held only by slaves and slave-owners
The oligarchs call themselves Democratic and
strive to overthrow the Democratic measures of
old, which have been universally held, even to
the time of Calhoun, and till he himself changed.
Calhoun becoming insane on the disunion |
measure, and failing of his aims, sought to cur |
ry favor with the oligarch. This oligarch is |
strongly opposed to the interests Of the West |
but there is no doubt of Missouri throwing off |
the incubus of Slavery. Applause and Kisses,
with calls for others.