The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-07-28

States was adopted, and while the Coz,
vention was sitting, an ordinance wa
adopted by which slavery was excluded
from a vast domain. Our northern neigh
bors seized the Territories, with a view t.
dominion over our expansion, and thu
prohibiting US from extending Gus inst!
! tut ons
What next? Why, Immediately artel
. this, the next step that was taken by then
was the Louisiana treaty. BY the LouIsI
ana treaty, slavery was extended over thai
; vast country, purchased in lSUj by Mr.
jefferson. The Northwest territory oil
/ Louisiana was not settled till near the
war Of lsl2 when one of the great prin
! ciples OF the Federalists was mo more
slave States"
| Upon Missouri coming up for admission
! they refused to admit her into the Union
/ Then began the struggle of the North and
/ the South-the South all on one sdie, and
! the North Oh the other. The Compromise
! Of 30 deg. 30 min was effected, aud the
! South allowed herself to be cheated and
/ thus gave up the Northwest Territory. and
five more free States stand above the
/ Rocky Mountains. Was this all? No
To get the South out Of all the Indian
; Territory which would have been hers.
they determined TO remove slavery ont OF
it, They took the Indians from the North
Of the lakes and crowded them from that
territory to a place prepared Tor them.
Thus each Indian territory. capable of
making a number of slave States. and "
ing between the Missouri line and the
State Of Arkansas, was taken from Us.
Was that all ? Texas came up next Eng
land was about to rrasp Texas and control
it against the South Not only the com
merciai and the slave States, but the
whole North resisted it, but was only
carried out upon this ground, that it was
matter OF Northern manufacture, that
We should have IeXds, II not Lngland
would h.ch the South commercially. which
would affect them. IL was TINS that al
lowed US TO gain Texas. Texas was adj
mitted. just hold money in one hand and
slavery in another. and have never doubt
ed upon which side tha North would 20
What next The Mexican wa. came
on and the first thing was the establish
ment Of the WIlmot proviso. After that
California came for admission. The pro-
clamatIOn OF Il rlgadIeg-Geueral was Is
sued Tor a meeting together Of the depu-
ties. They signed Constitution eXclUd-
Ing the STAKEHOLDER. We We're excluded
from California. one OF the most glorious
Of States, and one Of the best calculated
Tor slave labor Il makes no less than SIX
States a. large a. Alabama, 50 swept of at
one blow from our reach. AT that time
w4s opposed 10 that admission. | said the
same power and spirit that drove Us from
California would drive u from every 9th
er Territory
What next? Kansas came up for adj
mission Well. We had the majority. and
forthwith Sharpe rifles and every species
OF fraud. with the aid Of the Government,
was resOrted to 10 drive us out They had
the AID Of the Government. for II " aiker
and Stanton had not been sent there and
lent the powers OF the Government We
would never have been driven out OF that
Ierritory. We had the government against
u, with military force 10 assist 1t, and
We were driven out These concessions
have been running through 4 series OF tif-
ty years and they Will not be satisfied.
The more YOU have Welded the more they
have looked upon yOu as demOgal.zed and
entitled 10 less respect AlI now what
% they pretend 70 set up? Why. that
the Territories 10 be hereafter acquired
Tor the future and forever, shall be theirs.
l know what huuau nature !. 1t :
selfish, corrupt. II a person proves corrupt
and selfish toward me. | am not aston
lshed | may not respect him. Eut can
YOU respect him, in whom Is a solemn
trust rrpo-ed ty his ancestors. who pas
>lye!y submits to these violations ot t.us.
and allows the guarantees, assigned 10
him TO keep Tor himself and posterIty. to
be put IN q position OF danger and death
No, my friends, that Is not the principle.
Hence !, for one, have for thirty years
claimed TO be a cOnseryat!st ! have strl-
ven three times TO get the State OF South
Carolina TO resist. | have advocated re
s!>tlnce solely by South Carolina; not II
destroy the Union, not 10 break up the
Government. but because | believed It
would save, support, and make 1t worthy
OF our admiration and love, and tEus trans
init 1t down 10 our latest poster.ty. What
ever Others may think OF the policy and
counsel | have pursued. in which | have
been overwhelmed again and again in Il
short period, believe in my conscience
and before God, that the policy and coun-
sci have recommended would have pre-
served the honor of our institutions, and
was the best Tor the interests OF the United
States
Now my friends, this consolidation is
eliminating into the Presidential election.
y are now gong on struggle; we have
now at last got the two sections OF the
Union pltted against the other. On the
other hand we have those who deny the
rights OF the South. and there are those
VINO like yourself, denounce SIuatter So
vereignty. The Black Republicans affirm
it TO be their object by the direct legisla-
ton 81 Congress to abolish slavery III the
Territories. Consolidation in this Presi-
dental election eliminates eventually to
victory or ruin. II we shall defeat our adj
versaries, if the North rise up and on this
occasion gives Us our rights, we may hold
1t as an omen of good ior the future. If
they aid us in the election of men who will
stand up fairly for their country, content
to give ns those rights by electing Breck
enrldge and Lane, harmony and peace will
be once more among us and we may look
to the future with hope.
If, on the contrary, the Black Republi-
cans succeed in electing Lincoln and Ham
lin, who openly advocate that slavery he
abolished throughout the whole world,
then we have to look 10 ourselves. Ham
lin is what we call a muiatto. He has
black blood in him, and let me tell you
that it is his nomination that has re-
markable popularity. The Northern peo-
pie take that man IN consequence of that
pecu!iarity. | see it stated III the papers
that he is muiatto | can only say that
some state it as Il reason why that man IS
taken up, is in consequence OF the spite
and malignity manifested towards him
But they design to place over the South
man who has negro blood in his VEINS
They put a renegade Southerner on one
side for President. for Lincoln Is native
Kentuckian, and they puta man "i coiorcd
blood on the other side ot the ticket for
Vice President of the United States
This was a sectional Convention. 1T nomi-
mated men upon sectional principle. with
not single Southern State represented
among them. They proposed 4 platform
of principles utterly Inconsistent with the
Constitution of the United States, by which
their rulers should be governed The