New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-18

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that when we came here we came upon sou tnss lz
been b fore we came here rendered incapable Oh pemg
diverted from the benign iptuence OF ireeoo % uas
Won NJ michigan and we of Ohio, have derived our
fire.. Institutions from common origin. mus, wnen
look mon YOU feel that belong TO the same lam
ily; and that am indeed not siogeIner d sranger,
but am really among our ioiks.
come moi 10 make set or formal speech, but to at
tempt very plain and simple statement Of the ques-
ton at issue before the Ss hang
inc no chance to get any electoral votes in the Free
Statestbe Douglas party with two sets of principles
for different sides Of the river But our noble Repub
ican party that has two sets Of principles for the
two sides Of the river arrayed in the Free States
mainly sgainst the Douglas party. say that we and
the Douglas wing of the Democratic party divide the
Free States We don't expect to get many votes for
Mr.. Lincoln In the Slave States. Why, they don't
know enough yet. / remember negro man who was
coming through State by the underground lroad
that has an outlet at the upper end Somebody asked
if he had seen Gov. Chase. "0h" said he. that
big Abolitionist that eats poor niggersp
was once at Frankfort. Gen. Combs said, " un'
dersaId you have negroes fer breakfast every morn
ing" olo him not only had them for breakfast,
but for dinner and supper too. They really don
know about us yet. They don't understand that we
shall treat them members of the same contederacy,
guarding sl their rights If they did, we snoud nave
tens of thoueands of votes in the Slave States:
Well Mr. Douglas IT, at this moment 80 distrusted
at the South that he cannot achieve any electoral sue
cess unless in Missouri, and there, 30, lrough wv
sion of his opponents. Now if he cannot-althougn
he has done 80 much for Savery-what does IL mean
There 10 no demand ta Slavery has ever MADE tnat ne
has not Welded lie has denounced the ordinance OF
's7. and repealed the Missouri Compromise ihen ne
asks them" Why won't you support me ]" Ihey
tnTn around and reply-"Why, Mr.. Douglas cld you
ever understand that we paid pages Work wlthout
wages IL urmotto. There is one point In which you
differ. We 90 not propose to allow you 10 dner from
rs in one point. we are infable; if you presume to
differ with us we will rally and beat you" The re-
sBlti il Mr. Douglas comes to the North and asks the
North 10 support him. The question is between MIR.
Douglas ana Mr.. Lincoln. You may 60 into Congress
and Won will find six out of seven Democratic Con-
0ressmen for Bfeckinridge in the Senate, thirtyfve
for Breckenridge, and Just two for Douglas, one OF
these Douglas himself, and the other, Pugh, OF our
State to the 4th of March next. And when Linconis
inauguraed the only over MIR. Douglas in the
Senate will be Mr.. Douglas himself The only Dem
ocracy is the Breckenridge party Imean so far as u
gives votes and sends TO Congress Tue votes OF
this country will be divided between Mr.. Breckenridge
on the one side and Lincoln the other. This proves
that the people settling the question OF Slavery.
There is no other question that divides them Breck-
inridges supporters take plain and uuequvocai posi-
ton. They say that the Constitution of the United
States made by fathers was made for the purpose
of spreading Slavery over every foot OF Territory.
Tiey cay uDequivocally in their platform that the
Constitution takes Slavery into every foot Of territory
which has not been protected by State Constitutions
That il FTemen have gone into territory and eatab-
d
there and hold them against the consent and wishes OF
the people. Now that is intolerable. We absolutely
reject it. Nobody in the North holds this except few
HUnkers.
What is the Lincoln position The doctrine pro-
claimed at Chicago YVES the exact opposite. Our
friends at Chicago say that no individual or combina
ton ofndividuas have the power to introduce Slavery
into territory now free.
To reduce it 10 the shortest form, the Breckenridge
party say there be freedom outside of State
The Republicans meet this and say there can be no
Slavery outside of Slave State-wbere it has been
positively established.
1t all iurrs upon the true meaning of the Consttu-
ton Of the United States. If it is Constitution for
Slavery the Breckenridge party are right. If means
that says, to establish liberty then the Re-
pubcans are right.
: WE'LL fellow citizens where is the Douglas party
If you take it by ts platform you understand it
vety we'll If you take it by its candidate you
derstsnd it very well. If you take by the decara-
tons of Douglas you can understand 1t very WELL But
it is not where the great mass OF the DEMOCRATIC voters
think il is. was one of the Democrats, and know
the feelings Of the Democracy, and do not think they
really want Slavery extended.
1t became my duty as United States Senator TO OPP
pose the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. 1t was
advocated on precisely opposite grounds. One side
he that the Constitution took Slavery into the Terri
tories Gen. Cas- and Stuart held that it could not.
do not know what Stuart thinks but l understand
that since the Dred-Scott decision my venerable and
excellent friend Gen. Cas-, now thinks il does
Bnt these Democrats after the repeal went through
the Free States and proclaimed that this repeal would
secure the Territories 10 Freedom. There iS large
of Douglas Democrats who believe to-day
that by this principle of Squatter Sovereignty the Ter
ritories would be preserved to Freedom. Nor an |
prepared to say that if you had true principle OF Pop
uar Sovereignty, such would not be tle Thai is
TO say if Congress and the President would not intsr
fere al anbu leave it TO the settler-there would be
no Slavery.
But the Douglas party have no such thing gen.
uine Popular Sovereignty in their creed
Now let US inquire what Popular Sovereignty i'm
plies. In the first place, 1t seems TO me must have
people every of whom is free. But, not TO press
that point you have certainly got to have people who
haye the power of legisstion-of making their laws
of choosing their own officers, their own Judiciary.
In the next place, you must have people who or
ganized their own Institutions. Didn't you choose
certain persons TO 90 10 Convention, who submitted
the Constitution framed by them for your rejection
approval There these four things: j. Organize
tie Government. Choose the Legislature s. Choose
the Executive; and 4th Choose your own Judiciary.
Now, is any ore of these in the Kansas Nebraska
blu want my Douglas friends to consider whether
they have any real Popular Sovereignty -whether
they are building on the sand, or the rock These
are no new ideas. When / was in the Senate urged
these same objections.
Who organized the Territorial Government? Why
the Committee on Territories at Washington City, of
which Douglas was Chairman organized it. Who
voted en- the law 2 Who made it Why, my friends,
Mr. Douglas made it. And he is 30 great Popular
Sovereign that he can, az Chairman, organize Govern
ments for the whole country tell you that the peo-
pie, under the Kansas Nebraska BILL have nothing TO
do with organizing their own Government. In the
next place. do the people of Kansas choose their egs
lators Why, the Federal Government tells them they
may choose certain persons-but the Federal Govern
ment tells how long and where they must sit. The
people neither pay control the Legislators If Ohio
should tell you to choose Legislators, but say we will
pay them if we choose, when they shall tit aud how
long, what sort of Popular Sovereignty would that
be i tell You we should have another war; and il
would be worse one than the Toledo war. This
Kansas Nebraska act vests the power Of legislation
where In the men elected by the people No In
80 many words it says in the Governor and the Legs