The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-08-17


10 Illinois 10 1883 than the mere question who
should be Senator. fAPpIause.l In my person
the question was submitted to the people OF II
linoiS, whether or not their Senator should be
the mere tool Of executive dlctation G"They
decided it right."l Yes, they did decide 1t
right, in opposition TO an unhoy alliance be-
tween the republicans and the federal office boil
ders. TCheers.l It was hoped that when that
Lacompton controversy bad been settled by the
vote of the people of Kansas against it, that the
warfare in the democratic party would Cease
But instead that, the war was kept up, and
now we find on the national theatre the same
game being played that was played 10 IL
lnois in 1883. Now you find the question
submitted whether or not the executive of this
nation is TO be permitted TO dictate his successor
n office. 1t IS said that Mr.. Buchanan natural
" feels mortified and wounded 20 have a man
nominated ~ hls own party IN opposition TO his
wishes. laughter. Whether he thus feels
mortified or not, it would have been we'll for
him to have considered when he became can
ddate in 1886 in opposition to Genrral Pierce,
who was then President and candidate for re-
election. Suppose Gen. Pierce had then pur-
sued the same course which Mr.. Buchanan is
now pursuing that is, using the EUwpr and
patronage which the democratic party had pla-
ced in his hands, foI the purpose of defeating
the nominee OF that party What wpuld every
Democrat in America have said OF Franklin
Pierce il he had tried to divide :and defeat his
party merely out of modification andchagrIu at
not getting the denomination? Whatever
would have been said OF General Pigce in sucn
a contingency must be true Of James Buchanan
now. Cheers | should not have referred
to these things al this time, nor duriJk this can
vass, but for the fact that the Prrsid,nt Of the
United States has taken the stump. naking pub
lie harangues, for the purpose OF dr'idlng and
defeating the party which elected ,n Pres-
dent. TApplause.l What are TIE reasons as
signed by the President for endeavolng to di-
vide and break down the democratic party -
He does not assign the persona! rraSn that he
don't like the nominee. But he pts 1t upon
the ground that he don't like the platform adop-
ted by the party. What IS there in that plat
form to which James Buchanan hasa right 10
take exception It's the ldentiql platform
upon which James Buchanan was epcted Pres
Ident, and without which be nevercoud have
been elected There ISN'T an honot man in all
America that will deny that Jams Buchanan
and John e. Rrecklnridge, in S56, were
Congress with slavery in the lerritores.-
tCherr-.l mace speeches from Ii, same slaad
with John G. Breckenridge IN 1896, vteD he
was advocating his own claims to the We Pres
ldencv aud heard him 70 10 the extreme engh,hs
in favor of popular sovereignty in the Territories.
Then again, II recolIect right, the d'u0crats Of
Hampshire held an immense mass D'elng at
this capital, in February, 1896, plra9us to the
nomination at Cincinnati, at Will Howell
COBB ana Joseph Lane aud James Orr OF
South Carolina, made speeches andIn every
one of those speeches they adyocatA squatter
sovereignty in lis broadest sense. Applause.)
| appeal to this audience ifthpse i4cI are not
trur, l''l have The speeches in my ocket."
That gentleman has the speeches in lis pocket.
They were written out by the sptker after
they returned TO Washington, andpuplished
10 pamphlet torn by :be national emocratc
committee, as true exposition OF pmocratIc
principles. eyes, and in the Bosta PoSt'')
A gentleman says Sin the Boston Pct,' and
believe, in every other democratic paper in
America that had the space to sparelr po!iti
Cal speeches. ln other words, fello citizens,
| stand now where every democrat i Amer-
ca stood four years ago, advocating III right of
th- people OF every political com unity TO
make then own laws, 10 establish Ipir own
institutions 10 suit themselves. | claHno prCu
liar credit for advocating these pr cIpe8.-
That principle of popular sovereigntys as old
as fee government itself 1t was IL princi-
pie upon which every battle OF the Evolution
was fought. Remember, for ontmoment,
what was the cause that led 10 the rtolutIona-
= ~ war. What was the demand our re-
volutionaFy fathers, the denial of wich pro-
duced the war il was not indepenhce. In
= the beginning of that controversy our re-
> voIutionary fathers did not desire IndnndeHce.
= In every petition TO the crown, in eve address
TO the Parliament and people of Ensnd, our
fathers set up and protested their dotion to
? the British Constitution, and theI loyalty
| 10 the Crown OF England. ('EThis Gods
tru!h."l OF course it's Gods truth, 81 should
} not have said it. (Applause.) Then nat were
t our fathers contending for, if it wa not n-
dependence They were Contendii for the
t right of self government in the coloni They
' demanded the right in their own ol Iegis-
I alures to pass all laws which affectethe local
' and domestic concerns OF their respewe colo
a MES. They did not deny the right ohe Brit
, ish Parliament to pass laws on alsubiects
e which were imperial and not coloni They
- ca not dehy the rlSht OF the BTitIS'goVern-
e n.ent TO do all acts and things whlc affected
t the welfare of the empire without eriering
G with the local and domestic concer o. the
# people of the colonies. But they de.nd the
: right of sef-government in each colo in re-
d spect to everything that was local I.annternal,
= and not imperial. And our fathers forth
o the e'Declaraion of Independence 'ot when
u they found they could not get local seyovern- /
s ment without il. They submitted toldepen- |
IS dence as necessity, in order TO get al self
o government. They established theldeppn-
= dpnce of these colonies only as mea oil ac-