New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-29

meaning puIpose aud intent OF .he Cons h-,'nat
il there should be tumultuous obstru % o. ne law,
ihst all the laws OF the ComnonN CIT alu VI 'ne
National Government shall be sustained by calling on
everv GOOD citizen TO zee that the dignity OF the law,
and the majesty Of the Commonweatn - sustained.
Arrause Is it not fair and night that the fugitive
Shall he allowed fair trial by jury IN the State 10
which he shall be returned. lApplause'l
cortIeren we ask reafrmatlou, if Won please, at
leost Iub6c carving out of that other constitutional
raanty that the citizens OF each State shall be en-
titled 10 all the privileges and lmmuines OF The sever
al States and that Congress by the extension OF IT.
trong right arr, in California, in Georgia, and in
south Carolina shall destroy every relic OF barbarlsm
81 war with ifs letter and spirit, 30 ha if you or
barren 10 be in any Slave State of this Union, and
shan violate any Of the laws OF that State let them a.
orce be enforced. Execute your laws If we violate
tbem but first make them public that VIC may know
yyba; we violate And that III no case whatever
shall Won overthrow this great guaranty of the Con-
stitutit itself but that which is deemed requisite for
Ito safety of all civilized n6tionsthe right OF trial by
my Ard if one man, ten thousand men, shall take
a citizen without law, and without trial. and execute
him that the United States law should take that one
man, or that ten thousand men, and execute them.
Loud applause. With regard, gentlemen, to the
iunor questions, we are wilingto leave them IN satu
Then there remains but one more subject in refer
ence to this great point at issue beg to differ from
tie mistake made by the Senator from Ohio, with
whose views at the time most cordially conceded,
that nothing is TO be done standing as he did then,
in times when it seemed that all the old landmarks Of
government were passing away, simply for the eXecu
lion of the laws and the Constitution it Is. lremen
Der very well gentlemen, that when l went to the
Mexican war in 1886 not waiting for place of honor
or distinction, but, taking my muske and kuapSack,
went TO defend my common country that was SAID
had fallen from my position and had become com
uromiser. Now, gentlemen, TO forever meet TINS
allegation say unto the Republican party that upon
eveiy single principle Of their creed stand now and
forever alongside OF them Loud applause what
ever was the truth quarter oil century ago now
stand still in the same position; but our relative stand
poiuts are changed. However, they were IN the AS,
cerdmcy THEY'VE are in the ascendancy now God
forbid That should ever forget, although they may
have been toward me and toward the party with
which am associated wrong doors, that is human
IN err but that il is God-lke to forgive. And oh
men Of America, if l, who have struggled almost
alone for quarter of century with the power which
has inflicted upon me unJusly 10 much evil tay,
can forgive them, can you not :
Then, gentlemen, am ready now, al all times, aud
in every place. to make any sacrifice but that OF pln-
chile Applause Like Others, have cast about to
see what was possible 10 be done. find that this
bred Scott decision was usurpaton of political power
The Supreme Court of the United States going out
side Of It's legitimate sphere of Judicial action, which
was determine the constitution and the lave IN ref
ereuce TO any particular case, when 1t should arise
have exhibited novel, an unprecedented, an eXtraor-
diuav spectacle of usuring, as have SAID, and again
saw Of political power applause deciding IN advance
of any case to be determined, not question Of Cons
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Constitutional powers that belong 10 the people them
seve-uo lees than that greatest Of all our sovereign
powers-the determining the relations of the citizens.
The Court had right TO 60 outside OF the question
before then-no more right TO render an opinion on
that which was not question Of law land therefore
not a decision OF the Court, but Obter dietu than If
they had undo rtaken 70 decide the relations OF the En-
1ire of India with the British Government itself. l
saw therefore is worth nothing being null and void
moi because the Republican party does not feel bound,
in all cases TO submit judicial decision, but because
we hold that 1t is no law-nO decision at all. APP
plause.
Though we went through the battle Of the ballot box
1890 on the 9th day of November, upon this issue,
whether We the people and our children, Of the Free
States and We the people and ourchldren the labor
ing classes of the Slave Sates-the eight millions who
are interested IN having these Territories Free, Just
as much as any STAKEHOLDER south of Mason and DXons
line the people themseve: were 70 determine whether
was decided in their favor And yet we 20 to the
Southern and say, we give You all the territory
that YOU ask and that your most ultra men have ever
asked up 10 So 80. Have We not acted magnan-
imously and done all that possible for 70 do be-
fore being precpitated into this dread alternative
Now gentlemen, as to that proposition OF the Com
uittee Of Thiry.hree of which Mr. Corwin was chair
man. YOU remember how they hurled political damna-
ton upon us for it. charging that il Trojan horse,
and that willie ostensiby giving them Slave State,
il would be creating "a Free State among them My
friends say here, and will say elsewhere, that II II
can be proved BY any of rtiOcinaon, chat thai
repOr violates any plank Of the Chicago PLATFORM then
| should der ounce the whole scheme-but it, on the
contrary we find our slaves in the midst OF rebellion
before we have got into power and In this extraor
onaIy attitude Of affairs, the party demofazed II l.
not me- il is not such as me- that have done il.
We must take these surroundings as they exist, and
not as they would have them, my Republican friends,
ard make the best Of them. Suppose, them this is
compsbed ard that the border States were satisfied,
a. have to believe they will be, with those
other guarantees, and that when they satisfied the
Cotton States-wbether they will or no-will have
means to be satisfied and peace will be restored; and
any man should be attacked on the ground that he
CONFRONTED lis principles we would say: Gentle
men, we found ourselves in the mdss of a revolution
which You precipitated and which your representa-
TORS your shortcomings, your doing things which you
ought not to have DONE and yolr leaving undone that
which You should have done, produced. This Com
promise Of 1850 which erected New-MeNico into
Territory and provided that in due time il should have
Constitution with or without Slavery is your doing,
not Ous. On the contrary We protested agiln' II;
we denounced it. And now by the state OF events,
the saeredness Of this common understanding between
the North and the South s 10 be decorated whatever
other men may ray, your mouths are eernaly closed
lLouc applause.I
Wen now gentlemen, / have done. Whenever my
conscience bar compelled me 70 certain course, have
never stopped 20 ask man. or thousand men, a
million men, what they thought Of it. have at all
hazard at all Iisk dared 10 defend these principles in
spiIed. ar trust by the aspiration the glorious priv
lege, that lie had cast my lot in day when / could
reid nv fellow by making sacrifices, ii need be,
for the glory Of this great country. Applause
Once more, without regard to results have honest
", as God is my Judge faithfully given TO you what
thought best to the Republic. But claim no
immunity. claim no nfallibly with regard to judg
ment. come among nv political friends al their re.
quest, and give them my views. God knows | am
the last man 10 dictate
H. after fair consideration, these suggestions, which
ere not my own, but come from more distinguished
sources, deemed valueless, acquiesce. Believing
that God has given you the destiny of preserving the
Liberty of Ibis country Will az in the mast stand by