East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-10-25

party are in direct and deadly hostility
to the principles Of Clay and Webster as
established in 1850. How can any old
line whig, who has any respect or any
Difference for the names and fame Of
/ Clay and Webster, act with this party
whose mission it is to bring into disre-
pute the last great work of those emi-
nent statesmen (Cheers.) The demo-
cratic party has stood faithful to this
principle to this day. The old whig
party maintained it as long as that party
/ had a national existence The demo-
cratic party re affirmed the same princi-
pie at Cincinnati in 1856, and again at
Charleston and Baltimore in 1861
! (Cheers.)
An honor to those faithful men who
stood like heroes, representing Michigan
at Charleston and at Baltimore. am
delighted to find that you have for your
candidate for Congress in this district
/ the gallant and Intellectual Lothrop, who
stood there like great moral hero, de-
Tending the princi pie of non-intervention
and popular sovereignty. Tremendous
cheering.] l rejoice to see by his side
my old friend, the friend of my boyhood,
my travelling companion when / was
working my way in the western wilds,
your candidate for Congress in the upper
district, f. II. Thomson. Enthusiastic
cheering and applause. He was at Bal
! timore, and stood the iirmest among the
| firm by the ancient faith of the party.
| [Cheers.l | trust that Michigan will
sustain and elevate such gallant and faith
full representatives. Cries of "wc will, +"
michigan is all right" and cheers"
| was remarking, when | went into
thissdiscusion, that the democratic party
stand to-day where Clay and Webster
and Cass stood in 1650-where every
Union whig and Union democrat stood in
1S52-and where the democratic party
stood in 1856. And trust that, come
what may, we viii never lower that flag
nor abandon those principles. "Ihat's
Douglas" "Good," cheers.] This princi
pie of non-interlerence by the Federal
government with the domestic affairs Of
the people is the principle Of the consti-
tuition. [Cheers" Let me call your at
tention to certain historical faots-facts
with which your children are acquainted,
aud the correctness of which you will re-
cognizc the moment | state them to you.
When this government was formed the
Union consisted of thirteen States,
twelve of which were slaveholding and
one only free State. Suppose that,
when the convention assembled which
f., -oI ha hn
which we are now taught by the republi-
can party had prevailed. Suppose that
Gen. Washington, when he took his seat
as President Of that convention, had de-
clarcd, as MIR. Lincoln did in his Spring
field speech, "that this Union cannot en-
dure half free aud half slave; that this
government cannot exist divided into free
and slave States that these States must
all be free or all be slave, otherwise the
Union must be dissolved" ["Never,'
"never."] / say, suppose, if there be
not sacrilege aud treason in the supposi-
ton, that George Washington had avow-
ed those principles which Mr.. Lincoln now
holds. ["George Washington knew
better"1 What would have been the
result Do you think that the one free
State Of Massachusetts, would have out
voted the other twelve slaveholding
States, and thus have abolished slavery
everywhere? ["No."l On the contrary
is it not more than possible that the
twelve slayeholding States would have
outvoted the one free State, and thus
have fastened slavery on every foot of
American soil, by q constitutional proyis.
ion ? 1t is evident that, if the doctrine
now advocated by the republicans had
prevailed when this government was
made, the States would have been slave
States forever, beyond the right Of the
people to control the subject. All that
the friends of free institutions desired at
that day was, that the Federal govern
ment should not be permitted to inter-
fere with the question Of slavery ["that's
it'll; that non-nterfercnce by the Fede-
raj government should be the invarable
rule and that the people should be per-
mitted to have slavery or not as they
preferred. [Cheers.l The constitution
was made on that principle, aud the gov
crnment was administered on that prin-
ciplc mp to 1920, when, according to Mr..
Seward, the great national deviation
took place. Let US see what were the
practical results under this constitutional
system Of self government before the de-
Walton. Prior to 1920, during the pc
riod that Congress never interfcred with
slavery, it was abolished in one-half of
the original slaveholding States. Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, New York, Con-
necticut, Rhode Island and New Hamp-
shire each abolished slavery during that
period. presume that no one will
question the fact that these were oil
originally slayeholding States. Certain
ly, no republican viii deny that New
York was slavoholding State, since Mr..
Seward confessed the other day, in his
Chicago speech, that he was born slave
holder. Laughter ond applause /
thought was pretty well acquainted
with Mr.. Stewards history; bat / al !
nit that | was not aware till that time
that he was once a Stakeholder. RE.
newed laughter] But il seems that not
only his father, but his grandfather be.
fore him, were Shareholders, otherwise |
supposo ba ooul1 not have Loa., bor, s,