The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-09-28


they then stood on the platforp which
Mr.. Breckenridge declares. after his elec
ton is ''contrary to reason and the Con
stitution." Mr. Breckinridge now regards
the Cincinnati platform, and the dogma of
popular sovereignty incorporated in it, as
80 great an evil, that it is better to break
up the party, destroy its organization, and
elect Lincoln by minority vote, rather
than allow the regular nominee of the
party to be elected on it.
No man doubts but what | would have
easily beaten Lincoln if Breckenridge and
his friends had not bolted at Baltimore.
They all acknow ledge that / would havc
been elected if they they had not bolted.
and therefore they thought it their duty to
prevent my election in that way, securing
the election of Lincoln. They certainly
did not expect that the choice of less than
one-third of party, boiling nomination
and rerudiating the old platform, could be
elected himself. All they hoped for was
through Executive patronage aud Federal
power to take off enough Democrats from
the regular organization to enable Lincoln
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rather than see the nominee successful on
its time honorei principles.
And now, you Pennsylvanians, YOU true
and loval Democrats of old Berks, you
men who never bolttd in your whole lives
are called upon 20 sustain the bolter .
| ICres Of" THEY'LL see how we do H."
and laughter have only to say to you
T l. -,
ticket, and | never Went hunting on the
day of Presi,!ential election. Cproarious
laughter and cheers.
Hence if boiling against the regular or
ganization Constitutes a claian TO democrat
ic support, am emitted to no credit on
that score TApplause. But let rae ask
ven fellow democrats, what is to he the
consequence if YOU sustain this scheme of
seres>,u;r and boiling? How Will it work?
Suppose vou call convention to nominate
o,ernor, and two candidates present
themselves, one receives two birds of all
the votes cast and is nominated, and then
the other bolts and proposes compromise
by way of fusion. Laughter and applause.
Or suppose you call congressional con
veution in old Berks county to nominate
candidate for Congress, and of the two
aspirants the regular democrat, who never
bolted in his life, gets two thirds of all the
votes cast, and the equivocal democrat,
who goes hunting on election day, laugh
| ter gets the remaining one third of the
votes, all the minority man has to DO is
to bolt, run against the regular organiza
ton. demand A compromise and fusion.
! When you come to nominate candidates
! for the legislature the same thing will oc.
cur. There will be msjority IN favor OF
a certain man, and minority in favor OF
other men. and the minority will bolt and
refuse to support the ticket, unless you
contbi.re with them and form fusion by
way Of compromise. ask you what kind
of democratic organization, what kind OF
democratic unity and strength, which at
taches to fidelity to principle, you will have
if you sanction this principle of boiling
and secession Why it seems that in or
der to be true Breckinridge man you
must vote against regular nominations
every time, or else YOU must 90 hunting
on election day. Great lang ghter
Now, my friends. I desire you calmly to
reflect on these considerations. / believe
that the old democratic party. according
to its old organization ard its old platform
of principles, is essential to the peace, the
secErity, and the stability of this govern
ment, and am making this appeal to you
to day, rot as a candidate for the Presi
dency, but as democrat who never fall
| tered, and never wavered, and never cheat
ed his party. Three tremendous cheers
| am told that it is very imprudent for me
thus to speak without preparation, under
the Impulse of excitement to large crowds;
that might say something which could
be perverted to my injury, just as if man
by uttering honest sentiments, prompted
by honest impuIses, would drive votes from
among his supporters. Ar9lause.I l hold
no opinion which ] am not prepared to
avcw boldly in all portions Of tLiscountry
alike
| have gust returned from Virginia,
North Carolina, and Maryland, and there
| have explained 20 the people the same
views have submitted TO you to day.
wish to see the democratic party preserved
and the great democratic princi pie of non
Intervention by Congress with slavery in
the territories maintained invlolate. be
leve that our prosperity depends upon
maintaining that principle. applause }
! You now find this country divided into
two sectional partiss-one appealing to the
passions and preiudices of the North tc
prohibit slavery wherever the people want
it, and the other demanding that The Fed
eral Government shall pass laws to main
tain and protect slavery wherever the peo
, pie do not war.tit. The Northern Republi
cans, or aboIitionists do not propose tha
, Congress shall prohibit slavery anvwhqr,
except where the people want it, for the,
say truly that wherever The people do no
want it they will prohibit it themselves
, and hence it is not necessary for Congress
: to do so. On the other hand, the Breck
inridge seces-ionists tell yon they are il
. favor Of Congressional intervention onl
when ii is necessary. When is it necessa
= ~ for Congress to intervene according t
lheiI theoryi Certainly not when h
people are in favor of slavery. for the res
J son that in every such case the peopl
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