The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-09-19

lyass Of Illinois on that proposition and one
other. The other was, he assalled the Su-
preme Court decision, in the bred Scott
case, and defended il. These were the
two issues, upon which we fought that battle.
/ Mr., Seward made his celebrated Rochester
speech four months afterwards, 10 which he
nut forth the doctrine of the irrepressible
conflict, borrowing il from Lincoln, who was
the author and enunciator Of that principle,
that the Union cannot exist, divided into free
and slave States, but must became all free,
lor all slave. The Black Republican party
is based on the theory Of making them all
free States. the Secession party is based on
the theory that the Territories and conse-
qucntly the States must all be slave, wheth-
err the people want them so or not. hold
to the doctrine that uniformity in the domes
tic institutions Of the different States is mel
Their possible or desirable. Slavery may be
good in one place and bad in another. u
may be necessary in one State. and unneces-
sary in another. Aud so with every other
domestic institution. Our fathers knew
t when they made this government that in a
country as broad as this, with such variety
Of soil, of climate, and OF productions, there
most necessarily be corresponding yarie-
ty OF interests requiring separate and differ
ent laws in each locality. They knew that
. the laws which would suit the granite hills Of
New Hampshire would be unsuited to the
rice and tobacco plantations OF the Carolnas.
J They knew that the regulations necessary ~
/ a mining district like California would be
. unsuiled to the wheat aud corn fields Of H.
|, linois. Hence they provided that each State
, should retain its own sovereignty, with q
Legislature Of its own. i. order that each
, might have Just sach laws as Il chose. This
right, therefore, Of each State to have laws
different from every other one, lies at the
/ very foundation Of our 81 stem Of government.
ditions Of the people, is the worst despotism
you can intllct upon any people.
/ We'll, the AbOlltionists Of the North and
D the Srcessionists of the South admit that
this doctrine Of the right of each State 10
! regulate and decide for itself, is good doc.
trlne Ia the States, but will not do in the
Territories. They admit that in the States
4 you have an inherent right to govern your,
0 selves, but you lnse II when YOU 90 TO the
0 territories. Why not allow Territory TO
do il as well as a State. Why. they tell you
that Territory is not sovereign power.
aud therefore cannot do it; that none but
! sovereign powers have right 10 exercise the
privileges of self-goyernment. Our fathers ol
. lher evolution did not think so. The reyolu
a ti0nary struggle began III deience Of the right
/ Of dependent colonies. dependent territories,
dependent provinces, "a exercise this right Of
0 self. government az well as sovereign STATES.
! None but the Tories IL the revelation ever
! contended before that the right nf self gov.
eminent was to be restricted to sovereign
States. George the laird and LAIRD North,
/ his Minister. and his Tory friends on this
continent. all denied the right Of the people
Of these colonies 10 requisite their own affairs.
!. they all said the people Of the colonies had
no rights except those the King granted
i them 10 their charter. The same old doc
time. Our fathers u the Revolution told
the Tories that they dad mol get their rights
/ irum the King, but they got them from God Al
/ mighty. 4 voice, better source.") Aud
1 the people Of the Territories will be likely
: to tell you that they do mol get their rights
from Congress. they gel them from parrr
/ source. daughter aud applause.l From
i what ! have SAID you will see that unless
! am right 10 maintaining ibis principle OF
: .eli-gaSernment for the people at the terri
(. tories. our fathers uf the revolution must
| have been wrong 10 that struggle. There j.
no Que Argument used BY tie secessionists
+. against f" squatlrr sovereignty a. they term
4 il, that illeY have MT copied from the tories
: Of the resolution IN almost is identical Ian
]. guage. Voice, good, !" aud applsse.) Bat
/ 81 course these gentlemen are very sincere
n 10 denUuneing this doctrine Of nnn-in,erier-
!. enee By Congress. ! wish they had been
i frank enough % dennunce i bel re they had
!. jnined NE IN helping 10 sustain II. They
e knew when they adapted the Cincinnati plat
e form that this was the doctrine. Read that
e platform. II declares IN - many words,
. nou-interfence BY Congress with slavery IN
n the States and Territories. Al Charleston
/. every friend had from Tie North West o..
Tered 10 take the Cincinnati platform, v ord Tor
word. as II read. These men would not take
\ Il. They said il was not good Democracy.
: IIow came that platform to be adopted 10
n lsj6. i i was not sound You know that
! i was adopted al the suggestion Of the Ala
I pama Legislature. on four propositions draw
{ by Mr.. fancey. aud when introduced into
/ the Cincinnati Convention. received the vote.
j Of delegates from every State in the TN
ion. free and slave. The South proposed
{ 4, aud We Of the Norih said IL Is far and
just, and we will take il. Il was adopted
5 BY unanimous vote. and four years alter.
YOU are told that a man . a traitor to the
! South VIM stands BY The pledge We al
made at Cincinnati. There is something
/. strange about this. eannot change a. rapid
. y a. that. (Applause.l n the Democratic
. party will stand now where they did then,
. there would be no trouble. III order 70 re /
J out Of the scrape. these men have turned
: round and charged me with having said I
! would not stand by the bred Scott deeis-
! ion. ! tell them now that every man Who
! makes that charge hereafter will know that
lie j. fal.ifying the truth. Then, what j.
E the cause u The trouble 10 the Democratic
partyi II Is an attempt TO introduce q new
! article Of faith into the Democratic creed.