New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-16
the uSNaDE ISSUE.

thing 10 plain TIA. ii you gave us Dou ne Pr,nd
catch you; if you gave us Toombs " would catch
you; and If You offered Breckinrdr ws would catch
you. They did not intend the r,csrocratio party to
know there vac such elause. Isaman up our way,
preacher Of great ,,i sense but little or 10
education, wonld say W. en- seadinc the Bble "Well
pre- hIen TINS s one iii you please, this is-'ms ID
BAD TIP pdnHe em sSa W. vil skp it, n,aoo and
me DeoN As,e PARTY found il was q pa pave an
skipped it, - Eat 4 is no wonder they did not want
me 10 tso that came Hail. and that tae ngn.s " sJ
9S'' 4sd Il was all dark. Here is what they alu,
1@ Republican, nor Ap sbn American p party,
nor tbe Democratic party, has ever mace an
issue upon the resolution passed, ana wcn was IN tno
platform of 1856 1t is simply as 10 the power q Tue
=, ople when they become State. " sei.eviaent
ruth. and they intend you to 60 home with it, with
The Thought that you bsgged the game, but you Will
find that the lion has gone, and that you have put but
the ASS skin into your pouch.
Territories including Kansas and Nebr.ka acting through the
legally and y IS%ss % her nSSSsn FL us: t.
Constution with without domestic slavery ana DC
admitted into the Union upon terms e perfect equality Win inc
How frank that is with or without domestic
Slavery and be admitted into the Union upon terms OF
perect equality with the other States" Who ever de-
MED that challenge Mr.. Svertooth, 1 challenge
Oscar Turner or even Mr. Speaker MeTiwether, or
any Democrat here to point me ont single uton
from the foundation of our Government TO ths day. IA
any portion of the United States where such has been
denied If there is such, my reading has been OF no
account.
THE KANsAs-NEBRAsKA BILL
Take the case now have read the platforms and
ehown they are inconsistent. But LET me tell yon what
was the clause in the Kansas Nebraska bill which they
affirmed again and again. 1t states that the Demo-
cratic party determined neither to iegisiae Slavery
into those Territories no, of course not nor ID
| exclude il therefrom." What are you to do, then
But 10 leave the people perfectly free to form and
regulate their domestic institutions IN their own way,
subject only 10 the Constitution OF the United states
4 ~, nf nOt a
legislate Slavery into Kansas, nor TO exclude III out
did intend leave the people perfectly free to form
and regulate their government in their own way Is
that your doctrine To-day Editor of The Pe7mdn did
you publish il in that way that the object of the Ne
braska bill was intended TO leave the people perfectly
free TO regulate their domestic institutions IN their
own way They say IN the resolutions tney nave nave
thing, and if Douglas goes for any such ducsrlne,
| we will zee him Id if he remains in the Demo-
cratic party; and Mr.. SiyeTtooth declares he is al
ready ont Of the pale of the Democratic church.
voice. The whole Democratic party is not responsi,
BILE for him" Ofcoarse not GSd forbid they should
be. Laughter and spPlause.l The gre mass OF the
Republican party lie Of The Democratic party but they
are Of the good old American gold, with the stamp oil
I776 not the bogus Democratic stamp Of 1851 and 1896
They are with us now and will be with US hereafter,
and therefore stand here and the lights are not put
| out.
| THE SNAKE AND ITS SKIN.
Let Us trace the consequences: Like the snake, yearly
they shed their skin, but they never go back into the
old one; beautiful ii is at first but il Immediately re-
turns to dust and ashes. Let us look at the eonse
| queDces. Here the formation Of the " Blue
| Lodges" in Missouri according TO the Congressman
Report-remember don't intend to gave any state
ment upon my own say 60; appeal 10 history 70 sub
stantiate all L say. You march under your Missouri
hordes 90 formed into the Territory of Kansas and al
though il is well known, history has proven tn 1t
the Republican party in Gle Ar majority by force
of arms YOU took down the judges of Elections that
were appointed legally. They were taken oy force,
| with arms displayed, and the question asked was
| not Are you Judge according to the Constitution
and the lawsl" Not Are you Judge OF Election H
carrying ont the declaration of the Cincinnati Plat
forms of 1852 and 1885, that the people should deter
mine upon their domestic institutions i'll their own
way ?" But Are you sound on the goose = That
was what they asked them in other words, Are
YOU for Slavery 7" Not Are you for the Constitution
and the awp, AMI for the support OF republican nttu
tons and principles, as our fathers handed them down
to us" No but Are You right on the goose y and
if man did not answer the way that pleased them,
they caught him by the collar and elected him, and
many who upheld the constitutional night OF election
were compelled TO fly for their lives and many were
wounded and killed. Where then stood the Democratic
press of the United States Aiding and abetting all
ibis The freesoi citizen from the State of
| Kentucky, as well as he from the Free States, who
had by actual experiment. the glorious benefits OF
free institutions and others who had seen the woe OF
Slavery and who found that the pledges Of the Dem
ocrac party bad been kept TO the word, and violated
in fact late In the day sent 70 their homes, both
Kentucky, the Slave and the Free States, for help,
and took up arms, and upon every held, and by the
them they resisted he attempt to enslave them What
then did the President of the United States All the
time he by the forces of the United States disarmed
the Republican party, and left them az the mercy OF
| those invaders of their rights.
| JOHN BROWN AND HIS RAID.
Then sprung up this John Brown gay he is the
legitimate Of the acts and avowals OF the Demo
cratic party that they intended to take possession OF
| Kans2s by force of arms, peaceaby II they could,
| but fOrciby if they Inust; and it was only when
those descendants Of Revolutionary fathers took up
| arms in their own defense-and j thank God there
| were Kentuckiaps as well Yankees fighting there
in that battle for Freedom-that they drove back the
| invader and Low great and overw helmng MAJ rity
of the people of Kansas say that il shall be free not
| withholding James Buchanan lifts mp his impious
hands, and, perhaps praying that it may be so says
that Kansas is as much Slave State South Caro-
lima" Is that Democracy? In the name OF that God
70 whom he so impousy appeals Is u SOS Slave
State Not at all. History tells us that Just there be-
gan John Brown. How it is will state as il comes
| TO me authenticated. To the best Of my knowledge
| and belief before he shed the blood Of single man,
one Of bis sons chopped 20 pieces Ill cold blood,
and another was dragged in chains by vehicle,
until from the heat the exposure The ignominy, and
the torture OF his CHAINS, his brain was crazed,
| and he went mad and bis sister, looking upon all
these sad calamites and of horror, was also
crszed Then this took up the knife, and made
war Of determination upon the shareholders and the
| invaders Of the soil. There s toe secret OF
| the whole matter, as j stand here tonight-.he
beginning of this raid on Virginia. John Brown
felt that there was NO protection for BIN in the
Democratic pany-that the laws OF Missouri and
Kansas gave no protection 70 him, and that be had
once appeal 10 the God Of Hosts for defense
and he carried that war on in KaIsas and in Min
scuri, and Virginia. The whole story s told; it was
nothing but the raid of man injured by aggressons
made upon hiO and these proved 10 have been begun
and com eled by the Democratic party themselves.
Therefore, hail back the imputanon,. and history