The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-09

myself tnat country upon the equal
ity with which man, who paid cent of taxes
may go from free State Will YOU submit to it, mo
viii the people of the Slave States submit it That's
the question that presents between and those Re
| publicans.
Where does Douglas present HIMSELF He comes along
and WELL it be that the doctrine of inter
venton is all rght-it may b. that Congress cannot
strict you from going into territory, but have
machine for which took out patent myself that does
the same work (Laughterl The people of a territory
have the same rights, he says that the people of State
have. But say they have not. I say under the law
they have not- say under the Constitution they have
notI under the decision of the Supreme Court they
| have not-I saw under the dctum of the wsest urst
this country ever produced they have say the
who says they have don't understand the law of the
case (Appause and laughter Do you lose the rig hit
of sefgovernment when you the border9 reckon
that when into Kansas, and find Kansas with Con-
Constitution If Congress, then, cannot interfere with
my right, how can Congress create government that
can interfere with itf How does Mr. Douglas make the
creature of Congress better than Congress ITSELF Who
heard of endowing his with
power than he had HIMSELF That is the idea that Mr..
Douglas is trying to instil into the public mind When
the people of the saveholdng States become gentle under
this treatment, tell you they longer fit be
| freepeople
ain here this stand without regard to those who
surround me, to express my views this principle with
Kentucky (Applause.) part with my old associ-
atons part with numbers of my best friends, who will
continue in the supporter Bell and Everett and yet Bell
and Everett said to maintain the view the
subject that do but unfortunately this rupture that
has occurred in the Democratic party has brought this
question up the surface. We Douglas flank
and John Breckenridge the other and Bell and Ever
going Sllpplng IN dnotner
the fact that there contest at all What these
the principles that have been invaded, about which
I answer they are. Were they worthy of CON
test? Certainly. They brought into the arena the best
minds of this country and the pillars of Union
rocked and trembed to their very basis in that
If these sectionalists can spread dsafecon whether
men; of position to our political men, of reward to our
avaricious men, of to placid and quiet if
convention shall fall and fall will be like that of
the tainted leaf in November when it is no longer fit to
face the breezes of heaven am on my way to my own
home. God knows-but may part with all
my associates may part with all the political
party that has reared me and honored me, but will go
before my people, and speak to them speak you
tonight and feet shall know rest and my eyes
shall scarcely know sleeping, until shall feel that the
sentiment of my State is all right upon this great ques
ton. (Applause.)
would say word in parting with the men who
have acted with me- because l look Baltimore
great many friends believe that will be false to my
SELF and you will be false yourselves you do not
come up and meet this issue like There may be
such men among you but tell you that these men, in
the hour of danger and time of trial will finch as have
seen some Of them finch already (Applause In brief
words in plain words, and in earnest words, have told
you the principles which this will turn
cratic organization have single ticket heard
of that, but when did, said. whenever you do that
do that, you for both sides the sapng the hue
of the being white and that of the other being black
As regards Breckenridge and Lane one word. Who is
| BreckinridgeH have known him since he
boy as did his father before him, and if there
clean sa stock to h he is assuredly Of it. applause
ridgel Resuming, the speaker said: In the
case of adissouton of this Union, my property would
be worthless homestead would be unsafe through
the night Kentucky My home, my birthplace. the
place where family is, and under whosesod my family
have slept for three generatons-where my parents
sleep, and where expect to sleep the sleep myself
that knows no wakng-Kentucky would be desert and
wilderness. And do these men pretend that, if they
were going hunt up dissolution of the Union, that
they would prick up of shoot of sgner of the Deca
ration of Independence in order to effect it? These
could not receive broader or surer guarantee that we
mean to preserve the Union than by selecting their
standard Ia bearer John 11 Brecknrdgs ApPanse old
som to the country's enemiesa whose life has been
spent its very borderhis nomination is the giving of
bond to keep the and the balance of the country
| (Applause.)
After auding further the charges of dsunion
brought against Breckenridge and Lane, Mr. Marshall
said we have currency questions bank questions
talk about now. In your own Democratic party, men
are to be found upon all sides of these The
principles that are upon effect person, and
they effect the inheritance that to leave to
children care nothing for association, but go where
ever my principles lead me Wherever the the power is
with the equality of the States equality
reemen of the States, follow it,
socations it carries Every man who strikes blow
in that army is my brother, and grapple him to my
heart with hooks of steel (Applause)
The PRES sIDENT.-Gentlemen, the next speaker whom
have the pleasure to introduce to you is the gifted the
who was formerly its Governor-Mr Lowe. [Great ap.
