The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-04-13

livery stables were then hliPd Win stoith uor-
ses, and vet the conspiracy TO do II could not 5e
punished.
SIR. ! desire law that will make II crime
punishable by Imprisonment IN thr penitenta-
nv, after conviction in the United States court
TO make conspiracy in one State, against the
people, property. government, or institutions,
OF another. Then We shall get at the root oi
the evil. have no doubt that gentlemen on
tue olbpr side will vote foT law which pre-
tends to comply with the guarantees OF The Con
stitution, without carrying any force or eticien-
cy IN its provisions. ] have heard men abuse
TIE fugitive slave law, and express their VIII
hugness 10 vote for amendments; but when You
came to The amendments which they desired to
adopt, YOU found they were such as would neV-
er return fugitive TO his master. IheJ' would
60 for any fugitive slave law that had a hole ia
il blg enough to let the negro drop through and
escaDe but none that would comply with the
obligatioos of the Constitution. So we shall
6nd that side OF the Chamber voting for law
that will, in terms, disapprove of unlawful ex-
pedtlons against neighboring States, without
being efficient 10 afording protection.
But the Senator says il is part OF the policy
ofthe northern Democracy 10 represent the Re-
pubhcsns as being hostile % southern Instltu-
tions. Sir, it is part of the policy OF the Eor-
thern Democracy, as we'll as their duty, to
speak the truth on that subject. / do not sup
pose that any man would have the audaclty to
arraIgn a brother Senator here fer representing
the Republican party as dealing IN denunclatlon
and Insult OF the Institutions of the South.
Look to your PhiladeIphia,platform, where you
assert the sovereign power OF Congress over the
Territories for their government, and demand
that it shall be exefted against those twin re-
llcs OF barbarism-poiygamy and slavery
Mr. FEssENDEN. Let me suggest to the Sem
ator that he is entirely changing the issue be-
tween him and me. | did not desire TO say,
and did not say, that the Republicans of the
North were not unlrendy to the institution of
slavery. I admitted myself that / was; trust
they all are. II is not in that respect that | ac-
cuse the Democracy Of the North OF misrepre-
senting the position OF the Republican party.
II was in representing that they desired to III
terfere with the institution in the southern
States. That is the ground-that they were
opposed 10 southern rights. That they do moi
think we'll ofsIagery as It exists IN this country,
I do not undertake to deny. ! do not know
that southern gentlemen expect us 10 be friend
Iy to il. | apprehend that they would not
think very we'll of US if we pretended to BE-
friendly TO it. IF we were friendly to the in
stituton, we should try to adopt, we certainly
should not oppose it but what charged upon
the northern Democracy was, that they misrep-
resented our position. That we were opposed
to the extension Of slavery over free territory,
that we called it relic of barbarlsm, [ admit
but do deny that the Republican party, or the
Republicans generally, have ever exhibited a
desire OF made movement towards interfering
with the right of southern men, the States, or
any constitutional rights that they have any
where. That is the charge | MADE.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. Mr.. President, for what
purpose does the Republican party appeal 10
northern passions and northern prejudices a. |
gainst southern institutions aud the southern
people, unless it is TO operate upon those inst-
tutions They represent southern institutions
IS no better than poly gamy the Shareholder as
no better than the poly gamist and complain
that we should intimate that they did moi like
to associate with the STAKEHOLDER any better than
with the polygamst. can see Monst.ous
lowering OF the flag IN the Senator's speech and
explanation. l would respect The concession,
II the fact was acknowledged. This thing of
shrinking from position that every northern
man knows to be true, and arraigning men for
slander for telling the truth to them
Mr.. FEssENDEN. know it to not be true.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. You may know it down IN
Maine, but you do not know it in Illinois.
have always noted that those men who were so
lar off from the slave States that they did not
know anything about them, are most anxious for
the fate of the poor slave. Those men who are
4, "a hnt o. eba,, Z ,bot
rs, are distressed to death about the condition Of
the poor negro. tLaughter.) But, sir, 90 into
the border States, where we associate across the
line, where the civilIes of society are constant
~ interchanged where weItrade with eachother,
and have social and commercial intercourse,
and there you will find then: standing bv each
other like band OF brothers. Take southern
Illinois, southern Indiana, southern OHIO, and
that part OF Pennsylvania bordering on Mary
land, and there you will find social intercourse;
commercial intercourse good feeling because
those people know the condition of the slave on
the opposite side OF the Ine; but Just 10 proper
ton as you recede from the slave States, Just in
that proportion party leaders can impose on their
sympathies and honest Preiudices,
SIR, know il IS the habit Of the Republican
party, wherever ! have met them, TO make the
warfare IN such way as TO try 10 rally the
whole North on sectional grounds against the
South. know that is to br the ISSUE, and il is
proven by the speech of the Senator from New
York, which quoted before, ant that Of Mr.
Lincoln, so far as they are authority. 1 hap
pen to have those speeches before me. The
Senator from Maine has said that neither of
these speeches justified the conclusion that they
asserted, that the free States and the slave
States cannot coexist permanently in the same
Republic. Let US whether they do or not
Mr.. Lincoln says:
ga house divided against itself canno, stand