Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-05-29
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! Apra 20. 1860
CONCLUDED.
The disposition OF our people. if not absolute
iy aggressive, Is 10 enlarge our possessions and
extend our borders, and the Republican part ,
Will have all II attend To hereafter in fixing
the terms ef annexation of foreign territory
unless the system of slavery shall be forere,
| prohibited therein. My colleague Mr. Chair
man, Is law abiding man, aud. If we are to be.
iese his proiestatIous, a great lover of the
sffufIon. He is distressed beyond measure al
the lsiea OF any one at the North being opposed
t" the fugitive slave law; yer, will IL be believed
Thar this Constitution and Ia " abiding man de
ciare't here, IN his place, that If he lived in
Southern Territory, lie would laugh to scorn all
laws OF Congress prohibiting slavery there? =
/ He went further, and tar as any Northern
man Was ever known 10 90, and declared that
II Ire lived Iu SOuthein II Territory among South
ern men. he would own slaves himsef. and that
he should consider it right for him To do So =
He says, at he would take those Servants
and expend upon them his energies aud intel
leci to tram and protect them" Now, wha, my
colleague meant by saying that he would ex-
pend his energies and intellect" in training
! those sable children, l. left In little doubt
We know thai the laws of the slave States do
not I'erUht tam io educate lis slave;c nseqent-
ly, he could not mean THAT he was guing to ex-
pend tls Intcllec in their educa, :3u.
y essaiIlv \. 7 eu. the training HI; speaks of
must mean tl..i Ich would ex'ort the larges:
ataug III "f liAlr he shortest I,tssible space
of tIuc: ana >1arii Sambu slightly flag under
Is Ia e lie, tu i t.aIntHg OF my colleague. then
suppose. tie proposes to eXpend hIs energies
to quicken his sluggish moiions, and eI.liveu his
lazy. Indolept limbs. aud thus would he do
his duty before God to those placed under hi,
care and guidance" For all these blessings
Sh"wered upou him by my colleague. ought not
the poor chattel 70 be duly thankful? What
rel he 70 f.,rH Hav hept, ct-
tably taken from Wild, idle, savage people in
Aifica and generously provided with plenty of
reputable hard work, Ia gen.eel. polished,
tender. aud Christian cpuntrvI
AIN glad tha' my Ii ague defined his po-
siiIon IN rerard tu the rights of Shareholders ln
the Territories He couce,ie> that they have
the right to 90 there with their slaves, AMI that
neither Congress nor the people OF a Territory
nave the right 10 exclude them SO long as they
remain q Territory. Tuis decirne so unlike
that which have heard "A owed by Democrat
lc s.Ump orators IN Wisconsin other than hlm
a I'd adv ocat b. the Dem C. ate pres, of hat
Sta'e, may strike seIn- with surprise; but | am
not OF that number. He knows th;lI the posi- :
tIun assumed IN has speech on tins ques, Ion
namely, that tie Southern man has the right to
q INTO the Territories aud take his slave and
|, ID him there the absence OF law and in de-
iiance "i rhe viii OF tie people, i not the po-
eijI"n OF the Dem 'cratic pa y oi Wisconsin; and
ms making the concession he does. in this re-
gari. si"uld convince every reasonable mind
thaI there - no cIIun which Southern men
che' 10 make. IT, a he viii not Al all times be
ready to coucede. If Southern men have he
right, my colleague adtnIts they have, under
the Constitution, 70 take their slaves Ia Ter
ulory, ask II they have moi the :Ight To have
them protected there; and il the Terrifori i
Legislature isII, to project them, they not
entitled to 4 law Of Congress to protect thcH4E-
Nr. Chairman. have already said that the
/ Democratic Iar, Y ot WISCONSIN, claimed to be
| more spuud ui The Question of the non-exten-
/ son OF slavery than The Republican, and that
iVr that reason they Obtained large number
