Gazette and sentinel., 1860-09-22

your own fellow-eitiZens who work for your own
rights.
Like the Jews, when Titus besicgcd Jerusalem,
instead OF defending the temple of your rights,
you are engaged in striking in the back those who
simply propose TO ask for their rights.
Feliow-citizens, one single word on another
point, which have not strength to talk about,
put which L may amplify hereafter 1t is said that
MI: Lincoln who represents the most offensive prin-
ciples before the country ought TO be defeated. and
tLat am the only man who stands in the way of
MS defeat. l agree that he ought TO be dcfeated:
L agree that his principles are thoroughly uncon-
stitutional and if the Republican party attempt
10 carry them out, it may be provocative of the
greatest disasters to the Union. But does any
body pretend that Mr.. Lincoln will carry a single
Southern State, in any event? No! Was Mr..
Douglas willing TO unite on any practical mode
lor the defeat Of Mr.. Lincoln. as MANY of the
wisest and best men in the Union thought? OF
the details of such things | knew nothing. Did
not the Democratic organization Of the State of
pennsylvania that the electors should
be voted for, and should cast the vote for either of
Us who could defeat Lincoln?
Did not Mr.. Douglas. declaring that oil and
water could not mix, say that his friends ought
not to vote for those electors. but should rend
aslnder those willing TO elect them and those
nominated what they call a straight out ticket for
hiTn, which every child in that State and this
KNOWS has not any chance 70 carry that State.
While 1t is equally certain. morally certain, that
II the recommendation Of that committee had been
acqulesced in. the wanted vote OF those gentlemen
who preferred me and himself would have been
east In such a mode as to defeat Mr.. Lincoln.
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be predicted of New jersey. But now we who
stand on these principles which | have defended
to-day, ne Will have none of us and accordingly
he undertakes to break down the only mode by
which the Democratic organizations in these States
thought it possible to defeat Lincoln. That il
could be done in that way seems to he certain.
As l have said, Mr.. Lincoln can, in no event. carry
a Southern State of this Union and if the vote of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey had been cast with
the South, Lincoln would have been absolutely
certain to be defeated. | may as well say. for /
feel 1t, If Mr.. Lincoln is elected, nothing will have
accomplished 1t but the reckless rule or ruin-the
restless ambition and almost insane policy OF one
man, and bis unreasOning and furious adherents.
Not content, fellow-citizens, with attempting to
destroy the mode by which, in the opinion Of the
Democratic organizations, in u sufficient number
OF Northern States to control the result-not coH-
tent with destroying the only mode in which they
think 1t can be accomplished that eminent gem
tleman has turned his h~eadlong course to the
South. What is the object Of his coming
South? What can be his object, l ask you
Does he expect-does any sane man expect-that
be Will carry a single Southern State? Voices-
"No, by Cd, nO!') 1t is said that his friends
have claimed Missouri. | will not enter into par
ticulars about that. Suppose he could carry Mis-.
souri, But yet | suppose he stands no more
chance for Missouri than | have for Massachusetts.
What other Southern State can he carry? Go
from Maryland to the Rio Grande. as gentlemen
and honest men, what other Southern State do
you expect him to carry? Answer gentlemen
you gentlemen of the Democratic party. and gen.
tlemen of the opposition, who stand upon princi-
pie, what State he can carry, and what object he
can have in coming South.
Some gentlemen say he won't carry 5000
votes in Tennessee. Suppose he carried
10000. Does not everybody know he would
not carry the State Not u Southern State
can he carry. In Kentucky. whatever NAV
be the result, and II do not care to calculate
chances now, l may do it after awhile who
believes that gentleman has the slightest chance
for the electoral vote of the State Of Ken
lucky? What friend of his expects him to
carry the State? Is not then his object to de-
mOralize and destroy the Democratic organi-
cation in every State of the South, Ia voice
THAT is soy for the purpose Of losing to the
Democratic masses and Democratic organiza-
tiOns of these States, their candidates and
their principles, and throwing the State into
the hands of their political opponents. This
must be his purpose, and none other. 1t will
be for the Democracy of Kentucky to deter
mine, and for the gentlemen of the Opposition
who don't believe in his principles, and who
believe in those of this platform which 1 have
read, to determine whether they will continue
such a movement, or whether they will vote,
like men, in this crisis, for q set of PRINCIPLES
which they believe are right, and by which, AS
honest men, they are willing to stand. This
is tfe question.
Fellow-citizens, it is impossible for me to
follow out this line of remark, or to saw many
things L had intended to say. My physical
indisposition makes it impossible for me TO do
SO. You will therefore take what / have said
ms the best contribution / was able to give YOU
to-day, as to what is my opinion of what is
Constitutional and true. L am not ashamed of
the principles on which 1 stand. | am not
ashamed of thefriends that support me lam
not ashamed of the reasons by which they are
sustained. "a vOico-"B By Cd, YOU needn't
be.") l am not ashamed of the tone, bear
ing, and character of our whole organizations.
Loud applause.)
"a voice.. Truth will prevail.")
Yes, the truth will prevail. You NAV
smother it for a time under the prejudices and
passions of man, but these prejudices and pas
sions will subside, and the principles on which
we stand will re-appear, like the rock above
the receding tide.
The people of this country will vet walk by
their right-rights fixed as the rock bound
light house in a stormy sea-they will be a
perpetual beacon to guide the political mariner
to the harbor of the Constitution. s
"a voice" John C.. is the greatest man in
the world ~
People of Kentucky +! you never abandoned
principles which you believed to be right
You may have left them for the time,
but the stigma never fastened to Kentucky
that she abandoned principles which she knew
TO be true. By them / am willing TO live; by
them l am willing to die. For myself, con
scious that my feet are planted on the rock of
the Constitution-surrounded and sustained BY
I Ioro AL nko...l,