Weekly Minnesotian and times., 1860-05-26

ton, has almost shaken the confidence Of
some OF the people in our form OF government.
Cries of "no," "no," ""wcll change that
YES, we Will change that order of things. &c
viii displAcc those who have brtraye! us by
men pure and honcst-Mho viii carry out
the will of the people, and administer our
government rightcously. We will stand
shoulder 10 shoulder in our battle with cor
ruption. Applause.
Orr PRINCIPLES.
We fling our Platform out for the contest.
\ Platform Of pure principles, adopted by
OR large Convention without dissenting
cJict. Why, at Charleston ii took them six
or seven days to find out what their prlnci-
pies were laughter or to make some.
MODERN DEMOCRACY.
These modern Democrats claim TO still
hold the principles Of the old fathers and toun-
ders of the party. All no! They have sadly
departed. 1t reminds me Of a man in town,
down in Indiana q who was boastins OF his
revolutionary gun Some one examined
it and found lock, stock and barrel made by
man up street. "Wcll," said he, "if it
! III s,ot Al boiINl, w HN'NN,
or lock, it has Il revolutionary touch-ho}e :"
explosion of laughter so with these old style
/ Democrats. All they have OF the original
Democracy is the touchholc Screams of
laughter.
HAD TO LEAVE THEN.
! Twas Democrat oncc-ior two years, six
months and nine days. Then left it
! (laughter.) Nop, believe in the principles
! of the Republican party, because they are
pure and correct. | allow no one, party or
/ convention, TO make my principles for me
and no true citizen or any one fit to be Il citi-
zen will do so, that's SO y and when saw
| that the Democracy was kncelinS lower and
! lower every year to the South, left II. Once,
| all the States of the North had decided that
Congress had power t" intervene against The
spread of slavery into free tcrritory-but the
Democracy of the latter day had abandoned
that position, leaving him still standing on it
as formerly, and believing still as he dld then.
Democracy has changed, and is continually
changing, while with every move many who
will not follow it, leave the party in disgust
at It's trucking and shameful corruption.
! Cries of, that's true
now THEY BETRtY THE PEOPLE.
In 1914, - 40 or fight twas the cry.
Polk endorsed it, but after election ;,ban'lon-
ed it-though our right to the territory was
clear and rnuues,ionablc, and went into the
acquisition of Southern Territory because it
could he got without much danger, and would
become slave Territory. Still the party bow
ed to the lash of southern G.ictation and ac-
uuieSced in it ali.
Then the compromise measure Of 1880 was
adopted, as iinality and accepted under the
promise of no more "ayltation.' The very
next Congress tore up the time honorcd Com
promise of :3 years standing, and opened
anew the "agiation' Who are the agitatorS.
| The record of that party proves they are.
Applause.
Now they tell us-stop this agitation or
DisuniOn will be the consequence. Ali
understand it. 1t is not disunion the Dcmoc-
racy fear, or they would cease agitation them
selves. They have had two administrations
now, each of which has been rcpudiatcd by
them before they were through laughter. 1t
will be so again, and you had better turn in
with US now, and rcpudiatc it before it COM
mcnccS.
DEMOCRACY A DIsUNIoN PARTY.
Thank God ! we have no secesSiOnists in
our party. We are now and always have
been, loyal to the Union of these States, no
matter what may occur, and have never threat
cncd secession if defeated. But the so called
Democracy are in favor of the Union on Ger
tain conditions only. Laughter
! Why, while stumping my district it vas
charged by my opponent that the Republican
party was a sectional, disurion party. I'M
mcdiatcly produced the resolution in the Phil
adelphia platform, and asked him if that could
have been passed at the Cincinnati, or any
other Democratic convention. lie gave it up !.
| Applause. a very national party they have
now. One piece at Baltimore, another at
Washington-for all the world like two fune-
rails. But it's none of ours. Laughter.
1t is not DisuniOn they arc afraid of. The
hue and cry is for another object. They
want to scare the people into renewing their
hold for another four years on the Public
Treasury. Oh, here is a solution to their
alarm. 1t reminded him of the old lady whose
place was overflowcd by the river Some one
asked her how she got along. She said she
got along pretty well until the water got so
deep that the calf had to stick his head under
water to suck. Laughter. That's the way
with the Democrats they are afraid they
will lose the teat. tell you the political wa
tcrs are rising, and they will have to let CO.
Good Democrats are leaving that party every
day, because they see that we are the conser-
vativc, non aSitatlng party of the country.
| Applause.
We make no war on any one, or on any
section, and Iincon's administration will bc
one of equal justice to all There will bc no
"war on the South these bugbcarS have
lost their effect.
THE TERRITORIES FOR WHITE MEN.
They are fond of callin. us the "black "
party. But We arc the white mans party in
truth. We say as did our fathers of the rcpub-
lie, No Haoery IN tie Territories, They are for
white men, and for white, free labor Why,
who would go to the Territories and be com
PEELED to labor along side of the negro slave,
who gets nothing but clothes and food? Could
you, northern mechanic, compete with such
labor? No. IL degradcs and depresScs free
labor to put it into competition with that pro-
duced, forced by the LASH
Once in Kentucky asked pompous look
ing darkey who 4 certain abject looking white
man was, who went by. "Why-him-he S
only Jim Smith, the carpentcr-llas to he his
own niger was the contcmptuous reply
Who would be a mechanic in Slave State,
and be thus looked down upon: 1t is dcgra-
dation too deep. No wonder slave labor
States do not prosper. Hence, our motto is,
1.-The Territories for WHITE menl' The
Democratic motto is" The Territories for
slave labor" Slave labor, that blights enter
prise, withers energy, fetters progress, and
demoralzcs the white man.
1t is this system, so unjust to the white
men, that we oppose If that be "abolition-
ism," Thomas Jefferson is its Father lie
drew up the ordinance of 1877, and drew a
Gordon of Liberty around the free territory
And when petitions to repeal that restriction
were sent in, they were calmly denied. My
own State, then territory of Virginia, was
part of that area sought to be thus thrown
open to Slavery. What did Virginia do then:
Seek to force human slavery On the Territory:
No! She declared she would not allow that
blightng curse to be fixed on her! Applause
Indiana is now free She is great, wealthy
and powerful State, ma,lc so by free labor
Applause. How different modern Dcmoc
racy, which, not content to leave the curse
where it is, seeks to enforce Slavery on oul
free territory