Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-06-27
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The BREcxrxRrDeE AND LANE DExoSsTRA-
rION-SPeseh Of MT. Ydnesy:-We give below
the speech Of the Hon. VIM. l.. Yancey, of Ala.
u the grand serenade given to Messrs. Breckin-
ridge and Lane, on Monday night, which was
crowded out Of report Il that affair yesterday.
IL is a telling speech, and Will be read with in
terest by our citizens
SPEECH OF Mr.. YANcEY.
I congratulate you, my fellow-citlZens of the
national democracy, ct this suspicious closi ng
scene Of the first great act Of what will Inevitably
be grand democratic triumph In this canvass
Your chosen candidates have just accepted the
honorable and responsible positions which have
been assigned 10 them by the representatives Of
the national democracy. After labor, long,
protracted anxious, almost serious, for 69 DAYS
commencing upon the sd Of April in Charleston
and closing upon the 23d Of June, In Baltimore
the national democracy has at length come forth
from It's internal struggles and dlssensions pure
purified. and the stronger for that great and pro-
tracted struggle, il has sloughed off all that was
diseased in It's body Politic. lCries Of "goOd ,"
and applause II has become purified Of ele-
ments which If they had been allowed to prevail
and TO arise into ascendancy, would have in
evitabIv brought this great party to an ignomin-
ious defeat In the coming canvass, and to proper
defeat too. IL stands now, my countrymen,
where the democracy stood in 1898, at the close
81 a most mOmentous crisis at that day-it stands
now as IL stood then, upon correct constitutional
construction Of the Constitution. In 1796, the
country aSsailed In the ri hts of the citizen.
and the country had to undergo an ordeal and a
crisis before il could raise for the first time in the
history of country that great democratic
standard bearing upon Its folds the resolutions of
Virginia and Kentucky of lbs and '99-the Con-
stiiutiOn, the equality Of the States, and of the
people Of the States. Loud applause The
foundation and the pivot stone Of democracy
taen, was the found .tiOn and pivot stone If de-
mOcracy now. Applause.
Since settling that great question of the rights
OF persons some sixty years have passed away,
aud another great question has arisen violating
MI AZ ed hv he cels
brated Virginia resolutions of 30 and 90 violat-
ing a principle Of equal moment, of equal i'm
pOrtance, perhaps Of greater dignity though prob
ably not more conservative, and more conducive
20 true liberty The questions that have been agi-
tatlRg the country for some years past-the equal
rights of the sOvereg states and the equal rights
Of property. This government was instituted for
great purposes and those fundamental purposes
are to preserve the rig hts of persons the ghs OF
property and the equal rights of all the coequal
States Of this Union. tApplause
InI79S Thomas Jefferson Of Virginia, and John
Breckenridge, Of kentuck ky the granaf Ither ofour
standard bearer settled the great questions of the
equal rights Of citizens and Of persons; this day
we put before you the grandson Of that eminent
statesman of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
John c. Breckenridge, the representative Of that
great principle, the rghts OF the states and the
people Of the states in the Territories of the Uni
ted States Immense applause ] Thomas JEFF
ferson and the democracy that he founded con-
ouered in 1883, and the great principle of de-
lnocracy that at that hour kelly to be lost in
the whirlpool of federalism, was saved by the ex-
ertions of the gallant men Of Virginia and of Ken
lucky; and today the national democracy have
asserted it they have determined that il shall
triumph that the rights Of the States and of the
people Ia the States shall under the lead of Breck
inridge and Lane, be saved from the great whirl-
pool of ''squatter sovereignty" lVocferous
Cheering ]
This astonishing doctrine; this dangerous inno
walton upon the equality of the states upon which
our Union was founded, and without which ii
cannot constltutiOnally exist; this innovation, /
saw at this modern day, has been been forced
upon the democratic party. IL has heretofore re-
garded such an issue as an abstract question: which
IL desired the country to solve and decide; but
having been forced upon the democratic party by
one Of It's gifted sons, the democracy being called
upon to decide t. have determined to decide IL
not according TO the fortunes of individuals not
with reference to what may have been the past
services Of gifted men In its ranks, but taught by
our fathers in &c they have determined to decide
that question now as then, by the written compact
of the Constitution between the States; and turn
ing to that great guide for their decision, they
have determined that they will grant equal sovef-
eighty to all the States, equal rights to every sec
ton, and the equal right of every man In every
section. lCries Of % Good, T" and cheers
What is this doctrine Of " non-intervention 7''
Why 1t is that this great Government that was
instituted by our fathers for the protection of
rights to all in every section of the Union shall
abandon the great ground Of its original forma-
tiOn and shal refuse to grant the equality of the
states and the equal rights of the States
Fellow-citZens, Government was made but for
one purpose and that was to protect life propertv
aud the liberty Of itS citizens. It can no more
property than II can refuse to exercise the right
to protect the lives Of its citizens. ICries Of
"GoOd, - and cheers.l One, each and all are in
ssparable-tte ind visible duty Of every good gov
eminent; and ours is good government when
properly administered. lApplauSe They have
decided in BaltimOre-aye, the true represents
tives cf the national democracy have decided
that this Government will protect the property
and the rights Of its citizens and perform all its
duties And who shall gainSay IT. What act I'm
tue record OF the Government can gainsay it'
w hat constitutional clause shall gainsay il! Who
when the democracy pledges Itself to the protec-
tion Of equal rights, who can arise in its place
become its accuser, and ruthfully assert that II
has been false To the purposes Of its formation
But we are tod that the democracy has itself
agreed that It would not intervene to protect the
rights of either persons or property. The de-
mccracy through its representatives., may per-
chance have made some agreement in wonder
Capitol understood between the leading men
that as they could not agree on this great cues
ton, that, for the time being, they would agree
to disagree. 10 may be said, aad has been said
from high quarters, that when the Cincinnati
platform was framed, that both the Government
and the democracy did agree that inasmuch as
the leading opponents Of public opinion could
not themselves agree what was the constitutional
duty Of Government, that for awhile, Govern
ment should not intervene, or interfere with the
question. But even admitting that such an agree
ment was made. was IL to last forever!
Shall IL he a permanent creed Of the democracy
Shall IL be permanent statute upon the statute
book that this Government would abrogate that
great right of protection forever; and that wrong
and injustice might triumph forever in the Terri
tories, Even BY those who assert this doctrine of
non-interventon, il cannot be asserted that it is
permanently written In the statute-b book that this
Government never would intervene; but on the
contrary they tell you that it agreed that the
Government should net intervene because these
men could not decide IL; but that they would
leave this question to the great umpire-the
Supreme Court Of the United states; and when
ever the judges Of the Supreme Court decided
this vexed, knOtty, and difficult question, which
Gen Cas-, Mr.. Douglas, Mr.. Hunter and Mr.
Davis, eminent gentlemen Representing the various
wings Of the democratic party, couldn't agree
upon, they would regard the decision Of that
umpire as law. Is il not soI [''Yes."l is it not
50 admitted even by the great advocates Of nom
Intervention! The judges Of the Supreme Court
had this question before them, and what was their
decisionf They declared that Congress had no
power % drive out STAKEHOLDER with his property;
but the only power il had was the power ca pable
and It was It's duty TO protect the STAKEHOLDER in
the Territory. [ApPlause
This then being the opinion Of the judges Of
tue Supreme Court, here arises agreement
made between Douglas and Cas- the one
side and Hunter and Davis on the other Here
arises the agreement which they say was also In
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