The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-16
Douglas at the South He Visits New
Orleans after the Election.

Douglas at the South He Visits New
Orleans after the Election.
HIS VIEWS ON THE SECESSION PROGRAMME.
The New York Tribune Washington
correspondent says Senator DOUGLAS is soon
to make great Union speech at the South.
In his Atlanta speech, in referring to the
fact that the Breckenridge club at that
place had re-propounded the Norfolk ques'
lions to him, Mr.. DOUGLAS said:
They do not put these questions to me in
good faith. They will not allow their can.
didate to answer, because they desire to
represent him occupying one position in the
North, and another in the South, and thus
cheat the people out of their votes by their
misrepresentation. 1t is an attempt to
defraud the American people out of their
votes by system of Justification, and gag
ging their candidate so that he shall not
speak the truth. l give you the same am
swer | gave at Norfolk. Read my speech.
1t has gone before the world. know you
are in the habit of disappearing it. Let
the Breckenridge men publish it. l stand
by that speech. | believe that this Union
was intended, by its trainers, to last forever.
l believe that the Constitution of this
country was designed to be perpetual
bond of Union. The preamble, as we'll as
every clause and provision of the Constitu.
ton, shows that it was so intended.
That instrument was made by thirteen
States, and while there was an express pro-
vision put in it authorizing the admission of
new States, there is no clause authorizing
the secession of the old States. The Cen
stitution provides for bringing new States
into the Union, but no provision authoriz-
ing others to 60 ont. Hence assert, that
in my opinion there is no authority 10 the
constitution for dissolviDg this Union, or
for any State going out. Any attempt to
break up this government in any manner, is,
in my opinion, violation of the Constitu.
ton. But do not wish to be misunder-
stood. I do hold to the right of revolution
anywhere. Wherever any State, or any
people, find that their government is too
oppressive to be tolerated, they have the
inherent and inalienable right to resist and
throw off the oppression. Our fathers ex-
ercised that right when they achieved our
independence. 1t was right not secured
by the British Constitution to our colonies,
and not secured by our Constitution to
these States; but it is right anterior to
Constitutions, right above all Constitu-
tions-the inherent, inalienable right to
which every people on earth may rightfully
appeal when their expressions are greater
than the evils of revolution.
But this revolutionary right should never
be resorted to until every peaceful remedy
has been exhausted. 1t should never be re-
sorted to so long as there is lingering hope
of getting justice under the Constitution.
Now let me ask you whether such calam-
ity has come upon US? Are your oppres-
sions so intolerable that you cannot bear
up longer? Where is the evidence of the
crushing, blighting evils under which you
are suffering? Was there ever coun.
try en- earth more prosperous and happy
than ours? Did any nation on the
face of the globe ever make such rapid
strides in wealth, in numbers ard in all the
elements of power and greatness as this
people? Were the people of the South ever
more prosperous than now?
| When did you ever get better prices for
your produce? When were you ever better
rewarded for your labor and the investment
of your capital? What oppression is there,
then, for which you are going to break up
this Union? Is it because there was a
division in the Democratic party which en-
abled a minority to elect President? The
very fact that it took division of the
Democratic party to do it, shows that you
are in no danger from northern aggression.
The very fact that we have secured major.
ity in both houses of Congress against the
Abolitionists, shows clearly that there Can
be no danger. l tell you that l have no
sympathy with this scheme for breaking up
the Union on any pretence whatever.
| DOUGLAS AT NEW ORLEANS.
Judge DOUGLAS arrived at New Orleans
from Mobile, on the 9Th. He met with a
most enthusiastic reception. At the depot
thousands of people were assembled to see
and hear him. PIERRE SoULE made brel
welcoming speech, concluding as follows:
We welcome-we rejoice that we have you
as our guest. In these days of abject corrup.
ton and sordid venality, we deem it a high
| privilege that we can honor, in our chief and
leader, the statesman unpolluted by any of the
ignoble trafics into which the highest political
trusts have of late degenerated-t the fearless
confessor of his principles the pure, the un.
tainted Democrat, Stephen A. Douglas
Judge DOUGLAS responded as follows:
This is no time to despair or to despond
The bright sun will soon chase away these
clouds, and the patriots of the land, laying
aside partizanship and forgetting former
partizan strife, will rally as one man and
throttle the enemies Of our country. Cheers. ]
Although an Abolitionist may have been
elected to the presidency of the United
States, the gallant fight which the Domo-
cracy have made in the Northern States
has secured Representatives enough, united
with the South, to put Mr.. Lincoln and his
administration in a minority in both
Houses of Congress. Cheers. There il
no act he can do which will violate or
impair the rights of any citizen of any State
of this Union. [Cheers. This is no time
to indulge in elimination and recrimiDation.
The contest for the presidency has ended,
and with it, allow the asperities which it has
generated to pass away. Cheers. But
we must never forget the principle upon
which we stand. Cheers. I can make
any sacrifice short of principle. Men are
of no consequence, principles are everything.
Cheers. In the contest, then, with the