Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-22

c | h those within the sound of my voice th,sas soon as I returned home I took the strnp
 in behalf of the democracy, and maintai- ed its doctrines to the best of my abilit. A voice-All right.
 Mir. B.-l was not afraid to do it, be cause they were the representatives of m l principles, and you may judge of my zeal , as one of those gentlemen was my old
 commander and my friend It was said | was not present and did not vote at the election at Lexington in ls4S, and that is
 true. But the sx x,llanation which my op-
 ponents have never published is entirely
 satisfactory. showing that 1t was my inten-
 ton to be absen. during the canvass. But
 it was not my intention to lose my vote.
 You all know at that time as a citizen 1
 could vote anywhere in the State, which
 was before the revision and adoption of our
 present constitution But it so happen
 ed that there were six or eight gentlemen
 accompanying me, all of them belonging
 to the whig party, and they proposed to me
 that if l would not return to my own town
 and vote, they would not If they would
 there would be six or seven votes cast for
 Taylor and but one cast for Class. (Cheers. ]
 ! accepted the proposition and we went a
 hunting. (laughter) and had every man
 dono as we'll as myself we should have car
 ried the State by 10000 majority. (Ap1 pause) Among those l remember three names of my friends-Thomas $. Reed,
 Nelson Butler and George P. Jewctt.
 Another charge has been extensively cir culated throughout the southern States, as-
 serting that 1 was an emancipationist in 1S49, or at least voted for an emanclpa tionist at some time or other. Mir. Breck inrldge here read an extract from lett from Hon. George Robertson, publisheds a southern paper, having reference to b position on this question, and alludings his private affairs, and commented on at some length and with much severity The only time, said MT. Breckinrikge, tp I know of the question of emancipatie being raised in Kentucky in my day, w in lS49 when we were electing delegat to a convention tn form new constitutio | Then Dr. Breckinridge and Mir. Shey we emancipationist candidates, and Mir. Wiz | tiff and l canvassed the country to the bt of our ability in opposition 10 emancia- ! ton, believing that the interests of bth races in the commonwealth would be ro- noted by the continuance of their presnt relations. At the polls Dr. Breckinrige voted against me and voted against hn, 1 cheers because we were representing D. | posite principles; and just so it wouldbe | again under sisilar circumstances. So mach for that charge. But l have sen pamphlets published and circulated all ger
 the Union for the purpose of proving tat was a know nothing" in the year l55 in the State of Kentucky. Lond lauh- ter. 1 have no doubt that a very conld- erable proportion of those listening tome were members of that order in that var; and if there Is a man among you whobe- longed to the order who ever saw me irpne of your lodges, who did not know tht 1 was recognized as one of the most unom- promising opponents of the know nth ings," let him be good enough to say so now. A voice" He ain't here.'' l believe that l was the first gentlema in Congress who took position against he organization. When l returned hom in the spring of 1855, it was making geat
 
 though l had withdrawn from pubicife to attend to my private affairs, l oppsed it in repeated speeches all over Kentuilv This statement may not be very acceptble to some gentlemen in the sound of my vice, but 1 do not want to deceive any man 1 stand upon my principles, and am wiling to view them without the slightest reard to consequences. 1 am represented to,his day as having said that would make political ditleransss between one of myown religious beilef@i.,s unv uf opposite belle. and between naturalized and an unnatnr,l;e v citizen. l never uttered eucn a sentiment.
 Great applause. The underlying ,rinci- pie with me was this, that the condition of citizenship being once obtained, ID ques- tion of either birth or religion should be allowed to commingle with political con- alterations. Applause. l deeh it only necessary to make these statemnts here succinctly, and pass on; because l m speak ing to assembled thousands who now their injustice. But, fellow citizens, to come to more extended topics. It has jeen assert ed that l. and the political organization with which l am connected, llve abandon ed the ground on which we stod, in regard to the territorial question, in B54 and 1856; that we then occupied position, which is now occupied by the friendf and supporters of Mr. Douglas and that pminent gentle man himself. 1 deny 1t, hd now proceed to prove it, both as to myelf and as to the party you have heard theein involved. No report of the speeches nude by me on the question was ever revisd by me, or writ ten out in full 1 havf been amused to see the various portions what they call the "Tippecanoe speech and the diverting reports of it which tie reporters male for different papers. Inave in my hands a re- port which reads asfollows: "' In reference to the territorial question, the people of the territories, under te Kansas Nebraska act, have the full righ to abolish or prohibit slavery. This principle is as old as republi can government itself" Not only did l never utter sucl sentiment, but 1 have no reason to beltve that anybody thought l uttered 1t. but 1 have no time to waste in comments upon the propriety or delcacy of a gentleman who is before the country for the office oi President, in introducing the name of one who Is also candidate and giving his personal testimony as to that gentlemau's opinions. l shall waste no time in discussing the propriety of such a course l wish to meet the accusations of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in series of papers which he has been reading in Va rious States, and even recently in Concord, N. Il. give his own language.
 "There is not an honest man in all Ame- rica." says Mir. Douglas, "who will deny that James Buchanan and John c. Breck- inridge, in 1853, were pledged to the doc- Urine of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the territories Mark the word as It IS there, intervention He "mHde speeches flom the same stump with John c. Breckinridge in 1853, when he was advocating his own claims to the Vice Presidency, and heard him go to the ex- treme length in favor of popular sovereign ty in the territories" Then talking of other gentlemen from the South, who had been expressing themselves in the North, he says: l" In every one of the speeches they advocated squatter sovereignty in it's hroo1act IL f