Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-09-05

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we were always willing-we never asked more. y
Do you claim more than is granted to US? Ono,
,no.nl You may 70 there, also, and carry your
slaves with you subject to the local laws, in the
same way that can carry my goods. Equality Of
rights is the principle and obedience to the local
law is the only condition upon which any man can
go into the territories Of the United States with safe
ty know that there is a class of politicians who
are in the habit of telling you that Congress will
not grant you protection for your slave property in
the territories, and Congress will not When did
Congress ever pass law to protect any particular
class of property in the territories? Congress never
vet passed criminal code for organized territory
on the American continent Murder is a crime in
the territories not under any act Of Congress. but
under the territorial law. Horse stealing is crime
not by any act of Congress, but by the territorial
law. And so with every crime against the person
or property Of citizen, no matter where. You are
told that this is Squatter Sovereignty. just such
Squatter Sovereignty as was established IN North
Carolina by the men who put forth the Declaration
of Independence and drove the agents of George III
from the continent. 1t is the simple right OF every
people to make their own laws, and establish their
own constitutions according to their own interests
without interference from any person outside their
own borders-that is all it's. Is not that sound
principlef Why, there are two classes of politi-
Clans who tell you that it is very unsound Who
are they? First the Northern abolitionist and
sert that it is the duty of Congress to prohibit slave
ry wherever the people want it That is the doc
lrine of the ahotionists. They are in favor of Con-
gress prohibiting it wherever it is necessary, and
they say that wherever it is not necessary the peo
pie do not want it, and that there the people will
exclude it themselves. Hence it is only necessary
to say they are for Congress to prohibit and exclude
slavery wherever the people do want it. There is
another class of politicians who are in favor Of Con-
gress interfering in favor Of slavery wherever neces
sary. They are not for intervention, however, ex-
ccpt when necessary. When do they hold interven-
ton necessary? Why, it is clear that it is unnec-
essary to interfere to protect slavery where the peo
pie in favor of it. for in that they will pass
laws to protect it themselves. For instance, New
Mexico in favor Of slavery, and hence the peo-
pie two years ago passed law in their local Legis
lature, establishing very efficient slave code pro-
tecting slavery in the territory. Hence it is not
necessary in the estimation Of Southern secession
lists, to protect it there for the people wanting it
will have 1t, and will protect it themselves 1t is
only necessary, they say for Congress to interfere
and protect slavery wherever the people do not want
it and therefore will not protect it themselves
Thus, you find that in this country there are two
parties in favor of federal Intervention. The black
Republicans Of the North and the Secessioniss and
Disunionists of the South agree in respect to the
power and duty of Congress to control the slavery
question in the territories. They agree that Con-
gress may control it and that the people Of terri
tory ought not to be permitted to do so. Agreeing
that far, they differ on this point, as to what way
Congress ought to control it. While the Northern
fanatics say that Congress must control the question
against the South, the Southern scceSsonlsts say
it must be controlled as against the North Each
party appeals to the passions the prejudices the
ambition of his own section, against the peace and
harmony of the whole country. Now, suppose you
acquiesced in the demand Of this Southern seces-
nd tba,o rollv tbo hnla
people Of all the Southern States under Southern
Intervention banner, and suppose we Democrats Of
the North should be craven-spirted enough to yield
to the demand OF a dominant majority in our own
section, and join in the cry of Northern Intervention
against slavery and then rally every Northern man
under that banner Then you have two sections Of
this Union separated with broad line between
them-every Southern man on one side and every
Northern man on the other-both abusing each 9TH
er. Now, what is your Union worth after that is
accomplished? Remember that the Union cannot
survive the affections Of the people, upon whom it
rests. Whenever you have alienated the Northern
and Southern men, whenever you have separated
them so far that they cannot belong to the po
litical party and the same church, and cannot COM
mune in the House Of God at the same communion
table, your Union is very nearly dissolved. This
sectonalisIn has reached this point 1t has reached
the House Of God and separated the members of the
same church. That good old church within which
was born and reared; the old church in which my
father and mother, my grandfather and my grand
mother, and my ancestors for many generations,
were in the habit Of communing separated into a
church North and South, and when travel from
one side of the line to the other, not permit
ted to go to the communion table. And what has
produced this esrangement? 1t is the agitation Of
the slavery question in the halls of Congress. What
good has been accomplished for anybody by the ag-
;ation? What benefit has been conferred upon the
white mani what benefit has been conferred on the
black by this agitation? 1t has alenated friend
from friend you have rallied section against Sec
ton by it; you have spread mischief and dissen-
sion, and heartburningS, without any redeenlng or
corresponding advantage. What is the remedy for
this state Of thingsg l answer, the remedy is to
Danish the slavery question from the halls Of Con-
gress; remand it to the people of the territories and
of the States Let the people make just such laws
as they choose so that they do not violate the Con-
sttution OF the country. fthey should pass law
in violation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court
is the only tribunal earth that ascertain and
decide that fact. (Applause)
If you go to a territory, and when you get there
you do not like their laws, and you think that a
particular statute is unconstitutional, all you have
to do is, so to make out case under the law to
have the question tried in the territorial courts APP
peal to the Supreme Court of the United States and
there get your decided and if the court decide
that the law is unconstitutional there is end of
tit cannot be enforced On the contrary, if it be
decided that the statute complained Of is constitu
tiona it must stand till the people Of the territories
get tired Of it and have sense enough to change it
If the people of the territories make bad laws let
them suffer under them till they get wise enough
make good ones. II they make good laws, let them
enjoy all the advantages of their good laws. Let us
act upon this principle, and there can be peace be-
tween the North and the South. I affirm to you
that the Democratic party is pledged by its honor,
its organization its platform and its principles, to
this doctrine Of non-interventon by Congress with
slavery in the territories. (Applause) What man
will be bold enough to deny the fact that every Dem
ocrat in America up to the present year, was pledg
ed to the doctrine Of non-interventonp Read the
platform of the party that nominated Cass in 1S48,
Pierce in 1862, and Buchanan in 1856. There you
find the doctrine of nonintervention by Congress
with slavery in the territories of the United States
Is not this so? What then has produced this sudden