The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-21
Douglas In Boston.

The reception Of Mr.. Douglas in Boston
upon his arrival there on Tuesday evening.
was quite hearty. The following is a synops
sis of the essen tial portion of his remarks from
the balcony OF the Revere House:
The liberties Of this country are now put in
peril by sectional parties, appealing to Sec
tional prejudice and sectional ambition
against the peace and harmony of the whole
country. (Applause.) On the one hand you
find great Northern sectional party, appeal
ing TO the North against the South On the
other hand You find sectional party South
ward, appealing to the prelndices OF the
Sonth against The North. The Republican
s,arty demands the possession OF the Federal
Government, in order that its entire power
may be welded for the prohibition of slavery
where the people want it. The Sou thern Sec
tional party demands the possession of the
Federal Government, in order that the whole
power OF the Government may be welded for
the defence and maintenance of slavery where
the people don't wantit tApplause.)
These two sectional parties are in direct
conflict with each other, and are producing
that "irrepressible conflict" which can never
be reconciled until you recur TO the doctrine
that Congress shall not in terfere with the do
mestic institutions of the people anywhere
tCheers.) For the last few years, all the time
OF Congress has been employed in the discus
sion of the slavery question, to the exclusion
OF important business, affecting the whole OF
the country. Whenever you ask your Repre-
sentasives why it was that they did not revise
the revenue system, in order TO defray the ex
penses OF the Government, without borrowing
twenty millions of dollars year, they tell
you they hadn't time-the whole time was oc-
cupied III the discussion OF slavery, and there
was no time to raise money to pay your honest
debts. (Applause)
When you ask your Represen tatives why it
Is that the Pacific Railroad is not made, you
are told that there was no time, because the
slavery question absorbed the entire session OF
Congress When you ask your Representa-
tives why it is that the mail system has not
been carried on with vigor throughout the
country, you are told that the bill was lost for
want of time. When you ask why it is that
you have no overland mail-route to the Pa
cific and no steam-line, you are told that the
slavery question occupied the whole session,
and the bills were lost for want of time
(Laughter.)
Thus you find that all the great measures
which affect the commercial interests, the
shipping interests, the manufacturing inter-
ests the industrial interests of the country,
are lost for want of time. My fellow-citizens,
there never will be a time (''There will if you
are elected,") to perform the duI lies for which
the Government was made, unless you Danish
forever the slavery question from the halls of
Congress, and remand it TO the people of each
State and each Territory, according to the
platform of the Democratic party. (Three
cheers.)
This great principle of intervention by
the Federal Government, and popular soye-
reignty in the States and Territories, is not
peculiar to the democratic party. 1t was af-
firmed in the Compromise measures of 1850.
rs we'll as the Democratic II was affirmed by
all national men, in those days, and should be
sus tained by all national, conservative, Union
loving men in the present day. (Cheers.)