Year: 1860

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and every other charter. When their
government was formed, there was moth
ing in Mr.. Thayers theory to prevent
their annexation TO Canada or New
Mexico. Who would consent to his
real squatter sovereignty The whole
nation should make laws for it's own ter
ritories.


But there was still another objection
to the Douglas non-interventiou. It
was Intervention ia favor of slavery.
practically. The whole country was at
peace in 1854, and it was Dougas who
had renewed the slavery agitation, with
his repeal of the Missouri compromise,
and his Popular Sovereignty. He had
to every appearance, moved under
Southern dictation, and the speaker be-
lieved that he intended the extension
of slavery and nothing else. But the
South found that Popular Sovereignty
worked against her in Kansas, and she
kicked it out of her creed, and the squat.
ter sovereign along with it, Was he
extreme in declaring that Douglas in.
tended the extension of Slavery He
would answer that question by quoting
Stephen A. Douglas to prove that he
was not He would read from Douglas S
/ last speech made on the 18th Of May
He had not been in Congress since that.
Indeed, it had been remarked that Mr..
Douglass health was not good, and it
might be reasonably urged against his
election that he was too sickly lie was
Iunwell when expected to speak on the
admission of Kansas, upon Broderick
upon the Homestead Bill. But he did
speak on the 18th Of May, when he de-
Tended his squatter sovereignty against
the South. He pointed the South to


what had been done by squatter sover
eighty for slavery in New Mexico, and
pressed upon his masters the fact that
it had given them territory a degree
and a half further north than they had
ever asked, and had turned a free into q


slave territory thing unprecedented
in the history Of the Republic. He ap.


pealed to the South if any body had been


more subservient, more beggarly, more


servile? How callous must have been


the hearts that were not touched by such


an appeal He got down in the dusr


upon his belly. and licked the feet Of


the South. and when he rose from tina


base devotion, the South kicked him ou


Of her presence. il lgas harsh Doug


las would not say in Columbus what he


said in the Senate on the 18th Of May


But there he was


The speaker would not deny tha


Douglas had distinguished points. II,


had social qualities, pluck, and bound


less influence. He might have been q


man of all time, but he had always beer


the man Of the hour. And his pOltica


course was as tortuous and zigzag as hi!
late course in search oHhis mother.


The speaker believed in full discus
sion and he would make a Democratic
speech. "Follow-citizen these Terri
tories have been acquired by the com
mon blood and treasure Of the whole
country, and now 1 ask you, Is it fair t.
open them to the Northern man ant


his property, and close them agains
the Southern man and his property?'-
That was a good Democratic speech. 1
3 sounded rather plausible, too. But (anC
the speaker went on to explain the diff


ference between slaves aud other prop


erty, between peculiar and exceptona
J. property and general property,) the rea
meaning of this demand was, Let tn
) STAKEHOLDER bring into a territory all tn
i property the northerner does, and h
SiaUes to J0oL


He had talked about slavery becaus
. he was forced to do so. No one coul
ignore the question; aud the Republ
y cans proposed now to meet and scttl


the question, by going back to the prat
, tice Of the fathers, under the lead o
Abraham Lincoln. IF the people di
{ that they would have peace. He di
= not know what better man than Lincol
could have been selected. lie was
% man from the heart Of the country, an
u from the heart Of the people. 1t i'll b.
u comes Democrats to sneer at him bt


cause he had risen from the ranks.
y They should rejoice in him, and
- proud of those free institutions whi'
u made it possible for the poorest man
the nation to rise to the highest pla
y in it, The Democrats had been to
u bad school, They had learned fro
y their Southern dictators to despise
B. Dor as slavish; they had come to belle


even Democratic working men--th
'- the laboring classes should not COVER
e He would not have them so degra
r themselves, but would have the peor
" honor themselves in one Of their oy
T. number.


St Mr.. Schenck thanked the audient
ID which had listened with profound int
rs est, and sat down amid loud applause.