Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-09-20
Dolhital.
DOUGLAS GREAT SPEECH
HE TAKES THE SOUTHERN BULL BY
THE HORNS.
THE SECEDERS SLAUGHTERED IN
THEIR OWN CAMP.
AT PETERSBURG, VA.

Chas. F. Collier Esq, in Introducing SEN
ator Douglas, said:
Fellow Citizens Of Virgina--By the invita-
tion Of the national democracy assembled at
Staunton the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas visits
the Commonwealth of Virginia, and by the
invitation of the Democracy of Petersburg
he is here to address you to might. I have
the honor to now introduce to YOU Stephen A.
Douglas, the national candidate of the dem
ocracy for President. [Three cheers were
here given for Douglas.
THE APPEARANCE OF JUDGE DOUGLAS.
Senator Douglas said:
Gentlemen-I fear that will not be able to
make myself heard TO this vast audience, in
consequence Of the strong wind that is now
blowing, and which must materially affect M Y
voice. Since the President and Vice Presi
dent Of the United States have taken the
stump in opposition to the organization and
nominees of the party which elected them to
power, have no hesitation in responding to
the invitation of the democracy of Virginia
to vindicate the organization, the platform;
and the principles ofthe national demo cratic
party. (Cries of .'Good," and applausel
OCCUPIES THE SAME PLATFORM WITH HIS PRE-.
DECEssoR.
I stand tonight on the same platform OF
DrtnClpieS Oh WHICH OdSS was HOlulnHtSu III
1848 Pierce in 1862, and Buchanan and Breck
inridge in 1856 [applausel, and construe
the platform of the patty now precisely as
they understood and construed it them
[Cheers.]
In his letter of acceptance, in June, 1856,
Mr.. Buchanan declared that the people of a
Territory, like those of State, shall decide
for themselves whether slavery shall or shall
not exist within their limits; and in his speech
IL. -
nomination for Vice President, Mr.. Breck in
ridge expressed the same doctrine. During
the whole canvass Of lc56, the creed of the
party, so far as the question of slavery was
concerned, was explained in the same way in
every northern State by northern and south
ern men. When the aboltionists denied that
that was the true construction Of the demo-
cratic platform, eminent southern men from
all the different southern States were invited
to canvass the northern States, in order to
assure the northern people that Buchanan had
placed the true construction upon the Cincin.
natl platform in his letter of acceptance. In
response to this invitation, distinguished
southern men did canvass the northern States
Among them were John G. Breckinridge and
William Preston. of Kentucky; Cobb, Of Ga
Orr, of South Carolina; Benjamin, of Louis
lana; and many others, who visited the north
ern States, and made speeches on the same
stand, some Of them SIDE by side with me
explaining the platform precisely as l viii
explain it to yon. Immense spplause.)
SPEAKS FRoh THE SAME STAND WITH BRAcKIN
RIDGE.
AtTippecanoe, Indiana, ! made speecl
from the same stand with Vice Prcsiden
Breckinridge. listening to him, and he listen
ing to me, and both ofus advocating the doc
trine that the people of a Territory, like thos
of State, were to decide the slavery ques
ton for themselves. [Cheers.l
Read the speech of Howell Cobb, of Geor
gia, made at West Chester, Pennsylvania, il
September, 1856, in support of Mr.. Buchanan
and you will find that he advanced the doc
trine that slavery could be excluded from tn
Territories either by non-action or by un
friendly legislation. That speech made MI
Cobb Secretary of the Treasury.
THE ENTIRE CABINET COMMITTED.
Take the present Cabinet of Mr.. Buchanan
and nearly every man who is member of
Is, on record, committed to the doctrine ad
vocated by Mr.. Cobb. Gen. Cass, the Sec
retary of State; Mr.. Toucey, the Secretary o
the Navy; Mr.. Holt, the P Postmaster General
indeed, as far as know, every member c
the Cabinet, supported that doctrine. no'
say TO you that Buchanan and Breckiuridg
were elected President and Vice President o
the Cincinnati platform, as expounded by Nj
Buchanan in his letter, and Mr.. Breckinridg
in his speech of acceptance. [Applause.]
tell you, furthermore, that they never conl
have been elected but for their pledges {
6delity to the doctrine of non-intervention b
Congress with slavery in the Territories c
the United States. [Cheers.l The contes
in 1856 was between the doctrines of inter
vention on the one side, and non-interver
ton on the other. The Abolitionists. wh