The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-07-18
WHOLE NUMBER 705.

And we, inc bedience to their wishes, out Of
Difference 20 their convictions, surrendered.
We considered that we were in duty
bound 10 abide by your own decisions, and
perhaps it may not be improper for me
here to refer to the considerations upon
which those accessious were predicated.-
The only compensation which the South
could find In the measures generally known
as the Compromise MEASURES, was the doc
lrine of non-intervention then claimed
Applause. A 80
That was the only boon offered to us in
those days as a compensation for the sacri.
ice which was asked at our hands, and the
oonth accepted the compromise, and the
compromise became the law of the nation,
certainly OF the party as fas as the question
ot slavery was concerned. lam surprised at
the extreme sensitveness exhibited by the
men of the South at this day upon that
question of nOn.intervention. John C.
Calhoun, when the famous compromise ten
dered by Mr.. Clayton. of Delaware, was be.
ing discussed in the United States Senate.
john c. Calhoun considered that the profFer
to place in the hands Of our Federal Trbu-
nal the Gu .Stion of the extent of power
in the Territories was to the South a
sufficient guarantee to mike acceptable
the compromise rendered, and where Mr..
Calhoun could stand Southern man need
not fear to stand. [Appause.l
! have said, in my very unconnected re-
marks that | have had the honor to submit
to you, thlt secession means disunion, and
will 60 on now TO show upon what considera.
tians that opinion of mine is predcated.
What is the question at issucl On the one
! hand Northern Abolitioniats claim interven.
toa for the purpose Of excluding slavery from
the Trrritories-)n the other hand Southern
m@D claim Intervention on the part of Con.
greSs for the purpose of protecting slavery
in the Territories.
Now, | ask Southern gentlemen here and
elsaWhere, are you serious, when the battle
is thu, drawn out, when the whole strength
of the North is combined with the great
strength on the part of the West TO exclude
slavery from the Territories! Are you, nv
friends Of the South, in earnest when YOU
ask TO submit the protection OF your proper
ty to the keeping of such men as may be-
sent from the North and West to constitute
the majority in your Congress. There is
not n paper in the S)uth which is not teem.
ing with d1nunciatons that Congress has
become rotten body, that the majority in
both Houses is in heart to all intents and
purposes. opposed to slavery, and yet these
men VIII, set up the pretension Of being the
. exclusive friends of slavery at the South ,
ask that the protection of slavery shall be
put in the keeping of that very power which
is represented as being bent upon its de.
structon. fAppIause.
i say whltever be the views they take for
the mrnner in which that power might
eventually be eXerted, from the moment
, that the power is rec ,gnized as existing in
. Congress, from that moment there Is not o
9 8 Lihern heart which does not beat TO the
g convict n thtt slav eryis gone. And ifthat
, shou'd be the ultim ,tum Of the issue, is the
s nth re idy now for it! Have they prepar.
, ed their armor! Are they ready for the bat
, tie SrS, they are not; and the reasons are
very obvious. The gentlemen who have &c.
, ceded from this Convention know that the
, manners of their people at home will not
respond to the call which they have made
= uo On th I'm, and the best proof OF it is that
+. in no State whose delegations have seeded
. did the secedors call fair Convention ol
!, the people to put to the test the innovation
e which they have attempted. Applause.l
i. perceive that have detained the Con
a vention longer than | have intended, Crie
,f Of "g, on, 60 on,"1 and my own strength il
ID nearly exhausted. Mr.. President, though
!. Louisiana is mindful Of what she owes 4
c her sisters OF the South, and is ever read!
70 to act in concert with them when actua
h oppression shall call for actual resistanc
still Louisiana is unwilling to risk her fU
N ture and the future of this Union upon i'm
il. practicable issues and purely theoretical ab
ID stractioas. Applause.]
lis She connot be 80 far otlivious OF the pas
" and the recent services to disown that fear
q. less and irdomitable champion of popula
IN rights and of State equality; him, who i
,ir that great and memorable struggle. whic
, : in his own State initiated that war whic
IN has been waged against him SO unreentins
is- Iy; him who has vindicated the rights OF tn
re- South so VIGOROUSLY against his iqfIriate
Dir opponents; him who will yet enable us
- triumph over the enemies of the South, tn
Black Republicans who are arrayed again
m US. Louisiana casts her entire vote {,
1e Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois. [Vocife
D Gus cheers and applause.