Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-09-05

to interfere with the action or speech of any menu
Der ofthe Senate or member Of the House OF Repre-
sentatiyes (Applause) So long as the President
chooses to conne himself to the performance of his
duties in obedience to the Constitution, will sus-
tain him to the utmost his right to free and indepen
dent action. Butwheneyer the Executive is permit
ted to say to senator or representative OF SOW
ereign State abandon your convictions, betray your
Constituents, do as say or Twill remove you from
Office, and behead every friend you have in office
throughout the country; wherever it rs permitted
to do that with impunity, then the Republic is but
sham and mockery. (Applause.) There is no
freedom, there can be no liberty, when the repre-
sentative Of the people is not responsible to his con-
stituents instead of to executive power. "a voice
ut despotisu.'' Yes, the worst of all despotisms
is when the Executive can say to a man, violate
your conscience, betray your constituents, and fol
low me, or will remove from Office every friend
you have got and defeat you at home through exec
utive patronage. speak with some feeling on this
subject (Appause) / have had some experience.
I have been under the necessity in my lifetime of
fighting Abolitonists and Black Republicans, aided
and supported by Democratic administration with
all its power and patronage For three years every
federal office holder in Illinois has been required to
oppose the Democratic and support the black Re-
publican tcke. a condition to holding his office
and even yet in the Northern States, and from one
end of the land to the other every ocehoder is re-
moved, unless he works against the regular organ-
cation of the Democratic party.
You are told now that there Is Danger OF MT. Lib
coin being elected President, and that his election
would be such a calamity that it would become your
duty to dissolve the Union rather than submit to
his domination. What hope of an election has Mr.
Lincolns None on earth, except through the as
sistance rendered by the Seceders at Baltimore
CHEERS and cries of "good."0 After | was nomi-
mated there according to the usages of the party by
twothirds Of all the votes cast there being present
two-thirds of the electoral college not Directing,
these bolted and got up new convention
Now let me ask you, is there man in America
who doubts that would have beaten Lincoln, If
the Breckenridge men had acquiesced in my nomina-
ton? (Applause) Nobody doubts that Lincoln
could never have carried but two States in the
Union Vernon. and Massachusetts,, but for that Sc
cesson. What was their object in boiling? Was
it not to beat me? Voices, "yes.o If it was,
did they not know that the only way to do it was
to divide the Democratic party in the Northern
States and allow Lincoln to carry each one of those
States by minority vote? The secession took
place for the purpose of defeating me and by the
division in the party electing Lincoln. There was
not man Of them engaged in the scheme who did
not expect that his act was to elect Lincoln There
could be no other expectation, no other motive, no
other hope, and have never seen man yet who
would risk his reputation by denying that Lincoln
would have been beaten but for this division, and
that the danger of his election grows out OF it
Then how do they justify their course? Why they
say it is better TO have Lincoln elected than Doug
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do not like his platform. Why do they not like the
platform? Because | stand now on the very plat
form which they stood four years ago. And
what confidence you have in the integrity, in the
truthulness, in the honor Of man who will abuse
the Charleston platform now, after he supported it
four years ago? Were they cheating you then p
Were they deceivng you at that time to get your
votes? IL they WERE how much confidence should
you place in them now? (Cheers) If they were
honest them it does not become them TO abuse those
of us who do not change quite rapidly they
have done. Great applause.) stand now where
| then stood | stand where stood when brought
forward the bill to repeal the Missouri restriction
and organize the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska
They cannot and do not pretend that have chang
ed. But they have started story, learn, since
got down here that went home and explained the
Nebraska bill in q different way from what had
South, and said that it was the best abolition bill
got up to prohibit slavery everywhere. have
tried to find out where / ever made such a speech,
but those who made the charge do not name the
place. | now say that no honest man will ever
make such charge (Cheers.) 1t is an invention
of the enemy, and has been circulated by the mean
author who knew it to be false or had reason for
believing it to be true (Applause) will tell you
what explanation have made in every Northern
State Of my motives for passing the Nebraska bill
and repeating the Missouri Compromise. / have
sustained that act by the argument that if slavery
was right South it was right North f it was right
the Missouri Compromise line, it right North
of the line. My object to allow the people to
do Just they pleased both sides of SO deg 80 min.
assert that if the people Of Territory want slay
cry they have right TO it, if they do not want il.
power on earth should force il on them 90 further
and saw that whether the people will want it not
depends solely upon the climate the SOIL the pro-
auctions and the selfnterest of the people where it
exists. In hot climate where the white man can
not work in the open sun, where rice, the cotton
plant and the sugar cane flourish, there you must
have negro slaves to work them or you must aban-
don the country to the crocodile. In cold climate
where you have almost perpetual snow and where
the negro could not produce by his labor half as
much as would feed and clothe him and furnish him
wood to bake his hoecake at night you cannot force
slavery to exist because it will not pay for ITSELF
Slavey therefore does not depend upon the law. 1t
is governed by climate soil and productions by poll
teal economy, and you might as well attempt to
pass laws by Congress compelling cotton to grow
on the summit Of the Rocky mountains rice to
flourish on the granite hills of New Hampshire,
daughter and applause,) slavery to exist where
it cannot possibly exist. (Applause.) tell you
that wherever climate renders slavery necessary,
there it will GO and Furthermore, the people of q
territory will be the first to introduce it and pass all
laws for its protection, but wherever the climate
renders it Improbable and no money can be made
out of it. there you cannot force it to GO not
how many laws you have or how many armies to
enforce those laws. Hence said in my Freeport
speech that no matter how the Court might decide
the abstract act that practically slavery will not go
where the people do no. want it for 1t would not be
practicable That is what said and that is all said
and that has been tortured into declaration that
I would not obey the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States like to be charitable
but have not sufficient charity to believe that he,
let him be who he may, who has represented me as
saying would not obey the bred Scott decision or
any other decision of the Supreme Court, did not
know that he was perverting and misrepresenting
my whole idea (Crics of "good" and applause.)
I have made more speeches than any living man
in defence of the bred Scott decision pronounced
by the Court and am as ready as any man to en-