The register. (Monroe, La.) 185?-1861, 1860-10-04

luefc ale many VI tAC suuo ShssA"
who sustain other gentlemen upon
platforms not SO constitutional and de-
sirable as mine. Cheers,
What is the charge? Nearly entire
delegations Of some Northern States,
supported by the mass Of the Democ.
racy in all the Southern States, made
the nomination. Do they say the whole
of this mass were disunionists? Why,
gentlemen, the country is in bad
way if this be so; but the charge is a
reckless one. How as to the State Of
Kentucky, which is going to vote in
accordance with that principle? Is
the State ofKentucky disunion State?
The delegations from California and
Oregon were in the Convention. They
reside thousands Of miles away from
our private strifes. What have they
said that would lead any man to sup
pose that they would break up the
union Of the States? They are impair
tial arbitrators Of this dispute, and
they tell our Northern brethren they
must do justice and give equality in
the Union, and that on such principles
they can maintain the Union, and the
Constitution. This is what Oregon
and California say, as well as large
minorities from the delegations from
other States of the Union, Senators
and members of the House Of Repre-
sentatives from both sections Of the
country, men who have filled the high
est stations in public councils, but
have now withdrawn from public life
MI concur in declaring that these are
the principles of the Constitution, and
they are not afraid to execute them
Cheers. f..~,i s'-=a-
Gentlemen, the charge of disunion
is baseless. Advantage has been ia
ken Of the cordial loyalty Of the peo-
pie of Kentucky, and equally to the
surprise and delight of gentlemen who
engaged in it, the scheme took better
than they expected, but am satisfied
that the sober second thought Of the
people will recall them to the assertion
Of their principles. Kentucky will
never abandon a principle which she
has declared TO be the principle Of the
Constitution and the Union. Loud
applause .
Twill not answer the newspaper &C
cusations of this gentleman and that
gentleman, and the other gentlemen
who have held extreme opinions on
the subject of slavery in the South.
Gentlemen Of equally extreme opin-
ions-nay, more so--support both of
tile other gentlemen against me-cer-
tainly, the gentlemen who assert that
we are disuionists. What it A, B, G,
and d, choose to vote for those dis
tinct principles which es cl ofus avow,
are you going to make nearly half an
empire in territory, and a large ma
jority of people inhabiting that en-
pire, disunionists, and put upon them
the stain of disloyalty to the Constitu-
ton of the country, on account of gen
tlemcn supporting us, even though
those gentlemen were disunionists? 1t
is unworthy Of your high character.
Judge men by their own character and
antecedcnts; then by the principles on
Which they stand. If you fluid q man
unexceptionable, and the principles
true, what brave and manly man would
be deferred from them by the false
clamor Of disunion?
l never could understand how it
was sectional to assert q constitution
al right, for have always regarded
the Constitution as covering all the
country. l never could understand
how it was movement towards dis
union to assert principles which arc
the principles of the Union, for the
Union is founded on the Constitution
But, gentlemen, while you are quar-
reling and clamoring among your
selves, there are disunionists all over
the country, working to overthrow the
Union. They are those who deny con
stitutional rights. Who are engaged
o-day in trampling under foot the
,,lainest rights guaranteed to us by
the Constitution? The Governor OF
Ohio refuses to restore man indicted
for felony, because he says it is no
crime under the laws Of Ohio to steal
a negro.
In the State of Wisconsin, a man
who was indicted for rescuing party
forcibly from the hands of the Marshal
is protected by an armed mob Where
in the North can tho fugitive slave
law he executed? How many States
at the North have passed laws max
ing it an offence, to be punished by
fine and Imprisonment, to aid the off
GERS in the United States in executing
the laws in regard to the return Of g
fugitive slave. Look at this. Look
at the concentration Of public opinion
Look at the encroachments year after
year. $751;
Look how you are environed anG
closed in upon, State after State, max
ing it penal in the people to help TIC
officers of the United States: The an
ti-slavery spirit making inroad in eve
ny direction; at Harper's Ferry; arsons
in Texas; the South environed and be
set; the Constitution thrown with con
tempt into our faces the purpose
avowcd to exclude the South from all
the vast common domain of the Union
and thus to begin the irrepressible
conflict. Yet when a political organi
cation ventures to ask for constitution
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