The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-05-17
y Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana,

trious men in the country, upon the issue of
peac. and quiet upon this subj-c.. so far as
! the Ns,iona! Government was concerned.
] He found tie Government in that way. and
after congratulating u upon that peace. the
next thing we hear is that Mr.. Dougla5 is
coming forward with . proposition 10 stir
up the bitter waters. TO repeal the Missouri
| Compromise. Never was a scene So de-
i lightful. so quiet. so peaceful, disturbed be-
| fore by such maddening issue, except tha.
of which we read when the Devil himself
entered the gates of Paradise 10 seduce the
mother of mankind. and to bring dsath and
all its woes into birth Great applause.
I cannot more appropriately. my friends.
illustrate the action Of that arch demagogue
than bv a reference to the great poet Of
Paradise. who describes the scene os the
entrance OF this enemy of man into the
garden of-Eden; his approach in disguise to
the sleeping woman. whispering poison aud
temptation into her ear--and when Heaven
or the Almighty dispatched his angels to
intervene bet ween thu mother of mankind
and her temp,er. The angel. descending
into the garden Of Ellen, is thus spoken OF:
Finding the Devil in the atttuted which ]
have described, he says:
Hi N here he loaai
Close to the ear of Eve, squat like toad,
Seeking by hs devlish reach
The organs of her fancy.
Squat like tosl DID any OF you ever
see Mr.. Douglas! Great laughter and
much applause Ami when he was strick-
on BY the spear of Ithurel. and sprung
transformed into his original shape it is
said he denounced the angel of the Lord.
The ministers Of God were denounced and
spat upon by this Devil. Do you recolect
tho petition OF the three thousand min sters
agains. the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise. aud the raving and railing OF this
squat toad?" Immense applause
DEMOCRACY RESPONSIBLE TO Tue SOUTH.
They have opened this question in regard
to the Territories. They have blotted ont
that line which our fathers established near.
ly across the continent. dividing the inller-
itance Of the country between the slave aud
non-slsveholding States. and now it is for
those who have broken down that barrier to
account 10 the courtsy-not only for the
agitation which has ensued-not only for
the wider spread feeling between the Sec
tons, but it is for them to accoun, to those
people Of the South who desire to have
slavery below the line of So, 80, because
they will not have it in one other inch of
territory belonging TO this Government
II is the determination. as you have been
told, inexorable and irreversibie, of the
Republican party. that the territory belong
ing TO this Government shall be preserved
for the free white men Of the country. For
those especially, who have been excluded
from the slave States BY the increase Of
these slaves, driven to the hills and hollows
Tor the purpose of maintaining themselves.
these territories will be reserved. and they
will all fad homesteads there when driven
from the homasteaJs of their fathers I Ap-
plause That is the policy of the Repub-
lican party. 1t is TO give fee homes to the
tree white men Of the country. The spread
of slavery is to be excluded from the Ter
ritories, in order that they may be preserv-
ed for the free white people of this Govern :
mens, and for their children, and Tor those
who may come asking home and refuge
in this country from abroad For. let me
tell you, and let me point ont a.this place.
that this is the bill passed i'll the House OF
Representatives by the votes Of the Repub-
lican party. By its provisions that bill gives
The right not only 10 every nstive-born citi-
zen, over the age of 81 to ob'ain home,
but to every foreign born man who has de-
cls, ed his intention TO become citizen The
Senate, where the Democrats have the pow.
er, has stricken out that, and requires tha
can have the benefit OF the bill. Such is
the liberality of this party. The unnun.
bered acres are now opened, and will always
be open, despite the rawlings of those who
have endeavored to wrest them from you by
force and fraud. and they will be preserved
in,ac, to be occupied and possessed by tht
free white men o. The Government, and a:
homes for those who have been driven from
the States Of the South. where their homes
have been deserted because of the wide
spread evil of slavery.
The GREAT MISSIONER.
The Democratic party have to day th,
the name without the spirit of that organi
zs'ion. which once ruled over this country
with bene6cent rule whicl, favored tn,
i~boring mantle mas; of the people
which refused. whenever the question Va
presented, to surrender tn. rights OF th'
many TO the caprices OF the few. rha
party, say, has been entered ani takel
possession Of by nulliders and disunionIsls
, and by those who falsely call thrmselve
Democrats, and yet who assal the menoFie
Of. and vote against The measures once es
ieemed characteristics OF the party.
This homestead bill is an illustration.
use i, simply as an Illustration. because "
on every other measure you will See I'll
, like policy. The homestead bill vas ono
{ par rcsNeacs. a Democratic measure
5 was voted against by all parties in oppos
: lion to the Demo craic party. and receive
> an unfailing support from that party; trot
!: its most distin. .uished men, It's puress an
best representatives. Andrew Jackson pr
i. claimed that The public land should nevs
: be held as a source of revenue, but shoul
~
e prices. Thomas Hart Benton dis,in guishe
s himself by his advocacy OF this and oths
$ ben-ticent measures. [applau$e. but he WI
/, excluded from the Democratic party whe
= the nullifi=rs, like the Greeks of cid. e
. into the belly of the horse, aad introduce
j. themselves into Troy.
: DISSOLUTION.
! They took literal possession Of the Dem