Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-07-10

the flag that at this moment wa~s, ,'a aloi.
| 1aS, anu winch know Is filling your heart,
so,,h ex , memories Of the past, and hopes
~. ne GLORIOUS future of your country: fapplauseI
IeI us see who 1t is whom we are 70 follow in M;
approaching contest, There are fonr ns,t;as "a -
h s 1 T;, FIRST let me name which Combines
| Me fossil remains Of a once glorious partvNa
party which, whatever may have been ~ 90.
tne progress of time has eIhi bited ali men Of ali
| Pdiues now concur in describing as noblv
pS I uoP PITY ,nat party at whose head the form
| oi henry Clay blazoned like an archangeI: ian.
plause;J that party which through all time from
| Us commencement until its dissolution, was al
ways found by Its enemies to be an open. fair.
candid, manly party. Alas. alas gentlemen:
| tne great leader gone, with his maenanimon2
neart too great to beat time to anything less than
ane ulumPhal march Of his whole country-the
great leader gone, the ideas which had controlled
and governed his life having become obsniata a.
| tne gigantic stride of the nations propreu: bis
| followers are scattered MS
$50, some Of them, ali, gentlemen, too many of
| mem, took dark Lanterns into their hands, and
| olved into caves, lurking about in dark boles
/ ana corners, inventing countersigns and swear.
ing oa.ns, rom which, like Herod, they started
brought them. Laughter and applause some
others remained in peIefaction, and went In
| sleep like Rip Van Wrinkle, dreaming onlv NJ
,1e name ne OF him, and clinging to the shadow
| When the substance was gone. Some others
| among them, Abe Lincoln, flung themselves
neadionS into the vortex of abolitionism, and
tlutehed the Constitution Of the country, seeking
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pass over this for the present / shall have a
| WORD to say relative to him by and by This
party, which now styles itself the Constitutional
| Union party, presents itself with the scattered
| fragments, and endeavors to unite these various
elements into one great cauldron; and out of this
| great cauldron, which they are stewing together
| .ney expect, by some strange wtchcraft, a stall
| wart form to come forth and form great party.
| ana lead them to victory Heaven knows how that
| Is to be accomplished. Itreminds me of Macbetb;a
double cauldron, in which ''black spirits and
and
| Laughter and applause
| Next in the category we have the black reprb-
Ilcan party | suppose merely to mention its
name is all that is necessary to be said upon the
| subject in this latitude Yet must sav I have
been struck to-day with reading Letter written
by the head of that party, in which he has the
ooloneSs-ay, ought rather to say the audacity-
| To proc lain the doctrine which would have come
| more htly from the mouth Of an assassin rather
| than from the lips of United States Senator
Inc letter, gentlemen, which You may have seen
| In public print, was addressed to some persons in
tue city OF Boston, in which he, in substance uses
this language wv henever the conflict shall arrive
| between personal liberty and personal property
property must give way to liberty" What is
thai: Ii Is to say to the slaves of the South and
| 10 ming II In the teeths Of their masters that
whenever the slave feels able and willing strike
the blow, that he Is bound to pre- claim his liberty
even though IL be over the mang led corpse of his
| master, and the lifeless forms Of women and
| children | say, gentlemen, that the dangerous
sentiment OF the irrepressibls conflict first an
Il and girrn-
| lated throughout the country, stamps his party
with an atrocity which has never before reared lis
head In any national contest in this country Cen
uemen, who Is he who has received the nomina-
| ton OF that party, They call him Abraham Lin
| coln-the ghost of John Brown laug hterI-the
only difference is that the ghost talks while John
| Brown acted and gave his head to the hang man .
| Laughter Now all | can say is, propose no
such fate for Mr.. Lincoln, but the old ra-spItter
| who splits rails, might, think be ridden on the
hrst rail ne ever split Laughter, If these his
| sentiments; and l would be willing to have a
| hand at il myself, though not much given to
| those sort Of things. Laughter !
\ Well what have We next The other party in
the held l; that Of squatter sovereignty. About
this shall say little or nothing, because IL is the
1 topic which properly belongs to the gentleman
| behind me. That party, with an arrogance which
l confess Is well calculated to ALLEVIATE those who
upon other points feel with them and still desire
| to unite with them claim to be the only national
| democratic party. Mr.. Miles TAYLOR Chairman
Of that committee, has taken the pains, without
| anybody's asking him. to say 80 No" upon the sup
| posed proposition Of some sort of combination
1t Will be time enough when the people-not the
| politicians, not the men who went TO Charleston
| (bound, as II were, by some mysterious chain
which nobody else can comprehend) to maintain
| single point of difference against all other
| points OF harmony. 1t will be for the people to
say, when they render an account Of their stew
ardshiP, when the electors come to be chosen
| whether they mean to confirm and adopt this doc
trine OF squatter sovereignty, which, after ALL is
toat distinct mark which these gentlemen think
tional democratic party. | am no prophet nor
the son Of prophet but venture to predict that
before the autumn leaves are falling, the lion
skin will be stripped from the donkey's hide and
the Little Giant will turn out to be nothing
more than gigantic pgmy. GLaughte and ap-
Piause Gulliver, you know, was giant among
the Liliputians. and pigmy among the Brob,
dignags; but he was all the time the same man
not an inch more nor less in stature But leave
this To me IL is painful and unpleasant topic
What have said has only been provoked nv
these arrogant pretenders, who seem to say that
whoever seeks to belong to the great ma tonai con-
servative democratic party, is bound to swallow
whether ne desires to or not this doctrine of
| ter sovereignty.
The remaining party. and the last of which
shall speak to you, is that whose banner has been
| cJnhsed to the hands Of John G.. BreckInridge
| and Joseph Lane, men who have hazarded their
lives on the field of battle in bearing aloft that
| ever glorious standard which now floats so males
tically above us; Loud applause Men who in
the council and in the field have alike shown
Of purpose and true sincerity every
relation of life [APplause.l
Now, why is not this the national democratic
| party, As said, 1t is alleged because it rejects
the doctrine Of squatter sovereignty Is that it |?
| w hat our party contends for is the equal rights
Of all the States and all the citizens Of ali the
| States
He then proceeded briefly to lay down the demo
| cratic doctrine with regard to the occupancy of
| the Territories of the United States, and closed
with the following earnest appeal to all lovers of
| their country
IL there is spot on the face of the earth, within
the broad expanse of this Union, bounded by the
lakes and CULTS, and between oceans-if there is
| one single spot where men should stand by the
Constitution and the integrity Of this Union, in
respect to the rights Of the whole Union, in re-
| spect to every matter connected with the Federal
government, above all, 1t is this spot, hallowed
by the footsteps Of Washington, itself marked
| with his immortal name
The speaker, on retiring, was vociferously
| cheeTed.
| SPEECH OF JUDGE MEEK.
| Judge Meek, of Ala, was next introduced to
| the audience. He alluded to the immens. gather
| ing which be saw before him, and regarded II as
| particularly fitting that such meeting should be
| held in the National Metropolis. This meeting
| presented a striking contrast with the meagre
gathering here few nights ago to ratify the nom
ination OF the Little Giant. That was a mere
jury, while this was the grand inc uest of the ma
| uon. The name Of Breckenridge was connected
| with glorious historical incidents; il was a name
connected with principle. He was a noble man,
| and, although young, he has acquitted himself In
every position in which he has been placed with
eminent dignity and ability. Heidi not obtrude
himself on the Convention but he had been selected
on account Of his qualifications. At first he de-
clined but he at length yielded the
OF his friends. The other name on our ticket W. 8