The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-22

(of October 1849) to the Southern States,
alludes to this same address and says "the resc
Iutions of the central and primary meetings {
this State and the proceedings of the Conver
ton which followed may be regarded as the n
spo,ase Of Mississippi" f" to thataddress. In thes
Conventions such lifelong Union men as th
Hon w L. Sharkey, Amos r. Johnston j
W. C. Watson, Patrick Henry, D. w. Adams
w. P. Anderson Charles Scott, Geo. S. Yer
ger, and w. A. Purdom, and other old-lin
Wings and Oppositionists, figured prominen
tly and gave their warmest appreciation, as W
have cited above, to the principles lait
down in the address from which we hav
quoted. Now we ask with what grace cal
these men charge Mr.. Breckenridge with un
soundness upon the slavery question 70
saying in his TiPpecanoe speech Il belong t
no party which has for its object the extension
of slavery. when they themselves proclaim
the same doctrine at time too when the,
had met together to consult as to the best mean
to resist the aggressions of the North upoI
the South and the institution of slavery? 1
does not lie in. their mouths to do it, anC
when they attempt it, the charge rebounds
upon themselves, or rather like curses, come
home to roost
The position of Mr.. Breckenridge is the true
doctrine. 1t is not for National party to
have for its object the extension of slave ter.
ritory more than free territory. 1t is not foI
the party to say to the Yankee, we will carry
your nutmeggs and patent clocks into the
territories-nor to the Southerner, we will
carry your peculiar institution there. II
might as well say to a religious denomination,
we will carry your religious creed into all
new territories and exclude all others. The
territories belong alike to the Northern and
they please into the territories, and if it be
anything recognized as property in the constitu-
ton, it is the duty of the party in power, to
protect them in the enjoyment of that right
It is not then for Mr.. Breckinridge's party OF
any other party, to extend the institution oI
slavery. 1t is for the people of slave Stats
to extend the institution by emigrating with
their slaves into the territories. The consti-
tuition gives them that right. Then it is,
the Breckenridge party says it will protect
your slave property as it would protect Nor
them mans peculiar property, giving adequate
protection to ALL. We would see the institu-
ton of slavery carried into all the territories
of the Union, but not as party measure
not by Congressional legislation. All we ask
is the right to go into the territories with slaves
and have them protected like other property.
That protection was refused at Charleston,
and that refusal drove the Southern delegates
from the Convention. The Breckenridge par
ty says we will give Southern men the right
to emigrate to the territories with their slave
property, just as we give Northern men the
right to go there with their property, and
then we viii protect both until they come to
form their Constitution preparatory to enter
ing the Union as sovereign State. IT'S not
the object Of the Breckenridge party to extend
slave or free territory; but it is its leading
object to obtain possession of the Government
and administer it upon the principles Of the
Constitution, giving to all the States, and all
the people of the States, these equal rights
Protection to slave property has been denied
US, and that is where it made the prominent
feature Ofthe Breckenridge platform but that
same platform gives to all, whether from the
North, South, East or West, the same rights
because the territories belong to the people oi
all the States. Then let the people extend
slavery and the Breckenridge party will pro-
tect it-for that principle they are now bat
Ting, and it is the only party which would
give to the South that Constitutional right
Here is what Mr.. Breckenridge himself says
upon that subject In his Frankfort speech
delivered about a year ago, after laying down
the doctrines decided by the Supreme Court
in the Dred Scott cese, he said
well, that being the case, and it having
been authoritatively determined by the very
tribunal to which it was referred, that Con-
gress has no poscer to exclude slave property
from tie Territory, and .jttdiciallg determined
createdby Congress-hGd not the p0tcer to er-
ei,Sde or ooafscate slaue property, confess that
had not anticipated that the doctrine of un-
friendly legislation would be set up. Hence.
Ineed not say to you that do not believe ."
the doctrine of funfrieadly legislation that do
not believe in the authority of Territorial Le-
gislatures to do by indirection what they can
not do directly. Irepose upon the decision OF
the Supreme Court of the United States, as to
the point that neither Congress nor the ter
ritorial Legislature has the right to obstruct
or confscate the property of any citizen, slaves
included, pending the Territorial condition.
(Applause.)
If the present remedies are adequate to
sustain these decisions, would have nothing
more done. /, with many other public men
in the country, believe they are adequate. Ii
they are motif they cannot be enforced for
want of the proper legislation to enforce them,
sufficient legislation mast be passed, or our
Government is failure. (Applause.)
Gentlemen, see no escape from this con-
clusion.
Mr.. Breckenridge would be just to all sec
tions, and while he belongs to no party which
has for its object the extension of slavery" he
SAYS to Southern men. the Constitution gives
you the right to carry your property into the
Territories, and neither Congress nor tie Ter
ritorial Legislature can, by prohibitory or
unfriendly legislation destroy your property !;
but if necessary, you and your property must
be protected by all the power of the Federal
Government, or the Government itself is a
failure. Then let the people, the owners of
the territories, extend slavery-let the party
see that it is protected.
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Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE AND FOREIGN PRosCRIP
TIoN.-0f all the outrageous ISLANDERS yet
perpetrated to injure Mr. Rreckinridge, (says
the Montgomery Advertiser,) none is more
unjust than the charge that he sympathized
with prescriptions against foreigners. We
publish an extract from his record in order
that citizens of foreign birth may not be mis-
led by the Interpretations Of his opponents
of the Bell or Douglas enemies of the De-
mocracy. NJ. Breckenridge said /:
a regard this bill lin regard to the emigra-
ton of foreigners as one Of the fruits of the
proseiptiye feeling which is just now pervading
this country. know it is popular, and know
it is sweeping like hurricane from one end
of the country to the other but it is in con-
flict with the fundamental principles of our
Government, and / am willing to oppose my
hand to it, and await the time when there
shall be reaction in the public sentiment, as
know there will be-"
Got Him There
Morris, of the Kemper Democrat, ha