The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-08-31

and bidding the people "mind their own bus
incss." Having framed platform of prih'
ciples which declared that during the e.,s.
tence of the Territorial government me
measure of restriction ON the power oi inc
Territorial Legislation over the subject OF
slavery shall be determined by the ouPren'Ss
Court, and enforced with promptness an anu
fidelity by every branch Of the General uo,.
ernment-haying placed Mr.. Douglas upon
that platform which leaves tho people ci the
Territories powerless at the feet OF trloun-
nj which has already denied their power 10
exclude slavery, this Convention, anxious 70
win the support of tho slave propagands"
of the South, selected for the Vice Preslden-
CIV Mr.. Fitzpatrick of Alabama, who had es,
/ er scornfully spurncd the delusiye doctrine oi
popular sovereignty. Fitzpatrick never ac-
cepted .my great principle;' : he rejected the
doctrine cf popular sovereignty and non.
Intervention, which keep the word OF prom.
Ire to our ear. but break 1t to our hope;' ye'
the Douglas faction, with these phrases on
Its lip Of lies,' hastencd to tender him
nomination which linked his name with that
of their squatter chief. ,r
Fitzpatrick had in 1913 signed Calhoun's
manifesto to the people of the South--a
manifesto filed with appeals to the interests,
preiudices and passions Of the Shareholders,
and the ultra doctrines of that great CHIEF
tain of slavery. In 1858 he had steadily vot'
cd for that product of fraud and violence,
the Lccompton Constitution, which propo'-
cd by national intervention to iorce slavery
upon the unwilling and protesting people OF
Kansas; and with the knowledge OF ths
fact before them, the Douglas faction, with
professions of devotion 10 the right OF the
people of the Territories to frame their own
Constitution, and to vote for its adoption Or
rejection. nominated for the second Office in
the nation, the man who had voted TO forcehy
federal power u slayeholding Constitution
upon people who had not been permitted
to vote upon 1t. Can apostacy farther 60!
But few days before this nomination,
GOV. Fitzpatrick had voted for each and oil
of the resolutions of JEFF. Davis-resolutions
denying the right Of Territorial Legisla-
turc to exclude slavery, and claiming for the
slave masters Of the South the right to carry
slaves rs property into the Territories, ard
have them protected as property by Federal
legislation whenever necesslrry-resolutiOn
upon which Douglas had spoken two days,
but against which he conveniently forgot to
| vote.
While those resolutions were pending, and
after Douglas had descanted fpr two daysup.
ON the beauties OF my great principle
Fitzpatrick addressed the Senate, disayowcd
any sympathy with the doctrines of popular
sovereignty and non.intervention Us illustnt-
ed by Douglas, and avowed his entire con-
cnrrencc with the sentiments embodied In the
Davis resolutions, and his readiness to sus-
tain them with his vote. With his record
before the country, with his words sounding
in their ears, tho Douglasites grcedly seized
the occasion to associate his name with that
of their great non.interyention leader. They
hailed with exultant- shouts this union -bs-
tween the chief of non.intervention, and the
repudiator of my great principle What
sublime hypocrisy But Fitzpatrick 'spurn-
ed the bribe,' he would not allow his name
TO he dishonored by such an alliance. But
the Douglas Convention hal dissolved, and
their National Committee assumed the duty
of selecting candidate for the position made
vacant by the declination Of Fitzpatrick.
Now was an opportunity TO select a candi-
date whose professions ut least should accord
with those Of their chosen leader, one who
would accept my great principle The
disciples Of popular sovereignty could now
select candidate, who had not, like the re.
tring Fitzpatrick, contcmptuously spurned
the great principle but with the Inherent
apostacy which made them clutch at the
Wickliff resolution, they seized upon Her
schell V. johnson Of Georgia, and made him
their candidate for the Vice Presidency. And
who is this Herschell V. johnson, selected of
all men To bc associated with the champion
of non. Intervention Who is this Southern
statesman, deemed worthy of having his name
associated with the author Of 'my great
principle?' Who Is this candidate whom the
toilinc frecmcn of Maine are summoned to
bear into the chair OF the Vice Presidency?
In ls4S this IIerschcll V. johnson was in
the Senats Of the United States for few
weeks, brief term, yet long enough for
him to have left upon the records of that
body his sentiments and opinions. lie ac-
cepted the doctrines Of the Calhoun school,
and proclaimed them with the zeal Of q chOs-
en- disciple. On the 7th Of July, 1913, on
the Oregon bill, he avowed that Congress
had no power to exclude slavery from the
Territories that 'the inhabitants Of Ter
ritory surely cannot prohibit It., that in no
epenf can tie shareholder Of The South be er-
eluded from settling in such Territory WITH
ms PROPERTY OF EyERY DLscRIrTIoN.' Here
undated the doctrine of the power Of the
Territorial Legislature to prohibit slavery,
and proclained tho subordination Of the
;r,nle of the Territory To the quotion
whether 1t is the duty Of Congress 10 guar
antv to the STAKEHOLDER who shall remove
with his slaves into the territory Of the Unit
ed States The undispuied enjoyment of his
prop,riv in them so long as it continues 20 be
a territory, he declared that slavery is
guarded by the Constitution Of the United
Stntes.' that Congress would be bound TO
veto an net of the Territorial Legislature
prohibitinc it, lie proclaimed twelve years
ayo the doctrines now embraced in the Sem
ats resolutions of JEFF. Davis, in the plat
form of the Breckinridgc section Of the Do.
mocracv. and he talked as secessionists and
disunionists talk now about popular con.
yulsions which will probably dissolve the
Union,' and warned the South that she had
no alternative but to stand upon her consti.
Tbi, record was before the nation, and yet
the followers Of Stephen A. Douglas, IN con.
sulttion with him In the city OF Washing
ton. selected this man as their candidate.
In 1850 Congress passed the Compromise
measures; the organization Of Utah and
New Mexico, without the exclusion Of slav-
cry; the oesion Of fifty thousand square
miles Of territory Of New Mexico to slave
holding Texas; the fugitive slave act the
abolition Of the slave trade In the District of
Columbia; and the admission Of California.
The abolition Of the odious and revolving
slave trade in the District Of Columbia, and
tho admission Of the free State Of Califor.
MIA, excited this Douglas candidate for the
Vice Presidency TO the verge Of treason and
rebellion. The liberty granted to the slave
master TO range with his bondmen over the
vast Territories Of Utah and New Mexico.