The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-07-25

!. they suppose Will DesI PEViAose eiolf niater
interest they live together in peace and hs
mony. The question Of slavery Will becor
foregone conclusion before they have inh
7 bitants enough to enter the Union as Stat
e There will then be no bleeding Kansas
> the Territories they will all live together
peace and harmony, promoting the proSperi
until the time shall arrive when it becom
necessary to frame constitution. Then Il
whole Question will be decided to the gener
} satisfaction. But, upon the opposite primo
ple what will YOU find in the Territories p
! WHY. there will be strife and contention a
the time. One territorial Legislature may e,
tablish slavery and another territorial legisls
ture NAV abolish it, and so the struggle wi
be continued throughout the territorial exi
tence. The people, instead of devoting the
energies and industry to promote their ow
prosperity. will be in state of constant stril
and turmoil, just as we have witnessed i
Kansas. Therefore, there is no possible prin
cipe that can be so injurious to the best in
terests of Territory as what has been Gale,
squatter sovereignty.
Now let me place the subject before yol
in another point of view. The people of tn
Southern States can never abandon this grea
principle of State equality in the Union with
out self degradation. ["Never ~ Neve
without an acknowledgment that they ar,
inferior in this respect to their sister States.-
| Whilst it is vital to them to preserve the
equality, the Northern States surrender moth
ing by admitting this principle. In doing thi,
they only yield obedience to the constitution
of their country as expounded by the Supreme
Court of the United States. While for the
North it is comparatively mere abstraction
with the South it is question OF co-eoual
State sovereignty in the Union.
1.-THE DEGREES of the high tribunal establish
cd by the Constitution for the very purpose
are to be set at naught and disregarded il
will tend to render all property of every de-
scription insecure What, then, have the
North to DO ! Merely to say that as good
citizens, they will yield obedience TO the de-
cision of the Supreme Court, and admit the
right of a Southern man to take his property
into the Territories, and hold it there, lust as
Northern men do; and it is TO me the most
extraordinary thing in the world that this
country should now be distracted and divided
because certain persons at the North will not
agree that their brethren at the South shall
have the same rights in the Territories which
they enjoy. What would ! as Pennsylva-
Man say or do, supposing anybody was to con-
tend that the legislature ofany Territory could
outlaw iron and coal within the Territory P
Laughter and cheers. The principle is pre-
cisely the same The Supreme Court of the
United States have decided-what was known
to us all to have been the existing state of
affairs for fifty years-that slaves are proper
ty. Admit that fact, and admit everything.
Then that property in the Territories must be
protected precisely in the same manner with
any other property. If it be not protected in
the Territories, the holders oft are degraded
before the world.
We have been told that non-intervention on
the part of Congress with slavery in the Ter
ritories is the true policy. Very well. I
most cheerfully admit that Congress has no
right to pass any law to establish, impair, or
abolish slavery in the Territories. Let this
principle Of non-intervention be extended to
the territorial legislatures, and let it be decIar-
ed that they in like manner have no power to
establish, impair, or destroy slavery, and
then the controversy is in effect ended. This
is all that is required at present, and verify
believe all that will ever be required. Hands
off by Congress and hands off the territorial
legislature. Loud applause With the Su-
preme Court of the United States l hold that
neither Congress nor the territorial legislature
has any power to establish, impair, or abolish
slavery in the Territories. But if, in the face
Of this positive prohibition the territorial legis
Iature should exercise the power of interview
ing, then this would be mere transfer o. the
Wilmot proviso and the Buffalo platform from
Congress, to be carried into execution in the
Territories to the destruction of all property
IN slaves Renewed applause.
An attempt of this kind, if made in Con-
,ress, would be resisted by able men on the
oor of both houses, and probably defeated
Not so in remote territory. To every Ter
ritory there will be rush of free-soilers from
he Northern States. They would elect the
first territorial legislature before the people of
he South could arrive with their property,
md this legislature would probably settle
erever the question of slavery according to
heir own will.
And shall we for the sake Of squatter So
which, from its nature, can only
continue during the brief period of territori al
existence, incur the risk of dividing the great
party ofthe country into two Sec
,ional parties, the one North and other South.
Shall this great party which has governed
he country in peace and war, which has
aised it from humble beginnings to be one Of
he most prosperous and powerful nations in
n the worid-shuif this party be broken np
or such cause ? That is the question. The
powerful, pous, and respectable
Methodist Church has been thus divided
The division was severe shock to the Union.
A similar division ofthe great democratic party
should It continue. would rend asunder one
Of the most powerful links which binds the
Union together.
/ enter no such fearful apprehensions. The
present issue is transitory, and will speedily
PASS away. In the nature of things it cannot
continue. There is but one possible contin-
,ency which can .endanger the Union; and
against this all democrats, whether squatter
iovereigns or popular sovereigns, will present
united resistance. Should the time ever
lrriye when Northern agitation and fanaticsm
shall paoceed solar as to render the domestic
iresides of the South insecure, then and not
ill then will the Union be in danger. A
united Northern democracy will present a
wall of fire against such catastrophe!
There are in our midst numerous persons
who predict the dissolution of the great demo-
cratic party land others who contend that it has
already been dissolved. The wish is father to
the thought 1t has been heretofore in great
peril; but when divided for the moment it
has always closed up its ranks and become
more powerful, even from defeat. 1t will
never die whilst the Constitution and the
Union survive. 1t will live to protect and
defend both. 1t has its roots in the very
Vitals of the Constitution, and, like one of the
ancient cedars of Lebanon, it will flourish to
afford shelter and protection to that sacred in
strument, and to shield it agaiLsteVery storm
Of faction. Renewed applause.
Now, friends and ow-citiZens, it is pro-
babe that this is the last political speech that
| shall ever make. A voice, ave hope not!
It is now nearly forty years since first came
to Washington as a member of Congress, and
l wish to say this night that during that whole
period have received nothing but kindness
and attention from your fathers and from
yourselves. Washington was then compare
lively small town; now it has grown to be
a great and beautiful city and the first wish
of my heart is that its citizens may enjoy I'M
health and prosperity. l thank
you for the kind attention you have paid me,
and now bid you all good night. Prolonged
cheering.
PALupAL M1AsM. The Chemists have long
been laboring to detect this subtle poison, and
determine what it is. Door. AVER, of Lowell,
has at length succeeded. He finds it to be an
atherial exhalation of vegetable decay, which
is evolved only in the presence and by the as
sistance. of water. Its absorption through the
lungs into the blood is the sole cause Of the
hillary arrangements which result in the in
termittent Fevers, SO affecting and so-prevalent
in our climate. An antidote for this insidious
venom, is one of the great desiderata in medi-
cine, and the Doctor feels sure that he has
found one which not only neutralizes but ex-
pels it completely from the system. Itisput
m in a convenient form, called "AGUn&URE,'
and furnished cheaper than other remedies for
this complaint which last fact is by no
means an unimportant one in these times
Democrat, Woodstock, III.
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