The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-03-14

WOiu TehuY COlneu 10 suit luelI Caeet anu hiAhS
them believe that he is on the side OF the most
numerous class Of voters.
What produced that strike among the jour
neylnen shoemakersl Why are the mechanics
Of New England, the laborers and employees,
now reduced to the starvation poihtr Simply
because, by your treason, by your sectional ag-
itatiOn, you have created strife between the
North and the South, have driven away your
southern customers, and driven your employees
to Starvation. This is the first fruit Of your
Republican dogmas. 1t is another step, follow
ing John Brown, oil the "irrepressiblc conflict"
Therefore, we now get this new coinage Of ''la-
Dor States'-he is on the side Of the shOema-
kers, laughter, and capital States"-he is a
gainst those that furnish the hides. Laughter.
think those shoemakers will understand this
business. They know why it is that they do
not get so many orders as they did few months
ago. 1t is not confined to the shoemakeTs; it
reaches every mechanics shop and every lacto-
ry. All the large laborng establishments of
the North feel the pressure produced by the
doctrine Of the ."irrepressible conflict" This
new coinage Of words will not save them from
the Just responsibility that follows the doctrines
they have been inculcating. If they had aban-
dOned the doctrine of the 'rrepressible con
fict," and proclaimed the true doctrine o. the
Constitutions that each State is entirely Tree to
do Just as it ploases have slavery as long as it
chooses, and abolish it when it wishes, there
would be no conflict; the northern States would
be brethren; there would be fraternity between
us, and your shoemakers would not strike for
higher prices.
| MIR. CLARK. Will the Senator pardon me
for interrupting him moment?
Mr.. DOUGLAS. l will not give way for
speech; l will for a suggestion.
Mr.. CLARKE. desire simply to make one
single suggestion in regard to what the Senator
from Illinois said in reference to the condition
of the laboring classes in the factories. | come
| from city where there are three thousand OPP
eratiyes, and there never was time when they
were more cOntented and better paid in the fac
tories than now, and when their BUSINESS was
better than at this present time.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. was not speaking at all of
the condition of the laboring men in the facto-
ries. was speaking Of the scarcity Of labor
growing up in our northern manufacturing
towns, as legitimate and natural consequence
of the diminution of the demand for the man
ufactured article; and then the question is, what
cause has reduced this demand, except the cir
repressible conflict that has turned the south
ern trade away from northern cities into south
ern towns and southern cities? Sir the feel
flied in the dress of the Senator from Vir-
gnis, (Mr. Mason;) they are determined to
wear homespun Of their own productions ra-
ther than trade with the North. That is the
feeling which has produced this state Of distress
In our manufacturing towns.
The Senator from New York has also refer
red to the lamentable action of the people Of
New Mexico, in establishing a slave code for the
protection of property in slaves, and he congrat-
ulates the coutry on the final success Of the ad-
vocates of free institutions in Kansas. He could
not fail, however, to say. in order to preserve
what he he thought was striking antithess,
that popular sovereignty in Kansas meant State
sovereignty in Missouri. Nc, sir; popular SOW
ereignty in Kansas was stricken down by I'M
holy combinations in New England to ship
men to Kansas-rowdies and vagabonds--with
the Bible in one hand and Sharpe's rifle in the
other, to shoot down the free institutions and of
selfgovernment. Popular sovereignty in Kan
sas was stricken down by the combinations in
the Northern States to carry elections under
pretence of emigrant aid societies. In retalia-
ton, Missouri formed aid societies too; and
she, following your example, sent men into
Kansas, and then occurred the conflict. Now,
you throw the blame upon Missouri merely be-
cause she followed your example, and attempt
ed tc resist its consequences. condemn both;
but condemn thousand -fold more those that
set the example and struck the first blow, than
those who thought they would act upon the
principle Of fighting the devil with his ow weap-
ons and resorted 10 the same means that you
had employed.
But, sir, Notwithstanding the efforts Of emf
grant aid societies, the people Of Kansas have
had their own way and the people Of New
Mexico have had their own way. Kansas has
adopted free Stale; New Mexico has establish,
ed slave Territory I am content with both
If the people of New Mexico want lavery, LEI
them have it, and never will vote to repea
their slave CODE If Kansas does not want sla
very, | will not help anybody to force it on her
Let each do as it pleases. When Kansas comes
to the conclusion that slavery will suit her, and
promote her interests better than prohibition
let her pass her own slave code; will not pas
it for her. Whever New Mexico gets tired o
her code, she must repeal it herself will mo-
repeal it for her. Non-intervention by Congress
with slavery in the Territories is the platform
on which stand.
But want to know why will not the Sena
tor from New York carry out his principles t.
their logical conclusions? Why is there not
man in the whole party, in this body or in tn
House of Representatives, bold enough to re
deem the pledges which that party has mad
to the country? / believe you said in you
Philadelphia platform, that Congress had SOW
eregn power over the Territories for their gov
ernment, and that it was the duty Of Congress
to prohibit in all the Territories, those twill
relics Of barbarism, slavery and poligamy. VIII.