Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-09-20

we intend TO navigate that water into the
broad ocean. fCheers.1 We never intend
to pay duties at the mouth Of the Ohio River
/ In following the waters Of the Missippi to the
Gulf, nor do we intend 10 obtain passports
for trip toa foreign country when we come
to visit the graves uf our grandlathers in Vir-
/ ginia. Tremendous cnthusiasm.1 We love
the Union, and we mean to maintain it.
! [Cheers.l We know Of but one mode Of pre-
serving IL aud transmitting it unimpaired to
cur postcrty, and that mode is by continuing
TO remain faithful 10 every provision Of the
/ Constitution under which we live. lCheers i
/ Whatever the Constitution requires MS to do,
we intend to perform with our hearts blood
If the sacrifice is necessary. fCheers.l Ev-
cry right the Constitution gives you we will
defend 10 the last extremity fchc ersl; but ev-
cry right the Constitution gives you il guar
antecs to me and to every other citizen and
we demand that equality with you. fChecrs.
If you refer to the Revolutionary struggle,
to the glory OF your ancestors, to the emi-
nence Of the statesmen that the old dominion
has furnished, to the immense sacrifice she
/ has made in the cause OF liberty, to the ser
vices that you rendered in the formation Of
the Constitution. and to the purity OF the De-
mocracy that Jefferson and a Madison have
transmitted to us, we concede your superior
claims; but when you demand larger power
you accord to us, We deny the justice Of
the claim. [Cheers.1 We grant equality;
We ask nothing more. we will accept nothing
less. Hence, whatever rights we have
whatever protection Congress gives us--it
shall give you; but in all cases where we are
dependent upon the local law for our protec-
tion, you must trust TO the local law foryour
selves. These principles must be familiar to
| you.
now SECTIONAL STRIFE HAS BEEN ocCAsIoNED.
We have never had any difficulty in this
country; sectional strife ha never placed our
liberties in peril, except when the Federal
government has attempted to exer else pow.
ers not delegated in the constitution. You
all remember the perls that enviroued us in
1850. The free soilers then demanded that
Congress should prohibit slavery everywhere
! in the Territories, the southern disunionists
demanded that Congress should prote CT slav-
cry every where in the Territories. whether the
people wanted it or not; but the Union men,
with Clay and Webster and Cass-Unon
| wings and Union democrats - united as band
| OF br Others, ,sand declared that Congress should
not interfere at all with the local affairs of the
Territories. [Chcers. That great struggle
resulted in the adoption of what is known as
the compromise measures of 1850. These
measures We're the joint action OF tho whig
party and the democratic party, and their "a
dOption was triumph over northern aboli-
tionists and southern disunionists
We have the same issue presented to us
f now that we had then. Non intervention by
Congress was the principle then agreed to,
and that is the doctrine OF the democratic
, party now. If there are any old line wings
present, permit NE to ask them whether, in
1852, they did not incorporate this plank Of
non-interv ention by Congress with slavery in
the Terri tories in their platform adopted in
, national conventioni Every whig knows that
the Baltimore c invention of 1862 pledged his
I party; pledged every whig in America, to this
, principle of non-intervention. | appeal to
you, democrats, ifin our convention the same
yea, We did not pledge esir faith TO The same
, principle. [Cheers.l 1t is true that many
democrats from the extreme South had op-
posed that principle in the struggle two years
before. They appealed to theirpeople to sus-
tain them in their resistance to the compro-
mise measures Of 1850, and, wherever that
appeal was made. it was answered by rebuke
from the people. The ultraists and secessionsts
of the South, in the great contest of 1851, were
compelled by the vote of the people of their own
State to acquiesce in this principle Of non-inter
r veEtion.
In 1859 when we assembled at Baltimore to
nominate candidate for the Presidency, all these
secessonists came forward and asked us to receive
them into the democratic tellowshp they pledged
themselves tu acquiesce in the compromise meas
ures OF 1850 and the principle Of non-intervention
on condition of our doing so. We did receive
them on their pledge OF honor that they would
support that principle in the future Pierce was
made President On that principle, and the Nebras
kaKansas bill was passed to carry it into effect
l brought forward that bill, and did not mean
that any honest man should ever have pretext
in the future to say he did not understand the bill
gave him. Cheers 70 prevent it | inserted
the Nebraska bill, in the very section which re-
pealcd the Missouri compromise, the provision that
the eighth section Of the Missouri was declared
null and void because it was inconsistent with the
Y principle Of non-interventon by Congress with
9 slavery in the States and Territories as affirmed
= i'll the compromise measures OF 1851
Every man who voted for the Nebraska bill af-
| Grmed under oath his devotion to the principle OF
nntervention by Congress. 1t is true that some
S of those secessonists VIII had opposed the com
S promise measures Of 1850, and who are now bolt
3 ing the regular organization of the democratic
party, came to me then and asked me to strike out
! those words, "inc0nsiStant ,oih the principle q
I non-interoention as affirmed in the compromise
q msasures Of 1850. | enquired the reason they
wanted them stricken out, and they said that they
n had voted against the compromise measures OF
of 1850, and those words seemed TO make them
stultity themselves by voting for it now. Laugh
!, ter and applause | asked them whether they
by that princlplel "Oh yes" they REPLIED "but
they did not vote for it," told them that they
should never pass that bill unless they inserted in
1t their devotion to this principle of non-interven
= ton. (Cheers. Every Senator and every Rep
e resentative from Virginia, with the exception OF
Gen. Millson. of Norfolk, voted for the Nebraska
4 bill with tnat understanding. Gen. MillsOn would
u not give the pledge, and hence he would not vote
r for the bill, but if any man doubts whether the
{ others understood it | did, he had better ash
! General Nilsson. Laughter and.applause Ht
Il is the only member OF Congress from Virginia
# Senator Dc Representative, who has right, atte
. his vote on the Nebraska bill, to oppose non
n interyention-the only man who can consistent,
u do it,
h CHARGED WITH CHEATING THE SOUTH.
1t has been charged lately that | framed thu
Nebraska bill so as TO cheat the South and make i
freesoil measure Really, | think that thos
y who make this charge have not duly reflected
s What a confession That a man from the back
!, woods OF the northwest, came to Congress am
l. cheated every Southern Representative who ha'
n a seat there2 Great laughter and long contnu
!, ed applause II it be true, that in the Senate
g the United States no one Southern State had
a Senator with sense en- ugh to understand the b
RI when he read il, is time you had changed you
e Senators. (Uproarous laughter and applause. J.
}, have been prepared during my political caree
a for many strange things, but never yet dream
l. that men would so far stuluy themselves I
"a say that bill was drawn that they did not under
a stand it after il had gone through discussion c
II four months, and had been subjected TO the mo;
" thorough investigation that any bill ever had