New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-14
THE QUESTIONS TO DE DECIDED.
BY CARL SEIZURE


BY CARL SEIZURE.
Er,1owCr1Izyss: This meeting is called TO ratify
the nominations Of your State Convention. am
stranger among you and have no Immediate interest
in the sars Of your State but nevertheless can tell
Won that the citizens of my State ratfy your nomna'
lions as heartily as you do. Cheers In the nominal
ton Of Morgan and Campbell they the guaranty OF
glorious victory in November. Applause You do
nor expect me to speak atout State affairs. will,
therefore at Gree turn your attention TO national
topcs. lCleeIs.l ! may draw heavily upon your
ratenee hope you will bear with me. Cheers
A voIcr-we1l stand it three hours. Laughter.
In &C ntest of great principles, like that which is
now aeitsting the country, / am little inclined TO
discuss the personal qualities of candidates. but when
the indivdus merits of man are set up as his prin
cpa claim to the highest and most responsible office
in the Republic, it s natural that we should feel
obliged to examine his history and character with more
than ordinary care.
1t is notorious fact that the friends OF Jadge
Douglas in the Northern States solicit the vote OF the
peop. on the ground that he has done more for Inc
freedom of the Territories and that he is truer cham
pon of free labor, and, besides, greater statesman
than any living individual. Thus personal issue 10
urged upon us, and we are ready 70 accept IT, LII
will be the subject of my remarks tonight. shall
not transeress the limits of proprety, but am deter
mined 10 call things ty their night names.
What is it that entities Judge Douglas 10 the high
sounding appeation, "the champion of freedom, or
"the greatest of living satesmen Is 1t his past ca
reer or is it his present position You can survey the
history Of this champion Of freedom at single
gsuce. Tie Judge has his FreeSoil re ,ord : what
Northern PrO-Slavery man has not But there is
hardly inent man IN political fe who has taken
more lsils than he TO discam and apologize Tor hls
esly Anti-Slavery sentiments. 80 we may drop this
subject. What follows is more instructive.
liz 1890, the Missouri Compromise was framed as
sacrd compact between the two sections OF The Union
BY virtue of that Compromise, Missouri was admitted
% a Slave State, and Arkansas ss a Save State; ana
thus the free North ss one party TO The contract palo
d wn its price for the Slavery prohibition north OF
3Go 80. Was Mr.. Douglas ever heard 10 express any
Doubt as to the constiuonaty of the Missouri Com
promise long served TO augment the number OF
Slave States IL 70 him, as 10 all others, sacred
and irvioiabe compact as sacred and inVlodbe rs
the Constitution itself and he cursed the Ruthless
hand" that would dare - break II down. When, aftsr
The Mexican war, the Territories acquired for this
Union were TO be organized, he was among tho II st
ard foremott who advocated the extension Of the Mis-
souri, line across the whole continent. What would
have teeu the result of thai measure In the Terrific
rits acquired from Mexico Slavery was abolished aud
prohibited by local legislation but the extension Of the
Missouri line was calculated to admit Slavery into all
that TaIt Of it which lies south Of 30 30. Mark well:
SO lorg as the Missouri Compromise served to intro
duce Slave ates he did not dream fits uncOnstitu
toDaity. When by the extension OF the Missouri lae
free territory could be Converted Into slave territory
rangepen that he not only proposed to preserve 1t ir
is original extent but 70 run il a:rors TIE whole CONT
ueptto the shores of tbs Pacific Ocean.
Bui now the time arrives when free States are to
groW rp under the guarantees Of the same Missouri
COMPROMISE. A Lew Ggit dawns upon JUICE
Doug,as. He rises in the Senate Chamber, aud as
serts that the Territory north of the Missouri hne
loI ger be exempted from Slavery, because the ex
clusioD of Slavery from 1.-THE very cordton on
which Missouri was admitted Slave Sate-w ut
with the fundamental principles Of the Constitu
tioD. The same man who had cursed as ruthless the
hard that would violate the Missouri Compro mise,
long that compact beneficial to Slavery tore it
down ruth has Oun hands rs soon as 1t was 10 serve
the interests Of free labor. AID ne is the truest
" Champion Of fraedoml" How wonderful a change
AT the lime when be proposed the extension of the
Missouri lire 10 the Pacific Ocean, he was either
yIc Of the uneoDtttntionality of IN t compromise
OF h. was not. il he was, how could he conscen-
tously propose the extension and perpetuaton OF
measure " hch he considered crime against the Con-
stiution Were his eoDscience and his convictions
Lushed into silence by the interests of Slavery Or if
hs was not, how did it 10 pass that ne beca ne
suddenly convinced of that unconstitutiopaty the
very moment ttat the preservation and execution OF
that compr mise would have advanced the interests Of
free labor How did it happen that his convictions,
IN all their prompt and wonderful transformations, al
ways conceded 80 admirably with the interests OF
Slavery This s indeed most astonishing coinai-
dence and leave il to your sagaeity TO Draw your
conc .uslcns
But Mr. Douglas is still tie true champion Of Free
same measure which breaks down the barriers to
SaveTy-will by that very operation introduce Free
Labor into the Territories. The hing is speedily
brought TO practical test No sooner tue Nebraska
bill enacted and the Missouri restriction ernck do Hn
than Enigrant Aid Societies organized in the
Slave States especially in Missouri for the purpose of
Introducing Slavery into Kansas. The history of the
Blue LoCges is familiar TO you. Lawless bands Of
aImtd invaders pour into kansas take possession of
the ballOboxes bowie knife aud revolver in hsud aud
control thu elections by freud aud violence. Did Mr.
Douglas ever utter word Of reproach or condemn
ton sRai1st the BOTde r-Rutians of Missouri Did he
not most endery excuse their atrocities on the plea of
ssfdeiense, while IL notorious fact that their
organization had preceded that of the FreeState men
And marx rtH, ttat immigration Uas Pro Slavery.
Other EmigTant Aid Societies are organized ia the
Northern STATES. Lgrge numbers of men 20 20 Kan
sas, armed indeed for sef-dsense as every pionser
win be, but with the bona fde intention Of settling
down upon the soil Of that territory permanent in.
hsbanis ard while burning houses and trails Of booi
marx the track Of the Border Ruffsns, fourishing
f6rnB aud industrious spring up under the 4nds
Of the Frte-State men, DO you remember how oftel
Jucge Douglas emptied the vials Of his wrath AM
cart denunciauong upon the heads of freeabor mm-
grafton? And, mark wei. that inmi grafton was ANTI
Slavery.
Legislature is get up by a band of lawless invs-
ce-Dosy Missouri sns- set up by the most arocious
Violations of the ballot box up in defiance of all the
rules Of constitutional government; that Legislature
adopts the slave code of Missouri the Ia va Of Kan
sa and adds TO them laws outrageous ip their nature
that even Northern Democrats quailed under the
opIr, brium. DO you remember that Judge Dou2las
recognized thai Legislature although its criminal origin
wss nAnii II to all, the highest law giving author
ity Of the Territory and the laws ed by them
although known 10 lie tire offspring Of fraud aud yio
lence, he valid Laws Of Kansas DO you remen
Der hoW he den, unCei every one who would not SUP
hit IS Teb,l and traitor Aud, mark well tn At
Legislature thOse laws were PYO-S1Uery The Free
State settlers Of Kansas, then evidently large ma
jor,iy Of the Inhabitants 90 10 work and frame a Con
.ltutiCn. That Constitution was gotten up in a way
laInN .rnn irr1lcilar ihna tia