The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-04-05

no component part of this government because he Is
citizen and ought never TO De eizen, .nas nc
must therefore necessarily be slave On the contrary
It does follow that should extend to the negro anu
to every other dependent race, all the rights al .ne
privileges and all the immunities winch can De saiey
given him consistent with the gooo OF society lap
pause, and cries of good.
On that principle alone all men ought to agree put
when you to apply the principle you wiz ASK nle
what the rights and privileges that would give the
negro NV answer is that is question which the
people of each State must decide for themselves. IL
may be proper to grant the negro In ILLINOIS privileges
which it would not be safe to give him in Maryland
ard hence it question for to decide for ourselves
in that State and for you to decide for yourselves In
this State So it is with all other domestic relaons
each State must decide for itself what the relation shall
be- not only between master and servant put Det"een
husband and wife, parent and child, guardian and
ward and also what shall be the banking system, the
school SYSTEM the railroad system, and every other
system eecting their rights, their persons and their
property Let these principles of State rights and State
sovereignty prevail and there will be no cause OF Jea
ousy and collision between the different States and
Territories Let these principles be applied in good
faith and then this is capable of indefinite
expansion, and will expand as fast as we need more
territory and find to our interest to acquire it.
We are growing nation, increasing and spreading
every year, for the present have territory enough
but must enlarge borders fast as we hll up
that territory and must Amercanize that which adons
Let US, then, pursue policy both foreign ana
domestic consistent with the destiny which the AL
mighty has marked out for meyer have and never
will give vote for treaty that binds the American
people never to do on the American continent that
which our interest honor and safety may COM
pei do. felt it my duty to resist the Clayton
Bulwer treaty when it made objected especially
to that clause of which said that neither the United
States or Great Britain would in all future time,
mex colonze exercise dominion any portion Of
Central America. l asked what wanted with
Central America then. replied that we did want 1t
then, but that the time might come when we would
it. told that it far off that we could
desire it: My answer was, that it was good
ways off, about half way to California, and on the
direct route to -and if California not too far off
for us, l could not see how the halfway house could
be too remote for our wishes and desires.
The time may come when we shall be compelled for
the sake of interests and for those of humani
ty. and stable government, to annex Prov
ince after Province of Mexico and to take Cuba, too
Tcheers] and to expand indefinitely, yet steadily and
slowly, acquiring territory Americanize it, and
need it, until this nation shall become ocean-bound
republic 1t may not be in your lifetime, or in mine
may not be in the lifetime of children; but trust
that the saying applied to other countries is true of
that the nation never dies trust the American
nation will survive forever If it does, it must expand
for to increase multiply and grow the constitutional
law of existence. Hence, let pursue foreign
policy by which will have control of our actions
all times with reference to the American continent
and which will leave free when the time comes to
do that which we, children, the case may be-
may determine that interest and safety require
to do. But that foreign policy must be accompanied
with domestic policy which preserves the rights and
sovereignty of the States and protects each State in
the right decide it's institutions for ITSELF and hence
avoids collision when States are admit
ted into the brotherhood With this domestic policy
there can be occasion for strife between the free and
slave States.
My friends, have given you epitome of the prin-
ciples which discussed in Illinois in the late contest
with the Abotoniss and their allies; appealed to
the people of Illinois by their love for the American
Unon preserve sacred the aternal feeling between
the old and new the free and slave States; pointed
them to Bunker Hill to Bennington to Saratoga, and
to Monmouth | pointed them to Kings Mountain, to
Guilford court house, and to Yorktown showed them
that in the Revolution Northern and Southern men
stood shoulder to shoulder in a cause, fought
under the same banner poured out their blood in
streams, and shared common graves to the
liberty which enjoy. Why cannot Northern
and Southern live under this Constitution in the
spirit in which fathers formed it? We can,
if will observe between the different States, that
good old rule which mothers taught us-that gold
rule which every good mother teaches her when
he goes abroad-my remember to mind your own
business, and leave your neghbors' alone. That ad-
vice is applicable States, Territories and
mites it is to individuals.
My friends, it has been my duty during the summer
to talk more than was consistent with my strength
agreeable with my feelings. had determined that
would proceed quietly to the Capitol without making
any speeches. but when found my fellow citizens
of Maryland, of this great city of Baltimore sympath
zng with the people of the North in behalf of sound
constitutional could not refrain from stop
ping and exchanging sentiments in order see if we
did not advocate the principles and entertain the
patriotic regard for the Constitution under which
adhered to and faithfully carried out this glorious
Union can exist forever, divided into free and slave
States, fathers made it, each State retaining the
right to have just such laws and institutions as it may
choose, and to modify and change them may see
proper. / renew to you my grateful Acknowledgements
for the kind and respectful in which you have
listened to me, and beg to bid you good night.