New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-10-05
NORTHERN DEuOCRATS PBECIP-
ITATED SECESSION AND TIE
WAR,

The Hon. HENRY STASBERRY, great lawyer,
and the chosen and trusted advocate of Southern
rights and interests in the Courts of Ohio, in a
speech recently delivered in Pixies Opera
House. Cincinnati, established the point that
the secession Of the Slave States and the conse-
qucnt war upon the Union, were precipitatedby
the Northern Democrats. He said:
more than once. counsel :or The owner ofiagtivo
statonal rights and the laws which have been passed
10 enforce them. Never. upon any occasion before any
court or any jnry have fhed TO obtain charge and
verdict which were not flly In accordance with thcse
constitutional obligations. Nay. NY friends, allow me
10 say farther that in tina: great contest ior tae e
poratics Of the hodist Church which followed us
division, the Church South selected me Northern
LAWYER e. their sole advocate before the Supreme COs
Of the United States and BY ha. august tribunal the
rights OF tne South we're sustained.
speak by The book. when say that the south never
apneaed 20 that Federal tribunal 10 sustain these
peGglinr constitutional guarantees IN VAIN snow ms
II You can single case. single decision ofthst Court
in hch those cOlsi hutOua! guarantees Nefe Ao' q"
forced to the very letter. -,
NAY. further. what President OF the few we have
had from tho Northwhat Congress from the trs' tlat
ant in the old Capitol dogn 70 the last which So, N the
new Capitol before this Rebellion. ever nld eny act or
passed any Law which violated one Jo or title o. these
southern rights
I'm every department of our Federal Government
In ali Is branches executive, legislative and Judicial
the cumprOmises were never broken. The great DOdy
Of the Northern people wcsc true 10 The Constitution
But there appeared on the scene two sets 81 asa'or
WHO were ilisled with the Constitution as At Was
Norihern sell small In number, but Violent 10 speech
who said that slavery was TOO well protected D! tae
Constitution; and southern set, more numerous ana
equally yioieut wbocllme tiat II had not protection
enough IL was In this condition OF thrg5 that M
tional Convention Of the Demociaio party to make
platlorm and nominate their candidate Tor the FFcs
dency was held in Charleston, South Carolina, III
Aprl loo Then IL was that this question 81 slavery
broke up that Democratic party The quarrel was no,
between Aholtionsts aud DemOcratsj II Was between
Democrats alone. The wound that slavery then re-
ceived A not come from Lincoln but from Demo
cratie hand The Northern Democrats SAID, let Us
stick 10 the Cincinnati platform oi loo ~ Is as r az
We can 90 or dare to 90. Not 80, sld INC southern
Democrats We mus: have "a plank in oar platform.
The great Democratic part! must declare lha1 slavery
Is something than State Institution ana that the
master no with his slaves into free territory
stil ms thca by Federal lew Let us leave that cues
ton b. tie Supreme Court OF the United States. said
tho Northern Democrnts-or let US leave H. ut least ~
be set,cd los the people of the territory.
Neither judicial decision or popular voting vou'd
sg tie South II must 90 into the platform, they said
or they would 20 at o! the Convention t:st and ous OF
the Union aftorward. For once Oliver plcSed up cour
age For the first time the Northern Democracy cut
loose from southern dctaiion They said ia subsanee
T. thy servant dog that be should 90 TINS talnsf
may not haze the very words spoken bai aooui o SUI
stance and there 10 the same effect mat ,'y
conld not put tie- hands On theg months md th'ir
months In tho dns; And this new plank was not put
In tha plalognand, therefore. the Southern Dsi""ts
seeded from the Convention.
81 don, say tina, agitation at the North may hs.eeyo
had lis influence toward secession but DO sy tha. this
disruption u the Democratic party prec'phated The
catastrophe The Abohtoulsis may have set the ball
In motion. but it was the Northern Democracy that
sent Il home Tho fnto blow was dealt by DonocTptc
hand, and slavery was pawn N the lcase q Its
friends. Then these Southern Denoerats VINO nag re-
manned in the Union only because their party nj the
North had boon roady 20 sustain their claims deter
mined to remain in tho Union no longer. 1t was not
81 ktr al otto, NJ. 81
ton that carried them ont Of the Union They did not
doubt that by uniting with the Northern Democracy
they could elect Douglas. Lincoln did not drive them
Mother They would have plank In the platform which
would carry slavery into free territories aud pres
slont who would stand right upon that plank. The
Northern Democrats told them they could have neither
the the other and then followed secession first
from their party and next from their Government"