The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-25

to the city he could be satisfied that there were
fifty righteous men in it, Abraham pleaded in behalf of
perchance if forty might be found the city might be
saved The angel consented and he finally came down in
his entreates and begging to be forgiven his pertna
at last thatt be spared if perhaps it contained
ten righteous men; and the angel consented
but what does History teach us was the result? Ten
righteous men not to be found the city, and it
was overwhelmed with shower ashes birthstone and
fire, and twas destroyed. daughter and applause
ana the gentleman from Kentucky his anxious
10 elevate his avOrte, there misquord ignorant
or had forgotten that the Scriptures required that there
should be men, before the Douglas house could be
saved According TO his own showing there only
nine righteous in Kentucky, and consequently the
mouse OF Douglas the soil of Kentucky will be
whelmed with Gods wrath and destruction. Cheers and
langhter)
If, meanwhile, fleeing from that house-and, as the
gentleman from Kentucky is probably within the
sound of voice, will ask if there be any delegate
from that State here that he will communicate him
TINS piece OF Scripture for his guidance and that he will
go and warn him. as the angel warned Lots wifeet him
he careful when he fees not to back lest he be turned
into pillar of salt Laughter) Letno yearnings after
the Douglas flesh pots and the Douglas fortunes take
Session of your SOUL if you do keep straight the
only safe refuge the house of the National States Rights
Democracy, where you will receive cordial greeting
For. Sir the Scripture in that matterI fresher in
this than the gallant gentleman from Kentucky-tes us,
that if he dare to look back he shall he turned into
pillar of of salt, and from his very foundations shall flow
the water of Salt river up which he will go tCheers and
laughtcr)
But, gentle men, this is a very remarkable fact
standing isolated by itself tell you that there
a frank hearted Douglas in that body, did
know they were nominating a eifete, COrrupng
political carcase, when they nominated Stephen Doug
las. tCheers.)
Listen another the eloquent beautiful decaimer
from Missouri, formerly from old Virginia All of his
thoughts upon the chances of the Douglas All of his
thoughts upon the msfortunes of the Douglas And
his thoughts too clearly full of forebodngs that
he like his friend Kentucky could but him
to great historical death. And when his brilliant
inauguration was floating over history to pick up some
thing illuminate the pathway to the grave happened
to this gentleman that his mind borne by the
instinct of truth for he could not have intended tho
1pl1h he he SINH
lie would turn out we'll better than it didbut he, in the
hurry speech, hcihought him there of old Ger
tain James of Douglas, and the sympathy of the
struck him. and the striking facts they carried
in history. This James of Douglas chieftain of
Scotland and he had older cheftan, the present
Douglas has, aude to that noble and highly venerable
old statesman, Lewis Cass, of Michigan (Applause.I
And the time when this elder chiefan of the mod
e thls view OF squatter sovereign y led the
of the cohorts in those combats in which this young
Douglas won his spurs. But this gallant old chietain
who had lived longer in the world and expe-
enced than the young Douglas in the of time had
and when the Supreme Court decided this question
part of history that he said 81 yield in perfect good faith
to the decision of that Court that constituted
tie this very question, and longer the advocate of
this doctrine of squatter sovereignty
But this young Douglas has picked up this doctrine of
squater sovereignty this dead heart that once lived in
the great chiean but which he had cast out as unwor
thy and has cased in the silver his rhetoric and
his eloquence, and now bears it about with him. did
Lord James, of Douglas
He, when his cheftan died, embalmed his body and
took out his heart and undertook according his prom
young and impetuous in fOrgefuness of the trust he
had assumed he left the contained dead
heart the emblem of corrupng mortality and not the
blem of the living SOUL that had scared from better
and higher thingshis young warrior he went upon
his way was called from his duty by the waysde and
with the OF the young warrior and the pleadngs
of unhoy ambition, undertook to do wrong to Others
and before he reached the Holy Land, he induced
invade the territories of innocent people. and while
thus invading the rights of another and the territories of
another-whe thus invading the territorial rights of
people which had never intended him any wrong he
conflict them, n lastd rinp
hour seeing that he must down, he seized caske
which contained rotting remains of the mortal par
of his old chieftain-the soul had fed-he threw
it far into the ranks of the foe, and fought
his way thther, but to it with his now
dying and dead body. (Appause And our friend from
Kentucky, assmilates his chieain fortunately truth
fully to the of James Douglas This Douglas
Illinois, has taken up this rotng and corrupt in
ert part of the Senator from Michigan that he
from him unworthy-that he has sloughed off as un
true-hat he is not willing to have buried in his
grave with hm-he sezes upon this corrupting of
squatter sovereignty and enclosing in the beautiful
casing ofhs own eloquence and logic and sophism, he
goes battle the territories the Southupon the
people the South and testimony has told the
truth of James of Douglas when he throws this dead heart
of squatter sovereignty from him. will his dead body
fall and rot above it, (Cheers)
But pass, gentlemen, from the dead and the dy-
ing. (Laughter') 1t is true | am somewhat like
Cuoden's prophet, in that you cannot conceal the
best from me. | have given YOU a faint view of
what is yet to be history, and, mark my words,
that they are true. These prophesies are from the
past and not by any pen that comes to me from the
future let pass all this unfortunate scene of ones
friends who are dead and are dying, and turn 20
the living and the live Here we, based what?
