New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-23


save them from themselves, If they have dsturoInOes
among Themselves and call upon us; and we ought 10
do it. am ready to do it if there Is any usturpAa?e'
There is man here but is willing 10 Preions on.
yason of any State for the purposes OF injury ana an
novance, aud to punish those engaged In H. rms
was brought up against the Republican party.
Everything that has been done LOT tns , aSe
twenty years is charged to the hep .n Hsa.a
Marty which in my State did not exist until iour
wears ago last May That was the first meeting tne!
ever held there under their organizaticnthe first time
they ever got together. When were the Personal
Liberty bills which said to be an intracon OF TINS
treaty. passed Massachusetts, Ii arraigned here every
other day for having passed Personal Liberty bills III
fractng the Constitution. Why, Sir, IL tney are un-
constitutional, they are utterly void Eyery1ody
knows that. But who passed them The ilrst fer
sonal Liberty bill that has been Danoied a1ou.
over the Senate passed when both Houses oil the
Massachusetts Legislature were Democratic, WIN
Democratic Governor approving OF III ana the negro
Equality law passed the same month"; Ihis Negro
Equality bill came from the isct leat massachusetts
that wear repealed the law which forbade the inter
marriage Of different races. That was done by the
Democrats, and the next year the Democratic Gov
eInor who approved those acts, beat " Honest John
Davis" / went there and made speeches TO clecl
John Davis but he was beaten. Our candidate was not
elected by the people was the other man IN loi| bu
he was elected by the Legislature and next year ne
beat us one vote. The third year we had nauonai
fight and we beat them in Massachusetts; but we
were beaten ourselves in the country in 1914 and that
same Governor who signed this Personal Liberty bill
and the Negro Equality bill, was sent Into the Senate
for tie best Office in New England nominated by Mr.
Polk and every Democratic Senator voted Tor him,
knowing that that was the fact if they knew anything
about it, but do not know whether they knew II or
not If they did, they would not care ig about H. IL
he was on their SIDE but they woad say; " ihlS man
probably had to get in by promising the AbohonlS'S
do something if be got their votes and that Is the
way he did get in. Their idea is, "it will do very
well ii folks do it, only let it work for the benefit
Of the DenoeratIe party, and you may pass fersonsl
Liberty bills Negro Equality bills to Your hearts
content" But now they get up here and lay these
bills to the Republican party, when the first Repub-
ican Governor elected In Massachusetts brought to
the notice of the Legislature the very provisions
in that bill which wrong, and that Legislature
altered them, although they had been on the
tsute-book twelve years with all sorts OF Governors,
and nobody ever thought of them until Coy. Banks
called attention to them. And yet these are the grave
charges thrown up here against the Republican party
and made the occasion for breaking up this Govern
uent-such kind of things as these. l do not care
what kind of laws they pass In Georgia or South caro-
lima affecting us; only DO not like TO see those laws
mpIisoung our sailors because they poor fellows
South Carolina made law of that kind; but when she
wanted TO get trade with England, she repealed II IN
reference foreign countries, but kept II on In reler-
TO her own brothers. That Is the way they Urea.
us; but not going to fight about IT. or quarrel
over il. Our law in Rhode Island was passed six or
eight years before there was Republican party
there-and there were more than Fix times az many
Wings who voted against 1t as there were Democrats
against it; but they were beaten AiterwGrd, one oi
those who opposed 1t came to be Chief Jnstlcepi
our State He the committee to revise The stSt-
ues-to make code-and be pane that thing Gl down,
ard 90, il 80 that il otensiye and said that. II
II were not Cor making noise, he would strike u out
altogether. They pared II down, and, when ali the
virus was out, IL was voted for unanimously by a ne
publican Legislature, after every part OF II lhal even
Favored Of uncOnstutiOuality was taken out. We DO
NOT want any unconstitutional laws In Rhode Island
nor do they in Massachusetts,. know they have been
etty hstruug in Massachusetts ever since knew
Them. l never did like them any too much. ,tney
banished our ancestors hung the Quakers, and killed
folks for being witches. Laughter. DO not believe
in that docine but still, Massachusetts Is pretty
considerable State. She thought 30 IN the lime oil
the Revolution; and made mp my mind, on account
of hat che did then never to habor any hard feeling
toward her for what she had done before, although she
had done "a good many bad things. L do not
mean TO have any hard feelings toward any State,
or the people Of any state, oH NJ, v oaInVt go
think the millennium has not come, though have fall
faith that il will come. l do not know OF man III
the country who could say as much as he dd Win as
much propliety II is something ike pendulum-the
further it swings one way, Of us own momentum u
will swing Just 20 much further the other way.
keep pretty nearly night up aud down, as well as
can. dono want 10 be 50 straight that must lean
over, although am bent little byage ana therefore
l do not mean to 90 very far from my moorinSs'
have always held TO these opinions, ana do not mean
TO change them if ! can help it. There may be cir
cumstances which will oblige me to do So But re-
preted more than anything else in this debate 10 see
disposition 10 heap everything upon TINS kepuOhcah
rary az if they made this fuss. The Senator from IL
iinois (Nr Doaglas) says told you so three or
four years ago." DO not know but he did There
is great deal OF logic IN facts; ana we nave
been {" told So until we have carried pretty nearly
all the Free States. A great deal OF II came from
its being told that we meant to rum the country
have said for the Last three years TO my friends OF the
South that have met at the SPRING. that believe
IL ID r,ffo iep
them that we were not a pack OF pckpockets and
ievee but for to get power, and then their stump
orators would cease 70 be lars; because we should
show them we had no intention OF hurting them, ana
nothing else would prove il but our acts. consider
woydental that have got power 80 that these dis
iirguisbed men, before all die out-Old foSe5 as
they call usay see that this Government can be al.
niDistered by Republican President to the benefit oil
all his fellow citizens in harmony and peace. Now,
make what called stump speeches in my State and
others, bat never make speech that would not
utter in the presence OF every candidate before the
people; never. was told that up in Harrisburg, by
former distinguished Senator from Virginia, Watkins
Leigh. He said we must make stump speeches. and
as we did not know be told us how. lie said that we
must not say anything the stump that we would not
say before court Of justice under cath as to the
truth. That his rule and have observed that rule
ever since said on the stump that knew all OF the
candidates before the country; and / believed they
were al eminenty able TO administer the Government
/ would not cay 1t now, because have seen some
lnlDgs WhiCh uohe IL a h'tio uVup'4u' mp Oi'
of them are getting 10 be sectional But said It them
and believed it; and would not be great ways oil
now if | were to say it. ] think they have go. ex-
cited and are little disposed TO give up the doctrines
that they maintained then. If they think they were
wrong, commend them for giving them up.
do not think there is doctrine in our platform that
is subject TO criticism not one. Now, why should We
give Il upl 1t says that mean to protect the States
in their rights and especially the right TO regulate
their own institutions in their own way. We polled
nearly two million votes and these voters stand pledged
TO that doctrine The Senator from Illinois received
twelve or tbirteen hundred thouaapd Certainly they