Nebraska advertiser., 1860-03-22
Speech Made in Reply TO Governor
Black, 1.-THE OtOe County Con-
YenLIOn.
10y JUDGE c. T. HOLLY.1

TBY JUDGE CT. HOLLY
Mr.. PREsrDkxT AND FELLow-DEMocEATs
1t is known to you, that during my four year,
residence in this Territory, I have never sought Of
fee. lam no Professional Office seeker. But the
positionfor which have now the honor Of being
nomiDatca is one which more than fills the meas
urs of my ambition. The floor of an Assembly,
charged with the high duty of framing the funda-
mental law for q free people, will compare indignir
ty with the nature of any ether body on the face
Of the earth. And, although / confess, I should
have preferred that the best men Of the country,
without regard to politics, should have been elected
as members Of the Convention yet, as the RepubT
licansh have nominated a party ticket, ] concede the
~propriety and necessity of a corresponding action on
our part. rra
I should have been proud to have been one Of its
standard -bearers upon a platform Of equal rights
freedom in the Territory, and popular sovereignty
But there are those here who have claimed to speak
cor the party, and who have repudiated this-the
birth-right Of freemen, and I could not represent
their views upon this great cardinal feature Of De-
mocraey. know that it is said here, that differ
cnees Of opinion on this question Of populOr sover
eighty is not a test in our party, and is not made so
by the President, because he appointed Gen. 0asst to
Office, and he differed with the President on this
question. In reply 10 all this, dare to repeat, here,
in this De moeratic Convention, as have said else
where, that the Presidential scepter has never been
welded by a more intolerant spirit than that of James
Buchanan. What has been the rule for all appoint
ments? Has it been-"Is he fit ? Is he capable ? Is
be honest ?" OF was it's he for ~Lecompton? and
Does he ignore the doctrine Of popular soyereigntyg
Cass was appointed while the President still stood
upon the Cincinnati Platform, as construed in his
letter Of acceptance. And if be is still retained by
the President since "the change has come over the
spirit Of bis dreams, I" it only proves that this is an
exception to the general rule, and that be dare not
prescribe the chief prop Of his Administration /! But
while we have this solitary monument of his for
bearance, has not ship infamous test been made Oh
Senator Douglas and his friends, all over the land
Douglas la man among the immortal few who we're
never born to die ia name synonymous with the
rights Of the people all over the Union-and which
"hallows all its neutrality-suspicious. stands this
day in mental stature among the leading spirits Of
our land a head and shoulders taller than the tallest,
athe noblest Roman of them all7-Douglas The
Alpu lGuIlGug dnu Al NAC btlllS AOE tue ElElby the
braYest of the brave'-the 81 agaciOus statesman-the
incorruptibie patriot-the honest man-aIbe noblest
work of God" That il! astrious moral hero, who, in
the face of a triumphant and e~xacting Administra-
ton, almost alone of his own Party dared to breast
himself so calamity against the unhapy cOmbina-
ton to force upon the people of our sister Territory,
an Odious prO-slavcry constitution, which they had
never madc-@hich they didnOt want, and against
which they had vbted'by an overwhelming majority!
Who always dared walk in the path Of duty ard Of
right, although it may be Iit up by his Blazing eff
giosall Overthe landl! Douglass title giantlHe
is the Ajax lebanon Of our party upon whose gi-
gantic patriotism rests this day the almost only hope
Of the stability Of this glorious Union--to whom all
conservative eyes throughout its broad area are
turning as the wished for standard bearer of the
great National Enion Party, destined to lead its
patriotic millions against the. "Goths and sYandals,"
on to the contest and C. victory. (Chesrs.) 81.
Was not this ilustrious defender of the peoples
rights prescribed at the dictatiOn Of the President,
whom be had placed in power-srom his place on the
Senate Commute, because he adhered to the platform
Of the, party in its letter and spirit, and to the full
Hest extent T' And, when, as the regular nominee
of his party, he stood before the people Of his own
State, with its cOlors in his hands, calamity defend
ing the principles and organization Of the party,
and the perpetuity Of the Union? %
D!d we not see a Democratic President "fring in
his rear and giving said and comfort" to the cir
represiibles conaiogf dogma, bv forming an unholy
alliance with Black Republicanism whose doctrines,
f carried out, can have but one result-the disrup-
iOn Of this great confederaey2 Was any other
cause ever assigned for this attempt to defeat the
regular organization Of the party, except that its
nominee would not abandon. with the President, the
ri hts Of the peOplein a Territory as we'll asa State
to their own self-governmeht2 For this Ofense
alone, for this fidelity to his own convictions and to
the principles of the party, this noble Democrat
has been hunted down for the last three years, by
the whole yelping packl yet although read out Of
she party by all the pseudo organs, big and little
N ninety days he will DO at the head Of the coll
umns, waving the Democratic banners to the breeze
on which is inscribed il constitutional light, that
cardinal principle Of our free institutions popular
sovereignty" (Trensnd Gus ehoering.l
His Excellency seems tertake ofense at any ex-
preston Of opinion contrary to bis own, and par
tieularly to any criticism on his celebrated Veto
Message (! ], for one, claim the right to speak of his
official acts, and win dare to do it in q spirit that
becomes a freeman AMI why not? True, sthe
diving of power doth hedge him in" But be is no
more than a man, subject to like infrmities with
the rest of US. By virtue, Of bis commission from
the federal City be is indeed Governor Of this Ter
ritOry but, whenAhe comes as now, into the prima-
mary meetings, with the people, be has no business
to come with has official robes, to Oyerawe and insult
Che s-overeignsmassss. de Is no more in this cOnvsn-
ten than any other democrat, and on the same hOOr
here, humbIe as I am, I claim to be in every respect
IA peer. II sntecedents are refeFroa to, Twill COM
pare mine with his for the last twenty years and the
public may decide who has been the most e0uEistent.
Why shall he come here and MAKE a personal issue
with ali whc dor. u. T. whenever il may suit hi