Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-05-16

But inasmuch as the power to introduce slavery,
notwithstanding the Mexican laws, was conferred on
the Territorial Legislatures under the compromise
measures of 1850, the right to introduce it into
Kansas, Notwithstanding the Missouri restriction,
was also proposed to be conferred without expressly
repeating the restriction. The legal effect was pre-
ciscly the same Afterwards some gentlemen SAID
they would rather have the legal effect expressed IN
plain language. :. :,
said. "if YOU want repeating act, have it; 1t
does not alter the legal effect" SAID so at the time,
as the debates show and hence put in the express
provision that the Missouri act was thereby repeal
ed 1t did not change the legal effect of the bill !;
but that va; ,ton of language has been the staple
of great many stump speeches, great many mis-
cradle quibles of county court lawyers great many
attempts to prove inconsistency by small politicians
in the country Be it So The people understand
that thing. The object | had in view was to allow
the people to do they pleased. The first bill ac
complishcd, that; the amendment accomplished II.
Whether that the object OF others or not, Is an
other question. The two bills in my opinion naa
the same legal effect but said if any ono doubts
it, / will make it plain Some said, I'VE doubt
whether that gives the right" Then made it plain
and brought 1t in in express terms, and he Calls
change of language without varying the legal effect
a change of policy. My colleague is welcome to
make the most ont of that | have had that arragn-
ment over and over again.
The Senator has some doubt as to whether | ain
in good standing in My own party; whether am
good representative of northwestern Democracy
have nothing to say about that. ! will allow the
people to speak in their conventions that uIject
Whether represent the Democracy of Illinois or
not | shall not say. The people understand all
that / can only say that have been in the Demo
cratic party all my life, and know what our Demo
Gratis mean. My colleague Endorsed and approved
the compromise measures of 1850. lie was De-
mocrat few years ago. Even in 1856, he declar-
ed, believe that he could not vote for me, if NOM
mated, but he would vote for Mr.. Buchanan but,
after tie nomination, he did not like the platform,
and he went over. have no objection to that; it
is all right enough. never intended to taunt him
with Inconsistency; but l do not think he is as
safe and as authoritative an eXpounder of the Re
publican party as the Senator from New York The
Senator from New York says that State that does
not allow a negro to vote on an equality with
white man is slave State | read his speech here
today. I suppose the Senator from New York is
pretty good Republican. | thought he spoke with
some authority for his party. | did not suppose
those neophytes who had just come in'o the party
were going to unsette and unhorse the leader and
embodiment of the party quickly, and prescribe
platform that would rule out the Senator from
New York l must be permitted, therefore, to take
the authority Of the leaders Of the party in prefer
ence to those who are kept in the rank and file I'M
til they have served an apprenticeship. uaughter)
The Senator from New York says it is slavery not
to allow the negro to vote. Well, sir, hold that
that is political slavery If yon disfranchise man,
you make him political slave. Deprive a white
man of voice in his government ana, politically,
he is slave Hence the inequality you create is
slavery to that extent Ny colleague will not allow
negro to vote. lie lives too far south in Illinois
for that decidedly. lie. has to expound the creed
down in Egypt They have other expositions up
north The creed is pretty black in the north end
of the State; about the centre it is pretty good
mulatto, and it is almost white when you get down
into Egypt. 1t assumes paler shades as you go
south. The Democrats of Illinois have one creed,
and we car proclaim it everywhere alike.
The Senator, my colleague, complains that l rep
resent his party to be in favor of negro equality
No such thing, says he; 81 tell my coileaugue to
his teeth it is not So" There is something very
fearful in the manner in which he said it. Senators
know that he is dangerous man who says things
to mans teeth, and shall be very cautious how
reply But he says he does hold that by the law
of God the negro and the white man are created
equal that is, he says in state Of nature; and,
therefore, he says he Endorses that clause of the De-
claraton of Independence as including the negro as
we'll as the white man. ] do not think | mSState
my colleague He thinks that clause of the De-
claraton of Independence includes the negro aswcll
as the white man. He declares, therefore, that the
negro and the white man created equal What
does that Declaration also say: I'VE hold these
truths to be selEevdent; that they endowed by
their Creator with certain inalie able rights among
which are ife liberty and the pursuit of happiness
If the negro and tire white man are created equal,
and that equality is an iaaliena6le right by what
authority is my colleague and his party going to de-
prve the negro of that ina.ienable right which he
got directly from God? lie says the Republican
party is not in favor of according to the negro an
inaenabe right that he received directly from his
Maker Oh, no; he tells me to my teeth that they
are not in favor of that; they will not obey the
laws of God al all. Their creed is to take away in
alicnable rights, have found that out before and
that is just the reason complain of them, that they
are for taking away inalienable rights.
If they will cling to the doctrine that the Dcclara-
ton of Independence conferred certain inalcnable
rights, among which, We are told, is equality be-
to make the human laws they establish conform to
those Godgven rights which are nalienahle If
they believe the first proposition, as honest men,
they are bound to carry the principle to its logical
conclusion and give the negro his equality and voice
in the Government; let him vote at elections, hold
office, serve on juries, make him Judge, Governor,
("Senator.D No, they cannot make him Senator,
because the Supreme Court has decided that he is
not citizen. The bred Scott decision is in the
the bred Scott decision that negro cannot be a
Senator. I say, if you hold tina. the Almighty Gre
ated the negro the equal of the white man, and that
equality be an nalienable right, you are bound to
confer the elective franchise and every other privi-
lege Of political equality on the negro The Sena-
tor from New York stands up to it like man. His
logic drove him there, and he had the honesty to
avow the consequence of his own doctrine. That is
to say, he did it before the Harpers Ferry raid He
did not say it quite as plainly to-day; for will do
the Senator from New York the justice to say that
in his speech to-day, think he made the most sue
cessful effort considered as an attempt to conceal
what he meant, Q.aughter) He dealt in vague
genera!ties; he dealt in disclaimers and general de-
malls; and he covered it all up with verbiage that
would allow anybody to infer just what he pleased,
but not to commit the S, nator to anything; and to
let the country know that there was no danger from
the success of the Republican party that they did
not mean any harm; that if men, believing in the
truth of their doctrines, did 60 and commit inva
sions, MURDERS robberies and treason all they had
| to do diSavOw no yrh fno1s ut