The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-01-26


ssisoiishing or ah0lishing slavery. The powers
not denied BY The Constitution therefore il has
a. There l am bonad TO change my opinion IN.
% that subject, aad nov l agree that Congress
nAs me power 10 establish or prohibit slavery be.
cause as said, the ackno wledxment OF the ons
power eompes Us to aekno Wedge the possession
OF the reverse
Web now it is at last broagh. to THE: Coa.,ss,
has the right 10 establish Slavery OF to abolish
slavery in the territories IL il then ma,,a-
upon which We appeal to The couatry FOR decision
" Ill You go for Slavery or freedom | believe
that 10 be the doc,riae of the Repae can par,v
aud tina. Is the whole sun and Substance az ia
controversy between Us We say with Wasainv.
ton, Jshersoo, Madison aud Henry aai I..a ana
all the distinguished fathers OF the R.nael,c ma,
that slavery IL = blessing and Divine institution
and all that, bat We admit II to be an evil nor
ally, socially, ard politically, and a weakness in
the commonwealth
SLAVERY A WAX INSTITUTION
Wen now gentlemen j, has gone forth in this
Commonwealth that | should not be 1blc To :
speak in Frankfort. Why is thate Uhy is il :
that John Brown spread such CONSERVATION
through all Virginia Are we to believe that
the Virgiuians ali eowar6ss No There 10
in Virginia just as gallant blood flows in
the world; it was simply because slavery was .
weak institution FROM the beginning 10 this time;
that it was what James Madison told South Car.
DINA and Georgia; j, is because slavery is what
il is source of weakness 10 the State, and there
fore patriots aud lovers Of our country. we say
to the several States. enjoy your institution a.
long as you choose bat solar RESPONSE.
bic We go 2 Aust it all the time. There is the
who'e front of our offending. Is it not righ,s
THE ADMISSION OF SLAVE STATES.
Another charge made is, that we purpose Ito
prevent Il admission, IN any latitude, of another
slavehodng State" deny that that is the plat.
form of the Republican party as made up in 1856
it is to be made mp in 1850, and if You will
allow me will refer to the record l cannot read
all of the Platform. but give you my word there
is no such clause in it. I will read one clause
however,:
Resolved. that With our Republican fathers
We hold il 10 be a self-svident truth that ell men
endowed with the in alianable right TO lfe
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and that the
primary object and Interior design OF our Federal
Government was to secure these rights to all per-
sons under its exclusive Jurisdiction 81 Mark me,
now, that does not apply to States that our
Republican fathers when they had abolished sla-
very il all our National Territory ordained that
person should be deprived of lifs, liberty or
property, without due process of law, it becomes
our da;y TO maintain this provision of the Con-
sttu,ion against all attempts to violate il for the
purpose of Establishing slavery in any territory OF
United States while the present constitution shall
be maintained
4 In that part of the platform have said. be-
lieve in error. For that reason, in the
call of the present Convention we leave out all
that which has reference to the last sentence
which read viii read that call TO you:
/ "a National Republican Convention will meet
at Chicago "Wednesday the 18th day of June
next at II o'clock, noon, for the nomination Of
candidates to be supported for President aud
Vice President at the next election.
The Republican electors Of the several States
the members Of the Peoples party of Pennsylva-
MA aud the opposition party of New Jersey aud
all others who willing to cooperate with them
in support of the candidate which shall there be-
nominated and who are opposed To the policy Of
the present Administration, to federal corruption
and usarpation to the extension Of slavery into
the Territories. 20 the new and dangerous poti-
cal doctrine that the Constitution. of its own
force carries Slavery into all the Territories OF
the United States, to the opening OF the African
Slave trade, to an inequality Of rights among cit
: liens and who in favor of the immediate adj
mission Of Kansas into the Union under the con-
stitution recently adopted by its people, of re-
storing the federal administration to q system of
rigid ecouomy aud to the principles OF Washing
ton and Jefferson, of maintaining inviolate the
rights Of the States, and defending the soil of ev-
cry State and Territory from lawless INVASION and
Of preserving the integrity OF this union aud the
supremacy Of the Constitution and laws passed
in pursuance thereof, against the conspiracy OF
the leaders OF sectional party, 10 resis. the ma
iorlty principle established in this government
even at the expense of its existence are invited
to send from each State two delegates from each
Congressional district, and four delegates at largo
to the Convention"
To prevent the extension of Slavery into tho
Territories. There is the matter at issue
Gentlemen, neither in the platform of 1856, nor
in the call Of Convention for 1860 is there any
such clause as that the Vice President alledpes
that more slave States shall be admitted into
the Union-there Is nothing Of il. 1t is not .
true allegation, ani l appeal to the record I
appeal from the differences and allegation OF the
Vice President OF the United States to the coup-
try upon that subject.
THE SLAVE CODE CONSIDERED.
Before pass over this will say a few
words with regard to the power that the
shareholders claim for the protection Of slave
property under the Constitution of the Uni.
ted States, because that is a vital question:
Gentlemen, with all the inconsistency OF the
Democratic party in 1852 and 1856, they
never thought Of this thing. that slavery
| went under the Constitution, and by virtue
thereof into every Territory per Sc. Never
was such an expression made use Of but
they all admitted that no such power existed
in or under the Constitution. Hence, Of
course, it was proper to enact that the people
OF Territory were free to legislate slavery
in out of the Territory. Now, gentlemen,
the Democratic party is placed in this attitude
| that they then knew that under the Consti-
tuition and according to what they now claim
to be the decision of the Supreme Court, that
every stakeholder has Il right to 90 into the
Territory with his property, or deceived the
people. TO the detrimen. Of the STAKEHOLDER.
| when they left the matter to be decided upon
by the Shareholders. What right had
| the Democratic party to say that they should
| confscate the property of all the Shareholders
of a Territory. and leave their property to
the tender mercies Of the squatters, who
make their way from Germany, ireland.
China. Massachusetts and Kentucky? Mr..
breckenridge. or some Of your friends, an.
swer me. yes or no, did you intend when You
stood in favor of Popular Sovereignty" or