Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-08-03

that but the worst kind of despotism P
What is that but condition worse than I
that colonial vassalage where the King
could say naF to the oft-repeated wish
and the imperative win Of the people e?-l
It is pure despotism. 1t puts it in the
power Of one man to annul and make
void and Of non-effect the viii of every
other man-the viii Of thirty millions of
men-and every man that votes for John
G. Breckinridge in 1860 votes for that
doctrine. Men of Louisville, viii you do
it? TCries Of . No" and Yes."7 L
hope you viii not.
Gentlemen, let US look little at the
argument as they put it forth. They
say that mans slave is just as much
his property as his COW or his horse. Is
that so !? Cries of g yes" and no." Is
there no difference between a slave and
COW or horse? Cries of eyes" and
@no."1 Well now, if COW kills child
your son, for instance, why not hang the
COW? Laughter and applause.l Cen
tlemen, viii tell you what the British
government said. They said that slave
property was very different from other
property; that the right of a STAKEHOLDER
to his slave must be determined by posi-
tive law. That was the decision Of the
/ British courts. We re-enacted that COM
mon law of Great Britain we adopted
it, and it has not been repealed, / belive,
in single state in this Union. On the
contrary, the decisions 10 all the courts
where the question was before them-in
Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, where
lit was decided--was, that the slave was
different from other property, inasmuch
as it had also the attributes of person
and especially was it decided, that when
man took his slave into France and
brought him back to Louisiana, that the
slave was free; that, having taken him
to free soil, the doctrine of once free
always free applied TO him. That was
the decision of all the courts until these
new lights shone, which Judge Taney
found out, which told him that man:
slave and his COW were the same.
Well, now l viii address myself for {
r little while to the STAKEHOLDER. The
5 shareholders don't ike me much
. Laughter They say that I am hal
{ 4crazy. They say that am prettJ
;, clever fellow in the ordinary way, bu
e upon the subject of politics ] am it'll
: crazy. As they say, sometimes, fool
and children tell the truth. / know tba
y it is hard to get at the truth nowadays
b bat We viii attempt to find it ask yol
e what are you to gain by dissolution c
I tie Union? In such an event, suppos
# you succeed in dissolying the Unior
; what are you to gain? Have you an
II more security when the Canada line
e moved down TO the borders Of the Ohio
is when Mason and Dixon's line is the lin
/? 'of safety? Certainly not Are 20
1f laboring under grievances now in conss
is quence of the world? Viii those grie,
II ances be lessened when you not onl
have to war against the great mors
b power Of the world. but also against til
n opinion of twenty-five millions of norti
N ern men, once your brethren and allies
at when all are concentrated in opinio
nf against you? Why, gentlemen, jo
n look at it. Your government is secure
ar by an army of ten or fifteen thousau
u men on land, and probably few thol
sand more upon the sea. Do you pr
lh pose to be as strong as the kingdom
Austria, with her eight or nine hundre
n thousand men in the field2 Do you d
D. see that you win now exercise all Il
power this government now exercises
your security and not only that, bat ih
j you will have to meet an enemy in ii
D. twenty-five millions Of your own bret
T! rem? Under the late administration ',
y have expended $4,000, 900. and b
u lieve you have lately borrowed SzO,00t
at 900 more, making Sl00,o00,0oo. Wa
n does all this boasted cotton crop of you
us amount to- / think to about SI60,00t
:. 600. Then, does not every man
sense, every STAKEHOLDER, every southe
democrat know that they viii have
= quadruple the expenditures Of the 20
10 erument 10 meet these enemiesi W
you not have to expend The 100000
'h' thus absorbing all the cotton crop
9, the South You would not only spe
- the whole revenue, but you would /
g tuaily trench upon the capital.
lot Such is the programme the slayeho
II ers-the three hundred ihousand--l
he dowu for our action in Kentucky. WI
are are we who are uar.-xfasAt,,ldar 10 a.