The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-08-31
BLOCK, LIBERTY STREET.
MORNING, AUG. 81, 1860.

OWn aUOrcIs, tuut tno iouofhB heh W wy
North are not only the pillars that support
the government, but the capitals that adorn
the pillars Laboring men Of Maine, OF
New England, Of tho North, aye, and OF the
South, vindicate your inanhood-proclaim
the rights of human nature, the dignity OF
man as man Tell tho clans Of Douglas that
they have insulted the free laboring men OF
America by nominating the author of the
degr4d 'ng ssntim,nt, that capital sould own
labor ....-....-
Spurn, indignantly spurn, the johnson
ticket, and thus uphold the dignity OF labor,
and the manhood Of laboring men. -
When, In, 1854, Mr.. Douglas was sum
| moned to organize the Territories Of Kansas
and Nebraska, he found q prohibition OF
slavery, which he had pronounced 20 sacred
thing With ..ruthles, hand no removed
that canonized prohibition, made by anoth-
or generation, and allowed slavery, more subt-
10 than the serpent, to glide into that gard n
of fertility and beauty. The people were to
be LEFT perfectly free to regulate their own
do nestle institutions.
But when, in the autumn Of 1854, the peo-
pie of Kansas assembled to elect delegate
to Congress, they found fifteen hundred Mis-
sourians there to elect delegate Tor them.
When, on the 30th of March, 1855, the peo-
ple again assembled to choose Legislature,
they found FIVE thousand Missourians organ
lied and armed around their ballot boxes
and these invading hosts elected lcsisla'
ture in the interests Of slavery. The intel!i-
eence of this gigantic fraud flashed over tho
country, startling and alarming the nation:
Was tho voice Of Stephen A. Douglas heard
in rebuke of this great outrage upon poo
plo to whom he had promised perfect free.
dom TO control their own domestic ahairsT
Gov. Reeder declared to the nation that the
pcople OF Kansas were o conquered people
and he tried to right their wrongs. Slavery
demanded his imnolation, and the President
fastened to remove him. Was the voice of
Stephen A. Douglas raised In condemnation
of that blow, aimed at thopcople OF Kansas!
Tho Legislature, imposed upon Kansas by
their Missouri conqucrors, assembled anu
framed q slave code which would have made
darker the Draconian code. DidStephcn A.
Dougla. send ono word Of sympathy or OF
hope to that outraged and almost despairing
people, or utter ono word of abhorrcnce Of
these iniquitous laws OF their conquerors?
The slave propagandists gloated over these
crimes, which had given slavery crownng
triumph in that coveted Territory.
When Congress assembled in December,
1855, tho President, plant to the will Of the
slave propagandists, took sides with the op.
pressor against tho oppressed. Soon the
news came of the cold bloodcd murder OF
Dow by Co enan, Of the excitement and in
dignation of the Free State people, OF the
proclamation of Shanon, the marching OF
eighteen hundred armed Missourians into
Kansas, with threats of wiping out the Free
State town of Lawrence, and Of driving the
Free State settlers out Of the Territory, Ofthe
cruel murder Of Barber, of the mobbing Of
the ballot boxes and the destruction OF the
Free State presses ut I.eayenworth, the cow
ardly murder Of the brave Capt. Brown, by
the Kicapoo Rangers, and other deeds OF
lawlessness and violence. Douglas was tho
accented leader of the Democracy in the Sem
ate, and with majority ut his command, his
word was law. Never, by word or deed. did
he cyince any sympathy for the brave Free
State men. wrongcd and outraged by the in
strupients OF the slave power.
But the faithful Free State men Of Kansas.
following the EXAMPLES OF tho people Of
Michigan, California and other States, elect
cd convention, framed Free State consti.
tuition, submitted 1t to the reople, sanctioned
it by their votes, chose State Government,
Representative and Senators to Congress.
Mr.. Douglas made report upon the affairs
Of Kansas, in which the crimes OF the slave
propagandists were CLOSED over palliated, ,ex.
cused or denied, and the action Of the Free
State men pronounced lawles and insurrcc-
tionary, and they stigmatized as insurgents,
and turbulent agitators,' who had alarmed
the people of Missouri and provoked the acts
of which they complained. Backed by a
willing and powerful party, Of which he was
the accepted leader in the Senate, Mr.. Doug
las stood, during that session, tho bold, def.
ant, arrogant, and domineering champion Of
the slave interests.
Did Seward, Hale, Wade, Collamcr, Trum-
bull, or Sumner, your own brave Senators or
their associates yndicate the rights, inter-
est or the character Of the wronged free
State men OF Kansas, his was the voice to
reply. His reckless audacity would have ex.
tortcd admiration from Danton. His voice,
his pen, his votes weie never wanting in the
support of the interests Of slavery, and COM
manded the applauding admiration Of its
champions. General Quitman. one ot the
most devoted champions the slave interest
ever had in Congress. in letter OF the 24th
Of March, 1856, thus applauds Douglas;
81 believe that at this day tho Northern
Democracy are soundcr and more reliable on
the tlaycry question than thcyever have been.
The Kansas bill has driven or all the COM
promisers, and left those that remain no al
tentative but full yindication OF our whole
rights. believe, therefore, they will pre-
Ter bold, ultra Southerner tn renegade.
Tn n short conversation with Douglas yes.
trtay, he said 10 me that rhdt he most feared
uas that timid Southern men irouid faH back.
| shall be content with Buchanan, and
will sustain Pierce if nominated. 1t Is also
my interest to be non.committal but when
writs to an old friend, like yourself, ! will
b, frank. Ny preference is for Douglas
lie is bold, fearless and seli.rciant: Were
he elected he would be President. He would
not come into Office with body guard OF OLD
iogics and politicians ready TO- seize upon a,' ~
the Offices. lie is true to the South. ne
demands NOT only The use and enjoyment ~
m, common territory for their proprfy, out
insisis upon its protection there. To nun We
ar, Indebted for the Kansas bill, which now
prc.c,,,s the points Of contact. lie II the
,rnc rcprcsentative Of this principle. and oP-
poses the abominablc principle OF squatter
Sovereignty"
When the memorial Of the members Of the
Icoislsture of Kansas, chosen under the To-
peta Constitution. for admission into the,
Union, was presented, Mr.. Douglas objected
to its reception and voted to lay upon the Ia.
bic the motion Of reception. When Mr..
Trumbull moved "that the Kansas.N ebrls-
ka act was intended to and does confer upon
or leave to the people Of the Territory OF
Kansas full power at any time. through !"
Territorial Legislature, to exclude slavery
or to regulate it," Douglas voted aga'm' ~. -.
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