The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-10-05
Hon. Herschel ". johnson.


On Saturday, the 18th instant, H. V.
JOHNSON, the Vice Presidential candidate of
the National Democracy, thrilled the hearts
of thousands of his fellow-citizens in Phila-
delphia, by speech of great power. 1t is
too long for publication in our paper, but
we make some extracts which we know will
please all sound Democrats. MIR. JOHNSON
said:
The bill which Judge Douglas introduced
for the organization of Nebraska and Kan.
sas, contained provision which embodied
and made practical in its application the
doctrine OF nOn.intervention to those Terri
tories. That bill declared it not to be the
intention OF Congress to legislate slavery
into territory or out of territory, but to
leave the people thereof perfectly free to
regulate and determine their own domestic
institutions in their own way, subject only
to the Constitution of the United States;
applause and for the purpose of entirely
interfering the people of the territories, the
Missouri restriction was repealed, which
enabled them to exercise the large delega-
ton of legislative powers conferred upon
them in our territory south, as we'll as north
of SO deg. 30 min.
In 1856 you sent your delegates to Gin
cinnati. Alabama, with the other Southern
States, sent their delegates to Cincinnati.
You met there to nominate candidates for
President and Vice President of the United
States, and l want to call your especial at
tention to very significant fact. Alabama,
in her State Convention, Mr.. VIM. l.. Yam
cey being Chairman of the Committee to
report resolutions for the action of the Con.
vention, reported resolution instructing
the delegates to the Cincinnati Convention
to 60 there and to demand of that Conven-
ton a recognition of the doctrine of non.
Intervention, and, if it should be refused, to
withdraw. Applause.] The demand was
made. The National Democratic Conven.
ton marched boldly up to the proposition,
and they did so unanimously. All the del
egates from all the States, without soil.
tary exception, voted in favor of the Kansas
and Nebraska bill and the doctrine of non
Intervention, as final compromise and
compact between the Northern and South
ern Democracy. Applause
MIR. Buchanan, who has since become par
excellence, the "Old Public Functionary"-
Applause and laughter MIR. Buchanan
and Major Breckenridge, of Kentucky, were
nominated by that Convention as your
standard bearers; they accepted that nomi-
nation, and pledged themselves as men of
honor, to stand by the Cincinnati platform.
Applause. And Mr.. Buchanan declared,
in his letter of acceptance, that this was
most happy conception. Laughter That
1t was proposition as old as representative
government itself; that the people of the
Territories, like those of the States, should
determine their own domestic institutions in
their own way. Applause.1 Major
Breckenridge also Endorsed the platform, and
IN the course OF the canvass OF 1856, he
utters sentiments as thoroughly in favor of
the doctrine of popular sovereignty as ever
fell from the lips of the muchtraduced and
prosecuted Doug LAS, of Illinois. ZAP
plause. But it so turned out in the year
OF our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty, that new lights have burst in
upon the vision of the Old Public Func
tionary," and he has found out that the
bridge which carried him over the stream in
1856, won't begin to do for Breckenridge
and Lane to walk upon in 1860. Zap
plause.
You are Pennsylvanians; here is the old
man, the honored son of your State-he
has lived and fattened all his life upon the
Democracy. A voice: "No, not all the
time."7
Governor johnson. My friend says not
all the time. Part Of his time, it is said,
he has fed upon the sour milk of Federal
ism. Roars of laughter. Well at all
events, the evergreen chaplet that encircles
his brow to-day has been wrought by the
handiwork of Democratic friendship. And
is it not most mournful, that after be has
received all the honors which the Democrat.
ic party can heap upon him; after be has
pledged himself to this doctrine of national
repose; after the people of the North and
South have stood by him and sustained him
through evil and through good report, that
the currents of bis heart should have turned
to bitterness, and there should be no waters
OF gratitude gushing towards the great
party which elevated him? Applause. I
Turning around, he smites the party that
honored him. Now, in all the States north
of Mason and Dixon's line, he has kept a
corporal's guard for no other purpose than
to give every free State to Lincoln. TAP
plause. Let Douglas be- what be may
heap upon his head all the guilt that Buch.
anan and his Cabinet can imagine, say that
he is unworthy-but can Mr. Buchanan
stand up in the face OF the Democracy and
tell them that Lincoln is to be preferred to
Douglas? Why, that is the plain English,
when properly translated, of bis actions and
his policy. [Applause.l
l do not want to indulge in words of dis
respect to the Chief Magistrate of the Uni
ted States, whatever may be my opinion of
bis course in this particular. As an Amer.
lean citizen, l revere and honor the Office
which he has failed to honor. Immense
applause. But intend to scrutinize the
course OF Mr.. Buchanan as l would that of
any other citizen: 1 intend, so far as nv
influence may go, to hold him and bis ad.
ministration responsible for the defeat of
the National Democracy, if, indeed, we must
be defeated. Applause.l 1 tell you, fel-
low citizens, that there is no device, no hu.
man ingenuity that can shelter him from
that responsibility. That's Gods truth
He knows what be is doing; be knows very
well that by urging a separate electoral
Breckenridge ticket in each of the States
north of Mason and Dixon's line, the chan
ces are that he will defeat the partv that