Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-09-15
Hon. Daniel Ullmnn,s speech.

lN the proceedings of a great Lincoln
meeting at Philadelphia. we find the fol-
lowing speech from the Hon. Daniel Ull-
man, who supported Fillmore in 1856:
Ny friends, rejoice that an opportunity
is given mo this night of addressing an
| assembly of Pennsylvanians in this noble
metropolis, whose history is filled with
shining recoilcctions and important events.
tie proposed TO consider some of the inhu-
ences which legitimately flowed from these
events. There was but one question at
present before the Amercan neople-
| Freedoml In this year of 1860 n Question
traught with the future veal or woe of
onrpeoplc has to be decided, turn or twist
it as we mny.
lie desired to retract nothing that he had
ever uttered in relation to the .A4ericap
two years he had cxertcd himself in his
own State of New York, to bring about.
q union between the American and Re-
publican parties, to free this nation from
the tyranny of the so-cnllcd Democratic
party. Now, my friends, why is it that
the American party, with prospects dawn
| ing upon it far brighter than any that ever
greeted the Inauguration of any political
organization-that party which ut one
time WAS SO mighty and so powerful, has
now faded away? There must have been
some great cause lying ut the foundation
of that great revolution. What was it?
| That very same cause which at Charleston
broke asundeI, split up, divided and scat
tered that powerful Democratic party, and
which now exhibits it to this nation rs
only two miserable factions, is that which
defeated the American party.
lie then explained the creed Of the Re-
publican pnrty so far rs it related to the
slavery question. He never knew any
statesman, who in supporting the Consti-
tuition of the United Suites said that any
individual or organization of individuals
had any right to interfere with the ques-
ton of slavery within the bounds where
it at present existed. This point could
not be clearer. Malignant and ignorant
individuals undertake to call the Republi-
can party OF Peoples party, or any party
that oppose the extension of slavery in
the Territories, Abolitionists, because they
oppose the extcntion of slavery in the
Territories; while the real Abolitionists,
the only men to whom such term could
possibly apply, were men like Wendell
Phillips, Lloyd Garrison and Gerrit Smith,
and even they think they are justified un-
der the Constitution.
My friends, there is philosophy in his
tory, there is q natural, logical sequence
of events, cause and effect, that is
stamped just as much upon the moral
government Of God in the Universe, as he
has stamped his laws upon the planets
which he holds in his hand, revolving
around this earth. Then, in connection
with the decline and dissolution of the
American party, he said that when any
organization of men, when any govern
meut, or any party, no matter which, at
! l.: -
events, they may appear for time to he
successful, they may appear to have a con-
trolling power for even years, but ulti-
: mately they will bscrushed aud scattered
to the winds by the laws which God him
self has created. AZ
4 Here is great question, whether, in the
interpretation of the Constitution of the
4 United States, Congress has dominion
over the territories of the United States;
and if they have such dominion and pow
er, whether they have the power to pro-
hibit, rs they did in the ordinance of 1887,
Framed and Sanctioned by the first Con-
gress of the United States, held under the
first Constitution, in 1881 slavery in the
United States, or whether they have not.
That is the question, and when any polit-
ical organization ventures to ignore or
pretermit, or dodge an expression of opiu-
ion upon such vital point as that, they
must go to the vail. And yet the consti-
tutional Union party attempt to do the
very thing that destroyed the American
party. Gentlemen, you cannot ignore the
atmosphere around you. You cannot ig-
more q question that meets you at every
turn.
The Hon. speaker then paid his respects
to the Douglas and 8reckinrtdge wings OF
the Democracy and concluded, by urging
the claims of Abraham Lincoln upon the
patriotism, of his.hearcrs, whom he hoped
would do their duty onithe seconds Tues
day of October. Much enthusiasm was
displayed by the audience during the de-
4 livery of the speech, which was over two
hours in length.