East Saginaw courier., 1860-09-20

IlCheers. My old friend Gen. Cass, VIII,
is very good and very patriotic man
thought the people had the right outsid,
the constitution, and Breckenridge tell
you in his stump speech that Cass il
lS4S represented his principles. Again
in 1852, the democratic party assembled
in this monumental city and nominated
Pierce for President aud adopted the
platform.
What was that platform? 1t was ar
approval Of the compromise measures o.
1850, containing the dogma of non-in
tcrvention by Congress with slavery in
the Territories. The wings also assem-
bled in this city in the same year and
nominated Scott for President, and they
too, adopted the same principles on the
subject of slavery. The only contest
then raised was, whether was Pierce, the
democratic candidate, or Scott, the whig
candidate, the soundest on the dogma OF
non-intervention. Laughter and clap
ping.] rtf
You wings, if there be any wings
among YOU, claimed that you were enti.
tied to the greatest portion of the credit
of adopting the compromise measures OF
lS50-founded on the doctrine of nom
observation-disclosures you said that your
great Clay reported the bill-that your
God-like Webster cheers defended its
principles in the Senate, and because that
your model President, Fillmore, was
sound on the policy and gave to the bill
the force of law. Hence, you claim that
this measure was a whig measure, and
that we democrats are not entitled to any
credit for it.
/ came to Baltimore that year and
made a speech in Monument Square, in
which contended that we democrats
were entitled to quite as much credit and,
perhaps, little more, than you whigs.-
And while / admitted your Clay and your
Webster and your Filmore--that you
furnished the generals that commanded
the patriotic army, and led us to success
yet that we democrats furnished the
votes in both houses of Congress which
passed the law; that we supplied the sol.
diers who won the victory. Loud
cheers.] 1 was willing then, as / am
now, to declare that on that one question
the honors were easy between you and
me. Laughter
The compromise measures of 1850,
and the doctrine of non-intervcntion on
which they were based, were the Joint
work Of the wings and the democrats
1t was the joint work of patriotic men, of
Union wings and Union democrats, and
the adoption of those measures was
signal triumph over northern abolition
lists and southern disunionists. Great
cheering] Hence you wings and we
democrats, in our respective national con-
yentions in this city in 1852, affirmed the
same principle. In the same year j. g.
Breckenridge was elected to Congress
from Kentucky, at the same time pledged
to the same principle. He was then
sound on the dogma. [Cheers and
laughter.]
When Congress assembled after the
Presidential election, / was chairman of
the Committee on Territories, and l
brought forward the bill called the Kan
sas and Nebraska bill, which repealed the
Missouri compromise. In the section
the clause of repeal | inserted
these words: "The laws of the United
States, so far as they are not local and
shall extend over said Ter
ritory-except-(mark the words)-ex-
cept the Sth section in the Missouri act
of March, 1920, which, being inconsist.
ent with the doctrine of non-intcrvention
by Congress with slavery in the States
and Territories, is hereby declared null
and void" [Cheers. Then adding
these other words, it being-that is,
the act mot to legislate
slavery into any State or Territory or to
exclude it therefrom, but to leave the
people thereof perfectly free to regulate
their domestic institutions in their own
way, subject only to the constitution of
the United States"
That is the language of the Kansas
Nebraska bill. That language contains
the very essence and substance and prin-
ciple of the dogma of which Breckin-
ridge now complains, and Breckenridge
was then member of Congress of the
United States from Kentucky, and made
a speech in favor of this dogma. That
speech went the full length Of non-inter-
vention and popular sovereignty. He
then voted for the bill, with the language
in it which have recited, under OATH
And now he says he is justified in boiling
the regular organization and breaking up
the democratic party, because the party
insisted on adhering to that very dogma
for which he voted under oath. [Cries
of "Give it to him."]
Then again about this time Kentucky
had been an snti-democratic Stste-onc
of the deepest dyed in the wool against
democracy. Even in 1852, when Pierce
carried every State in the Union except
four, Kentucky stood right alongside Of
Vermont and Massachusetts, against the
democratic party. But when l brought
forward the Kansas Nebraska bill next
year, / raised the hopes Of the Kentucky
democracy, and they saw that | gave
them a chance, 10y advocating this great
principle of non-intervention and self
government, to make Kentucky demo
cratic State.
Hon. j. G. Breckenridge wrote to me
in Illinois, imploring mo to come to Ken
lucky, to Lexington, where he lived, to
p,ako a spoa,h IN tho assenlh hlod poopla