Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-24

by the Compromise of 1850. 1t is not
tfuei And that ii iss not true has been
ayowed bys the leading man that brought
In and carried that bill, and who based his
claim for the Presidency upon his devo-
ton to the South. Thank God for pen,
ink aud paper sometimes used in
Commonwealth and others, although it Is
very anti-dehoc 70 use them, ltseems :,
TAE CANE or GRAB.
Let us get along q little further, Why
did they want to repeal the Compromise of
Is2OH What Is the matter, you Democrats
of the. United States? You have had the
power; you say; all the time or almost all
the time from.the foundation of the gov
eminent to the present day. You have had
possession of the government since ITS
foundation, and where is the necessity
now of repeating this COMPROMISED Why,
although YOU had the influence of the gov
eminent. both in its foreign and domestic
policy. nnder pretence of subscribing the
rights of the people, you have used them
; to maintain the rights of slavery, and after
sIrace of nearly three quarters OF cen
tury, You are entirely behind. The North
has grown up in population and material
and intellectual development far beyond
your growth-t'the sceptre is about to de-
part from Judea;" and what uow2 Why
we must repeal the Missouri Compromise,
andttake the start upon the progressive
+. area Of freedom, and check this power OF
conflict that the Louisville Courier and
Gov. Seward speak of, and thus We may.
maintain our supremacy. Thatwas i'll.
.WhyaaIthou6h you have divided the terri
{ tory between, the North and the South,
that territory, you say, was purchased by
the common blood and treasure and there
fore YOU have q right to go into it and
carry your slaIegs " len .you, do not alloy
the man who goes there from Ohio to carry
them there You have passed your laws
prohibiting the African slave trade; you
monopolize the carry ing of slaves among
yourselves.
= Although You divide that territory, ce-
dei to this government, and make out of
it Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri
three slave States-and when the North
comes to take possession of her portion of
the bargain, consisting of all the territory
north of thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes
you say, mo, gentlemen, that game is out,
we must have new deal" Laughter.J
Well, now my honest friends, what do you
mean by new deal? Are you going to
put up stakes and begin anew? Are you
going to put up Louisiana, Arkansas and
Missouri, and sec in the struggle whether
freedom or slavery is the stronger? "Oh,
mol nothing of that kind; we hold all we
have got, and we intend to play the game
of snatch and get all we can" [Laughter.l
DOUGLAS DREAM.
Come on again thenl Mr.. Douglas, for
the'purpose Of gaining political power, to
tho loss of his constituents and for the
purpose of maintaining the interests of
slavery and shareholders, against the great
voting population of the country both
North and South, and to make slavery
predominant, tells us that the Missouri
Compromise of 1920 is unconstitutional
This man whoa few days before had come
into the Senate of the United States. adj
hitting that this compromise was sacred
and must not be touched, some two or
three DAYS after had dream and the re-
suit is that he finds out he had been mis-
taken, that our fathers were mistaken, that
the action taken in 1888 was mistake,
that the action was the non-extension OF
slavery was re-enacted under the constl-
tuition in 1899, and carried ont under every
President from Washington to Monroe, in
having declared that they had right to
restrain the spread of, was mistake. He
suddenly found out that our fathers did
not know anything about the matter; their
action was Unconstitutional, it was uncon-
stitutional to pass this great measure, and,
therefore, the Democratic party repealed it,
and Douglas helped them to do it.
Well, what did the Northern men do?-
What did the Republican party do? Why,
they said, gentlemen it is lamentable
thing that the declaration of the Constitu-
ton itself, gives the power expressly to
Congress to regulate the Territories-that
is the word, 'sto regulate" the Territories
making no Limitation, but giving abso-
lutte power, and yet you deny the constitu-
tionality of action under it. AS I said be-
fore, the very first action under the Con-
stitution in 1889, was an exercise of that
power to "make all needful rules and
regulations respecting the territory" and
following down as long as the Presidents
that were alive at the signing of the Con-
stitution, lived, and coming to our own
times as late as when Oregon was formed
into Territory, to few days ago, this
action has been deemed constitutional,
when all at once these measures were
found out to be based upon fallacy, and
it was discovered that we had no power to
carry them out. What did we do2 Be-
cause we loved the Union; because WEI
North and South, had fought the common
battles of the country, and Joined in the
love of a common liberty, standing shout
dersto shoulder, we will try the thing once
more; we believe free labor is competent
TO sustain itself; we will go into the Ter
ritory, apply the test, and see whether or
not It shall be Free or Slave.
DEMOCRACY AS IT WAS.
Gentlemen, let me read few Democrat
ic platforms to show how this thing went
along. will read you the Demouratic
platform of 1852, two years before the pas
sage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, so far as
II fonches npon the subject of Slavery: