Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-09-22
OLD SERIES, VOL. 20, NO SO.

| iuiprudent for me thus to sneak without
preparation, under the impulse of excitement
10 large crowds that might cay something
winch could be perverted to my injury just
as II man, but altering honest sentiments,
prompted by honest impulses, would drive
votes from among his supporters. tApplausei
! mold no opinion which | am not prepared
to avow boldly in oil portions of this country
ailke. have just returned from Virginia.
North Carolina, and Maryland, and there /
nave explained TO the people the same views
l have submitted to you to-day. | wish 10
see the Democratic party preserved, and the
great Democratic principle of non.interveu-
tion by Congress with slavery 10 the Terrific.
ries maintained inviolste. | believe that our
prosperity depends upon maintaining tbut
principle. Applause.
You now find the country divided into two
sectional parties-one appealing to the mas.
sions and .preJudices Of the North to prohibit
slavery wherever the people desire to have il.
ana the other demanding that the Federal
Government shall pass laws to maintain and
protect slavery wherever the people do not
want it. The Northern Republicans or Abo.
iItlonists do not propose that Congress shall
prohlolt slavery anywhere except where the
people want it, for they say truly that wher.
ever the people do not want it they will pro.
hibit 1T themselves, and hence it is not Deces
sary for Congress TO do so. On .be other
hand, the Breckinridge Secessionsts tell you
they are in favor of Congressional interven.
tion only when it is necessary. When is it
necessary Tor Congress to intervene according
10 their theory? Certainly not when the peo-
pie are In favor OF slavery, for the reason that
10 every such case the people themselves will
pass laws TO protect it, the same as they have
done IN New Mexico. They tell you it is ne.
cessary Tor Congress to interfere and main
tam slavery wherever the people do not want
H. Laughter. This Breckinridge party
therefore, is pledged to use the power of the
Federal Government to force the existence
oil slavery whenever the people are opposed
| to it
tell you, my friends, that Congress shall
never prohibit slavery where the people want
II II can prevent it, cbeers, and on the
other hand, that Congress shall never force
slavery on people who do not want it if
can prevent it. Cheers | am equally
hostile to the Northern Abolition doctrine
and the Southern Secession doctrine
| Applause l am in favor of the good old
democratic principle Of noa.interventioD by
Congress with slavery 10 the Territories. If
the people want slavery they have right to
1t II they do not want it no power on earth
shall be permitted to force it on them. [Cries
OF That's right" and cheers. If you ac-
knowledge the proprety either of the Aboll-
ton doctrine, or of this Secession doctrine,
you are then bound to have the whole time
OF Congress occupied with the discussion of
the slavery question.
Who can deny that for the last four or FIVE
years Congress has utterly failed to perform
the duties for which it was created. Any Of
you VINO ieel an interest ir any great measure
! OF legislation may inquire OF your Senators
and representatives, when they return home,
! IN hapa Of al
! you 1t was lost for the want of time and
when you ask them why it was that Congress
had not time to attend to that measure, they
are bound to tell you that the slavery cues.
ton occupied the whole session, aud so there
was no time for other business. Take the
question OF revenue as an illustration For
the last four or five years the expenditures of
this Government have averaged about 500
OOOOOO year over and above the income
W henever proposition has been brought
into Congress 10 increase the tariff up to the
grade OF expenditure, or to reduce the expen.
dlture down to the rate of the revenue, you
lind the slavery question becomes the point
OF discussion, and the bill is lost at the end
OF the session Cor want of time. The conse.
quence has been that, just as the session is
about expiring, Congress has been compelled
to pass law borrowing twenty millions of
/ dollars more money, or issuing twenty millions
more OF treasury notes to make up the def
| cheney 10 the Treasury. Now, let me ask the
people Of Pennsylvania if they expect to ever
get the question of the tariff revised and
reconsidered, unless they first drive this
slavery question out of Congress. Every
/ interest you have connected with the revenue
aud with the tariff is sacrificed by this eternal
agitation of the negro question.
| undertake to say that no statesman can
defend tOr sinplp mOmant Tho Dnlicv of
spending twenty millions OF dollars year
over and above the Income. You must do
one OF two things. y ou must either increase
the revenue or diminish the expenditures
The Democratic creed on this subject |
understand to be this that we must maintain
a tariff which will raise revenue enough to
defray the expenditures Of the Government,
economically administered and in that man
ner We must furnish oil the protection to
American industry that a revenue tariff will
afford. Loud and long continued applause
Now, we do not raise revenue enough to pay
our expenses and keep down the public debt.
We must stop the increase OF that debt, we
must pay the interest on it, we must extip.
gush the principle. and we must keep ths
expenses OF the Government within our re-
venue. Cries Of THAT'S right % and ap-
plause And we will never have an oppor-
tunlty to do this as long as this slavery
question occupies the whole time Of Congress
lou may take another question for the
purpose Of illustration. There is the Pacific
Railroad measure. Ever since we acquired
California, the whole people of America have
had their eyes turned TO the construction OF a
Pacific Railroad. Nearly every Legislature
10 the l Union bus instructed iu favor of the
measure and whenever Congress assemblies,
four hlths OF the members declare themselves
IN favor OF the road. Al the last Presidential
election, We had three candidates in the field
each pledged TO the Pacific Railroad, not
only 10y their individual pledges, but by the
resolutions aud platforms of their parties
You remember Mr.. Buchauan's letter TO
California in behalf of it, You remember
Mr.. fremonrs letter in ts favor, and also
that OF Mr.. Fillmore, advocating the same
measure. IL was then supposed that, no
matter who might he elected President, the
Pacific Railroad would certainly be built
Many an iron man took it for granted, in
Pennsylvania, that in carrying on his busi.
ness be might calculate on that great work,
aud many farmer in the Northwest made
his arrangements 10 reference TO il. Fonr
years have elapsed, aud where is your Pacific
Railroadl 1t has been introduced into Con-
gress each session, but the moment it came
up some mau made speech in favor of pro-
tecting slavery 10 the Territories, laughterl
aud another man got no and made a speecl