Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-09-13

rendered by
the said body believe that of my speeches in this
connection were prepared by except by the brieest
notes Never single report of these speeches revis
ed by me or written ont in full The reports OF them
those which various persons chose make have been
amused to see various portions OF what they call the Tip
pecanoe speech and the divers reports of the reporters
winch they choseo make for the different papers at differ
ent times.
have in my hands a report which reads follows in
reference to the Territorial question =
The people of the Territories under the
ka act have the full right to abolish prohibit slavery
itself
Not only did never utter such sentiment but have no
had in any newspaper anywhere but have
time to waste in comments upon the proprety
cy OF gentleman who before the country for the oce q
President in introducing the of who is also
dIdate with me- and giving his personal testimony AS to
sion of the propety of such wish to meet the
accusation The Hon. S. A. Douglas in series of pa
which he has been reading various States and
recently in Concord, N. HI give his own language
$ There is not honest man in all America" says Mr.
Douglas that will deny that James Buchanan and John e.
BreCknrdge in 1856 pledged to the doctrine OF non
intervention by Congress with slavery in the
mark the word. is there non-lnterventon1 IL MADE
speeches from the stump with John c. Breckenridge IN
1885, when he advocating his claims to the Vice
1or of POPULAR sovereignty in the Terrtores Then speak
ing of other gentlemen from the South, who bad been ex
pressing themselves in the North he says, In every one
their speeches they advocated squatter sovereignty It's
broadcast sense Here, in the space of twelve lines you
noninterventon, popular soVere1gnty-a eVldenty
conveying the meanngtha held doctrines of non
Intervention as originally understood and
coed to show fully in another part OF my speech But
presume that Mr. Douglas in this statement meant to de
clare that in 1856, from the stump with me- that ne
advocated the doctrine that Territorial had the
exclude slave property under
and also that he this expression IN that sense
and this the question that has been the whole point OF
pute 49,
Well no time either before after the passage of the
Kansas Nebraska BILL ia Congress- did ever entertain or
utter the opinion that Territorial legislature prior to the
slave property from the commoA Territories OF the Gno
and other advocate of doctrines can be found who
will substantially change this expression.
Now am to entertain you briefly by clear an eXposI-
ton make of the attitudes of the parties IN regard
to the question at issue In 1854 we removed the restrc-
ton of the Missouri line and passed the Kansas
bill through both houses of Congress and became law
The argument of those North and South who opposed me
repeal of the Compromise, that the Territories should
be left open settlement There but point upon
which the friends of the bill differed. The Southern friends
of the measure and few of its Northern friends denied
the power either of Congress the Territorial Legislature
to exclude any description of property.
The other party assumed the ground that the Territorial
Legislature had the power of exclusion 1t was cOnstu-
tona question: however and they agreed not to make it
matter of Legislative dispute but to insert provision in
the bill referring the question to the Supreme Court for de-
cison and all parties bound to abide by the decision
made by that august tribunal upon this constitutional ques-
ton. We prove that there such arrangement.
Ordinarily bill be taken from Territorial Court
the Supreme Court the United States until the
in controversy amounts to one thousand dollars
order that this question might be tried before the supreme
Court clause inserted to meet the contingency The
period between the passage of that bill and the decision
the supreme Court all persons on each SIDE entertained
We in the South held that the Territorial Legislature
not have the power Mr. Douglas and his ends held that
the Territorial Legislature did have the power We sus-
preme Court of the United States to determine the cons
! tutional question therein involved.
There body to whom could refer the question:
and we thought unnecessary further to debate It, each
party agreeing acquesce in the decision rendered by the
said body think that is pretty plain statement that
point. make it to show that there taken by
the Southern rsends of the in Congress, and
among them taken 10y your humble speaker to sup
port the decision
Mr. Breckenridge read some from his speech
flnlIU Tint tho ,T
willing he continued to have the question decided by the
Courts of the United States Again, say commended
States under the Constitution and their property
in the Territories that the citizens Of the slavehoding
States the Territories with their slaves
there legally hold them until the Territory resolved into
State
is said that slavery, being in conflict with right
exist only by the force Of positive law and it denied
mat the Court ever furnished the law said that we de
mand that all citizens of the United States shall be allowed
to enter the common Territory with the Constitution alone
IN their hands, for that instrument protects the title of the
master to his slave in this Territory. You
complain If 1t does not protect his title We ask help
from Congress If difficulties occurred we were to let them
Now, upon my personal vndcation, the doctrines
announced by me in that speech just such have
ever declared in the Commonwealth of Kenucky such
have ever declared in public address Ohio Indiana
Michigan and Pennsylvania. Afterwards, when it
derstood that l had been charged that | had admitted
that this pow er belonged to the Territorial Legislature in
Kentucky Statesman published in this city, aluing this
charge made the following statement to which beg leave
W YOU Mark you, thS was before the PreSldenta
election of 1856.
Mr.. Breckenridge then read from editorial in the Ken
lucky Statesman of October 1866 ia which it stated
that during his tour through Indiana and Ohio, he Chr
aVOwed the sentiments he had often proclaimed Kentucky
and which already embodied in the Cincinnati Platform
that he denied that the Democratic party it's Federal
relations slavery party that it neither such par
y nor an antsayery party that it negaved the interior
ence OF the Federal Government whether introduce
exclude slavery, and left the Territories open to
settlement from all the States that each State
10 form us own Constitution, and enter the Union without
by Congress- account OF its allowance
prohibition Of slavery, aud that the that Mr. B.
advocated squatter sovereignty was untrue.
Mr. breckenridge then continued Ia the autumn of the
same year received Louisiana paper containing
remarks of General Mills who heard my Speech in which
he denied that had admitted this doctrine of the Terri
toria power He sent me slip containing his speech
In the same month"; before the Presidential election |
answered him. SAYING Hands off of the whole subject by
the Federal Government except for protective
of all sections in the territory and the absolute
power of each State to settle the question in its
stituton These my doctrine those of our plat
FORM and what is more, of the constitution Great cheer
ing Now, fellow citizens, against the statement of tina
allegations against myself by himself thus oppose my
own statement
Next in proof read to you from my speech in 1854
Presidential election the testimony of Gen. Mills who
heard that speech at Tppecanoe and my letter
question that time what since been my opn
lon "a voice-Now you are talkingO think have pro-
that the charge unfounded in fact and will add that the
position assumed that taken by all the Southern friends
OF the Nebraska bill, and by portion of its Northern
friends These were our private opnions-these were
opinions urged all proper occasions, but did
undertake to force all others to agree to them.
We had agreed to refer that to the highest tribunal in the
Union Now gentlemen having indicated myself and the
Democracy from the charge of having aban-
doned the position they took in turn upon my
cuser and undertake to show that he himself abandoned
the agreement he soemny made at the time the
Nebraska bill passed the Congress of the United States,
(great appause and do make myself witness against
him to do it. will prove by himself Voices good
good and applause On the I'd of july 1885, in the de-
Of
Constitution preparatory admission into the Union
State when the question to what the true
meaning of the Kansas Nebraska BILL and the limitation OF
the power of the Territorial Government Mr. Trumbul Of
fered the following amendment additional section to
the bill.
And be ii further enacted, That the provision the act
organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas which