Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-15

doctrines. Cheers These are not the
doctrines that make the peace and har-
mony of the union of States. (Chcers)
As the distinguished Senator said at N or
folk. We are faction, and must be de.
stroyed." When we are destroyed they
will stick their daggers through and
through the Constitution of the country.
Immense cheering)
The names of Clay, Webster and
others, have been invoked to sustain this
doctrine of the Territorial power to ex-
cude slave property. The Missouri Com.
promise of 1850 has been invoked for the
same purpose. | assert, that from 1S4s
down TO the period when this false doc
triee, repugnant alike to the Constitution
and reason, was thrust upon the country
no respectable political party held the
opinion that territorial legislature had
the right to exclude slave property pend
ing its territorial condition. When did
Clay ever hold such doctrines Wher
were such doctrines ever embodied in the
Compromise measures of 1850.
They all looked to the period when they
should come into the Union as a State, a.
the time when the Territorial authorities
might act on the subject of property, and
hold or exclude the slave property os the
South (Applause.) Time will not al
low me to do much more than state these
propositions, but will read short abstract:
from the ccle ebrated report made by the
Committee of Thirteen, of which Mr.. Clay
was Chairman, which resulted in the com.
promise measures of 1850. tits calm and
lucid has no clap trap phrases, and puts
me In mind of the language used by the
Supreme Court. .r
(Mr. Breckenridge here quoted from
vol. 2l of the Globe, part 1st, page 945.)
He continued--That was the doctrine Of
nonintervention in 1850. 1t was no in
reference to exclude by Congress or the
Territorial Legislature, but to leave the
question to be decided by the people when
they came to form their State Constitution.
[Mr. B. here read from a speech of Dan
iel Webster, in which the position is TAX
en- that territorial governments are in a
state ofpupilage, under the protection of
the general government that they have
no power, not given to them by Congress +;
that it is our duty to provide for the peo-
pie of the territorial government; to se-
cure their property; to see that the pro-
lection of their persons and the security of
their property are all regularly provided
for to maintain them in that state until
they grow into sufficient Importance in
point of population to be admitted into the
Union as State upon the same footing
with the original States.
Mr.. Breckenridge continued-Do you
suppose that Daniel Webster, after the
opinion of the Supreme Court which I
have read to you, would have considered
it becoming to him to point at some con-
trivance or device by which the Territori
al Legislature could violate the rights of
the Southern States? Not he !; nor would
Clay, nor any of the great and good men
who figured in the earlier days of your
history. [Cheers.]
The Judges and Governors of these
Territorial Governments are appointed by
the President of the United States, and
paid out of the public treasury, SO that the
very Legislature which they invoke to ex-
clude your property from the Territories,
is one whose daily expenses are paid out
of the Treasury-out of the money to
which that very property contributes by
taxation. [Applause. The practice of
Government has been always different.
Mr.. B. here ent cred into an argument
to show that Congress has power to pro-
teet property in the Territories, and in
refutation of the position recently taken
by the Senator from Illinois that Congress
had never exercised this power. The prin-
ciples l have tried feebly to yindicate here
he continued, are the principles upon which
the Constitutional Democracy standsto day
Ifthey are the principles of the Constitution
and the Union, then we are Constitutions
alists and Unionists. And yet for two OF
three months you have heard loud and in
cessant clamor that and those Democrats
with whom am connected are disunion-
lists, supporting disunionists, supporting
disanion organization, that we seek to
break up this confederacy of States | hard
ly know, so far as it is personal charge
against myself, how to answer it.
The whole stock in trade of these anon
ymous writer's and wandering orators over
the country seems to be the cry of disun.
ion. "This man and his party" they say
"attempt to break up this union of States
We reply, how can principles be sectional
or tend to disunion, which are based upon
the Constitution And yet the large
number of young gentlemen who are en-
gagged in ringing bells, still, with tongues
as long and heads as empty as the bells
which they ring, cry "disunion -
prolonged laughter and cheers,l
From sources yet more eminent comes
the information that l, and the political
organization with which / am connected
are laboring for the disruption of the Con
federacy. / do not reply now to what Mr.
Douglas says all over new England, il
Virginia and wherever he goes, because il
is quite natural for a gentleman, as much
interested as he is, to think that any man