Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-08-03
clsSIBs NJ. CLAY ON THe STUMP IN
KENNEDY.

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good sense and popular tact Of the nan.
He gets large audiences Of all sorts of
people-having SIX or seven thousand at
Louisville on ehsAsth-secures their
earnest attention keeps them good
natured, while b ounds the various
planks in the rep platform, giving
no undue promiues = .anti-slavery
ones, though by no ~ - them,
and attacks the course d 'a"A
party and its politicians with keen arg
ment and ridicule. His treatment of the
slavery question is, briefly, that the re-
publicans adopt the policy of the first
fifty years of the government, which the
democrats have deserted, resorting to all
sorts of expedients, including violence
aud treachery, to force the extension of
slavery, and now are more or less identi-
fed with the policy of disunion if they
fail to carry out their purposes and keep
the government. There are, on the
whole, no better campaign speeches for
any latitude than th6Ae Of Mr.. Clay in a
slave state, and they are, under all cir
cumstances, remarkable featute of the
canvass. We cut here and there from a
report of bis Louisville speech, as much
to exhibit his style Of keeping bis audi
ence with him, as to give any CONNECTED
idea Of his argamepis and appeals. Our
extrects, however, 70 both very favor
ably, and wiz be found very clever
reading. -
stand befoNe yoa tonight upoQ that
only true and solid basis of liberty in any
country or under abs name-freedom Of
speech, and the right Of people peace
ably to assemble to consider who shall
be their rulers ard what shall be the
measures that shall be prescribed for theil
guidance. Take away these privilege:
and these rights, and / don't care by whai
party name you designate yourselves, al
true liberty is gone. / know that stand
before you, subject to much accumulated
odium an odium not only accumulated
In my own person, but such as is studi
ously heaped upon the man whom stand
here this night to vindicate, and upon tbs
I- - 1n
fend. All doctrines which seem to bt
new; all principles, be they political O
scientific, or of whatever character theI
may, which disturb the habits of the peo
pie, have, in all ages, been distasteful II
the mass. The great desire of the hu
man mind, the great hope Of human sen
timent, and the great aim, Of human opin
ion, is to be let alone. In the wis
providence of God, it is well that it is SC
1t is not meet that communities, states 0
nations should be drifted about by ever
wind Of doctrine and disturbed in thei
ordinary pursuits, or in other respects I
which have alluded, by innovators.-
But, after all, these new influences an
new disturbers of the public peace hav
ever had existence, from the beginnin
of time to this present day and just 5
long as man has an interest in the fashio
of his physical creation. or in bis ment'
development, or even in political creatio
and controversy, these innovations mu
come upon us. The Almighty has mad
us TO progress-Nhas given us the etern
law Of progression, and we must confor
TO its dictates. AS has been in The pa:
so it will be III the future. We sha
still be disturbed by new ideas. Men
Louisville, aftef all, the questiPq is Nc
do these questions disturb on quiet
but are they tTde?
All at once G6e of these lea@e1s-th
leader StepheT A. Douglas, fund 0
that their fathef were all raIstaeen-th
washington, eIeTSoB, daoiS Son. Al
those other grsSt men wefe set Of j
fernal fools, laughter, and did n
know as much About the constitution
Stephen a. p0uglas did three gener
tions after tbeNn. [MUcb applause
He discovered 1hat it was anconstiiutior
70 resesve thesf territories, as they
done, fer the benefit II our sons a
daughtess in ''ae TO come. What I
be thes propPAeS No shat as want
- get mo X tesAs-rot at al. He "
npposea 10 tbgs tIling-OA % nerelS want
y sta6d by sreat pNneiFlei7 be
not want the SOuth btmiHatea by /
idea that C04gress would prevent
from going ip'@ Rartas wa its slav
aud they put Il into ,Se CpSinnati pl
form that liey inienaed te leave
people perfectly free 70 determine wi
character Of institutions they would ha
subject only TO the constitution Of
United States. That was the Cincinn
platform. was Il not, Douglas demccr