Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-10

whst has been regarded : settled and n2aioil2i
Es5,icy 1t shoul! Ia { matter Of singing re-
rret 10 us. if from cur bearing ia the present
ccntfs;, We co,.:d b. fairly charged hereafter
with vocation Of .i.e principles We have long
pro:ass.d 10 ese. .sli. or Hith having imposed
any. the siiahs<e;. impeachment in the pathway
Of a rationai, acii-gruusi,tcd, and progressive
liberty
The ali absorbing question now presented to
the American citizen, for what will prove
to be his ultimate dee.s:on l k2ge watched
narrowly as it has risen into Importance from
year to year, and lhink know the opinions
OF the several Presidential candidates respect
ing it.
1 am not aware that the supporters of Mr.
Breckenridge attempt any conccalment as 10
his designs in case Of his success. If ffeg
should desire 10 resort TO preyarication, they
have placed it entirely without their power by
fraukness and boldness. and | had almost said
the recklessness of their declarations. He
has been put forth, prominently, alike IN speech
and platform, as the Achilles of the armies OF
the South, and as the determined foe of free
soil, free speech and free men. He stands up
no single democratic sentiment, uniess, indeed
what were regarded by all Statesmen within
the last fifteen years as the pretentious here
sies of John C. Calhoun can be so regarded
He so reads the teachings Of the sagcs oi the
past, and their primary law, as to make II
fruitless to attempt an exclusion Of his Pecn-
liar ana favorita institution from the original
Territories and 50 as to make il indjspensa-
bic that Congresses, Courts and Presidents
,,It fA,es- al
their powers to fortify and sustain it there
Legislative action is to be .nvokek. Judicial
DEGREES had, executive fats pronounced, ra-
4ies equipped and armies marsbaled, to ex-
ciade forever every settler therefrom who viii
not bow down before the black god Of his
idolatroas worship. / appeal 10 you, freemen
to know whether this is the Democracy OF
Jefferson, Madison. Monroe and jackson
appeal to you to know whether you have ever
found anything in the annals Of parties 50 III
suIting to the understanding until within the
lifetime of the youth who has not yet reached
his majority. / appeal to you TO know wheih-
the honesty, intelligence. and pnnixsd blood
of the offspring Of Northern mothers car ever
accept an excuse for those who wouIa et,leav
or TO iasten sueh ruler epon Us. Bnt we
nav congratulate ourselves that even odicia
zeal can perceive no chance for Mr. BTee.Ziii-
ridges election If there mad ever been any.
the recent stump speech Of Mr. Buchanan
would have effectuaIy disposed OF it. M
amount of popularity would be able to stand
against the enconums Of such an advo, ate
His midnight appeal eau oniy be accounted
for by supposing the "ol3 public fonciionary
was unable TO obiitefa,s his animos:;i>s to-
wards "the young gentleman OF Kentucky,
and that his veil known craft suggested a
speech as the roaziest ald%east offensive means
ofdestruction. Such Suggestions are the more
reasonable, as ii Is moi se be imagined that
the gyved tenant Of the W Fhile B0use should
for a moment believe, af.4r tie Investigations
which have been had, ami the ezposGrls which
have been made, such tsstimo!y as be voidn-
teered could be otherwise t;.Nn rulnoi:s 10 any
cause. The daring er:ncej by him oa the
occasion was only equaled ny his lack Of SELF
respect, ard his utter disregard OF the circflin-
stances by which he wax surrounded, AID 'VhlcA
should have restrained him.
Whatever couclusiou may be drawn as 10
nv estimate Of Mr.. Breckiuridge's character as
a politician, can only say that my esteem
for him is profound when brought into com
parison with that which l entertain for his
Democratic competitor. There nre few, if
any. living men c0ncerning whom moto has
been said and less really kiIwn, than Stephen
A. Douglas of Illinois. There are thousands
by far too many thousands-n0w sustaining
him under the mistaken and deinslve idea thAt
he is directing his efforts 10 counteract the
plans of the Southern Democracy. THIS is a
frightful halucnation, but natural one when
we take into consideration the Illuminating
fact that all that devotion could do has been
done by those surrounding his person to dis
tort true record, and to stamp counterfeit
chatacter for him on the public mind View
ing him as one of the most unsafe aud treach-
erous Of leaders, you will pardon me certain
statements which it now seems necessary
should be made, and the correctness IF which
presume, will not be impugned. l have not
vet forgotten, when in the winter OF 1866
during the first session Of the Thirty-Iourth
Congress the residents of Kansas asservatiug
that the cardinal principle of the Nebraska
Kansas act had been wantenly aud wickediy
nullifiel. that fraud and violence, concoeted IN
the Blue Lodges Of Missouri, had invaded
their homes ard imposed foreign rule rpon
them institutions which they abhorred and IN
voking the interposition OF Congress in their
behalf, the pr6ed father Of ~untrammeled
Popular Sovereignty" turned his back upon
his violated child, and clospd his ears, as III
death, to complaints of outrage almost with
ont parallel in the civilization of the century!
These despoiled pioneers, who had taken up
their abode in a Territory under the most sol
emn guarantees of self-goyernmcnt, only ask
ed to prove their accusations, and to be reiiey-
ed from oppression. In other words they de-
clared they had never been able TO enjoy self
government, that they were ruled by invaders
and demanded the sovereignty conferred Icy
law upon them Mr.. Douglas should have
been the first man to fly TO their relief, and If
he had been as completely dedicated to the
principles of his bill, as some would make US
believe, he would have urged investigation and
carried it. So far from having done SO, he
put himself in the lead of those Senators most
hostile to an exposition, and became the mere
mouthpiece, advocate, and apologist of those
engaged in the work of forcing Slavery upon
an unwilling people. He enjoyed at that time
the full confidence Of the South, and its De
mocraey was orthodox, because he was loyal
TO his task-masters willing To DO battle for
their most extrayagant demands He was
then Chairman of the Committee on Terrific
ries, and 1 call attention TO his report as
such, made March y. 1856, as conclusive up
on the point have stated in that paper he
could 6nd nothing to say against foreign con
spiracies to invade the soil of Kansas and con
troll elections, but be lad much to offer in
condemnation of Eastern associations to en-
courage removal thither. He could discover
no Irregularities in the return of Mr.. Whit
field, the Pro-Slavers delegate to the HOUSE
of Representatives, but he clearly discerneo
that the Territorial Legislature was legally e
lected body, with perfect author,tyto enact slave
Codes and that the complaints of fraud ant