The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-02-11

doubt upon your minds, and you will ALLOW
me to 90 into details as to the true meaning
of this term. understand, then, gentle
men, in the common sense in which the
term is used. by a higher law, an enactment
which has the sacredness, the weight, and
the power that belongs to no human law.
Now, are We a christian people, and is there
any man that claims to be one of the COM
mon brotherhood of Christianity that will
deny that there is an everything Providence
which governs the universe by eternal and
immutable laws which will prevail, the
vicious or sacrilegious attempts of Man TO
the contrary notwithstanding 2 There is no
man who will be so regardless of the senti-
ment of Christian goodness as to utter any
such idea as that. That, then, is the s'high-
err law which he acknowledged, and al
though l do not quote him from the book,
I will state his position specifically It was
on the question of admitting the Territory
on the Pacific as Free State, when he said
that California ought not only to be Free,
but home for those driven out of the Slave
States, by the competition of unpaid labor,
and for others driven from their homes by
the competition of capital in the Free States;
but there was f'higher law" even than
Constitutions, to which this Constitution
should be eonformed. put it to every
Democrat who hears me tonight if that is
not the true doctrine If that be not so,
how dares President Buchanan to make his
recommendations to Congress, in the name
of the Almighty God -, s.,a.
That, then, is the assertion. Tt is not an
assertion that brings anarchy. upon a, COM
munity, but it is the only one principle OF
good 'of the community can rest; it is the
only permanent security for goods, proper
ty, reputation, lives, and opinion, and that
was the sense in which Senator Seward has
uttered that sentiment, and he has again and
again said when constitutions were made
and laws enacted, not that we should cast
ignorniny and reproach upon them, but that
we should aequiesce in them, obeying them
until they are changed by an intelligent con
stifuency, acting through the Legislative
Department of the Government, That is
what he said, and there stand by him,
here and elsewhere, now and forever, and
there is not man here tonight that does
not stand by us, acknowledged that princi-
pie, that higher, law, reliance upon God, if
he dare speak his honest sentiments. J., ..-s
We had; a great deal of difference at
least in this same Representatives Hall
from which we are excluded tonight. The
opposite party found there was a higher
law, . and what was that Divine and Om-
nipotent God 1t was slavery Slavery
is higher than Heaven and earth, and all
constitutions and laws. 1t is found in the
Constitution, we are told, or it is higher
than that Constitution; aud since that time
we have heard nothing of the s'higher law"
of Senator Seward. That thing is neutral
lied, as chemists say-done for, as common
men may urge. -"
THE IRREPREssIBLE CONFLICT.
Another allegation is made against that
Senator, intended to affect the Republican
organization. It is now alleged that he has
in his Rochester speech this
much abused and cant phrase of conflict;
that there is conflict between slave labor
and free labor all through this Government;
and that that conflict has been going on and
will go until one or the other utterly tri-
umpbs. That is the assertion. We ac-
knowledged tive own up. So let us ex
anime it. Why, gentlemen, l understand
that to be the declaration of our fathers in
1875. understand that to be the openly
avowed sentiment of Washington, Madison
and Jefferson. I understand that to be the
declaration of the resolution in Virginia,
for which your candidate for Speaker Of the
Democratic party, Mr.. Bocock, voted some
years ago. I understand, furthermore, that
that was the declaration of the late South
Carolina Legislature; and above all, have
it here, taken from the Louisville Courier,
the leading organof the Democracy in Ken
lucky, made more than ten years ago. You
would like to read it. Then will you have
the goodness to turn to the files of that
journal and see if I lie OF, not. Cries of
tsread it,
The speaker was interrupted by heavy
fall of rain, which forced him to retire into
the rotunda of the State House.
L will read the extract which l cut with
my own scissors from the Louisville Coatr-
ter, and by referring to the files of that pa
per you will find it in the words in which
tonight quote: sa fa
Il presume that it will not be denied that
free labor and slave labor are Incompatible.
The white man is unwilling to labor by The
slave, and the slave is equally averse to la
boring by the side of the white man. There
exists mutual repugnancy, and IT follows,
of course, that the mass of the labor IN
Kentucky must be wholly the labor of the
white man, or wholly the labor of the slave.''
What think you of that, coming from
this high Democratic authority /? Mark the
extent to which this gentleman carries the
idea. Not cniy that there is a conflict, but
be goes further. He says not only does the
white man refuse to labor with the slave,
but mark him well, puts the slave above the
Democratic white 1aborer of the common
wealth and tells you the sentiment of the
slave. What then is his conclusion ? Why
that in the conflict the s'nigger'' is to have
precedence. so that slave labor becomes en-
tirely predominant in the commonwealth.
What sort of Democratic teaching is that ?
In the name of God let us hear no more
from the Democratic party. from Gov.