Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-10-03

And so if you 60 back to the purchase Of Lonlsi'
ana. Nobody remembers that now. On the .ot'l
of October 1903 who stood up in the Senate OF the
United States and moved for the confirmation OF
that treaty which Jefferson had made with Napoleon
for the purchase of Louisiana? Andrew jackson,
[cheers;] and from him. and the democrats OF tnat
day, came this great boon to our country. "no
cried out against ity The federal party the NORTH
ern party" of that day; and the man whom the re-
publican party now place at their head as their great
patriarch-(and an honorable man he is OF whom
will speak only with reverence: mean the vener-
able Josiah Quincy, sepior)-that distinguished man.
then the representative Man of New England, OPP
posed the purchase of Louisiana, and her admission
into the Union slave State, and on the 'of OF
the House in 1871 declared that if the bill passen
admitting Louisiana as slave State, 1t 'ods eur
tuolly dissolution Of the Union," and he added,
as it will be the right of ALL it will be the duty
of some to prepare for separation peaceably II
they can, forcibiy if they must!" And at another
time that same gentleman proposed. upon the noor
of the House. to mpeach Thomas Jefferson tor vlo-
lating the Constitution in making the purchase OF
Louisiana! Such are the venerable relics and such
the principles that have come down to our times,
and now mingle with this new party which calls it.
self the republican party of to-day who intend to
take possession of the Government and conquer the
democratic South by severing her from the North.
Now, gentlemen, let me ask you-and desire
you, young men, to look up this history, and look
over the map of your country-let me ask you how
all this has been DONE how all the extension OF this
country has been accomplished, until it has increas
ed from thirteen to thirty-three States? Never was
State admitted into this Union without the oppo-
slton of the federal party the whig party. the abo
lition party, the modern republican party. The
democratic party has always had to drag every State
into the Union, from Tennessee in 1896 down to
Oregon in 1885, when the whole of this republican
party in Congress voted against the admission Of
that State even as free State because she was 60
ing to bring two democratic senators into Congress
one of them honest Joe Lane! Cheers. And
have no doubt that though they were ignorant of it
at that time, there was some strange presentiment
of the future-a sort of econd-sight-mnglins with
their ideas, that if they admitted Oregon, and Joe
Lane took his seat in that body, we would make
him President of the United States by the choice of
the Senate in 1860 Laughter and cheers.
How, ask, has this expansion of the country
been accomplished? Simply by letting alone that
everlasting negro The democratic party have let
him alone They have neither gore for slavery nor
against slavery in State or Territory That is the
way that they have achieved all this expansion
They have established some twenty Territories but
they never said word, since the adoption of the
Constitution in the organization of those Terrific
ries, about negro; nothing was said about ne
gro, in organizing Territory, until Mr.. Douglas
took it into his head. at the suggestion of whig
from Kentucky, to put him in the Kansas and Ne
braska bill That is the first touch of the negro we
ever had in Territory. And out of those Terrific
res that were thus created have into the Union
twenty new States, added to the thrteen-al of
them coming in simply by ignoring slavery; simp-
ly, gentlemen by the honest principle of treating
slave States and free States just alike; simply by
carrying out the glorious motto of John c. Brock
inrdge there-pointing to the motto at the foot Of
the hall T.
"The Constitution and the equality of the States
These are the symbols of everlasting Union" -
[Cheers.
By carrying out that doctrine of the equality oil
the States" twenty new States have been added to
this Union; and out Of those twenty, twelve arc
free and only eight slave States. And yet here are
we at the North with the lions share in our grasp
growing and tearing at the South, assailng her in
situations, abusing her citizens as barbarians,
revng and maligning. and teaching our people ha
tired to the South as their religion And all this
when we have obtained only success support, pros
perty, and wealth, from what her and he,
slave labor have given to us when we have more
free territory than settle for century; wheI
every market that has been thus opened has beer
seized upon by the commerce and the industry o
New England and the rest of the North ard its bes
fruits reaped, and the proceeds put into pock
cts! That, say, is historical fact. All this ha:
the democracy done for the country. Under th.
policy it has lived and ourished for sixty years. til
it has become the most prosperous nation that Goo
ever made the sun to shine upon. And now, will
this Northern discomfort about the very slave labo
| We have grown rich upon are becoming like tn,
Israelites of old-getting fat and kicking up ou
heels against the Lord for the prosperity we enjoy
And here comes in this exclusively sectional
Northern party, made up, with some few eminen
exceptions of the smallest kind of specimens of mel
that we have running about [great laughter ant
applause, which undertakes to seize upon the Fed
eral Government and change its grand policy int,
miserable sectional negroism. The statesmen o
this party-the managers of this party-are the,
not, for the most part, ambitious, fippant youn
men, inexperienced, rash, and reasonable tina
never read the Constitution of the United States
laughter, or never largely comprehended singh
article of it if they did read it? Renewed n,err
ment They undertake to say the wisest and tn
weakest Of them all, that there is "irrepressibl
conflict" between slave labor and free labor; tina
slave States and free States after this grand exper
ment of 70 years of peace and prosperity, can n
longer live together; and that We must now set
work to make them all slave or all free These ar
the wise men who 60 about to the people askin
them for the power of this mighty Government tina
they may make war between the slave labor of Fl
teen States which produce the cotton and ether ma
terias of manufacture and the free labor of eghtee
States that live by it. These wise men talk of tn
irrepressibility of supply and demand in productio
and manufacture, and they are ready to say to tn
millions of free laborers who live and support the
milies by working up the great staple of the Soutt
(which can be produced nowhere but at the Sout
with involuntary negro labor, and is decreasin
everywhere else y they ready, by their wretche
sectional policy, to say to those free white million
in the Northern States, well as the four million
of spnners in England: STARvE, PERISH aoaste aaoa
a Dhole generation Of you in order that we wis
men may put stop to slave negroes raising cotton
Oh if some power would only give to these me
the gift of that particular selfknowledge of whic
an ancient sage once boosted, what blessing
would be to them and the country; for Socrate
said, "My highest knowledge is to know my ow
ignorance" Laughter and applause.] Instead
even this wisdom in their councils, Mr.. Lincoln ii
"original author and inventor" of that atrocior
dogma Of the irrepressibe conflict, is made the
presidential candidate Mr. Hallett having inadve
tently used the name of Leoi Lincoln, and bein
corrected by the audience, remarked-Did I sa
Leci, beg his pardon, for he is true patriot-an