The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-02-11


the Democratic press-that although this
philosophical conclusion is going on. wheth-
/ er It IS the work of this century or of the
next. or of ten centuries, or, of tan thousand
centuries, he does not undertake to deter
mine, nor can any other man sButhe does
! say that it will take place: not by violence.
mot by John Brown raids, or conflicts and
bloodshed; but peacably by the amendment
| of the Constitutions and laws of the sever
al Southern States themselves.
| Is there Democrat here unwilling to en-
dorse that method of settling the conflict
which Democratic papers assert exists +?
Suppose the great people OF the Common
wealth of Kentucky choose to throw up the
barbarian relic, who shall object? What
SAYS your Democratic authority ? Have
YOU not the right to do it2 Is not that the
idea? If it is not, here then is a sshigher
law"-the law of Slavery, higher than that
Iof all Democratic principles, that Is, the
same Divine rights against which we fought
/ in the British King, by which he claimed
| TO rule over US without our consent. What
ever it be, be it eyenthe law of God, that is
certainly not Democracy; it is despotisn;
it is the same old Divine right of Kings,
and nothing else. disguise it as you may.
So said Gov. Seward. So say l, and so says
the Democratic party.
The Republican party in the States of the
Union say that it is none of their business
that if South Carolina, Kentucky, and
| Virginia choose to own slaves by voluntary
consent, by the ascertained win Of major
ity Of the people, let them hold on to the
|
of South Carolina, Georgia, or Kentucky,
in their, omnipotentpower, as the sovereigns
of their own country, choose to abolish in
a way that seems to them good, it is. none
of our business; in Gods name, let them
do it. That is the doctrine I have always
avowed in this Commonwealth, that mas
much as l was free-born white citizen Of
Kentucky, for the freedom of which my
fathers stood, my sentiments were for the
expulsion of. this system from our Com
monwealth; but further than that I did not
claim 70 60. If we choose to abolish or
maintain Slavery, it is our business. If
Virginia, South, Carolina, or Missouri choos-
es to abolish it, it is an officious informed
ding that tries to dictate to Kentucky, and
say if it be. allowed to excite my Constitu7
tional rights these people are towards. In
asmuch as leave them free to claim their
State sovereignty and powers. I claim to ex-
ercise my Constitutional rights as a citizen
within the limits Of my own Jurisdiction.
| That is the. doctrine of the Republican
party. So far as the Southern members of
that party are concerned, they say that it is
our business, aud none of theirs; but SO
ed, it was established, as they believe, upon
| I,,S of - hot
into the free Territories of this Union
Slavery shall not go. That is the ground
the distinctive ground of the Republican
great parties Of the United States. ,1a.' /
But, as I said before, L do not stand here
to vindicate Gov. Seward, especially; only
him, and through him have been intended
to act upon and against the Republican par
ty, have I alluded to this matter at all. Il 4 =
s.. +a r. DISSOLUTION. ff ~
Let us look little at that thing of dis
solution. A body would suppose with Can
ada, far removed, that when it has become
dangerous for me to speak where there are
millions of white men to a few hundred
thousand slaves, that slave property had
become unsafe. Dissolve the Union, and
move the line to the north of the Ohio, and
would you have additional security Does
any man suppose--is any man mad enough
| to suppose that if these people, once bound
together by a common brotherhood of suf-
fering, by association in churches, by a
common christianity, by the ties of educa-
ton, cannot remain in peace in the Union,
tina. they would remain in peace out of the
| Union? Does Mr. Breckenridge or Mr..
Magoffin suppose such a case as that ? -=f
Y GU have your. answer when you sa; Gov.
Wise, who in the last Presidential race
talked of Selling upon the arsenal and
marching to Washington to take possession
of the archives and preventing the inaugu-
ration of Republican President, saying,
now if there is any fighting to be done it is.
to be done in the Union, and not out Of it;
when you see your Democratic leaders talk
ing roundand becoming the defenders of the
Union, don't you all begin to see the folly
of this thing, don't yeu all see what all men
of common sense must see, that outside of
the Union there lies less security for slave
property Certainly you do! Nobody
supposes that there would be anything other
than the way Mr.. Caldwell said to-day. Do
you suppose you would have peace No
sir, you would have war to the knife-and
the knife to the hilt. That is what would
be the result. Where is your security for
your slave property them Would your
eight millions of white men enter upon
contest with twenty millions and hold your
slaves at home? Tt is not to be heard Of
More safety 2 moi The fact is, you would
have to sacrifice your negroes, like France
aud Hungary did their slave property, at
once, at the beginning of the way. Then
what would you gain so far as y6,lara slave
holders What are the non shareholders
to gain Why, it reminds me of a history
that friend of mine, an ingenious man, used
to tell of white man and an Indian. They