Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-07-12
Speech by q Southern Douglas
Man.

Douglas National Convention in Baltimore
We copy it as we fnd it in the Baltimore
American OF Saturday. Let Northern Demo.
Gratis read the argument of Douglas
Democia at for the slave trade:
Mr.. President and gentlemen Of the Con.
vention, come here from the State Of Geo.
gia. indorsed by that State Convention, and
by the Convention at Charleston. This
ought surely to give me right to be heard
before you, and though have not Joined my
fortune in the State of Georgia either to the
house Of York or to the mouse of lancaster,
1 feel that have right to speak to the
grea, Democratic party of the United States,
to see the elements Of disruption und disor-
ganizaiion which seem to prevail in the
midst of this most in,lligent assembly.
have felt that the experiment of the capa.
bility of man for self government was about
to prove failure here, and that the genius
of liberty was about shrieking to leave the
world But trust that this may be the
darkest hour Just before the day, and that
from these elements Of discord, the repre-.
sentatives of the Intelligent American peo-
pie here assembled may be able to devise a
plan upon which the great Democratic party
Of the United States may be united, and that
we will yet add another victory to the many
we have already achieved
am an advocate for maintaining the in.
tegrity Of the National Democratic party;
belong to the extreme South; am pro
slavery man in every sense Of the word,
aye, and an African slave trade man. Gap
pause and laughter.) This institution of
slavery, as ! have said elsewhere, has done
more to advance the prosperity and intelli-
gence of the W hite race, and of the human
race, then all else together. l believe it to
be founded upon the law of nature and upon
The law Of God; believe il to be bless.
ing to all races. ! believe that liberty would
not truly exist in this Western World ex-
cept by maintaining the integrity Of the
great National Democratic padty. Gap
plause) } AS for this "irrepressibe conflict"
party, with their serried ranks now ready TO
march down upon us, have no faith in it,
because it is founded in anarchy in every
thing anti.republcan, in everything that is
opposed to human progress; while | UNDER
stand the idea Of the great National Demo-
cratic party to be non-intervention in its
broadest sense. applause Now. my
Northern friends. do not know that can
do anyt fling in Georgia to reconcile these
matters; but whatever can do l will do.-
(APplause.)
say that our friends in Georgia, who are
crying out for protection to slavery
in The Territories, are advocating q
mere theory, a mere abstraction, a thing that
is not and cannot be. They would do much
better If they would demand protection from
the General Government and have a line of
police established along the border of the
slave States to catch and hang the thieving
abolitionists who are stealth g our nigers.-
daughter and appause.) That is means
of protection. Way! Because it is prac-
tical. (Renewed laughter and appluuse.)-
Here is my old native State of Virginia
the slave-irading and slave breeding State
Of Virginia. (Laughter)
Delegates from Virginia. call the gen.
tlen.en to order. He casts an imputation
breeding State Of Virginia"
Mr.. Gaulden--Well, will say the slave
breeding State of Georgia, then. glory
in being a slave breeder myself. cloud
laughter.) face the music myself, and
have got as many negroes as any man from
the Slste of Virginia. And as invited the
gentlemen Of this Convention at Charleston n
to visit my plantation, will say again that
if they will come TO see mel will show
them as fine a lot Of negroes and the pure
African, 700, as they can find anywhere
And will show them as handsome a set of
little children there as can be seen laugh
ter and any quantity os them, too. Re-
newed laughter.] And l wish that Virginia
may be as good slave-trading and slave
breeding State as Georgia, and in saying
that ! do not mean to be .disrespectful TO
Virginia, but do not mean to dodge the
question Of all. ra
Now want no office. 1 never asked for
any. did not ask the State Convention to
send me here, but am here to tell the
truth to you all, and this is my idea of non.
Intervention. want the State of Virginia
II she has negros, to have as she pleases. II
you want slavery in the State of Massactu.
setts, want you to have It. IF you wan,
slavery In Indiana, and Ohio, and Wiscon-
sin, and Minnesota, in Gods name have it.
1t Is your right to have slaves, and just as
many or as few as you please; 1 will! never
join any party which desires to force slavery
anywhere, or to keep it from any place
[Applsuse.) believe that is regulated by
the law of God, of nstare's God, and al
history proves that to be so, and all thai
ask is 'hands Off" leave it the people of the
States and Of the Territories to settle tha,
matter for themselves under the Cons titutior
Of the United States. (Applause.y
And now. while am up, want to pu
my veto upon one thing. fa
say 60 for non-intervention in thu
broadest sense of the term i say that thil
whole thing should be taken out of The
hands Of the General Government. sa,
1t is all wrong to be spending two or three
millions OF dollars annually from our pockets
and sacrificing thousands Of lives upon tn,
Coast Of Africa, in that terrible cline I,