The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-09-08
September 9th, 1853

Well, now I have given you, nv friends
the law as il has been decided by every de
partment of the Government for sixty years.
upon the doctrine Of Squatter Sovereignty :;
the decision against it by the very man who
is appealed to as the great leader Of that doe
trine. He has changed his opinions he
wants to get back TO the $50 devil" Tha, is
what he is after. Douglas is respectable
gentleman, and a man of considerable tai
ent; SO am l. [laughter.) but 1 differ with
him on that point. and have The advantage
of standing by the side of Washington, who
put his hand upon my head aud said: MY
son, YOU are right and laid his hand upon
Stephens head and said: You must go to
school" That is wha. Washington, Jeffer-
son, Madison, Monroe, Jackson and Calhoun
would say too. While | am in company like
that, | am content TO remain.
say this, if it be the constitutional rule
that the Constitution of the country carries
the relation of master and slave into the Ter
ritories. it is the bounden duty of Congress
to make laws to protect that right. l cannot
'comprehend tha. man has and conception
of the harmony that was 70 reign in our coun-
try that don't believe that. Ii they can
teblish tia: proposition. that the sacred pan
oply of the Constitution carries Slavery into
Kansas and Nebraska, what Squatter SVer-
! signify da re TO raise its paracidal hand to de-
stroy its validity! Has it provided that a
man shall have ri ,ht to wherever a State
constitution does not prohibit It. and sit down
and exercise d ,minion ove~ the black man,
who was his slave in Virginia. upon the the
ory that local le glslature shall oyerrule the
tConstiution aad destroy ii? What sort of a
'kilkenav cat fsh. IS that, swallowing each
other9 [ is re, olting 10 mans common
sease. l can't treat it with patience. l can
up, f. hat
have armed the Government to commit sui
lcide; it must kill itself; it shall kill itself. Ga!
II have nothing to say upon that. | wont CON
descend TO mention It again TO sensible
man.
! If the Constitution carries it there, it Is
safe there. NJ State or Territorial Leglsia
ture can touch it; bat If the Constitution is
they say, it carries it there only to remain as
a visitor; goes there to rest itself little while,
but as soon as the Territory seeks to be a
State, take up your mig gers and walk Span
isi, for they can drive YOU out. Laughter
[ don't like to say mlci about that, because
| like the men the o.her side OF the river.
who call themselves the Opposition to this
Adm inistration doctrine.
PATEaNAL PROCLAMATION.
| wish to proclaim here, aad l wish to do
1T BY authority, that is, by my oyn'self-exis :
itent power, the authority as the father of the
Republican party, (turning to NJ. Dennison)
have nothing to say against you, sir. but
tyou are a young gentleman, and you should
allow old gentlemen some liberties. | main
tanned that very doctrine coneaded for by
the Republicans, in 1917 | wanted to put
the WImot Proviso upon the act organizing z
the Territory of California. That was in ex-
ecutive session, aud secret but tell you it
now in confidence. l maintained the doc
in
the Territories. | don't say that they ought
TO exercise i everywhere. 1t was condi
ton with S pain that California should be ad-
mitted with all her rights of property. Men
must, no doubt, vote for it that must keep
our faith with fore sn nations. That ought
to be the first AMI last duty of every Ameri-
can citizen. That is my doctrine | know
| am right, and | know there are a great
many fellows that have not got as much sense
as | have that think | am wrong. laughter. |
fall back on ol Adams whenever YOU come
to that. Ii you don't believe me. take him.
He was of my opinion on that subject But
hold that Congress ous sht to exercise that
poweri in all the Territory of the United States
where white men can work as we'll as the ne
gro. For this reason, that the negro is not
educated at the public expense to make him
a voter. and We want all the room left for the
poor white men, from the slave States and
from the free States, to 60 there and work;
and we do think more OF the white man that
is to vote than of your negroes | want to
educate the white man because he IS my par
ner his vote will regulate the affairs of my
country. and affect my children and your
children. And we grow so fast, | wish the
stock was improved IN quality as tast as it is
in quantity. Nv impression is, that we want
little more Of the short horn among US
royal fellows about. Leughter.l There
wonld have been o'Sluatter Sovereignty
but for that breed Of cattle. l.suy yhter. i
Tha, is al OF it. | have no more to do with
Slavery than | have to d. with the Jugger
nut in the East Iniia colonies Of Great Brit
ain. So the Constitution says.
FUGITIVE SLAVES.
But the Constitution says little more than
that, and that is subject upon which the
Republican party is totally misunderstood
and misrepresented, and hopslessly lied about
believe. with view to destroy her proper
consequence and character as party.
, The Constitution of the United States, nv
brethren. recognizes Slavery. Mr.. Calhoun
and Mr.. Douglas disposed Of that. 1t pro
vides just what had been the habit OF the col
, onies before they made the Constitution
Men are mighty apt to adopt any of the olc
rules that have been of use under the forme
government. la 164S the four New England
colonies met together by their delegates
l There were among them a great many slave
and apprsn,iced servants in the New England
| colonies The people of England would SEM
the poor people to the Colonies, aud bins
r them to the Colonists, and they provided tha
whenever servant thus indented, or other
: wise owing service, escaped from one Colon,
: into another, the authorities of that Colony
{ sho'd offer no obstruction to his masters com
= ing after him and taking him home. Tha
: applied to slaves or servants. The Colonlst
5 had done that always. and l have seen my
self letter fro1n Governor Bercley. OF Va.
r 10 Governor Winthrop, of Mass, upon ihi
5 snbject. Gov. Berkeley writes to Gov Win
throp: Some of the people Of my Colony hav
c lost slaves, and we learn that they have es
canad into Massachusetts, Bay Colony-