| pause)
Ex, Governor Lowe, of Maryland who was greeted with
immense applause, said
Once more have the honor to stand this spot
secraed not only by the those ilustriou
whose heroic patriotism is inscribed in impershabe
ters on yonder marble monument but consecrated still
more, gentlemen because it has become historical by
the assemblages of this great people, for than
quarter of century gathered together here in solemn
emergencies to consult the great destines of their
country (Appause Often fellow citizens, has it been
my proud privilege, from this very stand to address
united Democracy should be the emotions
OF my heart this nghtaye, should belle the everlasting
truth OF an honest nature to conceal from
the profound and nextngushabe which burdens
heart, when reflect that, this night, (which will
be memorable in your future history the begin
ing of campaign that must decide your destines
| tioH Hrct tifnn all l;,,;l
| Democracy.
had hoped that benign Providence would have
spared me the inexpressbe grief that oppresses my
SOUL when, for the first time in my humble political
reer stand before the people of the Monumental city,
and feel that those who once brothers. may not
regard me with approving smile. But, sirs, every
man who hath come forth from the hand Of God has his
appointed work to dohas high duty to fulfl-and he
dare not shrink from its responsibility tApplause)
Why are you here tonight? Have you come to respond
the ' pas %e You % haVe eo1e Oe 70 H
zens of Baltimore without regard political distinction
gravey seriously and with deep conviction of the
high responsibility that in this solemn crisis rests upon
every man, of every condition in life-you have come /
other to the which you shall pursue
the securement of the highest interests of native land
first organized upon blood patriots who
laid the foundations of its freedom, has been
such issue and such crisis presented the consdera
ton The careful investigation and the honest decision of
| free people.
Weshave, in times past, gone through severe trials
AS nation, we have passed through fiery ordeals; but
my friends, tas hope to show you, before close my
gumens to-nightl there is down upon you black
cloud hled with the lightnings of wrath; and all that
you have been taught TO believe precious only
in those institutions, which, perhaps you upon
you would upon some towering monument in the dis
tance but everything that you regard dearest your
fire sides is involved and calls for the exercise of your
highest judgment. Applause.) When the great Demo
cratic party of this nation stood like man. with more
than the power of Herculesaye and with loer spirit
than any that heroic history had produced before
when that party, unbroken by faction, undivided by
reconcilable differences in regard to Constitutional prn
cpes stood with its giant FORM foot upon the South
| and the other the North
and cried out, with voice that heard by all the
mountains and all the oceans: stand back fapaticism
of the North stand back disunon of the South Con-
stution shall be preserved and the Union shall be
ained when that great pary say occupied such po
son before high Heaven and all mankind whose anxious
eyes bent upon this great model Republic OH my
friends and citizens, how the heart of every patriot
eaped with oy how the blood coursed through his vens
how his knded with the fire of sublime emotion how
he lifted up his Sabbath prayers to bless the Almighty
that there existed such organization to ntepose the
panoply of its patriotic devotion and the shield of
| power between the land that God gave through
the blood of our sres and that fell spirit of which
would strike its great mission to the EARTH Immense
applause) And is there no man to weep the dis
rupton of such party? Is there any false to
| God and triumph IN the downfall of such
party? Is there who will that the great body
either of these unhappy divisions Of the Democracy
nsensible to the calamity which has fallen the ma
ton? hope not. | not the to come here to.
night to aunt the brother of yesterday with
day am not here to forget the friendships and the
services, of those whom must regard my erng
brethren in the past in order that may contribute
temporary triumph But gentlemen, come before you
to ask your calm and deliberate attention as l endeavor
in plain, unvarnshed lay before you what
conceive to be the true issues in this contest.
Why is the Democratic party divided this nlghf as 1t
because portion of the party desired the nomination of
Stephen Douglas and another desired the nomination OF
some one else2 The who entertains that idea has
not below the surface of the troubled which
we are embarked. No, gentleman. Had it been a
choice between men, had it been a
against the elevation of any power no such
calamity that which have family described could
have fallen upon the nation. But, gentlemen what
find here to nights the logical consequence of long
ries of events, to which shall briefly alude the course
of my remarks Cast your eye back almost half a CEN
tury ago-more than forty years ago-and what do
discover looming in the distant past? small black
cloud lowering upon the horizon all visible of
rulean hue; all else bright; all else free
to the watchful But, fellow citizens that small
black cloud which in its expanded proportions
your horizon from East TO West the beginning of
the fell spirit of abolition fanacism the which,
for years. hid its diminished head under the
of public opprobrium, And still, strange to say, small
as it in its inception; contemplate it was in
its organizations limited it in its capacity for evil
as would suppose at that time yet subtle nsn
uatng the poison that dripped from its serpant
tongue, that thenforyone years ago-it had the
power to its head in the Congress the United States
and policy OF the ordinance of 1887 and that
| Missouri which then seeking admission into the
Union should not be permitted TO enter and become
of constellation of States unless she would submit
to positive legislation by the Congress of the United
States excluding slavery from her borders perpeualy
| (Applause You all remember or have learned-those
Of who honored with grey hairs and those of
who have received the tradition from athersthat
the very pillars of the temple of the Constitution
shaken in that controversy All felowcitizens there
commenced the fatal mistake made by the South them
selves-made by the patriotic, of the