/ Of German ties. Ia proof OF II, | have AREA
/ dy read several Democratic resolutions. But
/ those reooutlo were passed several wears ago
/ ard 1t may be alleged that ttey do 10: DOW rep
resent tie real sentiment of the Democracy 4"
/ that State. 10 proof THAI they d.. beg leave
! L. sd some authoTI, e.. The Democratic par
tY o. " i>c,Il>.u placed IN nom nation last TAIL
/ a.. thea candidate for tifver or, aud exponent
# t, eIr principles. Hon. Harrison G. Hobart
J NJ Hobart c.uyH->ed c. .fn>iderahle port ION o
the State, aud addressed The eople. He me
Ill oislonei.t. Governor Randall. aud they dI,
cuss 81, many occasions, The y Inclples q
tl,eIr respective parties. Al one ot these dis
customs, political friend ut Mr. Hobart til,
editor of The Milwaukee Netcs, sent out sjeno
gr;., her, and had the spec cheS of both partIe
repur cd vtrbatun. aud printed them in his pa
per. have the P pr here. q vernon Randall
c.. aud beng untrue 10 the principles which
taev hai before iuculcated, which principle
were such - We're embodied IN the resoIui iIon,
l lave heretofore reai- Mr. H"blrt indignant
ly replied the Imputaion. lie ated 'hat th'
( Democratic party as then rs much opposed ),
slavery as in 1912. when they passed those res
ulutI0us, and The only Reason why they die
I not reIterale those dt c lines was because they
bad discovered principle by which sIa
very could be mere effeetually excluded from
The TeIrri ores than 10y the Wilmot FrovIs"
and that n-S principle was 'squai ter sovereign
ty" Bur Will lef Mr.. Hobart speak tor him
self He said:
4 '.In 1919, the Democratic party. "a my frienC
states. did pass resolutions of the kind he read
which We regarded as enunciatIng principles
that oTght To- be carried Out There a;e many
OF VoG present. gentlemen who were member:
of the PEN ocra,lc ,arty In 1S49. and will ash
VOC IT. on this suhjec of slavery. we have ret
! r,.graded-lt we have proved false In any de
| gre 10 tue views wc then entertained? And
ask v,.ur ctntrd attention, think NJ men;
: eak no TOR APP laDse bui | address myself I,
W. rne-ily. desiring to recommend what
( sas 1's yoGr MINDS ana c"GscIences.
In Ir4l We deca - az. in the organiza
tiun of a Territory the fmon proviSo, As 4
/ was then called. or a provIso prohibiting slave
~ should be attached to the organic act Il
was the b~lief Of all parties IN this country thai
Z the power of legislation the subject of siav e
~ in the Territories was vested in Congress =
! Every thought il proper TRIBUNAL TO deter
I n,Iue a. to the introduction or Prohibition o
slavery Both parties Al hat time thought tho
power was vested In Congress appeal 10 yot
# your GA n memory dues not confirm what
/ saw. that tnar the principle ou which We
acted aud that. believing in that principle. VT
we're then In favor ot prohibition That wa,
the voice of the Democracy In-l-49. We de.
. clared that If Congress 10 determine The
question of slavery ia the Territories, We were
I m favor OF lis prohibiting II By the passage o
the Wilmot proviso-
.Gentlemep. since then a considerable time
has elapsed and how do stand now? You
will follow NE whIe briefly allude to our pres
ent position on tins question. and then wii at
tempt to demonstrate that We have not changed
. our views but radically, and more
practically, anti-slavery thhn ever before. Two
thirds Of the argument OF my friend Is Just as
I applicable 70 party as to the other. We en-.
tertain no new doctrine seE-Iuent, bur the
same principle that we have always entertained
In the pr-sent campaign. We have declared Ger
tain princip in Cos ion and thar declaration
thinks emitted to respect ,un les We Irampls
upon the princiI les there announced, BY decls
. ring one thing aud acting another. Where
do ssandE We have recently adopted
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