Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-22

questions upon which the highest intellect
 or the country are exercised, engaging tn
 anxious attention of your wisest and bes men, engaging the attention of the mos
 sasast Sasa tribunal on earth; debated in you
 senate senate ashated in your House of Represen
 a'., o.' uoua'eu efore an axious people who
 wan. 10 gee up 70 autne,,;ty. The question IS IS stated rom one end of r-< conntrv to the other. The cry is, is it not wSa.,y woa ~ ed? How firm, and yet temperate, witff66S.. any appeal to secular passions and preiu dices! The question is, whether it ha
 the same right in the territories as othe
 property. The statement is made that vol shan't force slavery down the throats of al unwilling people. The argument consists
 ot an appeal to the passions of one sectior of the Union against another. MT. Doug las admitted that slave property stands upon the same footing with other property
 The supreme court has decided that, under the constitution, it stands on the same foot
 Ing and has the same right to protection ir the common territories as other property yet we hear the accusation about forcing slavery down the throats of an unwilling people. Who wants to do it? Does the existence of the question of protection oi this Union imply that the southern States are forced to take charge of such property? |? Substitute this word property'' for the word slaves.'' and it would read: " You attempt to force slavery down the throats of an unwilling people"-" You attempt to force property down the throats of an un willing people," Loud laughter and ! cheers Why. the territorial authority is the creature of Congress, Congress is the creature of the constitution, and the consti- tutlon of the States the people of the States, and here you would have little territorial legislature three or four degrees removed from the original source of it's power, with the right to exclude every State of the Un- lon, with itl property, from its own do- mains. Egthusiastic cheers. These are not the doctrines of the constitutional de- mocracy. Cheers. These are sectional doctrines. These are not the doctrines that make the peace and harmony of the States of the Union. Loud and long continued cheers. As the distinguished Senator from Illinois said at Norfolk, we are fac tion, and must be destroyed; but when we are destroyed, they will have to stick their daggers through and through the constitu- ton of our country. Immense cheering. Popular sovereignty or squatter sovereign ty, the names of Clay, Webster, and others, have been invoked to sustain this doctrine of the territorial power to exclude slave property. The local fact of the Missouri compromise of 1850 has been invoked for the same purpose. l assert that from 1s4S down to the period when this false doctvine (repugnant alike to the constitution and reason) was thrust upon the country, no respectable political party held the opn- ion that territorial legislature had the right to exclude slave property pending its territorial condition. When did Clay ever hold such doctrines? When were such doc trines ever embodied iu the compromise oi 1850?
 They all looked to the period when they should come into the Union as State as the time when the territorial authorities might act on the suject of property, and to hold or exclude the slave property of the South. Applause. Time will not allow me to do much more than state these pro- positions, but l will read short abstracts from the celebrated report made by the com mittee of thirteen of which MT. Clay was chairman, which resulted in the compro- mise measures of 1850. It is calm api lucid, has no clap trap phrases, and puts me in mind of the language used F., the su- preme court. Mr. B. here quoted from Vol. 2l, Globe, part 1st, page 94o>
 That was non.interrention in 1850. It was no interference to exclude by Congress or the territorial legislature, but to leave the question to be decided by the people whom they come to form their State consti- 1 tuition.
 Mr. B. here read from a speech of Daniel Webster, where the position was taken that territorial governments were in a state of ii3ttiFilsge it under the projection of the gener- al government; that they have no power not given by Congress and that it is our duty to provide for the people of the terri tories a government to keep the peace; 10 secure their property; to assign to them a subordinate legislative authority; to see that the protection of their persons and the security of their property are all regu- larly provided for; to maintain them in that state till they grow into sufficient importance in point of population to be al mitted into the Union as State upon the same footing with the original States - Mr. B. contnued Do you suppose that Daniel Webster, after the opinon of the supreme court that 1 have read to you, would have considered it becoming him to point out some contrivances or device by which the territorial legislature could vio- late the constitutional rights of the south ern States. Not he Nor would Clay
 nor any of the great and good men who figured in the earlier days of your history [Cheers. Judges or Governors of terri
 torial governments are appointed by the President and Senate of the United States and paid out of the public treasury; so that the very legislature which they invoke tc . exclude your property from the territorie, :. is one whose daily expenses are paid ont ] of the treasury-out of money to which tha :. very property contributes by taxation-- ' :, Loud applause. The practice of the go tvel lent has been always different. MT nNbrecllinridge here entered into an argumen qso show that Congress has power to pro nr get property in the territories, and in re v ltation of the position recently taken by ;l ;r e Senator from Illinois, that Congress as Id lIfver exercised this power Th' .at co" inclpes, said Mr. Breckinridge, I hay, ,ct ed teel ly to vindicate here, are the prin of tles upN which the constitutional democ ,re Fly stanSto-day, and they are the only it, Pnc,pLeS gon which any human bein. u- VI Y @ daro Nretend to charge them witl " he dlun!on: hey are the principles of th or costltut.on N the Union, then we ar he and anio7st union ,a criss Ss S ev ul tw sr. or three 1oua % you have heard noth ot ing but oSsss ,na Sem ocr cessant clamor that
 neesd nes si0ss are hrvan,o" whGm am gs - sssdSs seek to break up tkorganlza'loh' wn' V, he , States. I hardly kh2hleaeraey or .n 'ie personal charge agaiA so iaf as u IS answer it. IA voice. ayselL, ,S aho,,, nov ? !, ' he liep'] All over the coi Ii, 'l'elh Y ls he disunion is repeated again 'ne cliarSe <, 2 nd who believe with me by and r. anu 'nos 1t and wandering orators. TIN Nous wrl'ei n-