Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-09-20
speeches OF p1e..r.. Bragg and v.nsbie.


Hon. Thomas Bragg next introduced to the meeting
He commenced by abiding the late State election when
defeat was predicted the ground of supposed d.
Visions It was said hopelessIy split and that
were frightened of breeches. Laughter This cry
was always the but turned invariably that
have ended every campaign by whipping opp t,nts
clear out their breeches Laughter and applause Gov
Bragg rected the fable of lion the illustrate
this Well gain hear the old brayng the have
heard for Again told that divided and
split up, and to be beaten The Opposition think if
they get us by the they have got us Like the man
who married two wives in order Ea the first should be kept
of him by the quarrels resulting from his marriage with the
second they should succeed beating us it will not be by
their own strength but by the division in ours
Gov Bragg alluded to Douglas and bis assertion that
he did not get the votes of the people Laughter
pointed at Baltimore and he here chide 1.-THE
people and give the State Bell Do you, he asked in
sacrifice your principles and your party the behest
man You called upon not to give the State to dem
ocrat calling himself democrat but to your hered-
tary foes. [Cries Of " no we won't."l
Gov Bragg said his purpose to review the position
taken by Judge Douglas in his speech at Raleigh and he
proceeded to dssect the Inconsistencies of the Judge and
the preexts under which he asserted his consistency We
understand the speech of Gov Bragg will be printed for
general circulation when the people will have opportu
nifty Of seeing it, Having gone over the question of Squat
ter Sovereignty Gov Bragg took the platform OF the
National Democracy led by Breckenridge and Lane and
read each of the three resolutions bearing upon the
question: and asked any man in the audience objects to
one word of them ISee the platform in this issue On
the question of Intervention by Congress the Territories
Judge Douglas had boldly asked Congress had ever inter
be Cen 1sgg hoSy Tenseed law sSop
dent sayeowners higher than resident slaveowners upon
their slave property Not only did he repeal the law but
he made the offence of collecting such unequal tax highly
penal punishable by fine and imprisonment Cheers j
jackson, Gov E. supposed, was pretty good democrat
Loud cheers TO the charge that were endeavoIDg
to force slavery upon the people GOV b. SAID 1t was not
true All that urged was fair demand that the people
of the State should have fair protection from set Of
squatters- thirds of whom may be unnaturaZed for
egners totally irresponsible. to deny this be squatter
sovereignty for one, said he stand against And this
called disunion he denied the purpose to ask
establish code-that to force slavery any
bred Scott referred to- and in it shown that in
the opinion had the right under the Corst
Douglas, however, well, that may be; but whe
you get them there you cannot hold them there
They be there subject to the " local law Ia
voice" Higher ldwl Yes, higher law. Laughter ]
Now, continued Gov B., the Constitution pc ms to
take my property into the territories surely the Constu
ton will override all local law in enabling me to hold my
property there [Cheers Gov B. admitted that techni-
cay the direct question involved in this discussion did not
90 up to the Supreme Court but every lawyer and
of knows that the principle which GOV
the whole decided, ard Douglas should have
admitted it like man, and then never would have had
any trouble III the Democratic party Loud cheers Gov
B. read extracts from the Dred Scott case to show what the
court had decided.
After an examination of this Gov B. went to show
papabe breach of faith Douglas and read extracts from
his speeches, &c. to prove it. was shown that down to
1854 and 1856 the doctrine Of Douglas was that the people
of the territories could not egste to exclude slavery
from their limits prior to their formation OF State const
tuition This what they all understood and held But
Douglas after the decision of the Supreme Court which
by common consent final settlement asserted, IN the
teeth of that decision that the power Of the people III this
matter perfect.
