Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-24

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
These were the declarations and avoWals
of the Democratic party in 1852. Now,
what do they do in 1882 Why, they go
under the leadership of Stephen a. Doug
las when he had made report saying tnatt
that law Of 1920 was sacredly concetEed1n
the Compromise of 1850. and repeal the
Missouri Compromise. Now, believe
they. stand condemned by their own Ian
euage and by their own acts, and nave
here accomplished what proposed to do.
THE DEMOCRACY sELF-coNDEMNED.
What was the result of all this The
result was that in obedience to the declar-
alton that the people were to be fairly left
TO choose for themselves between liberty
and slavery, they adopted another plat
form. Let me come to that. will tell
YOU what they did in 1856. In that year
the Cincinnati platform was adopted.
In consequence of the repeal of the Mis-
souri, compromise, the Northern people in-
terceded to get their own territory, upon
the ayowal made in the Kansas-Nebraska
bill, that the people were to "be left free
to form and regulate their domestic lnstl-
tutions in their own way, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States. y
But Notwithstanding that ayowal it made,
they Immediately, as the report OF the
United States Congress showed you, pc
fore a single Free Soiler or Republican
had set his foot into the new territory,
commenced on the border of Missouri the
Organization of the "blue lodges to in
wade Kansas, with the avowed design
peaceably if you could, and forcibly if you
must-to have that land for slave State,
and s.damn the Abolitiopists, they would
shoot them down as squirrels" as 1 heard
a leading Democrat express himself in
Lexington, while that conflict was going
on. They passed these resolutions in
1856, and want you to pay strict atten-
ton to these, in comparison with the other
avowals:
sResoEped, That we reiterate with renewed energy
Of purpose the well-consdered declarations OF for
er Conventions upon the sectional issue OF Domestic
Slavery, and concerning the reserved rights OF the
Statss"-
That alludes to the former Democratic
platform of 1852, four years before. 1t
goes on:
81. That Congress has no power under the consti-
tuton to interfere with or control the domestic IN
situations Of the several States and that all such
States are the sole and proper judges OF
appertainiug their own at1niTs not prohibited by
the Constitution; that all efforts of the abotionsts
or others made to induce Congress to interfere with
questions Of slavery or take incpcnt steps in rela
ton thereto"-the very thing they have boon doing
to-day, besides which have heard them denounc-
ing every man that does not como up to their stand
ard and calling every man that stands on the squat
ter Sovereignty platform outside of the Democratic
paTty-sare calculated to lead to the most alarming
and dangerous consequences and that oil such enoFts
meas of the people and endanger the stability and
permanency of the Union, and ought not to DO
oountcnanced by any friend of our political institu-
q That tho foregoing proposition covers, and was
intended to embrace, tho whole subject OF slavery
agitation in Congress- and, therefore, the Democratic
marty of the Union standing on this national plat
FORM will abide by and adhere to faithful execution
of the acts known the Compromise Measures, set
tied by the Congress of 1885, the act for retaining
rgitves from service or labor" included, which act
being designed to carry out an express provision OF
the Constitution cannot with fidelity thereto DO re-
pealed, SO changed as to destroy or impair Its
3. That the Democratic party will resist all ut
tempts at renewing; in Congress or out OF it, the ag-
tatiou of tho slavery question, under whatever shape
or color the attempt may be made"
oh, yes! Will resist. That is the DEM
ocratic doctrine in 1856 in Cincinnati-did
you allude to it to day? Yes, you voted
the doctrine down, and yet here it is 'that
the Democratic party will resist all at
tempts at renewing, in Congrass or ont of
it, the agitation of the slavery question,
under whatever shape or color the attempt
may be made" What do you shy to that?
1ueTe ~ IuG SIuSluudlLl p4pblSAAA WYNN
you eschewed to-day. You denounced as
reasonable any attempt to renew that agi=
tation, under any shape whatever; let me,
however, turn to another clause:
T. aThat by the uniform application of this Demo
cratic principle to the organization of and
to the admission Of new States, with or without do.
nestle slavery, they may elec the equal rights Of
all the States will be preserved intact the original
compacts of the Constitution maintained invio0te:
and the perpetuity and expansionf the Union insured
to its utmost capacity of embracing, in peace and
harmony, every future American State that may be
constituted or annexed, with republican form OF
government"
But you omit:
desiring the cooperation Of all who regard the pre-
sarvaton OF tho Union under the Constitution as the
paramount ISSUE and repudiating all sectional parties
and platforms concerning domestic Slavery, which
seek to embro the States aud nCite to treason and
armed resistance to law in the Territories, and whose
avowed purposes, Hconsummated, must end in civil
war and diBsolutfon-the American Democracy re-
cogniZe and adopt the principles contained in the
organic laws establishing Kansas and Nebraska
Territories, as employing the only sound and safe
solution OF the slavery question:" upon which the
great national idea Of the people this whole country
can repose in its determined conservatism of the
Observation-Disclosures by Congress in State and
Territory, or In the district Of COlumbia
Oh! Mr.. Graves, where are your resolu-
tions? There, gentlemen, is your declara-
ton, and to it you would not even allude
to-day, and under the affectation of re-
newing the old Democratic platform of
1856, you entirely overlooked and ignore
that clause which bound you not directly
or indirectly to interfere with Slavery, in
State or Territory. What have you de-
clnred to-day? 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 opinion, and
that wise man does, but you onght to
tell it out when you make such change
as that.
TIE UNMADE 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,