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

Mr.. Douglas says, and to-day stands
upon it, and claims your votes upon it,
that Territorial Legislature, no matter
what the decision of the Supreme Court
may be, has the right to exclude slave
property from Territory that you may
take it there, but that It must be held
subject to such laws as the local legisla.
ture may make. The Supreme Court
says the Territorial Legislature cannot
exclude it, and Mr.. G. says: Nothing
can strike him as more unconstitutional
and contradictory than to say that while
you may 90 there, there is somebody
stronger or mightier than the Constitu.
ton that can take away that which the
Constitution says you may hold and en-.
JOY. Just what Mr.. Douglas asserts, and
which, if not recognized, he will rend and
destroy as he goes. (Applause) l de-
rive some satisfaction from the fact that
the Hon. John J. Crittenden, whose name
and authority will 60 far in this Union,
has declared in the Senate and recogni.
zed by his vote as Senator the principles
upon which we stand, as the principles Of
the Constitution. (Cheers.)
cannot eularge-I appeal to you if I
have not with reasonable certainty-I
may say conclusively y--repclled the accu-
sation against me---if | have not shown
that it is neither 1, nor the party which
nominated ME, but Mr.. Douglas, who has
broken faith that by agreement at the
time of the passage of the Kansas-Nebras.
ka bill, the constitutional point was to be
left to the Supreme Courtl Have | not
shown that the Supreme Court sustained
our construction of the Constitu ton 7
Have not shown that the agreement thus
made, has been violated by the declara-
ton that subordinate authority may de-
ny the constitutional right to admit slave
property, when the Court says it has not
that power. Who has abandoned the
! ground or violated the agreement?
have shown that the principles upon
which we stand have been endorsed and
sanctioned by the practice of the Govern
ment affirmed by the highest judicial
tribunal in the world, voted to be true by
the two political parties in Kentucky in
1859, unanimously asserted by both
branches of the Legislature, and by an
overwhelming majority of the whole Dem
ocratic party of Kentucky, and declared
by Mr.. Crlttenden to be sound and true.
/ (Cheers.) I think | have piled up q
pyramid of fact and argument in support
of our principles which ought to commend
itself to the grave consideration of every
intelligent man. | have tried to do it by
legitimate facts and argument. l am not
conscious of having appealed to any pref
udice
! Fellow citizens, can you bear with me a
little longer !
A Voice" Yes, for q week 90 on!'
know of but one political organiza-
ton now before the United States which
asserts the principles l have undertaken
to expound. The Republican organiza-
ton has taken precisely the same ground
from an opposite point of view. They
say we have no rights in the Territories
with our property They say Congress
has right to exclude it, and it is its duty
to do so, and they are willing 10 see the
Territorial Legislature do it if Congress
docs not.
In regard to the platform adopted by
the Convention which nominated Mr.. Bell,
of Tennessee, and Mr.. Everett, of Massa-
chusetts, / have only to say that certainly
it announces no principle at all upon this
bject,-none whatever. Gentlemen tell
us that they are advocating the claims Of
these distinguished gentlemen upon the
principles of " the Constitution, the Union
and the enforcement of the laws" L
presume that there is scarcely man in
! this neutrality-suspicious. no one North or
South, who will admit that he is against
the Union, the Constitution and tho en-
forcement of the laws. But yet they en-
tertain the most diverse and opposite
opinions as to the best mode of sust aiming
/, the Constitution and the character of the
laws to be enforced. Mr.. Seward, Mr..
Burlingame and Mr.. Giddiugs will tell
you they are for the Union; but it is their
own sort of Union they want. They say
they are for the Constitution, but they
construe the Constitution SO as to take
away all our rights. They tell you they
are for the enforcement of the laws, but
they are for laws which would take away
our property. (Cheers.)
+" For the Union, the Constitution and
the Laws They shake hands with you
on that-anything under heaven after
ward Laughter and cheers
This platform, gentlemen, declares
practically nothing and | have nothing
! further to say about it. But the platform
have read to you does contain distinct
enunciation of certain principles which
treat of the rights of property and person
in the Territories, and what we regard to
be the equal rights Of the States. And
we want to know if the people of Kentucky
are ready to meet the issue. We appeal
to ou,-not in behalf of any individual,
but to stand by our own principles,
founded on the Constitution of the coun,
try.
Now ifit be true that 1 am not dis
unionist, and if it be truo that the politi.
cal principles | advocate are not disunion
principles, but are the principles of the
Constitution. is it not RIGHT hard TO charpe