Gov Bragg alluded next to the outry against Yancey by
but snort time in the party and who have been
little everywhere against it; whilst he Gov B., and his
friends around him, regarded with suspicion l. he
said first voted tor Gen. Jackson and have never WaVered
since, am going to depart from that course to
please Judge Douglas any one else: loud and con
tinued cbeerng They who differ with Inc may go then
own ways, but for me and my people will serve
| the Lord" [Kenewed cheers Gov Bragg contrasted
the conduct of Douglas with that Of Gen. Cass-the
father squatter Sovereignty. He, with
Douglas and the rest agreed abide by the decision of the
0nA
Cass at said he mistaken in the matter and aban
doned the doctrine. Cheers Douglas, the contrary
still holds in opposition to the Supreme Court Judges
the unanimous voice of his party and Of nneenhs of the
people Of the country Gov T. said majority platform
that passed by the United States Senate known the
Davis resolutions and of thoe resolutions the teri
ora question adopted at own late State COnveu
t9n in March last At Charleston the North Carolina del
egation voted for it unit amongst them MIR. Dick
Laughter and cheers land if that resolution be dsunon
then Mr. Dick voting dsunon Charleston
Great cheering Then Fitzpatrick also voted for this
union resolution and forthwith he put upon the ticke
with Douglas Vice President Continued laughter
Fitzpatrick declined 70 run, simply because Douglas moi
nominated by wothrds vote. The factWas this cry of dis
union miserable humbug, and any who will allow
himself to be fooled out of his vote by cry deserves
be fooled and cheated out vote for the baa his life
resolutions OF Senator Davis were voted for IN the
ate by Crttenden and Kennedy all the Bell men there ane
and they talk Of dsunion. [Cheers If disruption
should come Doug one is responsible for it. lProlong
ed cheers He [Dougas had declared that the purpose
all the who left the Convention to defeat him
elect Lincoln For what? Gov B declared that the Brock
did not live North South who would
| Office under Lincoln Tremendous cheering] He wal
sorry he could say that of Douglas friends [Chees
laughter and Gov Bragg cited the course of Doug
las for past towards his party running anu
LecomptOn Democrats against the eguar nominees of The
party and where successful these antecOmptOn friends
of Douglas quickly over horse foot and Dragons
the Black Republicans [Great cheering) The Back Re
pubcans had rewarded Douglas right hand Forney
for his services, with the cerkshp of the House, and he
now at work against the Democratic party in Pennsylvania
| [Cheers.l
Whose record then is this ?-who is "impregnable ?'
x. To
fusion at the North between the Douglas and Bell men,
their persistent course in ruling breckenridge out and ais
to the proclamation Of hostility Breckenridge by tn
chairman of the Douglas Executive Committee He le
attention also to the oston of the Douglas faction
at home to prefer Bell to Brecknridge He asked the
democracy they intended to permit themselves to be so
by the Douglas and Bell men [Cries of no, mol H
appealed to themeven to those of them who preerre
Judge Douglas, to prevent such result He ventured t.
say that in two years hence many of those who
gagged in this movement will be found in the of the OPP
position. of them he said What then your duty
Rally to the old democratic standard. The Constitution
and the Equality ct the States these are symbols OF ever
lasting Union Let these be the ralyng OF the people
Hon. A. W. Venable next took the stand The introduc
tory remarks of Mr. enabe were most eloquent and beau
full He referred to the scenes of today-the South-he
peopledentied in interest and Affection kneeng afoun
the same altar worshppng one Cod Sooner than see tn
beautiful land laid than see emancipation
would see his Acountry grave. Sensationl We canno
follow Mr.. Venabe through his Speech nea
exhausted He spoke OF Jackson and said his force bill
was federal but when Jackson he wrong he ha
the honesty to abandon it, and that bill contained the
capitol steps at Raleigh. Talk of disunonss he said
while dozen Northern States who have null6e
the fugitive slave law in set teTmsa law denounced by
Massachusetts orator statutory crime to administer
Who talked dsunon in reference to those States In view
ing the question: or rather the cry OF dsun0n Mr. Vonab
instanced the conduct of Virginia in the late Harper
Ferry raid -showing the conservative pursued b.
her in all those scenes in the of the South Car
DINA commission, &c. He asked if there any sub
msonsts present. and he proceeded to take view ofth
great question of the constitutional rights of the States
He then referred to Douglas and his nomination He pok
of the tco delegates from this State who remained ia
Baltimore. He not going to blame them. but he weu
N
ed in and they voted for Douglas and then they voted TO
Fitzpatrick who had voted tor the protection of slavery
&C. He, Mr. Venable would vote for Douglas to defea
Lincoln" dirty low flung abolonist ;; and Hamli
was no better LCheers and laughter] But there
difference between the doctrine of Douglas and that
that little slower than the other
Douglas like that Of the Quaker who would drow