Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-21
CLEVELAND. SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2l 1860.

Constitution TO interfere with or control the
Jomestic institutions Of the several States, and
that all such States are the sole and proper
judges Of ofevsFything appsrtaining to their own
atfairs, not prohibited by the Constitutions that
ell Efforts Of the abOlitiOnists or others, made
TO induce Congress to interfere with questions
OF slavery, or take incipitn. steps in relation
thereto, the very thing they have been dong
to day, besides which we have heard them de
nouncing every man that does not coma up to
their standard, and calling every man that
stands on the "Squatter Sovereignty" platform
outside Of the Democratic paFty,-'aio calcu
lated 20 lead to the most alarming and danger.
Gus consequences; and that all such efforts
have an inevitable tendency to diminish the
happiness Of the people and endsnger the sta
bility and pemaneney of the Union, and oaght
not to be countensnced by an friend Of i1Ur pO-
litisal institutions.
2. That the foregoing proposition covers, and
was intended to embrace, the whole subject Of
slavery agitation in Congress; and, therefore,
the Democratic party Of he Union, standing
on this national platform will abide by and
adhere to faithful execution Of the acts known
es the Compromise Measures, settled by the
tiVes from service or labor" included. which
act being designed to carry out an express pro
vision of the Constitution, cannot with fidelity
thereto be repealed, or 60 changed as to destroy
or impair its efficiency.
8. That the d 1moc attic party will resist all
attempts at renewing, in Congress or out Of it,
the agitation Of the slavery question, under
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made"
Oh yes! Will resist. That is the Demo-
cratic doctriue in 1856 in Cincinnati-did Ycu
allude to it to day! Yes you voted the doctrine
down, and yet here it is "that the Democratic
party viii resist all attempts at rene ing, in
Congress or out of it, the agitation of the
slavery question, under whatever shape or color
the attempt may be made" What do you say
to thai There is the Cincinnati platform which
you esehewed to-day. You denounced as trea-
senable any attempt to renew that agitation,
under any shape, whatever; let me, however,
turn to another clause.
"That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization Of
Territories, and 70 the admission Of new
States, with or without domestic slavery, as
they may elect; the equal rights Of all the
States will be preserved intact; the original
compacts Of the Constitution maintained in
violate; and the perpetuity and expansion Of
the Union insured 10 its utmost capacity Of
embracing, in peace and harmony, every fu-
ture American State that may be constituted
or annexed, with q republican form of gov
ernment"
But you omit:
s. "ResOlved, That claiming fellowship with
and desiring the cooperation of ell who re-
gard the preservation Of the Union under the
Constitution as the paramount issue, and re
pudiating all sectional parties and platforms
concerning domestic Slavery, which seek to
cmbroil the States, and incite to treason and
armed resistance to law in the Territories,
and whose avowed purposes, if eOnsummated,
must end in civil war and dissolution-the
American Democracy recognize and adopt the
principles contained in the organic laws es-
tablishing Kansas and Nebraska Territories,
as embodying the only sound and safe solu-
tion Of the "Slavery question: upon which
the great national idea Of the people of this
whole country can repOse in its determined
conservatism Of the Observation-Disclosures
ton by Congress in State and Territory, OF
in the District of Columbia"
Oh Mr.. Graves, where are your resolu-
tions There, gentlemen, is your declaration
and to it you would not alluds to-day, and
under the afFectation Of renewing the old
Democratic platform Of 1856, you entirely
overlooked and ignore that clause which
bound you not directly or indirectly to inter-
fere with Slavery, in State or Territory
What have you declared to-day2 That Mr..
Douglas, if not willing to go along with you
is outside the Democratic party; that he is
guilty of treason. That may be all right /;
they say that fool never changes his opin-
ion, and that wise man does, but you ought
to tell it out when you make such a change as
that
THE UEMADE ISSUE.
Well now, gentlemen, am going to give
you clause, that if they had adopted to-day,
it would have put the thing so plain, that if
you gave US Douglas we would catch you; if
you gave US Toombs we would catch you and
if you offered Breckenridge we would catch
you. You did not intend the Democratic
party to know there was such clause. As
8 man up our way, q preacher, q man of
great good sense, but little or no education,
would say when reading the Bible, "Well,
brethren, this is one of-if you please this is
this is bad place and we will skip i" -
The Democratic party to-day found itWas a
hard place and skipped it (spplause) so that
it is no wonder they did not want me to go
to that same hall and that the lights were out
and it was all dark. Here is what they did.
The Republican nor Abolition party, nor the
old Whig party, nor the American party, nor
the Democratic party have ever made an is
sue upon the resolution passed to-day, and
which was in'the platform of 1856, it is sim
ply as to the power Of people when they be-
come State. It is self-evident truth and
they intend you to 60 home with it nth the
thought that you bagged the gam but you
will find that the lion has gone and you have
put butSthe asses skin in your pouch.
GResolyed, That we recognize the right Of
the people Of the Territories, including Kan
sas and Nebraska, acting through the legally
and fairly-expressed will Of majority of
actual residents, and whenever the number
of their inhabitants justifes it to form q
Constitution, with or without domestic slavery,
and be admitted into the Union upon terms
Of perfect equality with the other States"
Lord, how frank that is "With or without
domestic Slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon terms Of perfect equality with the
other States" Who ever denied that2 l
challenge Mr.. silEertOoth, challenge Oscar
Turner or even Alr. Speaker MerriWether,
10 point me out q single resolution from the
foundation of our Government to this day, in
sny portion of the United States, where such
has been denied. II there ia such, my read
ing has been Of no account
ITO be continued.