The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-07-05
A Speech by a Douglas Man.

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There were number of great speech.
es made in the Baltimore Convention
which the Douglas leaders in the North.
ern States, will probably not care to
have published for circulation among
the people. The speech below of Mr..
GAULDEN, of Georgia, an uncompromis-
ing Douglas Democrat, is one of this
sort. We ask our Democratic readers
to look at Mr.. Goulden's speech, and
tell us how they like it:
Mr.. GAULDEN of Ga.--Mr. President
and Gentlemen of the Convention:
come here from the State of Georgia,
Endorsed by that State Convention and
by the Convention at Charleston. This
ought surely to give me right to be
heard before you, and though I have
not joined my fortune in the State of
Georgia either to the House of York
or to the Lancaster, feel that I have
a right here to speak to the great Dem
ocratic party of the United States, to
see the elements of disruption and dis
organization which seem to prevail in
the midst of this most intelligent assem-
bly,. | have felt that the experiment of
the capability of man for self govern
ment was about to prove failure here,
and that the genius of Liberty was
about shrieking to leave the world
But trust that this may be the darkest
hour just before the day; and that from
these elements Of discord, the repre-
sentatives of the intelligent American
people here assembled may be able to
devise a plan upon which the great
democratic party of the United States
may b. united, and that we will yet add
anothc. victory to the many we have
already achieved.
am an advocate for maintaining the
integrity of the National Democratic
party; [ belong to the extreme. south !;
[ am a pro-slavery man in every sense
of the word, aye, and an African Slave
trade man. Applause and laughter.
The institution of Slavery, as | have
said elsewhere, has done more to adj
vance the prosperity and intelligence of
the white race, and of the human race
than all else together. | believe it to
be founded upon the law of Nature, and
upon the law of God I believe it to be
blessing to all races. [ believe that
liberty swould Fnot truly exist in this
Western World except by maintaining
the integrity of the great National dem.
ocratic party. Applause. AS for
this "irrepressible Conflict party, with
their serried ranks now ready to march
down upon us, have no faith in it, be-
cause it is founded in anarchy,in every
thing anti-republican,i in everything that
| is opposed to human progress while I
understand the idea of the great Ma
tional Democratic party to be non-inter-
vention in its broadcast sense. Tap
plause. Now my northern friends, [ do
not see that can do anything in Geor-
gia to reconcile these matters but
whatever l can do, will do. APP
plause.
l say that our friends in Georgia, who
are crying out for protection to slavery
in the Territories, are advocating a
mere theory, a mere abstraction, a
thing that is not and cannot be. They
would do much better if they would
demand protection from the General
Government, and have a line of police
established along the border of the
Slave States, to catch and hang the
thieving Abolitionists, who are stealing
our niggers. Laughter and applause.
This is means of protection. Why 2
because it is practical. Renewed
laughter and applause. Here is my
old no+;vo C+o+o oe U;ro,;; Al -
trading and slave-breeding State of
Virginir. Laughter.
DELEGATE FROM Val call the gem
tleman to order, He casts an imputa-
ton upon Virginia, by calling her the
"slave-breeding State of Virginia.
Mr.. GAULDEN.-Well, I will say the
slave-breeding State of Georgia, then.
I glory in being slave breeder myself. !
Loud laughter. / will face the mu-
sic myself, and I have got as many ne
groes as any man from the State of Vir-
ginia. And as invited the gentlemen
Of this Convention at Charleston, to
visit my plantation, I will say again
that if they will come to see me, l will
show them as fine lot of negroes, and
the pure African, too, as they can find
anywhere. And I will show them as
handsome set of little children as can
be seen, and any quantity of them, too.
Laughter. And | wish that Virginia
may be as good slave-trading and
slave-breeding State as Georgia; ana
in saying that 1 do not mean to be dis
respectful to Virginia, but do not |
mean to dodge the question at ALL
Now, I want no office, / never asked |
any, / did not ask the State Convention
to send me here; but l am here to tell
the truth to you alls and this is my idea
of non-intervention. l want the State
of Virginia, if she has negroes, to have
as many as she pleases. If you nwat
Slavery in the State of Massachusetts,
want you to have it. If you want sla-
very in Indiana, and Ohio, and Wiscon-
sin, and Minnesota, in Gods name, have
it. 1t is your right to have slaves, and
just as many or as few as you please
/ will never join any party which desires
to force slavery anywhere, or to keep it
from any place. Applause. Ibelieve
that it is regulated by the law of God,
of Natures God, and all history proves
that to be so, and all that / ask is
"hands off," leave it to the people of the
States and Of the Territories to settle
that matter for themselves under the
Constitution Of the United States. APP