The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-10-10

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national principles Il stands upon the prin
lsiples Of the Kausas-N Nebraska bill and th'
Cincinnati platforms Hessets that he FED
sral ,Go.rhmsent kas no Ipo.csr to esiabiisb o.
Ie5vtisk slavsrys4 II asserts the principle o.
fnohkaterpeation as the only true principle
leaving ID ne pesp,e Of hs States and Ter
rit0EIies, Under he FORMS oftte Consiitat;on,
'tbe right tog regulate the subject at their own
discretion. The Democratic party Could,
therefore, no more make use Of the strong
arm Of the Federal Government TO extend
slavery tbsnjt can propose 10; make use Of
ittosprohibit slasery.cG In short said Gsner-
aalAfiies, ACCOMPLISHMENTS did notsutter a
'wcrlswhlch JohaC. CaIhounmight not have
uttered with applause in South Carolina
% Iinmediateiy afcr the publication Of the
above in the columns of this Journal, Gen.
Miles forwarded slip to Major Breckin-
ridge, with the request that he should in
form him. whether his views had been cor
rectly represented or not. The following
hitherto unpublished letter. now in our pos
session, was received by return mail: 5io7
i,sm -"LExMGroN, KY, Oct. 2l, 1856.
ios DEAR SIR:---I have received your friendly
letter of the 18th instant, with a slip from
the Courier, containing your remarks at a
meeting in New Orleans. You have report
ed me correctly, and | thank you for it, The
attacks upon me in some Of the Southern
Opposition papers are only intended for this
canvass; they do not themselves believe the
charges they make. H6s.s -as5.#..
''As you know, my remarks were reported
in a meager and imperfect mamer-siill,
even as reported, there is nothing to warrant
the attack.
i "Hn,ds fhe srhole subject By the Fylerdi
Government, (ercept for one or t'co rRorEc-
TIvE purposes, mentioned in The Constiu-
ion)-the equal rights Of all sections ~ The
common territory, and the absolute l'orer q
each new .Stdteto SETTLE THE QUESTION IN
ITS CoSsTITuToN--these are my doctrines
and those of our Platform, and, whit is
more, of the Constitution. To claim that
the Democratic party, in its Federal rela-
tions, is an organization to extend slavery, is
to advance doctrine that is Constitutionay
untrue, and, in its logical consequences, ruin
GUS to the South.
81 consider the assault on me so absurd rs
to be unworthy of further notice; still, J
have written to -, of the Courier, and
him to give the charges an author
itatiye denial, or not, in his discretion.
aa Yours, very truly,
p a.Hf JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE.
GEx. w. r. MILES, New Orleans"
We have been rather minute in these de-
tails, merely for the purpose of showing how
fairly and promptly Maj. Breckenridge avail
cd himself of the first opportunity which Of
fered to place himself correctly before the
country against the odious doctrine of Squat
ter Sovereignty. We commend the above
letter to the critical disquisitions and analyt-
ica powers of those Opposition presses
which have been so violent of late in dcnun-
Citations Predicated upon this Tippccanoc
speech. We hope that they will hasten to
repair the injustice which, We suppose, for
charity's sake, they have unwittingly com
nitted. But whatever may be their course
in future, we are content to leave the matter
in the hands of the people, who are never
slow, upon the presentation Of due proof, in
acknowledging the errors into which they
arc occasionally mislcd. 7A ~ q 'i'
For some time past the renewal Of this
stale, and now exploded, charge had furnish
ed matter for large amount Of indignation
expended. 1t was the prancing
hobby upon which the DOuglasite chiefs were
1t was the Jrutum .Jainacn which
was to annihilate all invidious comparisons,
and place the Little Rebel in the attitude Of
a sainted martyr. From the hustings on
Canal street, the theatrical Soulc and the i'm
passioncd Forsyth had shed their crocodile
tears upon Brcckinridge's pretended backsli-
ding. Who would have believed such by
pocrisy! What The squatter Breckia-
ridge at Tippecanoe. in 1856 to pretend to
pass Judgment upon the immaculate and
Douglasl 1t was truly heinous
offence What mattercd it that, in 1854, he
had nubly stood in Congress in defence of
the doctrine of Non-Intervention and the
Constitutional Rights Of the States in the
Territories, in opposition to Squatter Sow
OF what importance was it that
he had invariably indorsed the sentiments Of
the Democratic Senators, with the exception
of Pugh and Douglas, and had implicitly
and unswersingly maintained the
principles embodied in the Dred Scott de-
cision! Was not his Tippeeanoe speech,
and uneorrected, it is true, by him,
on recordl Could not the loose phraseology
in which il had been clothed by negligent
reporter be tortured into meaning which
might subserye certain purposes! Alas. We
poor, deluded Douglasitesl How complete
" has the fabric of your hope vanished like
thin misty vapors before the fury of the
hurricane Even your BeIl-Everettite allies
IN 80 abandon ,-ou and hasfan IN nrociu-