Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-09-26
The Standard
From the Cincinnati Gazette Sept. lQ.l
spKsJH OF GEN. 10 LANE AT CONVICTION,
sKENTITCKY


yon, addressed large outdoor audience from the
door of Drover's Inn, Coyington. Col Harris Oh
ficiated as chairman and introduced the Uenerai 10
the meeting
: Gen. LANE said he had not come to make a speech,
but to state his views upon the great issues now
agitating the country. He had not yet MADE up MS
mind to enter the canvass as stump speaker, but
he was glad of an opportunity to meet some OF the
people Of Kentucky-for the gallant old State was
the home of his boyhood He knew her chivalry
and the patriotism of her sons, and therefore he was
proud be to visit the Stateagain Cheers Just
now the political horizon was overhung with dark
and threatening clouds 1t was not very certain in
the present distracted condition of parties who
would succeed to the Presidential Chair. But there
was no doubt who it ought to be-John c. Brock
inridce I"That so" In mis- hands the interests of
every class would be safe and equal justice would
be dealt out under the Constitution, to every por-
ton of their beloved country. But there was
sectional candidate for the Presidency man who,
if elected would be elevated to Office by the votes
of one section of the country only. The party who
nominated him hold that the common territory OF
their country should be appropriated to the North
ern people exclusively or, in other words, that the
people of Kentucky should have no interest IN COM
mon with the Northerners in the common property
of the Territories He trusted that the people OF
Kentucky would not favor the election OF suc1
candidate On the other hand, the breckenridge
ticket represented principle that must be maintain
ed-a principle lying at the foundation of the Gov
eminent and upon which the Constitution and the
Union reposed. He knew that there were individ-
mails in that State who wished to divide the party
and prevent the success of Mr.. Breckinrldge-one
of the most gallant, chvalrous, just, high-toned,
talented men in the Union. Why should it be so
1t ought not to be So Kentucky ought to be united
in defence of the principles upon which her interest
and future happiness and the interest of the whole
country, depended. Applause.
The issue was whether or not all the people
should have equal rights in the common Territories;
whether Kentucky. Tennessee, South Carolina, and
every other Southern State should enjoy equal rights
in the Territories with the people of the North
The Territories were the prize of the blood and
treasure of every portion of the country; and,
therefore, any man, from any State, had the right
to enter Territory with whatever was property in
the State from which he came. If the Constitution
was maintained no power on earth could disturb
such man in the enjoyment of his property in the
Territory. [.tThats the doctrine VI When the peo-
pie of the Territorr came to make a State Govern
ment on their admission into the Union on an equal
footing with all other States, it their privilege
and duty to establish such Government, consist
emily with the Constitution they desired to live
under, to constitute free or slave State; and it
was the duty of Congress to admit them in what
ever form they presented themselves. Cheers. +
With any other course there would not be equality
in this country
"Squatter Sovereignty was the sheerest nonsense
ever uttered by moral man. Laughter. 1t was
heresy-a fundamental error; and those who
preached it either did not understand it or did not
wish to do equal justice to every portion OF the
country The difference between a State and a Ter
ritory was manifest to every who had particle
of common sense. In the State, the people were
ruled by the organized law furnished by their own
Legislature The organic law of the Territories on
the other hand, was the law of Congress Congress
had not the power to establish prohibit Slavery
at amt in the book" When their foretathers
made the Constitution, they conferred upon Con-
gress all powers necessary for the promotion of the
common good. They then took care to say: "Al
powers hereby not conferred on the General Gov
eminent are reserved to the States respectively and
the people thereof" In the Constitution, which was
made by the purest men on the face of the earth,
there was not one word that could be construed as
authorizing Congress to egislate the question of
Slavery. Would any man, then, who had one spoon
full of brains say that Territorial Legislature could
under an organic law do that which Congress itself
could not do? If any would, he might with equal
propriety contend that a man was greater than the
power that created him. [Applause.
The Government could not live that was con-
structed on the Squatter Sovereignty principle
That heresy was only more direct route to the
accomplishment of the Internal purposes of the Lin
coin party, namely, the exclusion of the people of
Kentucky from an equality with the Northern
States in the common territory of their common
country. {" That's right He knew that the
man Douglas, who was his friend, for they served
in the Senate together and had visited at each others
houses, and had never had any personal difficulty
he knew that Douglas had been travelling over the
country in search of his mother his friend in the
crowd reminded him. and teaching the Squatter Sove
reignty doctrine.
Recently Mr.. Douglas had taken higher stand,
and defed the Supreme Court; for he had said that
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that the Southern people had right to go where
they pleased with their slaves, yet the people of
a Territory had the right to prohibit Slavery, and
were responsible alone to posterity and to Cod
Thus Mr.. Douglas preached in the Northern States,
with the view of distractng and dividing the Demo
cratic party, in order, as he (Gen. Lance honestly
believed that Lincoln might be elected President of
the United States. {" God Forbid" Laughter.
However he would not say anything of Douglas
He had only wished to expose his heresies and de-
nounce his doctrine. He (Gen Lane) was for pre-
serving the Union, and God knew there was not
man who would lay down his life quicker than he
would to assure its preservation. Applause They
could preserve the Union forever by maintaining
the Constitution; and they do the latter by
fusing to allow the Government to infringe upon
any of the peoples rights If the Government at
tempted to force indignity upon Ohio, would not
the Kentuckians rush to maintain her constitutions
al right? And could they not do the same for South
Carolina? Even if any State o. people should be
willing to submit to insult or to surrender a
right he would stand alone if necessary, to protest
against it. Applause. The blood of his ancestors
shed in many battle to defend constitutional
rights, ought to haunt the man who would relin-
quish one of them, and the bones, rising from the
battlefield ought to shake in his face and call him
coward?
If it should be established that the people could
go into Territory and there establish or prohibit
vhof nfn orf;a
would be- and soon there would be collision and
bloodshed between the citizens from the North and
those from the South
Suppose Territory should be organized, the Leg
islature of which prohibited every Northern man
from bringing into this horses and machinery,
what would be the feeling of the great North p
was aparallel case for the Northerners 10 say "We
will exclude the Southern men and their property
from the Territory ~ [Annlanse