Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-05-24
From the Cincinnati Commercial
Good DemOcratic Speeches,

From the Cincinnati Commercial
Good DemOcratic Speeches.
A few passages from the speeches Of
Southern men, during the secession scenes
in the Charleston Convention, will interest
our readers, and are better presentations Of
the feeling that prevailed, than the formal
documents signed by the delegations.
Gov. Mouton, Of Louisiana, said:
aHeretofore, we have been in the habit
of saying that the Democracy of the coun-
try was harmonious. Laughter.) Can
we say SO to day with any trutLi Are
we not divided, and divided in such a man.
ner that we can never be reconciled, be-
cause we are divided upon principlei Can
We agree upon the platform adopted by
the majority of the Convention, and then
90 home to our constituents and put one
construction on it, while Northern Demo
Gratis put anothers No, Mr.. President, l
think / speak the sentiment of my. State
when say she viii never play such part.
(Cheers.) If we are to fight the Black
Republicans together, let US do it with q
bold front; let use tho samc arms; let US
sustain the same principles.
= The platform which the ma
iority of the Convention has adopted does
not give us those guarantees which we are
entitled to for the protection of our pro-
perty in the Territories. We wish to wear
no two faces in this contest. We wish to
meet the Black Republicans with their
abominable doctrines boldly; and If our
friends, the Democrats from the free States
cannot Join US and fight with us, we must
fight our own battle. We are ready to
meet the issue made by the Black Repub-
licans like men, but we shall battle for
what we conceive to be the truth, and not
profit.
1t was delivered with the greatest possi-
Bile solemnity, and heard with oreathless
interest by the vast crowd, which filled ev-
cry inch of space in the hall, nine men out
of ten present thinking the destinies of the
country were then and there poisoned.
Mr.. D. C. Glenn, of Mississippi. "Mr.
President and gentlemen of this Conven-
ton: For the first time, for the only time,
for the last time, in the name of the State
that / have the honor to represent here, |
desire to say but few words to this Con-
vention. l hold in my hand the solemn
act of her delegation upon this floor, and l
say 10 you gentlemen, that it is not a has
ty action; that it is not one conceived in
passion, or carried out in caprice or disap-
pointment. 1t is the firm resolve of the
great body of the people whom we repre-
sent, which was expressed in the Conven-
ton that sent us here, and that resolve,
that people, and we, their representatives,
will maintain at all costs, at all hazards.
Loud cheers
ave came here not to dictate to the re-
representatives. of other sovereign States.
Since we have been here our intercourse
has been courteous, so far as personalities
are concerned. We have all sought, and l
believe have all been able to conduct our
selves as gentlemen. But we did not come
here to exercise the courtesies of life alone.
We came here to settle the principles upon
which the party must rest and must stand.
We came here gentlemen of the North,
not to ask you to adopt principle which
you could say was opposed TO your con-
sciences and to your principles. We did
not believe it to be so. We came as equal
members of q common coufederacy.-
(Cheers.) Sir, at Cincinnati we adopted a
platform on which we all agreed. Now,
answer me, ye men of the North, of the
East, of the South, and of the West, what
of the construction placed upon that plat
form in different sections of the Union?-
You at the West said it meant one thing
we at the South said it meant another.
Either we were right or you were right;
we were wrong or you were wrong. We
came here to ask you which was right and
which was wrong. You have maintained
your position. You say that you cannot
give US an acknowledgement of that right,
which tell you BOW, in coming time will
be your own safety in your contests with
the Black Republicans of Ohio and the
North. CHEERS.
"Why, sir, turn back to the history Of
your own leading men. There sits dis
tinguished gentleman, {Stuart, Of Michi-
gan,) once representative Of one the sov-
ereign States Of the Union in the Senate
of the United States-who then voted that
Congress had the constitutional power to
pass the Wilmot Proyiso, and to exclude
Slavery from the Territories; and now when
the Supreme Court has said that it has
not that power, he comes forward and tells
Mississippisns that that same Congress is
impotent to protect that same species o.
property. There sits my distinguished
Friend, the Senator from Ohio, Mr.. Pugh.)
who, but few nights since, told US from
that stand, that, if territorial government
totally misused their powers or abused
them, Congress would wipe out that terri
torial government altogether. And ye
when we come here and ask him to give u
protection in case that territorial govern
ment robs us of our property and strikes
| the star which answers to the name o
Mississippi from the flag Of the Union, Sc
far as the Constitution gives her protec
ton, he tells us, with his hand upon b;
heart-as Governor Payne Of Ohio, hat
before done-they will part with their live
before they acknowledge the principl