The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-02-23
MONROE COUNTY, PA. FEBRUARY 2s 1850.

Slavery, as they may elect; the equa
rights of all the States will be preserved
intact; the original compacts of the Con
stitution maintained invioIate; and th'
perpetuity and expansion Of the Uniol
insured to its utmost capacity of em ra
cling, in peace and harmony, every future
American State that may be constituted
or annexed, with republican form o
government"
But you omit:
"5. ResoJved, That clsim Of fellowship
With, and desiring the CO. operation of all
who regard the preservation of the Union
under the constitution as the paramount
issue, and repudiating all sectional par
ties and platforms concerning Domestic
Slavery, which seek to embroil the State:
and to incite to treason and armed resist
anoe to law in the Territories, and whose
avowed purposes, if contaminated, must
end in civil war and dissolution-the A
nCrican Democracy recognize and adopt
the principles contained in the organic
laws establishing Kansas and Nebraska
Territories, as embodyipg the only sound
and safe solution Of the Slavery ques-
tion,' upon which the great national idea
of the people of this whole country can
repose in It's determined conservatism OF
of the Union-Non intervention by Con-
gress in State and Territory, or in the
District of Colum bia."
Oh! Mr.. Graves, where are your reso-
lutionsl There, gentlemen, is your dec
laration, and to it you would not even al
lude to-day. and under the affectation OF
renewing the old Democratic platform of
1856, you entirely overlooked and ignored
that clause which bound you not directly
or indirectly to interfere with Slavery in
State or Territory. What have you de-
clared today That Mr.. Douglass, if
not willing to 60 along with you is out-
side the Democratic party; that be is gull
ty of treason That mag be all right !;
they say that fool never changes bis o.
pinion, and that wise man does, but = ou
ought to tell it out when you make such
charge as that.
The Unmade Issue.
Well now, gentlemen. | am going to
give you clause, that if they had sdop-
ted 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 man
up our way, preacher, man of great
good sense. but little or no education,
would say, when reading the Bible, "Well
brethren, that is one Off you please,
this is-this is bad place, and We will
skip it," The Democratic party to day
found it was hard place, snd skipped it
[avpIause1 so that it is no wonder they
did not want me to go into the same ball,
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 issue upon the resolution passed o-day,
aud which was in the platform of 1856,
it is simply as to the power of the people
when they become State. 1t is self
evident truth, and they intend you to go
home with it, With the though BIT that you
bagged the game, bat you will find that
the lion has gone, and you have put bat
the ass's skin into your pouch.
"Res0|Ued, That We recognize the right
of the people of the Territories, including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the
legally aud fairly expressed will of ua-
jority of actual residents, aud Whenever
the number of their inhabitants justifies
it, to form a Constitution, with or without
domestic Slavery, and be admitted into
Union upon terms of perfect equality with
the other States
Lord how frank this is with or with
out domestic Slavery, and be admitted
into the Union upon terms of perfect e
quality with the other States" Who ev-
er denied that! / challenge Mr.. Silver
tooth, | challenge Oscar Turner, or even
Mr.. Speaker Merriwether, to point me
out single resolution from the founda-
ton OF our Government to this day, in
any portion Of the United States, where
such has been denied If there is such,
my reading has been of 10 account.
The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
Take the case now. | have read the
platforms and shown that they are incon-
sistent. But let me tell you what was
the clause in the Kansas-Nebrssks bill
which they affirmed again and seain. 1t
states that the Democratic party deter
mined "Deither to legislste Slavery into
those Territories oh, no ! of course not
--"nor to exclude it therefrom." What
are you to do then but to leave the peo-
pie perfectly free to form aud regulate
their domestic institutions in their oEn
way. subject only to the Constitution of
the United States" Now, what do you
think of thatl Did not intend to legis-
Iste Slavery into Kansas, nor to exclude
it; but did intend to leave the people per-
fectly free to form and regulate their own
wayl l. that your doctrine to-day =
Editor of The YeOn1an, are you going to
publish it that way to day, that the ob.