Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-30
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their tendency TO expedients for immediate
success, overlooking great fundamental prin-
cipes, on which only permanent success can
be founded. Such Is not the inhrmity of
Mr. Gaulden, The leader of the Georgia Doug
las delegation in the Baltimore Convention.
Gaulden made speech at that Convention,
defining popular sovereignty as he under
stood il, which excited much enthusiasm.
We quote some of the gems from Gaulden,
promising that he first announced himself a
pro-slavery and an African slave-trade man,
believing IL to be the only hopefor our free
institutions WI. . O.
~ say that our friends in Georgia, who are
crying out for protection TO slavery in the
Territories, are advocating mere abstrac-
ton, thing that is not and can not be. They
would do much better If they would demand
protection from the General Government and
have a line of police established along the
border of the slave States to catch md hang
the thieving Abolitionists who. are stealing
our niggers. Laughter and applause This
is means of protection. Why2 Because il
is practical. Renewed laughter and ap-
plause.1
Gaulden is u firm non-interventionist in
the Territories, but he comes out so strong
for Congressional protection in the States
that his territorial heresy might almost be
forgiven. 1t is relief to find that the pop
ular sovereignty heresy is limited entirely Ia
the Territories, where we have faith enough
in Providence to believe that the Supreme
Court will soon crush it out.
Rut we return to Camden:
"Here is my old native State of Virginia
the slave-trading and slave-breeding State Of
Virginia" [Laughter.]
Delegate from Virginia-I call the gen.
tleman TO order. He casts an imputation
upon Virginia by calling her the "slaye-breed-
ing State of Virginia"
We suspect that delegate from Virginia
was some Abolitionist in disguise. He affects
to regard the most suitable and profitable
employment of the chivalry as an imputation
on the State; very likely he regards the an
nual export of twenty thousand negroes from
Virginia as her shame. A mild Virginia
argument of tar and feathers might have
brought that delegate to reason.
But to this, thus Gaulden:
"Mr. Gaulden-Well, will say the slave
being aslave-breederm myself Loud laughter. ]
will face the music myself and have got
as many negroes as any man from the State
of Virginia. And as invited the gentlemen
of this Convention at Charleston to visit my
plantation, will say again that, if they will
come to see me, will show them as fine a lot
ofnegroes, and the pure African, too, as they
can find any where. And | will show them
as handsome set Of little children there as
can be seen [laughter], and any quantity of
them, too. [Renewed laughter. And | wish
that Virginia may be as good slave-trading
and slave-breeding State as Georgia; and in
saying that do not mean to be disrespectful
to Virginia, but | do not mean to dodge the
question at all.
That envious performance Of the mother OF
the Gracchi was feeble, compared with the
noble pride of Gaulden over his ebony
jewels. Gaulden is taken by the spirit, and
prophesies
"And now, while | am up, / want to put
my veto upon one thing. | know that am
not going to be applauded in what say; but
seed sown in good time will bring forth fruit;
and though you may say now that | am
wrong, yet think shall live to see the day
when the doctrines which | advocate tonight
will be the doctrines of Massachusetts, and OF
the North, for
Truth crushed to earth will rise again;
The eternal years of God are hers;
While error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies amid her worshipers.'
The poetical quotation is somewhat worn
but was never SO aptly applied.
But Gaulden is well grounded on logica
principle He can not see why popular sover
eighty should not be amphibious; why, if i
is an eternal principle on land, it should dit
on the water. We are obliged to clip Gaul
den, for he scars beyond our limits, but W.
will leave him in an impregnable position
and would like to see the popular sovereignt.
men dislodge him from it:
81 SAY Igofor non-intervention in the broad
est sense of the term. say that this whole
thing should be taken out of the hands of thu
General Government. say it is all wrong
to be spending two or three millions of dol
lars annually from our pockets, and sacriic
ing thousands of lives upon the coast o
| Africa in that terrible cline, to prevent oul
going there to get few negroes. If it il
right for us to go to Virginia and buy negro
and pay so, 900 for him. it is legally right TO
us to go to Africa, where we can get then
for $50. [Applause and laughter.l Here i
the condition we are placed in, and you ma.
as well come to your senses and face tn
music"