Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-25
Now and Then.

Now and Then.
James L. Orr of South Carolina, formerly
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives, is
now fighting under the Yuncey and Breck
inridgc secession flag lie it was who wrote
II letter short time since, advocating dis
union in case Lincoln was elected Ofcourse,
he is now tor Congressional Intervention in
the Territories, and urges that as the doctrine
of his party. But what was his opinion re-
Gently on this question. Let us see The
following is an extract from = speech deliver
ed ty him in the House Of Representatives
on the llth of December 1856;
THE gentleman knows that in every
>lavehuliiug community of this Unicn, We
hnye local legislation and local police r,gu'a.
tious app, rttiuing to that Institution. without
which the institution would not only be
valueies-, but II curse to The community;
without them the STAKEHOLDER could not cu
force bis rights when invaded 10y others; and
if YOU had $50 local legislation for the pur
pose Of giving protection, the institution
would be OF no value. can appeal to every
gentleman uIo@ this floor who represents a
,laveholAiug constituency to attest the truth
Of what | have said.
Nov, The legislative authority as Terri
tory is invested with discretion to vote for
or against laws We think they ought TO
pass laws in every Territory when the Terri
tory is open to settlement and shareholders
60 there, to protect slave property. Bat 1t
| they decline to pass such laws, what is the
remedy NoNE, SIR. 1.-THE majority Of the
| people are opposed 10 the Institution, and il
/ hey do not desire it engratted upon their
/ Territory. all they have to do is simply to
| decline to pass ldw in the territorial ieg'sld-
/ ture to DrOtect IT, Now, ask the gentleman,
/ what is the practical Importance 10 result
! from the agitation and discussion of this
! question rs to whether squlttrr sovereignty
| does or does not exist? Practically. it is "A
matter of little moment"
Now Mr. Orr professes to believe, that be-
cause Congress wont pass a law right off pro
tecliuy slavery in the Territories the South>
ern States ought to go out of the Union
Consistent man! Yet it is of men like he
that the leaders of the Secession is party com
posed men who now repudinte and spit
upon the very doctrine they sirenuously ud-
vocated II few years back.
Ou!-The Breckenridge State Convention
resolved. That we the Brcclluridgers en-
ter into the present contest with an enthusi-
usm worthy Of our cause, and the watch
words. Pacific Railroad etc. Well, TINT
is enough to make a horse laugh Pacific
Railroad" "A watchword of men who are sup~
! portiuga candidate who has never failed
when an opportunity occurred, to declare hi,
utter hostility to it. 10y voting against it
and whose friends in Virginia, and all ihro
the South. in Convention and ON the stump
arc telling the people that they are opposed
to that great national enterprise l-ShaSto
Courier.
The Breckinri1gers are opposed to every
thing that's national, They were so much
opposed to the National Democratic Conven.
ton, that they attempted to break it up by
leaving it. They are so much opposed to Il
union Of all the States, that they are even now
talking about dissol,ing it. What do such
men care fer a Pacific Railroad? ?
DrMocnArrc MEGrlNo IN SACRAMENTO The
Union speaking Of the Democratic meeing
held in Sacramento, on Saturday evening,
says:
The meeting organized in front of the Or
/ leans Hotel UuOut eight o'clock. bv Frank
Hereford calling A Rydugton to tie chair
The general addressed the meeting for oven
half an hour, in a very earnest mnnner, aft eI
which, on motion of w. p. Cuntwell. Chas
Buncomhe was appointed Vice Pi esideut an,
Charles Watson and J. Bingay Secretaries
The meeting then began TO call for "Nugent.
"Nugent," but he not being present the erie
were directed to griffith" llumphrey GriE
filth took the stand and made a Ion.
speech. in which he attacked the Republican
party MS sectional lie was followed by John
! Nugeht, of San Francisco, late editor of tie
! Herald, who WAS succeeded hy C. n Bros
! nan, OF san Francisco, tX Judge John T. IIa q
of P,acer, and DR.. Powell. of Suc.umeuto
Judge Hale gave the meeting "a hli,f detail oI
what he saw aud heard at the Charleston Ma
! tioual Convention. :. w. lnge was expected
/ to be present and address the meeting. hui
was detained 10y imperative circumstances
| His letter of apology concludes as follows
"All the late accounts froa the South iudicnt,
the humiliation OF the disuniuni>ts Brock
lnndge though not IL disHuionist himself, i
the mere tool of the disuujon party, md no
where is that elter unders ond than in tn,
cotton tatcs of the South, aud nowhere doe
the popular heart thruh with stronger uuIsn
tons for the Union than ia tho-, States De
pend upon It, in the loyalty Of the South t,
the Union is the safety of the country in thi
crisis of malignant factions"
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