Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-09-05

rores with his property subject to the local laws of
the territories, as the people may have made those
laws through their local Legislatures. Are you not
willing to 60 upon the same terms2 Cries Of Eyes,
we were always whng-we never asked more. y
Do you claim more than is granted to us? Ono,
no.'O You may 60 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 class of politicians who
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 pass law to protect any particular
class of property in the territories? Congress never
yet 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 Is. Is not that sound
principle? Why, there are two classes of politi
clans who tell you that it is very unsound. Who
are they? First, the Northern aboltioniSt and
black Republican think it very unsound. They as
sert that it is the duty of Congress to prohibit slave
~ wherever the people want it That is the doc
trne of the ahotionists. They 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
o1,,ln unpo nylNr moo orNr
to say they are for Congress to prohibit and exclude
slavery wherever the people do want it There is
another class of politicians who 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 was in favor of slavery, and hence the peo-
pie two years ago passed law in their local Legs
lature establishing a very efficient slave code, pro-
tectng 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 It, 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 Secessionists and
Dsunionists 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. to what way
Congress ought to control it. While the Northern
fanatics say that Congress must control the question
against the South the Southern secessonists say
it must be controlled against the North. Each
party appeals to the passions, the prejudiceS, the
ambition of his section, against the peace and
harmony of the whole country Now, suppose you
acquieSced in the demand of this Southern seces-
sionist party and allowed them to rally the whole
people of all the Southern States under Southern
intervention banner and suppose we Democrats of
the North should be craven-sprited enough to yield
to the demand OF dominant majority in
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-evcry Southern side, and every
Northern man on the other-both abusing each 9TH
err Now. what is your Union worth after that is
acconplIshed9 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 the po-
ltical party and the same church, and cannot COM
mune in the House of God at the communion
table. your Union is very nearly dissolved. This
sectionalisn 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 conmuning separated into
church North and South and when we travel from
one side of tine line to the other. not permit
ted to 60 to the communion table. And what has
produced this arrangement? 1t is the agitation Of
the slavery question in the halls of Congress. What
good has been accomplished for anybody by the agi
taton? What benefit has been conferred upon the
white MANI what benefi: has been conferred on the
black man by this agitation. 1t has alienated friend
from friend; you have rallied section against sec
ton by it; you have spread mischief. and dssen
sion, and heart burnngs without any redeemlng or
corresponding advantage. What is the remedy for
this state of things? | 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
they choose. that they do not violate the Con-
stituton of the country. If they should pass law
in violation of the Constitution the Supreme Court
is the only tribunal on earth that ascertain and
decide that fact. (Applause:)
Ii 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 as 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 an end Of
tit cannot he enforced. On the contrary, ii it be
decided that the statute complained of is constitu
tiona 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 to
make good ones. If they make good laws, let them
enjoy all the advantages of their good laws. Let us
act upon this principle, and there 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-intervention by Congress with
slavery in the territories. .(Appause) What man
will be bold enough to deny the fact that every DEM
ocrat in America mp to the present year, pledg
ed to the doctrine of Neutrality-suspicious. Read the