Not upon dying and corrupt heart not upon the
unworthy slough off of humanity; base our
selves upon the eternal principles Of truth, of JUS
tice, and OF the Constitution. (Applause.)
If III this land of freedOm-it in this land of ed
ucated public opi3ion--if in this land where the
high est quality of citizenship is to deny yourself
the mere antagonistic desire to win spoils at the
expense of your neighbors, and of all your con-
re wit nIyhh ball hat
there is in this land vet home and place for the
living principles of truth, justice and the Constitu
ton. Whoever bear that banner in the field if
indeed they 90 down, will find consecrated graves
CHEERS But we cannot go down. Why? We
have standard bearer, who by hereditary right
who by education-who by citizenship-who bv
all the qualities of bold and manly el0quence and
an ennobling genius, is entitled to bear stand
Who is he? He is the grandson of him who
offered in the Legislature of Kentucky in 1885, the
celebrated resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky
They were offered in the Legislature of Virginia,
and the same year In the Legislature of Kentucky,
by John breckenridge, the grandfather of our
standard-bearer (Cheers.) There, nv country
men, was first elevated the great standard of the
Democracy. (Applause) Democracy is neither
more nor less than proper construction of the
constitutional chart Of this country, that is given
us for the nations guidance, and that pure con-
struction that has come down to us from that day
to this, here foundto be in these celebrated reso
lutions of Virginia and Kentucky of that day.
The foundations of the creed the pivot stone,
the very element of it all are to be found in the
words ''the equality of the States in the Union
and of the people OF the States' That is the test,
that is the principle by which you can test the
truth or the fasity of every measure that has
ever been urged in the government or that ever
be urged The equality of the States and the
equality of the people of the States, will either be
invaded by some measures that may be offered
in this government. | do not care what they
l1,n tApt = T,lI,h lnNla Id
to persons and things or to sOvereignties-
it makes difference. These celebrated resolu-
tOns the Democratic construction of the
Constitution. (Applause.) Gentlemen, we of Ala
bama, or you OF Massachusetts, or YOU of PennSyl-
vania, you of the far West, or you of California
and Oregon, may well consider yourselves as safe
in any body bearing the name of Democratic, where
you find sitting the representatives of the Old Do
minion of Virginia and the Commonwealth of Ken
lucky together. Virginia and Kentucky, with
us in 9S and 99, with in 1860, and the great
chart of that day. that originated and founded the
Democracy, is the chart upon which stand here
to-day, as the foundation stone upon which we
will reierate the victories of that day in the year
1860 of our Lord. (Cheers.) And our standard
bearer bears in his veins the blood of Virginia and
the blood of the daughter of Virginia-od Ken
lucky.
He bears in his veins the blood of him who offered
these resolutions in what was then these Western
wilds and under his banner conceive that
we are no new party, not mushroom of the mo-
ment. We can trace back our history to glorious
and magnificent ancestry, whose records COW
compare title to that bastard Democracy
which has just adjourned this day in this city. By
bastard Democracy mean Democracy made up
of the elements of federalism and sectiOnalism and
that mobocracy and radicalism which would over
throw the institutions of every land, if it ever
comes into the ascendant-that is not the true and
legitimate teaching of the fathers of the republic
and of those who have been taught by them.
| wi mr. G a n
laton to our candidate for the Vice-President,
(cheers,) the hero of the Mexican war, the Marion
of his day. In his honesty, in his simplicity of
character, in his truthfulness, in his integrity,
in his virtue, in bis heroism, he initiated him
who was the gallant hero of South Carolina dur
ing the period of the Revolution. (Cheers. J
| commend our candidates to your support. Maine
can support them, and so can Alabama. Mime
sofa can support them, and so can Florida; and
from end to the other of this Union the ticket
can be confirmed and supported by every National
man, as based upon sound National Constitutional
principles, in regard to the rights and wrongs of
all sections. And the pledge of this party was,
that for itself will invade the rights of Sec
ton, and do that only which is right, under the
Constitution, as taught by our fathers, and by
those who were taught by our father.
Breckenridge and Lane-that shall be our war
cry, but not for their sake as men; Breckenridge
and Lane shall be the talismen the inscription on
our banners not for the sake of the party Breckin-
ridge and Lane shall be the talismanic watch-words
whatever our different hopes, whatever differ
ent fortunes men; Breckenridge and Lane shall
be the tasmanic watch-words and representatives
OF the foundation principles of the Democracy.
truth, justice and the Constitution cloud and
continued cheering and applause.)
On motion by MIR. WHITNEY, of Massachusetts,,
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