Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-09-05

{. pood"-"thats right'D It is as much my right
and duty to think and judge for myself as It is for
the President to do it for himself {" Right 40
not recognize the right of the executive department
to interfere with the action or speech OF any mem
her of the Senate or member Of the House of Repre-
sentatives (Applause) So long as: the President
chooses to confne himself to the performance OF his
duties in obedience to the Constitution, will sus-
tain him to the utmostn his right to free and ndepen
dent action But whenever the Executive is permit
ted to saw to senator or representative OF SOY
ereign State abandon your convictions betray your
constituents, do as say, or Will remove you IRON
office. and -behead every friend you have IN office
throughout the country; wherever it is permitted
to do that with IMMUNITY, then the Republic is but
a sham and mockery. (Applause) There IS no
freedom, there can be no liberty when the repre-
sentative of the people is not responsible to his con-
stituents instead of to executive power. IA voice
at is despotism' Yes, the worst'of all despotsms
is when the Executive can say to man, violate
your conscience, betray your constituents and fol
low me, or will remove from office every friend
you have got and defeat you at home through exec
utve patronage speak with some feeling on this
subject (Applause) have had some experience.
| have been under the necessity in my lifetime OF
fighting Abolitoniss and Black Republicans aided
and supported by Democratic administration with
all its power and patronage For three years every
federal ofiicehoder in Illinois has been required to
oppose the Democratic and support the black Re
publican ticke. condition to holding his Office,
and even vet in the Northern States, and from one
end of the land to the other every is re-
moved unless he works against the regular organi-
cation of the Democratic party.
You are told now that there is danger of Mr.. Lin
coin being elected President and that his election
would be such a calamity that it would become yonr
duty to dissolve the Union rather than submit to
his domination. What hope of an election has Mr..
Lincoln? None on EARTH except through the as
sistance rendered by the Seceders at Baltimore
CHEERS and cries of "good.D After I was nomi-
mated there according to the usages of the party by
two-thirds of all the votes cast there being present
two-thirds of the electoral college not Directing,
these men bolted and got up new convention.
Now let me ask you is there man in America
who doubts that would have beaten Lincoln, If
the Breckenridge men had acquiesced in my nomina-
tion9 (Applause) Nobody doubts that Lincoln
could never have carried but two States in the
Union Vermont and Massachusetts,, but for that Sc
cesson. What their object in boiling? Was
it not to beat me? Voices, "yes.") If it was,
did they not know that the only way to do it was
to divide the Democratic party in the Northern
States and allow Lincoln to carry each of those
States by minority vote? The secession took
place for the purpose of defeating and by the
division in the party electing Lincoln. There was
not man of them engaged in the scheme who did
not expect that his act to elect Lincoln. There
other hope, and have never seen man yet who
would risk his reputation by denying that Lincoln
would have been beaten but for this division, and
that the danger of his election grows out of it.
Then how do they justify their course? Why they
say it is better to have Lincoln elected than Doug
las. Why? Why, they do not like Douglas. They
do not like his platform. Why do they not like the
PLATFORM Because stand now on the very plat
form which they stood four years ago. And
what confidence you have in the integrity, in the
truthfulness, in the honor of man who will abuse
the Charleston platform now after he supported it
four years ago? Were they cheating you then p
Were they deceivng you at that time to get your
votes? If they were, how much confidence should
you place in them now? (Cheers.) If they were
honest then it does not become them to abuse those
of us who do not change quite as rapidly as they
have done. Great applause) stand now where
then stood. stand where stood when brought
forward the bill to repeal the Missouri restriction
and organize the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska
They cannot and do not pretend that have chang
ed But they have started story, learn since I
got down here that went home and explained the
Nebraska bill in different way from what had
South, and said that it the best abolition bill
ever got up to prohibit slavery everywhere. have
tried to find out where l ever made such speech,
but those who made the charge do not name the
place l now say that no honest man will ever
make such charge (Cheers) 1t is an invention
of the enemy, and has been circulated BY the mean
author who knew it to be false or had no reason for
believing it to be true. (Applause) will tell you
what explanation have made in every Northern
State of my motives for passing the Nebraska bill
and repeating the Missouri Compromise. / have
sustained that act by the argument that if slavery
was right South, it right North if it was right
to leave the people to do they pleased South of
the Missouri Compromise line, it was right North
of the line. Ny object was to allow the people to
do iuSta thnvn nj cad hot sid 0f2 min
assert that if the people of Territory want slav-
cry they have right to it. if they do not want i.
power on earth should force it them go further
and say that whether the people will want not
depends solely upon the climate, the SOIL the pro-
auctions and the selfnterest of the people where it
exists. In hot climate where the white man can
not work in the open sum- where rice the cotton
plant and the sugar cane flourish, there you must
have negro slaves to work them you must aban-
don the country to the crocodile. In cold climate
where you have almost perpetual snow and where
the negro could not produce by his labor half as
much as would feed and clothe him and furnish him
wood to bake his hoecake at night you cannot force
slavery to exist because it will not pay for ITSELF
Slavey therefore, does not depend upon the law. 1t
is governed by climate, soil aud productions, by poll
tical economy. and you might as we'll attempt to
pass laws by Congress compelling cotton to grow
on the summit of the Rocky mountains, rice to
flourish on the granite hills of New Hampshire,
daughter and applause,) as slavery to exist where
it cannot possibly exist. (Applause) l tell you
that wherever climate renders slavery necessary,
there it will go, and furthermore, the people of a
territory will be the first to introduce it and pass all
laws for its protection, but wherever the climate
renders it improbable and no money can be made
out of it. there you cannot force it to CO. care not
how many laws you have, or how many armies to
enforce those laws. Hence said in my Freeport
speech that no matter how the Court might decide
ar oof OF clio
where the people do no. want it. for it would not be
practicable That is what said and that is all said
and that has been tortured into declaration that
I would not obey the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States. like to be charitable,
but have not sufficient charity to believe that he,
let him be who he may, who has represented me as
saying would not obey the bred Scott decision, or
any other decision of the Sunreme Court did mt