The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-01-26

underlt As SAID before, tne very ufst dC-
ton under the Constitution in 1889, was an
exercise of that power to make all neediui
rules and regulations respecting the terrific
~" and following down as long rs the Pres
idenfs that were alive at the signing Of the
Constitution lived. and coming TO own times
as late as when Oregon was formed into a
Territory, TO a few DAYS ago, this action has
been deemed constitutional, when all at once
these measures were found out TO be based
upon a falacy, and it was discovered we had
no power to carry them out What did We
do? Because we loved the Union; because
We, North and South had fought the COM
mon battles of the country, and joined IL the
love of common liberty. standing shoulder
to shoulder, we will try the thing once more;
we believe free labor is competent to sustain
itself; we will go into the Territory, apply
the test, and see whether or not it shall be
Free or Slave.
DEMOCRACY AS IT WAS.
Gentlemen, let me read a few Democratic
platforms to show how this thing went along.
| will read you the Democratic platform Of
1852, two years before the passage of the
Kansas-N ebraska bill. 50 far as it touches
upon the subject of Slavery:
That Congress has no power under the
Constitution, to interfere with, or control the
domestic institutions OF the several States,
and that such States the sole and proper
judges of every thing pertaining to their own
affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution;
that all efforts of the Abolitionsts or others
made to induce Congress to interfere with
questions Of Slavery, or to take incipient
Steps in relation thereto, are calculated to
lead to The most alarming and dangerous con-
sequences.
What say you to that, Democrats? AL
though YOU declared in black and white that
it was dangerous to interfere with slavery,
what have YOU done? Did you not say il
was dangerous to interfere? Answer me that
and let me 60 on! You silent. lou are
condemned out Of your own mouths. pro-
Ceed
sAnd that all such efforts have an newt
able tendency to diminish the happiness OF
the people and endanger the stability and the
permanency of the Union
Iou condemn yourselves again.
Resolved, that the foregoing proposition
covers and was intended to embrace the
THE WHOLE SUBJECT of slavery agitation IN
Congress"
Mark that the words "the whole subject
are in small caps ia their reported resolu-
tions.
"Ard therefore the Democratic party OF
the Union, standing upon their national plat
form, will abide by. and adhere to faithful
execution of the acts known as the compro-
! mise measures settled by the last Congress
the act for retaining Of iugltives from SER
vice or la Dor included, which acts being de-
signed to carry out the express provision Of
the Constitution cannot be repealed or SC
changed as to destroy or impair It's ETH
ciency.''
.I,esolved, that the Democratic party will
resist all attempts at renewing IN Congress
or out of it, the agitation of the slavery ques
ton under whatever shape or color the at
tempt may be made.
These were the dssIsyat ia o ana av1 SSa
Of % he u Pem99s s az in 1852 Why they g,
under the leader ship of Stephen A. Doug
las when he had made a report saying. the
law of $50 was sacrediy conceived in The
Compromise of 1850, and repeal the Nilsson
ri Compromise. Now, | believe, they stand
condemned by their own language and by
their own acts, and have here accomplish
ed what | proposed to do.
THE DEMOCRACY SELF CONDEMNED.
What was the result of all this? The re-
suit was, that in obedience to the declaration
that the people were to be fairly left to
choose for themselves between liberty and
slavery, they adopted another platform. Let
me come TO that. l will tell you what they
did in 1856. in that year the Cincinnati plat
form was adopted.
In consequence Of the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, the Northern people inter
ceded TO get their own territory upon the
avowal in the Kansas Nebraska bill, that the
people were to .'be left free to form and reg
ulate their domestic institutions in their own
way, subject only to the Constitution of the
United States But notwithstanding that
avowal it made, they immediately, as the re-
por. OF the United States Congress showed
Won before a single Free Soiler or Republi-
can had set his foot into the new territory,
commenced on the border of Missouri the
organization of the "blue lodges to invade
Kansas, with the avowed design-peaceably
il you could, and forcibly if you must-to
have that land for slave State, and damn
the Aboltionists, they would shoot them
down as squirrels as l heard leading
Democrat express himself in Lexington W lille
that conflict going on. They passed
these resolutions in 1856, and l want Won to
pay strict attention TO these, In comparison
with the other avowa!s:
"Resolyed, that we reiterate with renew ed
energy of purpose the well considered dee
. larations of iormer Conventions upon the
i sectional issue of Domestic Slavery, and con
! corning the reserved rights o. the States
That aludeS 10 the former Democrat,
platform of 1852, four years before. 1t goes
on:
Il. That Congress has no power undel
7 the Constitution. 10 interfere with or con
troll the domestic institutions of the seyera
! States and that all such states are the sole
aud proper judges of every thing pertaining
to their own affairs. not prohibited by the
! Constitutions; that all efforts OF the abolition
/ lists or others, made 10 induce Congress to in
/ terfege with questions OF slavery. or take in
cipient steps with relation thereto.'' 1.-THE
very thing they have been doing to day--be-
sides which we have heard them denouncino
every man that does not come up to Their
STANDARD. and calling every man that stand.
on the 'Squatter Sovereignty" platform out
Sida tha DaIuperatic narty.4 are ga leuiarad n